"Oddbox" Announced: All 4 Oddworld games to be released on PC via Steam

[Leto]

And see how quickly that fails to work.

The Xbox doesn't just look at the files on the disc; the discs are actually burnt in a specific pattern, leaving occassional gaps that are ignored by the DVD drive. To the best of my knowledge, no-one has managed to get a DVD burner to replicate this.

Now, if the Xbox is modchipped, on the other hand...

then it's just ftp that sucker to the hd and run STRANGERS-WRATH.xbe

when SW first came out i ripped it to my hd because it ran realllly badly off the dvd (would freeze/skip all the cutscene a lot). i'm glad with the 360 they made this a legitimate option.


for the fucking record just before you all start crying, i ripped my copy of stranger's wrath, that i bought the very first day it became available. to this day i am pissed i don't have the bonus dvd that everyone else seemed to get.

[Taco]

SW on PC better have better graphics. It's a good game but it looks pretty shit in terms of graphics

[marlz]

I've noticed a similar thing with AO and AE. I found that the music quality was much higher on the PSone than the PC. Does anyone know why this is the case?

[Taco]

Probably because of different formats/encoding or whatever

[enchilado]

I haven't played it on the PS, but the PC music quality seems fine to me. And the Stranger's Wrath graphics look pretty good too, especially as it came out in 2004.

[Leto]

I've noticed a similar thing with AO and AE. I found that the music quality was much higher on the PSone than the PC. Does anyone know why this is the case?

they will be the same quality (a pretty poor wav format catered for ps1 times), but the difference being now you will be hearing it through (presumably) good headphones as opposed to when you played it on the playstation and the sound came out of a shitty television speaker/sound system.

with headphones you'll be able to hear crisply the bad digital artefacts in the audio, where before said artefacts would be covered with the warmth of the tv speaker

[enchilado]

I don't use headphones...

[AlexFili]

PC and PSX versions of Abe are pretty similar, regarding music. As for picture quality, I didn't notice scanlines on the PSX versions.

-ddcheat on the PC versions makes it more worthwile I think, although its a novelty really. I only cheat for fun

[enchilado]

Scanlines are the black lines through the screen, right?

I had those, but then they disappeared. I have no idea why. It's probably a bug. I got my PC copy new (I think) around 2001.

[Grieva]

one of the things ive been exploiting since i found it is the save states in epsxe, which ive been using as a quicksave for AO, very handy, dont suppose theres any hacks for pc like it?

[enchilado]

Quiksave in AO! Now that's naughty.

[the ultimate abe]

may i ask what steam is ? and what doese spec on ur pc have to be to use it ive allways wanted to play MO but never hadan xbox

[enchilado]

http://store.steampowered.com/


We don't know what the System Requirements will be as of yet.



EDIT: Oh, and a big welcome to the forums

[Grieva]

Steam is an online games shop. When you buy a game, you can download it. If you lose the game from your computer, you can download it again. No discs, no delivery.

http://steampowered.com/

that was answered on page 2 of this thread!

[Varrok]

Scanlines are the black lines through the screen, right?

Yup, that's right - each second horizontal pixel line is black :P

I had those, but then they disappeared

They appear if you choose Fast/Fastest Mode AO/AE Shortcut (Disc Version) or by adding -scanlines parameter on Steam version...

which ive been using as a quicksave for AO

Santa won't give you a present! He won't give it to the guy who implanted quicksave to AE, too!

[used:)]

That's dumb.

Not for me it isn't. I'm out of the US until mid-January. If it comes out around Christmas/New Years, I hope it lasts till the end of January. And if it's only going to be for like a week, I hope it comes out in mid January.

[Daxter King]

Not for me it isn't. I'm out of the US until mid-January. If it comes out around Christmas/New Years, I hope it lasts till the end of January. And if it's only going to be for like a week, I hope it comes out in mid January.

Wait what? Oddbox will be in short supply at launch? Or am I reading this wrong?

[used:)]

I was under the impression that it's going be a limited-time-offer.

[Taco]

I hope not. And I don't see any reason for it to be a limited offer because I think the Oddbox will sell like hotcakes. It might be a limited offer on discounted price, but if it's on steam there's unlimited copies

[Nate]

I doubt it will be a limited offer; many games on Steam are offered as part of package deals all the time.

[used:)]

Well, then all I have to say is "yay!"

[Taco]

Yay indeed, the wait is killing me though.

[Crashpunk]

Waiting for games is always hard Taco, i know the feeling when i was waiting for Brawl. It worth it in the end though...

[enchilado]

I can wait.


but it will be HARD

[Taco]

It's even worse when steam gives you a date for a game pack and it shows you a coutdown until it gets unlocked and you can buy it. I start counting the minutes..

[Leto]

pfft this wait is nothing; the wait for stranger was far worse (or oblivion, even worse)

[MarsMudoken]

If that were true it would've been eaten by now, now wouldn't it?

EDIT: this was a response to enchilado's statement about the Mcdonalds cheeseburger. In 5 seconds I was on an entirely different page. I have no clue what just happened.

[leocrow]

I think we should permaban anyone who shows any indication of having obtained their Oddworld games illegally.

+1

[marlz]

HEY! I just ad an interesting thought.
Why doesn't OWI release Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus for the 360 or Xbox Live Arcade so that you can play all the Oddworld games on the Xobox as well? I personally don't own an Xbox, but wouldn't it seem logical to make it available for that console too?

[Wil]

Because Microsoft has shown no interest in facilitating that.