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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD [Official Review Thread]
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They rave about all the Oddworld games, because they are all amazing. But this is the one they rave about specifically.
brain_stew
Member
After the utter debacle last year, I don't have any faith.
Except they fixed the PC version and the HD version is 100% coming to PC versions for free. I get the inintal anger at JAW but get over it all problems besides the ATI issues have been sorted out and the ATI issue is going to be fixed in the HD update.
C&VG - 8.3
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/330563/reviews/oddworld-strangers-wrath-hd-review/
Video Review
Stranger's Wrath remains fantastic value. It's a great remake and a perfect fit for PS3 - the most sensible thing about this quirky gem.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/330563/reviews/oddworld-strangers-wrath-hd-review/
Video Review
Stranger's Wrath remains fantastic value. It's a great remake and a perfect fit for PS3 - the most sensible thing about this quirky gem.
SuicidalSteve
Member
All Oddworld games need to be raved about...It is still one of my favorite game series
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Added to OP
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Still patiently waiting on the PC version to get this update considering I bought the entire Oddworld pack more than a year ago and haven't been able to play it, seeing as:
A) At first, despite having hardware enough to run games like Crysis and whatnot, I could not run Stranger at a playable framerate.
and then
B) After upgrading my hardware later that year, still could not play Stranger as I upgraded to a Radeon GPU and apparently JAW nor ATi/AMD wanted to budge and fix anything so that the game would display properly.
And so, I've waited. And waited.
And waited...
A) At first, despite having hardware enough to run games like Crysis and whatnot, I could not run Stranger at a playable framerate.
and then
B) After upgrading my hardware later that year, still could not play Stranger as I upgraded to a Radeon GPU and apparently JAW nor ATi/AMD wanted to budge and fix anything so that the game would display properly.
And so, I've waited. And waited.
And waited...
GoldenHelmet
Member
Nah, if it comes to 360 we (JAW) will do it...
Currently the problems with getting it and/or Munch HD on the 360 are as follows ...
1. Stranger is 3.2GB on PS3, this will be reduced to 2.5GB in Feb. - So that's XBLA out the window, but we MAY be able to squeeze it to 2GB dead.
2. To qualify for G.O.D. You need to have sold 1m+ units at retail, Stranger XBox did around 480k
So as you can see, it's ot that we don't want to do it, it's the MS won't bend for us, saying that we have a conf call with them soon, to try and persuade them ;-)
GoldenHelmet
Member
Because of the Piracy. If we had to rely on PC gaming only we would lose money hand over fist...
E.G. Recent BitTorrent figures show that both Assassins Creed: Rev and CoD (latest) we're pirated in excess of 3m times each!
So that's around 80% to 100% piracy rate JUST on the PC version :-/
GoldenHelmet
Member
There aren't :-/
GoldenHelmet
Member
Only for Steam owners, as GOG and the other Digital PC outlets do NOT have an update system.
GoldenHelmet
Member
Correct, we only added SteamWorks support. Although we are doing Munch HD for PS3/Vita and PC
GoldenHelmet
Member
As it stands, ATI DID fix one of the 2 issues in their OpenGL drivers, but refused to budge on the other (ZDepth issues) saying we were doing it wrong, so when we pointed out to them that the game ran perfectly on nVidia chipsets, AND that one of the basic OpenGL ZDepth examples you can find on the net didn't work, they stopped talking to us...
This is the same issue that Quake3 OpenGL drivers also has with ATI Drivers...
As it stands we are dropping OpenGL for the PC HD update in favour of DirectX, hence the 2-3 month wait
As it stands, ATI DID fix one of the 2 issues in their OpenGL drivers, but refused to budge on the other (ZDepth issues) saying we were doing it wrong, so when we pointed out to them that the game ran perfectly on nVidia chipsets, AND that one of the basic OpenGL ZDepth examples you can find on the net didn't work, they stopped talking to us...
This is the same issue that Quake3 OpenGL drivers also has with ATI Drivers...
As it stands we are dropping OpenGL for the PC HD update in favour of DirectX, hence the 2-3 month wait
What a bunch of spoiled idiots amd are... good to hear the DirectX update, keep up the good work!!
BlazeHedgehog
Member
As it stands, ATI DID fix one of the 2 issues in their OpenGL drivers, but refused to budge on the other (ZDepth issues) saying we were doing it wrong, so when we pointed out to them that the game ran perfectly on nVidia chipsets, AND that one of the basic OpenGL ZDepth examples you can find on the net didn't work, they stopped talking to us...
This is the same issue that Quake3 OpenGL drivers also has with ATI Drivers...
As it stands we are dropping OpenGL for the PC HD update in favour of DirectX, hence the 2-3 month wait
You couldn't have just written a "detect AMD GPU, enable workaround" exception? What's more important: sticking to standards or making sure your customers, who paid for your product over a year ago, can actually use it as intended? I know my answer.
Not that it should be an "either/or" scenario.
GoldenHelmet
Member
Have id fixed their code to work with ATI drivers? don't think so.