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Oddworld Stranger's Wrath goes HD (PSN)
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A lot of those ammo types will be under utilized and don't work well when you have a group of enemies. You stun one enemy, run to capture him, and everyone just starts ganging up on you. Although once you upgrade ammo types like stunkz, which creates a vortex that sucks up enemies, thinks get kind of fun. But throughout the beginning of the game you have take on enemies one by one, which doesn't help when most of your ammo types have stun ability, and only a few actually kill them.Sean said:
To each his own. Personally wasn't thrilled about the combat.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
I think I killed one person throughout the first two-thirds of the game...on purpose at least.
The game is excellent.
The game is excellent.
Suzzopher said:
GIGATON.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
StoOgE said:
The Xbox version was published by EA.
RobertM said:
That seemed to be an intentional pacing thing to me. They were trying to get you into the habit of capturing enemies alive so you earn more money (which in turn makes the second half of the game more fun since you'll be fully upgraded etc). I could see how it would annoy people though.
OldJadedGamer said:
Microsoft funded the first couple years of its development, EA picked it up in the final stretch after MS canned it.
Submarino Conversível
Member
I'm just happy Oddworld is still breathing
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
In terms of MS funding, it's even more strange than they paid for Gears 1, to some degree they funded UE3, something used for a lot of the PS3 software.
I was doing some research yesterday about this game, and the series as a whole, MS seemed to have treated them pretty shitty after the guy running things at the time left, he wanted to focus on bringing more creative games to the platform, put a focus on the 'art' I guess, something which is pretty ballsy and honourable. Sony did the same sort of thing with Team ICO and I think that worked out incredibly well, maybe not financially, but in terms of product quality.
Lorne Lanning seems to be an interesting guy, if not a little bitter, I'd be interested to hear what he thinks about the new trend with things like EA Partners, Activision letting the Bungie guys own their IP, THQ doing the same thing with Itagaki's next venture etc. He seems to care deeply about the creators of a game series own the IP as appose to the publishers. He also seems a little odd ball though, I heard him claim he thinks Oddworld could be 'a Star Wars'. I think Star Wars is shit, but even still, in terms of popularity as an IP, there is just no chance of that ever happening.
I was doing some research yesterday about this game, and the series as a whole, MS seemed to have treated them pretty shitty after the guy running things at the time left, he wanted to focus on bringing more creative games to the platform, put a focus on the 'art' I guess, something which is pretty ballsy and honourable. Sony did the same sort of thing with Team ICO and I think that worked out incredibly well, maybe not financially, but in terms of product quality.
Lorne Lanning seems to be an interesting guy, if not a little bitter, I'd be interested to hear what he thinks about the new trend with things like EA Partners, Activision letting the Bungie guys own their IP, THQ doing the same thing with Itagaki's next venture etc. He seems to care deeply about the creators of a game series own the IP as appose to the publishers. He also seems a little odd ball though, I heard him claim he thinks Oddworld could be 'a Star Wars'. I think Star Wars is shit, but even still, in terms of popularity as an IP, there is just no chance of that ever happening.
After reading through this thread, I've learned that there are four Oddworld games. As far as I've understood, all four will come for PC. (And maybe even consoles). I'd like to have them all for one console, but what I'd really like is a Blu Ray collection, ala GoW collection or the rumoured Team ICO collection. Would that be possible?
I'm asking and hoping that one of the devs would be able to answer
I'm asking and hoping that one of the devs would be able to answer
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I don't think they ever said anything about remaking the first 2, the 2 Xbox games will certainly be in HD though, it is PC after all. You can try out the first two on Steam in demo form if you want to see how they hold up.StuBurns said:
I'm pretty sure Lorne and his team are the ones working on the PC release, this is a separate team working on PS3.Darklord said:
Yeah, I checked it out, he implied in the Bitmob interview that the first two will remain as they currently are, and the other two will be altered for PC release, which makes sense. Making 3D games HD is arbitrary essentially so yeah, I expected those to be.Stallion Free said:
Shadowmancer
Member
YES, finally get to play this game (never owned an xbox original).
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
JAW should have 360 dev kits. And if you read Game Informer, you would know that this game is the first in Oddworld based announcements. Unless they lied. 360 should be seeing this, if not, another kind of Oddworld game.
I do and it was the perfect post after seeing the new model compared to the CGI. You spend all of those polys and you can't really see "that "much" of a difference at a glance. Sure if you eyeball it you can find all of the extra geometry contributing to a much more defined silhouette, but at what cost?StuBurns said:
Perfect example of diminishing returns.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
That's not PC model, that's CG model that the normal maps for PS3 model are derived from.MjFrancis said:
They need that insane polycount to be able to create good normal maps from it though, that's how they make the low poly model look almost as good.StuBurns said:
Anticitizen One
Banned
Wait this game has towns?
I thought Square said you cant do towns in HD?
I thought Square said you cant do towns in HD?
Dobkeratops
OT Hard Carry
That PS3 character model is apparently obsolete now. They've upped the detail even more and the new one will have ~20k triangles.
Dobkeratops
OT Hard Carry
Revolutionary
Member
That could just be referring to GFWL, no?wwm0nkey said:
Not that I care either way, just saying.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
It is confirmed a Steamworks title, so no GFWL, but Steam does call achievements achievements and not some other name like PS3.Revolutionary said: