New Oddworld Games In Development

Game developer Just Add Water announced today that the Oddworld series, dormant since 2005, will be getting multiple new titles in the near future. Quoting: "... for the past 12 months we have been working extremely closely with the fantastic people at Oddworld Inhabitants, from what started off as brief discussions in June 2009, to now working on multiple projects, across multiple platforms. Whilst we cannot go into specifics right now, we can tell you that over the coming weeks and months we will be announcing these exciting projects starring all of your favorite Oddworld characters."

hmmmmmm!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

hmmmmmm!!!!

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[The Clockwork Troll]

Why was this modded offtopic? Wasn't "hmm" a GameSpeak phrase?

Oddworld's great contribution to gaming was

[Haoie]

Of course, it was using your ancestoral spirits to possess your own flatulence.

Hmmm.

I gaze into my crystal ball...

[Tenek]

I see a game about saving an endangered species from being someone's lunch. And a rescue counter. (290/300 made me unhappy.)

That's what they get...

[Yosho-sama]

For abandoning the PS2 in favor of the original X-Box. Exclusivity deals FTL.

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[drc003]

It's ridiculous you get modded flamebait for pointing out the fact that exclusivity deals stink and it did indeed cost Oddworld alot of possible sales. Fanboys suck.

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[Yosho-sama]

I think they were mistaking my schadenfreude for trolling. I loved the original Oddworld game.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I always found it ironic that the Oddworld games were about the little guy against the big corporations. With Much's Oddysee, Oddworld teamed up with Microsoft, then for Strangers Wrath Oddworld teamed up with EA.

Possibly the Oddbox?

[J_DarkElf]

It was mentioned before by the Oddworld Inhabitants team that if the re-released Abe games sold well there would be an Oddbox, with additionally Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath ported to Windows.
This sounds more like a reference to that, since there is no indication Squeek's Oddysee or other new Oddworld games are in development.

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[midkay]

It was mentioned before by the Oddworld Inhabitants team that if the re-released Abe games sold well there would be an Oddbox, with additionally Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath ported to Windows.

This would be awesome. Long ago I lost my copy of Munch's Oddysee for Xbox (and stopped playing the console) and would love to have Windows versions of those games.

Is Lorne Lanning still involved?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is he still a Glukkon, like Darth Gates turned him into? :)

Oddworld XVIII: Violating Abe's Corpse?

[Rogerborg]

I guess whether warming up old franchises and churning out sequels ad infinitum is PlusBad or PlusGood largely depends on whether you're a fanboi of that particular franchise. Let's remember that the next time we mock the latest incarnation of MetalWarfareHalo 23: Encashening Extreme Edition.

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[icebraining]

Besides, they made three games (Abe's Exoddus was a bonus game) and from what I can tell the third is very different in gameplay and story. Not exactly incrementing the version number like many games series out there.

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[Late Adopter]

As I recall, the original plan was to make 5 "oddysee" games in the Oddworld universe. The story was planned right from the get-go. Of course it's difficult to plan ahead for reception of the games, publisher enthusiasm, funding, etc, so what's happened thusfar is slightly different.

There's been spin-offs (Abe's Exodus) and maybe you can blame those of milking the franchise, but I don't think you can say that about the Oddworld series generally.

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[Rogerborg]

Thanks for illustrating my point.

What happened to the rumours...

[Amarantine]

...of a re-release of all 5 Oddworld-games for Windows through steam, including Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath? Wikipedia links to http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/10/12/oddworld-games-being-ported-to-pc/1 [bit-tech.net] and appearantly it was confirmed by Oddworld Inhabitants for early 2010.

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[blackraven14250]

The Abe games are already on Steam.

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[degotas]

http://www.gog.com/en/search/sort/search/abe [gog.com] Already available for windows and was available.

Follow Me

[shadowknot]

Amazing, isn't it, that in the years since Abe's Oddysee came out the phrase "Follow Me" has become a cultural phenomenon thanks to Twitter. Or am I making to much of a tenuous connection over two words?

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[ampathee]

Yeah, I think you are. It's not like "follow me" wasn't a common phrase before Abe came along.

I guess their discussion went something like this:

[BobisOnlyBob]

what started off as brief discussions in June 2009

Oddworld Inhabitants: "Hello"
Just Add Water: "Hello"
Oddworld Inhabitants: "Follow me"
Just Add Water: "Okay"
Oddworld Inhabitants: "Work!"
Just Add Water: *works*

Cool

[MrTripps]

Pffffffft! Hee hee hee.

mobile!!

[toxonix]

I want the original ported to Android. (pls, kthnx). It might be too small for all the glorious detail, but damn would that be fun for the commute.

Hello?...

[JoeInnes]

Hello?
Hello.
Follow me?
Okay.