Romier S Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Reported on 1up.com: http://www.1up.com/article2/0,2053,1555482,00.asp Oddworld Inhabitants is seeking a new publisher for the next game in its planned Quintology, was the news from the maverick development house at the Game Developers Conference this week. Steef's Oddysee, as the Western-vibed Xbox shooter was called around its tentative debut last year, has nothing to do with Microsoft anymore, although it may make it to market through some other company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL2CROSSFIREMOD Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Could be good I guess (sale wise). Microsoft has a issue with advertising. Maybe a new publisher will help the sales (via advertisments.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted March 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Maybe a new publisher will help the sales (via advertisments.) Possibly but I do believe Munch's Odysee sold well on the Xbox (about 400k units). Of course this number is a bit skewed as Munch was a launch title for the Xbox. I'm more than curious as to what occurred to cause the split. Lorne and co. seemed to have a great working relationship with MS (not to say that has changed but you have to wonder why MS isn't publishing.). PS: Check your PM HL2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Lorne and co. seemed to have a great working relationship with MS Maybe it was the money? Wait for it... "Do you like my hat? It's made of money!" :lmfao: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Remember the Xbox documentary on Discovery a while ago? I seem to remember Ed Fries not being impressed with it and some of his comments seemed to be loaded with some subtext. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Yeah i remember all that stuff on the special. he wasnt very impressed with the entire thing capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Draven Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 That makes 2 of us that weren't very impressed with Munch. I thought the game was kinda boring.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Remember the Xbox documentary on Discovery a while ago? I seem to remember Ed Fries not being impressed with it and some of his comments seemed to be loaded with some subtext. I do. Fries was looking for the next chapter in the Oddysee set, & what he saw was not what he was expecting. Regardless,hopefully this will be a good thing for the Oddworld peeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 I'm going to guess that the Oddworld peeps are tricky to work with, and expensive to maintain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted March 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Current RUMOR that I found while surfing around: Ed Fries was an OI supporter. When he left, support for them kinda weened. A bunch of people from OI left for Sammy. Lanning scrapped the current Oddworld game and decided to start from scratch. The thing is, he didn't tell MS. Of course, they found out, and canceled their publishing agreement. And OI can't find a publisher who'll front the cash for the game, so they may be S.O.L. and close down. Again this is complete speculation at this point but man it would suck horribly to not see another Oddworld game if this turns out to be true. :cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted June 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 News from CVG is that the next Oddworld world game may in fact be published by EA. Heres the report: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?pa...p(que)id=105988 CVG can today exclusively reveal, however, that the game has now been signed by a major publisher and is to be shown to the world in July, with a formal announcement to be made in the next couple of weeks. This was confirmed to us today by an senior development source, who also revealed the massively anticipated title had "gone alpha". But while no official information regarding the identity of the new publisher is available, our source revealed to us that a deal has been inked with Electronic Arts, with an announcement imminent. In an odd (pun intended) twist of events: http://xbox.ign.com/articles/523/523425p1.html The filing revealed that Atari handed over its 50 per cent share in Oddworld Inhabitants over to Microsoft in exchange for a bunch of publishing royalties. So they decide to not publish the fourth game in the series but now own 50% of OI? :wtf: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 So they decide to not publish the fourth game in the series but now own 50% of OI? As they say, the back-end is usually sweeter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 So they decide to not publish the fourth game in the series but now own 50% of OI? And by doing so, don't have to front the cash to actually get the game in the shops. If it's a hit, Microsoft makes their usually royalty off every copy, and see their investment in OI increase in value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 Originally posted by stencil@Jun 15 2004, 04:26 PM So they decide to not publish the fourth game in the series but now own 50% of OI? As they say, the back-end is usually sweeter. Heh heh. Now, is this the Western-themed one I saw in the Xbox special on Discovery Channel? -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherbz Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 Next game to be published by EA for PS2 and Xbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 I think it's perfect timing to post links to an old but extremely relevant Penny Arcade comic: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 That is without question my favorite Penny Arcade strip of all time. Thanks Brian :tu: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 First in-game screenies of the new Oddworld: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted September 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 So, it's Xbox exclusive again.... http://xbox.ign.com/articles/552/552520p1.html Apparently EA didn't want to wait another 5 month for OI to get the PS2 version up to speed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan B. Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 IGN has some in-game movies of Stranger in action, too. The live ammo is a hoot. http://media.xbox.ign.com/media/568/568699/vids_1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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