Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath remake coming to PS3 in 2011

@ToolroomKnight

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure I have an imported copy from the US complete with a pre-order bonus disc.

@ToolroomKnight
I think you might be mistaken, I owned a copy of this game that I bought at a Florida gamestop. It was released stateside, and its a great game.

@ToolroomKnight
I definitely rented, then bought this game in the US. You are definitely mistaken.

@ToolroomKnight Not trying to one up everyone, but I currently own this game. And it is awesome. Too bad I don't have a PS3, cuz i would get this...

@BigBOOMski guys i don't live in north america or europe...

@ProtagonistZero

I wouldn't be surprise if we see a 360 version later down the pipe.

It really would be an ODD game for sony to snag an exclusivity deal for.

@ProtagonistZero

Maybe because it was out on xbox in the first place many playstation only people never experienced it and just to add to the move compatable line up

If there was/is to be a Xbox 360 version I dont think they will include kinect compatability

@ProtagonistZero

Who knows, but two ideas I came up with was the fact it was originally on Xbox, so they are pulling a Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Oddworld games sorta began life on PS1 so its a nice return to the brand, or both. Or maybe it's neither and they just felt like making a remake for PS3 with ideas of doing the same for 360 later.

@ProtagonistZero I hope it gets a Xbox version, I aways wanted to play it, but I didn't have an original xbox.

@ProtagonistZero I'd like a PC port, at least I could easily do 1200P on that. : )

@Vegeta has a ps3

yeeeeeeaaaaah?

@Vegeta has a ps3

Even if it is not released on the 360, it is not exclusive to the PS3. It was, afterall, an original Xbox game. Also, if my memory serves correctly, it is being ported to the PC (as well as Munch's Oddysee) to be a part of the "Oddbox" that is going to be released on Steam.

@Vegeta has a ps3 :: Yeah, xbox 360 remake please :D This was my favourite game on my original xbox.

Not really, Oddworld started out as a Sony exclusive series.

@OmegaIXIUltima; I didn't have the PlayStation versions until they came on PSN. It wasn't Sony exclusive, it was also on PC (where I played them) and other versions on Game Boy.

@OmegaIXIUltima

Abe's Oddysee wasn't technically a PS exclusive as it was released at the same time on PC.

So was Abe's Exoddus.

I dont have too many titles for my PS3 but most are in 720p, and that fact keeps me from buying them brand new. If the Bioshock games are in 1080p why cant Uncharted or God of War pull it off, for instance.

720p makes me feel like the devs are being lazy with the port.

@AkumaFTW

"If the Bioshock games are in 1080p why cant Uncharted or God of War pull it off, for instance."

Except the Bioshock games aren't rendered natively at 1080p for any platform but the PC. Neither the PS3 nor the 360 have the computational power or the hardware necessary to run resource intensive games like God of War III or Gears of War at anything more than 720p; both platforms have enough issues maintaining a consistent 30 FPS at 1280x720 and doubling the number of pixels is going to cause the framerate to halve or drop into the single digits. The few console games that DO run at 1920x1080 natively have greatly reduced texture quality, no AA, little to no texture filtering, have fewer light sources, fewer post processing effects, and tend to use lower quality lighting in order to remain playable. You can have a fair amount of eye candy at 1280x720 or you can have little at 1920x1080, but you can't have both when it comes to the current generation of console hardware.

@igasagu

I think you might confuse people because its not steam coming to ps3 its steamworks if im not mistaken. I think they are different things slightly

@igasagu

I was one of those who thought it was steam as well :/

@zefur

Yes, STEAM isnt coming to PS3. As in you cant just load up STEAM and play PC games on your PS3. it'll just pretty much add functionality to Valve games

@Faenix Fair enough. I guess I was unclear. I didn't mean to imply that PC games are coming to the PS3. That doesn't even make sense.

@igasagu
I believe you are thinking of The Oddbox which is a compilation of all the Oddworld games for Pc. It will most likely be on Steam.

@igasagu

I dont know exactly what the steam support will entail, whether its just patching and updates or possibly even access to valves first party stuff through some sort of steam based portal.

Steamworks doesnt make sense either, this is from wiki:

"Steamworks

On January 28, 2008, Valve released Steamworks, a free development and publishing suite (granted at Valve's discretion or with an Unreal Engine 3 license)[27][28][28] that gives developers access to every component of Steam.[29] Steamworks can be combined with a standard Steam distribution agreement, the latter of which gives it advertising space in the Steam store but also provides Valve with a share of revenue; Audiosurf became the first game to be released in this way in February 2008.[30] Several major games have since implemented Steamworks, including Aliens vs. Predator, Modern Warfare 2, Dawn of War II, and Unreal Tournament 3. Most games using the Steamworks API also opt for a presence in the Steam store. The only known exception (since Valve does not make announcements about such games) is NBA 2K9.[31] "

Whatever it is will still be linked some how with psn and there is no way Sony would allow valve to sell stuff through steam on psn (at least I dont think anyway, but they could prove me wrong) , so what they are actually doing I have no idea.. I still believe its only a way for valve to patch its own games and release mods etc for its own titles (something Microsoft refused for them to do). This would be beneficial to both companies as Valve can directly support and do what it needs through its platform and Sony doesn't have to worry about the additional bandwidth usage and constraints caused.

@McDuckScrooged You misunderstood the important part. Steamworks is basically just a set of libraries that allow steam specific functions. These include on the PC side also things that will FOR SURE not come to PS3 (e.g. voice chat).

From the sound of it the main part that will come to PS3 is as you also said the auto-update capability you spoke about and that is not even really part of steamworks (as the steam client handles that).

There are various other guesses out there (e.g. steam achievements, cross platform chat/multiplayer, ....) but nothing has been announced so far.

@poopdedoop My guess is that it's already been made, along with Ico, but they're waiting to release it closer to the release date of the Last Guardian in order to promote that game. Perhaps a few months before TLG, like GoW collection?

@Haelie

You Sir, my fellow Oddworld connoisseur, have uttered wise words.

@Haelie
You took the words right out of my mouth. This news has made my day. I would love it if they restarted work on Fangus Klot. I was so pumped for that game.

@Cody H So funny, your so original .. Have we traveled back in time ? Is it 2006 again ?