Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is one of the most "original Xbox" looking games ever made
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is one of the most "original Xbox" looking games ever made
(For other examples, please see Thief: Deadly Shadows and Deus Ex: Invisible War)
Just started playing this recently and I'm absolutely tickled by how it looks. The only thing that's missing is everything being caked in CHONKY oversaturated low-res bloom so typical of late-era Xbox games. I wouldn't be surprised if it got removed in this later HD rerelease I am playing, but if it did, it's a crime against nature
Stranger's Wrath is a sci-fi Western fps set in the Oddworld universe that asks the question: What if John Marston was a furry that could double jump and run on all fours?
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every voice is either pitched up super high or (sometimes) pitched up super low. characters will say a million lines at you all at once because you stepped too close
There's also only one voice actor per species, so all the chicken people in the starting town, for example, speak with the same goofy high-pitched Cletus voice regardless of their gender. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were also just Lorne Lanning because they all sound very familiar from Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus
that terrible game made by the pickle rick guy aped off of the core conceit of this game, which is that ammo is all live creatures you collect. they growl and stuff when you load them into the crossbow. probably sounds weird and cruel but trust me its a good time + not unsettling at all
I assume the whole live ammo thing was just Oddworld Inhabitants trying to do something offbeat and creative within the confines of an FPS. Without looking into the game's history, I'm assuming the whole reason it's an FPS in the first place was because no one liked Munch's Oddysee so they tried to make something more in keeping with the general Xbox brand, ie. shooty game with badass protagonist, while still staying true to the Oddworld ethos. Sadly I think this game bombed pretty hard too. I feel pretty bad for Oddworld Inhabitants in general, I think they've just been stepping on rake after rake ever since 1998 with their one success being New n Tasty
Speaking of Munch's Oddysee, I guess I should play that at some point, but from the moment I first saw screenshots of it in a gaming magazine circa 2001 I just thought it looked like complete ass and had none of the charm of the PS1 Abe games
Ah the "realism is brown" era.
realism is brown
magic, spirit-world, tech-future, etc are all TEAL
I played it on my Vita back in the day, absolutely fantastic game. The game also looks insanely good for an original Xbox game, looks more like a 360 game to me honestly
Graphically it wouldn't be out of place on the 360, at least played in 1080p in this remaster, but the level design, character movement and especially the menus and GUI exude OG Xbox
i loved this game so much as a kid
I wanted to check this game out as an Oddworld fan at the time but me and my siblings just didn't end up buying too many Xbox games. It kinda got relegated into being the 4-player Halo and Dead or Alive box
yeah, blockbuster game pass was a lifesaver back then
Aw man, old crappy xbox western aesthetic was my jam back in the day, i remember having played ALL the Call Of Juarez games, even the weird modern-day one that has the mexican Cartel instead of outlaws for the 360.
Also GUN, that game was both fun to play, but also pretty crappy (and probably problematic I can't remember).
That Call of Juarez game was kinda infamous for not only being shit but horribly racist as well
please see Thief: Deadly Shadows and Deus Ex: Invisible War
Incredibly sharp, hard outline stencil ass shadows... come back to me...
(For other examples, please see Thief: Deadly Shadows and Deus Ex: Invisible War)
Thief: Deadly Shadows and Tenchu: Return from Darkness were 100% my shit back in the day lol
Tenchu
One title that SHOULD have an actually good new game but doesn't yet.
Picture this:
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Sekiro combat but with bigger consequences/vulnerability to incentivise the stealth approach.
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Proper stealth options.
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Hitman-style open world levels.
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GADGETS GADGETS GADGETS to make loadouts for levels.
It should have happened already but we're being held out on. FromSoftware even own the rights and they're holding out on us.
I remember when the first Sekiro teaser dropped and everyone was like
OMG NEW TENCHU for a minute.
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I had to look up Return from Darkness and it turns out that's just what Wrath of Heaven ended up being called on the Xbox
We had Wrath of Heaven on the PS2 and played the shit out of the unlockable versus mode (remember random unlockable versus modes???)
Another is Metal Arms
I see your Metal Arms and raise you Brute Force
Original xbox aesthetic is my favourite. At the time it was like a glimpse into what the next gen would be like so much so that when i got an xbox 360 i was actually kinda disappointed cos I'd seen most of what was to offer in doom 3 and hl2, thief, chaos theory.
Strangers wrath is a very good game its such a shame munch's odyssey fukin sucked balls. I loved odyssey and exodus and their first 3d game felt like a really jank shovelware title just running after collectibles like cmon.
Anyway I'd recommend xbox enjoyers play dinosaur hunting, there's a translated iso floating about. Its monster hunter but with guns.
This game always looked like a weird game to me, I wonder how it emulates.
HD version on PC probably pirateable would be easier than emulating the xbox versuon.
Reading reported issues on the xemu github the situation seems worse than what the compatibility list suggests so yeah, I'd suggest just getting your hands on the HD version
I wish Xbox emulation wasn't so ass still
This is what the xemu compatibility list says:
For those of us only mildly aware of the oddworld story, how far in the deep end is this game's story?
I've just started playing it but from what I understand it's a completely standalone game completely unconnected to Abe's story. I don't think this even has any of the species from the other games
u brought up Jupiter EX..... My beloved...