What? YES! The gorgeous Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey and Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus are finally coming to the PlayStation Store's PSOne Classics section where they belong, and they're hitting the PSN this Thursday! Series creator Lorne Lanning spread the word himself on the PlayStation Blog, revealing a little background info about the games as he did.
"Gaming seemed such a blank slate of possibilities back then," recalls Lorne. "It was an early super-cool medium with which we could start telling stories of our own. We wanted characters living through stories that might inspire people while still enabling them many hours of challenge and entertainment. We wanted to integrate the best of our previous trade from the visual effects field to delve deeper into the storytelling potential with this exciting, rapidly evolving interactive medium.
"We started with Abe, the little chump trapped by the dark side of globalization who would need to find his way (and his soul) through a vast landscape of relentless hazards. He was to be the lovable hero trying to survive heavily armed idiots and hungry critters of the carnivorous kind.
"He was designed to cause as many laughs as he would accomplishments, and we wanted him to be remembered."
I have not forgotten him, and nor have a great deal many other gamers. The games will be available for $9.99, which I find a bit cheeky, but these games were so amazing and beautiful that I'm willing to overlook the hype-tax just this once. How about you? Anybody planning to pick up these lovelies? Let us know.
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6:00 AM on 10.20.2009
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Yeww Yewyewwww Yewyewwww
And yeah, there is some finger fiddling going on here...
And apologies for the triple-whammy.
"DO ET"
You don't know if this is hitting the UK PSN as well do you?
My god I NEED to play these games. I missed out on them during the PSone games because at the time, they freaked me out xD (mind you at 7 most things are scary :p)
Thanks dude!
Definitely going to get these when (if) they hit the PSN in Europe.
I also asked him why he switched to Xbox when it seemed the most risky system of that generation (remember this was right after the Xbox released). He pretty much told me to STFU again.
Needless to say it turned me off a bit, though they did give me a cool hat.
WTF has changed that much that they can't still do/feel that? Team ICO doesn't appear to have this problem. Sounds more like he needs to get his head out of marketing/QA and go back to his roots... But then, some people believe that if they can't see/experience it, it no longer/doesn't exist.
Also, using slashes is cool/lame.
...which is in a disc and a box, which could become a collectors item given enough years. Plus, Goozex is "traded" money, so yeah its equivalent might be $10, or it might be a copy of Sega Superstar Tennis. So...