(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?

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    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

    • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      I liked Munch's Oddysee sadness

      It does look like ass though, and it's jank as all fuck. Stranger's Wrath is definitely a "better" game

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        It was just tough going from the lush pre-rendered backgrounds of Oddysee and Exoddus to those really barren looking open areas in Munch's Oddysee, like so much of the visual identity of the series was lost instantly

        • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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          3 months ago

          Yep - part of the reason why I'm not the biggest fan of the remakes of Oddysee/Exoddus. The style just isn't quite the same rendered as it is in modern 3d