Thursday, December 27, 2001 |
09:47 - They're falling like green glowing dominoes...
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It seems that Halo isn't the only big Xbox title that's got a bleak future. Scuttlebutt from one of my friends is that Munch's Oddysee uses the same "wandering camera" viewpoint that so many games use nowadays (presumably because it makes the game look more technologically advanced-- admit it, GT3 doesn't look particularly impressive graphically until you get to the replays), and thus has lost the funky flavor of the previous Oddworld platformers. Which is a real shame. Imagine! Those poor Xbox people who don't know what they're missing!
But that's not the worst (best) of it. Apparently, in Japan (and this is according to another friend with her finger on the industry pulse as a game developer), the local populace hates the Oddworld games. As in, they have a deep-seated cultural loathing to the concept and the character design. "We're supposed to identify... with that thing?" So Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exxodus never sold well at all there, and now Munch's Oddysee will follow the same pattern and bring nothing to the Xbox table when it debuts in Japan.
Looks like the cards are being set up for Microsoft to be laughed right out of the country. Ahh, it'll be a beautiful thing. I hope someone takes pictures.
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