Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty Has a Confirmed Wii U Release Date

I'm tempted, especially since there will be a discount. Here's hoping the Canadian price will be the same or comparable to the US price

Seems like an odd game to me

Awesome, that's a day-1 buy for me as I've been holding out for the WiiU version

Yeah yeah, I'll buy at some point. My hype for this died ages ago. At least they managed to get the file below 8gb either way

@sandman89

I dig the look, not so sure about the gameplay, but sometimes the oddest looking games are some of the best. See Splatoon. I never played the original, but I might give this a shot.

I loved the original so I'll be getting this to relive it. Sadly, I no longer have my original PS 1 copy.

Halleluja, it's finally here. I've 3 download slots left before I need to start deleting to fit anything new (8-30gb I can forgive, but limited download slots is scandalous), and there's no way I'm passing on this - for some reason I want it on the Wii U more than PS4 or XB1 where I can get it cheaper.

These eshop games, usually over priced for what they are, seem to get a higher score than they the game play deserves.

it seems as they worked the code out and cut the fat, now its under 6gb; good

Suuuure, I'll bite for 15 dolla.

Abe's Oddysee is a PS1 gem. The new engine looks lovely.

I already got this game through PS Plus a few months ago so I'm no longer bothered unfortunately.

No I will not be getting it on the wii u, when I got it way cheaper from the playstation store with cross buy so now I own it on ps vita, PS4, and PS3 and I only had to pay $8.00 total for them. Nintendo's eshop must not know how to go above that 25% discount point on the eshop games.

@ULTRA-64
Well, 8gb was never the limit. It was around 5gb, because the OS took up 3gb of the 8gb model.

Great news, day-1 buy. Despite already owning it for Xbox One, I will gladly support Oddworld Inhabitants again. Recommend to anyone who likes good platformers, or just a great atmosphere in their games.

Do I need it? No~
Do I want it? Yeah!

Do I need it? No.
Do I want it? No!

Never liked the Oddworld games ever since the start, they always felt clunky and not quite polished to me. Besides that, I'm sorry to say there's little point in getting stuff on WiiU that's earlier, cheaper and most likely better on PS4. I want to support the WiiU, but I always feel stupid buying inferior products on it.

@JaxonH don't worry dude, I know. I was being sarcastic, perhaps badly!

Ah, Oddworld, the one game that back in the day combined the first PlayStation's edginess with its need of platformers. What resulted was a cinematic platformer set in a darkly humorous dystopia populated with all kinds of weird creatures, from the Mudokons like Abe (image on the top, foreground), to the trigger-happy, hand-mouthed, gas-masked Sligs (background). A weird experience describable as Another World on crack.

If you've never been a PlayStation gamer and a strictly Nintendo purist, this game is worth a try. Just remember, as soon as enemies shoot you the reason for the game's infinite lives will make itself painfully clear.

I guess better late than never, but revealing the date less than 3 weeks to release, that makes me wonder whether they still care at all..

*less than 2 weeks

I'm curious to know what's been cut from the game to make it so much smaller. Is it just lower quality back grounds? Less levels? Why'd it take so long?

It's a little annoying how often the Nintendo version of a game is inferior yet higher priced than everywhere else. I hear it's because the devs/publisher negotiates with platform holder (Nintendo) based on what's already available on their shop (eShop in this case).

Gimmie!!! I got a serious case of the munchies!!!

The wait is over

Finally, some
-Hello
-Hello
-Follow me
-Ok
action for the WiiU owners!

@Moon my understanding is Nintendo let's devs/pubs manage their own prices and sales on eshop. Whether they get to pick an price range or an actual £$ value I don't know

I have a feeling this game will be a gem, and reasonably priced too.

@AlexSora89 The remake has now an "easy" mode with birds acting as a health bar (just like in Munch). But personally, I can't play the game seriously without instant deaths! ;D

Awesome .

IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE PRICE. Some of Nintendo's prices are truly ridiculous.

If I had a WiiU I'd be buying this immediately. The original game is one of the best video games ever. Funny, touching, and brutal, with incredible level design. My flatmates and I spent every evening for months playing the first two games in the series.

Oh, one week from now. I never played the original Oddworld, so maybe now it is the time to get in on the phenomenon. Though I must admit I'm not a huge fan of full-3D remakes in general. Something about the real-time lights feels a bit icky.

Still think I would prefer the Original after all the reviews I've seen. Too many changes.. the screen scrolling with you kinda bothers me.

@KTT
Good to hear, that would make the rerelease more appealing to me instead.

Pro controller support? I got a 2tb hard drive at target so space is no longer an issue