#exoddus

..... welcome back aboard.

I had a vague dream last night that a teaser was released for the next Oddworld game. I remember absolutely zero details except for maybe water caves? Abe was there at least, so that’s something.

The dream isn’t the important part. The important part is that I actually did used to have dreams just like this... back when I got really big into Oddworld around 2007-2008. I HAD played Exoddus before that and liked the series, but those were the years that I got super big into it.

And I remember at the time I was at an uncomfortable time in my life, and pretty much an emotional tween thing, and that I would have these dreams about Oddworld games and would just... get so disappointed after them. I would be devastated when I woke up.

Because back at that time, Oddworld pretty much didn’t exist. There was the issues with EA, the issues with the releases of Stranger’s Wrath, and our last appearance of Abe was in 2001- unless we count the cameo in 2004′s brief sitcom Game Over. Everything ground to a halt. 

I had just fallen hard into a fandom- or back into a fandom- that was pretty much done for. The idea of an Oddworld game just getting announced was outlandish. It was pretty much over and done with, or it felt like it. There was no looking forward for what was next, it was all looking back at what was.

So, it’s so weird to be waking up from one of those dreams in a post-Soulstorm world (lol) and suddenly realizing how different it is. I mean, it could be that I’m just not as emotionally crippled as I was as a kid, but I don’t think that’s it.

Soulstorm came out just last year. I know it’s going to be a while before we get a namedrop, teaser, release date, ANYTHING on a sequel or another project... but the fact that it could happen, that the company’s not in limbo and that the last game wasn’t six or seven years ago, that there’s a sort of hope into the future... it’s kind of nice. It feels good. 

Because now we’re back to looking forward. I like that. I like knowing that there’s an eventual on the horizon. The game ended on an open note for the next one. Lorne wants to continue the story. Maybe someday I will see Abe in those caves.