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I can see what you mean, actually, OddHunter. Perhaps a middle-ground would be best, so as not to humanise too much; maybe they could occasionally engage each other in the same kind of chit-chat as when we see them conversing just as Abe enters the Stockyards. It's unintelligible and emotionless, much like the Metropolice radio chatter in the start of HL2... which makes me think.

In the first game, ALL of the industrialists spoke in low, obscure voices, and as far as I could work out, were not meant to be fully understood by the player. Kind of makes them seem much more merciless. I think as long as any Slig chatter was done like this, and the aforementioned cutscene, it could breathe a little more life into the environments while not breaking character.

Just don't make them speak with the same jive mannerisms as in Munch... I always thought that was awful. :p

Just two small things I thought of while writing this post;
1) I hope the Sligs still spam BS and S'Mo BS when they're about to beat the slaves silly. To me it's highly iconic.
2) Can't remember if we've had word on this, but I hope the Sligs use the visor mask from Oddysee. Looks way cooler and more emotionless.

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They should make it so that if Abe stands there listening to their conversations for 30 mins, he says "cool story bro".

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I think multiplayer could work in Oddworld depending on how the puzzles are designed. Maybe you handicap each player regularly throughout the game to leave them with certain abilities or skills, like being able to possess or talk to other Mudokons. This can make it so each player has their own importance and task throughout the game.

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@crashpunk 'time trails'? i've been calling them time 'trials'.. Have I been wrong my whole life? o_O..

Multiplayer could work, but you couldn't just stick another player in the game as it is. You'd have to redesign the puzzles, and the layout, pretty much everything about the scene, to make it work for multiple players. What could happen is a second player could opt to control slave mudokons throughout the game and this would allow puzzles to be accessed and completed that are only accessible with the aid of the second player, enabling a '110%' game completion.

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Nope going to stay stubborn. Abe games is a single player experience. Some of my mates like oddworld but they would cba playing co-op in Abe HD. Too much stress and time, but whereas COD they would play co-op in something like that. I don't want abe HD to have co-op purely for the fact its going down the same cycle as many companies thinking its cool and new when infact its boring and usually broken. AO and AE are single player games, not a Portal 2 where its single player then more story in co-op. It worries me if that's what is being suggested to be put in the game.

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If you honestly think multi-player is too stressful and time-consuming, then you have been playing games with a poor multi-player option. It's only boring and broken when it's done wrong. I however have faith in JAW and if they were to execute multi-player, then I think they would do it very well. Also, multi-player has been around for a very long time, it hasn't suddenly become a thing that companies decide to include for the sake of it. Do you really think Oddworld is the kind of game that would jump on bandwagons?

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And to your last question yes. Example, Playstation Move and 3D support for Strangers Wrath a HD remake. 3 out of 4 popular trends atm for all new games only thing missing is co-op.

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Far too gimmicky, I'm not sure if you're serious. But adding little internet memes and pop culture references would kill the game for me completely. Especially since playing the game again in maybe five years would probably make them all invalid.

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Nope going to stay stubborn. Abe games is a single player experience. Some of my mates like oddworld but they would cba playing co-op in Abe HD. Too much stress and time, but whereas COD they would play co-op in something like that. I don't want abe HD to have co-op purely for the fact its going down the same cycle as many companies thinking its cool and new when infact its boring and usually broken. AO and AE are single player games, not a Portal 2 where its single player then more story in co-op. It worries me if that's what is being suggested to be put in the game.

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Though I agree that giving sligs dialogue may disrupt the general atmosphere, I still think that it makes them more congruous with how sligs are portrayed in cut-scenes. The only reason they weren't more chatty was because of the crippling AI limitations in those days. When MO rolled around, we saw sligs behaving the way Lorne and crew probably wanted them to in the first place. Essentially, the limitations made it better.

They're more effective as no-nonsense kind of security guards, but that's not how they really are. The question then becomes; do we take the opportunity to characterize them more now that we have fewer limitations, or do we keep them as the half-sentient, guns-with-legs that shoot first and ask later? I feel that, in capable hands, it could go either way without detracting from the game itself.

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I want a debugging console!

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Sligattack9000gibbedTherealAbeshady200 points!
Multi-kill


While you're at it, make a kill streak system, hell fifteen kills and you can call in the slogs.

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Maybe instead of flags, it can be some working mudokens, or maybe just Alf :), that Abe has to save, but he has to make sure that none of the other sligs can see him with the help of the shadows or something like that. Also, I don't think that it would be too bad to have the sligs use their incomprehensible voices like in that one cutscene from the original game since there are hardly ever two sligs put together in the same room anyways.

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PSMove: is that a popular trend? Really?
3D support: this is probably the way technology is going, not really a trend.
HD: this isn’t a trend, it’s a standard for games nowadays.

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the appeal of the whole 2-4 co-op play along with friends story attachment.

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You mean the multiplayer thing in AO for the PS?

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I still think that it should be something other than a flag because Abe would have no sensical need to capture a flag, that I can think of anyways, so maybe it can be something like bait for the scrabs and paramites; I don't know, as long as it's something other than a flag, I would probably be suited with that mode.

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Well, really there'd only be scrabs and paramites. I don't think it would make a huge difference. Pens with paramites would have to have more than one, or else they'll just idle.

A nice touch would have a pen labeled "meeches" and it's totally empty. Though that might be overselling it a bit.

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That would imply it was too recent...

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If the sign is metal (which makes more sense than any other material), it would last for quite a while and still be totally legible.