Oh ok; my mistake, but I still think the demos were kick-ass. :P

If they add in all the stuff they cut of Munch's Oddysee it would be amazing.
I would love to see that Slig Tank in action.

Why did Oddworld have to sell the ps2 out. Munch woulda been a hundred times better if they didn't and they would have been so much bigger now :-/ Those original Munch things looked so much better

Because Munch wouldn't have been better. They couldn't do all that they had promised in the PS2 either.

They would have had longer to work on the game though instead of meeting the xbox's launch line up deadline. So they probably would have been able to incorporate more stuff and thus delivered a better game.

Although they switched to Xbox because they were having a hard time working with PS2's convoluted technology and were receiving no support from Sony. Delivering even the same game on PS2 would have taken them much longer, plus wouldn't have as many characters or polygons on screen at a time.

I get that microsoft were super helpful and i think that was a good thing but i still think even a quick port (if thats even possible due to large amount of xbox stuff) woulda helped them out significantly.

So Munch HD has officially been announced too it looks like - And I have to say I'm a little sceptical. That game is going to need more than a simple graphical update to fix it - More like an entire re-build from the ground up.

Any more details yet?

That's what I thought. Some of the sound effects need tweaking, I'm still uncomfortable with Paramites being pigs in MO. I'd have been 10x more excited for this if an Xbox 360 version was confirmed.

Ok, so it's been confirmed. For the sake of Oddworld I hope they will do more than just touch up the graphics. MO needs some serious work to be playable.

I suspect that this will only be a graphical upgrade similar to Stranger HD. If it was a complete remake, they'd have mentioned it in the announcement.

I doubt anyone is expecting a complete rebuild but there are some minor things here and there which I'm sure can be fixed while they're at it.

sigh... munch's oddysee needs to be completly re-done, not just a graphical update. I didn't like how paramites and scrabs acted or sounded, and it was a bit to "cartoonish". The story line wasn't bad though.

I have to agree, this doesn't sound like a good idea...

Meh at least when that's out of the door they can finally start working on something that isn't a remastering.

So they decided to make their worst game in HD? Huh.

fix'd

That's true.

I agree that Munch's Oddysee need more then a graphical improvement. It needs a complete remake. I said before why not adding some new stuff to the game that was originally cut out. I know I'm being too optimistic but it would be awesome.

Now all they need to announce is Abe's Exoddus HD.

If it generates more funding for other projects then I'm all for it. Sure, I'd like to see a full remake just as much as anyone, but I can live with this.

Munch HD
 

i am very sorry but due to unforeseen circumstances i cant make this munch and will need to cancel i will pm all who have replied on here once again im sorry about this

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Hmm, here's a thought. With a graphical remake they could potentially do away with the entire cartoony thing entirely, right? New fronts for the vending machines, new menu graphics, new icons. Just removing the entire cartoony side would already be a major improvement.

From the stuff they showed us, things are looking promising, the Scrab looked uber nice. But yeah, they've got a nice chance here to make Munch's Oddysee into something really nice.

@unenuarge - WTF?

I still think they need to change some of the levels and parts of the gameplay - Also how the characters move. It may look better and more polished with better graphics, but unless they drastically change stuff you'll notice that it'll still have its crappy concept-like workings underneath all of that. Graphics don't make a game after all.

They remade the Big Bro Slig postcard from the Passport to Oddworld E3 video with the new Slig model.
looks veery nice indeed.

The new Scrab is a massive improvment to the original model indeed. I wish i took some photos of them :(

That actually sounds really good, and the work required would be pretty minimal - change a few audio files and remake some texture files to better match AO and AE's style.

i don't know much about game development, does it show?

Wait, they were showing off some of the HD update? How much did they show?

They showed a couple of models like a Scrab, a Slig, a Big Bro and I think there might have been something else... I can't quite remember.

Thats about it yeah, they didn't show the Paramite and Glukkons. They did show some Strager's Wrath HD models but I think we've already seen them.

And no one thought of taking pictures? Come on guys! :(

I felt bad when my camera (thats i'd left charging all day) decided to let out a strange BEEP and then die. I would of taken tons of photos.

but on the other hand, they will be reveled online soon anyway I think.

Huh, you could have used my camera. Shame neither of us thought of it. I was too busy tweeting to snap many shots.