I hate going to the barber's. Maybe Abe hates going also.

Well, what kind of barber shop would Rupture Farms have? 'We take a little off the top...of your neck'. I wouldn't blame him.

Maybe only employee of the year is allowed to have hair feathers

OR maybe it should be left the way it was. I don't see the point in such an unnecessary change.

STOP FUCKING WHINING

To be honest, a few dreadlocks on mudokons' heads would actually look very nice. We should make a petition

IT'S SHIT OKAY!? IT'S TOTALLY SHIT, I HATE IT AND IT'S SHIT! >:{

Can't stop won't stop

addicted to the shindig

Topic, please.

Suppose I could ask another question.
In Abe's Oddysee, how long is Abe gone from Rupture Farms before he comes back? Your second trip through the free fire zone, there are a lot more bombs and mines. Obviously, the developers wanted the trip back to be harder than the trip forward, but the new setup makes it feel like a significant amount of time has passed since Abe left. So...can we get a ballpark estimate on how long it took Abe to complete the trials and make his way back to the processing plant? Days, weeks, months?

One day.

They have multiple suns in their solar system, right? What do they consider "a day"?

I don't think they have more than one sun. Are you maybe thinking about the number of Oddworldian moons?

Why is it that explosive mines seem to vary in color, I think, depending on the platform you play it on?

http://199.101.98.242/media/shots/37...;NTSC-U]-1.jpg
Here they seem to be sort of grey/black.


http://i85.servimg.com/u/f85/13/65/64/19/fingam10.jpg
But here it seems more blue.

Is this due to some kind of old technical limitations?

I always assumed technical limitations were the case. Rayman had some similar weirdness with the tings on the console versions vs the PC version.

It might intentional, to reflect different environment lighting.

I don't think so, because on my PC version, all the mines look just as blue as the ones in the second screen, regardless of area. Except in shadows obviously.

I think the mines are the wrong colour.

After playing AO on the PS1 for 8 years, seeing those mines on the PC absolutely threw me.

Can we actually have a shot of the same screen on different platforms showing color difference? Because otherwise I agree with Nate, it's simply environment lightning.

Well I've played the PC and PSX versions too, and the mines on the PC version are blue and more detailed everywhere they're found, while the PSX mines are all dark and pixelated.



This is the PC version. Skip to about 6:08

The design of the mines on the PSX version differ from the PC version in several aspects. No idea why, although whoever said it was to do with technical limitations is probably on the right lines. Maybe when they ported Oddysee to PC the mines just didn't look right for one reason or another. However, aside from shadows, the environment doesn't play a factor in their appearance.

Loads of things differ. The mines, the levers, the text and the music. God, the music in the PC version sucks ass. What a shitty port.
Why doesn't gamespeak work properly in the PC version? You try to ask a mudokon to follow you and Abe just does this weird twitch.

I didn't have the problem. What I do have, however, is this link.

You have to press and hold the gamespeak buttons for some reason. Just tapping them won't do shit except make him do the weird twitchy thing.

Which I didn't ask for, or need. Thanks anyway, I guess?
Sometimes even holding them doesn't work. It's just the result of poor porting.

It's nice to see you've found an outlet for your teenage angst, Nep.

Nep you have an incredibly foul attitude.

The different coloured mines in the PC versions through me off as well. I'm slightly embarrassed that such a small object has this effect...

Woah, I never even noticed that until now. Also, were the characters in a version of Fangus ever just going to look like anthromorphic cats and dogs, like Clakkers were with their chicken designs?

From Lorne Lanning:

The same weird twitch thing happens in PS1 AO. Playstation controllers have pressure sensitive buttons. When you press the X key it sends a value depending on how hard you pressed it. You can change the pressure without lifting the key, so AO starts playing the animation at a certain pressure, but if you don't hit the button quite hard enough you just get the weird twitch. It took me ages to get used to because I would just stop pressing the button when I got the visual feedback. I think the PC version tries to emulate this with a small timed delay. If you release they key too soon you just get the twitch.

Sometimes on both platforms it just randomly won't work for the first few times I try to say something though.

Really? I've literally never experienced that on the Playstation. Are you sure Australia didn't just get a fucked up version or something? You only just noticed?

yes. i'm sure that's exactly what happened. yes.

i mean, the whole continent is run by criminals sooooooo

Yes, this is what happens. The only reason anyone notices it is because you’re used to the much smaller delay on the PS1 controller and aren’t used to the PC version.

Anyway, let’s all agree to just blank Nep. He’s clearly not interested in having a conversation.

Just because what he's asked is worded harshly doesn't mean he's uninterested in conversation. I was actually going to ask exactly what he did because I've never experienced the delay on the PSX version either BUT he beat me to the catch so I just waited for answers to happen.

The only issues I've had involving controls being delayed on PSX is running, rolling, and that weird accidental making a slig walk two steps instead of one thing. Meanwhile, all the control issues I've had on PC are entirely with the gamespeak taking way too long to register and Abe basically clipping through the floor just before talking.

I don't ever remember Abe basically clipping through the floor when trying to talk in the PSX version. Guess I'll just pay closer attention next time I play it.

What? I'm talking about the twitching thing where he moves a bit and then the animation cancels.

Also I think you can make Abe roll from running in the PC version by pressing a gamespeak key. I can't remember which one it is, though. Probably 4.

Oh the twitching we were talking about he like... moves a slight bit down into the floor and the animation stops entirely and if you don't continue holding the gamespeak key for it he just goes back to standing there being a dumbass without following through with the command. I've only experienced this in the PC version. I know the moving a bit and the animation cancels but when that's happened to me on the PSX version the command still goes through.

I think it's a general assertion based upon his entire demeanour. The fact that I actually sympathise for you for engaging in a relationship with him is testament to how reprehensible his behaviour is.

I only have two things to say in response to that, and I request if anyone wishes to continue discussing this with me further that they PM me because this is NOT the place to be talking about this shit and I'm tired of writing up public posts like this.

1- It's kind of hard to be all nice and humble when even at times when you're trying your best to actively engage in the ongoing situation you're met with hostility and people pointing their fingers at you blaming your age for nearly everything you do

2- I can't fucking believe you just publicly stated you feel sorry for me despite the fact that it was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life, regardless of the context given. I'm dead serious when I say I couldn't be happier with life at this exact moment because of it, and I don't want any form of sympathy because there's absolutely no reason to sympathize.