ACTUALLY SoulStorm was the original title for ODDSYEE, ACTUALLY

I'm so glad it's not Twice Ze Flavor.

But the title alone is far too little to buy me.

Yeah, you’re right, my bad.

PogChamp

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OMG :DDDDDDDDDD

Soulstorm was a working name for Abe's Oddysee.

The only bad thing about this entire announcement is that, once again, they're doing the 'we need X followers before we give you a picture' bullshit. I HATE it when game developers do that.

Why? It's a solid tactic.

AAAAHHHHHHHHH

Boy, I can't wait until this game is released and evryone on this site starts shitting on it for not being the original Abe's Exoddus :p

It's stupid and it screws over your existing fan base who have already been following you for god knows how long.

Oh waaaaaah, Havoc. It's a chance to create surprise and tease information slowly.

How does it screw anyone over? It's an effective way of gaining more fans and it does the job. We have to wait a bit? Boo hoo.

How does it screw over the existing fan base?

EDIT: i'm too slow for this thread

I think Soulstorm fits perfectly for the exoddus remake because soulstorm brewery is the main building that Abe needs to visit to get rid of the brewmaster.

Because I, as someone who has already liked, followed and whatevered the shit out of all their social media pages, can't do anything to make that little bar fill up quicker. Well, I could whore myself out on Twitter and tell everyone to like a page so I can see stuff faster, but I don't do stuff like that on principle.

Also it's just a fundamental misunderstanding of social media. You GET followers because you put out cool stuff people want to see more off. You don't ask people to follow you FIRST based on the promise that you will put out the cool stuff LATER. It's just... ugh.

I get that it's a tactic but it's a stupid one. If you want to go down that path just say "if you want to stay up to date, follow us on bla bla bla". Don't attach a progress bar and some arbitrary number to it.

I don't think that bar goes up automatically. i think they will gradually increase it manually.

Probably, but that wasn't my point. In fact, if they just randomly increase it without accurately representing the follower increase, that would be even worse.

Oh my god this is better than I ever expected I can't wait for late 2017

Twf when you take a bottle of soda and there are dark secrets written on the label.

If the system counts current followers, then that'd be great. But if it only accounted for new followers, then why not simply unfollow everything and re-follow? :)

I do agree it's a rather silly system. But it's there to build hype and it isn't the first time I've seen it. An example being Dota 2's prizepool at the International.

Also. We all pretty much knew it was a AE remake, but I'm glad it's confirmed.

Because it won't be X amount of new followers, it'll be X amount of followers in general.

Awesome! I'm really glad to see this. I always thought Abe's Oddysee had a great, dark atmosphere and it looks like they're going to hit the nail on the head.

I'm interested to se what makes Abe different in this story; I'm guessing far more dishevelled and morally ambiguous...

Like Shadow the Hedgehog!

Shadow wasn't dishevelled, he was hot.

God I hope they return to CG animation so badly. This entire announcement is much more ambitious than I could have ever hoped for, so let's hope a return to CG is one of the ambitions.

...like Werewolf Sonic?

Oddworld: Twice Ze EDGE

OR

Eba the Mudokon, Abe's one-man-army mercenary cousin who decides to take on the Magog Cartel using GUNS and BULLETS that VOMIT BLOOD.

EDDDDDDDDDDDDGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEE!

I think there's something we can all agree on: Soulstorm needs some Elum sections.

The announcement was really pushing the whole ‘visual innovation’ angle, I’d be really surprised if this wasn’t a part of it. I bet the pictures of Abe they’re teasing will be of the cutscene model.

It’s also worth noting that Frima (the Canadian studio mentioned in the press release) has a dedicated ‘Animation & VFX’ department.

Do these things not just create a bunch of dummy accounts anyway?

I think Elum Sections would only work if there was actually a journey to Mudanchee and Mudomo instead of a well.

Holy shit I hadn't even noticed that. Praise the gods, Oddworld in modern day CG after 20 years!

You guys are easy to please. We haven't seen pictures of the game so far.

Don't say you don't want to stare at Abe's chest.

This announcement is generating more hype for me than New 'n' Tasty did at the time, because there is going to be actual NEW stuff. New visuals, new story. I don't have to see any game footage to know I'm hyped, you party pooper.

Oh hey, it's that one blind mudokon

Whoa dang it's almost like official announcements excite and keep people interested in a product

Holy Sock law still apply!

What is this "Holy Sock" law

Don't you know the Holy Sock law?