They went to the Stormtrooper Academy. :P

Although since the 3 shots happen so quick it may as well be instantaneous - And that's fine 'cause it made them more menacing.

Yeah It was only in Abe's Exoddus the Sligs shot the ground before then shooting Abe. I think it was implemented to give you a chance to escape a Slig. However I think completely removed in the later stages.

Abe's Oddysee was instant kill.

With Quiksave, does that even make a difference?

Yes. You should at least have to reload the save as punishment for death. If you can just live on with a little less health, there is essentially no punishment.

It's an instant kill if you're running toward the slig.

I suspect that they will go with the MO style of health for New n Tasty, it will be great for people that aren't familiar with the original, but I would never put it over the JAW and OI to not have a "instant death" mode aswell in the game for us die hard fans.....



But the moment I see a fucking Sobe vending machine in NnT I will freak shit!

It looks like New N Tasty is nearing completion.

I think it's finished. Just going through final testing and then awaiting certification for the various platforms.

Not long till we can get our hands on it! Feels like it's been ages.

I wonder how many of us would do a doubletakebrixshat if JAW just suddenly released it on PS4, Vita, Steam, etc. and the only way we found out was through browsing the new releases xD

That'd be a terrible way to market a product.

Or woooooouuuuuuld it?

I dont think they will release it unannounced, apparently there are "3 big secret features" that JAW intend to share details when it is ready to be released

Well that's all fine and dandy but in all honesty with Lorne stating that he's going over to the UK to wrap up NnT with JAW, and the game basically being completed and almost ready to ship.. where's the advertising campaigns, etc?
I realize that JAW is a much smaller company but still, if much smaller games like Volgarr the Viking can get ads on Adult Swim and hell even television in general, then why can't New 'N Tasty?

That's our job. Quest hook!

Budget perhaps?

And let's be fair, New N Tasty hasn't gone un noticed on the internet has it?

Even Oddworld is general hasn't gone unnoticed with games coming out on Steam and PS3. So I don't think an advertising campaign is really needed, it's already has enough coverage on various gaming websites.

Just because Lorne’s coming in to wrap up with JAW doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot more work to do. In the Gameinformer interview Gilray said the art was “99% done”, which means there’s probably still plenty of work do on the engine, code, testing, platform QA, etc.

I think it's safe to assume that they're near the end of production, otherwise it'd be very unwise of Lorne to post a status like that, exciting so many fans.

Come on, it's not like Oddworld is known for jumping the gun, is it?

JAW/OWI have a definite social media presence and a strong fanbase. They're not going to release this without any kind of buildup. Frankly, Stewart Gilray doing interviews with Game Informer is their advertising campaign, or at least part of it.

I doubt JAW/OWI would see it as beneficial to pay for TV advertising, but even if they did they'd wait until the week the game came out. There'd be no point putting ads on air now when they don't even know when the release date is yet.

It'd be cool to see a recreation of the gaurdian angel ad.

Wait where does Lorne say that he's coming over to wrap things up? Is it in an interview?

He had posted it on his Facebook.
http://i1270.photobucket.com/albums/...ps439b881f.png

I can't speak for the rest of you, but I for one have been hyping this game up to all of my friends telling them to buy it, I even discovered that one of my friends had played Oddworld before (GBA Munch's Oddysee... eh)

http://i.imgur.com/umzGiDd.jpg

Now why would I waste my 9000th post on a stupid meme image? Hmmm...

Is it because your stupid?

I don't get it at all.

I think that picture is in relation to the Munch's Oddysee GBA game.

What about my stupid?

vaaarrook

With all the methane floating around (why else would you think Mudokon Sacred Grounds are so green?) a simple explosion might cause a chain reaction killing everyone including Abe

Touché

Sprout gas?

-fart joke here-

Gonna need me an ass the size of a TRUCK to fit this wallet.

Just caught Oddworld.com with a new post, I took a quick screenshot of the webpage just incase they'd prematurely leaked the screenshots + gameplay trailer. The gameplay trailer is 'private' on YouTube, and I took the screengrab on my uncle's iPad, so I don't have access to it now that I've returned home :( otherwise, I'd have posted it here for you guys to see.

Screenshots include a close-ish view of Abe rolling past some meat grinders, which looks very nice, very realistic looking :).

Another shows Abe leading the way with 4 mudokons following past a sleeping slig. There's a big bright green graffiti tag on the wall above the slig reading 'SLIG' indicating to the player there is a sleeping slig there.

There's the swinging boulders again, with Abe in mid-jump across one of the chasms. Looks nice, I think it has more asmospheric effects than the first we saw, more specifically, iirc, the chasms had green toxic-looking gas in them. I think it's just visual, I expect Abe will still fall to his death rather than being gassed.

There's a shot of 3 or 4 sligs running along the platform past a typical Abe scoreboad showing 99 employees, so I guess, considering also the camera angle, this is going to be the first cutscene-to-gameplay transition in the game as you begin your escape from rupturefarms.

A screenshot of stockyard escape. Not keen on this one, it looks a bit empty and bland. And there's a shot of the end of Scrabanian nests with the huge religiousy sculpture including bigface's mask.

There's a couple other new shots, but I can't recall them, except I know one of the features Abe's head close up looking to the side somewhere

Gameplay trailer, good, that's exactly what I wanted :).

I can't wait to see those screens!

This is a very good sign!

Looks like a nice shot of the boardroom from the New n' Tasty intro cutscene has been added to the official website, as a banner for the Oddboxx Easter Sale. Looking good!

http://www.oddworld.com/wp-content/u...omfeatured.jpg

It looks exactly like the old one.

The fans will love it.

EDIT: Speaking of which...

... New 'n' Tasty's soundtrack will be fundamentally identical to Oddysee's. Not that this is any kind of remake, of course...

Sorry but it looks a lot like an shot from the old game to me. For reference this is a pic used for the promotion of AO back in the nineties

http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...s/SSAO0072.jpg
http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...ture.php?/1865

They're mirrored. It's not just mullock on the slig.