HS Law: http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=22143

Yeah, that's not helping me understand it any. What is HS Law in your words? Just "Lorne is going to make this how he thinks it should be made"? Or are you just taking a pot shot at "fan fiction" again

In case anyone would like to know.. Lorne Lanning will be interviewed by KindaFunnyGames at 10am on Thursday (San Fransisco time) or 17:00 UK Time

http://www.kindafunnyforums.com/view...117170#p117170

It's quite simple, Slog Bait: the "darker AEHD" is only a marketing speech.

SoulStorm was the working title for Abe's Oddysee, ACTUALLY.

Wait. Sorry wrong page.

Why couldn't you have said that to begin with, nerd

And it makes sense when you think about it: How much backlash did they get for NNT not being "as dark as AO"? Starting off the marketting campaign with "It's gonna be a dark fricken game" is bound to draw in all the people who previously criticized NNT for not being dark enough.

What will be interesting to see is whether or not it's taken past just the initial announcement and the new game ends up being much darker. It'd be funny, imo, if AO was remade to be more like AE, and then the AE remake somehow ends up more like AO. Like what kind of backwards ass bullshit I can't complain about would that be

So, Slog Bait, according to you, Lanning, suddenly, is doing fanservice (to please people like you, Scrabaniac and Havoc)? I don't buy it.

Did you completely miss the entire marketting spiel for NNT or do you really just live under a rock

It's at the very least an interesting take on both games.

Slog Bait, Havoc and Scrabaniac after the release of SoulStorm:

"The game is only slightly darker than NnT, why?! :fuzmad: "

U kno it bb doll

Everyone, discuss. How many gravestones should we pass before entering the vaults? I'd say at least 150 each. It's symbolic.

In SoulStorm, Dripik, Aslik and Phleg aren't goofballs anymore?

They'd be doing something dark and gritty in every scene. A true travesty.

Honestly, given what we got from NNT, I would have expected them to transfer the tone over to Soulstorm since in that Holy Sock Law thread, I had said "Yes, all signs point to NNT being what Lorne wanted AO to be in the first place". I still expect this, since the tone was basically the same as AE's, and would be fitting of an AE remake. However, if this announcement is to be interpretted literally, Soulstorm is going to be more reminiscent of AO, and that's something I wouldn't object to, but would be weirded out by because it's not what I would have expected to happen.

This is something we won't know until they start revealing more about the project, though.

Holy shit, time to come back out of the woodwork, i cant wait to see screens of this! i've always wanted AE to be grittier than it originally was. looks like they might deliver this time... maybe

AMAZING. It is fantastic seeing Oddworld become relevant again, both the company and the franchise as a whole.

Hey guyz look what I found in the code:

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal4.jpg
http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal3.jpg
http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal2.jpg
http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal1.jpg

Ew god I keep forgetting how disconcerting mudokon hands are until I see them rendered at a weird camera angle

I don't know what I am looking at...but I feel dirty just staring at it.

They already released a fragment of the next pic. No idea what it is.

http://puu.sh/nGr9c/c3e7407e2b.png

That looks like some top-notch CG. Do you think they're planning an ARG or something? I've been getting that vibe a lot.

Also can we all stop responding to vlam's flamebait kthx

Don't listen to Manco the otaku. It is my way to be hyped.

This is all weird as fuck but I'm really into it. It really does seem ARG-ish...which is something I never thought Oddworld would have, but I'm down for it.

I think you guys assume he's strictly trolling way more often than he actually is in the same vein people think I'm serious or upset way more often than I actually am

That's some nice trolling you troll.

Anyway, can anyone make out what's written here?

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal1.jpg

"Can you see/send-"
"hard to kno-"
"if breaking-"
"through h-"
"on need a d-"

Maybe that's because you don't punctuate that often I mean have you never heard of commas god

Punctuation can suck my dongle

e- All I can make out is CAN YOU SE__ NEED TO KN_(?) IF BREAKING THROUGH H__ ON NEED A __

Whatever it says it's definitely missing a chunk to the right

It might be a distress message. Maybe someone in the mines?

That first need might also be heed, I really can't make it out by looking alone

Or does it say hard

Frick someone just throw it in PS already

Do you think that this is set between AO and AE?

Oh man. I never even thought of that.

It kind of makes sense since Soulstorm is set directly after AO with Abe and his crew wandering the desert. I could totally see the satirically ironic ending being Abe and his crew ending up in another factory drinking Soulstorm.

Nothing about the OP indicates this. The beginning of AE was literally the end of AO. It seriously went "Hey look, Abe saved the mudokons and liberated them from RF", "Oops the dunderfuck hit his head again", *prophetic vision of spookies telling him something's amiss*, "Hey guys lets walk for a million years in the desert to fix the problem". Cue AE

The OP implies that the story of AE is going to begin and be told in a drastically different way, and that instead of just a handful of friends coming along it's the entirety of former RF employees. Which is crazy. Sounds like it's going to be the same general story at heart, though.

e-speedy fuk

So would that mean they're retconning the ending of AO?
Instead of Bigface taking Abe with him to wherever-the-fuck, where all the other (2)99 mudokons ended up to celebrate, he just tossed him into bumfuck-nowhere and in reality all those bird portals Abe "rescued" Muds through actually just lead to the same bumfuck place?


...Or maybe they did go through the original AO ending all fine and dandy, and then heard about some Mudokon utopia or something they set off to find

where did these pictures come from?

I hope it starts differently though.
"Oh, here comes some more magical beings sending me on a different quest literally just after I've finished this one."
It doesn't make sense. This implies it's going to start in a different way which I'm a lot happier with.

Well if it is the beginning of the game but told completely different. Here's hoping everything in Abe's Exoddus still actually happens. :S

Nothing happened in Abe's Exoddus though. Nothing big, anyway.

Maybe they partied too hard and too long and the natives of the monsaic lines didn't have nearly enough supplies to last for an additional 300 muds, so they just told them all to fuck off or something something destiny something get off our land

I wouldn't see why they'd recon the entire game, I'm sure the most vital stuff like everything that happened in Feeco and the vault challenges will still occur. These two paragraphs though:

This is going to be drastically different than the AE we know

The page has direct links in the code to:

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal4.jpg
http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal3.jpg
http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal2.jpg

I kind of extrapolated and tried:

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal1.jpg

I thought it was the reveal.jpg things! I just couldn't open them.