I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but what about integration with Kinect?

Now, personally, I hate Kinect after being an unfortunate owner of it.

But think about it, I'm sure that having it work with Kinect could be simple, by simply performing the motions for gameplay, and gamespeak would simply use the microphone.

For such a complex game, I think the controls for Kinect would be surprisingly simple.

but who likes the kinect? if an oddworld game is released on kinect, it would probably get a bad reputation, and only 3 to 6 year old kids would buy it.

It wouldn't work. Oddworld is a 2.5D platformer not a 3D game. And nobody likes Kinect because it makes you look like a complete berk.

Also, damn you Wil for posting them pictures, you know how I feel about the ponies! :flames:

What would be the Kinect control for 'roll'?

A hand jive, of course.

To do the motion the crouch then the motion for walk.

How would you possess a SoulStrom Fart? Do you have to literally fart then move your hands around it?

I wouldn't be able to beat the game anyway, I can't whistle.

(And yes I Know it's a stereotype for gay men)

It is?

I don't think Kinect would work for alot of the medium/hard platform sections unless it was only used for gamespeak, and even then only some of it. I wouldn't want to have to whistle codes or shout "fart" at the screen or anything.

If we can get a whole generation of gamers shouting 'fart' at the screen, we can close the company early and take a blissful retirement: Mission Accomplished.

According to Ian Fleming, apparently. I hadn't heard of it from anyone/where else.

You need to add that to your bio at Just Add Water. You have them right?

One idea I liked for Kinect would be snapping your thumb and fingers together to skip a line of dialogue in a cutscene. That way, if you wanted to skip all of it, you'd be making the 'Yak yak yak' hand gesture.

I can't do that!

Given that for starters I hate Kinect, I can't snap my fingers, and I can't whistle, me playing it with Kinect would be a disaster.

He means bringing your fingers and thumbs together, not clicking.

One thing, maybe we could have more interactivity with the Shrykull? I like the idea of controlling the lightning arcs of death.

What if you made a mistake and couldn't progress?

You would remain as the shrykull until you zapped everything I suppose. Can you even aim at targets with Kinect? If not I doubt it would be possible to make a mistake, unless they made it a quick time event (lol). This whole conversation seems silly anyway, I can't imagine Abe HD is ever going to use Kinect, or PS Move for that matter.

There was only one location where Shrykull power was needed to progress and the original game was pretty flexible about its usage at that point.

As well as in Monsaic Lines, I think it was supposed to be mandatory to use Shykull to execute the glukkons in the final screen, since otherwise you get shot to death. It is technically optional since you still get the ending cutscene if you get shot after pulling the lever, but it's one hell of an anti-climax if you don't use Shrykull.

If JAW remakes that area in Abe HD I think it shouldn't be skippable, but they
could add a "bad quarma" version of it where there are mudokons in the background instead of glukkons and pulling the gas shut off lever kills them somehow, sacrificing them to let Abe survive.

We might need to close this thread, otherwise you guys and gals will eventually suggest everything I have written down on my whiteboard of dreams and GDD of doom, resulting in the management thinking I've been getting you lot to do my job for me.

And we don't even make money for that

Really? I got my cheque yesterday. Didn't you?

Shhh! We aren't supposed to tell people about those.

You're job is to be the filter. With the dreck produced in this thread, that's a much more difficult job.



Question: Has anything been said about support for 3d TVs? I don't own one, but I have friends that do and I'd cream my pants if I could see the Monsaic Lines in 3d.

Isn't it the console that has to have support?

The game has to have code in place to render it; I can't think of a reason to not have 3D, although I've not really examined that side of the engine enough to say either way.

There will be new secret areas, and many of the puzzles will need to be tweaked, with perhaps a few being replaced.

There will also be a certain amount of new content that isn't in the original that are only accessible in new game + or other such things, meaning that you have the experience of the full game before anything is seen to be too different.

For the most part we're looking to do a remake as much as possible because that's the name of the game with this project; make a brilliant game look as good as it should without putting too much or our own stamp on it, because quite frankly, that's not our place; we're not here to fuck around with your memories.

Glitch: Down with the kids since 1851.

These pics just made Oddworld 20% cooler. Brohoof anyone?

Don't encourage him!

You'll kill us all!

Please tell me MLP is not going to be in Abe HD :(

2/10 for making me post sir

I don't like mlp either, I just like memes. so much negative rep for it was uncalled for...

I happen to like My Little Pony, but it does not mix with Oddworld.
In this situation, Oddworld made MLP cooler, not the other way around.

Actually none of it's cool, but I digress...

Die.

Broh...

...

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/ame...ycho%20new.jpg

Wow. You guys act like you're 12 years old or something.

Seriously I am so fucking sick of this Pony shit.

I actually find both sides of the argument annoying.

I was vocally against that idea earlier in the thread, but I have to admit that I got excited reading that.

Now you know how we feel when you post anime.

I... uhhh... what?