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pupbenny 05-13-2012 12:35 PM

Agreed.

Strike Witch 05-14-2012 12:14 AM

I would like a Paramite and a Scrab to appear in the same screen. It can be different cages in the stockyards or whatever, but it would be nice.

Never Sleeper 05-14-2012 02:55 AM

I think it would be fun if a Paramite or a Scrab could be harmed by bullets and the industrial characters are possible to eat.

Scrabaniac 05-14-2012 08:49 AM

I think one of the most important things to ask is will the controls remain the same as the original? I dont want to have to get used to new settings!

Nepsotic 05-14-2012 10:51 AM

Dont forget though that it will be a new engine with new game mechanics correct me if i'm wrong) probably, so it will be likely that the controls will be slightly different.

Wil 05-14-2012 12:15 PM

It's a new game engine, but the game mechanics are very nearly identical. On the one hand, we need to offer the same controller setup, or as near as we can. On the other hand, if we don't put jump on the X button, we'll have failed as modern game developers.

skychase2rebirth 05-14-2012 12:56 PM

Add classic and customisable controls...

OANST 05-14-2012 01:09 PM

I want a button that makes Abe scratch his ass.

Dynamithix 05-14-2012 01:35 PM

Bring it to Xbox 360 and make it Kinect compatible so you can actually scratch Abe's ass yourself. Make a minigame out of it.

Wil 05-14-2012 02:36 PM

Hell, let's make it the game in its entirity!

Nate 05-14-2012 05:23 PM

I'm sure it could work as an iOS game. All you see on the screen is Abe's arse and you can scratch it as much as you like while he squirms with delight.

Hazz-JB 05-14-2012 05:40 PM

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It's a new game engine, but the game mechanics are very nearly identical. On the one hand, we need to offer the same controller setup, or as near as we can. On the other hand, if we don't put jump on the X button, we'll have failed as modern game developers.

Is there any problem implementing multiple control layouts? Even just "normal" and "classic" modes swapping jump and crouch would probably be enough to please most people.

Wil 05-15-2012 12:45 AM

Not as far as I'm aware. I don't even know how far away we are from implementing controls.

TheMooseLord 05-15-2012 01:30 AM

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Bring it to Xbox 360 and make it Kinect compatible so you can actually scratch Abe's ass yourself. Make a minigame out of it.

Imagine a star-wars kinect esc oddworld dance off.

JennyGenesis 05-15-2012 01:04 PM

No, no, no, no, no,

Ok, well, maybe one for Get Freaky, but that's really pushing it.

OANST 05-15-2012 01:08 PM

Get Freaky was terrible in both concept, and execution. Not to mention the song itself being absolutely awful.

Dynamithix 05-15-2012 01:42 PM

Use Yur Imagination wasn't that great either.

OANST 05-15-2012 01:45 PM

If by "wasn't that great" you mean that the people who made it should have been beaten then I agree.

STM 05-16-2012 04:37 AM

Baring in mind that was back in the 90s. The 90s, not a great decade for music. Except rap...and techno...

Spooce-aholic 05-16-2012 09:17 AM

Will there be an achievement for possessing the very first Slig?

Sekto Springs 05-16-2012 09:37 AM

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Except rap...and techno...

You'd be right if "Get Freaky" didn't fit snugly into both of those genres as well.

Wil 05-16-2012 09:55 AM

I like the way you assume STM is incapable of irony.

Sekto Springs 05-16-2012 10:02 AM

Because he is.

I actually like "Get Freaky" anyway. Or I did when I was 10. I wonder how I'd feel about it now.

Edit: Okay, I re-listened. I still like it in a "we all thought Space Jam was the best movie ever" kind of way. However, the video retroactively killed Oddworld.

The Japanese Abe-a-GoGo ad is still better than sex though.

STM 05-16-2012 10:54 AM

If I was incapable of irony, what was my last post, m'dear?

Sekto Springs 05-16-2012 11:00 AM

An in-depth retrograding of the music of yesteryear.

MeechMunchie 05-16-2012 11:29 AM

You have a "derpy" MLP avatar. You have disposed of your ability to complain about others' subtlety.

I wonder what the Get Freaky guys do nowadays... I bet one of them is still trying to pursue a music career.

Sekto Springs 05-16-2012 11:49 AM

I specifically chose Derpy for that very reason.

As for Music Instructor, their wiki says they're still active, but they haven't made any music since 2000. Apparently "Get Freaky" went Platinum in Germany.

Jordan 05-16-2012 02:20 PM

I bought the Get Freaky CD solely because it was kind of Oddworld merchandise. Bad idea.

JennyGenesis 05-17-2012 12:04 PM

The music video was great in the sense that the performers were placed into Oddworld scenes, I really liked that.

Crashpunk 05-18-2012 05:38 AM

I thought it was horrible.

OANST 05-18-2012 07:03 AM

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The music video was great in the sense that the performers were placed into Oddworld scenes, I really liked that.

Why is that great? Why would you like that? I'm seriously interested.

DarkHoodness 05-18-2012 11:59 AM

It makes me wonder what target audience OWI were aiming at as a way of promoting their franchise when they thought of doing that.

Actually did OWI commission it or did they just agree to the request of some rap artists?

Wil 05-18-2012 12:02 PM

Almost certainly the latter.

JennyGenesis 05-18-2012 12:14 PM

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Why is that great? Why would you like that? I'm seriously interested.

Because I just did.

Sekto Springs 05-18-2012 12:54 PM

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Actually did OWI commission it or did they just agree to the request of some rap artists?
Lorne is just a huge fan of obscure German techno/hip-hop groups.

OANST 05-18-2012 01:09 PM

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Because I just did.

Well, you're a bad person who has no taste then.

For crying out loud, there wasn't even any driving.

JennyGenesis 05-18-2012 01:20 PM

Yeah why didn't they get in a mine car?

MeechMunchie 05-18-2012 02:22 PM

Serious answer: Minecars didn't appear until Abe's Exoddus.

JennyGenesis 05-18-2012 02:24 PM

And part of the music video had the performers walking through Necrum Mines...

MeechMunchie 05-18-2012 02:27 PM

I only remember the 30 seconds in the Monsaic Sacntum. I'd assumed it was made some time between AO and AE. I was wrong, obviously.

Serious answer: Minecars don't appear in any 3D cutscenes.