forgot to mention (unless Max or Jordan already have) Gilroy said to Lorne something about SligStorm during the Stream?

most likley nothing but. Well he did.

I said that it was announced like a day or so ago, but to now know its true makes me excited! :p

The Half-Life community is a bit strange. Its most likley due to Valve making diffrent games and updating other ones instead releasing EP3.

Its a bit like the Oddworld community, only we had nothing from the company for years.

Not really, trust me, the people I met throughout the Half-Life community are just retarded.
Only thing in common is just waiting for the games to come out.

He was winding Lorne up.

What I want is a fully-fledged PC game. A flash one would be cool too, though.

haha :D but on the other hand. I want SligStorm!

i would also like to see a game about sligstorm,would be fun to play as a slig :D

Okay, so is anyone else concerned about JAW announcing so many games? I'd rather they made just one than talked about making ten.

That just shows how appropriate they are to continue the Oddworld series.

*sigh*

Yeah it's a bit weird... I really hope they won't disappoint us. Or they will learn not to do this kind of stuff the hard way, like OWI did.

Have they really announced that much? They've announced MOHD, which is already a completed game and they've already started making HD character models. They've announced Hand of Odd, for which there's already a complete, albeit to-be-updated, design document. They haven't actually announced Abe HD because production isn't going to start for months.

One thing that I think they will announce after Abe's Oddysee HD is Abe's Exoddus HD. Its makes sence since they would have the engine and some of then models ready.

We don't yet know whether Abe HD is going to be AOHD, AEHD, a possible combination of AO and AE, or a new game entirely. Best not to jump to conclusions.

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It's not AEHD, unless they've changed the story to make him go to Scrabania.

Read the source link. Sample pre-production images will not necessarily make it in to the final game.

So why did they model Scrabania?

Fucked if I know. Maybe because they wanted to model something and it was a distinctive enough building to try out first. Maybe that was the first model they found from OWI's back catalogue.

Maybe we just don't know anything at all at this stage. And maybe it's best not to jump to conclusions.

So a while back, it was repeated time and time again that the original files were nowhere to be found, but recent comments seem to indicate that JAW have all those models, renders, codes what-have-you to base their re-masterings on?

Did they, by some stroke of luck, actually find them? I read about the proposed real time animated backgrounds for Abe HD being based on the 'original models'- were the backgrounds in AO/AE made in 3D because I thought they were just digital paintings?

Could be just a special application to rip all the sprites neatly and then to enhance them.

I think it was more a case of ‘in all likelihood’. As it turns out, we were pleasantly wrong.

Remember there are 3D transitions, for which there would be 3D models of background elements.

Every single time! Every time I leave the forums, something like this happens!

I welcome the news of a new Oddworld game, but shall retain my huzzahs until I'm confident it won't be shit.

Now, let's start building the pressure on JAW not to make it casual. We could start a petition!

I don't think the games their coming out with wont suck, mainly because some people who are working with JAW worked on the original Oddworld games.
That's only my opinion though.

Who? How do you know that?

I remember something like that too, could be wrong, but maybe Gilray or someone said something like that?

I can remember exactly where from I read that, I am thinking the OddWorld Inhabitants site itself maybe.
Besides, shortly after OddWorld Inhabitants got onto its long break, I am sure some people moved on to other game development companies.

Yes, but probably not to a tiny Yorkshire company.

Hi guys. I've been a fan of this series for quite a while, but I thought it was long-dead...until yesterday.
Hopefully they won't make it a shitty Facebook game tho, or they will kill the series.

Hand of Odd! Holy s***!

It's not what I wanted, but I would still play the hell out of an Oddworld Facebook game.

This is like, really amazing that they are bringing out all the old games out in HD..and a new game..especially that its in RTS form, this will be epic, i did look on the official website and it said there will be 2 main factions: The Land Muggers (Industrials) and The Tree Huggers (Mudokons) etc

Really? Because it doesn't say that on the official website.

Please, show us that site, because we're having difficulties.

Aren't those titles from a large character poster with all native and industrial characters on it? Not sure if it was a Hand of Odd poster but I do remember those exact names.

Edit:

http://images.wikia.com/oddworld/images/9/9c/003.jpg

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__...s/1/11/002.jpg

From the crappy Oddworld wiki, but still. I think they are nifty titles, I could see JAW using them as faction names.

Wouldn't Scrabs and Paramites be in Tree Huggers?

No, because they're classed as Wildlife, not Natives.

This is the first time I have seen those poster images, and I've gotta say I much prefer the Big Bro slig design there to the one used in MO.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it a little hard to see any close resemblance between the sligs and MO Big Bro. I know they have the same features and colours and whatnot, but If I had to put my finger on something, I'd say it's the eyes- normal sligs look to have eyes on the sides of their heads, whereas the Big Bro mask gave the impression they were forward-facing?

On this poster however, with the mask the same as a regular slig, it just feels more to me like an evolution of that character/species. For some reason, I always felt the MO Big Bro's were a bit too different, to the point where they didn't look like they could be the same creature anymore!

It was never an evolution in the species- Big Bro's were simply Sligs on steroids. And that being the case, I think Big Bros would be concerned about other body parts than their eyes...;)

That's what he's saying GG, that big brother units were too un-slig to be merely a drugged up version.

haha, little Bo Peep slig :D