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I'm just joking around. It's the worst game in the series but I understand OWI were fucked by EA or something and a TON of shit that was going to be originally included suddenly wasn't because they had to rush shit and so on. If they had made what they intended it would have been fucking great.



Man there's more to life than HD remakes of exactly the same shit you've played before. They're offering a completely new game with similar storyline and some people are just fixated on whether its going to be identical to the original or not. I've been chatting with someone on Discord about this and I don't mean to single you out but you're a prime example of why this fanbase can't have nice things.



Why can't you? ITS A NEW FUCKING GAME

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Whooaaaa easy there!! LIke I said, I'm there playing this game day one no matter what it is. I also just expressed my wish to see the Slig Barracks in glorious HD, that's it! Not a shot for shot remake of the game. I saw they theyre including FeeCO, Soulstrom Brewery, Bonewerkz, so they must have Slig barracks right??

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ALSO, for the side scrolling thing, dude, imagine your playing Halo (Just an example) and its fucking dope and then all of a sudden, the sequel theyre like oh, its a third person side stroller now BUT ITS GOT AWESOME NEW STUFF though. It might be a stupid comparison but it gets my point across. Side scrolling is Oddworld to a lot of people and if they wanted to change that, they shouldn't have made NEw n tasty sidescrolling--- a game that was meant to introduce more people to Oddworld.

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That being said, if it still is a side scroller, they can still add SO much to it and make it awesome and not just a screen for screen remake if Exoddus

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I'm just joking around. It's the worst game in the series but I understand OWI were fucked by EA or something and a TON of shit that was going to be originally included suddenly wasn't because they had to rush shit and so on. If they had made what they intended it would have been fucking great.

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Soulstorm is trying to be it's own game whilst incorporating ideas the Oddworld community has suggested and also telling the same story. that's a lot of work and to ask for it to remain a sidescroller when OWI have said over and over again that it's a new fucking game is just dumb, man. It's dumb. Look at how fucking cool it looks. Does it really matter if it's sidescrolling or not lol?

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To be fair, when OWI asked what people wanted next, most did vote for Exoddus HD, then we had a few months to let it sink in that that's what we would be getting next before they announced that they were going to use the original vision they had for the game. Most of us just assumed they mean't story and lore stuff, maybe some new enemies or areas. It wasn't even until this EGX panel that people are now questioning what the gameplay will be. Personally, I just really want to play in the N'n'T engine some more. The controls were so much more responsive and movement was much more fluid than the original, it was really fun to do those speed-run achievements. Kinda wish it had mod support for some custom levels.

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I'm especially excited for Soulstorm though because it seems brand new, even though the story is still sorta the same, it's a new game. New mechanics, different story aspects, returning characters (since Molluck wasn't in AE) and completely new characters too (more or less), it's all cool as fuck.

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It's down to personal taste at the end of the day. Honestly I'd like OWI to give the middle finger to the fans and do whatever the fuck they want. I would like new games, pretty much like Soulstorm will be, not HD remakes of everything because the fans demanded it. But yeah, the fans are the fans, and they abide those sweet, sweet fans. Unfortunately.

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You must be a complete tool if you think that Munch was a good direction for the series. Did you even listen to anything he said or are you baiting me right now

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If that gets rebooted I'm sending Lorne another death threat.

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I guess you're right, that's why nobody makes sidescrollers anymore, right?

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I guess you're right, that's why nobody makes sidescrollers anymore, right?

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I'm not having a go at you, that's why I said "I don't mean to single you out", it's just you fit the stereotypical Oddworld fan down to a T. There's no need to be up in arms.



When they were making NnT the majority of fans just wanted an HD remake of the original, if OWI had decided to make it a 3D landscape or whatever you can guarantee a number of people would have got pissy about it. So to say they should keep Soulstorm the same as NnT because it was meant to introduce more people to Oddworld is kinda null and void. Yeah it was a new introduction for new players, but it was just a general retelling of the same story because THAT'S WHAT THE FANS WANTED. Soulstorm is trying to be it's own game whilst incorporating ideas the Oddworld community has suggested and also telling the same story. that's a lot of work and to ask for it to remain a sidescroller when OWI have said over and over again that it's a new fucking game is just dumb, man. It's dumb. Look at how fucking cool it looks. Does it really matter if it's sidescrolling or not lol?

Maybe it will be a sidescroller, maybe not, who knows. Personally I hope it isn't. I hope it's a birds-eye view where the camera spins 360 whenever you possess something to make the player feel sea sick.

In short: they're dedicated to their fans and their fans like to keep playing the same old shit.



What's this fucking fixation on sidescrolling dude? Do you sidescroll your way to school every day? Are you that dedicated? Do you really not want a cool new Oddworld game if it has a different POV from the original? Why is that so important? You're genuinely making me laugh but not in a good way. I mean this might sound like a far-out concept, but get this: maybe they can still add all the cool shit, but NOT have it sidescrolling! D'ya think? Huh? No? Really? Oh, okay. I'll just kill myself then.

Actually yeah, you're definitely why we can't have nice things. Sidescroller or bust, OWI. I hope you're reading this Lorne, because obviously you are. We want side-on action of Abe's sexy bod, otherwise we SPIT ON IT

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Regarding whether or not the game will be a 2D/2.5D sidescroller, I personally have no doubts that it will be. In fact, at the presentation itself Lorne very clearly alluded to this:

If we're gonna readdress the idea of Exoddus, let's go all the way. So let's scrap the Exoddus that you saw and you knew, and let's go fresh back to that original vision on top of the sidescrolling platformer genre, and turn the volume up to 11 on a lot of different levels.

He says this around 6 minutes in. I guess this could somehow be interpreted as saying the game will be moving away from sidescrolling...but I definitely don't see it like that. Guess we'll see!

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I hope none of this Non-Binary Gender bullshit makes it into Oddworld.

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Maybe you couldn't hear it over the sound of Lornes frustration at not being able to use a video player properly

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I don't think any non-binary gender exploration in Oddworld would be the result of real world social developments, especially since early on, Lorne has talked about androgeny, and how sacred androgenous people were considered in some tribes for having traits from both sexes. (This is in one of his interviews)

Oddworld has always taken a non traditional approach at gender, with virtually any female character assuming the role of queen bee/ant birthing worker drones, so I don't find it strange at all that there could be a wide array of expression among these 'drones' that we, the players, would call masculine or feminine