Latest facebook post talks about how trophies/achievements should be dished out.

I personally like getting them again on other consoles. It gives it a nice replayability feel.

It would be amazing if we could have one of these comparison shots per week. Something to keep us sane during the wait. Plus it gives us nerds fucking loads to talk about, and I love it.

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Any chance you guys could tell us about recreating the bird portals in the first comparison, also?

That would be something I'd love to read :)

Me too!

Also I.

Include me to the curiosity puddle.

Second.

Vibrating spleen curiosity also

Ok guys we get it. You can stop now.

Lorne Lanning Interview:

Oh yeah, Classic Mode! - one shot kills.

Having multiple difficulty modes is a great idea, glad they went with it. I assume it's mostly going to change the amount of enemies and obstacles in the game, but I really hope it means you die in one shot at higher difficulties.

From the interview I gathered Classic Mode = one-shot kill.

The addition of difficult modes is going to be fantastic, offers much more reply value, I get the feeling that there will be some ridiculous trophy for getting 100% in the game on the hardest difficult.

BTW, I found the host of that interview very unprofessional, if I was Lanning, I'd feel a bit pissed if I was answering the question and the host was sat there scrolling through his phone.

He only really did it in the beginning - perhaps he had some bullet points he wanted to check before he asked another question? But I think it was meant to be an informal interview judging by the type of questions he asked.

yeeeeees i was hoping it would have classic mode when i saw that abe had the health birds Im even more stoked now. We need a new trailer

OK, Classic Mode is legitimately good news. No complaints here.

Could anyone be really nice and bullet point the main focal areas of that interview. The interviewer made me want to tear my eyes and ears out.

Worth pointing out that that interview is a couple of months old - from GDC in fact - and things have changed a little since. Regarding 'classic' mode, rest assured that (as Lorne has mentioned more than once) there's not a chance we'd leave out the chance to give seasoned Oddworld fans a true challenge whilst ensuring new players aren't hit with a brick wall of difficulty!

It's about finding the right things to balance and tune, and ensuring players have the right options

Re: the new portal designs - we'll address that shortly.

Awesome!

Even on the easy mode, I'm going to assume that an explosion will kill Abe instantly.

I'd hope so, but I saw the screenshot of the boombat exploding and it just knocked abe over, it would be pointless to have them just do that when they are either going to knock him into a swinging boulder or off the edge anyway. I cannot wait to jump straight into classic mode!

- what is new n tasty about
- difficulty settings
- scroll through phone whilst lorne talks
- Xbox changing things since a while ago
- what to expect next if sales are good
- more phone scrolling and weird arm posing
- "we'll work things out with Xbox eventually"
- sales comparison between AAA games and smaller games

That's what I can remember, it was 4am when I watched it

Remember Abe got knocked over by exploding mines in the old games though.

I'm looking forward to hearing about this, and hopefully get a nice explanation like we did with the laser walls in the Stockyards.

Really digging the info on reasons for change. And the weekly teases are a great sanity check for us :)

I knew we were in good hands. So we've assumed release is after E3 yeah?

Are there going to be pre-order bonuses?

Only if you stand up when something explodes, and you always died instantly if you were in the blast radius. Crouching lets you keep your balance.

Yes, all of that is true.

Would depend on a few factors.

It's more of an art thing than a game design thing, let me speak to the right people and see if we can do something. I don't think it's productive to go into too much detail over everything, but it's nice to discuss the tweaks that appear in the weekly comparisons.

Here's a snippet that shows the portal more clearly:

http://i.imgur.com/cGEhdyE.gif

Glad you approve. :)

The only release date info we've said is we'll reveal what the date is before E3 starts - I should stick to that.

I hate being vague but understand we're a small studio with limited resources working every hour we can on this final stretch. We're committed to maximising the value of the announced price point though, as shown with the announcement of Cross Save and Cross Buy. There's a lot going into NnT that we're still to talk about.

That portal looks stunning, it makes more sense now than what we could grasp from the single screenshot. Really digging the effects on this, keep up the good work!

The official Oddworld website stated that the game will be out after E3.

The portal looks neat. Kinda reminds me of the Scion from the first Tomb Raider game.

The difficulty levels are an excellent news. I would have been very disappointed if they decided not to do something like that as it seemed like an obvious solution to keep both hardcore fans and newcomers happy.

Also, thank you jaw_alex for providing that portal animation, it looks way better and adequate when it's moving.

Where?

The link is here

http://www.oddworld.com/2014/04/oddw...e-date-update/

Okay. Forget what I said perviously. That portal looks seriously cool.

Reminds of the portal in Jak & Daxter 1

@jaw_alex
Holy canoli! 1 gif can make all the difference!

As for the pre-order bonus, I just wanted to ask a question because I was out of questions lol. Was trying to get into the "DLC loin cloth" humour :P.

But really, excellent work is evident here. Working in design in any medium, I can see attention to detail when its shown. This is easily my most anticipated game :)

The portal is great! I think a little effect when the mudokons go through the portal would make it even better. :)
Great work!
I really like you are giving us hints :D

Is it me or does the design or the portal look like the main menu?

http://tcrf.net/images/thumb/d/d1/Od...ysee-title.png

I guess it does a bit, yeah! But now i'm curious to see how the main menu looks!