Got to love modern day engine technology:D
The character revamps are looking really nice. Can't wait to see the game with updated environment textures and effect. Ow if only they would a new oddworld game using current tech and having the stuff similar to what was shown in those old PS2 MO vids. (The epic looking stuff that kept elements from the first 2 games, including jumping and running animations :p : stealth Camera movement test One can dream...:happy: |
Welp. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=1000
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Wow, that's certainly a lackluster response to an important update. Well done, bros.
I keep looking back at how radically different the crossbow in the opening movie is to the one in the gameplay. The one in the opening movie only has a single ammo launcher and the bow looks far different from the gameplay version, which has two ammo launchers. I wonder if they're going to make the gameplay version fit the movie version, or vice versa? Seeing as how the version in the game would probably require two launchers, it seems like a better idea to redesign the movie version... but could they do that easily, or would they need to re-do the cinematic sequences from scratch? Do they have the funds to do that? I bring this up simply because it looks like they're making revisions to the game models to better resemble the models used in the FMVs- Stranger's shirt, which inexplicably took on a green tint in the game, has become the same shade of red as in the movies, and the Grubb skin has become pastier, to match their anemic appearance in the movies. There are, however, many glaring inconsistencies between the in-game models and the FMV models that have yet to be addressed, and I just hope JAW's eye for detail is going to be as sharp as it's already been when tackling those things. Oh, and a quick request- please get some more voice actors to give the game's dialogue a little variation? I'm sure there are members of JAW's staff that can do voices. And perhaps a female voice actor or two to play the parts of the female characters? Even if they ARE basically just the same CG models. I know it's meant to be comedic, but it came across to me, personally, as distracting, considering that the voices already had such little variation to begin with. Also, seeing as how this game presents the audience with some of the first female characters in Oddworld, that is somewhat momentous and one would have thought they'd have treated that with a little more care... |
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We need us some Gilray. |
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Was the model like that when OWI gave them the resource files? Was it an error, or do they want the shirt colour changed for some reason? |
That's precisely what I mean.
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Hmm good observations. I guess it will have to be red shirt from now on.
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Munch's oddysee is coming on PS3:
Oddworld Inhabitants on facebook: Stranger is due in Q2 of this year. Currently Munch has been announced for PS3. |
Uh, that's a really weird way to announce it. I can't help but wonder if they actually meant that.
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Sounds like a typo: "Currently Munch has not been announced for PS3" makes more grammatical sense.
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But we can only guess it will.
It will be awesome if they put in the missing features from the PS2 MO |
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I'm going to be miserable and predict that Stranger's Wrath isn't going to get an Easter release. Why? Because theres been next to none media coverage or buzz added to it to get us excited for it yet (Except oddworld forums of course). No clips or trailers or even teaser trailer or previews from games websites. Theres just been the odd developer diary on JAW and playstation blog. I'm going to predict a Q2/Q3 release, more likely Q2 of the year.
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Indeed! Until recently, such a small proportion of the assets have been rebuilt that any preview would show a mixture of HD and original-quality characters and environments, and that wouldn't be giving the right impression.
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Plus, Easter is in late April this year. Three months in advance is far too soon to sizzle a game (especially a re-release) when you have a limited budget.
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Dammit couldn't of timed it any worse ha! Fair enough. But isn't that them just revealing it to game sites as in an official preview rather than its official release date for PSN and PC?
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I'm going to that Gamecitynight. I live in Nottingham and its Nottingham :D
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Aye.
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Perhaps, I don't know yet...
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Sounds awesome, I'd love to go! My animation course at uni frequently goes to these kinds of events, so I'll ask tomorrow. If not, reckon I might go anyway, should take less than an hour to get there :p
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Wait..is Strangers Wrath HD coming out on April 28th or is it a preview of the game? And if so the later thats a joke. OWI said the game would get an Easter release not an Easter preview.
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That was before they realized how buggy MO and SW were and spent a lot of time patching things up. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the release date had slipped a little.
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I'm guessing they'll push it to May, but I hope they release it in April.
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Alf said it will be released before the end of Spring. I just thought i would put that here incase a few of you hadn't seen his latest Q&A :)
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Depends how you define spring. I recall him saying Q2, which would be April, May or June.
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WAIT WAIT WAIT
is it a new game? or is it the same one, only for PS3? |
yeah Q2 would probably be more accurate :) and its just the same but remade with HD graphics and stuff
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I think they're bringing the HD assets out on PC too, and they're trying to get it on Xbox I do believe.
EDIT Re: Rerelease date Michael Taylor (guy upgrading the audio) has put the PS2 release window on his website as Q2/Q3: http://www.stomp224.co.uk/Home/Credits.html |
I knew it... we're going to have to wait a bit longer.
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Not a big fan of later oddworld games... err why lie okay i never played it because when it came out and i was kinda littel dummy and said it was shit but now as a ps3 owner il give it a shot
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Damn, I really wanted to get my chocolate covered hands playing Stranger this easter.
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As long as they keep announcing they are working on more and more stuff, the stuff announced already will never see the light of day. Please, just finish something first, before going too much to the next projects JAW. |
EA doesn't have anything to do with it. Stranger HD was announced for PS2 back in September.
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It could be the PS7 for all I care, but good point.
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Lol, you thought I was serious with that comment haha.
Never underestimate the power of smilies in a post! :D |
Oh, ha! I see what I did there. I've been saying PS2 instead of PS3 for longer than I thought. Serves Sony right for not coming up with an original name. I thought your smilies were just expressing your pleasure. :p
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