Well gee, I sure hope my GTX970 SLI rig can run this! D:>

(Epeen bragging session over)

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/handthumb.jpg
Never thought Id be this excited to see a hand :D So detailed! I know they used ZBrush.

I remember reading/hearing in some interviews that the PS4 timed exclusivity was a condition of them being on the main stage of their E3 presentation.
I'm not too sure about the Wii U - both JAW and Lorne said it was a nightmare to develop for. I think he said something like "we probably should've cancelled the project earlier" when talking about the Wii U port... but who knows... Maybe they've learned from this and will develop this game with a Wii U port in mind to make the process less painful.

Gorgeous! Man, they really should release the game "Oddworld Paint" (inspired by Mario Paint).

You got them there, vlam! This is bogus! I want game footage, booooooo! Hisssssssss.

I just noticed that he miss one phalange on his pinky.

Ooh, I just noticed that too. Muds have always had tiny, almost-vestigial pinky fingers, but I'm pretty sure they had nails on all their fingers before. Factory accident, maybe? And possibly a great big "F U" to the original reason they all lost a finger in AE and onward.

It may just be the harsh lighting, the fingernail and tip on the small finger are both very small.

How does that small finger accomplish anything? What could he do with it? It's like as useful as a pinky toe.

But yeah, a little late here but that hand is gorgeous. Looking forward to seeing the rest of Abe.

Could be an evolutionary leftover from when Mudokons were nonsentient birdlike animals? Humans have tailbones but no tails, and dolphins/whales have itty-bitty back leg bones.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zEQc02V-UXY/maxresdefault.jpg

To be fair Abe has always had a very smol fourth finger.

Damn, that is one hell of a graphical leap forward if you compare the NnT graphics with the new model.

Let's hope the game will be on a professional game engine, not Unity.

But Unity has the greatest free indie horror games : D

Oh joy, this discussion again.

Do I hear Oddworld on the Unreal 4 engine?

Or maybe they should just write ALIVE 3.0

ALIVE 2.0 2.5D

EDIT: @Nepsotic Does ALIVE 2.0 already exist?

I wonder if Abe's voice will be redone too.. I can't imagine that cartoony NnT voice coming out of this new super high quality rendition of Abe

Pretty sure the engine that MO ran on had the ALIVE title.

Again, just so people don't get their hopes up, Abe's not gonna look like that in game. :p The hand's a render to get people excited. He might look like that in pre-rendered cutscenes (and it comparison to NnT's cutscenes, much much better), but it'll be toned down when you play it.

I'd rather them do this to be honest. Anything but Unity. Such an awkward engine.

I disliked the ragdoll physics.

Well I mean, it's not like you'd be able to see that level of detail in a side scroller anyway.

And yes if they use Unity I'm cancelling my pre-order.

Yes, MO is running on the A.L.I.V.E 2 engine:

http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...008/search/558

And the A.L.I.V.E 2 engine itself is a modified version of the Gamebryo engine. Which might actually suck worse than Unity.

Yeah so did I. They were unnecessary and usually ruined the atmosphere of the game.

They were also really buggy. Which sure, gave me a few cheap laughs, but I'd honestly prefer them to be gone entirely.

Even though you jizzed your pants over NNT?

The ragdolls were kind of a mood killer, even though I've always generally loved ragdolls, but I think they should have made them die with less force, perhaps make death animations that THEN lead to a ragdoll state instead of just death = insta-ragdoll.

Also, I think they should make the lighting darker and more depressing, hopefully it looks something like the pre-render, well probably not the model detail or texture detail, but if it has the same lighting, then I'd hyperventilate over it.

The use of ragdolls was perfect for slig on slig action, but it fell flat for a lot of other deaths

Something about stopping dead in your tracks and just falling limp while saying "Aw why'd you kill me man" gets me good

Just bring back the chunks of meat when you die. That was awesome.

NnT has meats of chunk while exploding. Like in MO.

I'm still disappointed you explode when you walk into an electric barrier. Should have been disintigrating into ash or ragdolled

That requires more effort

Speaking of, I can't wait for the bar in your signature to reach Abe's penis

Well I mean Half-Life 2 did that back in 2004 and Portal 2 did it way better in 2011 so what they did in NnT was pretty shit. It was also very cartoony and I hope that with this Darker and Edgier™ direction they're taking with OS they'll do the electric gates better.

Its the smaller things which made the differences in NnT. For example, when a steak falls from a meat sack, it looked ridiculous. They should have kept it to a simple bloody chunk of flesh

I agree it was a lot of little things that added up that spoiled parts of NNT for me many being little atmospheric thing like how bright ruptur farms was I'm hoping there fixed in SoulStorm:fuzwink:

Well I mean



As long as OWI isn't doing this to purposely mislead us, I'd say there's a fair chance of that happening.

Do you reckon they will do the backstory like in the original?

I think a completely redesigned Soulstorm Brewery in the same vein of the redesigned RF would be far more fitting for the location than Rupture Farms.

I'd expect a flashy showy exterior to a brewery vs a meat processing plant through and through

Slog Bait and Scrabaniac: if Abe is leading all 300 muds across the desert then what will happen? What are your suggestions?