He can operate levers so that makes him physically capable of carrying a gun

Abe has but three huge fingers- maybe he can't grip the guns and pull the triggers? They are made for sligs who have much smaller hands with thin fingers ;)

On the subject of weapons for Abe HD, I think it would be interesting if the grenade machines were incorporated a little more believably into the environments. For example, maybe as a restricted weapons cache for sligs, with ammo (considering how trigger-happy they are, they would likely need somewhere to reload). It never made a great deal of sense to have grenade vendors in the middle of a factory floor!

Abe has 4 fingers.

There! Are! Four! Fingers!

I'm very eagerly in favour of accessibility, so this is definately one to run past the designer. Forcibly. And repeatedly.

I wasn't counting the thumb! :p

Just reminding a fully blind fan has managed to complete one of the original Abe games (Can't remember if it was Oddysee or Exoddus).

Considering how the UXBs make changing sounds in addition to changing their colors, and how most players actually deactivate them based on their sound, they should be reasonable enough for color blinded players.

More on accessibility:
- Make blind Mudokons have visible eye-stitches, so they're more easily identifiable by color blinded.
- Reduce the intensity of a red alarm flashes, especially on levels with UXBs. The intense alarm flashes makes deactivation of these harder for deaf people, or generally in scenarios when the sound is muted or unavailable.
- Red/green lights on levers/doors/wheels/etc should have some sort of glyph (X/V for example) so they're more easily identifiable for color blinded.

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! And the Japanese mafia won't come after you guys? :p

They won't release it in Japan, so they won't even know : D

If they do, we'll get the Yorkshire Mafia to protect us. I don't foresee that going badly in any way.

Nah, they'll release it in Japan, not care for their bullshit and see what happens.

There is a small chance that sanity will prevail. If not, fuck 'em.

Japan is the technology island (archipelago) of the world (ignoring South Korea), I'm sure it's not a problem any more. Especially since AbeHD will be digitally distributed and not hard copy available. (I assume.)

I'd like a physical copy, but unfortunately I don't see it happening.

Have Wil print out the code.

The typeface will have to be quite small.

It will happen when the game will sell millions units.
When you work to increase peoples consciousness strange things may happen:p

Was that a Star Trek: The Next Generation reference?

There! Are! Four! Lights!

Oh, god.

Yes they will, but there will be no local publishers or distributors for people to protest or threaten with legal action.

I honestly just want to see the original in HD. If they will add additional content in the form of things that had to be cut out or excluded from the original then that's great because we'll get to see the true form of what the game was always intended to be.

And I would also appreciate a trailer to unlock after completing the game for the up-coming Glukkon Tycoon! Develop, build and maintain your business! Dominate the market and reap the mooolah baby! It'll be like Sim City meets every violation of internation law, slavery, genocide, environmental destruction! Ohhhhhh yesssss....

Hey, I can dream okay?

That sounds similar to what Hand of Odd could be if you chose the Industrial side...
So it is a possibility.

I've been waiting for Hand of Odd since I first saw the screenshots in Playstation Magazine!

I will be keeping an eye on this with great anticipation, I assure you.

You'll be keeping an eye open for an impossibly long time then. Do the old 'Tom and Jerry' trick and use some masking tape to keep it open.

There have never been screenshots of Hand of Odd.

There were cumshots though.

Perhaps the images were used from munch? The mag had images of Muds gathering wood, an RTS view of Alf's rehab with a couple of Muds standing guard with spears.

Pre-rendered visualizations of what OWI were thinking for Munch's Oddysee.

which should of been in the game.

But were not.

Content was cut from Munch's Oddysee? Get out.

If any game needed to be CHANGED and not just "glossified", it would be Munch's Oddysee...
Now I know they've explained why it's not in their best interest to rebuild an entire game from scratch, oh wait...

Abe oddysee is the absolute best ever, Abe exoddus is is on the same amazing level; the story structure is a little too similar but it compensate with a longer and richer game.
Than come Munch oddysee; ok is 3D.

When i was playing the firt 2 games i coulden't wait to see the next frame since i know for sure amazing art was waiting for me.
In Munch oddysee i was only surprised when i noticed i did manage to save all Mudokon/fuzzles on the firs try.

I know is usless to simply complain but i really love oddworld and seeing MO witout amazing art and the strong eerie narrative pull was a sad day.