Do you want any cameos in New 'N' Tasty?
 

I was thinking about this earlier this morning, and was wondering what everyone else thought about it; would you like to see a character cameo in Abe's Oddysee HD? It being a quick cameo, or just a mere mentioning like how they did with Mullock in Abe's Exoddus.

I remember seeing a "Vykkers Labs" sign somewhere in Abe's Exoddus, as well as a "Rupture Farms closed" sign on another entrance door. I'm not sure where the signs were exactly, as my memory fails me terribly.

It wouldn't have to be just characters, maybe some creatures could be seen in the background of levels, but you wouldn't be able to interact with them in anyway. Example: Fleeches from AE or possibly Fuzzles from MO?

I'm curious to know if you like the idea or not. What are your thoughts?

I'd like a little hinting towards the other games. Not an actual character preferably, I think that might detract from the game's feeling, but maybe a little advertisement for Vykker's Labs, or some kind of Feeco Depot tram-line in the background would be neat.

Mmm, the original oddysee didnt have much of that.

If anything it had small hints of meeches and thats about it. If they were to add anything like what you're referring to, then it'd have to be something from before Abes Oddysee. Like the Meeches for example. Exoddus had a few things that mentioned events that took place in oddysee and also things to come, like Vykkers labs.

I hope they dont add much or any at all because it'll detract from the original atmosphere. Regardless, Im all for JAW's work.

Speaking of JAW, Will, if you're reading; Will we be able to have low, medium, high and ultra graphic settings?

if that's giving out too much info, answer me this: are we still progressing? :)

You do realise that AO was not a flawless game. I for one would be dissapointed if they recreated Oddysee without changing a thing.

Was not?

You'd certainly hope so, they wouldn't make a good company if they've been sitting on their arses watching paint dry for the last half a year.

Hints about Abe's Exoddus would be nice. Subtle ones like signs for FeeCo, Necrem Mines ect. Maybe even a one off appearance of a Flying Slig in the background?

I would like some sort of nod towards Munch and Exoddus, I felt the advertisements in Exoddus for Vykkers' Labs, Rupturefarms, etc. really added to the immersion, even though I didn't have a clue who the Vykkers were at the time.

I would like a "Gabbiar: Now 20% Off!" sign. It would be both funny and cruel at the same time. And maybe a Shrink looking around in the shadows of the background.

I would like to see footage of Meeches in a flashback.

I mentioned in another post a while back how I'd love to see some expanded stockyards with more creatures visible in pens in the background.

Rupturefarms makes products from a wide variety of animals, such as elum chubs. It would be cool to see this actually represented in-game, as opposed to just seeing scrabs (and paramites, potentially). Some ratz scurrying amongst the stacked RF barrels would be a nice addition too!

Does anyone know yet what the 'tiniest of easter eggs' added to MOHD was? I noticed some dissected elum at the end of the game in Vykkers Labs. I haven't played the original version and was wondering if that was the easter egg? Either way, that was a nice detail! Similar elements in New 'n' Tasty would be great!

There will probably be graphical settings for the home computer version, but we haven't looked at it yet. We've only skimmed platform-specific design at this point.

Not sure what we're going into work for if we're not.

The Elums were in the original game. Let me answer you further with more quotes.

Well...
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I'm still waiting for my internship at JAW.

We do have some pretty wet and wild lunch times.

http://i.imgur.com/tAlC5UA.png

Happy now?

They're already doing that. :)

http://www.evilcontrollers.com/evilb...2/new-abes.jpg

Whether that'll be in the final version though, odd knows.

That's a furnace.

Those are...fuck you Vyrien. <3

I think there should be a cameo where Stranger walks past. Also Fangus. Also Munch.

Wow, the new Feeco trains look a lot like boilers...
E: Vyrien and STM are speedy fuckers.

I'd like an AE reference perhaps, but nothing to do with Munch. Maybe there could be some Feeco furnaces in the background like others have said.

Wait. Are those Vykkers Labs schematics on Wil's desktop?

Just little hints of other games, or just Abe's Exoddus, to show how big of a place Oddworld really is. :)

Yeah, just seeing its silhouette or something, that'd be pretty cool.


Ooh, now that would be cool also, yeah.
We never got to see those guys in action before. Showing them walking around in their own environment before fading away, with their own cry like how one was heard (was it a Scrab?) in the original game when Abe was looking at the Meech poster.

That's what I was thinking before I made the thread. Seeing the shadows of different creatures from afar. The ratz would be a nice touch too. Seeing their glowing green eyes in the background as you wonder around Rupture Farms.

It's all I ever wanted (': Also, I want to add something to my shrink idea. The screen should flicker randomly.

Coz that wouldn't be annoying as fuck.

Like calls to like.

Not the TV/computer screen that you're playing on flickering, I meant the Shrink's Face flickering. Like the Securitrons in New Vegas.

In a way, the mystery behind meeches in enticing. I'm not sure if I'd like to see one moving.

i'd love any sort of cameo. maybe a hint towards a future game/quintology hero?

I think the LED screens should have secret, personalised, vicious messages to all of us forumites

Yeah, that would be cool. They could scurry around in the background like the birds in the Monsaic Lines.

Perhaps they could finally include Theroy as a cameo.

Secret, personalized, vicious messages would be pretty amusing, I must admit.

And depending on how they address the users most people would probably think said messages were referring to other characters in-universe. This is a horrible idea.

I recall in a previous thread the idea of having ratz running around in certain parts of the game would "ruin the mood" since everything felt so desolate in the original. Now that I think of it that's pretty dumb because there was no part of AO that felt lonely. Even when you get deeper into Rupture Farms you still worry about running into the occasional slig and slog kennel. Ratz being disturbed by your walking and scurrying about might cause accidental jump scares if the atmosphere is captured well and they aren't as apparent as the birds were.

I'd like some kind of easter egg showing the existence of other creatures we were introduced to after AO or even creatures we haven't gotten the pleasure to meet yet but I don't necessarily care for any cameos.

I'm sure they'll hide a few things somewhere.

I think ratz are a bad idea just because the name is so stupid. They used to be a little bit imaginative with Slogs and stuff, you can tell they were running out of steam with "Ratz".

That argument is exactly like saying the names of the pokemon in gen 1 were more creative than any of the following gens.

Sometimes creatures get shitty names. It's a thing that happens.

There should be some boobs somewhere.

Furnace? I think it's a train.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...epot_Train.jpg

http://www.evilcontrollers.com/evilb...2/new-abes.jpg

With both pictures there for comparison, it's pretty clear that is definitely not a train.

I'm fine whith any kind of cameo as long as it doesn't feel out of place.

Also I'm sure Wil has tons of ideas for secret messages to put in the LED banners.

THANK YOU, OWF.

I think we might've had a thread for these before.

They would have to be really subtle, though.

You know what would be good? A mudokon in Monsaic Lines who tends to the bees and shouts zany witticisms at Abe.

Maybe he got his arm trapped in a scrab trap or something when he was younger, I dunno...