New Screenshots, finalized prices and release date promise
 

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

Discuss.

Awesome news! can't wait.

Wouldn't have thought you were an Oddworld guy personally

Wow speedy shit, I guess I'll close my new topic then and paste my impressions here:

Oh yeah I want to add, this Firefree zone screenshot is absolutely fantastic.

These screenshots are amazing. It's a shame it's not going for a spring release, but I already new that. As for release date announcement before 9th June, I will imagine we will hear about that on the 8th :P

Oh hey, I didn't know Smallface was in this game.

Damn! Still no solid release date :'(

But the mention of E3 has got me curious, is the game being shown there?

I just want to be sure I got this right:

Is the game to be released in less then 45 days or are we going to get the release date in less then 45 days?

Because on Facebook, VG247.com (and Stew shared the post) seems to think it's going to be released before E3. Seriously, when you make a statement like that make 100% sure it can absolutly not be ambiguous.

The release date will be revealed before E3.

Oh. Apparently you can manually aim rocks/grenades now.

That's what I tought, but that VG247.com post on FB made me doubt.

Thank you for the clarification ;)


EDIT: Ha! VG247.com edited their post! Glad this got sorted out. :D

23:59 of course.

Awesome News! :D

Loving small face, as BM put it. Not so much loving the little whistle music notes but hey ho you can't have it all. All in all it seems to be coming together nicely, cannae wait for June now!

Still hoping the PC release isn't too long after the PS4 release though!!

Screenshots are gorgeous as usual. Also I'm glad that aiming has become less of a guessing game, that's a massive improvement!

Well, we need to wait at least 1 month...

Screenshots looks great. But man, I feel like I'm spoiling myself!!

It's for the deaf gamers! Visual cues and all that.

They've nailed the sillouhette effect for Paramonian Nests, looks scrumptious :D

Anyone noticed the grenade/rock throw aiming guideline in the rupturefarms shot?

Yes.

Also, Scrabs have tongues now.

They had them before, they were never showed ingame though, I think

I've still got my fingers crossed for fluffy Sligs.

... so they didn't have tongues.

Damned Smallface, that was going to be my idea!

Seriously looking forward to seeing this released now. It looks beautiful and that £20 price is the best news I've heard all week.

We've never seen your penis, that must mean you've never had any.

No, we don't want to see your penis.

Because you don't have one, lol.

So is this pics or it didn't happen, or no pics but it happened anyway? I'm confused.

That FFZ screenshot gave me a headache.

Looks amazing, though.

Nice to see more of the Stockyards.

£20 is great. I'd pay 40 but still 'tis all good.

But if I draw a picture of myself with a vagina, that means I must have one?

Order of events:

Scrabs designed
AO
AE
Tongues added to design (AoOWI page 226)
MO
Tongues added to actual Scrab models
MOHD
NnT

Varrok thinks that because the idea of giving Scrabs tongues was on paper, that means that Scrabs, as a metaphysical artistic construct, had tongues.

However, no actual Scrabs with tongues appeared until MOHD, making New 'n' Tasty the first Oddworld title to feature Scrab tongues at launch.

Duh.

Looks wicked! The attention to detail is incredible!

The music notes are a bit unrealistic but neat none the less :)

Amazing effort as always with the little things. The small masked Mudokon is a brilliant idea. Can't wait to see more from you guys :) I hope it gets darker and darker :3

The music notes are quite a big intrusion on the atmosphere. They're basically smashing down the fourth wall, building an en suite bathroom and inviting you all to play Wii Music whilst you're there.



Great game though guys, looking forward to playing it and stuff.

The musical notes don't bother me. The flatness of the tube in the background of this screenshot, and the way the vines wrapped around it just cut off at the top, on the other hand... [\nitpicky] :D

All the other pics look great, though.

The musical notes remind me heavily of SPORE

That would mean you have a picture of yourself with a vagina.

Actually, I was just searching google images for concept arts and found this old piece. It's not a render from NnT, and it had a tongue, hence I said "They've had them before". I didn't bother to check whether it's from MO or not (and it doesn't look like a fan-art), but my point kind of stands.

Just because they were never illustrated with their mouths wide open doesn’t mean they didn’t have tongues.

http://i.imgur.com/eBzItCs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8uuPz4b.jpg

Shrykull also totally has a tongue in concept art.

Amazingly enough the lowres sprites and low-poly models in AO/AE and MO probably didn’t allow for the amount of detail that a tongue would require, or they weren’t considered necessary because they never opened their mouths wide in MO.

Anyway I can’t believe you’re getting this snippy over a fictional species’ tongue.

Awesome news, especially the cross buy with PS3/PS4! I've been holding off buying a PS4 near launch due to the YLOD issues with PS3 (and my friend's Dualshock 4 already falling apart), but really want to get the best version of New 'n' Tasty on consoles. Absolutely fantastic that I can get it day one on PS3 and eventually play the PS4 version at no extra cost :D Though I'd have probably bought both versions anyway!

I agree with the whistle notes breaking immersion slightly, but it's no different to the sleeping slig Z's really, which have always been there.

New screenshots look great, especially the scrab/paramite nests. JAW have definitely nailed the look of the original.

When you put it like that, you're right. Regardless, I love this little bit.

omg curved platforms confirmed

I was going to complain about the notes, but frankly, I can't think of any good alternative. I suppose you could have some coiling blue mist puff out of Abe's mouth, or something, but that might be overdoing the whole "wooOOoo spirituality" thing.

Wow. You do realise I'm joking, right? Having inane conversations about sprout gas is what OWF is all about. That's why I said "Duh" (dramatic eye roll optional).

Besides, none of this invalidates my point that, discounting MOHD (a patch built parallel with NnT), this is the first time Scrabs - not plans for Scrabs, not pictures of Scrabs, actual walking, murdering Scrabs - have had tongues as part of their model. A point that I initially made in five cheerful words, so don't act like I'm the party pooper here.

EDIT: Seriously how the fuck can you construe an expression like "feature Scrab tongues at launch" as anything other than ironic pedantry

As strange as this may sound, the musical notes could be there if the game was played with subtitles, I'm wondering how difficult a deaf person would find it to play AO, there's a lot of sound that's vital to the gameplay, but if NNT has a subtitles mode, then perhaps each time a character talks, a speech bubble appears to next to them.

That doesn't sound strange to me at all. In fact, at least two people here agree with you.

I don't want to be a jerk but seriously I feel like I'm the only one who's actually reading the threads they post in rather than just skimming them

I skim, and all I see is people whining! Everybody is too picky!

It's also possible they've made the whistling a little more complex than the standard speech lock affair for Sligs and Glukkons.

The whistles help you know who is whistling. The only alternative is to have them awkwardly wave and gesticulate like the original, which probably doesn't cut in nowadays.