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SoulStorm64 04-15-2014 12:05 PM

New 'n' Tasty Comparison
 
Hello all Oddlings! I was looking through youtube to find some more video of New 'N' Tasty gameplay and found this video.

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I'm not sure if this has been posted yet but it is super detailed from every level of the game, it's worth a watch f you are bored or are interested in a detailed comparison video.

Connell 04-15-2014 12:13 PM

Excellent video, definitely worth 15 minutes out of my day, but that may be because I'm a huge nerd. However, seeing that beta footage has made me shudder, now I remember why I was so pessimistic about the release of this game. That footage really made it seem like they didn't know what direction they were going in. Happy to admit I jumped the gun on this one, though.

Crashpunk 04-15-2014 12:23 PM

Very nice indeed. Seeing how far the game has come is really interesting.

I did the same thing on my channel a while ago. When New 'N' Tasty was first announced.


I think I might improve it soon, make a more in depth comparison.

Varrok 04-15-2014 12:23 PM

Where did they get 2014 intro sequence from? I don't remember it from the newest trailers

Havoc 04-15-2014 12:25 PM

Interesting video. Shows a lot more of New 'n' Tasty than I thought we had seen so far. Thanks!

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Excellent video, definitely worth 15 minutes out of my day, but that may be because I'm a huge nerd. However, seeing that beta footage has made me shudder, now I remember why I was so pessimistic about the release of this game. That footage really made it seem like they didn't know what direction they were going in. Happy to admit I jumped the gun on this one, though.

Oh dear, indeed. That early 2013 footage of the intro was just... dear lord it was horrible. Not gonna lie. They did amazing work with the game since then though, it looks so much better.

SoulStorm64 04-15-2014 12:26 PM

The game has gone so far since the first preview of the game was shown, it just makes you even more excited after the latest trailer was released. OWI/JAW really pulled the game together this year.

Hopefully it will be soon that we get to experience this bad boy.

DarkHoodness 04-15-2014 01:39 PM

Interesting comparison.

They said in one of the interviews that they entirely rebuilt N'n'T in a different engine after the 2013 version - You can see it clearly at 12:28 of the vid with the comparisons of the Scrabainian Temple bellsong scene.

Also:

http://www.oddworldforums.net/attach...1&d=1397598040

Michael 04-15-2014 02:01 PM

Great video! I'd never seen those old 2013 intro cutscenes before, it's definitely come a long way since then. It's so much more detailed and better lit.

Seeing the original and New n' Tasty compared so effectively, you really see the similarities and differences. New n' Tasty definitely seems brighter and more saturated, with the exception of perhaps Scrabanian temple, which seems the other way round. I think I prefer it darker (especially the moon cutscene), but that's just personal preference I guess.

Seeing the stockyards footage got me thinking- in the original, the sky changed from green to deep blue night, but if you backtracked it would change back again due to the pre-rendered screens. I wonder if this is more dynamic in New n' Tasty, so if you progress then backtrack the sky remains dark, or even continues to get darker?

Holy Sock 04-15-2014 03:43 PM

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Where did they get 2014 intro sequence from? I don't remember it from the newest trailers

That stuff was from 2013.

Here's the link.

DarkHoodness 04-15-2014 03:52 PM

Goofy-looking beta intro sequence - Also Varrok has seen it before 'cause he did a "That's all folks!" parody picture of it after E3 last year.

E: Found it.

Holy Sock 04-15-2014 03:55 PM

Well the two short 2014 clips were from the latest gameplay trailer, so I dunno.

MeechMunchie 04-15-2014 07:47 PM

The new one isn't blurry enough.

Phylum 04-15-2014 07:57 PM

That pipe isn't glowing in the new one, either. Lift your game, Wil.

Xavier 04-15-2014 10:55 PM

I enjoyed this video quite a bit. It does a superb job showing how close to the original NnT is going to be (except the part in Paramonia with the Slig sleeping that they got wrong :p).

There is a bit of gameplay I did not see before, in the Paramonian temple after the swinging balls.

Thanks for sharing :)

Varrok 04-16-2014 12:44 AM

Well I still don't know exactly where did he get improved intro clips from.

ImBatman 04-16-2014 02:15 AM

The comparison looks great !
But I'm also wondering what platforms they will release this game on, my main guess would be they would put New'n'Tasty on Steam, but i think it would also be interesting to see it expand to the Xbox marketplace and/or the ps3 as well.
Does anyone already know what this game will be released on ?

Varrok 04-16-2014 02:17 AM

Yes. PS3, PS4, PS VITA, Windows, Mac, Linux, Wii U

Xavier 04-16-2014 02:23 AM

And they are trying to talk to Microsoft in order to have it on Xbox One also but Microsoft is being absurdly difficult...

Job McYossie 04-16-2014 02:24 AM

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And they are trying to talk to Microsoft in order to have it on Xbox One also but Microsoft is being absurdly difficult...

Can we nominate this for understatement of the year?

Havoc 04-16-2014 02:49 AM

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Goofy-looking beta intro sequence - Also Varrok has seen it before 'cause he did a "That's all folks!" parody picture of it after E3 last year.

E: Found it.

Yeah there's a layer of cartoonyness (still present, so it seems) that really shouldn't be there. No-one liked it in MO, so why was it brought back for NnT?

Holy Sock 04-16-2014 03:02 AM

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Well I still don't know exactly where did he get improved intro clips from.

They're from the latest gameplay trailer.

Phylum 04-16-2014 03:10 AM

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Yeah there's a layer of cartoonyness (still present, so it seems) that really shouldn't be there. No-one liked it in MO, so why was it brought back for NnT?

How was AE not cartoony? Even AO had it's cartoony moments. Ignoring the obvious, look at the second to last cutscene when Abe gets knocked out.

Holy Sock 04-16-2014 03:28 AM

Abe falling down the cliff was pretty cartoonish. Abe flying out of the Necrum Mines and landing on the tusks was very cartoonish.

I mean Oddworld is goofy. It always has been. Abe has always been a goofy protagonist. The Sligs and Glukkons in AE were goofy.

Munch ran a little too far with it but I don't see any indication that NnT has geared it up.

Job McYossie 04-16-2014 03:32 AM

I definitely think abe hitting his head while on the conveyor belt was totally serious and had NO intended comedic effect.

Phylum 04-16-2014 03:32 AM

The more time goes by the more I realise that Lorne's idea of Oddworld is a bit different to the taste left in everyone's mouth by AO.

Varrok 04-16-2014 03:48 AM

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They're from the latest gameplay trailer.

Oh, they really are. Nevermind.

gishygleb 04-16-2014 08:04 AM

New Scrabania qnd Paramonia are extremely fabulous with lighting. There was an ugly moment with chanting. The old sparkles are 100% better, than birds-out-of-nowhere.

Havoc 04-16-2014 10:41 AM

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The more time goes by the more I realise that Lorne's idea of Oddworld is a bit different to the taste left in everyone's mouth by AO.

I think that mostly has to do with the first impression we all have of Oddworld. The original intro is all business. Very grim, very dark, not a single ounce of humor to be found anywhere and that trend continues pretty much until you get to the stockyards. One moment of comedy and then it's almost the rest of the game without humor.

Exoddus had a little more humor in it, but not a whole lot. It had more focus on the silly LED messages and announcements. The characters were always serious. It wasn't until MO that suddenly everything and everyone seemed to have jumped straight out of a comic book, including the sligs and the Glukkons.

Holy Sock 04-16-2014 12:05 PM

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I think that mostly has to do with the first impression we all have of Oddworld. The original intro is all business. Very grim, very dark, not a single ounce of humor to be found anywhere and that trend continues pretty much until you get to the stockyards. One moment of comedy and then it's almost the rest of the game without humor.

Exoddus had a little more humor in it, but not a whole lot. It had more focus on the silly LED messages and announcements. The characters were always serious. It wasn't until MO that suddenly everything and everyone seemed to have jumped straight out of a comic book, including the sligs and the Glukkons.

That is quite an underestimation.

Abe hitting his head comically, Abe falling down the cliff comically, Abe getting the hand scars comically. The Mudokons in general are ridiculous. I mean the very last shot of the game is Abe farting. There's even a fart command.

And in Exoddus almost ALL the characters were humourous. Abe continues to be goofy, the Newcaster is having a lot of fun, all the Slig and Glukkon characters were very funny, I mean the cutscenes are full of humour.

Munch got it wrong in that it took that humour to very cartoonish levels. The atmosphere was also lot more silly than the previous two.

What I've been seeing from New n Tasty is pretty much that same level of Dark Atmosphere/Goofy Humour as Abe's Exoddus. And I only say that because the Sligs represent the more comical Sligs with actual personalities from that game.

gishygleb 04-16-2014 12:09 PM

The atmosphere in Abe HD is extremely light, as you may see from trailers. Now I feel not fear, but inner brightness and nature there.