Abe's Exoddus remake likely to happen eventually
I don't know if someone already posted about this, but I just found out. It looks like an Abe's Exoddus remake might come out EDIT: "eventually" , and another oddworld game after that!
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/18/552...d-new-oddworld http://www.oddworld.com/2015/04/a-st...emake-planned/ |
It might come out.
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Someone probably posted about this back in 2014, but welcome to the forums :)
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"Soon" (c) Valve
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If you go by some really rough estimates, New 'N' Tasty could have made about £9,995,000 gross, which isn't too fucking bad really. It doesn't seem like a new game is impossibly far away if AEHD is a success commercially too.
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If AEHD makes as much as AOHD that's still not a load of money for a game. I mean maybe it is if you listen to Kickstarter. I don't know.
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I’m not privy to all the expenses JAW had, but considering the size of team they had relative to the average game studio size plus the fact they were working with a relatively inexpensive game engine and would have been able to save some production costs by recycling old assets, NnT could well have been pretty cheap to make compared to big budget games. Nearly £10 million gross could very easy dwarf the cost of production. |
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Don't forget about the time New n' Tasty was free on PS+. OWI would have been given a sum for that promotion too. Whether this would have been more or less than regular sales during that period, who knows. But those kind of promotions seem to bank heavily on increasing the audience/target market, sometimes at the expense of short term profit.
Seems to work best when a sequel is on the cards regardless, so more people are familiar with the franchise and enjoyed it enough to buy second time round. By virtue of taking that promotion, in my opinion OWI were investing in the next game from the get go. Seems fair to say the expected profits for the next game (now known to be an Exoddus remake) are in excess of New n' Tasty's due to this greater market. I suppose the question isn't so much 'did New n' Tasty make enough to fund AEHD?', as it is 'Did New n' Tasty under perform so badly that we should change our plans and not make another game?' I'm confident OWI would be able to fund another game :) But everything takes time to get off the ground |
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Lorne does tend to talk a lot of shit, though.
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I don’t remember the exact figures but I do remember him discussing crowdfunding not being a good fit for them. It’s totally possible that’s what he was expecting to spend though, he may have said that.
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Crowdfunding is not a very good choice for bigger games. It's not popular enough yet. Take for example Psychonauts 2. It got almost 4mln dollars and it wasn't enough by itself, they had to have another two sources of funding (DF's own funds + an external partner) just so they could make the game.
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What about Shenmue 3?
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My thoughts exactly.
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Man, I hope this game is going to be even better than the original.
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We can hope, but, all in all, it probably won't be better.
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I also asked on the OWI Twitter page, and they said they've announced that they are working on Exoddus, so it still might be awhile before it comes out, but at least it seems like that is their top priority for now, which is really exciting for me. It was already posted here on the forums, but Lorne talked about the future of Oddworld in an interview for Nintendo Life recently too.
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Ask them if it's going to be better than the original.
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"It will be different than the original", I bet.
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No. I want them to respond to that exact question.
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Then the answer will be 'Yes'.
And when the game comes out and you don't agree with their analysis, they'll say 'But it has more pixels! That means it's better!'. And you'll disagree, then come back here and complain. But they won't have to defend themselves because they've technically been totally honest and you weren't specific enough with you wanted. |
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In all seriousness, asking them that question is completely unfair :p
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It's a joke, though it would be funny.
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Watch them squirm a bit
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