For some reason, days after it was posted, I keep thinking about the following quote whenever I visit this thread, and it becomes more and more prominent in my mind with every post added to the thread:
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I like how everyone keeps saying to keep the atmosphere, but can't explain what exactly the atmosphere is.
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Let's be honest. We can speculate here all we want and generate a list of ideas that OWI and JAW's developers may or may not look through if they feel like it, but at the end of the day we'll be incredibly lucky if any of these ideas are actually used, especially since some of them, including perhaps a few that I suggested, may change the game play entirely to the point where it wouldn't feel remotely like the original AO in the slightest.
Earlier I was saying that so long as the "core" of the game is kept, everything else should be subject to change. But what is the "Core" of the old Abe games? If I was a JAW employee, rather than finding out from fans what new features I could implement into Abe HD, I'd first be wanting to find out from them what should be carried across from the old games. Also, read carefully what Glitch said earlier:
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Basically the gist of what I wrote was that, first and foremost as a designer my job is going to be to make the old game fit the new engine with as few changes as possible to the core game and storyline. However, enhanced visuals are a definite, at least from my point of view, so epic backgrounds, maybe even realtime cutscenes to replace the old ones, and general fleshing out of the world will be on my agenda at least.
Added canon isn't something that I think we should do with the first release; it's not our place to muck around with people's memories of this excellent franchise. After that however there's no limit to what we can do, providing we can keep it within the accepted history and rules of the Oddworld universe.
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So think about this carefully - What do you like about the old games? What parts of them makes them what they are? And what would you like to see kept in Abe HD?
It's something I have to continue thinking about myself, so I'll post more later.