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It's a fair point to say that "New 'n' Tasty" shouldn't be used for AE because it's associated with AO, which is why I didn't suggest that phrase as the new name back when we were discussing it originally. But now that it has been chosen, it's a general enough phrase that it can be applied to any of the games.
"X-tra Bone" just sounds freaking wierd and vaguely sexual.
My ultimate point is that this isn't about creativity - this is about creating a brand. And this isn't about in-jokes that fans will understand -this is about marketing to new players or old players who don't remember the games perfectly (which would be the vast majority of people who played the originals).
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By that logic New ‘n’ Tasty is a horrible subtitle for Abe HD, because are casual fans and newcomers going to recognise the reference? Somebody going into AO fresh aren’t necessarily going to understand that the game is based around a meat processing plant so why the hell is the game described as tasty?
The Oddworld brand has always been about weird (and vaguely rude) stuff anyway, how is X-tra Bone somehow the exception to that? It’s similar to New ‘n’ Tasty in that it implies something has been added to the game (New <-> X-tra) and calls back to a Glukkon marketing slogan from the original game.