AND NOW FOR TODAY'S MAGIC WORD: "PRIVATEEE MESAGIIIING!!"
REMEMBER PEOPLE, IF YOU USE THE FEATURE BY THE NAME OF THIS MAGIC WORD, YOU'LL PREVENT BANDWITH WASTING, NEEDLESS SCROLLING, AND GENERAL DISCOMFORT TO FELLOW ODDITITES.
Oook, now that THAT's out of the way...Xavier's posts scared me like hell. I had considered the posiblity that outsourcing meant a bit less tight gameplay, and a bit blander level design all around, but MO GB level? NOOOOO! -___- I sure as hell hope he's %100 wrong =/, it also concerns me that we wont see clever stuff like, say....the LIVE engine, or...the section at the end of AE Slig Barracks where you have to throw a grenade JUST the right way or you'll personify the funniest impresionation of WORMS cutscenes type humor(For example blow yourself up by activating a grenade and not throwing it, or throw it in a way that it ends up bouncing right up your face, blowing you up anyway) or all of the nice little stuff that makes OW special. what if say...something like the miner level never happens again? we all know how far the dev-ing process took that little bugger, what if the new outsourced company decides to stop at the first step of deving, and the game gets released with the level all wrong and whitout any interactivity? =/
I AM looking fordward to seeing the might of OW's full conceptual strength, making the most complex characters, in the most compeling stories, making games with all the features they set out to do, but what about everything that falls inbetween? the developing process takes a game a long way, and if it isnt in the hands of OWI, how can we trust it'll be taken as seriously as it should?
SMB3 wouldnt be such a god damn classic whitout it's top-notch lvl design, we already have lots of games that promise a lot of features, but in the end just because because they're fine-tuning aint precise enough the features dont really matter because you just dont get to expreience them,and they dont take the game anywhere =/. (I'm thinking DMC2,TMNT,TheSuffering,LOK
efiance and most of all Castlevania:LOI)
Anyhow, hopefully Lorne's whole world trekkin endeavor should make sure it doesnt come to this.
This sucks. I was hoping for a "Hey, April fools, fans!". Gak, gak indeed. And other companies doing the games? Hell- this sure is decreasing my hope in Oddworld. Even if a 'small team from OWI' are helping, I'm sure it wouldn't be the same.
