NnT on the cover of PC PowerPlay mag

[Xavier]

Just wanted to share this:



http://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/2013/0...-sale-july-26/

Abe is back! We chat to Oddworld Inhabitants Co-founder Lorne Lanning and Just Add Water CEO Stewart Gilrary about bringing back Oddworld with Abe’s Oddysee: New ‘N’ Tasty! It’s a complete remake the likes of which you’ve never seen before.

Has anyone read it? Is it good?

[Connell]

Abe's looking so.. ill these days after all his cover shoots.

[Bullet Magnet]

Has he always had stitched lips?

[Xavier]

Has he always had stitched lips?

I have not seen a single picture of Abe without his lips stitched. Besides it's kind of his "thing".

[Nepsotic]

What the FUCK is with his eye!?

[Varrok]

It's called an emotion. Fear, in particular.

[STM]

I actually love how much emotion he's conveying there.

But how many emotions is people?

[Connell]

Of course we all remember that classic description of Abe: the skinny blue guy.. with extremely purple arms and legs.

[Nepsotic]

And glowing fluorescent green around his fucked up eye.

[Manco]

yes abe has always been depicted as entirely blue

[Slog Bait]

Four fingers :D

[Jordan]

He's so colorful!

[Crashpunk]

The Oddworld Forums.

Overly critical about the most minor details.

[Connell]

yes abe has always been depicted as entirely blue

That is quite an inaccurate depiction of in-universe Abe you've picked



This is Abe as canon would have it. His arms have been mildly purple at best throughout the years. You can't really think he doesn't look quite... bizarre on the PC PowerPlay magazine?

[MeechMunchie]

It's the lighting. It's always the lighting.

[Slog Bait]

The saturation in the cover picture is just really high for some reason. The colours seem to be right, otherwise.

[Manco]

That is quite an inaccurate depiction of in-universe Abe you've picked



This is Abe as canon would have it. His arms have been mildly purple at best throughout the years. You can't really think he doesn't look quite... bizarre on the PC PowerPlay magazine?

The image I picked was taken from TOGG’s Rendered Art section of Abe’s Oddysee. Also from the same section:

• Purple arms and thighs
• Purple arms and thighs
• Purple arms and thighs
• Purple arms and thighs
• And guess what, purple arms and thighs.

And let’s not even begin to talk about Abe’s Exoddus, because hey look, more purple arms and thighs.

In-game footage, even stuff taken from cutscenes, is not going to match up 100% with how Abe is “supposed to” look. I would put high quality rendered art above anything taken from the original games, mainly because rendered art is going to more closely match the “intended vision” of what the artists. And as the tech improves, so in-game characters begin to more closely match their pre-rendered designs.

The saturation in the cover picture is just really high for some reason. The colours seem to be right, otherwise.

That’s easy, brighter colors are more eye-catching and sell more magazines.

[Bullet Magnet]

I have not seen a single picture of Abe without his lips stitched. Besides it's kind of his "thing".

I have no idea what you're talking about. Who else knew about this?

[MeechMunchie]

Whatever the joke is, I don't get it.

[Bullet Magnet]

It was made for a god. Not for you.

[Varrok]

Abe looks like some kind of alien now

[Slog Bait]

I don't give a shit about a single thing in that image except the fact that he has 4 fingers again, and that is the single greatest thing to come out of NNT.

[Vyrien]

No, Abe had 6 fingers and was bright pink in the original version. This is an outrage.

[Bullet Magnet]

I'm struggling to think of more things to complain about.


Ooh! What's up with the Necrum scars?

[STM]

It's all shit. Everything about is shit. I hate everything that isn't what Oddworld was before 2000. Give me back the glory days. Why did the 90s have to end? God everything is so shit.

Am I doing Oddworld fandom right yet?

[Varrok]

This generation... they don't know.

Nah, seriously, you're exaggerating. We (or at least I) don't complain just because it's different from original. The point is most of the changes we've seen so far are ill-considered and serve no purpose whatsoever.

[Manco]

Nah, seriously, you're exaggerating. We (or at least I) don't complain just because it's different from original. The point is most of the changes we've seen so far are ill-considered and serve no purpose whatsoever.

“Abe looks slightly different-colored on this magazine cover, how ill-considered”

It’s like reading the No Mutants Allowed forums.

[Varrok]

I didn't whine at this in particular. That would be incredibly dumb. It's just high gamma, and you can lower it yourself at home

[ODDREN]

Found it!

http://magazinesdownload.com/post/20...gust-2013.aspx

[STM]

This generation... they don't know.

Nah, seriously, you're exaggerating. We (or at least I) don't complain just because it's different from original. The point is most of the changes we've seen so far are ill-considered and serve no purpose whatsoever.

Thank god we have you to explain the joke, Varrok.

Seriously though, every little difference from the original is a point of contention, if that's not banal I don't know what is.