/vr/ - Retro Games

thread music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpuJo0lGEo

gonna bump with screenshots of the new game
just remember that a lot of the effects and shit are still pre-alpha footage

odd world is cool guy he farts and doesnt even

>see this for the first time
>ehh its probably nothing
>finish level with 0 deaths
>start next level with 12 deaths
shit tore me apart as a kid

>>1193501
I know it's pre-alpha but I think it looks a bit too cartoonish just now. Still it looks beautiful, Oddworld is one of the most aesthetically-pleasing settings I know.

>>1193507
i totally agree with you, i just want New n Tasty to do really well so that Lorne can FINALLY finish the Quintology

DONT FORGET DA BOILAH!

>mfw this music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhNG3csoi0

Was anybody else slightly disappointed in Stranger's Wrath?

>>1193510
>FINALLY finish the Quintology
There is more than two?

>>1193519
sadly its still on my backlog so i cant really comment on it, i was disappointed in Munch's Oddysee though

>>1193524
there was originally meant to be 5 games in the series
Abe's Oddysee and Munch's Oddysee are technically the only games in the series, with Exoddus being a direct sequel to AO and Strangers Wrath being a spin-off

>>1193525
I just went back to play the first two i never finished them as a kid. If new & tasty does well they will make more?

>>1193526
thats what they are hoping
Lorne said that as long as New n Tasty makes a 1.5x profit then Oddworld Inhabitants can continue making more games.

EA fucking them over in 2005 really left Oddworld Inhabitants, apparently putting Abe and Munch on steam, PSN and XBLA were what kept the company alive all these years till their recovery in 2011

>>1193534
ugh i totally fucked up there
i meant to say: ...2005 really left Oddworld Inhabitants almost bankrupt.

>>1193534
I just bought odysee and exodus from playstation network i will buy new n tasty when it is released i heard it will only go for $30

>>1193540
i hope you enjoy it anon, its a great game

>>1193525
>Abe's Oddysee and Munch's Oddysee are technically the only games in the series
According to the creators?

>>1193552
yeah, there was a video flying around somewhere that had Lorne saying that any game with Oddysee in the title is part of the quintology, with its respective Exoddus being a sequel to that Oddysee

>>1193554
addendum: any game with Oddworld in the title is still part of the canon

>>1193519
Actually no, I found it to be a pretty good FPS, and the literal live ammo thing was hilarious. It gave another viewpoint of the Oddworld setting beyond an alien dieselpunk world of slavery.

>>1193554
Do you think you could ever find that video again? Sounds like there's some good production talk in it.

>>1193561
i THINK it might be this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTwMcm1QL_I

its really long though

>>1193563
theres also http://oddworld.wikia.com/wiki/Oddworld_Pentalogy which explains it in part

>>1193517
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDhVaz9PyNI

I am a huge fan of how comfortable the depot is. It looks superb, grounded in industrial themes.

is it bad that im a masochist and i really want to watch DSP fail miserably at this game? and blame abe because he obeys the laws of physics instead of stopping on a dime like you see in most platformers

>>1193563
>>1193565
Thanks dude.

>>1193572
Who is DSP?

>>1193582
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ziXMBuqOQ

>>1193501
>>1193510
I can't really explain it, but it sort of lacks the atmosphere that the original had.

>>1193552
It explains it in the manual of each game iirc

>>1193595
totally, it looks amazing, and although you can compare the screens from the new and old games and they would appear to be exactly the same, theres still something really off about the new screens

also post your fave enemy and why.
I love greeters, they are so happy and so willing to kill you in a second

>>1193601
I think it's partly the 2.5d. I've always hated 2.5d; it is entirely pointless to have your camera moving in a dimension which doesn't exist.

Compared to the original that had those static ominous monochrome
backgrounds.

>>1193601

PSHH PSHH PSHH PSHH

>the area you go around on Oddworld is just a tiny area in comparison

One day, I will finally give Stranger's warth a try.

>>1193613
I would like to see more of the oddworld universe and some new species

All 'a ya'

>>1193642
hello

nigger jew spic

>>1193642
Bleh, GEEEEEYT'EM

Dat feel when Boiler

>>1193654
rule 1 of oddworld: if it boils, it must be destroyed

I have to get an xbox to play munchs odysee and strangers wrath. Is stangers wrath worth getting?

just get the Oddboxx on steam for $15. gives you all the oddworld games

>>1193665
meant for >>1193660

>>1193654

FREEZE

>>1193667
ok pal

>>1193671
i just noticed he is holding a shotgun, but sligs fire a assult rifle

I only have Exoddus on Steam, and it won't even run. Kind of sucks that Steam don't bother to check that before putting the game up for sale.

Is Abe top 5 best playstation characters?

>>1193675
get the gog version.

>>1193675
try this http://steamcommunity.com/app/15700/discussions/0/864948300052163978/

>>1193680
>You need to hack the game in order to play it
The state of vidya today, gentlemen.

>>1193682
to be fair, it's an old game running on modern system.

>>1193684
and Oddworld Inhabitants dont really have the money nor the time to issue out patches, and valve doesnt really give a shit about a game thats $2.50

>>1193676
top 5 characters regardless of console of all time

>>1193689
Valve could retire the game from the store. But Oddworld Inhabitants are the incompetent.

>>1193693
>incompetent
oh come the fuck on, they were driven almost to bankruptcy

>>1193519
I thought it was amazing myself. The combination of swift 3rd person action and FPS delivered something that was truly unique and fun. It's also the most graphically impressive game on the Xbox system.
My only complaints about it is that it needed more content, and the end boss kind of the sucked. Haven't played the HD edition.

It's not fair! We had twice ze flavor.

>>1193696
Only because Lorne Lanning is a retarded pothead who threw his successful vidya company down the shitter because of some stupid argument with EA.

>>1193601
GRENADES AND MINES 2: EXPLOSIVE BOOGALOO

>>1193654

I played Abe's Oddysee for about three hours, I WANT to like it but I just can't get into it. Feels bad /vr/.

>>1193932
It's ok. At least, you will not suffer the bad ending.

Uh-oh, /vr/. There's now Fleeches in this thread!

>>1193643

My name is Jaden.

>>1193519
Nope. The only Oddworld game I was disappointed with was Munch's. Never played the Game Boy games so I can't say how they are.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>1193519
It got really good reviews at the time, but it failed because EA didn't bother marketing it at all.

>>1193823
see >>1194859

>>1194870
While I agree EA fucked them over, it was no reason to shut down their company and quit making vidya.

>>1194938
well for whatever reason that they shut up shop, they are back now, and New n Tasty is the only hope we will have that they will finish the Quintology

I can't have been the only one to play it

>>1194987
I played both Oddworld Adventures and Oddworld Adventures II! I still have the cartridges.

>>1194736
Why didn't those fuckers die when you blow up the mines?

>>1195206
plot armor, and because you needed a way to get to FeeCo

>>1193507
"A bit too cartoonish"? Did you even fucking play the originals?

>>1195638
he was talking about New n Tasty, not the originals

>>1193492
Original Oddworld used Segmented level designs in a very deliberate way to not only focus on the puzzles in the level design but to draw as little attention to the camera as possible.

How do you think the fluid world of new and tasty will effect gameplay and atmosphere? Will scenery and puzzles be redesigned when necessary to adjust to- or even take advantage of -this camera?

Aww shit, Oddworld thread.
Literaly my favorite franchise with Exoddus being my all time favorite game.

>>1195652
the developers did say that the will redesign a lot of the puzzles to accomodate the scrolling screen

Who else is hyped?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Ynt8Jb134

checkpoints or quicksaves, /vr/?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ_W93ty2oc

>>1195887
Check points made the first one harder than it should have been and quicksaves kept the game moving at a good pace.

>>1195885
the new footage has this really red haze, i dont really like it

but im still hyped as fuck, since JAW and OI so far have been amazingly good at listening to feedback

>>1195897
That was a year ago.

>>1195891
agreed, quicksave allowed exoddus to have more complex puzzles, but it also made said puzzles significantly easier

I love Oddworld but Munch's Oddysee was glitchy for me, I fell through the floor

>>1195885

I love that they added parallax scrolling. Such a small change really makes the environment feel alive.

I know I'm going to buy this game, but should I get it on Wii U, or wait till I (maybe) get a PS4?

>>1196410
hm, which one ?

>>1193525

I read an interview with Lorne Lanning from soon after the release of Abe's Oddysee in an old issue of UK PSM, and he was talking about how the second game in the Quintology, Munch's Oddysee, was already in development for the Playstation. So that would make sense

>>1196449
I read somewhere that he said that every Oddysee game will get at least 1 or 2 bonus games, such as Exoddus.

>>1196449
Around 1999 to 2000 Munch's Oddysee was being presented as having a much larger scope and it was very ambitious. It was going to have life-simulation and herd animals and large environments and all that guff.
In one of the interviews with Lanning he stated that development for the new game had moved from PS2 to the Xbox, because Oddworld Inhabitants had felt that the PS2 did not have enough raw power to deliver their vision for the next Oddworld game.

It was going to be great! We had that video of a Mudokon on a running wheel and a Slig falling out tower and splatting on the ground. Screenshots with sweeping vistas, mudokon airships, and herds of Scrabs rolling across the countryside, all that good shit.
The future was looking bright.
Then it went gold.

>>1196489
http://spong.com/article/749/Oddworld-Munchs-Oddysee-Defects-to-Microsoft

http://previews.teamxbox.com/xbox/20/Oddworld-Munchs-Oddysee/p1/
>However, if you are the rarest of gamers who doesn’t enjoy Munch's Odyssey, do not fret, Oddworld Inhabitants has got many more worlds of odd games coming exclusively to the Xbox. One of these upcoming games is Squeeks Odyssey, which is the third title in what looks to be a long line of awesome if not fairly odd, Xbox games.

>oddworld munch's oddysee hd
>no PC release
>ENJOY YOUR SHITTY XBOX PORT
Well fuck you JAW.

>>1196410
get it on PC

>>1196493
Squeeks Oddysee is likely to be the next Oddworld game after New N Tasty

>>1196497
SOON

>>1196803
I pray to god they remake Exoddus as well.

>>1196807
that would actually be pretty likely as well, but i feel that a lot of the team would want to do something new entirely

>>1193680
God damn, that thread is a gold mine.
Fifteen different ways various people got the game to work.
And for every one, five people asking for help.

>>1196820
yeah, the fix doesnt work for everyone, sadly. it works for me with AO, but with AE it just bluescreens the game

If I wanted to get into the Oddworld series, what would be the best place to start, and where should I go to get it?

>>1196851
just start from the first game.
Emulator would be the best bet if you dont have a ps1.
The pc port isnt as good.

>>1196857
>>1196851
i would suggest getting the Oddboxx on Steam, its $15 for the 4 games

THEN if either of the Abe games fuck up or dont work, then try to emulate it

i grew up with this game on PC and i will die with this game on PC and nothing you will say can stop me

>>1196871
I started playing these games when I was 5 on my dads ps1.

>>1196875
i started playing these when dad brought home the demo for abes exoddus, and i begged him to get the game for me on my birthday

>live in San Luis Obispo
>work downtown
>walk by Oddworld Inhabitants building every day, they still haven't taken down the logo from the doors
>every day see "FOR LEASE" under that Oddworld sign

>my heart when this thread

should i get munch's oddysee on psn?
i already got Stranger's wrath

>>1197080
Yes

Fucking Assholes.

Lanning explained that Oddworld Inhabitants always looked at video games as "the place to birth the property of Oddworld," but the games were written in treatment form as though they're motion pictures because "part of our dream is to make one of the big movies."[41] While the first step may have involved a video game development studio building the technology that would run their critically and commercially successful games, it was not their ultimate goal. Being bogged down in game development left them hamstrung when it came to achieving the other objectives toward their ultimate goal.[57]

Also making Munch's Oddysee BeanBox exclusive because 'muh more powerful technology!' was the biggest making OI ever made

>>1197149
>Also making Munch's Oddysee BeanBox exclusive because 'muh more powerful technology!' was the biggest making OI ever made

The game looked much more ambitious when it was a PS2 game originally, but I'm just going by the few videos there are of it.

>>1197220
>tfw no Sam plotline
fuck your shitty Gabbiar eggs, i wanted to save the Mudokon queen

This looks fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rddtf_ra3q4&list=PLF3732646E4316DF1

>>1197389
so its just throw fleeches and dont change any of the levels?

>>1197417
I think it does more than that, that was a early peek at the game.

Here is the compleated version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur6uLLDfpNY

He did one for Exoddus as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHfzohDY5Gk

>>1197428
it still looks like he's done nothing more than add stupid shit here and there

but then again its apparently really hard to edit the Abe engine

>>1197442
It looks a lot harder, and really anything to add some replay value after you get all 99 is appreciated.

In what I saw in the Exoddus video he did add some secret areas. Plus moving around where the mudokons, portals, and what not seems like it would be a pretty different game.

>>1197457
but i mean none of the base levels have changed

i just have really bad memories of playing really bad SMW romhacks where the levels are exactly the same but the modder has added like 50 million pokeys

>>1197473
Its ment to be a hard mode. If adding more enemies and changing where things spawn makes the game harder. Than he accomplished what he set out to do.

Im going to try Exoddus hardmode in a bit. See how that goes.

>>1197792
more?

The Oddworld games where the only series I've ever played where the creators intentionally made a world which was frankly ugly but in a very visually engaging way. It's this artistic ugliness which makes this series stand out from the common need to make everything look either 'cool' or visually appealing.

>>1197797

>>1197802
this also makes it more "art" than any of the recent "art" games out there

Just finished oddysee and exodus most rewarding games i have ever finished. I lost 5 mudokuns in that mine cart though so no perfect ending for me

>>1198050
Ya, that part was tricky for me when I first played it.

First glance at these games, gave me this weird "kid friendly" impression that you'd get by looking at something Pixar made. Buying the game and then finally playing it, adhered completely different results to me--It's like they imagined something Disney would do, but add a heavy fucking dose of reality to it, giving it that dark morbidness, and black-humor you see in a lot of their other games. It truly surprised me playing through Oddysee that first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXOEJneCwc

Get hyped!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQCPnp_mWc

>>1198075
you kinda hit the nail on the head there, Lorne's inspiration for Abe and Co was the disney cast

>>1198075
I think thats what made the games great i actually cared about saving the mudokons i felt so bad letting them die as a kid

>>1198078
i really hope theres a demo, i really wanna know if my shit-tier rig can handle it

>>1198091
From what ive seen it doesnt look like it will be too intensive.

>>1198092
i really hope so, im riding on the 3d backgrounds carrying the game

>>1198093
It looks nice no matter what im buying it

is there any games similar to oddworld?

>>1198094
momentum based platforming?
i know theres something out there but i really dont know what

but in terms of aesthetics and story
short answer: no
long answer: 2deep4u grimdark settings are shit and are not comparable to oddworld

>>1198094
Heart of darkness kinda.

>>1198094
>>1198101
Also Flashback, and Another world.

>>1198102
And Onescapee.

>>1198094
Prince of Persia 1 and 2 are kind of similar.

>>1198124
Never heard of it. I'll have to check it out.

>>1196807

>not wanting an original game
>wanting to play mangled rehashes of classic games

>>1198234
Well, Exoddus is pretty fine as it is, it's Odyssee that needed a revamp, especially with its save system.

Bumping thread with this New n Tasty trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqhnM-rrBng

test

>>1198102
cheers this flashback game looks good
>>1198712
>2014
i guess i can wait

>>1199003
np

>>1198712
hypehypehype

new screenshots mofos

>>1199772
>>1199776
>>1199779
>>1199782
Epic

>>1199779
Looks like they're taking a shit.

>>1199871
lol

>>1199782
I swear this shot is perfect, it looks exactly the same as the original!

>>1193501
>>1193498
I don't understand why it has to be real time 3D, I really don't. If they had used the old technique and pre-rendered everything and then implemented it to lossless sprites that game would look so much better than the old one and certainly this crap too.

As it is the new one doesn't look better at all save for the higher resolution.

I just started Exoddus, it's pretty fun so far

>>1201593
Its my favorite.

>>1201593
oh your not gonna love exoddus in a few screens....

i never understood why he was purple

genetic mutation?

>>1201671
mudokons are chamilionic lifeforms. Abe is blue because he is mourning the enslavment of his race. you see other muds change color during exoddus as well

>>1201593
>playing Oddysee/Exoddus for the first time
How I envy you.

>>1194987
>I can't have been the only one to play it
>>1195084
>I played both Oddworld Adventures and Oddworld Adventures II! I still have the cartridges.
they were awful, seriously... haha

>>1196345
>Such a small change really makes the environment feel alive.
yes, but should they sacrifice a tense atmosphere for the feeling of being alive?
I'm not so sure in the world of odd

>>1198236
>it's Odyssee that needed a revamp, especially with its save system
it's people like you I dislike, oddysee was just fine but you know what? it doesn't matter, just because there's gonna be a reboot/remake of it doesn't mean oddysee will just disappear, it's just your attitude about it that annoys me
the save system was fine, inconvenient in a way, but fine. Quicksave made shit easy, so I didn't use it all that often, I just saved at the beginning of the level, it's good they added that restart path, though my friend was such a retard at it he messed up so bad he couldn't fix his shit because he used quicksave too much and I saw him using restart path so much...

>>1202574

>Quiksave

I remember when I played Exoddus I managed to quiksave just before rolling into a landmine.

Never played Oddyssey, but me & my sister adored Exoddus. I still have our PS1 copy.

I picked up a copy of the Oddworld Inhabitants artbook a few years back, it's ace.

>>1195885
The lighting is fucked up. Old one still looks better. Only improvement is higher res.

>>1202757
that's still prealpha footage, lighting from newer screenshots looks much better

Q: alf you could create an oddworld game with characters from my little pony
A: No.

based oddworld devs

>>1203741
>>1203741
lol, where was that said?

>>1203748
http://www.oddworld.com/2013/11/dear-alf-55/

>>1203751
hahaha, Alf knows whats up.

>>1203741
Oh come on, that would be awesome.

People who like them can save them, while everyone else can lead them into the meat grinder!

>>1203760
hes the biggest bro and he was just a lil bit thirsty, he did just walk across a desert after all

>>1203762
That would just ruin the entire game.

>>1203763
my sides 10/10

>>1201593
Did you save all 75 Mudokons in the mines? :D

You found all the secret areas including the one on the first screen, right? :D

Right? :D

:D

D: YOU DIDN'T!

>>1203762
what is artistic integrity
Lorne and Avellone are the only two people left in the industry who understand this

>>1203769
Oh he was doing this new form of humor, it's called sarcasm. You might not have heard of it. It was invented by the Spartans.

>>1203772
not that guy, i only figured out the secret on the first screen because the first game had the a secret area behind a barrel on the first screen as well

>>1197389
those quicksaves

>>1203785
shit im sorry its rather hard to identify sarcasm over a purely text based medium, face to face there tends to be vocal inflections and body language to indicate sarcasm

therefore the default is to assume that everyone is retarded until proven otherwise

>>1203783
You know if there is a secret area on a screen in exodus, if there are empty bottles of soulstorm brew lying around. I forget if the location of the bottles actually corresponds to the location of the secret htough.

I liked this feature a lot when I was doing a 300 mudokon run. It was a pain having to index all the secret areas in oddysee

I wish they made a sequel to Blackthorne.

>>1203824
No you don't. Not if blizzard is in charge

>>1203821
Oddysee did similar. Entrances to secret areas were obscured by barrels and such.

>>1193492
More of a stealth game than a platformer. A stealth puzzler or somesuch.

Still. A fun game, though I got stuck shortly after escaping the plant.

>>1203837
some of them involved jumping down pits with zero indication they were there, or hidden bird portals. Exodus explicitly had the empty bottles lying around for all of them

>>1201457
I disagree. Pre-rendered it would pretty much look the same. There's not a lot of advantage to prerendering an entire game anymore, save a few examples, especially one with this style. No dynamic lights, no proper parallax.

The old game doesn't look bad, but this looks better (though abe looks too stiff, pose wise)

There are a few shots that look a little too washed out however. But a little more post processing work would iron that out.

>>1195645
but the style of New n Tasty looks like the style of the old games..
also, do you really want the game to look completely different and "realistic", if so, go to /v/

>>1203849
All I know is the new cutscenes definitely need some work

I mean compare this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI71ocAwW6Y
http://youtu.be/0JRoyc2LKRg?t=1m34s

>>1203862
Textures are a pain in the ass, you know.

>>1203862
as some one else said, it's still in the pre-alpha stages
I think developers should take a cue from other blunders and stop announcing and putting out info ultra-early, which has become a trend for some reason and all it does in make gamers angry

>>1203862
I think no body should expect too much of this game, it's just another in a line of quickly made games that just exist to cash in on the "retro" trend.

>>1203907
uh no, it was explicitely asked for by people on the internet, and the profits made from this go towards making the next Oddworld game

>mfw I'm playing AO for the first time and nearly done and didn't save close to enough Mudokons to get the good ending

Fuck it, I ain't starting over. Guess I'll do better in the sequel.

>>1204168
look for coulstorm bottles, they indicate a secret area in exoddus

>>1203862
Well, they need to be finished, but there is a lot wrong with the PS1 intro that the new one doesn't have. The only thing the new one really lacks is decent contrast. Same as in-game.

>>1203772
I figured that you get to return to save the rest of them. Oh Well. I saved like 47 if I remember right. Saving some of them is probably absolutely insane. Abe's Oddysee still gives me nightmares.

>>1193697
The HD edition isn't at all different, if I remember correctly. Apart from the graphics, it's the same game, and I think there might have been an issue on the PS3 version dealing with controllers.

>>1204484
indeed. This is how it look.

how ?

>>1204542
attract the slig, then run to the minecart and run him over

>>1204542
usally when you first get there he'll be all the way to the left and you just have to run him over. if you dont then you have to lure him over.

>>1204548
actually i remember'd that wrong.
you have to disarm the mine when you first get to the screen then come back with the mine cart.

>>1204542
>>1204546
>>1204548
Wrong.

Switch off the mine, then attract him, and then possess him in the previous screen.

>>1204704
damn you're right.
Its really has been too long since ive played through it.

>>1204504
It always bothered me that Stranger's model has the sun always on him, even in shadows.

>>1204961
What bother me more is the fact the game itself is just boring.

I'm annoyed that when they had that poll up to vote for a new project, everyone voted for a fucking Exoddus remake instead of a brand new game. Abe's Exoddus is perfectly fucking fine as it is. It doesn't need one!

>>1205604
Maybe its so good ppl just want more exoddus. Its not like the orginal goes away when you remake it.
Wouldnt hurt the orginal to make a remake.

>>1205613
Well, I was more bothered by the fact that they could use their talents to make an entirely new game in the Oddworld series. Maybe we could have finally continued the main series instead of playing all these spin-offs

>>1205642
They said if New N tasty makes at least makes a 1.5X profit then they will make the next game of the quintology.

>>1205648
You serious?!!

>>1205654
Ya, tho I cant remember where I read that, but im sure it was said.

>>1205648
they say that everytime. They already said that with the oddbox.

>>1206983
Did the Oddbox do well enough like they hoped?

>>1206995
probably did more than it deserve.

>>1204170
FUCK

The most I ever saved was around 200 as a kid.

>>1196489
>herds of Scrabs

Even one was fucking terrifying.

>>1207034
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZtjXEaPoFQ

>>1207041
And as if that weren't bad enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz4wycupkwo

Whole bunch of other PS2 Munch's Oddysee videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrvLYxWlOAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKH6-cg9CGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCddkI-fITQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A50c8PDQgv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjnDdQchfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2wfn3Sx-1g

>>1207034
Only because they were the only creature that could outpace you.

Running into them in Munch's Oddysee is just disappointing. Even when you're completely surrounded it takes them forever to kill you - and anyway, aren't they supposed to be lone wolves?

>>1207074
Ya, but i still found it fun to be running around the pens while being chansed by a bunch of scrabs.

>>1204170
Not always..

I appreciate their not marking the very first secret on the very first screen , it's a fitting nod to people who played the first game.

Anyone else put off by the voiceacting in the new trailer, or the later games in general?

I just don't get the same feeling as Abe's Odyssey from the voice acting anymore. The voice acting in the trailer was terrible compared to the original intro. He sounds so incredibly carefree and wacky, and it sounds like he's ending every sentence as a question for some reason, this compared to the original intro when he's very noticeably telling the story of how he ended up in his situation in an a lot more regretting way.

I know oddworld is supposed to be a pretty wacky tone... but what I loved about it so much that it was such a perfect balance of grim and wacky... I feel lately, the "grim" part of the game is being overshadowed by the wackiness

>>1201682
>Abe is blue because he is mourning the enslavment of his race
He's pretty much happier than any of the other mudokons at rapture farms, having been selected as employee of the year and stating that "he thought he had a good job". He also walks along humming music to himself while working, and stops to enjoy the tasty looking pictures of scrabcakes and paramite pies

>>1204279
>http://www.oddworld.com/2013/11/dear-alf-55/
I am 21 and what is this?

>>1203849
>There's not a lot of advantage to prerendering an entire game anymore

That is bullshit, we are far from real time infinite graphics but pre-rendered we are basically (almost) there.

>>1207113

I can kinda agree, the sound effects and voice acting in general don't give off the same charm as it did in the original game. It's not as melancholic or atmospheric.

>>1207051
gamefan did an entire issue on oddworld for the ps2
i was so disappointed it got canceled

>>1193492
Great games. Somewhat easy but great non the less. I think it's time for a replay of the first.

>>1207136
its a level hack
Some one edited the level to make his own.

>>1207465
>buy a ps2 for Munch's Oddysee
>gets cancelled
>grab a used Xbox ten years later to finally play it
>"..this kind of sucks"

>>1207118
thats the official statement imo, its not like the engine could change his palate halfway through the game plus hes blue so the player can identify him among other muds

bump

>>1207051
>http://www.oddworld.com/2013/11/dear-alf-55/
>I am 21 and what is this?

The sligs laughing at splattered corpse of a fellow slig that's been tossed out of a tower window by Abe is hilarious.

>>1195885

Why wasn't I informed of this?

>>1211125
lrn2E3

Why did I just learn that this game has a PC port? Same thing with Sheep Raider what the fuck. I wonder how many games I loved on PS1 have PC ports now.

>>1212117
the port was released in like 2001 dude

I'll never get to play SligStorm. Kill me now.

>>1212641
Sligstorm?

>>1213259
it was a canned game by oddworld, it was going to star an Albino slig who was going to be put down because he was genetically inferior to the others, so he had to escape and stuffs

>>1213267
I think I remember hearing about that. would have been cool to see how they did that.

>>1215481
10/10 Would get.

>>1215481
People with flabby arms should be banned from getting tattoos on them.

>>1215481

I'm so sorry

>>1215661
I would assume just like normal ppl.

how do Mudokons fuck?
this is important

>>1215662
but they have no gender

>>1215663
http://www.oddworld.com/2013/10/dear-alf-50-birds-bees-and-karate-chops/
There is a queen.

RIP

>>1193583

>tfw I've actually watched all three of the "This is how you DON'T play MGS" videos

I can't believe that someone could be so bad that there's between 6-8 hours of footage of failures from that one series of games.

>>1219170
>mfw

Dang, dis thread alright. I've never gotten around to playing these games. What system are they for? Normally I pirate shit but the fact that the devs are struggling so much makes me want to buy them.

>>1222827
Ps1, PSN, and PC.
I would Either buy them for the ps1 or emulate then for the ps1. the PC ports controlls are wonky.
At least if you're coming from the console version.

>>1222838
PC controls seemed fine to me
especially with all the game-talk being assigned to number keys instead of using weird combos
and you can still play with a gamepad on a PC if you have one

>>1224157
I was talking about the gamepad controls.
Growing playing them on ps1 the controls on pc are really weird. Like different gamespeak assigned to different buttons. Mainly in exoddus.

I'm playing (on and off) Abe's Odyssey for the first time using PCSX-Reloaded.
I've never played it before, and I'm finding it hard to get into.
I'm about one hour in. Should I continue? When am I going to feel the magic you Abe-fags rave about? I'm not feeling it yet.

>>1224516
Keep playing, try not playing on and off.
If you still dont feel the wonder that is Abe, try Exoddus.

>>1207521
freeing all the mudokons and finding where they are isnt easy at all

>>1227259
Mostly in the first one since they dont really hint at where the secrets are like in Exoddus.

Holy crap this thread has been up for a long time.
Is this normal on /vr/
>mainly browse /b/, not used to threads longer than a few hours.

The Grubbs were really shit characters. Sekto was right.

the game is fucking easy and fucking boring
i remmember we stole the game and a consol ps1
from this fat fucking loser who couldnt do his own
disches i mean come on what a fucking retard
he had to pay his friends to clean his room what a
fat fucking piece of shit. all he ever did in life
was do blow fucking amf snore this crap up his
ugly nose i mean this fat fuck was hysterical insain
then he babbled about computer dvd rw and his
fucking playstation games all night long
man.... i was so tired of this ugly fat fuck i stole his
consol and sold it for some beers and more blow
what a fucking loser still to this day when i see him
he runs because he is a fat fucking loser and has no
friends and i feel like kicking his head in because
he is such and arogant fuck that belives he
knows it all he knows nothing but i hope he reads
this text actually i knows he will read it
and then his mom died that fat fuck i hate him so much! he always bragged about his fat fuck of a father
how strong he was and about his father being this
violent fuck and he belive his father is so great
i ones meet this father figour and he was ugly as fuck
even more ugly then the son him self what a fucking
loser family good thing the dna stops here.
his name was Anders what a fucking loser name
and what a fucking ugly bitch he was beliving
this game was the shit only proves he is a fat fucking retard so stfu anders you fat fucking retarded sack of shit no one likes you , you fat faggot cunt

>>1193613
>>1193637

It's interesting to see that Stranger's Wrath is a wild west world, and on the same continent.

I can't remember just how long ago the Glukkon's industrialized, but you would have thought the entire continent would be covered in pollution and metal.

I wonder if the other continents are untouched by the Glukkons and are still wild/tribal.

>>1201671
>>1201682
>>1207118
>>1207972

In that "Ask Alf" section of the official website, the Mud answering questions provides a few different explanations for his coloration. They are:

>he is sad
>poor blood circulation
>was forced to star in an extreme makeover reality show that permanently made him blue.

>>1231689
I like the last option because it seems like something the Glukkons would do

>>1227676

Depending on the board's general activity and when threads on it autosage, threads can last for 3+ days.