Topic: Abe's Oddysee HD?

[idolminds]

Woo!

“Abe HD is going into production,” Lanning told the mag.

“It’s basically Abe’s Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer. So the way Just Add Water wants to approach it, we thought was very smart; they are not trying to reinvent any wheels. It’s like, ‘Can we make that experience in a new engine, with new tech, in the old way?’”

Oddworld Inhabitants and the Yorkshire-based JAW announced last year a collaboration to create titles in the Oddworld series “across multiple platforms”.

[PyroMenace]

Hmmm... physics engine? Fuck.

[idolminds]

Yeah, that kinda worries me. I'm not sure how that would work with how the original game played.

[PyroMenace]

Its just something I found out a little while ago is that I really don't like physics based platformers. Limbo, nope. Trine, nope. Littlebigplanet, nope. They all frustrate me. This could seriously fuck it up for me.

[Xessive]

I'm ok with the physics implementation but I hope they do something unique with it rather than just casually throw in some meaningless rubble into the levels.

[sirean_syan]

Actually, I would be better with meaningless rubble. It would go to make the game look more detailed (something that's going to have to happen if it's going to live up to the 2D work originally done for the game), but wouldn't affect the gameplay in any way.

[gpw11]

On one hand, great - the games didn't age well....at least on the PC.  On the other, JAW has been really hit and miss with the PC ports of Munch and Stranger.  Well, that and I really found the trial and error based gameplay of Abe to be waaaay past it's prime.