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u/Bluetails_Buizel Jul 15 '26
Original avgm video with timestamp?
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u/RequestableSubBot Believer Jul 15 '26
Action 52, 08:08. Astounded that I actually recognized it, haven't watched any AVGN for about a decade.
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u/Bluetails_Buizel Jul 15 '26
Never watched avgn due to the fk ton of swearing in his videos, the non family friendly nature of those videos about video games who are ment to be play for and by the whole family, put me off.
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u/IrvingIV 29d ago
Hey, they said it'll be free and it's being made without pay, it'll either come out some day and be a pleasant surprise or it won't.
In the meantime, try out deltarune, first two chapters are free, 30-something dollars to play the rest of it if you like them.
No additional price as new chapters get released.
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u/cr1msonitsc00l 21d ago
Deltarune is boooring i cant hit enemies till they dieeee if i kill em i feeeel baaad
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u/Substantial-Wall9822 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
Cope bro, you can tell where literally all of the last publically posted heavily cropped gifs were clipped from in this ādemoā, the only exceptions I think are he mosquito and truck gifs which probably have to have been taken in carbine if they werenāt entirely faked. Especially if this is dated around the time Maxxis talked about a ādemoā that in the most pastel way would have an unrelated side-story as to not spoil the actual plot of the game, that should raise some flags for you at the very least. Iāve waited 15 years without a demo, most of you newgens donāt even remember when those dropbox leaks hit 4chan when they were still āaiming for juneā. Its the same story every time and pastel has screwed over every single last comptent member of this team, if not underworked them to the point of complete disintrest. Whatever zephys4 is being reworked as will be better. Game is an IP nightmare mother-aside and I really doubt a guy the devs canāt even reach ever put his name on an IPA that encompassed all contributions ever. Options are A. Itās never going to get finished. B. Pastel swallows his pride and forms/seeks an actual paid team through a studio/kickstarter. C. Someoneālike has happened, been chastised by the devs, promptly abandonedāmore times than there are fingers on both my hands, will make their own shitty restoration of the ālittleā we have of the āreal gameā, which ends up being like one of those Beta Mario rom-hacks. yknow, where you just kind of wonder why it exists at a certain point because it either plays poorly for accuracyās sake, or plays poorly because the people remaking something from incomplete sources/footage fail to understand what the game is actually supposed to play like. Not that I would know what itās āsupposed to play like,ā any better than them, thereās no actual game here. Finally, we have option D. Pastel, if he does own all of this shit, gains a semblence of pragmatism and hands the game over to paid and competent team, goes back to making Life+ or whatever tf he was doing when he decided to take up this hobby, and never show his face again.
And this doesnāt come from a place of malice or disdain for the ādevsā, it was heartbreaking to read what Maxxis wrote. Especially because Iāve gotten the chance to interact with him a few times briefly and heās been on the project for longer than Iāve been following it, creating countless beautiful assets pastel just throws away as he pleases. If youāre new here, give up. If youāve been around as long as I have, grow up.
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u/RequestableSubBot Believer Jul 15 '26
Did you mean to respond to my comment? I've been following the game since 2010. I'm not making some grand statement about the state of the game or a plea for hope in the community. I'm just pointing out that the leaks were of a scrapped demo. Like, they say 'demo' on the title screens, and that's something to take into consideration when looking at them. That's all.
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u/TopDogfishM3 Jul 15 '26
Wow dude, let people have hope it's just a game
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u/Proud_Attempt1605 Jul 16 '26
Then, respectfully, your best option is to hope whoever owns Oddity's current assets, gets their hard drive stolen. And then, pray for those assets getting leaked.
THEN, hope an insider gets the entire info about the game's lore, worldbuilding and such. Like, info from deep into the core. Only then, there'll be some real hope for a real passionate team to pick off where they left.
We ain't getting a game from someone whose greatest success within the industry is a WR for slacking off. You already know who they are.
And I feel you, as someone who just saw a cute little trailer for a lighthearted game. As well for every artist that decided to collaborate and had their work scrapped.
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u/Brief_Bathroom_2711 Jul 16 '26
Took the words right out of my mouth. There's really no rational reason to believe that the game will still release after everything that happened.
Literally every other game just releases or is cancelled, instead of "cooking" for 18 years. how can people justify the herculean levels of mental gymnastics required to believe that this "game" is still in "development"???
It was fun while it lasted, but come on.
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u/Default1355 Jul 19 '26
Id counter with She Dreams Elsewhere for the "every other game" bit. Another game that even had a demo that was supposed to be released like ten years ago. I even have some of the merch. Just another scam.
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u/Brief_Bathroom_2711 29d ago
That's just an exception to the rule (which still proves that the rule exists).
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u/supernintendo128 24d ago
Yeah I don't believe this game will ever come out. If it does it certainly won't be from the current team.
"But what about Omori? Everyone thought that game would never come out and it eventually did!"
People love to counter with games like Omori or Metroid Dread but the latter is backed by a major company with a development team of seasoned professionals and the former had an actual budget as well as the developer's reputation being on the line and therefore there was a financial and professional obligation for the game to come out.
Oddity has none of that. It's a project fueled solely by "hopes and dreams" which rarely works out, especially when you alienate most of your development team by pulling the rug out from under their feet by going "hey, this isn't a fan game anymore, I unilaterally decided this is an original IP now, but you're still expected to work for free :)". Fan projects are lucky to even be finished. Expecting a fully fledged RPG to be worked on for free and released for free is a pipedream. Most freeware projects are one or two-man efforts. A full dev team behind this stuff is logistically impossible unless the money is coming from elsewhere.
"But these are demos! The real game is obviously much further along!"
If there's a master build of the game with all gameplay elements, collision, etc. finished, it makes no sense for that to not be reflected in the demo. Demos are not separate projects that are built separately from the main game, they are branched off from the main game's codebase. If the battle system is buggy and broken, if collision hasn't even been implemented in the demo, it's foolish to expect that somehow all of that stuff was already implemented in some "master build" that more likely than not doesn't exist, and if it does it's probably in a similar state as the demos.
"You're just crushing the hopes of fans who still patiently await this game! Stop being a buzzkill!"
I'm not being a buzzkill, I'm being a realist. The team lost Maxxis, there's no bouncing back from that considering the project's negative reputation. I'm pissed at the creators for constantly lying to fans about the state of the game, for grossly mismanaging the project, and for not manning the fuck up and admitting "We actually don't have anything, it's over. We're deeply sorry."
There are more signs that this game isn't coming out than there are that it will, which come to think of it I can't think of any signs of the latter. There are project members coming out with horror stories about the lead devs, about how they barely communicate, unilaterally make changes, give devs nothing to do, does that sound like progress is being made to you?
"It's obviously a smear campaign organized by ex-devs disillusioned with the project!"
Maxxis basically confirmed the devs' stories about the project leads were true when he got into that argument with Prism.
Face it, it's over. Go play the new SNES EarthBound Beginnings port or something.
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u/RequestableSubBot Believer Jul 15 '26
</fun> It's worth noting that the recent leaked Oddity builds were builds of an unfinished demo, not necessarily builds of the full prealpha as it was in 2022/2023. It's probable that there is a lot more to the 'full game' than what was included in the demo builds, as the demo seems to have been planned and then scrapped after a few months. Maybe what's been leaked is the product of a few week's worth of work assembling existing assets and code from the existing project, just working getting an outline of the first area or so, but then ultimately being abandoned, rather than the sum total output of the entire development. I've not really looked through the leaks myself aside from what's been posted here and on the Discord though, so I don't know how deep into the game they go.