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[Kurtofan]

YES YES RAYMAN IS BACK.
There are even the explorers of the first game!
So cool!

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Well, that has to be the best looking 2D game I've ever seen.

 

[desa]

I feel wonderfully magical and whimsical after watching it.

 

[MNC]

I just realized it's probably going to be co-op gameplay.

Edit: And the wink to the photostand thing :lol

 

[Danielsan]

Wow, that was fantastic and absolutely gorgeous.
Rayman finally getting redeemed.

 

[Acosta]

Gorgeous, love it.

 

[Salsa]

I just realized it's probably going to be co-op gameplay.

Edit: And the wink to the photostand thing :lol

Im guessing thats gonna be the way to checkpoint again.

 

[Rei_Toei]

Yay this! I'm so happy ;_; 2d platformers returning left and right... Good times!

Bu bu bu... BG&E2? :|

 

[Brera]

This is news definantely the best news I've heard so far!

This game looks amazing! How a nextgen Platformer should be! Well done for Ubi to have the courage to make a game like this. The art style is amazing and very Ghibli!

Big fan of the original as well!

Love it! Day one!

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

It looks promising (love the painterly textures, not so crazy about the flash style animation), but I have to give a big WTF to Ubi. All those fucking Wii spin-offs and then they finally go and do proper Rayman as a download title for the HD consoles. It's a perfect expression about where publisher's heads are at this generation. Same goes for the whole 2D = digital distribution thing. Still, if the price and amount of content are right I'll probably bite when this comes out.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Looked really nice. Never been into Rayman, but this defo catches my eye.

 

[carbonbased]

Welp, ya missed out on two of the best games ever made, buck-o.

Like I said I'm looking forward to this game despite the look. I expect it'll probably win me over once I actually play it.

i posted just as much earlier in this thread, and if i had a ps3 or if rayman 1 was on xbla i would have played the shit out of it by now. your perception of the artstyle is clouded with nostalgia, however, and to expect anything but vector graphics is pure whimsy. be thankful it isn't using 3d models.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

WOW love the trailer and the style, HELL YEAH Rayman is back !!!
THIS IS HOW YOU DO 2D man I wish more of these kinds of games came out!

 

[Sloane]

Wow, impressive stuff! Sad we don't see more games like this.

Actually, we have been seeing a lot more games like this recently, haven't we?

Looks great!

 

[jj984jj]

I didn't notice it would be episodic earlier, I wish it wasn't. Hopefully Ubisoft doesn't screw this up.

 

[Discotheque]

I didn't notice it would be episodic earlier, I wish it wasn't. Hopefully Ubisoft doesn't screw this up.

I doubt they will. Michel Ancel's working on this. Not some lame Ubisoft Montreal shit or something.

 

[jj984jj]

I doubt they will. Michel Ancel's working on this. Not some lame Ubisoft Montreal shit or something.

Ancel I trust, but Ubisoft could still screw up the structure/pricing.

 

[Erasus]

Art style looks great, but the animation looks like a flash game D:

 

[Salsa]

 

[Funchameleon]

This has been the first e3 announcement to get me excited. Seriously. Slight chills.

LOVE the art style, animation, attitude, gameplay; everything. Rayman 1 (PC) was one of the most memorable games I've ever played and one of the few games I've ever logged 100% completion on.

I can only see Ubisoft's new framework leading to more great HD 2D games, which might be the best news of E3 2010.

 

[JoRu]

Looks absolutely stunning. I think it's a shame that it'll be episodic though, I just want one heck of a platformer that I can play from beginning to end without having to wait for more content to arrive. I'd rather wait a year but get all of it at once than getting one part this fall, and the other ones later.

 

[wouwie]

Looks fantastic! Can't wait

 

[Net_Wrecker]

This has been the first e3 announcement to get me excited. Seriously. Slight chills.

Yep. I was smiling the whole time.

 

[Flakster99]

Most excellent trailer, looked really fun.
I don't care what system this is on, sold.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

Has it been confirmed what systems this is on and if it's downloadable or retail?

 

[OgTheClever]

Has it been confirmed what systems this is on and if it's downloadable or retail?

Likely HD consoles in downloadable installments.

 

[lljride]

Looks totally cool and took me by surprise, I was barely able to last through the abomination of the rest of the Ubisoft conference. Love me some 2D Rayman.

 

[dark10x]

*cough*

Jus' sayin

Actually, while that Wario game did look pretty nice, I always thought it had a very angular, boxy look to it. The character sprites were great, but the backgrounds were dull. Furthermore, not only was it on the Wii and limited to a low resolution, but it was framed in 4:3.

The new 2D Rayman looks significantly better. Huge art assets that aren't simply tiled together in a boxy fashion and full 16:9 HD presentation make a big difference.

 

[Chao]

Been playing original EarthWorm Jim lately. I really hate these flash games. As gorgeous as it could look on screens, the animation interpolation is fucking terrible.

 

[Stumpokapow]

this is a great policy. much better than the old Epic Mickey styled "say the words? BANNED".

Hopefully the other mods have been informed of that policy change.

I don't want to speak for anyone else, but the thing with the Epic Mickey thread was that it was such a shitstorm and the discussion was derailed so badly and so many warnings (and dead bodies) were posted that at some point, I think things became a little more indiscriminate.

Regardless of any one individual thread, I know that the "port begging" policy was always anchored around the objective of ensuring that threads end up being discussions about games rather than pissing matches about platform and anyone whose posts contribute to the former rather than the latter.

Kilrogg's post here, for example, would be considered the kind of post that we don't want:

Episodic AND no Wii version because of "artistic vision".

I see it's still about shitting on consumers and pleasing yourselves then. Fuck that shit. The game would still look great in 480i.

Something like RevoDS would also be a post that doesn't contribute anything:

WTF, no Wii release, how dumb can Ubi be? This game is like tailor-made for the Wii, yet they ignore it entirely?

A lot of posts in this thread are okay because the platforms haven't really been confirmed although that Ubi-art Q&A seems to imply PSN, XBLA, and PC. I would hope that subsequent threads about this game won't be 50% people expressing disappointment about the platform choice. I hope that clarifies everything.

 

[emic]

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[CassSept]

Looks amazing, graphics are really impressive. It's great to have true Rayman back (and Globox along with him ), with Rabbids having been split into other franchise.
It's a shame that it's gonna be episodic release, but the sole fact of Rayman platformer redeems it

 

[JaseC]

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http://i45.tinypic.com/2eczt7b.jpg

My favourite part of the trailer.

 

[djtiesto]

An all new 2D Rayman and a spiritual sequel to Rez? Ubisoft has saved E3 for me!

 

[Deleted member 30609]

it just looks so good <3

 

[Gowans]

Lovely, can't wait to play it.

 

[mileS]

I've never actually played a Rayman game before (please don't murder me GAF) but this looks so fucking beautiful I NEED to play it.

Why the hell don't we have more HD 2d games?

 

[watkinzez]

I hope Rayman and Globox's first meeting is that exact scene in the trailer. So perfect. :lol

 

[Macarello]

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!! The original Rayman on playstation was the first game I ever played, and this is the absolute definition of what made that game so great while improving it with some the best visuals that I've ever seen in a game.

DAY FARKING ONE

 

[Snaku]

I'm so conflicted about this game.

I want to loathe its existence like I do King Kong, and the Rabbids.

 

[CassSept]

Why the hell don't we have more HD 2d games?

It's hard to make FPS in 2D.

Honestly though, they don't really sell that well, do they? It's true that 2D games are few and far apart, but those released didn't really rock the world of sales.
Sadly, as beautiful as 2D in HD looks, most consumers don't care about artistic side of games. Gritty, "realistic" shooters still sell best, the exception being Nintendo and sports games.

 

[JaseC]

All these BG&E avatars are making me sad.

 

[watkinzez]

I'm so conflicted about this game.

I want to loathe its existence like I do King Kong, and the Rabbids.

Think of it this way. Do you want to play a video game designed by Ancel this year, or this decade?

 

[Veidt]

Best and only interesting thing from E3 so far.
I want more of these sort of games.

 

[Facism]

Rayman never appealed to me but wow at this trailer. Looking swift.

 

[Quadrangulum]

Based on the screens, this is one of this generation's best looking games.

 

[ampere]

That trailer looks so ridiculous, I can't wait to play it

 

[Alpha_eX]

Art style looks great, but the animation looks like a flash game D:

Show me a flash game that's animated as well as this.

 

[Rei_Toei]

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Beautiful part indeed. Kinda reminded me of Shank.

 

[mileS]

It's hard to make FPS in 2D.

Honestly though, they don't really sell that well, do they? It's true that 2D games are few and far apart, but those released didn't really rock the world of sales.
Sadly, as beautiful as 2D in HD looks, most consumers don't care about artistic side of games. Gritty, "realistic" shooters still sell best, the exception being Nintendo and sports games.

FUCK SALES! get another job on the side developers! That or make double the 2d HD games to make up for it. DAMNIT