How fucked is it right now? https://www.ign.com/articles/mario-rabbids-chief-davide-soliani-leaves-ubisoft-after-25-years
It's OVER.
>ONLY ONE GUY CAN CHURN OUT MEDICORE PLATFORMERS!!!
its over
>>683639345Shut up you colossal retard.
>>683639184i always hated rabbids. rayman is unironically saved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRThUTGzQ0g
>>683639897Time for my first replay in years.
>>683639184>Rabbids guy is outThings are looking up.
Rayman means hope. And there is no more hope. Dead IP. Dead franchise. Dead character.
>>683640063>>683639889With Ancel gone, and now Soliani, Rayman has no champions left in the firm.
>>683639184didn't make netflix slop with rayman banging hookers and doing cocaine?
>>683639184It doesn't matter, Ubisoft was never going to let Soliani make a new Rayman game because it wouldn't be as profitable as making AssCreed games. I wouldn't want modern Ubisoft to be involved in a new Rayman title anyway.
Rayman Origins? Dead on 20 year od consoles. Rayman 1, 2, and 3? Dust in history. Not even Steam releases.Yeah it's fucking dead.
>>683639897>12 years agoDamn, I'm old.
>11 copies soldThis is your fault, /v/.
I still can't fucking believe Rabbids got a cross-over game with Mario. A bunch of shitty mini-game collections got them that. And what did Rayman get for some of the best platformers of all time? A DLC in that game's sequel.
>>683640218
We could have gotten this /v/https://raymanpc.com/wiki/en/Rayman_4_(2005_cancelled_prototype)
>>683640442I bought it
>>683640836>A DLC in that game's sequel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=191YbpLVuoUstill the best thing he had in years.Phanthom was not wrong
>>683639184It's striking how the change of direction of this game, completely changed not only the Rayman franchise, but Ubisoft as a whole.
>>683639184Ancel quit 4 years ago it's been long over
I wonder what Michel Ancel thinks of Rayman in Captain Laserhawk
>>683639184The difficulty of Rayman Origins is insane.I was playing it recently, and some of those levels where you have to follow the chest are so absurdly retarded that they end up becoming a long section of trial and error.They realized this and made Legends too easy, getting it wrong again.
>>683641251I doubt he wasted his time watching that shit
>>683640836i sometimes look at my mario + rabbids and just fucking MARVEL at everything leading up to it's announcement, and then I'm even further mindboggled when I remember the game was actually fun
>>683641141>Nintendo Power was doing huge articles on the game and its development>They talk about how it's going to be some incredible adventure action platforming game with crazy levels, show off incredibly cool concept art, and talk about how the Rabbids are actually interesting antagonists>Get completely stoked for the game as a kid, make the decision to buy the game day one as a Wii Launch title>Bring the game home and I'm so excited to play it>Start playing through the shitty mini-games, waiting for the "real game" to start>Slowly realize over time that the shitty mini-games WERE the real game>Nintendo power never even apologized for what was blatant false advertisement or made any sort of statementAnd that was the day I decided to never trust Ubisoft or game journalists ever again.
>>683641141man was I disappointed when I got this game
>>683640218Considering how many characters they made gay in that guess we should be happy it atleast was a female character
>>683641251>I wonder what Michel Ancel thinks
>>683639184Unfortunately Ubisoft will be happy to sit on it forever whilst other franchises, like Assassins Creed, generate more wealth than small nations. After the financial disaster of Skull and Bones I’m not sure Ubisoft would be willing to greenlight another Rayman, especially since commercially they “didn’t meet expectations” despite being critical successes.But don’t lose hope, Rayman is likely just on ice, waiting to be revived.
>>683641332Rayman Origins is piss easy what are you talking about. I beat it when it launched on PS3, I beat it again when it launched on PS Vita and then I beat it a third time on PC a while back.
>>683639184>right nowIt's BEEN fucked for over a decade now.I'd go as far as to say it was even fucked during the time period of Origins and Legends. As good as those games were they were just another one of the endless slew of nostalgia-baiting 2D platformer rehashes taking advantage of the huge obsession with retro shit in the early 2010s. In the same vein as New Super Mario Bros or DKC Returns, they were never bringing the series forward, it was just rehashing the originals to get aging Gen Xers and millennials excited.There should have been a Rayman 4. A true new 3D platformer developing on what came before. Once that didn't materialize in the 7th gen, it was obvious the series was dead.>>683641141>>683641625This was the moment I completely lost faith in Rayman. Even as a 10 year old at the time, the Rabbids shit repulsed me.
>>683639897>that trailer where rayman trys to blow her skirt up and she's into itLove, lust, all of it.
>>683639184So where do you think he'll work now?
>>683642006Anyone can beat Rayman Origins, you have infinite lives and checkpoints on each new screen. I'm talking about the difficulty itself, playing without dying for example, some of the teeth levels are basically impossible because the screen will move arbitrarily and you have to die if you haven't memorized almost everything.
>>683639184>How fucked is it right now?It had like 1% of revival with Soliani hyping up the desire to make a new Rayman game in Sparks of Hope's 100% DLC completion message.Now? 0%There are no people in Ubisoft who give a shit about Rayman AND have some sort of authority to pitch another Rayman project. Ancel's gone, Soliani's gone, UbiArt team's gone and I have no idea about current state of Montpellier studio.It's his 30th anniversary next year and THIS is probably the only thing Rayman's getting:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flyosgames/rayman-the-board-game
>>683641625>and talk about how the Rabbids are actually interesting antagonistsI'll never not be mad over Ubisoft stripping the Rabbids of their coolness and intimidating factor. I'm especially saddened that Pink and Serguei have practically been unpersoned in Rayan's history, not even making a cameo in his DLC for that Mario + Rabbids sequel.
i don't have enough doom rayman pics fr this, though honestly i accepted it's over the moment Ancel left, at least i no longer have to force myself to expect anything good from Ubishit
I never cared about rayman, never played any games, and frankly they don't really look great to me. I still want to try them just to see though.>But I definitely think that some level of innovation and creativity that they pushed HARD would be GREAT to see nowadays. Imagine a Rayman VR as the next entry, or something. They just gotta go crazy with it again, do something experimental.
>>683643192
>>683639184At this point you should be able to take the IP and make your own rayman game legally. wtf is this gay earth
Mario + Rabbids 3 never ever?
>>683643192>i don't have enough doom rayman pics fr thisThere never is enough
>>683642364>So where do you think he'll work now?He'll WFH from the pen.
>>683642775I like the modern girl rabbids and all that but Serguei and the robots from RRR1 were great, they totally should've stayed even with the light hearted entries>>683643482Unless ubi is absurdly stubborn with their initial reactions to it, both games were pretty successful so I feel like another could existNo idea how it'll turn out with a different director though, and maybe other devs quit ubisoft too by then. Wouldn't blame them
>>683643482>Rayman Origins "sold well" according to Ubisoft>Rayman Legends "underperformed" according to Ubisoft>no more Rayman games (outside of reused assets for mobile crap)>Mario x Rabbids KB "sold well" according to Ubisoft>Mario x Rabbids SoH "underperformed" according to Ubisoft>???I think you can guess this one (especially with series' director leaving the company)>>683643518I like the one with just the torso
>>683639184>create this holy grail>use it twice>drop it>make 20 more AC games insteadnuke ubisoft
>>683643959It disgusts me that UbiArt never caught on.
>>683643921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj8g4S940ekThe least Ubisoft could do is release L'Histoire de Rayman in other countries.But yes, Ubisoft had Rayman killed by delaying Legends and releasing it the same month as GTA V.
>>683643959Oh its worse than that they said they were gonna release the engine for free. Corprate started reeeeing going no you cant. Literally created an amazing 2D engine that was simple to use and they trashed it along with rayman.
>>683643192>i accepted it's over the moment Ancel leftso after rayman 2?
>>683643959didn't they make mobile shit that nobody cares about with this
>>683643959It was actually used for a bunch of stuffhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UbiArt_FrameworkIssue is, after 2014 UbiSoft basically gave up on it and only used it for yearly Just Dance games until 2022 where the engine was completely dropped (UbiArt's dev team was long gone by then)
>>683643959>announce it as soon to be open-sourced for everyone>fucks at ubi withhold it and only let few titles use iti fucking hate this company
>>683641417>and then I'm even further mindboggled when I remember the game was actually funThis is what breaks my mind the most. Mario + Rabbids is actually a fantastic series and has so many fun mechanics, and they actually made the Rabbids likable. I have no idea how they did it.
>>683644115no, his King Kong and BG&E were also good
THE FRENCH FUCKED OVER RAYMAN HARDER THAN THEY FUCKED OVER AFRICA
>>683643232>and frankly they don't really look great to meThe art in Rayman Legends is gorgeous. It's the kind of thing you rarely see in video games. It also shows how unsurpassed 2D is in many respects and how much we've lost in terms of art in general with the transition to 3D.
i'm an old fuck but the Rayman 4 / RRR fiasco still makes me boil in rage when i think about it year later, just like >>683641625
poor bastard just can't catch a break, huh
>>683644504I got the Wii for it and Twilight Princess in 2006 and I was shocked by it. What a disaster.
>>683644165It was used for fucking trash it was meant to be a free public 2D engine and then ubicorp started making shit up till people forgot about it. So fucking enraging who the fuck creates an engine thats meant to be public with user created shit. Then go yeah no were gonna use it to only create trash have fun using unity or etc garbage.
>>683643959What makes it worse is that Michel Ancel wanted to release the Ubiart framework for free and make it open source but Jewbisoft stepped in and prevented it. Now it's gathering dust.
>>683644226Making them actual individual characters with fun personalities that twist off parts of the mario characters without being obvious parodies helpsAnd after voice clips reused from the wii era in KB I was so glad they got new voices in sparks of hope
>>683644115anon he worked on every rayman game he was the only reason why we got rayman games. Then ubisoft stopped funding new games and he left in a few years later. His last game was 2019/2020 dude is retired doing eco shit now something about a nature preservation idk pretty based desu
>>683644891he didn't work on rayman 3
>>683644715Rayman 1 still gets level pack releases to this day, we lost the timeline where Origins and Legends receive thecsimilar support
I liked Rayman 2 on n64. I thought it was fun. Am I retarded for liking it? It was the only Rayman game I've ever played and I have nothing to compare it to.
Michel Ancel is using AI now.
>>683645032>we lost the timeline where Origins and Legends receive thecsimilar supportREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe IT WAS SO FUCKING PRETTY ITS ONE OF THE NICEST LOOKING 2D TRADITIONAL ANIMATED GAMES EVER MADE SO MUCH GOD DAMN SOUL IN BOTH GAMES
>>683645151
>>683645017He assisted the R3 team in redesigning Rayman and meeting with them to brainstorm ideas for characters and environments.
>>683645160I don't like the contrast between the interactable/animated elements and the environments of Origins but Legends's visuals are pure sexman I want to see the Nymphs in Legends' style
>>683645229it so fucking over
>>683643959>We could have got a well drawn Shantae game made in this engine, but ubisoft are Jews.
>>683645141No, it's just N64 was the very, very first version of Rayman 2Other versions were basically built upon it with some improvements.Usually Dreamcast or PC are the most optimal picks for playing Rayman 2 while PS1 and PS2 versions are for those who want to see a different Rayman 2.
>>683645151>>683645229>Guy who doesn't even make games anymore posts an AI-generated picture (and says it is AI-generated)Am I supposed to be upset over this?
fairies...
>>683645603Ly >>> the rest
they should've fucked
>>683645603fairy love
>>683645826Wait... are those..?
>>683645883FUCK OFF LET ME HAVE BOOBS
>>683645826please tell me this is offical art.....
>>683646135>skirt fits her waistlmao
Rayman has been dormant too long. Just like Crash, Spyro, and Banjo. Crash 4 didn't sell because zoomers don't give a fuck.It's a wonder we're even getting a new Perfect Dark game.
>>683643959Metal Slug done in Ubiart engine we could have had Metal Slug running on this.
>>683643959UbiArt is seriously their best game engine. This thing got all their games running at 1080p60FPS on even the PS3. How the fuck did we go from THAT standard to Assassin's Creed Anvil Engine running upscaled 1080p to 4K at 30FPS with some of the worst character rendering I've seen? The Japan Assassin's Creed game looks worse than their French revolution Unity game and that was a launch era PS4 game. Seriously WTF is up with the French using this game engine only for mobile ports of Rayman Legends?
Rayman bros...
>>683641625That wasn't blatant false advertising. The original concept of Raving Rabbids WAS supposed to br Rayman 4 all along before they decided to change the game entirely. Everyone got duped anon.
>>683645229>Michel Ancel left the game industry over Ubisoft's bullshit>Just doing AI art of Rayman nowadays on Instagram
>>683641625>>683648281Wasn't the beta leaked?
>>683641625Why should Nintendo Power apologize for Ubisoft changing shit at the last minute?
>mogs Rayman 2 girls
>>683639184it's over
>>683646109Retard.
Remember RaymanZone?
Remember RaymanPC and Harpic and the Jlfksjlfl?
Remayman?
>>683652425>check out RaymanPC because I like browsing random old forums>click on the thread for the animated series (yes, THAT animated series)>90% of it is just people screaming at a mod to unsticky the fucking thread and the mod autistically arguing with everyone as to why it should stay sticky'd
>Nonstop ports of rayman 2>only 1 new port of Rayman 3>no ports of Rayman Originsjesus christ this fucking dogshit french company owns the Rayman IP.
>>683642203surprised they got as far as an advertising trailer establishing rayman's creation and the game being named "rayman origins" before canning it being a rayman 1 remake or origin story
>>683645826>>683644565God, i want to have sex with edith so fucking badlyGet right in there
Why wasn't Betilla in Legends?
>>683643482The Galaxy game flopped so eah, never ever
does Rayman fans like Tonic Trouble?
>>683654063>japanese soi face
>>683655413I would give it a chance if they gave it a re-release.
>>683639184Given the last we saw him he was made into an edgy as fuck toon for a LGBT centric series um yeah...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzj_7Skj2YUbisoft needs to go.This is the problem with IP hoarding, the company in question is operated by tumblr faggots who need the rope, so the only way he can work on his series again is that Ubisoft banks for quad bankruptcy and hope the rights can be wrestled from a Chinese company or some entity like Verizon that can jus toss it inside a vault until humanity literally fucking dies.
Can we talk about how disappointing legends was? Most legends levels suck with their murphy gimmick and it‘s way too easy with simpler level design than origins. There‘s absolutely nothing in legends that comes anywhere close to the land of the livid dead in difficulty. The origins levels, the music levels (which there‘s only 5 of) and kung foot are the only good parts of legends. Origins should have been the game that got a million ports, not legends. The steam version doesn‘t even have cloud saves or proper controller button prompts
With this most likely being the final nail in the coffin, can we all agree this was the best one?
>>683655413I played it before Rayman on PC. I loved that game. Same with Captain Claw.Nobody ever mentions those games anymore.
Why does Japan hate Rayman?
>>683655809do they?
>>683655751I liked the gimmicks all in all and the game was meant for really young children. I get you, it is like Super Lucky Tale, games that could use a difficulty spike here and there to be engaging but I think my kids like them.
>>683655809They only like shitty anime characters, who cares
>>683655763Are the 3d games actually good? Only played the 2d ones
>>6836561753rd place after Mario and Banjo respectively, competing with Sonic for the bronze which only has the upper hand because the music in Sonic is just so good.
>kills rayman. MULTIPLE TIMES.>retarded annoying proto-minions>shitty annoying design>never had an actual good gameName a worse gaming """mascot""".Kill rabbids. Behead rabbids. Roundhouse kick a rabbid into the concrete. Slam dunk a rabbid baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy rabbids. Defecate in a rabbids food. Launch rabbids into the sun. Stir fry rabbids in a wok. Toss rabbids into active volcanoes. Urinate into a rabbids gas tank. Judo throw rabbids into a wood chipper. Twist rabbids heads off. Report rabbids to the IRS. Karate chop rabbids in half. Curb stomp pregnant rabbids. Trap rabbids in quicksand. Crush rabbids in the trash compactor. Liquefy rabbids in a vat of acid. Eat rabbids. Dissect rabbids. Exterminate rabbids in the gas chamber. Stomp rabbid skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate rabbids in the oven. Lobotomize rabbids. Mandatory abortions for rabbids. Grind rabbid fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown rabbids in fried chicken grease. Vaporize rabbids with a ray gun. Kick old rabbids down the stairs. Feed rabbids to alligators. Slice rabbids with a katana.
>>683655751>There‘s absolutely nothing in legends that comes anywhere close to the land of the livid dead in difficultyLotLD was pretty easy toobie honest, the hardest part for me was the first screen. Once you get to that bizarre mid-screen checkpoint with the fire spouts you've basically finished the level.
>>683656765>gifthat game was ludo tho..
>>683655751Reminder that Ubisoft rushed the Legends team and they had to cut two extra worlds they were going to put in Legendshttps://raymanpc.com/wiki/en/Crouching_Hunshttps://raymanpc.com/wiki/en/Drak%27s_Nightmare
>>683655949Low sales and many unlocalized games. The only Rayman 2 versions they got were Dreamcast and PS2.
>>683656765Anon the Rabbids are massive hit, they had a long running cartoon, a movie, comics, even get a isekai
>>683639184I only liked Rayman 2 and 3
>>683642203i don't remember that tailer, post it please
>>683657563*french comic
>>683653028It kinda is an origin story. Lots of enemies and areas are throwbacks to rayman 1
The rayman redemption dev is making a new game at least. We're going home rayman 1 broshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvE5B5KyhI
>>683658504>that godawful, shitty protagonist>the ugly block terrain clashing with everything elseNever post this garbage in a Rayman thread again. This crap has zero reason to exist when Rayman 1 has a gorillion level packs.
>>683658345right but they were gonna go harder with it and either go pre-rayman 1 to show the moment the character was born, or literally just a rayman 1 remake; instead it takes place some time after rayman 2 at the very least since the bubble dreamer in origins and legends is polokus
>>683639184>How fucked is it right now?Half as much as your mother.So, very
>>683657563And? Minions were a hit too, and were annoying little shits. KILL THEM, KILL THEM, KILL THEM!!!!!!!!
Here's to hoping Nintendo offered Soliani a job. Guy accomplished a lot under Ubisoft's command, he could move mountains under Nintendo. Sad we'll probably never see characters like Rabbid Mario or Edge in a game again though.
>>683658504>rixels in the thumbnail
>>683639184Honestly just write it off man. It and Child of Light. They're like Sackboy, Puppeteer and Gravity Rush, theyre deader than dead, they're trapped in the dreaded Corporate IP Hell.
>>683658504
>>683660395>Child of Light>PuppeteerWeren't those always intended to be one-offs?>SackboySony clearly wanted the character at least to live onIts just that Media Molecule is doing a new IP right now which is gonna make or break them after Dreams underperformed and Tearaway flopped twice>>683659710Working with Miyamoto was like a dream for him but I don't think Nintendo has an European development divisions aside from NERD who just do support work and not lead development on actual games
>Ancel out of Ubisoft>Davide Soliani out of UbisoftIt couldn't be even more over.
>>683659710>NINTENDO HIRE THIS MANUnironically yeah or at least if he forms his own studio, I'd like to see him work with Nintendo while maintaining their independence
>>683655751Disagree. Albeit easier, the controls felt more fluid and satisfying than Origins and the online modes involving perpetually scrolling Livid Dead Party and Tower Climbing were fun as fuck. The actual level design feels like it has more going for it compared to how, shall we say, meticulous Origins was in demanding perfect platforming/speedrunning skills. Plus, Legends had these two as skins.I will give Origins props for having the better art style though.
>>683656765BASED RABBIDS HATER POSTER
Rayman 1 difficulty: 10/10 actually impossible tierRayman 2 difficulty: Just the rocket levelsRayman Origins difficulty: 8/10 roughly the same as Demons Souls PS3 final livid dead level is a 10/10 difficulty spikeRayman Legends difficulty: 6/10, the time trials and pixel music levels are toughIf you're not doing all Lums/full Teenies clears then they're all beatable 1 because you literally have to do that to fight the final boss. Rayman 1 would do so well with a 4K remake....or a Rayman level maker. Jesus Christ Ubisoft do something!
>>683639184it's Rayperson, chud
>>683662650>Rayman level makerDidn't that already happen back in the day? Rayman Designer?
I love Rabbids!
>>683655763nah, 2 is way tighter and more meaningfully designed3 is too perpetually side-tracked by the upgrades, it just feels like a brawler with platforming sections between combat encounters, kinda like a proto-Nu-God-of-War
>>683662650>they put origins levels in legends>but gutted the difficulty hard for some reasonI'm still curious why they did this
>>683655809https://mynintendonews.com/2013/10/28/rayman-legends-sold-less-than-1500-copies-in-its-first-week-in-japan/ Rayman Nippon sisters....
>>683642007>it was just rehashing the originalsThis isn't the case for Rayman 1 and Rayman origins/legends considering they play nothing alike. The first is a slow paced, almost precision based platformer, the latter is a high speed momentum based platformer.
>>683644715>free public 2D engine and then ubicorp started making shit up till people forgot about itWhat the fuck. Are you serious?
>>683639184It's 100% over for Rayman now. The DLC in Rabbids 2 was the closest thing he had to a swan songAncel is gone, Soliani is gone, the Origins+Legends devs got fired despite both games being financially successful (even with Ubisoft screwing over Legends development), UbiArt abandoned, high up Ubisoft employees hate/don't care for Rayman Ancel left Ubisoft because he got tired of dealing with incompetent employees assigned to his team that complained about having to make things that weren't AC/Farcry and dealing with all the petty bullshit from the middle managers who were jealous how much pull Ancel had at Ubisoft and that he knew the CEOAncel's obviously not going to come back to gamedev going from that one french interview he did that got TL'd by anons back in Rayman threads when that drama happened years agoSoliani was the only guy left who did genuinely care for Rayman and at least he did work on some Rayman games like Rayman 1 GBC and Rayman Arena. The only reason Rayman was even added in the DLC is because Soliani pushed for itNobody at Ubisoft cares for Rayman and doesn't want him to be associated with the company as a mascot or main IPUbisoft sees stuff like AC, Farcry etc as their main IPs which is why Rayman has gotten nothing but asset flip mobile garbage, that awful babyshit (got canned I think? Thank god), and letting some weird Indian guy include Rayman in a shitty netflix cartoonThe only good news is the Rayman community is genuinely getting better about making fan stuff and I will happily take that over whatever garbage Ubisoft will shit out
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>>683655751Origins did get a million fucking ports you idiot
>>683667171Not to modern platforms, nigger
>>683667610Play Rayman 2 instead
>>683667809I was thinking of setting up a ps2 emulator on my deck to play rayman 2 and 3
what's the best way to play 2 and 3? I'm going through redemption
>Rayman SNES prototype got dumped by Ancel, but it's an extremely early versionToo bad, I wonder how far they really got.
>>6836682132: Dreamcast port (or PC port with mods if you care about Hall of Doors)3: PC port with the Rayman HD mod (or the official Rayman HD which is stuck on like PS3 or something)
>>683668736Behind the scenes Rayman is so fascinating.
>>683639184>Davide Soliani hopefully plans on bringing back Rayman someday>He just fucking leaves Ubisoft
Is this the most soulful background in all of Rayman? Always wanted to explore that palace back there.
>>683657787https://youtu.be/PevoXzPJSJ4?si=G0mUueRMX1aGkciC&t=47
>>683641748post the lore accurate version
>>683673387Why is she so FAT?!
>>683642775these monsters are coolwhich game are they from?
why would you even care about such a faggoty ip? kill youreslf
>>683673475The obese white Rabbid, Jabbit, in the back was a cut character for the original 3D platformer Rayman Raving Rabbids. The other three (Serguei, Pink, and Professor Baranco) debuted in the actual party game version of it that we ended up getting with Baranco getting a few more appearances in other Rabbid games.
>>683673387
>>683639184after ancel leaving its pretty much fuckedthe best you can expect from ubisoft is some mobile slop from now on
>>683641748Butt
>>683673428mana is stored in the ass
