Comments on: Rayman: Rising Out of Obscurity /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/ Play, Share, Unite! Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:48:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ By: duckofindeed /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-13064 Sun, 03 May 2015 15:26:15 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-13064 Rayman 3 just doesn’t have any of the charm of the first two games. It’s quite a shame. Generic is the right word for it, indeed. It was just another platformer. Rayman Origins and Legends comes closer to the feel of the earlier games. They’re a bit different, but they feel more “true Rayman” than Rayman 3.

]]> By: veryverygaming /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-13063 Sun, 03 May 2015 15:11:53 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-13063 Mmm, I don’t know what it was about Rayman 3. Since I was put off it so quickly you’re probably right about the tone – it just felt wrong and weirdly generic. It’s funny really because the first two games are wildly different in tone but they’re both excellent games in their own right. Reading your post and these comments has made me so nostalgic!

Clearly Ubisoft are nostalgic for them too, they’re so damn fond of porting/remaking the first two games it’s absurd! Who else has the gall to release Rayman 2 as a launch game for the original DS AND then re-release a new port again at launch on 3DS?!

]]> By: duckofindeed /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-13061 Sun, 03 May 2015 14:36:01 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-13061 I need to use that cheat code. That game is hard. I wasn’t a big fan of Rayman 3. I loved Rayman 2. It was charming and magical and beautiful, and Rayman 3 just got rid of all that and replaced it with humor that wasn’t that humorous. It was fun, I suppose, but it was a disappointment, too.

]]> By: veryverygaming /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-13055 Sat, 02 May 2015 15:53:12 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-13055 The original Rayman is very tough but I had a great time with it. I can’t see how anyone could possibly beat it without using the cheat code that gives you extra continues! But, cheats aside, I’m extremely proud of seeing the credits for that game (yes, I’m a masochist). My brother got the GBA version and it’s actually easier than the original game, if you can believe it…well, easier and harder. You have more life/lives/continues on the GBA one, but the viewing area is quite a bit smaller. Rayman is so big you have to take a lot of blind leaps.

Also, Rayman 3… I was excited to get it on PC, but 10 minutes in there was something off about it and much like Donkey Kong Country: Returns, I stopped and didn’t go back to it. Shame.

]]> By: duckofindeed /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-13033 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:43:19 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-13033 Wow, I had no idea Rayman was so popular. Probably because every friend I spoke to claimed they had never heard of him. Considering they were Nintendo people and not PlayStation, maybe that explained it. That’s good. Rayman deserves the love. That first one was hard, though. I have the GBA version.

Rayman 2 is still one of my favorite games ever, but it bothered me a bit that there were several versions. I always worried I was missing out on something. I will still always claim the N64 version was the best, though. Just because it’s the one I owned. Did you ever play Rayman 3? If so, what were your thoughts on that?

]]> By: veryverygaming /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-13028 Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:47:12 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-13028 I’m sorry, I know this is an old post, but I had to mention (in case Rayman never comes up again on this blog!) that the original Rayman on PS1 is actually the best selling PS1 game of all time in the UK. Stuff your Final Fantasies, your Metal Gear Solids… Rayman was that true shit (as Chad Warden might say).

I had Rayman 2 on N64 and loved it too… I also didn’t know anyone who had it, but I do remember when Rayman 2 came out on Dreamcast and was being touted as the ultimate version, that seemed to be a pretty big deal. So you’re not alone… I think. At least you can be fairly certain a large number of people played/cared about Rayman in the UK back in the day :P

]]> By: duckofindeed /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-4735 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 03:43:50 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-4735 Ooh, HD “Rayman 3″… Hopefully “Rayman 2” is next.

I always assumed the series was popular because of how much I loved it, but then I found almost no one else that I knew had heard of it. Then, again, my friends at the time were mainly “Mario” people and didn’t really seem to play as wide a variety of games as I did.

]]> By: Hatm0nster /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-4732 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:24:05 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-4732 It could happen. An HD-upscaled Rayman 3 is already available on Xbox Live. Regarding its popularity, the Rayman series seems to be what I like to call a “shadow classic”. It was too popular to be a cult classic, but still never made it to mainstream attention (until recently that is.)

It’s a little surprising that you never found anyone else who heard of it though. For me those games were always those that we all knew of but nobody had actually played. Weird how that can happen eh?

]]> By: duckofindeed /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-4731 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:07:14 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-4731 It certainly should. All “Rayman” fans (well, actually, all people, really) must experience the awesomeness that is “Rayman 2”!

]]> By: Matt /2014/04/22/rayman-rising-out-of-obscurity/comment-page-1/#comment-4723 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:17:07 +0000 /?p=2362#comment-4723 Rayman 2 should be made available on the downloadable game services so that the new generation that got into him with Origins and Legends can see him in full 3-D glory!

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