Rayman 1

[Adsolution]

That may be the case with the Disc based versions but I'm not entirely sure that's the case for the Jaguar version, yesterday I was watching the Jaguar opening sequence (the part where Rayman pieces himself together) in both PAL and NTSC modes to see how the sequence differs because of the timing difference and I noticed that in PAL mode the Rayman logo drops onto the screen with the SFX just as the opening theme is about to loop which artistically speaking actually makes alot more sense whereas in NTSC mode the logo and SFX appear way too soon in the song.

That is a nice little touch, but it's probably a coincidence, given that the game itself, including the bonus level timers, still run slower.

Ohhh... Thank you. I always thought you could jump over IT.

You can, you just need to get a feel for when the fish jumps. For crouching, you have to make sure you're on the far right side of the ball, and even then it only sometimes works, since the fish and ball-bobbing cycles aren't bound to line up the same way every time.

The biggest mistake people usually make is to even try dodging the fish. In both cases, you can jump to the next ball before it jumps.

 

[Tunderous]

You can, you just need to get a feel for when the fish jumps. For crouching, you have to make sure you're on the far right side of the ball, and even then it only sometimes works, since the fish and ball-bobbing cycles aren't bound to line up the same way every time.

The biggest mistake people usually make is to even try dodging the fish. In both cases, you can jump to the next ball before it jumps.

makes sense

 

[Hunchman801]

Fucking cheap ass game. Cute art direction, amazing sound design, horrible, AWFUL design choices that I'm glad the gaming industry didn't take notes from. Holy shit.

Examples please? Not to mention you're judging a 20+ years old game by today's standards.

Leaps of faith? tons of them

I asked you to give me one solitary example like two years ago, and you didn't. You just replayed the game, and you still haven't.

This.

...nah, I'm just kidding, your story sounds very bullshit.

It could be an early animation that did not get updated in the final build of the game.

Also guys, listen to this ! It made my day:

Haha, that's neat.

That's kind of what I don't understand though, if there's something scanning horizontally across the screen at head-height, why would you not duck like are you retarded

Also, you don't have to be nearly as precise as he's making it out to be in the crawling pots section. You can see in his first take he actually overshot it and he had to slow down.

Also, no, you don't have to hit the knob on the washing machine, you just have to hit the washing machine.

I will give him that the head is annoyingly precise to hit and that the double-shot thing at the end is a total surprise (which can result in many a death, fair enough), but other than that, the boss is the literal opposite of random. Most of the other shit he's complaining about is very normal video game stuff, such as her shooting at three different heights during the washing machine section, which you also have probably around a second of look-ahead time between when the roller's moved into position and when you have to jump/duck to avoid it.

I get the feeling he really likes to dramaticise his Rayman 1 experience. It looked like he was purposely bullshitting some of the video to make it look more unfair than it actually is to pander to the people who have PTSD from a considerably difficult bossfight.

Now tell me Ad, does Space Mama scroll towards you in this part or does she pop up out of nowhere?

well it's a pattern so....... it's still kind of predictable?

Regardless, that's a perfect example of something where, if you get hit the very first time you do it because you're too dumb to duck, you should never get hit there again.

This.

We had a discussion about this before and I think we came to the conclusion that it's not quite that simple.

You'll be fine if you duck right on the middle of the balloon, won't you? Well, Ad said right, so maybe it's right (haha ).

 

[sergiomonty]

Fuck you all. I ain't replaying that garbage game just to show you how garbage it is.

 

[Hunchman801]

Case closed then, I guess.

 

[Dart]

Ramon Ones all fun and games until Picture City kicks your teeth in

 

[Hunchman801]

Picture City surely has a few hard parts but I was never really stuck there. In fact, the only place I got stuck was the Swamps of Forgetfulness.

 

[Ray502]

I never found Swamps of Forgotfulness to be difficult. To me, it was Allergo Presto and Pencil Pentathlon. I had no idea back then I didn't need to jump to get past those swarm of pencils in the final phase.

 

[Hunchman801]

I had no idea back then I didn't need to jump to get past those swarm of pencils in the final phase.

Clearly, that part has flawed level design, because you need to walk down the inky slope to land on the bouncing erasers, and absolutely not run, and there's no indication of that. But that's the only place in the whole game that I can think of having such a problem.

 

[Ray502]

you need to walk down the inky slope to land on the bouncing erasers, and absolutely not run

If only my 10 year old self knew that. What I did was get a running start and jumped. It worked like 3 times, out of about 100 attempts.

 

[Hunchman801]

If only my 10 year old self knew that. What I did was get a running start and jumped. It worked like 3 times, out of about 100 attempts.

I probably lost a good ten lives trying back then.

 

[need my speed]

I never found Swamps of Forgotfulness to be difficult. To me, it was Allergo Presto and Pencil Pentathlon. I had no idea back then I didn't need to jump to get past those swarm of pencils in the final phase.

you need to walk down the inky slope to land on the bouncing erasers, and absolutely not run

If only my 10 year old self knew that. What I did was get a running start and jumped. It worked like 3 times, out of about 100 attempts.

I think I was just a bit younger than ten years old, but yes. I was stuck here for such a long time (as well as in The Menhir Hills, in Rayman 2, for I didn't understand what to do with those walking shells ). Someone told me of red clouds spawning on top of the pencils, by running in a certain way (he made that up, of course - someone else told me of a plum falling down with which to cross the thorny ground in Menhir Hills, which was also made up). But eventually, weeks, months, perhaps, or even years later, I passed it. And I never had any trouble with Space Mama, or any level, except for Eat at Joe's (the sharks) and Candy Chateau.

 

[#Rubber mark#]

Fuck you all. I ain't replaying that garbage game just to show you how garbage it is.

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[Ray502]

If only my 10 year old self knew that. What I did was get a running start and jumped. It worked like 3 times, out of about 100 attempts.

I probably lost a good ten lives trying back then.

10 lives lost ain't comparable to about 97. I lost so many at that phase, I had to start the game completely over. This is because at that time, I didn't have a PS1 or PS3, and I was too dumb and probably too lazy to write down the passwords.

2010 was a rough year for me playing R1.

 

[Adsolution]

When Shrooblord was over at my place, he lost 74 lives on Eat At Joe's.

 

[GOT4N]

 

[nr0r]

Do you play with God? Do you care for the sanity of our world? Clearly not GOT4N. Clearly not.

 

[Shrooblord]

When Shrooblord was over at my place, he lost 74 lives on Eat At Joe's.

+1

And about 302 back in 2011 when I played the game on my DSi.

To be fair to myself though, the water isn't see-through on the DSi, so you have literally no idea when that fucking fish is coming. xD

I was stuck in The Menhir Hills, in Rayman 2, for I didn't understand what to do with those walking shells

Amen, says my youngling self playing Rayman 2 and getting equally stuck at that first part.

Even younger me also thought the game ended on the Sanctuary of Stone and Fire; the Hall does seem to end by that tree right there and I guess I'd never actually completed the level, is why I used to think that.

 

[PluMGMK]

How could you have got to the Sanctuary of Stone and Fire even younger than when you got stuck in the Menhir Hills?

 

[Master]

I'm guessing he couldn't reach the Sanctuary because he was stuck at the Menhir Hills, but its Spiral Door in the Hall of Doors looked like the last one to reach.

Since I played the PS1 version of the game first, I knew that it wouldn't be the end, since there was another Mask Door to unlock after the Sanctuary's Spiral Door.