What next for Rayman's future

[Greengoop]

Fair enough. Im curious to ask what are the fans on twitter doing like that?

[DaveRattlehead]

Both pessimistic and optimistic fans are still Rayman fans, and both of these groups have their reasons to believe what they believe. I understand both perspectives. Probably what we have this year is better than what we had the previous years, which was nothing but ports from Rayman Legends. The DLC seems fun and the anime, even if it isn't the best cyberpunk series, is good and interesting (and not gonna lie, I think they did a good job making a tribute to the different Ubisoft sagas). At least the franchise hasn't been forgotten, which is something pleasing to hear for us the fans, and it's cool to see other companies/videogames making references and homages to the Rayman series, but there's some kind of pattern here that I don't like at all... It was always something related to other videogames. Mario is probably the most important series for the Nintendo consoles, and Far Cry is one of the main videogames Ubisoft is working on. The tendence is clear and these kind of works confirm even more that Rayman won't be the main protagonist in a new game (at least in the immediate future).

[Greengoop]

I thought the anime was a far cry series?

[DaveRattlehead]

Yup, it's based on Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. I meant a cyberpunk themed series.

[Greengoop]

Fair enough. So a mix of far cry and Cyberpunk?

[DaveRattlehead]

I mean this cyberpunk, not Cyberpunk 2077.

[Greengoop]

Oh silly me!!!!

[The Jonster]

Yeah the Rayman community is very pessimistic. It’d be nice if we appreciated what we’ve gotten in the previous years

I mean if we looked at this in terms of new console/handheld video games, then that would be practically nothing (unless I’d forgotten something which I probably did). Rayman Legends came out 11 years ago, and the Switch version of that game, 6 years ago.

Are we really at the point that just a few people not being 100% happy that all we got in 10 years were mobile games, Legends ports, mediocre merch/cross-overs, a Rabbids DLC and anime of a milked-dry franchise featuring a parody of Rayman smoking crack and eating on a furry woman's ASS is considered "very pessimistic"? And when the last classic 2D and 3D adventures were 20 years ago before those very same Rabbids came in?
Because then, I'll just choose to be "E X T R E M E L Y pessimistic" about both the franchise and the "optimistic" parts of the community if that's the case.

I like how after all that, the next thing we got was a board game…..based on Rayman Legends. I am curious to see how it plays out for people who did find the kickstarter.

[Greengoop]

Since rayman legends, we’ve gotten rayman fiesta run, rayman adventures, rayman mini (which these 3 everyone hates without having even touched them before. Good games btw), 4 rayman themed youtooz, captain lazerhawk. Rayman in the phantom show, and soon the rayman board game and a rayman character in Astro bot

[The Jonster]

Oops, I should have said full console/handheld games. Forgot the DLC was for Switch.

It is a real shame that I did not get to play Adventures before the servers went down, as I found both Jungle Run and Fiesta Run entertaining (wasn’t able to finish Fiesta Run though…)

[Greengoop]

You can still download adventures, but you can only do the first few adventures before you get a connection error

[Mortamon Saturn]

Since rayman legends, we’ve gotten rayman fiesta run, rayman adventures, rayman mini (which these 3 everyone hates without having even touched them before. Good games btw), 4 rayman themed youtooz, captain lazerhawk. Rayman in the phantom show, and soon the rayman board game and a rayman character in Astro bot

In other words, bread crumbs.
Or pretty much empty air if you don't play on mobile or Switch.

I like how after all that, the next thing we got was a board game…..based on Rayman Legends. I am curious to see how it plays out for people who did find the kickstarter.

Turns out in the end that we're getting another Rayman Legends port yet again, except it's truly a physical game this time!

[Greengoop]

Since rayman legends, we’ve gotten rayman fiesta run, rayman adventures, rayman mini (which these 3 everyone hates without having even touched them before. Good games btw), 4 rayman themed youtooz, captain lazerhawk. Rayman in the phantom show, and soon the rayman board game and a rayman character in Astro bot

In other words, bread crumbs.
Or pretty much empty air if you don't play on mobile or Switch.

Typical “Hardcore” rayman take. It’s more than we got from 2003-2006 the “golden age” of rayman

[Master]

I'm compelled to wonder by what metric anyone would consider that period to be a "golden age," surely if there was a period considered to be golden it'd be 1999-2003, given the amount of spin-offs and extras we got during that period. Post-2003, I can only think of Hoodlum's Revenge and DS, I'd consider it to be a silver age if anything, since that was when we were starting to see changes in the focus of games, and that period culminated in the disappointment that was RRR.

[Mortamon Saturn]

Since rayman legends, we’ve gotten rayman fiesta run, rayman adventures, rayman mini (which these 3 everyone hates without having even touched them before. Good games btw), 4 rayman themed youtooz, captain lazerhawk. Rayman in the phantom show, and soon the rayman board game and a rayman character in Astro bot

In other words, bread crumbs.
Or pretty much empty air if you don't play on mobile or Switch.

Typical “Hardcore” rayman take. It’s more than we got from 2003-2006 the “golden age” of rayman

Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc + GBA and mobile adaptations, Hoodlums' Revenge, the Raving Rabbids party game, Raving Rabbids GBA + DS and mobile adaptations, compilations with most of Rayman's biggest games, and quite a bit of decent goodies like figures or stickers?
I won't claim it's even much of a good era if you do mean post-Rayman 3 2003, but yeah, it's already more than that in my eyes for something achieved in a few years versus ~11, while a big main sequel was still in the works unlike now!

By the way, the "golden age" was 1995-2003. I don't know from which basis you selected that unless if we're talking about the franchise's popularity/overall sales by that point perhaps, but content-wise it doesn't make sense.
As for what should be actually called the golden age: no less than three mainline games which were all fully innovative compared to each other, full-fledged spin-offs like M/Arena (and way too many edutainment games ), PC add-ons including a few embracing fan works, an absurd amount of bundles, the most ports and altered versions with a few being near-remakes/remasters, various handheld (+ mobile) games with pretty much none of them recycling assets from the main series and being more unique games/adaptations, a 3D animated series, the most goodies in Rayman's history...
All of that, when Ubisoft and their studios were still newbies with far less budget and employees... and even then, still less years than 11.

[Greengoop]

Yeah, you win. Only because you mentioned the educational games though

[The Jonster]

Makes me wonder if you actually played these.

\game and a rayman character in Astro bot

Ah yes, history buff remind me what month this happened?

By the way, the "golden age" was 1995-2003. I don't know from which basis you selected that unless if we're talking about the franchise's popularity/overall sales by that point perhaps, but content-wise it doesn't make sense.

Perhaps he thought Rayman 3 and Raving Rabbids were the only good games before the Ubiart games? Speaking of which, again he DIDNT FINISH RAYMAN 3

[Greengoop]

Ah yes, history buff remind me what month this happened?

Board Game- Coming out in October
Astro Bot- Like January or smth?

he DIDNT FINISH RAYMAN 3

I lost all my progress when getting a new PS3. I’ll play some later, ok?

[The Jonster]

By the way, the "golden age" was 1995-2003. I don't know from which basis you selected that unless if we're talking about the franchise's popularity/overall sales by that point perhaps, but content-wise it doesn't make sense.
As for what should be actually called the golden age: no less than three mainline games which were all fully innovative compared to each other, full-fledged spin-offs like M/Arena (and way too many edutainment games ), PC add-ons including a few embracing fan works, an absurd amount of bundles, the most ports and altered versions with a few being near-remakes/remasters, various handheld (+ mobile) games with pretty much none of them recycling assets from the main series and being more unique games/adaptations, a 3D animated series, the most goodies in Rayman's history...
All of that, when Ubisoft and their studios were still newbies with far less budget and employees... and even then, still less years than 11.

90s-2000s. Yeah that makes sense, that was when games were amazing