Did you play Rayman Origins?
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I bought all the game i wanted before christmas started, and my brother got me it for christmas with out knowing much about it, so i didnt know what to think, but after spending hours glued to it, i have to say its amazing, and the music gets stuck in my head so easily.
Yes, I did. Me and a friend spent Christmas break playing it and IT WAS AMAZING. Snagged it bran new for $30 at gamestop, worth every cent.
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That's the last level, and me and him must have played it a good 30 times before finally giving up (yeah we failed) but yet we weren't angry... because *shocking surprise* IT WAS FUN! It felt very rewarding getting a little farther each time, learning from our mistakes and then looking totally badass when we started flying through the insane parts at crazy speeds.
This game was made with the same creative and fun flare games of the 16bit era were known for, and like those old games it also didn't hold your hand like a condescending parental figure games today are known for being. The whole thing was just so satisfying in every regard
I really needed this game after the disappointment that was Battlefield 3.
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That's the last level, and me and him must have played it a good 30 times before finally giving up (yeah we failed) but yet we weren't angry... because *shocking surprise* IT WAS FUN! It felt very rewarding getting a little farther each time, learning from our mistakes and then looking totally badass when we started flying through the insane parts at crazy speeds.
This game was made with the same creative and fun flare games of the 16bit era were known for, and like those old games it also didn't hold your hand like a condescending parental figure games today are known for being. The whole thing was just so satisfying in every regard
I really needed this game after the disappointment that was Battlefield 3.
Yep. Me and my girlfriend got it new for full price. Brilliant in every way, but it made the mistake of releasing on November 14th, the same period as Modern Warfare 3 and Skyrim. If it was released Summertime, when nothing decent came out, it would have done better.
So did you ever get to the Land of the Livid Dead? I died 137 times in an hour. Counted it and everything.xPixelatedx said:
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Okay you are clearly talking out of your ass, you know nothing about the game, not how long it is, (not to long but longer than 10 hours) nor the true difficulty,here is an exampleSurfinTaxt said:Its a 5 hour long side scrolling platformer, no challenge (its a kids game), and they expect you to pay 60 bucks for it. And it was released right before skyrim.
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I can proudly hold up my head and say I bought it brand new, full price, only a couple days after release - and I don't regret it even for a moment. It's hands down the best platformer of this generation and one of the best games of the year.
Everyone spouting bullshit like "I can't justify paying full price for it" should go jump of a cliff. Those people and their attitude are everything that's wrong with gamers today. Here is an incredibly well designed game with a tremendous amount of content, tons of replay value, levels that facilitate both careful exploration /and/ high speed precision platforming, an exceptional single player AND multiplayer experience, not to mention truly beautiful, original and artistic graphics.
And...you can't justify paying full price for it? What needs justifying?
"It's a gorgeous, well designed, lengthy, fun, challenging, great alone or with friends" isn't enough justification for you?
No, of course it isn't. Because it's two dimensional, and because the graphics aren't photo-realistic copypastes of whatever major city the Russians are invading this week. And 2D cartoon-style platformers just aren't real, full release games any more, are they? A 2D platformer isn't worth the same amount of money as a game with half as much content or half as many new ideas, as long as the latter game is 3D, right?
No.
If you "can't justify" paying for this exceptional game just because it's a 2D platformer, you can go fuck yourself with a chainsaw bayonet, because you, and everyone like you, are the collective reason that those of us who do appreciate good games can't have more of them.
To summarize and repeat myself once more:
If you didn't buy this game; you should have, and you're missing out.
If you didn't buy this game because you "can't justify" paying full price for an incredible game, just because said game is a 2D platformer; go fuck yourself, you worthless blight on this industry.
Everyone spouting bullshit like "I can't justify paying full price for it" should go jump of a cliff. Those people and their attitude are everything that's wrong with gamers today. Here is an incredibly well designed game with a tremendous amount of content, tons of replay value, levels that facilitate both careful exploration /and/ high speed precision platforming, an exceptional single player AND multiplayer experience, not to mention truly beautiful, original and artistic graphics.
And...you can't justify paying full price for it? What needs justifying?
"It's a gorgeous, well designed, lengthy, fun, challenging, great alone or with friends" isn't enough justification for you?
No, of course it isn't. Because it's two dimensional, and because the graphics aren't photo-realistic copypastes of whatever major city the Russians are invading this week. And 2D cartoon-style platformers just aren't real, full release games any more, are they? A 2D platformer isn't worth the same amount of money as a game with half as much content or half as many new ideas, as long as the latter game is 3D, right?
No.
If you "can't justify" paying for this exceptional game just because it's a 2D platformer, you can go fuck yourself with a chainsaw bayonet, because you, and everyone like you, are the collective reason that those of us who do appreciate good games can't have more of them.
To summarize and repeat myself once more:
If you didn't buy this game; you should have, and you're missing out.
If you didn't buy this game because you "can't justify" paying full price for an incredible game, just because said game is a 2D platformer; go fuck yourself, you worthless blight on this industry.
No, we still had a few chests to capture. Some of them just drove us insane so we went for the game's ending before trying to reach the secret stage. I have seen someone play it on youtube though... man that' crazy XDTheLoveableMuffin said:
I played the demo and it was brilliant but I couldn't beat the water level after about eight tries so it sort of put me off.
The wife and I have been playing it a fair bit with another couple. Love it! It's like they took the "best of" ideas from every platformer from the last 20 years and ran with it. Great art, great music, great game.
That said, release time was probably a bit dodgey. They may have been trying to aim for a different market (not everybody's grandmother is going to buy them a game where you shoot folks in the face), but dang 2011 got bloated with good releases right around November.
Got the game on sale for $30 I believe, and that's the perfect price point for it.
That said, release time was probably a bit dodgey. They may have been trying to aim for a different market (not everybody's grandmother is going to buy them a game where you shoot folks in the face), but dang 2011 got bloated with good releases right around November.
Got the game on sale for $30 I believe, and that's the perfect price point for it.
Just ordered it yesterday on toysrus.com when it was $20 with free shipping. Should be getting soon. I played the demo and at my cousin's house and it was awesome! A great 2D platformer.
Yes and it is one of my favorite modern platformers. My brothers and I have quite the fun time with it! Also, the whole boycott for BG&E 2 thing is absolutely ridiculous.
I bought it just after Christmas for £18, which I thought seemed good =D I've played the 3D Raymans (Great Escape and Hoodlum Havoc) but never the old 2D ones, I've only seen them be played. The graphics/art style is gorgeous, the sound is fantastic. I've played 2 player co-op, which is fun...however 3 or 4 players just feels too crowded. I'd says it's well worth £20 and even better if you've got someone to play with. Someone above said that the game was only 5 hours long, but I find that if you whore through a game without replaying and exploring that's what happens (i.e people who've completed Skyrim in 30 hours by doing all the main quest and faction quests). I suppose the best analogy I can think of is that games are a bit like chocolate, you only truly enjoy it if you savour the experience and don't rush.
But anyway for Sub £20 I'd recommend it to anyone.
But anyway for Sub £20 I'd recommend it to anyone.
I played the demo, but I didn't like it all that much (The controls were weird, mixed in with the weird pacing I just couldn't get into). I'm gonna stick to my Rayman game on the GBA if I wanna play Rayman I think, or play Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc.
This is also why I never listen when people say Nintendo should try originality, because to those haters it probably wouldn't matter anyway. It never matters, once your mind is made up. It's a tough industry out there...everyone has opinions, everyone likes things for reasons explicable and unknown at once, and with the price of games right now, everyone is also a bit tighter on money.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
My girlfriend bought the game brand new, on sale for the Wii for 30 bucks. She loves it, and I think it looks great too. I just wanna wait till the 3DS version so I can take it on the go.
*sigh* I guess I'll promptly fuck myself then. I'm a worthless gamer who is KILLING, I say, MURDERING the industry. I'll fuck myself cause I wouldn't pay 60 dollars for a video game that's as long as the Kill Bill movies combined and about as deep as those movies too (which I bought for 20 bucks, btw, with the yellow box and all. Hella deal.) I'll fuck myself because I'm not weeping with nostalgia for bygone days of nothing but booping on goombas enough to pay out the ass to tie myself to my big screen to play Rayman Origins.Arkley said:
If I WERE to go fuck myself though, Four Leaf Studios (Katawa Shoujo team), Grasshopper Manufacture, Atlus, Terry Cavanagh, Team Meat, Pixel/Nicalis, NIS, Monolith Studios and Nintendo will have lost themselves someone who truly appreciated and (where applicable) preordered their games at best, bought them at launch price at worst, and took risks on their name alone (Because as much as I love Atlus, My World My Way was a turd and I bought that new.)
But nope, I'm a "blight" because I didn't want "Just platforming to the left" for 60 bucks. I'm a Nintendo fanboy and I've never owned a New Super Mario Bros. game for precisely that reason. Oh, but ART DIRECTION, LOOK AT THE FRAMES OF ANIMATION and CARTOONY! This is the one, guys; the game that'll deliver us from brown wasteland shooters and AAA mediocrity.
I despise the way many gamers reject change in the industry, yes, but I equally despise the way people think that every gamer is like that. It's about more than just wanting to "support" something in the industry; it's also about YOU having FUN and feeling like you got your money's worth. Everyone has his/her own reasons why any given game is worth the price they paid. One of mine is that my 2d games come out in handheld flavors because I don't wanna play that shit on my big screen anymore, in these days of spiffy 2D visuals on the Vita and 3DS. I wanna take it on the go instead of being limited to the TV.
Let's stop speaking in absolutes and let's stop putting this game on a pedestal. It's a 2D platformer, not the redefinition of the human condition.
To me the only real flaw with Rayman Origins was its piss poor release timing. I have the game, i am loving it, but i feel less obligated to finish it because i have literally a dozen other things to tidy away thanks to the Steam holiday sales and Egosoft announcing a game a week before releasing it.
Is there any particular reason for that?Felix Benandex said: