Rayman Legends

Konobi Kun is planning a 5 player Lets Play of Rayman Legends.... Wait would the PS 3 and X360 versions even have 5 player?

edited 7th Feb '13 2:09:59 PM by Nicker

Aye, it is... or, it would be if it weren't for games like Grand Theft Auto V.

This doesn't bode well for Ubisoft.

To give it a bit of context: On the Ubisoft forums, I've actually seen a few people already canceling their pre-orders.

edited 7th Feb '13 3:19:44 PM by GaryCXJk

And I'll be canceling mine. I can always do it later.

Looks like I'll just have Animal Crossing and Pikmin 3 to look forward to for this first half of this year.

edited 7th Feb '13 4:10:06 PM by GreatT

Wait, what, no Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate?

So, according to the developers, this is a flagrant case of Executive Meddling.

Fuck you, Ubisoft. Just... Fuck you.

Ouch.

edited 8th Feb '13 1:52:23 AM by LE0Night

And that's why it should have been multiplat from the start. Foisting this on them right at the end of the dev cycle after they had to crunch to finish the game really is pretty bad.

Mayhaps we should have the Knaaren exact vengeance on those higher ups, by making them write bad checks.

The WiiU is apparently getting an "exclusive" demo in the imminent future, intended as a remedy of sorts, probably.

Also, the think-pieces are already blossoming.

Do you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men....

It occurs to me that Ancel has some good leverage here if he wants to use it. He may not be the seller of sellers, but his games are very well-respected and tend to be critical darlings. I've heard rumors he's definitely willing to bend higher-up ears if he feels he's being mistreated, so I wouldn't blame him for throwing a bit of a fit here.

Even though I can't afford a Wii-U (ironically, Rayman Legends would have come out around my birthday), it does piss me off that Ubisoft basically slaved the developers into getting the game finished for February only to needlessly delay it for months. Everybody, from the fans to the developers to Ancel, has the right to be upset.

I like that they're not taking it lying down.

Well the exclusive demo turns out to be Rayman "Online Challenges": http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=196468 I have no comment aside from it's something.

Michel Ancel looks dead inside in that video. Also "We had 1 or 2 people outside protesting...", You mean YOU?! http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-12-michel-ancel-and-rayman-dev-team-appear-in-protest-at-ubisofts-decision-to-delay-rayman-legends

Poor Ancel. It is something, but that poor man just needs a hug for all the stupidity Ubi's put him through.

When you get lemons, make lemonade.

The developers are using the extra time to create 30 new levels and additional bosses as well.

Hey, that's cool.

Well at least they're doing something with the extra dev time. It would've really sucked if they weren't allowed to work on the game more during this stupidly long delay period.

I'm not too happy. Who said the developers wanted to go back to work on this?

I wish Ubisoft would stop putting their titles against unstoppable franchises. That's why Beyond Good & Evil 2 is going nowhere, and how Prince of Persia 2 became Darker and Edgier.

The reason is simple: The Wii U is failing hard in that no one is buying software for it, third party in particular.

And the reason why people aren't buying software for the Wii U is because developers aren't making a lot of games for the console, so it's a vicious cycle where half the problem can be solved on the developers' side.

I'd say it's more Nintendo's fault. The Wii U is stuck in a deadly gray area in that since its hardware is Seventh Generation but it's released in the Eighth Generation timeframe. No one wants to make games for a console that's technically a generation behind.

That didnt stop all them from going to the Wii .