E3 2010

[Wildcat]

Michael Jackson has a game. I have a feeling this is the climax. XD *sigh*

They're dancing in front of a logo. Gameplay at least, guys.

[Wildcat]

Sadly, I once again was right. That was the concluding act. We don't really know what the Michael Jackson deal was about, either. *shrugs* Here's to BG&E2 popping up outside the presentation.

Some decent stuff in there, and the new Rayman looked awesome, but the rest was meh. In fact, the middle was pretty close to snoozefest. And no BG&E2. I'm quite disappointed, but completely unsurprised. And I kind of got a secret kick out of Rayman Origins having 5 lone staffers on it, including Ancel. It was the most amazing thing they trotted out. It really was. Ancel is your ace in the hole, UBI. USE HIM MORE. GIVE HIM A GODDAMN BUDGET AND A STAFF. He's making the rest of your teams look atrocious with the bright, well-animated and gorgeous Rayman Origins. It had character, creativity, and, knowing his pedigree, fantastic chances of being something incredible. While there were a couple other bright spots, Rayman outclassed them all. Ancel needs your support, UBI. Quit giving him the short end of the budget stick and let him get his ideas out there into our hands. *end rant*

Siliconera's got some more details that I couldn't hear about Rayman:

Michel Ancel’s next project, created with four other people, is Rayman Origins. If we understand correctly, judging by the conference, it looks like you can use tools in the game to create your own rendition of Rayman using different materials. The video at Ubisoft’s press conference featured a Rayman created with hand-drawn art.

[Johans Nidorino]

This MJ game... I guess it'll be like Ubisoft's Just Dance on the Wii?

[The Qu]

Rayman Origins is beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful.... sorry, I'm I've been a fan of Rayman for fifteen years- and this is a direct prequel! Complete with Globox, one of the best characters in the game! Whoooo....

[Wildcat]

Johans: EDIT - Johans - UBI just let Destructoid know a bit more about that Michael Jackson game.

Here's some more Rayman Origins screengrabs:





It's nice to know Ancel is still there making solid, inspiring product. It may not be BG&E2, but it's looking fantastic, and it is distinctly one of his projects. Awesome.

[The Qu]

I can top that... ;D

[Wildcat]

You are the man, Qu. *jacks and hosts on his blog with credit to you for posting it* ;D

[Koopaul]

I heard it's only for 360 and PS3...

[Wildcat]

I predict that to be the case, unfortunately. However, we still do not know for certain.

[TV Eye]

I effing love Rayman! I'm sick of that Rabbids shit.

The Cave of Bad Dreams from the second game gave me nightmares, and they should totally bring Mr. Dark back.

Also, in case this hasn't been said, Rayman Origins is co-op with player 2 controlling Globox.

[8bitretroshit]

To be honest I never really liked Rayman because PLOK DID IT FIRST, but that game looks pretty and fun. Pretty fun. Way better then that Rabbid mini-game shit anyway.

That project Dust thing looks pretty neat too, mostly because it just screams Populous. Also it's made by the Another World guy, woot

[Old Man Rupee]

Cool looking Rayman game, and I might check out the Rabbids one cuz I enjoyed the silly fun of the last one.

Project Dust? Where can I find out more about that one?

[Da Robot]

The 360 now has it's own form of waggle.

FAIL FLAIL!

Or just Faill (fail with 25% more fail due to the extra "l").


Don't just waggle your arm! Flail your entire body!

Also everyone in attendance at the Microsoft press event got a FREE Xbox Slim.


Gotta admit that MGS: Rising looked awesome. Who knew the cutting of enemies and environment could work out in a game?




And the Ubisoft presser sounded horrible, though Rayman origins looks awesome.

I honestly believe that if BG&E2 ever does get made and released, Ancal will probably just leave after it and create his own studio just so he can be free of Ubisoft because it's unlikely (sadly) there will be a BG&E3 now will there? (I'm saying he would just conclude/end/wrap up the story in 2 even though it was planned out as a trilogy).



EDIT: With just under 6 hours left till the conference, you may want to find live stream source and download any plug ins that may be required. Checking now will prevent any hassles right before it starts

Nintendo of America live stream. (As posted by Adam, I think). (Wish the page would update already).

IGN live stream.

[Dances in Undergarments]

Rayman looks hella sweet. Stop hating on the Rabbids though, people, I love them, and am glad to see they branched out from just minigames and more minigames (I still haven't picked up Rabbids Go Home or whatever it was called though)>

[Fryguy64]

Jun 15, 2010 5:25:38 GMT -5 Dances in Undergarments said:

(I still haven't picked up Rabbids Go Home or whatever it was called though)>

Piss Off Rabbids!^TM

That Rayman looks awesome. The painted backgrounds and character designs put me in mind of PC point-and-click adventure games from the good ol' days.

Edit Got half an hour off work today followed by tomorrow. I am ready for some monstrous E3gasms. Let's hope Nintendo doesn't disappoint this year.

I've been tinkering with the website's code a little bit, and I'm mostly, but not entirely, done with it. I will try and tinker a little more and update NinDB with the new Nintendo stuff.