Ubisoft needs to sort us all out with a new Rayman video game, because the last two main entries have been absolute bangers. Instead of following up on the excellent Rayman Legends, though, everyone's favourite armless hero is getting his very own board game, imaginatively named Rayman: the Board Game.
Players will be able to discover Rayman "like never before" in this tabletop adaptation of the beloved platformer series. "Team up with your favourite heroes in an epic race, dodging dangers and saving the Teensies!"
The game is being developed by "acclaimed" designer Maxime Tardif (EARTH) and FLYOS (Vampire: The Masquerade — Chapters, Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Retaliation). Playable in groups of two to five, the board game is currently pencilled in for launch in the third quarter of this year. You can sign up for updates on the official site.
What do you think of a Rayman board game? Will you be checking this out when it arrives later in the year? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source raymanboardgame.com, via nintendolife.com]
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The rollercoaster of emotions reading that headline and strapline
A new Rayman game is coming this year 😀
but not in the way everyone wants 🤔
Board game launching in Q3 😕
RAYMAN 4 WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF WlNNlE THE POOH'S RUMBLY TUMBLY ADVENTURE HMGGGNFGNGGNFFG AAAAAAAARGGGGHFHHHH
Not what everyone wants, no. But better believe me and my family will be getting it. We have a board game night every so often and the kids love Rayman
One of the biggest blunders by Ubisoft was not giving us more Rayman in the form of Legends and Origins.
Too bad, I was hoping for a mobile live service game with gacha mechanics
REALLY got my hopes up there with that headline! 💔
Shame it is not a new game. I love rayman legends, I have it on ps4 so will probably play it again sometime on ps5, I just recently also got legends for my switch lite on sale and it is great fun in portable too
Imagine having enough people to gather to play a board game IRL
I'll probably get this lol
Meanwhile. RELEASE RAYMAN 3 HD ON PS5!
As much as I love this and will most likely be getting it.
I’d love a remastered Rayman Trilogy so we can then get a Rayman 4 released
Everything goes full circle. First we had tabletop board games. Then we created video games derived from tabletop board games. Then Ubisoft spent absurd amounts of time adding recreations of tabletop board games into their video games that were not derived from tabletop board games. Now Ubisoft just makes tabletop board games.
Technology was a mistake.
Everyone wants more Rayman but they were also quick to want it's creator fired.
I don't know how it's gonna happen now.
Considering they have a Platformer to rival (if not beat) the likes of Mario himself it's beyond baffling how long its been. Maybe they just didn't sell well enough which is CRIMINAL. If anything, I'd consider putting Rayman AND ASTRO bot above a lot of recent entries from the fabled plumber lol.
Oh... Ubisoft... what are we going to do with you?
I never understood why there weren't more Rayman games like Origins and Legends? Maybe I'm in the minority but I thought they were both fun as hell and great for what they were.
@tangyzesty because the genre is dead
Ubisoft wants to tease us don't they. A DLC, a board game.
I'm not against them trying to put their IPs in different areas but I mean Legends was how long ago many others at this point in terms of not 'everything' but a 7th gen, to 8th gen release and we are still waiting.
Where is Rayman 4 besides the handheld Rabbids games that offer what people wanted not the party game ones.
It may be the I guess 3rd console 2D entry besides the handheld 2D entries. But 3D we are waiting and 2D we are waiting on something.
Prince of Persia as a metroidvania is fine but not for me and their eh license agreement no thanks Ubisoft. Waiting on Sands of Time remake but got enough of 2008 reboot and loving Forgotten Sands on Wii when I jump back and forth into it to saver it for it's Wii features experience.
Like Splinter Cell they just don't know what to do with the character and concepts/world it seems. They are too used to making open worlds with different themes, subtle differences and it's just like yep we are going elsewhere to other companies and still waiting Ubisoft. A board game is something to spread it to other mediums but I mean.... How much will it do.
At least it isn't a Chibi Robo situation of buy the board game or Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope DLC if you want to see the character again.
Like they know the sales, they know how much people actually want these games or if not from sales how much people voice about it. I may not have got Legends/Origins when new but I still enjoyed them. I bought Rayman 3 HD. It just so happens their older games like Red Steel 2 or others are more what I care about. Same with EA their PS1 titles are more exciting then their recent ones other than a select few.
Whatever human grounded (the Prince has a great moveset) characters with casual appealing worlds that while AC had a cool concept the direction has changed, while Far Cry is nuts and great is just..... and not enough good gameplay with particular characters type games it seems.
Rayman/Plok/Glover/Chameleon Twist and others fit that fine line of characters with good ideas and potential to use in so many ways because they aren't typical designs and they just barely know what to do with the characters or the IPs are abandoned but remembered/people that discover them get into them.
They have to push their business model and typical casual appealing games and us waiting for something exciting cough like Sony killing off their more Japan Studios, London studio and other IPs of support for more other audience games.
Us players wanting that go to Indie as the big companies barely support them.
I find many Indie 3D platformers to be generic and many 2D ones there is so many and i haven't seen any gameplay ideas really impressing me at all there is just a difference in inspiration/theming/clone or fan game angle to many of them and I just can't be bothered with them. Not 'dead' because I don't talk that way. I just find them a disappointment. I've seen and researched/discovered better.
It's like with VR I've seen better motion controls on the Wii/Move then I have the more advanced scale VR can offer but we have games with the most eh control schemes out there and their peers barely get looked at for how to do it right. Sure the APIs are different but they don't make the effort they just make pathetic motion controls.
@nomither6 Is that what you tell Mario and Sonic and their million sellers?
@nomither6
Platformers aren’t dead so I don’t know what you are on about
@Dragoon1994 they are
Does it have a platinum tho 🤔
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