>"When the game leaks, no one is happy," Soliani says. "Also, let's be honest, the reaction at the beginning was not 'sceptical' - it was a little bit worse than that. It was quite hard on the team morale to read some of those comments. I asked for Grant's opinion, [since he] has way more experience than me. 'Do you think they will love it? Do you think they will hate us? Do you think that we've done everything wrong?' I was very, very worried. Because, you know, people on the internet can be very, very, very harsh."
>Grant continues: "Davide was completely panicking. I kept saying to him not to worry and that everyone was going to love it."
>That's why Soliani had warned his team to prepare for the worst at E3. His best hope, he tells us, was that someone would think, "It's OK for a strategy game". A good result would be to come away with one E3 Award nomination.
>Yet from the moment Miyamoto took to the stage, it became clear that Soliani need not have feared. The reception was strong, and when the Nintendo legend called out Soliani's name on stage, the camera panned towards the tearful Ubisoft creator.
>"I was amazed by the player reaction. We had a queue that was six hours long, and at the end of the waiting time, they were still happy. That was the best reward we could have received. When I arrived back in Milan, the team felt like a new team. It was the same for Paris. They were completely aware of how it did."
this man gave his heart and soul to this project. it means everything to him. he's a huge fan of Nintendo and Miyamoto. it's a project built with love.
Daniel Butler
This is such a great story
Thomas Morgan
sorry
Ian Ortiz
I just hope it turns out well for him. I think it'll be pretty well received minus the rabbids shit.
Hunter Powell
Fuck I'm sorry Jesus Christ stop making me feel bad
Matthew Miller
I think it looks great but the rabbids kill it for me.
Jaxson Flores
sonynîgger devs and microshits will never have such a passion for games nintendo is the future and every other platform deserves to get gassed
Ethan Howard
This. The game sounds and looks great but would be 10000x better without the bunnyminions faggotry
Parker Barnes
I want that fucking shirt
Michael Roberts
Grant Kirkhope seems like a swell guy
Anthony Stewart
Damn. I'm sorry :(
Elijah Young
It's nice to see a positive story about a developer for a change. I hope this game does well, it looks really cool, and a Mario X-Com game was the last thing anyone expected it to be, so it was a hell of a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. I don't own a Switch, and probably won't by the time this is out, but I hope those of you who do have one are willing to give this a shot.
Leo Rivera
I'd buy the game if it wasn't for the rabbids. They're so fucking corporate that it's just disgusting to me. They're like the minions, just designed that way to be mass produced and sell fucking toys.
Kevin Green
the rabbids stuff makes it
without rabbids, you'd have mario with guns doing the same boring save-the-kingdom shit but with a weird xcom system
the rabbids are basically an excuse to push a completely alien system, that wouldn't generally fit the Mario brand/style at all. The closet to a gun has been stuff like bullet bills, or Fludd from sunshine. The rabbids also open up some options in terms of just making weird french humour, like a slutty rabbid peach
Logan Morales
>They've created 1,500 different character animations to make the game feel like a cartoon. There's almost three hours of music, with the background animation bobbing along to the sounds.
Adrian Torres
I mean that's heartwarming and all. But let's not have delusions of grandeur here. Mario+Rabbids is nothing more than a shameless cash grab by Ubisoft because they somehow (still doesn't make sense to me???) SOMEHOW convinced Nintendo to let them get their hands on the Mario ip. And once they got the green light of course they selected their most cash cow, low common denominator franchise to maximize profits. That guy clearly has passion for what he does but he is nothing but a cog slaving for Ubisofts profit margins, even if he is recontraacted for a sequel his career will never escalate past fucking rabbids, which is a fate worse than death. Also he's a fucking idiot for letting the ridicule get to him, once again it's fucking rabbits what did you expect lmao moron
Jayden Nguyen
Why does everyone hate rabbids again?
Sure I'm not gonna act like they're the most iconic characters in gaming or anything, but Raving was a fun series and saw was the recent Rayman game.
I think people just hate them because they remind them of the worst normie meme of all time. Pic related
Justin Rogers
No. Fuck ubisoft.
Ryan Campbell
>But let's not have delusions of grandeur here. Mario+Rabbids is nothing more than a shameless cash grab by Ubisoft get the fuck out with this retarded shitposting. just fuck off
Brody Sanders
>you'd have mario with guns doing the same boring save-the-kingdom shit but with a weird xcom system that's what i want
Joseph Lee
people don't like rabbids because they're screaming queers who occupied the Rayman slot for a while, until Ubisoft split the brand and gave use Rayman Origins
now the only haters are "mature gamers like myself" faggots
Henry Turner
You retard didn't even read the article. Kill yourself.
Dylan Hughes
why don't you just play Mario Tennis and Dr Mario
Ian Hall
What's there to like about them? They act like retards, they have a bland design.
Jason Wilson
Cause I've already played the shit out of them
Zachary Bennett
You didn't even fucking read.
Easton Wright
"convince gamers"
Jaxson Reed
So does Alex Jones but I'm sure you still watch him
Adrian Bennett
Fuck i am sorry, it was just shitposting.
Aiden Sullivan
>let's be honest, the reaction at the beginning was not 'sceptical' - it was a little bit worse than that >It was quite hard on the team morale to read some of those comments We need to purge trannies on twitter
Joshua Cooper
Godspeed devs. Godspeed.
Levi Morris
>Xavier Manzanares
Now that's a name and a half
Kayden Nelson
They've found one of the few ways to make the Rabbids palatable: by placing them in comparison to the more down-to-earth-but-still-cartoony Mario crew.
Dylan Sanders
The game doesn't look bad, but I just cannot allow myself to own a rabbids game.
Jose Sanchez
Miyamoto himself gave the project his blessing, in part because Ubisoft Paris found one of the only genres Mario had yet to crack (turn-based strategy).
Aiden Allen
they aren't mario xcom
Jack Wright
They're popular in france is about it, the english speaking work literally doesn't give a shit about them.
Xavier Martinez
Literally nothing in that article changes what I said, I just read it. Why do all of you faggots get so butt blasted when someone tells it how it is instead of sugar coating everything?
Connor White
All in favour of this developer dude being /ourguy/ say " I "
Henry Sullivan
I feel bad for them. It's easy to be mean-spirited on the internet and forget that there are people behind these projects that put a lot of work into their games. The game's not for me, but at least they made something that doesn't look nearly as bad as what I thought it would. It seems like they won some people over, too. Good for them.
William Cox
go away
Christopher Miller
The fuck is this bitch wearin'? She a stripper?
James Rivera
Just.. why rabbids? Why not bowser?
Camden Brown
It's going to be a shit game, just like every other switch game out there. Nintentards please go to lebbit and never come back.
Aaron Miller
I can't help but get misty-eyed at stuff like this. It seems like this guy's dream has come true.
William Rivera
Why not something entirely new?
Ian Ward
this'll sell more than Firaxis XCom
Thomas Harris
It'll probably be better
Colton Fisher
Bowsers the villain probably
Josiah Hernandez
I would preferred if the Rabbids would have been just the villains and not the playable characters.
Caleb James
Rabbids came first, retard
Levi Hughes
I'm sorry, Davide. I shouldn't have judged your game so harshly before I saw it.
Davide is much too pure-hearted for Sup Forums.
Luis Foster
i was actually surprised by how good it looked, i'll probably end up picking it up around release. was a complete surprise because, let's be honest, the concept of a mario/rabbids crossover game made by ubisoft sounds like it'd be extremely half-assed. was really happy to see it not be that.
Nathan Campbell
Fuck Rabbids.
I'll never forgive them for raping the Rayman series.
Nathan Young
Shouldn't it be "クッパ大魔王" instead?
Lucas Cruz
No I'm not going to apologize, Mario + Rayman would have been 10000x better
Jordan Lee
Same, it is sincerely insulting to my intelligence that an entire team thoguht a Mario and Rabbids crossover makes more sense than a Mario and Rayman crossover The boss fights against Skops and Space Mama would have kicked ass and you know it they killed Rayman 4 I still think it looks bad, it would've been much better had it just been a Mario & Luigi game + Rayman and Globox
Hunter Powell
I think Rabbids, and Minions, are both a product of French classical humour, along with that weird McDonald box
Grayson Wright
Notice how it's always tranny subhumans leaking stuff. Truly they have no place in civilized society.
Nicholas Powell
Source on it being a tranny
Hunter Gutierrez
why are rayman fans so autistic you 2 amazing platformers that's more games than any other "dead" franchise that's more than series like dark stalkers get where they announce a revival and never even a little taste.
Asher Foster
I didn't think about it before but if it was rayman instead it would be amazing.
Nathan Gutierrez
>he thinks only raymanfags are complaining
everyone else would rather have it be mario + rayman as well
Caleb Jones
Pardon me for wanting more of a good thing instead of shitty minigame collections they'll never get me to care about Also, Mega Man fans are ten times worse at what you're describing because they have tons of good games and still complain
Alexander Cruz
I'm sorry. I ripped on this game repeatedly and mercilessly. It looks fun.
Kayden Smith
you still have good games you're still going to get good games
Dylan Adams
Heavenly superperson?
Jackson Smith
I dunno, Rayman looks pretty dormant from here unless Legends Definitive somehow sells gangbusters Ports don't really count towards liveliness
Benjamin Lewis
Yeah I'd rather it were a Rayman mash up, or no mash up at all.
Sebastian Gomez
I'm expecting a bunch of new levels in the Switch version
Nathaniel Thompson
fuck you man
mega man games are great but there's no goddamn closure
like 3 series has endings, the rest either ended on a cliffhanger or never transitioned to the next series
how did they get volnutt off the moon? why was thomas the evil elder in zxa? whatever happened with axl?
i just want closure dammit, and we could've had it but NO they had to cancel archie mega man comics...
Oliver Roberts
Pic related Smash will pick him up
Jeremiah Perez
I'm sorry, I'll buy your game.
Austin Jenkins
No. That's not the only scenario. This is still a shitty scenario.
Ian Fisher
No. He knew damn well that he could have avoided all of this ill will towards himself and his game if he never decided to include Rabbids.
Ian Sullivan
I apologize, Davide I'd buy your game if I could find a fucking Switch
Andrew Myers
I'm really torn, because the game itself looks great, but Rabbids are fucking retarded.
Levi Wilson
Rabbids had one alright game. Their first game. After that they got overly obnoxious and ubisoft forced them down everyone's throat with a ton of shitty mini game collections. I would have been totally ok with rabbids in this game. But only if they were regulated to nothing but a enemy position. Also where the fuck is all the mario enemies?
Noah Cooper
Then remove the gun. Make the weapons fist, various suits (frog, fire/ice/cloud/boomerang flowers leaf, feather), Hammer, parasol, vaccum, eggs. Shells, bullet bill cannon and Bob-ombs. Instead. Gun, grenade, Bazooka. fucking wow. They could have kept the rabbids too. Just keep them as enemies. Why isn't there any mario enemies in the footage we have seen?
Isaiah Gutierrez
You can fight Chain Chomps apparently But that's as much as we have seen
Camden Nguyen
Are you sure they aren't just a stage hazard or just fluff to make the map look nice?
Christian Butler
I'm sorry Davide
Jaxon Cruz
>Adopt me please
Jesus fucking christ, people already have Origins and Legends, what more do they want, those games are practically flawless.
Evan Young
Ready for EA to cart out a bunch of devs next year to fake cry on stage? You know it's gonna happen, Ancel and Soliani crying during the Ubisoft show made it seem genuine and heartfelt, it gave them their best E3 response in a decade. You can bet your ass EA's gonna try to fake it and it's gonna be fucking horrible.
Michael Stewart
Rayman would've been better, but this game looks good so i'm buying it
Camden Edwards
They want Sony or Nintendo or someone to make Rayman exclusive and guarantee more games. Nintendo doesn't need another platformer, 2D or 3D. Sony doesn't care about non-cinematic experiences without someone talking at least every five minutes
Leo James
For rayman not to get another 15 years of darkness because Ubisoft thought to play the rabbids card again.
Aiden Price
Rayman just isn't popular enough for a company like Ubishit. >Origins sold best on Wii, sold meh on other consoles >made Legends an exclusive for Wii U, get cold feet and make it a multiplat, sold best with the Wii U version (which is really sad when you consider Wii U first year sales) >both with not enough marketing It's dead Jim
Cameron Clark
xcom for children
Jaxson Taylor
>the leaked info actually stated that the game was going to be an SRPG >no one actually bothered to read the leak, just react to the headlines about it >suddenly at E3 everyone's shocked it's an SRPG and now they love it >the initial reaction happened because people were too dumb to spend the 5 minutes it took to go through the leaked slide show and read it instead of just flipping out over the logo image I hate the video game community.
Henry Gutierrez
>the background animation bobbing along to the sounds. >everyone hates it when NSMB does it >suddenly it's great when any other game does it
Jaxson Green
And Rabbids wasn't popular enough to warrant 15 games, a TV series, Comic books, Merchandise and a fucking movie in the works in the course of 10 years while it wasn't nearly as good of a series as Rayman was. Which it was derived from.