Great. I'm now talking with myself...

I'm Batman

Hey, Batman. I'm a giant twitching eyeball that spews smoke while telepathically talking to itself. Good to meet you. =)

Hey, giant twitching eyeball that spews smoke while telepathically talking to itself. Good to meet you too. You remind me of my good friend Count Dracula.

Well, I'll take that as a compliment, all things considered. =)

He doesn't sparkle in sunlight unlike other "vampires".

If hell exists, there is a special place in it reserved for the one who unleashed the abortion known as sparkle vampires onto the world....

And for the people who encouraged and provided support to the rise of this abomination.

*takes doll . I will Sacrifice it to the gods* :P.

Okay, another question for whoever might still be awake and have some kind of info - How is Rayman overall, as a series?

Indeed, I never played Unreal (not a big FPSer) but I do remember that it was a BFG when it came out; "the Quake killer" was what everyone was saying, on account of the new graphics engine...but back then it was just the dawn of multi-player gaming, when Ultima Online was the only game that could be called an MMO.
So the "multi-" in multiplayer options then, meant a rather different number of contestants/matches, then we think of in terms of it now, lol.
In fact it was the first Unreal Tournament that was really the bigger deal. That and Quake III Arena were the first AAA dedicated deathmatch games to compete with the original "Team Fortress", if memory serves.
Unreal 2 I know less about, but Unreal was mostly marketed as a single player game I think. The expansion pack was also pretty much SP, though the devs officially released a free downloadable Bonus Map Pack, separate from the expansion, which was also kind of a new thing I think.

edit: wikipedia tells me Unreal 2 was originally SP-only, unlike its predecessors. It wasn't until the expansion for that one that MP was shoe-horned in.
Actually, after some q̶u̶i̶c̶k̶ long, laborious wikipedia-ing...(b/c damn it I can't help myself on that site, argh...this will probably be like two pages away from the quote, no doubt) I wonder if you're thinking of the SP expansion pack, Unreal: Return to Na Pali, which later turned into a bundled Unreal Gold?

EDIT: no idea on Rayman, I'm afraid, other than that a friend from my college days had a huge lady-hard-on for the games. Never did play 'em, tho.

You've put way more energy into info gathering than I have. My process went as far as remembering Unreal Gold from when I had it in disc form and wanting to get it back. Unreal 2 was a bit of a tagalong since I said what the hell and bought it too when they were both on sale.

Well, got all of Rayman. Looks good, and if I'm going to lean towards something, might as well wipe it out. That's been my philosophy for GOG, why change now. -laughs-

Had a lot of fun with the early rayman games back in the day. Have not played Origins. Wonder if we will ever get legends here?

I did that with unreal as well. Played the gold a bit on a mates pc many many years ago. Bought unreal II cos it was there.