I still can't understand why they cancelled this. It looked really amazing (and was close to be completed, i think?).
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Cancelled and Unreleased Appreciation Thread
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I still can't understand why they cancelled this. It looked really amazing (and was close to be completed, i think?).
There was also this from back in 2008. I don't think we ever found out anything about it. People used to say it was a SOTN remake/sequel.
Another game I was looking forward to was the cancelled contra game from 2011. Another game we know like nothing about.
Command & Conquer: Generals 2 (or just "Command & Conquer").
http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Command_&_Conquer_(2013)
It doesn't help that according to one Victory Games employee the game wasn't cancelled for being "not meeting expectations" as it was officially cancelled for, rather it was cancelled for corporate shenanigans.
Everything we saw looked damn good, i think.
I can understand the game being over-budget or difficult to develop since it uses Frostbite (for example, let's not forget a lot of ME Andromeda's issues came from using that engine), but man, its cancellation still fucking hurts. Doesn't help it basically killed the entire Command&Conquer franchise even more dead than that fucking Tiberian Twilight did.
http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Command_&_Conquer_(2013)
It doesn't help that according to one Victory Games employee the game wasn't cancelled for being "not meeting expectations" as it was officially cancelled for, rather it was cancelled for corporate shenanigans.
Everything we saw looked damn good, i think.
I can understand the game being over-budget or difficult to develop since it uses Frostbite (for example, let's not forget a lot of ME Andromeda's issues came from using that engine), but man, its cancellation still fucking hurts. Doesn't help it basically killed the entire Command&Conquer franchise even more dead than that fucking Tiberian Twilight did.
I was pretty excited when Renegade kids announced Cult county, I loved the first dementium so I was expecting a similar game but then the company closed down and the game die with them.
I will never understand why everyone loved Scalebound. The game always looked like crap to me :(
That being said, I came into possession of a Scalebound Hoodie that was only given to the dev team (won it in a lot at the Penny Arcade Charity Auction).
Anyone have any good ideas on how I can give it away? What kind of challenge or whatever I could do for it?
That being said, I came into possession of a Scalebound Hoodie that was only given to the dev team (won it in a lot at the Penny Arcade Charity Auction).
Anyone have any good ideas on how I can give it away? What kind of challenge or whatever I could do for it?
You could always donate it to a museum, I may know one :P But Im a tad biased.
Guillermo Del Toro's Insane came to mind the other day. Volition nearly made it's own survival horror title by way of Silent Hills.
Martin Scorsese'sTaxi Driver - the game. If nothing else, the ragdoll looked fun.
Martin Scorsese'sTaxi Driver - the game. If nothing else, the ragdoll looked fun.
Hahah, what kind of museum would actually want something like that?
The one I work at, the Museum of Play. We have the World Video Game Hall of Fame, for one, and collections that include papers from people like Carol Shaw and Will Wright. And cancelled games :)
I try to stay out of anything too modern honestly. Causes trouble.
fair enough, i would too after seeing what happened to the guy that leaked DR4
Ultima Online 2. Looked to be very different from the first.
http://massivelyop.com/2017/10/07/the-game-archaeologist-ultima-worlds-online-origin/
http://massivelyop.com/2017/10/07/the-game-archaeologist-ultima-worlds-online-origin/
I came here to say this. First and only time I cried for a game announcement, only to have it taken away from me. It still hurt to this day.
Picassio is a title that is all but forgotten. Promethean Designs' first person stealth title about being a globe trotting cat burglar specializing in infiltrating museums. There was once a trailer for this, as low quality and curt as it was, but I am unable to find it.
Avtivision's Beneath directly targets Tomb Raider in its cavern storming trailer.
The Sin City game starring Marv was another I remembered wanting to get my hand on.
Avtivision's Beneath directly targets Tomb Raider in its cavern storming trailer.
The Sin City game starring Marv was another I remembered wanting to get my hand on.
Picassio is a title that is all but forgotten. Promethean Designs' first person stealth title about being a globe trotting cat burglar specializing in infiltrating museums. There was once a trailer for this, as low quality and curt as it was, but I am unable to find it.
Picassio [Cancelled – PS2, GameCube, Dreamcast]
Lily Bergamo anyone? It was cancelled and turned into Let It Die. Which sucks, because Lily Bergamo had the superior art direction.
To my understanding, this is what the Japanese side of Konami pitched to Konami, while Mercury Steam/and or Konami of Europe pitch what to was to become of Lords Of Shadow. It was kind of like an internal "bid" to develop the next Castelvania.
StarCraft: Ghost
As with Titan, it was a long rumoured project and it would be a new step for Blizzard. They eventually took that leap with Overwatch.
As with Titan, it was a long rumoured project and it would be a new step for Blizzard. They eventually took that leap with Overwatch.
This. I still flip through the Game Informer that featured it on the cover.StarCraft: Ghost
As with Titan, it was a long rumoured project and it would be a new step for Blizzard. They eventually took that leap with Overwatch.
I don't know, I think I like the art direction of Let It Die more than Lily Bergamo, personally.
There's also this pitch video for Jet Set Radio with an art direction that I really dig! Not really an unreleased game... But I really want it.
bUT tHe tItlE!!!!!11
I'm so upset about how the devs at Team Bondi got treated. Not McNamara, fuck him, but the actual devs.
All 3 GDC presentations in 2012 about Prey 2 was about technology that was bleeding edge for last generation. Too bad Bethesda forced them to cancel all 3 or people would've seen a lot of things that's only now becoming common in the current consoles.
I dunno if it was mentioned earlier but I was super hyped for a NAOMI unreleased game that may have also seen the light on the Dreamcast.
This game is Gun Beat by Treasure. Unfortunately it never was released anywhere, all we have is some promotional material and one video. It's really a shame, the game looked super fun to play, plus I just adore Treasure as a developer.
This game is Gun Beat by Treasure. Unfortunately it never was released anywhere, all we have is some promotional material and one video. It's really a shame, the game looked super fun to play, plus I just adore Treasure as a developer.
Holy shit this looked so good O.O
Oh and one game i remember is Darkwatch. First one was so fun and featured full campaign coop via splitscreen.
Second game never saw the light of day :/
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Glad my Halo video still gets posted. And I have hours upon hours of Fable Legends footage saved to be shown at some point...
This is kind of an expected answer in threads like these, but I'm always curious how that Warcraft-based adventure game Blizzard canned would have turned out.
I had no idea this was a thing and now I'm mad.
Also
Indy V
AND THIS
I will never forgive daedelic for cancelling it. "The graphic style and dialogue options don't guarantee the success of the game and it is too costly so we decided to cancel it" so instead we get generic awful 3D shit. Yeah goodbye.
Half Life episodes/Half Life 3. Tragic how we never got the playable closure we all wanted
This one hurts a lot. Prey 2 looked so damn good that I'll never understand the scrapping of it.
I never knew there was a sequel planned. Quite unfortunate considering how good the first game is
This one hurts a lot. Prey 2 looked so damn good that I'll never understand the scrapping of it.
I never knew there was a sequel planned. Quite unfortunate considering how good the first game is
BC
These ones hurt the most.
Except that Far Cry Primal is an actual game that does things Peter Molyneux had never even dreamt of at the time.
And let's not forget... it was Peter Molyneux who was talking about this game. Peter F'ing Molyneux. Break it down for me - what were you expecting from BC?
Peter Molyneux, back then, was the master at making gamers want games that didn't exist, and never would exist. When fantasy meets reality, fantasy is always crushed.
