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Games you are bummed never came out

Tregard

Tregard

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,221
Or: An excuse for me to post about the Ouya game 'Television':



This game won funding during a game jam, and I was instantly hooked on the premise of a puzzle/adventure game which involved you moving through a series of interconnected TV channels. It's an idea I've never seen emulated anywhere else, so it's been an ongoing disappointment this game never saw the light of day. The game was never cancelled, but the studio making it has disappeared entirely, so I'm not sure if it even counts as vapourware?

Feel free to share your grievances of games that will never be.

 
Strings

Strings

Member
Oct 27, 2017
31,413
Was always bummed Ushiro never happened:




Level-5 has announced they're back on it, but iunno if it's going to be anywhere close to the same thing (at the very least, I doubt it'll be turn-based anymore since they've been allergic to that the past decade...).
 
Cecil

Cecil

Chicken Chaser
Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,447
I vaguely remember a Zelda clone that Team 17 were developing for the Amiga, that looked great on the screenshots, with charming pixel graphics.

But I can't remember the name of it, and AFAIK it was never released.
 
Brofield

Brofield

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,896
Project H.A.M.M.E.R. still stings, but at least that Unseen64 video gave me some closure
 
Lukar

Lukar

Unshakable Resolve - Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 27, 2017
23,391
It took this long for someone to say Mega Man Legends 3?

Also, Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy for 3DS. It was never shown publicly, but I wanted to see what it might play like. Its story concepts (Ezio traveling to Masyaf to learn from Altaïr's legacy) were reworked into Revelations.

EDIT: Also also, Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Some people keep saying "that's just Final Fantasy XV", but... it isn't. If you compare the old Versus XIII trailers to what we got in FFXV, they just very clearly are not the same game, even if XV kept some of the same characters, a few of the plot beats, and Insomnia. The overall tone was just very different, and it seemed like it was trying to tell a different story with different themes than the game we got. Thankfully it seems like it might still live on in Kingdom Hearts, so hopefully that works out this time.
 
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Being sued right now, please help me find a lawyer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,777
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That FF Fortress game.
 
shadowman16

shadowman16

Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,938
Mega Man Legends 3 :( While the demo footage wasn't exactly all that great looking (new character and all wasn't really selling it for me) I was excited to finally see where the sequel went. Only it did't go anywhere... doh.
 
ned_ballad

ned_ballad

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
48,238
Rochester, New York
Mega Man Anniversary collection for the GBA. A collection of the GB Mega Man games as an accompaniment to the GCN collection

Was never officially cancelled, but... well... I wouldn't be opposed to a GBA release in the 2020s, but I don't think it's happening
 
Lobster Roll

Lobster Roll

signature-less, now and forever
Member
Sep 24, 2019
34,365
I was in elementary school when I read a Nintendo Power story about Earthbound 64 (EB is my favorite game of all time). All I want is that game or a localized Mother 3. It's all I've ever wanted as far as a true "wish" list goes.

Edit: Was actually in 4th or 5th grade, not middle school. It was even further back.
 
Mushlikeahusky

Mushlikeahusky

Member
Jan 9, 2018
2,884
I'm glad we got death stranding out of silent hills not happening
But scalebound for sure
Banjo X on Xbox which was supposed to be a remake of the original with new ideas
Agent by rockstar
 

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Oct 27, 2017
2,021
That Goldeneye Remaster that has footage all over the internet still stings, especially since it sounded like it was finished.
 
AllEchse

AllEchse

Member
Oct 29, 2017
4,125
Prey 2 I suppose.
Had nothing to do with the first game really apart from a few nods or the reboot that came out a few years back, btu the concept of being a Bounty Hunter in a Scifi Space city sounded like cool concept and it seemed pretty freeform.
Shame Bethesda tried to money starve the devs which lead to the cancellation, even though it was closed to being finished (Weren't there already achievements in the Steam database?).
I wish some build of the game would leak, if it was PC or console.
Would even softmod my XBox 360 for that.
 
Kyrios

Kyrios

Member
Oct 27, 2017
14,644
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad that we never got Star Wars 1313 and the original vision of Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
 
henlo_birb

henlo_birb

Member
Dec 15, 2017
1,884


Zelda Wii U.

Hear me out:

Breath of the Wild was an amazing game, honestly it was a masterpiece, but it wasn't what I imaginied the original version of Zelda Wii U to be like in my head. Aonuma confirmed via interview that at the time of that trailer the game was very different. The world shown here though looks geographically quite different from the final product and part of what had me so excited initially was that the real meat of the game would be in the dungeons. I still want to visit the specific world shown in this trailer. I watched the old GameXplain analysis videos of that initial map so many times over. I got attached to it.

Also, Scalebound.
 
Rotobit

Rotobit

Editor at Nintendo Wire
Verified
Oct 27, 2017
10,196
Already spotted Mega Man Legends 3, so I'll bring up Chocobo Racing 3DS




The footage doesn't look all that promising (why does a racing game have sword combat) but I'd have loved a cutesy Chocobo game on the 3DS
 
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