As a massive Breath of Fire fanboy, hearing the plans for Nina before they scrapped her stung like hell.
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Your most wanted cut content from a game?
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Nah. It's just that the first thing that came to mind when I first heard the quote from Staten was that there is some kind of situation where something needs to be blown up, some sort of generator or enemy (Gravemind). In order to blow it up you need to drop the bomb into a deep hole which then leads into a tunnel which is infested with enemies and then you get to the objective that needs to be blown up.
It wouldn't be enough to throw the bomb down there since the objective is at the end of the tunnel and any regular marine would not survive the drop. Miranda picks Master Chief as the prime candidate but instead of giving him the order she just straps the bomb to his back and shoves him down the hole while he is standing near the edge.
I never thought that she would have a motive or blame the chief for her father's death.
This person summed it up pretty well.
Chain chomp partner in Paper Mario?
Dark Energy plotline. Basically, the overuse of Element Zero was destroying the galaxy and the Reapers were looking for a solution to stop it. They were harvesting species to slow the destruction of the galaxy and to harvest more knowledge in an attempt to stop said destruction.
3 come to mind.
FFXV's Cancelled DLC episodes - These episodes would have fleshed out some characters as well as give us a 'true' ending to the game (in case you are unaware FFXV's ending almost feels like a bad ending and the true villain never gets dealt with).
Dragon's Dogma cut content - As people stated it would have had you going to the moon, a MUCH bigger open world, shared multiplayer dungeon and much more. Game was insanely ambitious, here's hoping for a Dragon's Dogma 2 where Itsuno gets the time and budget the game deserves.
Vanquish - Apparently there was an originally gonna be a robot dog companion that would assist you. Additionally the robot dog could combine to your suit for some kind of powered up state. Sounded hype.
FFXV's Cancelled DLC episodes - These episodes would have fleshed out some characters as well as give us a 'true' ending to the game (in case you are unaware FFXV's ending almost feels like a bad ending and the true villain never gets dealt with).
Dragon's Dogma cut content - As people stated it would have had you going to the moon, a MUCH bigger open world, shared multiplayer dungeon and much more. Game was insanely ambitious, here's hoping for a Dragon's Dogma 2 where Itsuno gets the time and budget the game deserves.
Vanquish - Apparently there was an originally gonna be a robot dog companion that would assist you. Additionally the robot dog could combine to your suit for some kind of powered up state. Sounded hype.
Yeah. I wonder if Capcom's Fighting All Stars had something to do with TvC as well. Some of the characters from that game actually either made it into it (Alex, Batsu) or almost made it in (Strider, Haggar, Akira, Nash)
And they used Ingrid as a test character model too, if memory serves right.
Arthur has unique dialog when you could glitch him into that part of the map. Also, it's said there was a second love interest for him besides Mary that was cut.
All the cut shit from Wind Waker
coulda had the GOAT if the 2nd half of the game was as good as the first.
coulda had the GOAT if the 2nd half of the game was as good as the first.
Oooh, so hard to choose!
First, since it's my fav game, I'd have to go with the cut levels from Marvel Ultimate Alliance. One would have seen you fighting with Cap on the beaches of
Normandy (later retrieving his body from the Arctic). There were also cut levels in the Negative Zone, a cut Baxter Building base, and a few other areas. Really I just want more of that game. The cut characters, thankfully, have been recreated with mods, but the cut levels, it seems, are lost to us. Some sound files of the Cap Arctic mission are still in the game:
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Second, a more minor one, are the cut weapons from DMC5- a saxophone Nevan-like weapon, ice skates, gymnastics ribbons. I hope they'll appear in a Special Edition. Talked about in this topic: https://www.resetera.com/threads/dm...n-more-ideas-from-itsuno.79742/#post-14744406.
Third pick would be Twilight Princess' beta content (the forest, more interactions with animals, that cool giant forest ape thing): https://www.unseen64.net/2008/06/02/zelda-twilight-princess-beta-analysis/
Fourth would be Bioshock Infinite in any stage of development other than the one we got, whether it's "rapture in the clouds"-style or some earlier style: https://kotaku.com/this-is-bioshock-infinite-how-it-used-to-look-and-how-5781199
Lastly, while it's not cut content, Epic Mickey's original art promised something far different from what we got (and yes, I realize due to Disney being in control it probably never would have gone there): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QSo61H1Vsw
First, since it's my fav game, I'd have to go with the cut levels from Marvel Ultimate Alliance. One would have seen you fighting with Cap on the beaches of
Normandy (later retrieving his body from the Arctic). There were also cut levels in the Negative Zone, a cut Baxter Building base, and a few other areas. Really I just want more of that game. The cut characters, thankfully, have been recreated with mods, but the cut levels, it seems, are lost to us. Some sound files of the Cap Arctic mission are still in the game:
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Unused Mission Dialogue (Hawkeye and Black Widow)
Unused mission dialogue of Hawkeye and Black Widow from Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. It sounds like these were planned for a mission where you rescue Captain A...
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Second, a more minor one, are the cut weapons from DMC5- a saxophone Nevan-like weapon, ice skates, gymnastics ribbons. I hope they'll appear in a Special Edition. Talked about in this topic: https://www.resetera.com/threads/dm...n-more-ideas-from-itsuno.79742/#post-14744406.
Third pick would be Twilight Princess' beta content (the forest, more interactions with animals, that cool giant forest ape thing): https://www.unseen64.net/2008/06/02/zelda-twilight-princess-beta-analysis/
Fourth would be Bioshock Infinite in any stage of development other than the one we got, whether it's "rapture in the clouds"-style or some earlier style: https://kotaku.com/this-is-bioshock-infinite-how-it-used-to-look-and-how-5781199
Lastly, while it's not cut content, Epic Mickey's original art promised something far different from what we got (and yes, I realize due to Disney being in control it probably never would have gone there): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QSo61H1Vsw
Ship buying and selling in Skies of Arcadia. Granted, the Delphinus was amazing, but I'd like to see this feature in a sequel.
There was a sword fight intended for for flashbacks in Uncharted 4, during the break in chapter between Nate and Sam, which would foreshadow the final boss fight mechanics. It was cut due to time constraints. Would have been a fantastic inclusion.
But more than anything I would love to know what the development version of Ocarina of Time looked like. That's some real video game history.
But more than anything I would love to know what the development version of Ocarina of Time looked like. That's some real video game history.
Everything cut from Halo 2. The Covenant Ship and Forerunner Tank levels. The original ending on Earth. The portion shown at E3 2003. If there was ever anything working of Warfare mode or Saved Films.
The Guardian Forest level from Halo 3.
The level from Halo: Reach where you were going to control a Scarab. Bungie had a prototype of it working.
The Halo: Chronicles prototypes.
The crazy Ryan Payton prototypes for Halo 4.
It's true. Joe Staten has talked about it a couple of times, including before the game came out.
He and Jason Jones talked more about it in the developer's commentary for Halo 2:
There's a little more at the 51:00 minute mark.
The Guardian Forest level from Halo 3.
The level from Halo: Reach where you were going to control a Scarab. Bungie had a prototype of it working.
The Halo: Chronicles prototypes.
The crazy Ryan Payton prototypes for Halo 4.
It's true. Joe Staten has talked about it a couple of times, including before the game came out.
He and Jason Jones talked more about it in the developer's commentary for Halo 2:
There's a little more at the 51:00 minute mark.
I believe it was Sadie and that it was supposedly cut because it didn't feel right having Sadie go on a revenge trip for her husband, then having Arthur form an romantic relationship with her.
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In Dragon Ball Z Kakarot, Vegeta's Final Flash sequence... Trunks SS1.5....
I hoped they didn't rush the Cell and Buu's sagas.
I hoped they didn't rush the Cell and Buu's sagas.
We would, though. It's a really common misconception.
Amy Hennig said:
I only in recent years read about a whole bunch of cut content from Secret Of Mana. I would love to see that reinstated.
I want to see what the original developers of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for PlayStation [1] had in mind for the area accessible via the trapdoor at the castle gate. There's a save point you can glitch your way into, and the developers of the Saturn version created the Underground Garden to fill that space in, but I really want to see what the area was supposed to look like before it was canceled. I'm pretty sure there's a decent amount of unused content on the disc, and some of that was worked into the Saturn version, I believe.
Would that have worked without Elder Kain, though?
I mean, Kain's speeches in SR2 are the best game writing ever. Would they really have been there if Kain was dead, and Raziel had to figure stuff out on his own?
I dunno. I'd have loved to see more done with the Hidden City and other levels; but I also love the story we have, and so much of it hinges on Raziel getting over his hatred, largely through Kain's amazing monologues.
Soul Reaver 2 was a time travel game, so I could easily have seen them simply inserting younger, time-travelling instances of Kain to perform the same scenes with Raziel, looking to undo his future death in the original game.
yeah, but Young Kain is an arrogant asshole.... lol.
*shrug* It's hard for me to be objective about this; I love all LoK games to death, each for different reasons.
Crash's PS2 era is rife with cut content, Crash Nitro Kart at a point was supposed to have an online hub and CTR's entire track roster reimagined to the new style of the game. Twinsanity was supposed to have complete chapters and fleshed out areas that are never touched upon in the final release of the game, there's tons of potential if they ever go back to it
It's time travel. One can still include the same old Elder Kain, just time travelling a short while before his death to set everything up (perhaps as if that's what he was even doing there at the Chronoplast in Soul Reaver to begin with – preparing a way out of his impending doom). One could also include scenes with a visibly younger but still mature Kain who's also time travelling, or with the even younger, more douchebaggy version who isn't. Have Raziel run into different instances of the character at different stages of enlightenment, both of them time travelling, maybe an older Raziel even being the one to teach a younger Kain a few lessons about causality in the process.
I understand, and love the games as they are, but there were even more interesting storytelling possibilities left untapped by the cuts, to me. I don't think they would ever have created a sequel without including Kain and building on the intrigue he left behind.
Well there is the restoration mod which adds a bunch of cut content however it is based on data they could find iirc, so who knows what the game could have been if it was given enough development time.
I mean an official one to make it better with modern systems. They did KOTOR 1 like 2 years ago.
