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IGN Video: 14 Games That Seemingly Vanished
- Thread starter Equanimity
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We said that during the PS3/360 days for the then next-gen as well.
How is prime 4 vanished? Nintendo has never been more transparent about a game. It was restarted over a year ago.
Pointless video. Pretty much every games is just "yeah it was delayed these times and I guess they're still working on it".
Huxley released, had a short life and was closed IIRC. I definitely played it.
yeah that's definitely an headscratcher when the game was officially rebooted in January 2019
Ray's The Dead is another one for me. It was E3 2013 when they had the big indie stage all playing at once, and it was among them. It's definitely still ongoing, they provide updates on the game and I think it's currently in alpha as of a recent Kickstarter update.
List of games:
In the Valley of Gods - 2 years, 4 months, 14 days since announcement; currently on hold
Witchfire - 2 years, 4 months, 14 days since announcement; currently in development
Metroid Prime 4 - 2 years, 10 months, 9 days since announcemetn; currently in development
Skull & Bones - 2 years, 10 months, 10 days since announcement; currently in development
System Shock 3 - 4 years, 4 months, 8 days since announcement; currently in development
Red Ash: The Indelible Legend - 4 years, 9 months, 20 days since announcement; currently in development hell
WiLD - 5 years, 8 months, 10 days since announcement; currently in development
Dead Island 2 - 5 years, 10 months, 12 days since announcement; currently in development
Deep Down - 7 years, 2 months, 1 day since announcement; currently on hold
Star Citizen - 7 years, 6 months, 12 days since announcement; currently (perpetually) in development
Hellraid - 7 years, 7 months, 26 days since announcement; currently on hold
Routine - 7 years, 8 months, 8 days since announcement; currently in development hell
Agent - 10 years, 10 months, 20 days since announcement; currently in development hell
Beyond Good & Evil 2 - 11 years, 10 months, 25 days since announcement; currently in development
Witchfire - 2 years, 4 months, 14 days since announcement; currently in development
Metroid Prime 4 - 2 years, 10 months, 9 days since announcemetn; currently in development
Skull & Bones - 2 years, 10 months, 10 days since announcement; currently in development
System Shock 3 - 4 years, 4 months, 8 days since announcement; currently in development
Red Ash: The Indelible Legend - 4 years, 9 months, 20 days since announcement; currently in development hell
WiLD - 5 years, 8 months, 10 days since announcement; currently in development
Dead Island 2 - 5 years, 10 months, 12 days since announcement; currently in development
Deep Down - 7 years, 2 months, 1 day since announcement; currently on hold
Star Citizen - 7 years, 6 months, 12 days since announcement; currently (perpetually) in development
Hellraid - 7 years, 7 months, 26 days since announcement; currently on hold
Routine - 7 years, 8 months, 8 days since announcement; currently in development hell
Agent - 10 years, 10 months, 20 days since announcement; currently in development hell
Beyond Good & Evil 2 - 11 years, 10 months, 25 days since announcement; currently in development
In order to vanish it would have to have been seen in the first place.
Yeah, pretty glaring omission. Two and a half years after announcement and we have nothing.
I mean, it still vanished. But they told us it was going to vanish so I'm not sure why we should be surprised.
That's not exactly right about prime 4 because the game was officially announced as fully restarted last January.
That's when people were expecting an actual sequel. Now its an open universe ship pirate game. You can't get much bigger than that.
Well, Retro must have been working on something. It's not like they took a 4 year vacation.
I always remember Routine. A cool hardcore horror game.
Can anyone tell what. the. hell. happened?
Can anyone tell what. the. hell. happened?
What? Witch fire and Star Citizen have regular-ish updates posted about them.
And Metroid Prime 4 too and it's on the list. (same for Star Citizen).
Star Citizen releases Alpha versions every few weeks and they are PLAYABLE.
Witchfire just had a trailer one year ago
And BG&E2 had a livestream update a couple of months ago
But yes, vanished
I find it fascinating that in that list there are games by public companies that have been shown to investors, which has undoubtedly had some effect on the market performance of those companies, with no public follow-up on what has happened to those projects, years after.
Makes you wonder if somebody somewhere made a nice chunk of money following those public announcements. :) A little bit irresponsible and shady, if I may say so.
Makes you wonder if somebody somewhere made a nice chunk of money following those public announcements. :) A little bit irresponsible and shady, if I may say so.
i think there were two other dead island games, maybe you're thinking of those. it's like a reverse Far Cry where the series/IP "took off" but nobody really handled it correctly
tbf Dying Light is basically "Not Dead Island 2" from the original developer,thats why you are confused
Yeah I didn't do any fact checking, just textualized what the video said.
Doesn't that sound like insider trading, which is definitely illegal in most countries?
Likely a game too deeply rooted in the wii u to transfer to the switch. So they just had to scrap it eventually. Who knows exactly when.
They keep changing developers. Techland were supposed to develop it, but went on to do Dying Light. The game then shifted to Yager. Then Deep Silver took it away from Yager and gave it to Sumo Digital. A couple years later they announced that they'd taken it away from SD and it was now being developed by Dambuster. That's where we're at now. The only footage that exists of the game is from that original Yager build.
Remember Ion? I remember being at an XBox E3 conference one year and then literally nothing else lol...
I was expecting Level-5 Ushiro
Edit: 4236 days since the announcement at Level-5 Vision 2008 for the PSP
Or 11 years, 7 months, 6 days
Edit: 4236 days since the announcement at Level-5 Vision 2008 for the PSP
Or 11 years, 7 months, 6 days
Yea, that's sort of what I had in mind. Basically, these public companies have not publicly announced whether these business-impacting undertakings have been cancelled yet.
Since it has been so many years, I don't think any investor cares about these things anymore, with the exception of the Ubisoft titles that were mentioned since those are very recent and I imagine still are being worked on.
Such an odd list lol
-Star Citizen most definitely didn't vanish
-RockStar abandoned the Agent trademark two years ago.
-We had news on System Shock 3 a few months ago, as well:
https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/13/1...4-xbox-one-otherside-entertainment-starbreeze
"System Shock 3 developer buys back publishing rights from troubled Starbreeze"
-Star Citizen most definitely didn't vanish
-RockStar abandoned the Agent trademark two years ago.
-We had news on System Shock 3 a few months ago, as well:
https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/13/1...4-xbox-one-otherside-entertainment-starbreeze
"System Shock 3 developer buys back publishing rights from troubled Starbreeze"
Umm Witchfire is still in development and they post development updates like every month or so in their website.
It's also made by like a dozen people. Games take time.
It's also made by like a dozen people. Games take time.