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Remember When Until Dawn Was A PS3 FPS Designed For Move Controllers? Post Games That Changed Drastically Throughout Development
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Hunt: Showdown started as Hunt: Horrors of The Gilded Age and was a third person, three/four player, free to play, left 4 dead style thing about trecking through a semi-linear open world whilst hunting for a creature related to that world.
It was, according to bollocks E3 talk, supposed to take place across multiple contintents and have full character customisation.
To being a first person PvPvE game about hunting one or more monsters through a small open world, populated by zombies and such.
I would say it's a little more than a third person to first person shift. I haven't played much of Showdown as the PVP puts me off, but it does feel like a different beast.
The Gilded Age also really resembles Remnant
It was, according to bollocks E3 talk, supposed to take place across multiple contintents and have full character customisation.
To being a first person PvPvE game about hunting one or more monsters through a small open world, populated by zombies and such.
I would say it's a little more than a third person to first person shift. I haven't played much of Showdown as the PVP puts me off, but it does feel like a different beast.
The Gilded Age also really resembles Remnant
Not only combat, the game was suppose to be a complete different game. The original design was completely different from the launch and yet, both the actual game and the original design document are both amazing and i would love to have both :(
actually, i've been trying to find the original Mass Effect Game Design Document/info for quite some time now, if you or anyone know where to find it would be great appreciated!
It was never a Kinect game, since it was always multiplatform, but it definitely had a different approach.
I think the original idea was that it was still very much a "Metal Gear Solid" game, with stealth and everything that comes with it, but it never really came together, so it was cancelled by Kojima. They then handed it off to Platinum because the KojiPro staff still felt there was a game in there somewhere, Platinum stripped out the stealth aspects and made it pure hack and slash and, thus, the title changed. It was also originally set between MGS2 and MGS4 and once it became Revengeance, they changed it to after MGS4.
You've never heard what happened with FFXIV? They developed ARR from scratch in only 2 and a half years, which is fucking insane for a RPG, let alone a MMO. And it only happened because management gave Yoshi-P their full support and pulled a shitload of staff off other divisions/projects to help get it done.
And if Nomura was busy with KH3, how do you think he worked on FFVIIR? From what I understand, the arrangement is basically that Nomura decides the overall direction of the KH games, while his co-director (Tai Yasue) handles day-to-day development.
Kinect?! Wat.
Anyway, Resident Evil 1.5->2 is probably my favourite game of this type, mainly because it was such a myth while growing up. Though DMC's origins as RE3/RE4 is also a fun story.
Exactly, what works in FFXV if the road trip experience. You go around in the car, do little side missions, you fish, you cook, you have little character moments. All of that is so chill and it's great (even though the combat is really bad). Then there's the Nomura/Versus stuff, which is complete garbage. Once you get on that train and the game decides to dedicate itself to its horrible story, it becomes indefensibly bad.
One of the worst creative shifts I've ever seen a developer make. Still baffles me till this day.
Are you referring to these?
I love these sorts of threads! Keep the posts coming.
Never knew about Until Dawns shift, pretty much a completely different game minus the general concept/setting.
Never knew about Until Dawns shift, pretty much a completely different game minus the general concept/setting.
You talking Vaporware? You mean The Agent? Or The Getaway 3? Or Eight Days? 😓
I didn't know this! I remember seeing that first trailer and getting really curious, thanks for this one!
Are you referring to these?
I've never heard of these before and just gave them a read. The original concept sounded pretty cool and I'd of loved to see it come to life (although I am not disappointed in what we got). Is there anymore? Or have only those two pages been made available?
The late 2000's were the worst fucking thing to happen to videogames
I think they could take the current Hunt and rework it as a PvE game, it could easily work. The game is way more refined and less hammy with some of those accents haha.
Indeed. And it showed with very "wide-linear" environments - the likes of which we hadn't really seen at that time in a linear game.
Are you referring to these?
YES MATE! You are a saint!
Always saw this video like a concept trailer, it was the E3 2011 video that made my expectation fly high. The released game was ok but it was nothing compared to that video gameplay-wise
"Ascension" was the first iteration of the Tomb Raider reboot. It was seemingly going to be a Survival Horror game in an open-world island with monsters, and it seemed to draw heavy inspiration from Japanese titles of the genre, and at times even Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, with its giant creatures and a child that Lara would have to protect and collaborate with.
There's quite a bit of internal prototype footage as well:
Then the team ran a US-based survey to gather the reaction people would have to these ideas and prototypes and it was largely negative, so Crystal Dynamics scrapped pretty much all of it and we all know how the game actually turned out to be. The concept of Lara being stranded on a Japanese island was the only thing that survived the transition to a TPS game with a few survival elements.
The Ascension prototype was still very much a big departure from the regular Tomb Raider game, but I would've loved to see how the team would execute all those concepts; even if with a brand new IP.
There's quite a bit of internal prototype footage as well:
Then the team ran a US-based survey to gather the reaction people would have to these ideas and prototypes and it was largely negative, so Crystal Dynamics scrapped pretty much all of it and we all know how the game actually turned out to be. The concept of Lara being stranded on a Japanese island was the only thing that survived the transition to a TPS game with a few survival elements.
The Ascension prototype was still very much a big departure from the regular Tomb Raider game, but I would've loved to see how the team would execute all those concepts; even if with a brand new IP.
No worries. I had to re-check it a few times to make sure it wasn't something I had imagined in a fever dream
Yeah, the accent work is a bit rough, to say the least.
But I would 100% be down for a PVE mode. I get that the whole "competing hunters" is an aspect of it, but the stuff I played had some real jank when fighting NPCs I can't imagine what fighting other players must be like.
The beta footage is so similar to Remnant:From The Ashes that I had to check and yep, it started as Horrors of The Gilded Age.
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There was this tiny bit of stuff we saw in 2006, I think, with the turn based change being shown at TGS 2008..?
I did a video on Until Dawn PS3, its actually super neat!
I also did one looking at this. Hoping to revisit it with more details soon...
A bit different than that. Climax's LA branch made the first version of SHO. Gamescom came, the game didnt do as well. LA studio was shutdown in October, project was moved to the UK Climax branch, and reworked extremely quickly, recycling what assets they could.
I also did one looking at this. Hoping to revisit it with more details soon...
A bit different than that. Climax's LA branch made the first version of SHO. Gamescom came, the game didnt do as well. LA studio was shutdown in October, project was moved to the UK Climax branch, and reworked extremely quickly, recycling what assets they could.
It's crazy to me, as I thought that the game still looks like in the first showing, so TPP, focus on dodge rolls etc. Now I'm intrigued and might give it a go!
Here's one I dearly wish we had any visual record of whatsoever:
STI wasn't sure how they could manage to produce a more technically impressive game than Sonic 2 using the stock Mega Drive hardware for another 2D platformer, and so the original concept they worked on for Sonic 3 was "Sonic 3D", a polygonal isometric platformer built using a SuperFX style addon chip Sega had in development at the time. Development on that version ran from January to June of '93, when it finally became clear that the chip wasn't going to be ready in time for Sonic 3 to ship. The game absolutely could not be delayed thanks to a major promotional contract with McDonald's that was already a done deal, so the project was abruptly restarted from scratch and the 2D Sonic 3 that hit store shelves was developed in about six months.
STI wasn't sure how they could manage to produce a more technically impressive game than Sonic 2 using the stock Mega Drive hardware for another 2D platformer, and so the original concept they worked on for Sonic 3 was "Sonic 3D", a polygonal isometric platformer built using a SuperFX style addon chip Sega had in development at the time. Development on that version ran from January to June of '93, when it finally became clear that the chip wasn't going to be ready in time for Sonic 3 to ship. The game absolutely could not be delayed thanks to a major promotional contract with McDonald's that was already a done deal, so the project was abruptly restarted from scratch and the 2D Sonic 3 that hit store shelves was developed in about six months.
Chrono Trigger was a completely different game for SNES's CD attachment at one point. When the attachment got scrapped, they tossed out the entire game and started over. To take advantage of the ROM cartridge format, they decided to put no transitions between the exploration and battles leading to the battle system we all know and love today.
As the PS1 port showed, such a battle system was only truly achievable with no loading on a cart at the time. The game on CD would've looked quite different with separate battle screens.
As the PS1 port showed, such a battle system was only truly achievable with no loading on a cart at the time. The game on CD would've looked quite different with separate battle screens.
This is what FFVII was going to be at some point:
Also, at one point it was going to be about a detective named Joe in New York City.