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Vaporware from recent times
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First one that came to mind. Would love to know what happened to this one.
There was a Russian YouTubed who had a fifty minute video, but other than that, it's just been fifty second long teasers on their YouTube channel.
What ever happened to Atomic Heart?
There's a super weird Levelord interview they did that, is just super weird. It's like fifteen minutes long, and it doesn't say if he's actually working on the project or not.
Fairly certain it turned into that one Monster Hunter clone no one played
FFXI remake on mobile (by Nexon)
Announced in 2015
Got some screens early 2018
Always mentioned in investor presentations, every quarter
The longer we go without this the more I hope it's being retooled for Switch & other consoles, Crystal Chronicles HD style
Most likely scenario it's just stuck in development hell
Came in here to also say Shin Megami Tensei V.
Announced for Switch over three years ago in January 2017 with no title, just a teaser and the fact that it was a UE4 game, then got another teaser in the fall of 2017 with some in-engine cinematics confirming it was V, then nothing but "it's still coming" for over two years.
Announced for Switch over three years ago in January 2017 with no title, just a teaser and the fact that it was a UE4 game, then got another teaser in the fall of 2017 with some in-engine cinematics confirming it was V, then nothing but "it's still coming" for over two years.
Ohh, my bad. TIL.
I thought it just meant abandoned (regardless of the cause).
A few months back, this game popped into my head and I wasn't sure if I dreamed it up or if it actually existed. It was a Telltale-esque indie game with a black & white, noir style. I could have sworn it was shown at a Microsoft event and I thought it looked really cool, but I never heard about it again.
Well, I looked it up and I'm not crazy. It did exist and was called Blues & Bullets.
They actually did release the first two episodes back in 2015/2016, but the remaining three episodes never came out. All signs point to the game being cancelled, but it was never officially canned. I guess this falls into a similar category as Swery's D4, where part of it released but not the rest of it.
Now I'm actually curious about checking those episodes out at some point. Was this any good?
Well, I looked it up and I'm not crazy. It did exist and was called Blues & Bullets.
They actually did release the first two episodes back in 2015/2016, but the remaining three episodes never came out. All signs point to the game being cancelled, but it was never officially canned. I guess this falls into a similar category as Swery's D4, where part of it released but not the rest of it.
Now I'm actually curious about checking those episodes out at some point. Was this any good?
Do we have any info about how the game was shaping up? It struck me as something very Souls-y - or in the vein of Dragon's Dogma, to stick with Capcom.
What about this?
www.rockpapershotgun.com
Was created by the Cart Life developer... then he deleted EVERYTHING except his twitter and is apparently homeless?
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Was created by the Cart Life developer... then he deleted EVERYTHING except his twitter and is apparently homeless?
Miegakure. An indie game announced... maybe a decade ago? the whole shtick was that the game takes place in the 4th dimension.
Last I heard was from this Vice article from about two years ago.
I know Cube World got a steam release, but it still feels like vapor ware lmao.
Last I heard was from this Vice article from about two years ago.
I know Cube World got a steam release, but it still feels like vapor ware lmao.
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Last Kickstarter update and tweet was in 2018.
Last dev tweet was 2016.
You can still pre-order the game on the website.
Last Kickstarter update and tweet was in 2018.
Last dev tweet was 2016.
You can still pre-order the game on the website.
Weirdly, a part of me thought these would have come out already, even if as japan exclusives. I also remember thinking that they would just move to the WiiU, but of course, the console didn't do well enough for that.Sadness (Wii)
The Grinder (Wii)
Cosmic Walker (Wii)
They are small scale, but I'm sure there's many kickstarter projects that never came out and didn't get updates either. I still expect Heart Forth Alicia, for example, but I can't say the same about Band Saga.
Looking around Unseen64, I found some more. These still hurt a lot:
I also want to see some Kaoi gameplay someday, even if it never comes out.
Freaking hell, this was announced five years ago? I really wonder if it ever manages to materialize into something now...
Does In the Valley of the Gods cuunt as vapourwear seeing as we have an official update on it?
Ruin? It underwent a name change but was cancelled shortly after.
Ruin? It underwent a name change but was cancelled shortly after.
Since the game has been played countless times at convetions it really isn't vaporware even if it was delayed several times.
Project G.G. is vaporware, a 15 devs team that's supposed to reach 100 once the development is at its peak is waaaaay behind.
Given the internal troubles at Level 5 I also think the Ushiro reboot will turn out as Vaporware.
Project Awakening also smells like a Deep Down 2.0.
And finally, how could I forget about TESVI ? Yeah, see ya on next-next gen.
I feel like both of these games suffer from the exact same problem of 'why would we make these when we have similar games in a our publisher portfolio'
Like Capcom now has monster hunter, but if it even wanted to have a seperate monster RPG they could just make a dragons dogma 2.
Dead island the same thing. Why make Dead island when theres dying light 2 on the way
Agent will always be such a mystery to me. It will never release, espcially after LA NOIRE, but i'd love to know what that game was going to be
I think this was still Dead by Daylight. They made a huge deal about his likeness being in the game as it was the first time a licensed character had the actor likeness. He was also the first (and still only) survivor that had voice acting with actual lines. That January tweet lines up with the reveal just 2 months later.
Quiet cancellations are just the worst.
WiLD
Beyond Good and Evil 2
System Shock 3 (team disbanded, not formally announced as "cancelled")
Shin Megami Tensei 5 (where is it, Atlus?)
Porject Giant Robot (Miyamoto's Wii U game)
Prey 2
Final Fantasy Versus XIII (completely changed into FFXV)
Final Fantasy Type 1 (Type 0 sequel)
Steambot Chronicles 2 (shown off by Kazuma Kujo then it just disappeared)
Deep Down (Capcom even now say it's something they may go back to one day)
Shenmue Online (Was shown a few times then quietly cancelled)
Phantom Dust Remake (CG trailer, leaked footage)
Uppers (localization/Western release of the game that is)
Flower, Sun & Rain Remake (Announced two years ago and then nothing...Where is it, Suda?!)
Kurayami (Suda51 + Mikami horror game inspired by the novels of Franz Kafka, game was completely changed to Shadows of the Damned)
Grandia Online
Ushiro (Level 5's horror game)
Agent
Timesplitters 4
Fable 4
7th Guest 3
Resident Evil PSP
BioShock Vita
WiLD
Beyond Good and Evil 2
System Shock 3 (team disbanded, not formally announced as "cancelled")
Shin Megami Tensei 5 (where is it, Atlus?)
Porject Giant Robot (Miyamoto's Wii U game)
Prey 2
Final Fantasy Versus XIII (completely changed into FFXV)
Final Fantasy Type 1 (Type 0 sequel)
Steambot Chronicles 2 (shown off by Kazuma Kujo then it just disappeared)
Deep Down (Capcom even now say it's something they may go back to one day)
Shenmue Online (Was shown a few times then quietly cancelled)
Phantom Dust Remake (CG trailer, leaked footage)
Uppers (localization/Western release of the game that is)
Flower, Sun & Rain Remake (Announced two years ago and then nothing...Where is it, Suda?!)
Kurayami (Suda51 + Mikami horror game inspired by the novels of Franz Kafka, game was completely changed to Shadows of the Damned)
Grandia Online
Ushiro (Level 5's horror game)
Agent
Timesplitters 4
Fable 4
7th Guest 3
Resident Evil PSP
BioShock Vita
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I was going to say Golem from Highwire, but I looked and noticed it actually released late last year.
What a tepid way to go out Marty :(
What a tepid way to go out Marty :(
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Occam's razor <\3 sadly the only thing I found to counter your conclusion was an interview from 2019 where he says "I'm doing video games" (plural)
Easy:
The Magical Realms of TĂr na nĂ“g: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa, also called Barkley 2
Kickstarted way back in 2013, and had a tier for update information which the tier for getting the game didn't include? I backed at the game level and have been in the dark pretty much since. It seems like a case of early Kickstarter feature creep with a full Blitzball turn based tactics game, a side area that's "as big as the main game" and more.
There are relatively recent threads on this very forum detailing the latest on all this. Allegedly a lot of the core team from Barkley 1 left shortly after development started, leaving just two people, and finally just one person who claims that it will still get made, and the projects not dead. A demo, which was pretty much everything that's been made so far, was put out last year after all this stuff went public, but since then, despite insisting it will get made... nothing. Radio silence again...
The Magical Realms of TĂr na nĂ“g: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa, also called Barkley 2
Kickstarted way back in 2013, and had a tier for update information which the tier for getting the game didn't include? I backed at the game level and have been in the dark pretty much since. It seems like a case of early Kickstarter feature creep with a full Blitzball turn based tactics game, a side area that's "as big as the main game" and more.
There are relatively recent threads on this very forum detailing the latest on all this. Allegedly a lot of the core team from Barkley 1 left shortly after development started, leaving just two people, and finally just one person who claims that it will still get made, and the projects not dead. A demo, which was pretty much everything that's been made so far, was put out last year after all this stuff went public, but since then, despite insisting it will get made... nothing. Radio silence again...
Came here to say this. Don't think there was ever another cancelled game I was more upset about.
In terms of Dead Island 2, Deep Silver owns the IP. The creators of Dead Island, Techland moved on to Dying Light (an IP they own), when Deep Silver originally commissioned Yager to do the Dead Island sequel.
There's a clear incentive for Deep Silver to make Dead Island 2- they get nothing from Dying Light 2 existing (and Squeeenix are actually the ones handling the publishing if Dying Light 2 as Techland's distribution partner)
I know, it sucks :(. I'd be down for more Evil Dead in any media all the time.