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Vaporware from recent times
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I'd add the Akiba's Trip PS4/PC remaster to that list. Uppers is what I was going to post, both of them are from Marvelous and I'm pretty sure Sony's policies are at least part of the reason we never heard from those games again. Both of them have questionable fanservice mechanics that are part of the gameplay and Sony probably wouldn't approve of them these days.
Sadness (Wii)
The Grinder (Wii)
I'm not sure I consider things from over a decade ago to be recent, but The Grinder never making it out always bummed me out. There's just not enough horror action titles in the world.
Also, from what I've heard, Sadness was never really a game, and the most that ever came of it were the trailers, a single 3D model of a mine cart, and some surprisingly good tracks.
EDIT: Also, anyone remember Routine?
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There's a story about that Phantom Dust Remake, how Microsoft messed with the studio (causing Darkside to close down), cancelled that version, and ultimately came out with the remastered Phantom Dust HD back in 2017 done by Code Mystics. I don't think it's vaporware because of that. Other than that, I'm not sure which games I was still waiting for since they were announced and haven't come out yet.
Nioh was announced for the PS3 in 2005. The assumption was that it would be a launch title:
It launched for the PS4 in 2017, twelve years later. For context, if it had been announced at the end of the NES era (before the SNES launch), it would have actually released for the PS2. :D
It launched for the PS4 in 2017, twelve years later. For context, if it had been announced at the end of the NES era (before the SNES launch), it would have actually released for the PS2. :D
Monster Tale on Nintendo DS is supposed to be coming to 3DS with some new features, but the announcement was in 2015 and nothing came out since then.
I suppose I'll make a possible contribution with Allison Road. Best known for being one of the first projects that tried to capitalize on the cancellation of P.T. / Silent Hills. It had a notable Kickstarter campaign that was canned after a surprise announcement that Team17 would be supporting its development. However, they dropped the game around June 2016 with a cancellation announcement although the developers proclaimed it would continue production without Team17 about two months later. Eventually, all major outlets from their social media accounts to the main website would be deleted so it's safe to assume Allison Road has finally been put to bed despite no official final acknowledgement.
Visage has become something of a spiritual successor to both it and the late Konami revival so I'm grateful the premise is still being pursued.
Apparently, the game is supposed to appear at E3 2020 in some fashion alongside Deathloop.
He hasn't officially retired from acting if that's what you're inquiring. Back in April 2018, Mr. Campbell announced that he was stepping away from the character 'Ash Williams' following the cancellation of Ash vs. Evil Dead. He believes it's time for a younger actor to take on the role even though director Sam Raimi still wants to do another film installment with him.
It was revived back in October 2018 for the Switch. However, it was still suggested to be in very early stages of development on the platform and, funnily enough, no concrete updates have been provided since then.
It really wouldn't be surprising if the Western localization of Uppers was silently scrapped as a result of Sony's undisclosed policy toward sensual content. Last time I checked, Marvelous Games through their Twitter account claimed it was still in development as of March 2nd, 2020. However, I find it weird that nothing concrete has been revealed since Marvelous claims every detail except for the release date has been disclosed and it was already rated by the ESRB back in December 2018. I'm speculating that they might not want to acknowledge any troubles with development to avoid any backlash or policy discussion after the content changes with the last Senran Kagura installment on PS4.
I definitely still remember the game! In terms of visual presentation, I'm guessing Alien: Isolation sort of stole its thunders with the lowfi / retro-future art direction for a first-person horror title. Allegedly, someone claiming to have been an aspiring financier and close friend to one of the lead developers wanted to provide financial support for the studio, Lunar Software, back around late 2017 along with several other investors. The team was extremely stripped for cash and experienced tremendous hardship trying to finish the project; however, its lead developer suddenly cut off all personal contact about a year later and nobody knows whether it'll be resurrected as other known contacts have gone dark. The main websites for the studio and game continue to have their registrations renewed for what it's worth. Plus, an Easter egg for the game was found in The Occupation.
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I wouldn't count Versus as cancelled since they simply decided to change into a main entry.
I am sure Prey 2 was admitted as cancelled.
And Beyond Good and Evil 2 isn't cancelled. They had viddoc in oct 2019 and basically this year it seems during investors meeting (Feb 2020) they simply confirmed it will not be coming out before April 2021. But they didn't state it was cancelled.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 isn't part of Ubisoft's plans for next fiscal year
Fans of Beyond Good & Evil who delighted in the game's announcement trailer when it was shown at E3 2017 are unfortunat…
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There was a playable leak of Milo that used the Kinect I believe. Based upon the build from May 2010.
An Evil Dead game was teased in 2018 and there hasn't been an update ever since :(. what are some game announcements from a few years ago until now that you think are vaporware?
Little Devil Inside
It was Kickstarted like 6 years ago
They drop a new development vid every 12 months, but I'll be extremely sad if it never sees the light of day
Probably one of the only KS games I ever cared about
I have no faith in Level 5 at finishing Ushiro, at all. The game started dev on PSP.
I wouldn't count Versus as cancelled since they simply decided to change into a main entry.
I am sure Prey 2 was admitted as cancelled.
And Beyond Good and Evil 2 isn't cancelled. They had viddoc in oct 2019 and basically this year it seems during investors meeting (Feb 2020) they simply confirmed it will not be coming out before April 2021. But they didn't state it was cancelled.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 isn't part of Ubisoft's plans for next fiscal year
Fans of Beyond Good & Evil who delighted in the game's announcement trailer when it was shown at E3 2017 are unfortunat…
Versus XIII had completely different dev team entirely, characters, plot, gameplay and cutscenes. It's a different game.
Pretty sure Prey 2 wasn't admitted as cancelled by Bethesda, only that it was "repurposed" by the devs of Dishonored (it was canned and made by a different team entirely and looked like a different game entirely, just like the game above)
Didn't know that about Beyond Good & Evil 2 but I wasn't the only one who thought it's become vaporware considering Ancel's other recent announcements (WiLD).
EDIT: Just thought of another - Red Ash (Mega Man Legends from Inafune).
Uh, Techland owns the rights to Dying Light, while Deep Silver/Koch Media own Dead Island IP. It's sort of a Far Cry/Crysis situation; Deep Silver wants to continue the IP (And has albeit... not terribly successfully).
The funniest and most ironic thing about this is Dying Light was originally supposed to be Dead Island 2. Deep Silver didn't liked Techland's pitch and decided to find another partner. Whoever at Deep Silver came up with this decision made such a mistake.
Maybe it came out and I didn't notice but wasn't there a new Commander Keen game announced, maybe for mobile, an E3 or two ago?
Kaio was officially canceled quite a while ago, Inafune said the publisher decided they weren't willing to go forward with the big cross-media rollout in the end, and so the game died with it. Who knows if it was even any good or not, Comcept had a very shaky track record.
This was officially canceled in 2011. right after Irem originally canceled Disaster Report 4. Kujo vaguely referenced it since in a way that makes it seem like it can't ever happen due to something that went down at Irem, but we may never find out the truth.
Kaio was officially canceled quite a while ago, Inafune said the publisher decided they weren't willing to go forward with the big cross-media rollout in the end, and so the game died with it. Who knows if it was even any good or not, Comcept had a very shaky track record.
This was officially canceled in 2011. right after Irem originally canceled Disaster Report 4. Kujo vaguely referenced it since in a way that makes it seem like it can't ever happen due to something that went down at Irem, but we may never find out the truth.
Fear effect: reinvented comes to mind, by memory it was announced in 2017 slated for a 2018 release and it never happened. I follow the dev on Twitter, they sometimes milk some concept art but that's it.
Virtual Novel, it was a VR project to create a fully interactive 3D visual novel set on a large island (but centered in a Japanese high school) that would also have extensive modding capabilities to allow you to make your own projects in the engine.
So what happened with it? Well, they had a Patreon going that was doing well, progress was coming along smoothly with tons of updates, builds to play etc. and then they decided to move onto making a standalone character creator called Fitting Room which essentially let you design your character and NPCs for the game which would get merged back into the game. And that was completed with builds available. The devs started getting quiet mid-2018 before making a couple of development related retweets in late 2018 and then that was it. No Patreon posts, no Tweets, no Facebook posts, the website is now dead. They had a Discord for Patreons but as I wasn't one I don't know if anyone in there had closer contact with the dev. Patreon did halt the project for a month automatically in 2019, but it has still been open since with a few people still paying each month.
So what happened with it? Well, they had a Patreon going that was doing well, progress was coming along smoothly with tons of updates, builds to play etc. and then they decided to move onto making a standalone character creator called Fitting Room which essentially let you design your character and NPCs for the game which would get merged back into the game. And that was completed with builds available. The devs started getting quiet mid-2018 before making a couple of development related retweets in late 2018 and then that was it. No Patreon posts, no Tweets, no Facebook posts, the website is now dead. They had a Discord for Patreons but as I wasn't one I don't know if anyone in there had closer contact with the dev. Patreon did halt the project for a month automatically in 2019, but it has still been open since with a few people still paying each month.
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About 2 years ago Nightdive trademarked a Exhumed/Powerslave, there's a bunch of rumours that they snapped up the rights and brought in the Dev of a modern port using a custom engine (Powerslave EX)
Then nothing :(
Don't think it was ever officially announced though
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Then nothing :(
Don't think it was ever officially announced though
Nightdive Studios trademarks Powerslave/Exhumed
https://www.trademarkia.com/powerslave-87866944.html https://trademarks.justia.com/878/66/exhumed-87866948.html Right, so a bit of background, it is known that Nightdive was working on a remastered version of Powerslave/Exhumed called Powerslave EX which was a hybrid of the PC and recalling...
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Square Enix is publishing DL2 only in the Americas.
Deep Silver / Koch Media is publishing DL2 in Europe.
Cancelled couple of years ago, back in 2016. I was in the beta, and I enjoyed it a lot, but Square Enix shut it down due to lack of player interest. Unfortunately.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
This is a fantasy based on reality.Tagline Final Fantasy Versus XIII was a game planned for the PlayStation 3 as part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy series. It was intended to be a companion game to Final Fantasy XIII alongside the mobile game Final Fantasy Agito XIII, the three...
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That is a huge stretch. The firt thing they showed of versus was noctis fighting in insomnia with the armiger (the armory of the previous kings). The characters are mainly the same with the exception of Stella Nox Fleuret who was replaced by Lunafreya Nox Fleuret. And since much wasn't mentioned about her we do not know how much was changed. The story beats as described for the invasion is basically the same thing as kingsglaive with minor changes. And kingsglaive is the official lore for FFXV and the events are happening at the same time as the first moments of FFXV. FFXV is Versus XIII with a few changes. The gameplay also looks very similar. Any changes you can chalk up to design and the fact that XV was shifted to PS4 for development which allowed them to do more. Even then when you look at the older versus gameplay (video -> here) there is more things that are similar than are different.
The largest change you can point to is the removal of Etro and any ties to the Fabula Nova Crystallis theme (which by default would change plot and cutscenes) but looking at all the artwork and videos, I find it hard for anyone to pass it off as TOTALLY different.
Prey 2 Cancelled, Bethesda Confirms
"It was a game we believed in, but we never felt that it got to where it needed to be".
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I would have troubles coming up with a more generic videogame screenshot that this lolHellraid
Dev: Techland (Dying Light)
Dont think that was even properly announced. But it's definitely dead since Tabata left SE
A new Nightmare Creatures was announced in 2017 with a tittle trailer but nothing else came about it as far as I know. 3 years in I think its safe to say its not going to happen.
The Fear Effect remake seems to have evaporated as well.
The Fear Effect remake seems to have evaporated as well.
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Kayne West game about his mother.
Metroid prime 4.
Metroid prime 4.
They did release videos showing it off, though.Atari VCS?
- Announced in June of 2017
- Preorders were supposed to start December 14, 2017, but Atari delayed them
- Preorders actually go live on May 30, 2018, Advertised to ship Q2 of 2019
- In March 2019, Atari announces they're delaying the launch to the end of 2019
- In July 2019, Atari announced they'd be providing more information about the product and game content. That never happened.
- In October 2019, lead architect Rob Wyatt resigned from the project, citing non-payment as the key reason for departure
- In December 2019, Atari states that they're in final stages of pre-production and will be shipping in March 2020
- We're now in the middle of March 2020. Nothing has been released, and Atari has been more-or-less radio silent
Oh dude I completely forgot about it, I even backed this on Kickstarter. As far as I know Steve was getting married and was doing sporadical development live streams but haven't heard a lot since then.
Speaking of Kickstarter, I also remember Butt Sniffing Pugs. Also backed on Kickstarter and I got to try their demo with the giant balls at E3 2015. At least things are still happening there, they sent out a KS update on January, development should pick up again soon after a long hiatus.
Wow, this was announced in 2017 with a tentative release date of this or next year, yikes.
That game was technically officially canceled when the studio shutted down.
Technically not quiet since they did a whole trailer to announce the renaming
