I think I have permanent nerve damage in my thumb from colecovision but yes that does look very appealing.
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When was the first time a game's cancellation pissed you off?
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I think I have permanent nerve damage in my thumb from colecovision but yes that does look very appealing.
Oh first? Ok changing my answer to sonic extreme on Saturn. In my teens I was the biggest sonic fan and read every magazine that pic or info on it. I was so bummed when I heard it was canceled and we got sonic 3D blast in return :(
A decent game but not what I wanted.
A decent game but not what I wanted.
Capcom's Mega Man bloodbath in 2011.
Legends 3 was cancelled.
Mega Man Universe was cancelled.
At least two other unannounced Mega Man games were cancelled (tho that MMX FPS wasn't a loss)
Mega Man was inconspicuously absent from Marvel vs Capcom 3.
American box art Mega Man is a playable fighter in Street Fighter x Tekken (though this is believed to be a poorly timed joke and a coincidence)
2011 was awful for Mega Man and every punch hurt more than the last.
Legends 3 was cancelled.
Mega Man Universe was cancelled.
At least two other unannounced Mega Man games were cancelled (tho that MMX FPS wasn't a loss)
Mega Man was inconspicuously absent from Marvel vs Capcom 3.
American box art Mega Man is a playable fighter in Street Fighter x Tekken (though this is believed to be a poorly timed joke and a coincidence)
2011 was awful for Mega Man and every punch hurt more than the last.
Mega Man Legends 3.
There was also Rockman Online, a Korean MMO that got cancelled.
Mother/EarthBound 64.
I think that was the first time I realized that a huge game that I was really looking forward to could just.. never come out.
Mother 3 on GBA is great and I'm so glad we got an English translation, but EarthBound 64 was the game I was looking forward to the most on N64, for years.
I think that was the first time I realized that a huge game that I was really looking forward to could just.. never come out.
Mother 3 on GBA is great and I'm so glad we got an English translation, but EarthBound 64 was the game I was looking forward to the most on N64, for years.
Whew lad
For reals, back when I could get hyped and excited for games, the answers are Thrill Kill and Robotech Crystal Dreams. However, at the time, I knew the Robotech game was mostly vaporware.
Fast forward to more modern times and I would say the day when the plot line for Half-Life 2 episode 3 leaked which meant the game was truly dead at that point. I already accepted it wasn't going to happen, or, if there were to be a conclusion to the story it would be so far in our future that modern gaming concepts likely wouldn't apply so it wouldn't feel like a direct sequel to episode 2.
For reals time: Even though I did not care for the series or the genre, but losing Silent Hills was truly one of the most devastating gaming cancellations of modern time or all-time considering what happened to Konami.
Edit: While I wasn't super invested in it at the time, but the cancellation of Starcraft Ghost did suck because I heard nothing but great things from the people I knew who were actually playing it.
For reals, back when I could get hyped and excited for games, the answers are Thrill Kill and Robotech Crystal Dreams. However, at the time, I knew the Robotech game was mostly vaporware.
Fast forward to more modern times and I would say the day when the plot line for Half-Life 2 episode 3 leaked which meant the game was truly dead at that point. I already accepted it wasn't going to happen, or, if there were to be a conclusion to the story it would be so far in our future that modern gaming concepts likely wouldn't apply so it wouldn't feel like a direct sequel to episode 2.
For reals time: Even though I did not care for the series or the genre, but losing Silent Hills was truly one of the most devastating gaming cancellations of modern time or all-time considering what happened to Konami.
Edit: While I wasn't super invested in it at the time, but the cancellation of Starcraft Ghost did suck because I heard nothing but great things from the people I knew who were actually playing it.
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Oh yeah, while this wasn't the first time I was bummed out by a cancellation, this is still super painful.
"Pissed you off" is a specific emotion. Most cancellations are announced after years of radio silence, thus diminishing the anger. You would already see the writing on the wall, so you were prepared for it.
The Silent Hills cancellations was not only sudden, but you knew it had nothing to do with game quality and everything to do with inter-company politics. That's what makes that one sting the most.
The Silent Hills cancellations was not only sudden, but you knew it had nothing to do with game quality and everything to do with inter-company politics. That's what makes that one sting the most.
Mega Man Universe game that look good even though we did not see any gameplay.
The trailer did look very good. To me it was to be a Mega Man Maker right?
The trailer did look very good. To me it was to be a Mega Man Maker right?
The two that came to mind were both for the original Xbox. BC, which was a caveman simulator game of sorts. I think you had a tribe of Neanderthals and you had to hunt and forage to survive.
The other was called Fantasy life I believe. It was an MMORPG that seemed like a lot of fun. I believe it was eventually rebooted as a 3ds game.
I'm also having vague memories from OXM of a picture of an anthromorphized tiger and the article talking about the fur tech. Did that ever come to fruition?
The other was called Fantasy life I believe. It was an MMORPG that seemed like a lot of fun. I believe it was eventually rebooted as a 3ds game.
I'm also having vague memories from OXM of a picture of an anthromorphized tiger and the article talking about the fur tech. Did that ever come to fruition?
The Oddworld Quintology and various spinoffs. I just wanted more Oddworld.
Also the EU release of Warioware twisted because it stayed in the schedules for years before disappearing. Eventually I imported it but I was pissed they never just said that it wasn't coming.
Also the EU release of Warioware twisted because it stayed in the schedules for years before disappearing. Eventually I imported it but I was pissed they never just said that it wasn't coming.
The Lost on PS2 by Irrational Games. After playing System Shock 2, I was really looking forward to anything from the same people... :(
I had save up money on the side for an Xbox to play True Fantasy Live Online...
After the cancellation, that money went into what would eventually become the next gen/PS3 fund.
After the cancellation, that money went into what would eventually become the next gen/PS3 fund.
This wasn't the first game to be cancelled that bummed me out, but it's the first one that came to mind. I was so looking forward to this!
Even though it was never officially unveiled, I am kind of pissed we never got that Arkham game starring Damien in like a run down and mostly abandoned Gotham.
This is the one. The only cancelled game I've cared about. It just sucks, and to think it was cancelled because of that worthless waste of space Marcus Beer, although it was more like the last straw the broke the camel's back for Phil Fish.
Glad you liked the videos.
Peter Molyneux/Lionhead's B.C. (Xbox)
It was their next big open world game, multiple milestones were hit during development and it did actually make some legitimate progress even if it took a long time. Just dropped one day and they never bothered to mention it was cancelled.
Wasn't truly open world in a way people would expect. More self-contained in all the prototypes that existed.
Still kills me to see my video copied and reuploaded for this one.
You wont be too sad when I finally share gameplay of it. It was very, very rough.
And I'm still waiting for him to get his own game dammit
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You seem to be passionate about researching cancelled/unfinished games like I am. Have you see this tome from Bitmap Books that is coming out in a few weeks? I pre-ordered it.
The Lord of the Rings: The White Council
I was high on the hype of LOTR as a kid and was majorly excited when a LOTR RPG was announced.
Gutted when it came to nothing
I was high on the hype of LOTR as a kid and was majorly excited when a LOTR RPG was announced.
Gutted when it came to nothing
Yep, Ive seen it. Should be getting it at the museum I work a now.
Oh I've seen it, it's rough alright. But it's the closest we've gotten to a DD game and I'd still would've like to play it bad or not.
Oh, that was you? And yeah, it was a great and informative video. I wonder what the game would've been like had it been finished.
I bet Dave Mustaine was the final boss.
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No way. It's a straight-up outrage that Ghost was never finished and released. I'm still fuming over it.
Prey 2, the one where you played a space cowboy hunting bounties in some sci fi alien planet. Looked phenomenal. Was really pissed off, and still really sad we never got it. First official cancellation that made me angry and made me say "whyyyyyyy ?! why is this industry so unfair ?!!" as a teenager.
Scalebound recently is the biggest one that comes to mind. The thing might have sucked so it probably made sense to cancel it, but I'm more sad that it turned out that way. I'm a big big Kamiya fan. Recently I feel better about it since Project GG announcement, because until then I was certain than Kamiya was done directing games. Would have sucked that his last directing work was something cancelled.
The first one probably was actually the Kirby game planned for Gamecube.
Didn't include it first in my post because it never was officially cancelled (I think ?) and it got rebooted into what became Kirby Adventure Wii, 6 years later, after a bunch of different attempts/builds. Also, Kirby's ennemies would become his allies in this Gamecube build, a mechanic that finally appeared in a mainline game... 13 years later ! In Star Allies !!
Still, I still include it here because I really would have loved to have a mainline Kirby game on Gamecube, and because it had some beautiful levels, that really clash with what other mainline games offer, aesthetic wise.
Scalebound recently is the biggest one that comes to mind. The thing might have sucked so it probably made sense to cancel it, but I'm more sad that it turned out that way. I'm a big big Kamiya fan. Recently I feel better about it since Project GG announcement, because until then I was certain than Kamiya was done directing games. Would have sucked that his last directing work was something cancelled.
The first one probably was actually the Kirby game planned for Gamecube.
Didn't include it first in my post because it never was officially cancelled (I think ?) and it got rebooted into what became Kirby Adventure Wii, 6 years later, after a bunch of different attempts/builds. Also, Kirby's ennemies would become his allies in this Gamecube build, a mechanic that finally appeared in a mainline game... 13 years later ! In Star Allies !!
Still, I still include it here because I really would have loved to have a mainline Kirby game on Gamecube, and because it had some beautiful levels, that really clash with what other mainline games offer, aesthetic wise.
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My head canon is that every cancelled game would've been a masterpiece had it released. I really, truly (choose to) believe that.
Never been "pissed off" by a cancellation. But, Castlevania for the Dreamcast was the first to break my heart.
Ushiro PSP - the machine was crying out for a decent jrpg at that time, IMO, and that not appearing was a killer.
Enders Project.
iirc it was cancelled because the Zone of Enders HD collection bombed. Like the collection was shit but damn I'm salty that it caused this project to be cancelled.
We only ever got the concept of what the game is and that it was suppose to be in Fox Engine but damn I wanted it bad. I really hope that Kojima Productions makes a spiritual successor to this or at least ZOE in the future.
iirc it was cancelled because the Zone of Enders HD collection bombed. Like the collection was shit but damn I'm salty that it caused this project to be cancelled.
We only ever got the concept of what the game is and that it was suppose to be in Fox Engine but damn I wanted it bad. I really hope that Kojima Productions makes a spiritual successor to this or at least ZOE in the future.
This was what I was coming to post.
I guess my second choice would be City of Metronome.