What about that Firefly MMO ? I cannot find out if it's officially cancelled, or "when it's done".
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Cancelled and Unreleased Appreciation Thread
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It's pretty cool how most of these cover mechanics found their way into Rockstar titles, right after Jim Jagger was hired by North in 2009.
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Nothing official but it's been almost two years since anything was said about it (last word was "we're still working"), I'd say cancelled.
I was incredibly bummed out when I found out that Tiberium had been canceled by EA. The game was supposed to be Rainbow 6 in the Command and Conquer universe, and had literally just received an announcement cover story in Game Informer with tons of pics just weeks before EA axed it.
I can't say that I'm surprised by the cancellation. What little footage was shown looked very rough.
I was really looking forward to Castlevania Resurrection on the Dreamcast before it was cancelled (and before playing the terrible N64 games). Mostly because it was my favorite game series growing up on the NES and SNES.
Man, Scalebound would have been one of the best new IPs of this generation. You should check out the post-mortem thread about it. It was a fascinating read to say the least.
However, my biggest game-related heartbreak will always be the cancellation of Silent Hills. I have never played a demo as inventive, as intriguing, and as horrific as the P.T. demo. God willingly, in the near future, I will create a thread for P.T. demo which will involve exploring the world that it depicted and its undiscovered secrets.
You worked on C&C? Awesome!
So, now I have to ask, of course, what's going on with EA and C&C? Do you think, from your experience within, that there might be a chance for a new one?
Tag me when you make that thread because I love P.T. and cry about it every single day.
You and me both :-(
Will do!
Still remember seeing this footage and thinking that games will never be more photorealistic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ThbbN3o5yw
Donkey Kong Racing, to this date, is the one title I mourn the loss of the most. What a great game this could have been.
Donkey Kong Racing, to this date, is the one title I mourn the loss of the most. What a great game this could have been.
I find funny that Warframe apparently has a lot of ties to Dark Sector (that weird 3rd person shooter), and some people say that Warframe its actually a Sequel to darksector itself.
Weird!
I discovered an earlier unreleased Highlander game with some heavy links to that cancelled one.
I'm glad to see Steambot Chronicles 2 has been mentioned. The first game wasn't perfect, but it was special and I was really looking forward to the sequel.
Mostly resident evil 1.5. The day I can play the latest build capcom ever compiled can't come soon enough.
I highly doubt that EA will attempt reviving the franchise in anything like its traditional form, at least for PC. The series, and RTSs in general, never moved a lot of units relative to what a modern AAA game needs to justify its development. When EA closed Victory Games, it also laid off a lot of people who had been the vestiges of Westwood and had handled all of EA's strategy game output through the 2000s as EALA. I don't think there is an appetite creatively for, or a business case to support, reviving RTS development at EA in the near term. I expect EA might use the C&C IP for future mobile titles; seems like it would be a natural competitor to take on Mobile Strike. A longer shot would be licensing the IP out to Petroglyph to do something with, bringing it full circle, but I doubt EA is interested in that as the upside is marginal for them at best.
That's sad to hear...But yeah, not surprising. Were EA even supportive of you guys at Victory Games? It seemed like EA mistreated you in a way and then just cut you off, which was (as a fan) extremly disheartening to see...
But thanks for answering! :D
The game will wright was working on after Spore*. It sounded interesting and ambitious from what i remember but i dont remember what it was other than i was siked over it.
*yes spore was awful.
*yes spore was awful.
:O
I didn't know about that, I'm sad now. Everytime I'd see your name I always thought of Stargate
I have a generally positive view of EA, both as a developer and a fan. They run a smart business and at least in my experience struck a good balance between letting their studios operate autonomously while also providing high level direction and support. Jon Van Caneghem, the GM of Victory Games, was recruited personally by then EA CEO John Riccitiello and by virtue of that we had a lot of support early on. There were a lot of challenges throughout development, and we got caught up in some strategic changes - "Bioware Victory" and the F2P shift - that complicated matters. Ultimately, I don't think the numbers worked out (or ever really could given past performance for C&C titles) for EA to be interested in continuing development. It was painful at the time given how close we were to release by that point, but it seems like EA was intent on unwinding all of their non-mobile western F2P investments. Ended up biting me again on Shadow Realms :(
If it makes you feel better, the game was pretty far from completion
Came to post this. Loved the atmosphere and the concept, bounty hunting in a futuristic open world with aliens, gadgets and parkour. What's there not to like ? I'm still really bitter about this one as it was one of my most anticipated games and nothing has filled its shoes yet.
http://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-brawl-lost-video-game-story
It's a shame that WWE All-Stars was like one of the few WWE spin-off games that ended up being really good. Its sequel was going to lean harder into the cartoony style All-Stars already had and basically was going to be WWE Immortals before Immortals was even a twinkle in WB Games' eyes.
I really would have liked to see the rest of the Xenosaga series and P.T.
Those come to my mind right now.
Those come to my mind right now.
Cry On will forever be one of my most anticipated canceled games.
The combination of The Gooch directing and writing + Cavia in the development + Kimihiko Fujisaka in the art, in a game that was supposed to make us cry at the end? God dammit I still want it!
Never heard of it, but that art looks straight out of Terra Battle
Same artist, Kimihiko Fujisaka. He also worked on the Drakengard series and The Last Story.
Sorry to still bother you; I am just endlessly curious. When you guys decided to announce Shadow Realms, the reception, from what I could gather, was pretty mixed. I think it had to do that "Bioware" was working on an online exclusive thing, which was a new IP. Did you guys ever talk about that internally? It's hard for me to imagine working on something for months or even years, then revealing it to such response.
Hah, no worries. By the time we announced Shadow Realms the project had been in some stage of development for two years and the team felt pretty confident we had found the fun. There had been and still were questions around the IP, the positioning of the game, how it fit (or didn't) in Bioware's portfolio of titles, but the core gameplay loop was satisfying. People who got hands-on time with the game versus those who were just reacting to the trailer/gameplay videos had a generally positive sentiment, something that was borne out in focus groups and smaller playtests we had conducted. The morale of the team was pretty high, especially compared to my experience on C&C, and we felt good about what we were making at that point.
This is so fascinating, all these stories! :D
And Shadow Realms looked like a cool concept. Man, so many devs shut down by EA :(.
Everyone who worked on C&C is automatically awesome! And yeah, that Rengeade 2 video....I REALLY would have loved to walk around in first person in the Red Alert-universe...
Gameplay trailer for Factor 5's WeFly for Wii (originally a Pilotwings reboot, but Nintendo either rejected or dropped it):
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Just saw that a minute ago, looked really awesome.
I found a version of San Francisco Rush that was cancelled for the GBC while I was working last week. Good stuff.
https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/935185658234261504
https://twitter.com/Borman18/status/935185658234261504