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When was the first time a game's cancellation pissed you off?

SirKai

SirKai

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Dec 28, 2017
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Oh my god, what was it called? It was a PS2/Xbox/GC era action game called... Dead Rush I think? It was a open-ish zombie game with an emphasis on driving. I thought it looked pretty promising at the time.

After that, the eventually cancelled Xbox 360 version of Witcher 1 (I think it was just called Witcher: The White Wolf or something) and the PS2 version of Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare.
 

Kaydigi

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Apr 25, 2019
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Spike Out for the Dreamcast. I don't know if it was ever official announced but I remember Next Generation heavily implying it.
 
Maligna

Maligna

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Oct 25, 2017
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Robotech 64, Castlevania on the Dreamcast and after those, Propeller Arena. It was done and only cancelled because you could fly into buildings and 9/11 happened.
 
Lethologica

Lethologica

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Oct 27, 2017
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I wouldn't say it piss me off but True Fantasy Live Online annoyed me for like a week. That game looked and sounded amazing.
 
mute

mute

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Oct 25, 2017
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Versus XIII, which I got over after the '15 trailer turning it into FFXV, then I played it and was pissed about Versus XIII again.
 
Kaworu

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Oct 28, 2017
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To mention a different Sega Saturn game that was heavily hyped in magazines at the time: Ninja: Shadow of Darkness.
 
New002

New002

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Oct 25, 2017
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Off the top of my head, Scalebound. I wasn't "pissed off" exactly but I was really disappointed and salty about it for a while lol. Yes, I was one of the handful that was legitimately looking forward to it.
 
Combichristoffersen

Combichristoffersen

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Oct 27, 2017
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There's one that never pissed me off, but rather intrigued me because so little was known about it. Back in the mid-2000s it was revealed that Climax were working on a car combat game based on Metallica (!), which eventually got cancelled. I think it took like a decade before anyone managed to find videos of this unfinished project.

 
oasis007

oasis007

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Oct 27, 2017
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I can't remember the first (probably something NES-related), but the Xbox Live version of Goldeneye remastered being cancelled hurt.
 
Rbrogue

Rbrogue

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Oct 28, 2017
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Starcraft Ghost was my first but Megaman Legends 3 is the only one I'm still annoyed about.
 
Chumunga64

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Jun 22, 2018
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I guess scalebound? like I wasn't bummed when it was cancelled but then microsoft kept crackdown 3 (and halo infinite) going for a century and released that piece of crap so why not scalebound?
 
trashbandit

trashbandit

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Dec 19, 2019
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I was salty as hell when Project Copernicus got canceled, especially after its (probably) announcement trailer leaked. It probably would've ended up being a pretty generic themepark mmo, but I was really into the world they were building.
 
Daingurse

Daingurse

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Oct 25, 2017
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Starcraft Ghost's cancellation was a real disappointment. I wanted to play that game soooooo bad.
 
Scottoest

Scottoest

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Cess007 said:
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I wanted it so bad back then :(
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Yep, this is mine. Remember reading about it in GamePro and Nintendo Power and thinking it sounded amazing.
 
Murlin

Murlin

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Feb 12, 2019
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First one I can remember being totally bummed about is Mega Man Mania for GBA. The rumor is that they lost the source code for one or more of the games it was meant to be a port of, but who really knows.

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RowdyReverb

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Oct 25, 2017
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Necron said:
Starcraft Ghost

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I remember when there was a huge preview for Starcraft Ghost in the German edition of GamePro (still going btw). It looked good and sounded promising... and then there was nothing.
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Rbrogue said:
Starcraft Ghost was my first but Megaman Legends 3 is the only one I'm still annoyed about.
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Daingurse said:
Starcraft Ghost's cancellation was a real disappointment. I wanted to play that game soooooo bad.
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Ghost for me too. I was in peak Starcraft fever at the time and I had a shiny new Xbox. I was so intrigued by the idea of seeing all the units close up and adored the mystique of the Ghosts. I was so disappointed
 
sweetie

sweetie

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May 19, 2020
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Wasn't officially revealed or announced iirc, but Chrono Break was the first game to come to mind. ☹️
 
PspLikeANut

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May 20, 2018
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I'm not sure if this counts because the game wasn't technically canceled but..... Final Fantasy 13 Versus. I was devastated when this game turned into FF 15 and it looked or felt nothing like what FF 13 versus promised. No Stella, but most importantly they abandoned that Kingdom hearts style of gameplay that they were going for.
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ScOULaris

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Oct 25, 2017
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Murlin said:
First one I can remember being totally bummed about is Mega Man Mania for GBA. The rumor is that they lost the source code for one or more of the games it was meant to be a port of, but who really knows.

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Huh? If they didn't have the source code for some of the games they needed to port for this wouldn't it never have gotten off the ground to begin with?
 
Murlin

Murlin

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Feb 12, 2019
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That's why I'm skeptical of that claim, it doesn't make much sense when you actually think about it. But no other explanation has ever been offered officially or otherwise, so that narrative just kinda stuck with people.
 
touchfuzzy

touchfuzzy

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Jul 27, 2019
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Donkey Kong Racing was a tough one for 13 year old me. Also, True Fantasy Live Online. I bought an Xbox for it and KOTOR (at least KOTOR was worth it).
 
ScoobsJoestar

ScoobsJoestar

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May 30, 2019
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I'm more salty than it makes sense to be about Scalebound. Realistically I knew nothing about the game, but goddamn it I liked the aesthetic.
 
Le Dude

Le Dude

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May 16, 2018
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Most games get cancelled because they're not shaping up well. There's a few I was really looking forwards to: Pirates of the Caribbean Armada of the Damned and Lord of the Rings the White Council come to mind, but I can't say I was particularly pissed off.

The ones that grind my gears are when it's due to publisher oversight (like many of EA's cancellations) or buyouts (all the in-progress Star Wars games when Disney bought Star Wars).
 
mas8705

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Oct 27, 2017
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Stuck between EA being fools and canceling 1313 (and who know how many other Star Wars games before we finally got Fallen Order) and Scalebound.
 
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