Favourite lost/cancelled games or vapourware

[thetwaz]

I was a bit obsessed with this game's tech demo as a kid:

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Gruesome Castle was supposed to be a sort of Scooby Doo rip off in a Mario 64 play style, made by the team that made Flight of the Amazon Queen, and they sent the tech demo with a bunch of PC games magazines in the late 90s, only for it to disappear and never be heard of again.

Any games that you were disappointed disappeared from development?

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Earthbound 64 and Sonic Xtreme

 

[diet_orange]

Star Trek: Secret Of Vulcan Fury

Remember seeing a trailer for it on my copy of Atomic Bomberman. Apparently it kind of turned into a financial sink hole and wasn't feasible. Very much "too far ahead of it's time"

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

StarCraft Ghosts

I still dream of a this game, specially since I read a lot of its wonder as a multiplayer game with classes (I got my stuff from magazines, so I dont know if this is accurate)

EDIT:

it was real... oh boy it could have been so great

 

[pcsm92]

Capcom Fighting All-Stars and Resident Evil 1.5 for me. We got 1.5, so here's hopinh for CFAS.

 

[man I love tuna fish]

ONI 2 sequel to the Bungie's (yes the Halo guys) 2001 Character Action game blended with 90s anime style like. ONI had a one and only combat system, where it combines melee combat with third person shooter and platforming and it seemed like you can approach enemies in any way shape or form. It had a great futuristic espionage theme with anime aestethic. But other than the combat it had many flaws such as uninspired level design, mediocre bosses, and bugs. A sequel could've fixed up everything and make it a classic the same way Halo was. It was cancelled due to poor sales from what I know but I do not have the knowledge to back it up.

 

[Anoobis]

The Oddworld Quintology

 

[King Torro]

Star Wars 1313 would've been a treat to have. A (comparatively) grittier Star Wars Bounty Hunter game in the ps3 / 360 era? Ohh I think that game would've been real cool! I was upset when it was cancelled.

Sleeping Dogs 2 as well. Unfortunate that the game never came to be.

Honorary mention that kind of exists... Warcraft : Lord of the Clans! Never really published, but apparently it exists and can be played.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

Sonic X-treme, EarthBound 64, Rayman 2 (2D version)

 

[PhaseJump]

This one is looking more like it every day.

 

[csanjuro]

Mega Man Legends 3

 

[Tonberry]

Rayman 4
While Origins was amazing and Legends was fine, I can literally never ever get over the Rabbids…

 

[Jeff]

Earthbound 64, Donkey Kong Racing, Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers, Diddy Kong Pilot, Sonic Xtreme, Mega Man Legends 3, Mega Man Anniversary Collection for GameBoy Advance, Conker's Twelve Tales, Kirby Ball 64, Super Mario RPG 2, Super Mario 64 2, Yoshi Racing, Fire Emblem 64, Metroid 64.

 

[moonbits]

 

[Lena CE]

Tiberium! I think I may have told this story elsewhere, but I grew up with a love for Command & Conquer ever since I played Red Alert on my uncle's PS1. Outside of watching some G4 I didn't really keep up with new and upcoming games as a kid, but around 2009 my grandma started picking up old gaming magazines and giving them to me. As someone who didn't have any current gen consoles at the time aside from my PSP I got in the summer that year it was amazing to hear about all these games I knew so little about. These magazines might as well have been cutting edge for me!



One such game made the cover of Game Informer in January of 2008 and went by the name Tiberium. It was a brand new squad based FPS made by EA set in the original Tiberium War universe of Command & Conquer. You'd play as someone who could call in units and command troops in battle, with a planned single player campaign and online PvP component being planned. Unfortunately, the project would be silently cancelled as it slowly slipped out of news coverage.



As a kid though, I had no idea about any of the development woes and cancellations. It was on the cover of a magazine in 2008 and I wouldn't have a 360 to play it on until next year. Upon receiving that 360 though, about a month or two later when going through these old magazines to get ideas for games to get I came across this issue again. I was elated, surely some 2 years after being on the cover of Game Informer the game was out, right? Next trip to Gamestop I looked all over the store for a copy, to no avail. The clerk would then inform me that it was indeed cancelled, and I was utterly devastated.

 

[RetroGameUser25]

Off the top of my head - FF Versus XIII, SW 1313, Terra Battle 2, Republic Commando Sequel, FF Type Next, Cry On, KH Missing Link, KH Fragmented Keys.

 

[bjork]

True Fantasy Live Online

 

[Doomsday519]

Star Wars 1313 would've been a treat to have. A (comparatively) grittier Star Wars Bounty Hunter game in the ps3 / 360 era? Ohh I think that game would've been real cool! I was upset when it was cancelled.

Sleeping Dogs 2 as well. Unfortunate that the game never came to be.

Honorary mention that kind of exists... Warcraft : Lord of the Clans! Never really published, but apparently it exists and can be played.

Sleeping Dogs 2 easily on the top of my list of games that should have been.

 

[Tonberry]

Why must you hurt me…

 

[Ons2k6]

 

[Leguminoso]

This one is looking more like it every day.

Oh goddamn, I forgot this game existed. I saw it like two years ago.

I have some hope, SIGNALIS took almost a decade.

 

[NisenWasTaken (NWT)]

Sonic Xtreme.

The game looked really cool, it was canceled unfortunately.

 

[Guinea]

Square Enix mobile games: All the Bravest, Opera Omnia, Brave Exvius, War of the Visions, Nier ReIncarnation, and others.

 

[Crashbandi]

ONI 2 sequel to the Bungie's (yes the Halo guys) 2001 Character Action game blended with 90s anime style like. ONI had a one and only combat system, where it combines melee combat with third person shooter and platforming and it seemed like you can approach enemies in any way shape or form. It had a great futuristic espionage theme with anime aestethic. But other than the combat it had many flaws such as uninspired level design, mediocre bosses, and bugs. A sequel could've fixed up everything and make it a classic the same way Halo was. It was cancelled due to poor sales from what I know but I do not have the knowledge to back it up.

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Man I loved Oni! Really disappointed about the second game

 

[dropsmegamega]

There's a lot of interesting projects I remember from back when I used to visit unseen64, but the ones I always think about:

-Fallout 3 Van Buren
-Baldur's Gate 3 The Black Hound
-Heroes of Might and Magic V (from the og devs)
-Earthbound 64
-Kirby GCN
-Rayman 4
-Sekai no Hate (from the devs of Garage: Bad Dream Adventure)
-Frog Days (oldschool 1st person adventure/pc sim that served as inspiration for Hypnospace Outlaw)