Prototype, Beta, pre-release and cancelled games

[MegaHiro91]

Not to be pedantic but it was actually a PS2 port of a PSP game
I agree with your sentiment though, they could give it to someone else, but I guess they don’t want to. Outsourcing in that way is still pretty rare in games I feel.

I know it was, but I assumed you knew that I knew.

 

[Tonberry]

I know it was, but I assumed you knew that I knew.

Do have the art for Daxter from that same Naughty Dog thing by the way? I was looking for it but couldn’t find it with commentary like that pic anywhere.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I know it probably wouldn't even have been that good, but dammit I want to at least play it once.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

SIGH

And Prey 2

 

[Lena CE]

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I know it probably wouldn't even have been that good, but dammit I want to at least play it once.

I honestly think it would've been pretty solid. If the fighting game community has taught me anything it's that even the weirdest, jankest games will foster a dedicated scene of people who love it regardless. The dev team had pedigree and contemporary games like KoF: Maximum Impact were fun despite the silliness and complicated legacy.

Besides, it had Strider and Alex in it. It couldn't have been anything but peak!

Prey 2

Maaaan the fact that we lost this game to a hostile takeover by Zenimax/Bethesda is still so fucking depressing. Shame that Human Head never recovered...

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Final Fantasy Versus XIII. I know XV exists and is also pretty good, but the brutalist skyscraper-filled gothic story about star-crossed lovers just wasn't the same as the boy brand road trip in rural Texas we ended up getting.

tbf even what we know of Versus tells us that we'd still have plenty of boy band road trip. Game just would have actually had a coherent, finished story and romance :')

 

[What's His Face]

StarCraft: Ghost
Ace Harding: Lost in Las Vegas (NES)
Fireteam Rogue
Megaman Legends 3 (fuck you, Crapcom)
Silent Hills
Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter
Star Wars 1313 (fuck you, too, Disnope)
Dino Crisis 3 & Parasite Eve 3 (no, those abominations using their corpses as their skin do NOT count)

 

[ZombieFish]

The Lost. Loved Irrational, loved where survival horror was going, ate up GameSpot’s previews, but alas.

[EDIT: Wait, what? Turns out it exists and is on Myabandonware. How am I just finding this out? Guess I know what I’m doing tonight.]

 

[dr grim]

Prey 2

Command and conquer generals 2

 

[Trainer Red]

... I'm probably one of a few people that actually fell for the Pokemon Stars hype lol
Even though it turned out that was gonna be a plan B if the Nintendo Switch sales weren't as expected ... they should have released it still !

And I guess Pokemon Z probably counts ? There's enough evidence to suggest it was supposed to have came out in 2015 with all the internal placeholders found and all ~
Ah well Pokemon Legends Z-A kinda makes up for it ... sorta

 

[Jakkaraius]

I was really looking forward to the Highlander game since I'm a huge fan of the movies but sadly it was not meant to be

 

[Comster]

I really wanted to play Sonic X-treme for the Sega Saturn, but I was so disappointed when I found out that the game was cancelled. This happened back in the 1990s.

 

[cjl8336]

I remember being completely geeked out for Sonic Xtreme only for it to never happen - I decided on a PlayStation instead of a Saturn for my birthday in 1997, and the rest is history

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Scalebound and the real Dinosaur Planet.
Also Deep Down. It's not cancelled but the odds of it happening are likely.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

I remember anticipating Sonic X-treme on Sega Saturn which never surfaced. Bonk: Brink of Extinction on Xbox 360 was another one, but with low expectations- still was disappointed it was canned.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I remember anticipating Sonic X-treme on Sega Saturn which never surfaced. Bonk: Brink of Extinction on Xbox 360 was another one, but with low expectations- still was disappointed it was canned.

Wow, they planned Bonk?

But it looks a bit ugly like that Wiiware Adventure Island but I would've been curious to play it.

Sadly in the 00's 2D platformers unless they're indie or Mario they wouldn't survive.

 

[TheWanderer]

So apparently there was a sequel to Total overdose that got axed
Sad tbh it was my favourite childhood game

 

[yona]

vtmb 2 :(

 

[PhrawzT]

vtmb 2 :(

Is it actually cancelled?
I know it has had many planned release dates for the past 2 years that have come and gone.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

There was a trailer for a new ridge racer some years ago...

 

[Deleted member 1816]

There was a trailer for a new ridge racer some years ago...

WHAT?! WHERE?!

 

[Lee__Kanker]

WHAT?! WHERE?!

It was gonna be a switch game :(

Namco was having success on the switch so it made for a good fit..

 

[Deleted member 1816]

It was gonna be a switch game :(

Namco was having success on the switch so it made for a good fit..

You've gotta be kidding me...

 

[Lee__Kanker]

You've gotta be kidding me...

It got cancelled like as soon as it got announced, way to piledrive my hopes
The switch has lots of arcade racers it wouldve been a good fit!
It cant have been too expensive to make, makes you wonder what happened behind the scenes

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Prey 2
Starcraft Ghost
Amen the awakening
Beyond good and evil 2 (it’s not official yet but come on, we all know…)
Star Wars battlefront 3
Timesplitters 4

 

[Kamako]

Abandoned
Game was heavily implied to be a Kojima PsyOp, or at the very least an intriguing survival horror game with stealth elements. Too bad it never saw the light of day