The Tomb of Canceled Games [Archive]

Ink Asylum

08-12-2010, 12:23 PM

So many games get canceled, I thought there should be a place to discuss some of the more interesting titles that, for whatever reason, never made it out the door.

I'll start off with one that I, and many others, was really looking forward to.

Simsville

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Planned for release not too long after the original The Sims title, Simsville was a step between Sim City and the The Sims. Instead of managing a huge city or an individual house you took care of a growing town, trying to influence your Sims with a system that sounded similar to the fantasy simulator Majesty. Rather than directly controlling your residents you had to get them interested and involved in buildings and events while they followed their desires and goals.

Viewed as too close in concept to both the old and new tentpoles of the Sim family, Simsville was canceled and its features eventually absorbed into both Sim City 4 and future The Sims titles. The Sims 3 is terribly close to what Simsville looked like it would be, minus more direct control over the businesses and non-residential lots in a neighborhood.

I remember being very excited about this game and disheartened by its cancellation, but seeing what they've done with The Sims franchise I can understand how Simsville would have been crowded out and eventually smothered by its incredibly successful and ever-expanding sibling.

Troggles

08-12-2010, 12:25 PM

This is probably the most famous cancelled game out there.

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Ink Asylum

08-12-2010, 12:27 PM

This is probably the most famous cancelled game out there.

Did you really just say that with a straight face?

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Hail to the king of cancelled games.

Voodoo

08-12-2010, 12:41 PM

Ultima X!

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Gameplay
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Superman's Dead

08-12-2010, 12:48 PM

The rest of the Advent Rising Trilogy. RIP.

DoctorFinger

08-12-2010, 12:48 PM

Thrill Kill

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I actually played quite a bit of this on a friend's chipped PSX back in the day. Not terribly good, but the content really was shocking for it's day.

Xerxes

08-12-2010, 12:51 PM

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Ink Asylum

08-12-2010, 12:54 PM

I actually played quite a bit of this on a friend's chipped PSX back in the day. Not terribly good, but the content really was shocking for it's day.

I played a bunch as well at my old game testing job. Probably one of the widest leaked canceled games, especially at the time.

Generation ABXY

08-12-2010, 01:21 PM

I still shed the occasional tear over True Fantasy Live Online. I friggin' bought the Xbox for that game.

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Ink Asylum

08-12-2010, 01:27 PM

Speaking of my old tester job at Acclaim Entertainment, shortly before they went bankrupt they were working on two comic book licensed games for the PS2 and Xbox.

The first was The Red Star, a combination side-scrolling brawler and bullet-hell shooter with co-op play. It was actually good and almost complete when the company went under, so it was eventually picked up and released by another company.

The second game, based on the crime-noir series 100 Bullets, wasn't as lucky. Borrowing heavily from third-person shooters like Max Payne, it was filled with bullet-time, cover mechanics, gun-fu, and heavy violence. If I recall correctly, the story was actually going to be written by Brian Azzarello as a side-plot that wouldn't affect the full canon. You'd play as Cole Burns and a female character created just for the game, Snow Falls.

I only played a few levels, and watched some more, but it wasn't looking all that hot at the time, suffering from poor animation and rough controls. Perhaps that would've been smoothed out before release but we'll never know. Wikipedia says Keanu Reeves was tapped to voice Cole in the game, so it's probably for the best that it was never released.

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That's Snow Falls in the beginning, the one with the huge snow drifts.

Vandabo

08-12-2010, 01:30 PM

I'll start off with one that I, and many others, was really looking forward to.

Simsville

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Panthera

08-12-2010, 01:33 PM

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I was excited for it at the time. :(

Generation ABXY

08-12-2010, 01:33 PM

Oh, and more recently (as in, in this generation), Frame City Killer and Project H.A.M.M.E.R.

Surely not everyone will agree, but I was interested in both of those games.

Zanzibar

08-12-2010, 01:35 PM

Did you really just say that with a straight face?

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Hail to the king of cancelled games.

Duke wasn't cancelled, dumbass!

DUKE CAN NEVER BE CANCELLED. (http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=19027)

Banacek

08-12-2010, 01:42 PM

Anachronox 2, but I guess technically it was never announced.

Xerxes

08-12-2010, 01:51 PM

I still shed the occasional tear over True Fantasy Live Online. I friggin' bought the Xbox for that game.

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Aside from BC and Ghost, this was a huge one.

DoctorFinger

08-12-2010, 02:02 PM

xoanon

08-12-2010, 05:07 PM

I was incredibly excited for a Full Throttle sequel, but without Tim Schafer or Roy Conrad it's probably for the best that it never happened.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Full_Throttle_artwork.jpg

diablopath

08-12-2010, 05:26 PM

No.

StarCraft: Ghost was never canceled. It's only indefinitely postponed.

It's still coming. IT'S STILL GOING TO HAPPEN.

xoanon

08-12-2010, 05:35 PM

No.

StarCraft: Ghost was never canceled. It's only indefinitely postponed.

It's still coming. IT'S STILL GOING TO HAPPEN.

The later stages of grief are easier, man. Trust me.

KamaItachi

08-12-2010, 05:35 PM

Oh, and more recently (as in, in this generation), Frame City Killer and Project H.A.M.M.E.R.

Surely not everyone will agree, but I was interested in both of those games.

Frame City Killer was probably one of my most anticipated games for the 360 when it was announced. It sounded like a great combination of Hitman and GTA with a very large open ended world where you had to stalk your hit and learn their habits/routines before moving in for the kill. Pity that it was cancelled, but every video I ever saw looked terrible.

My own personal picks would be Chakan and the Streets of Rage scheduled for the Dreamcast.

Talisman for Xbox live still pulls at the ol' heartstrings too.

diablopath

08-12-2010, 05:59 PM

The later stages of grief are easier, man. Trust me.

It's just...so hard to let go.

I remember the announcement. I was a heavy regular at SGD back in those days, which was super unpopulated for an official forum. One day, a Blizzard man posted a new thread.

There will be an announcement on this date. I have since forgotten which date that was.

Anyway, they put up a countdown. As the countdown neared zero, an unclear image became more and more clear. As it did so, and as I watched it (along with the crashing of the site), it became a picture of Nova.

StarCraft: Ghost was announced. I sat at home all evening watching that countdown to go zero. I even remember what I ate...two corndogs. Dragon Ball Z was also on TV.

That was before life got complicated.
That was before my heart was broken.
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Adam Blue

08-12-2010, 06:04 PM

The original, Westwood version of C&C 3: Tiberian Twilight.

Zanzibar

08-12-2010, 06:08 PM

It's just...so hard to let go.

I remember the announcement. I was a heavy regular at SGD back in those days, which was super unpopulated for an official forum. One day, a Blizzard man posted a new thread.

There will be an announcement on this date. I have since forgotten which date that was.

Anyway, they put up a countdown. As the countdown neared zero, an unclear image became more and more clear. As it did so, and as I watched it (along with the crashing of the site), it became a picture of Nova.

StarCraft: Ghost was announced. I sat at home all evening watching that countdown to go zero. I even remember what I ate...two corndogs. Dragon Ball Z was also on TV.

That was before life got complicated.
That was before my heart was broken.
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I remember seeing it at E3 shortly before it went into oblivion. It was one of the worst things I'd ever seen at E3.

Xerxes

08-12-2010, 06:18 PM

I remember seeing it at E3 shortly before it went into oblivion. It was one of the worst things I'd ever seen at E3.

Which version? They reworked it about 2 or 3 times if I'm not mistaken.

JayVe

08-12-2010, 06:23 PM

I'm glad Frame City Killer was canceled.

While it may have sounded good on paper, nothing ever positive came out of it.

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Everything, EVERYTHING is plastic! The hair, the clothes, the bricks on the wall, the guns, the cars. Everything.

And in the name of all that is good, what the hell is up with that music?

In HD, it looked hella-worse too.

Chaos Machine

08-12-2010, 06:28 PM

Xerxes

08-12-2010, 06:32 PM

JayVe

08-12-2010, 06:35 PM

Propeller Arena.

Game was completely done, and was about to be released, then 9/11 happened. Sega decided an airplane combat game that can take place around skyscrapers would not be a good idea.

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You can still find this game if you search hard enough. Burn it to a CD, and it'll play on your Dreamcast.

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It had online play too.

Maybe we'll see it as an XBL Arcade game?

*prays*

jpublic

08-12-2010, 06:42 PM

Ascendancy 2,

heres a link of some gameplay footage of the first, keep in mind this game came out in 1995. The music was pretty awsome for a game back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnKthUF5yYk&feature=related

Dude, Ascendancy was aweome. I loved that game. I think I have a CD with it on it kicking around here.

JayVe

08-12-2010, 06:44 PM

I may be carbon-dating myself, but I wanted Champions the computer game so badly! It was based on the pen-and-paper RPG of the same name (Actually used the HERO system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_System)) which had the BEST system for creating powers. I played the RPG at the time with friends, and the computer game sounded like it would capture all of the detail of the RPG.

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The origins of the superhero curse began with Champions, published by Hero Games. This was the game that was based on the popular pen and paper roleplaying series. That pen and paper series is still played today and is arguably the most popular superhero RPG, outstripping the licensed Marvel and DC systems. Then in 1990 Hero Games formed Hero Software to begin work on a PC version of the pen and paper game.

The game design was promising enough to get Champions featured in a cover story in Computer Gaming World magazine. Players could use pre-made heroes or create their own from Champions skill-based system, and could even design their own costumes. Combat was to be turn-based from an isometric perspective as players would play the game in an episodic manner by playing individual adventures that were to be strung together to form a complete game. The game was to feature random encounters as well, and players would even get to create a secret identity for their heroes. It all sounded great and game fans were intrigued.

So what went wrong? A couple of things according to Steve Peterson, one of the founders of Hero Games. "Superhero games are more open-ended than traditional RPGs. You have so much more to account for when you're creating the game, because players will expect to be able to do anything in the game world that they see happen in a comic." In the end the game seemed beyond the scope of Hero Games, which had never created a computer game before, and the two lead programmers who were married to each other went through a divorce as well. The game was abandoned.

Karmakin

08-12-2010, 06:44 PM

Dark Phoenix. Was one of the originally announced "Capcom Five" for the GC. Looked great, as I love freeform aerial shooters (shame what happened to Warhawk:p), but went nowhere. The rest of those games were great. Yes, even that PE05 one.

Oh. And MTG:Armageddon. First, I was a big MTG fan in those days. Second, I was a HUGE fan of Rampart, and it sounded something in the same vibe, a strategy/puzzle fighting game.

JayVe

08-12-2010, 06:50 PM

Dark Phoenix. Was one of the originally announced "Capcom Five" for the GC. Looked great, as I love freeform aerial shooters (shame what happened to Warhawk:p), but went nowhere. The rest of those games were great. Yes, even that PE05 one.I JUST came here to post this!

Oh, and I think it was Dead Phoenix

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Xerxes

08-12-2010, 06:51 PM

I'm a little down about Cry On.

Zanzibar

08-13-2010, 10:37 AM

Which version? They reworked it about 2 or 3 times if I'm not mistaken.

This was the Nihilistic version. The gameplay was all right, but the art looked like hell - to a point where an in-game cutscene showed a low-poly Siege Tank up close blowing up. It was awful - giant cubes slowly coming apart amidst some of the worst particle work I'd ever seen. I couldn't help myself, it just came out: "Oh my God, I'd NEVER show that at E3." I turn to my left and there's a guy, scowling at me, with a Nihilistic E3 badge on. I open my mouth to say something, then I thought better of it and just left.

Shortly after that E3, I heard that Nihilistic was no longer working on the title. I don't think Ghost has been seen publicly since, but I could be wrong about that.

EDIT: Totally wrong. Swingin' Ape's version was at E3 2005.

Gorvi

08-13-2010, 10:46 AM

Hmmm. I actually had to think about this one for a bit, but came up with these:

Dragon Quest IV (PS1 Remake)
Fear Effect: Inferno
True Fantasy Live Online

I figured there would be more, but I believe that's it.

Adam Blue

08-13-2010, 10:53 AM

I'm glad you brought up Propeller Arena. Once I heard it had been released on the nets, I always meant to download it and play it...but never got around to it. That will now change.

Xerxes

08-13-2010, 10:57 AM

Tiberium, the command and conquer fps.

Superman's Dead

08-13-2010, 11:16 AM

Tiberium, the command and conquer fps.

Is that the same as C&C Renegade, which was released?

TheSilentDeath

08-13-2010, 11:20 AM

Is that the same as C&C Renegade, which was released?

This was one that was announced for next generation consoles several years ago IIRC.

One canceled game that really bummed me out at the time was the original Half-Life on the Dreamcast.

Chimpbot

08-13-2010, 11:49 AM

While it's technically not a canceled game, I want a damn final chapter to the Legacy of Kain series. Defiance was great and the story had managed to come full-circle back to Kain...and then it just stopped. Nothing. Nadda.

Exodus

08-13-2010, 12:01 PM

This is probably the most famous cancelled game out there.

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This game is totally going to get made within my life time. If they aren't planning on making it when I hit 30 I will march right up to Blizzard when I hit 32 with a fully fleshed out design .doc and camp outside of their texas hq until they give me audience.

Zero

08-13-2010, 12:28 PM

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My favorite Marvel character has always been Daredevil so I was sad when I found out this was cancelled.

MachEnergy

08-13-2010, 12:33 PM

My own personal picks would be Chakan and the Streets of Rage scheduled for the Dreamcast.

I'll double down on Chakan. I was a HUUUUGE fan of the Genesis game, and loved my Dreamcast like a proper SEGA fan should. So, when I read an article on IGN about a new Chakan, and the concept art looked like this: http://dcmedia.ign.com/media/previews/image/chakan/in_story1.jpg

.....yeah. I was super depressed when it was canceled.

TheKeck

08-13-2010, 12:41 PM

Did you really just say that with a straight face?

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Hail to the king of cancelled games.
As others have mentioned, at least ostensibly, it was never "canceled".
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I was excited for it at the time. :(
I was SOOO excited for that.

aVaKus

08-13-2010, 12:51 PM

Project Offset and The Crossing were 2 I was really looking forward to. :(

Harker is another one.

Xerxes

08-13-2010, 12:57 PM

Project Offset

I don't know how I missed this, but you just broke my heart. :(

Intel is sliding higher on my shit list.

muddi900

08-13-2010, 01:11 PM

muddi900

08-13-2010, 01:13 PM

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My favorite Marvel character has always been Daredevil so I was sad when I found out this was cancelled.

That just looks like a reskinned version of the PS1 Spider-man games.

Superman's Dead

08-13-2010, 01:33 PM

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My favorite Marvel character has always been Daredevil so I was sad when I found out this was cancelled.

I feel like you and I are best friends now.

J Arcane

08-13-2010, 01:46 PM

Isn't Champions Online based on the same RPG?

Champions Online is based on the setting, not the rules.

aVaKus

08-13-2010, 02:06 PM

I don't know how I missed this, but you just broke my heart. :(

Intel is sliding higher on my shit list.

Aww. I'm sorry xerxes. I was pretty upset too. :(

Clark

08-13-2010, 05:50 PM

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I was excited for it at the time. :(

I'd buy this today.

BigJonno

08-13-2010, 06:11 PM

The two that always spring to mind for me are TFLO and one of Microsoft's other MMO victims, Mythica (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqroz9iSy3A).

I was so pissed off when I heard that it was cancelled. I'd already returned the NDA form for the alpha, I was going to be one of the first people to play the game outside of the developers and a few press demos.

Darkmatter

08-13-2010, 07:06 PM

Narradisall

08-14-2010, 01:22 PM

Legacy of Kain

Dungeon Keeper 3.

Oh and the new 'Dungeons' doesn't count without Horny.

SC Ghost the Swinging Apes version looked alright, but I could see why Blizzard shut it down, no where near their usual polish standard.

Jason

08-14-2010, 02:44 PM

There wasn't an actual canceled game, but I was very sad when I heard that the Wing Commander series was canned. Same with the lack of a Freespace 3. FS 2 was great and I still play both of them from time to time. We need a big revival of the space sim genre.

I've been alone for so long... *sniff*... dead inside... *sniff*... What is life without dodging plasma beams from massive capital ships? WHAT IS IT I ASK YOU!?

This is an extremely long shot, but perhaps the upcoming space combat in Halo: Reach will spawn a new interest in space combat. Like you, I would love to see a new Freespace or Wing Commander. Square released a Japanese space combat game on the 360 last year or the year before. I tried the demo and wasn't impressed. Perhaps I should start looking in the bargin bins for it.

Superman's Dead

08-14-2010, 02:47 PM

There wasn't an actual canceled game, but I was very sad when I heard that the Wing Commander series was canned. Same with the lack of a Freespace 3. FS 2 was great and I still play both of them from time to time. We need a big revival of the space sim genre.

I've been alone for so long... *sniff*... dead inside... *sniff*... What is life without dodging plasma beams from massive capital ships? WHAT IS IT I ASK YOU!?

Project Sylpheed for the 360 is really good. Super console-y, yes, but it has massive battles and a ton of weapons. You feel like a badass near the end of the game, and it encourages you to play through multiple times to win battles by more and more. Plus you can slow down time, which I always forget.

axion

08-14-2010, 02:53 PM

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ThievesAmongUs

08-14-2010, 03:12 PM

No.

StarCraft: Ghost was never canceled. It's only indefinitely postponed.

It's still coming. IT'S STILL GOING TO HAPPEN.

I will always submit that Starcraft: Ghost was just a cover for Starcraft 2.

Ink Asylum

08-14-2010, 04:15 PM

And now for a game we should all be glad got canceled:

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Space Quest re-imagined as a generic 3D platformer adventure.

Jason

08-14-2010, 07:46 PM

Project Sylpheed for the 360 is really good. Super console-y, yes, but it has massive battles and a ton of weapons. You feel like a badass near the end of the game, and it encourages you to play through multiple times to win battles by more and more. Plus you can slow down time, which I always forget.

That's the one I was thinking of. Glad to hear it is better than the demo was. Amazon has it for $11.31. Wet is also $20 on the 360 and $18 on the PS3. Gonna pick both of them up.

JayVe

08-15-2010, 01:17 AM

I hated Project Slypheed.

The battles were endless and I was always lost. I purchased the game for $19 and still felt ripped off.

Also, I fucking LOATHE escort missions.

Jason

08-15-2010, 07:31 AM

I hated Project Slypheed.

The battles were endless and I was always lost. I purchased the game for $19 and still felt ripped off.

Also, I fucking LOATHE escort missions.

Lots of escort missions? I hate those as well.

MagGnome

08-15-2010, 12:27 PM

I actually had a customer at my Gamestop in tears when I told her that SimsVille was canceled. She and her sister (I think? Maybe her mother?) came in and bought every Sims expansion the day it released, and she was devastated when SimsVille was killed.

They should have just played SimTown then.

I'm surprised no one has posted the "realistic" Zelda trailer that Nintendo fans thought would come out on the Gamecube. The one before Wind Waker was announced. I remember fans frothing over that one for years!

Here's the one that came immediately to mind for me:

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Who knows what else Bullfrog was working on when EA ran them into the ground. :(

Generation ABXY

08-15-2010, 12:29 PM

Huh, I don't remember a Zelda trailer. Mind you, I have piss for memory, but still...

MagGnome

08-15-2010, 12:35 PM

There wasn't an actual canceled game, but I was very sad when I heard that the Wing Commander series was canned. Same with the lack of a Freespace 3. FS 2 was great and I still play both of them from time to time. We need a big revival of the space sim genre.

I've been alone for so long... *sniff*... dead inside... *sniff*... What is life without dodging plasma beams from massive capital ships? WHAT IS IT I ASK YOU!?

Rumor has it that Ironclad's next title might be a space combat game. That would be pretty damn awesome if true. There's also Eve Online and the X games, although they focus more on trading.

Ironclad is the developer of Sins of a Solar Empire, for those not in the know.

I was really disappointed when Warcraft Adventures was canceled, so I'm glad to see it mentioned in this thread.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the 14 Shenmue games that we never got. Black & White was also supposed to be a five-part series, although I suppose that could still happen. :p

MagGnome

08-15-2010, 12:40 PM

Huh, I don't remember a Zelda trailer. Mind you, I have piss for memory, but still...

I found it. Keep in mind this was shown in 2000. Nintendo fans went wild, and this trailer was brought up frequently until Twilight Princess was announced, with some fans lamenting that Wind Waker was made instead of this:

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Oh, and it was shown at Spaceworld 2000, not E3 as I had thought.

Generation ABXY

08-15-2010, 12:40 PM

I was tempted to say Fable... I mean, there's no denying there was quite a difference between what we got and what was promised with Project Ego. ;)

EDIT: And, nope, don't recall having ever seen that trailer, Mags. Thanks for tracking it down, though.

MagGnome

08-15-2010, 12:44 PM

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That reminded me of the Halo trailer from Macworld 1999, before Bungie was bought by Microsoft:

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It also reminded me that we will probably never see another Myth game. :(

Superman's Dead

08-15-2010, 12:51 PM

Lots of escort missions? I hate those as well.

It's difficult, for sure. It isn't traditional escort missions, but you have to keep a watch over your fleet. If you let too many enemy ships past you, yeah, your carrier is gonna blow up and you're gonna lose.

It's a hard game, yes, but it's like 10 bucks now at gamestop, and once you're playing through on a new game + with all the weapons you feel like a complete badass. The radio chatter is great on the game, too. Lots going on.

jpublic

08-15-2010, 02:52 PM

Project Silpheed I played on Easy, and never felt bad for it. That game is tricky.

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08-15-2010, 03:33 PM

MagGnome

08-15-2010, 04:19 PM

When did they make another Dungeon keeper? Or "Dungeons"

http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=19053

digitalErich

08-15-2010, 04:23 PM

While I'm by no means a hater of the franchise (not even close), every time I see that old Macworld Halo trailer, I'm reminded that I still want that game more than any current or future Halo game.

civil

08-15-2010, 05:00 PM

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Fear Effect: Inferno
I was coming in to name these two, with Fear Effect being the one I'm most saddened by. But I'll also add:

The Agency
Agent (though not officially canceled, I have a feeling it may be)
LA Noire (ditto)

Squidbot

08-15-2010, 05:23 PM

Shenmue III
Starcraft Ghost.... hmmm....

Star Wars Battlefront 3 could have been awesome.

MalReynolds

08-15-2010, 05:50 PM

Heres a Xbox360 Launch title ... or is it?

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BigJonno

08-15-2010, 05:55 PM

I was coming in to name these two, with Fear Effect being the one I'm most saddened by. But I'll also add:

The Agency
Agent (though not officially canceled, I have a feeling it may be)
LA Noire (ditto)

You realise that The Agency hasn't been cancelled either, right? Although I reckon that if we do ever see it, it'll be some kind of team-based shooter with nary a MMO element in sight.

Banacek

08-15-2010, 08:06 PM

Heres a Xbox360 Launch title ... or is it?

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Isn't that the game from the movie Grandma's Boy?

Generation ABXY

08-15-2010, 08:19 PM

The Agency
Agent (though not officially canceled, I have a feeling it may be)
LA Noire (ditto)

I'd be very surprised (and, of course, terribly pissed) if L.A. Noire gets the axe, especially after the recent G.I. article.

pomeroy

08-15-2010, 08:35 PM

LA Noire (ditto)

Definitely not canceled. My best friend's other best friend (yeah, I know), is the protagonist.

Xerxes

08-15-2010, 08:36 PM

Isn't that the game from the movie Grandma's Boy?

Yeah. If I recall it was also supposed to be a real game that got cancelled. They just used the assets for marketing for the game as well.

civil

08-15-2010, 09:05 PM

You realise that The Agency hasn't been cancelled either, right? Although I reckon that if we do ever see it, it'll be some kind of team-based shooter with nary a MMO element in sight.
IIRC, it was put on indefinite hold and not a peep has been heard since last year when it was supposed to have come out this year (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/33705/Sony-dates-PS3-MMO-duo-for-2010). But recent events (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6269171.html) led me to believe that it was canned, but that was all internet speculation so who knows. I'm not nearly as up on this type of stuff as any of you, so my thoughts on these matters should always be suspect.

I'd be very surprised (and, of course, terribly pissed) if L.A. Noire gets the axe, especially after the recent G.I. article.
Ditto, but in some cases silence isn't golden, and that article was back in February and AFAIK nothing has been heard since. It was due this year. :(

Definitely not canceled. My best friend's other best friend (yeah, I know), is the protagonist.
I have no idea what the fuck this means, but you've given me hope!

Stoke

08-15-2010, 09:19 PM

I feel like I'm the only one in the world that wanted this game.

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Even had an avatar/title based around it for a while. Might have to go back to it again soon.

MagGnome

08-15-2010, 09:43 PM

I forgot all about Faith & A .45! That reminded me of a few other canceled games that are just on the other side of my brain where I can't quite see them.

I know, for example, that Nintendo has canceled a number of games, but none of them have been mentioned yet in this thread. Minus that Zelda trailer that I posted, which was supposedly never an actual title in development.

Ink Asylum

08-15-2010, 09:59 PM

Did someone say canceled Nintendo game?

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I have a ROM for this but I've never gotten it to work right on an emulator.

KamaItachi

08-15-2010, 10:04 PM

Oh yeah, that Aliens RPG had me holding out hope for something different, but that got canned quite quickly to make room for AvP :(

pomeroy

08-15-2010, 10:34 PM

I have no idea what the fuck this means, but you've given me hope!

My best friend from college has another best friend. This guy has been cast as the protagonist in LA Noire (he's also on Mad Men). Hence why I say that it is not canceled.

MagGnome

08-15-2010, 10:39 PM

Pom's best friend's uncle's roommate's girlfriend's fifth counsin's dog has been given a voice role in L.A. Noire. Therefore the game has definitely not been canceled.

Banacek

08-15-2010, 11:16 PM

L.A. Noire isn't cancelled. Shit, the dev team almost sued Rockstar because of how hard they are working them.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RockstarSpouse/20100107/4032/Wives_of_Rockstar_San_Diego_employees_have_collect ed_themselves.php

digitalErich

08-15-2010, 11:24 PM

No one but me is going to remember this game series, but Crusader 2. This one was supposed to have MP and the Silencer was going to be able to roll, y'all.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Silencer_%28crusader%29.jpg

Also, wasn't Planet Moon working on a Giants:CK 2 at one point or was that never officially confirmed?

MagGnome

08-16-2010, 12:26 AM

What happened to Planet Moon? Are they still around?

digitalErich

08-16-2010, 12:30 AM

What happened to Planet Moon? Are they still around?
They are, but making Wii and iPhone games these days, I think.

MagGnome

08-16-2010, 02:43 AM

That's a shame. :/

BigJonno

08-16-2010, 05:17 AM

IIRC, it was put on indefinite hold and not a peep has been heard since last year when it was supposed to have come out this year (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/33705/Sony-dates-PS3-MMO-duo-for-2010). But recent events (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6269171.html) led me to believe that it was canned, but that was all internet speculation so who knows. I'm not nearly as up on this type of stuff as any of you, so my thoughts on these matters should always be suspect.

There was a PvP teaser released around E3 that I only discovered about a week ago. There's also a Facebook game, which is pretty fun until it starts hitting typical FB game limits (as in, you can only get five minutes of play every few hours unless you fork out real monies, so fuck that shit.)

I very much doubt that we'll see the game as intended, but I have a feeling it'll be released as yet another team-based MP shooter that we don't need.

Gorvi

08-16-2010, 06:14 AM

Did someone say canceled Nintendo game?

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I have a ROM for this but I've never gotten it to work right on an emulator.
Man, I completely forgot about that. I can still remember what the EGM preview spread looked like for the game, I was so damn excited at the time. :(

civil

08-16-2010, 06:21 AM

Gorvi

08-16-2010, 06:29 AM

Okay, this thread has rekindled my hope in two games! Come on lads, can someone give me something to look forward to in regards to Agent? Or, I almost can't bring myself to type it out...Fear Effect?

I will summon my Google Fu Powers later, but in case any of you know something already...
We don't even know anything about Agent, yet, do we? Other than that it's on the PS3 and they drew up a logo?

As for Fear Effect, it's dead, but with it being an Eidos property, and them being bought by Square Enix, I wouldn't totally rule out a new Fear Effect. If nothing else SE loves to revive old franchises (see: Tactics Ogre).

Tayaya

08-16-2010, 07:06 AM

Did someone say canceled Nintendo game?

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I have a ROM for this but I've never gotten it to work right on an emulator.

The original ROM for Starfox 2 was not complete and riddled with bugs.

Someone out there actually fixed them so that the game could be played, and finished the translation so that the game could be played to completion.

There's a fixed ROM out there these days. I don't have it personally, but I have played it. I don't think it's as good of a game as the original or 64, but I can assure you it's much better than Starfox Assault.

Gorvi

08-16-2010, 07:09 AM

The original ROM for Starfox 2 was not complete and riddled with bugs.

Someone out there actually fixed them so that the game could be played, and finished the translation so that the game could be played to completion.

There's a fixed ROM out there these days. I don't have it personally, but I have played it. I don't think it's as good of a game as the original or 64, but I can assure you it's much better than Starfox Assault.
Castration may very well be better than Star Fox Assault, or any Star Fox made after SF64 for that matter.

blair

08-16-2010, 07:16 AM

No one but me is going to remember this game series, but Crusader 2. This one was supposed to have MP and the Silencer was going to be able to roll, y'all.

You are aware that Crusader: No Regret exists and while it does not support multiplayer you can roll using ctrl+arrow keys?

Tayaya

08-16-2010, 09:23 AM

Castration may very well be better than Star Fox Assault, or any Star Fox made after SF64 for that matter.

Very, very true. Though I have to admit Starfox Adventures is a game that I have something of a soft spot for. I don't know why. Maybe it's because it was amazing looking for its time, if not all that great to actually play. If the cut back the fetch-questing even by just a little bit, it would've been enjoyable. Rare had this problem back then of making you take every fetch quest to its utmost extreme in order to proceed, and that's NO GOOOOD.

A little fetching to advance the story with the option of doing more for acheivements is OK with me. Having to find every single piece of this or that no matter what - irritating!

divinechaos

08-16-2010, 09:38 AM

Shenmue III

Star Wars Battlefront 3 could have been awesome.

I would kill for those two.

digitalErich

08-16-2010, 09:47 AM

You are aware that Crusader: No Regret exists and while it does not support multiplayer you can roll using ctrl+arrow keys?
No Regret was more of an expansion than a sequel, which was why they were calling the next game Crusader 2 (dev's working title, not something I made up). Sure, it was stand alone, but outside of a some graphical additions (not upgrades) and a weapon or two, it was the exact same game.

And yes, you can roll (in both of them) but this was going to be more of a fluid combat roll, not the stop-crouch-roll thing you got in the first two games. I still remember at the back of the instruction booklet for No Regret, they had a frame-by-frame sprite graphic of this new roll move along with a blurb for what they were planning for Crusader 2.

pomeroy

08-16-2010, 10:05 AM

Pom's best friend's uncle's roommate's girlfriend's fifth counsin's dog has been given a voice role in L.A. Noire. Therefore the game has definitely not been canceled.

I will cut you, you filthy little Gnome.

civil

08-16-2010, 10:15 AM

Speaking of which: pomeroy, did the girl who gave you your first handjob also give the first handjob to someone working on Agent? That would be information I could trust.

Zero

08-16-2010, 10:47 AM

Did someone say canceled Nintendo game?

Pda2jBcUBWg

I have a ROM for this but I've never gotten it to work right on an emulator.

That looks freakin' sweet. I may have to track that ROM down. As far as the series goes I thought Star Fox DS was the worst one, I liked Assault. It had it's negatives but I thought the positives greatly outweighed them.

Banacek

08-16-2010, 10:55 AM

Are they making a sequel to The Darkness? I hope so.

Gorvi

08-16-2010, 11:52 AM

Are they making a sequel to The Darkness? I hope so.
It was announced a looooooong time ago but I can't recall hearing a single thing about it since. I want to say it was announced at ComicCon 2 years ago.

jpublic

08-16-2010, 11:53 AM

Eternal Darkness 2?

pomeroy

08-16-2010, 12:13 PM

Speaking of which: pomeroy, did the girl who gave you your first handjob also give the first handjob to someone working on Agent? That would be information I could trust.

Bastard. I knew I shouldn't have said anything.

MagGnome

08-16-2010, 12:15 PM

I will cut you, you filthy little Gnome.

Bring it on, Pomegranate. :p

JayK47

08-16-2010, 04:56 PM

I feel like I'm the only one in the world that wanted this game.

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Even had an avatar/title based around it for a while. Might have to go back to it again soon.

Looks like a good game. Funny how games like this get put on hold while games like Velvet Assassin and Wet make it out the door.

crazyD

08-16-2010, 05:24 PM

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I was excited for it at the time. :(

I probably would have really dug that game. While I love Blizzard's commitment to polish, they don't work in genres I have any interest in. I do love Adventure games, though.

Speaking of which...

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civil

08-16-2010, 06:13 PM

Looks like a good game. Funny how games like this get put on hold while games like Velvet Assassin and Wet make it out the door.
Hey hey now, I'm having a hell of a lot more fun playing VA than I ever did playing God of War III or FF XIII. The game could go to shit from this point on and I'd still personally rank it much higher than some other games that get better sales/ratings/talkups.