Favorite cut content in games

Remember that laughably shit mission in Skyrim where you literally talk to a door, Mephala hands you the ebony blade and the quest ends in under five minutes? That quest was originally awesome and incredibly dark. The Jarl's eldest son would become possessed by Mephala with your help, slaughter his siblings. and then commit patricide.

Nearly the entire quest was cut due to Bethesda cucking out over political concerns about violence against children, although interestingly enough some of the original quest dialogue remains with npcs in Whiterun talking about the eldest son becoming strange and violent.
 
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Ruin said:
Remember that laughably shit mission in Skyrim where you literally talk to a door, Mephala hands you the ebony blade and the quest ends in under five minutes? That quest was originally awesome and incredibly dark. The Jarl's eldest son would become possessed by Mephala with your help and then slaughter his siblings and then commit patricide.

Nearly the entire quest was cut due to Bethesda cucking out over political concerns about violence against children, although interestingly enough some of the original quest dialogue remains with npcs in Whiterun talking about the eldest son becoming strange and violent.
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That's actually my favorite quest in the game because of how much I hated that kid. He definitely would've been redeemed if they could have kept it in.
 
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Remember that laughably shit mission in Skyrim where you literally talk to a door, Mephala hands you the ebony blade and the quest ends in under five minutes? That quest was originally awesome and incredibly dark. The Jarl's eldest son would become possessed by Mephala with your help, slaughter his siblings. and then commit patricide.

Nearly the entire quest was cut due to Bethesda cucking out over political concerns about violence against children, although interestingly enough some of the original quest dialogue remains with npcs in Whiterun talking about the eldest son becoming strange and violent.
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There were some technical concerns as well.

The Civil War revolves around Jarl Balgruff's existence quite a bit, and while his brother would have taken his place in the event of his death, so much of the game dialouge was centered on Balgruff it would have been a hassle to ensure it would switch over to Hrongar and play out the same.
 
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All of Soul Reaver's 1 cut content.
The other LoK games also have their fair share of cut content but SR1 is downright infamous. 3 whole levels got cut, along with 3 boss fights, a completely different ending and numerous upgrades (such as elemental reaver upgrades outside of fire, Spirit glyph, possession ability, etc) all got canned.
It was partly due to technical reasons (the PS1 couldn't handle how huge the world of SR1 got) and partly due to time constraints.

I'd like to add all the cut versions of Duke Nukem Forever as well.
 
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RIP_SANITY said:
All of Soul Reaver's 1 cut content.
The other LoK games also have their fair share of cut content but SR1 is downright infamous. 3 whole levels got cut, along with 3 boss fights, a completely different ending and numerous upgrades (such as elemental reaver upgrades outside of fire, Spirit glyph, possession ability, etc) all got canned.
It was partly due to technical reasons (the PS1 couldn't handle how huge the world of SR1 got) and partly due to time constraints.

I'd like to add all the cut versions of Duke Nukem Forever as well.
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I believe the original director of DNF wanted to release an old 2001 build but Randy "Cuck my Shit Up" Pitchford wouldn't allow it.
 
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I believe the original director of DNF wanted to release an old 2001 build but Randy "Cuck my Shit Up" Pitchford wouldn't allow it.
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no, what happened is that Fred (current owner of 3DR) wanted to release DN3D builds but Randy wouldn't let him.
Fred knew even way back in 2014 that he wasn't allowed to release the old DNF builds. Only now Randy after getting a sublicense from 2K can he release the DNF builds. (reason being that GBX doesn't own DNF's publishing rights)

This still doesn't answer if Randy will allow Fred and co. to release the old DN3D builds tho. There's no rights issue here as far as I know.
 
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Swegta was kind enough to give us a Wii-based gameplay of the oldest available BULLY beta.

 

Team Fortress 2, long before the Source engine, lore autism, brony servers and hats. The teenaged me back in 1999 wished it could have been released as the proto-battlefield game it was originally envisioned as.
 
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Not so much cut content as an entire cut game. Twelve Tales: Conker 64 was cancelled very late in development so a nearly finished game probably existed. I enjoyed Conker's Pocket Tales for what is was, and couldn't wait for the full final game. I don't begrudge the developers for completely changing the game because it's clear they made a product they're very happy with. But I still wish I could play the earlier game.

 
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The battle damage textures from Super Smash Bros. Brawl sounded dope AF. It sucks that they didn't make it in. They would have been a nice touch to the game.

And in Fire Emblem Echoes, it was gonna possible for the adult characters to drink the wine and ale items you got in the game, but it never came to fruition. All you can do with them is either sell them for money or use them to make offerings.
 
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they're kinda in the 4th game, little mac starts looking beaten up if he takes a lot of damage
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It would've been cooler if it was done with more characters (specifically (IMO): Meta Knight, Captain Falcon, Ganondorf, DK, Diddy, Ryu, and Cloud)
Meta Knight and Captain Falcon had data relating to this mechanic in Brawl, and the others could have been used to reference their home series like Little Mac (Ganondorf fight in Twilight Princess, DKC game over screen, Match results screen for Street Fighter II, and Advent Children fight scenes.
 
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Halo Combat Evolved was supposed to have a story that emulated the core conflict in the first Marathon.

Cortana gets docked into the control room, goes rampant basically mad with power, and you were supposed to be mostly alone on this adventure of destroying the HALO ring but it isn't confirmed whether or not you were still going to destroy the ring in the original story draft.
 
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