Cancelled Games You Wish Had Been Released - I Can't Think of a Good Subtitle

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I would have love to play this.
 
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Its cancelled now but I really wanted Dragon's Dogma Online released in the west. Was able to follow the steps to play it on Japan servers but really would have loved it fully translated with other people speaking English.
 
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Mega Man Universe was an awesome concept and it sucks that it was canned with Mega Man Legends 3.

For those that don't know, Mega Man Universe was going to be sort of the Mega Man equivalent to Super Mario Maker (though at the time I would have compared it to LittleBigPlanet). You were able to create your own Mega Man levels and post them online. Not only that, but you got to play as Mega Man in different costumes such as the Mega Man 1 box art abomination.

It sounded so badass, and with the success of games like Mario Maker, it really should have another chance.
 
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Some interesting choices so far, including a bunch of stuff I never heard of.

Not a game, but I remember an old Game Trailers videos going over games that were shown at E3 but were either cancelled or vaporware. I remember it had a guy dressed as a noir detective picking up a file when it told the games status. I never found it again.

Back on topic. Resident Evil 1.5.
I wouldn't give up the Resident Evil 2 we got, and I know the 30% build was released a long time ago, but seeing this game completed would have been great.

Shogo 2.
I liked Shogo: Mobile Armour Division despite the horrible crit system and unfinished plot. Stuff that could have been fixed in the sequel that never happened.

Project Offset.
The graphics were amazing for the time, and the idea of a fantasy FPS is nice, but it never came out.

Perfect Dark 2.
I liked Perfect Dark, but Perfect Dark Zero was awful. Going for a more mature, sci-fi tone could have been fantastic. Unfortunately, the game never got far into development.

Cheating with this last choice. Dinosaur Planet.
I know Dinosaur Planet came out as Starfox Adventures, but it was shallow with some forced Starfox stuff that seemed out of place. While I liked Starfox Assault, the series has been mishandled after that. I would like to have seen Rare's take on Zelda-like RPG genre during their prime, but it was not to be.
 
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Indiana Jones: Staff of Kings.
Hesitant to include this one because there were some Indiana Jones games released for the Xbox, but I think this was a different game, not a port.

@AlexaAutismo That reminds me. The Agency.
It was a FPS MMO for the PS3 with a James Bond theme. Still sounds like a great idea, and there was even gameplay of it.
 
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I forget the name and can't seem to find it right now, but I watched a game on Steam for a while that I was excited about. It was a first person melee (and maybe magic, can't remember) game set during the Black Death, which apparently was turning its victims undead. It was very dark and Gothic looking, with a strong influence from Heretic and Hexen. Sadly, it was cancelled.
(---EDIT: It was called Hellraid)

And while I absolutely love Doom, I still wonder how Tom Hall's vision for the game would have turned out. I've seen a few projects pop up to recreate it, but they all seem to fizzle out.

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Also—and this might get me in trouble with the fanbase—I'm intrigued by this Mega Man X FPS.
 
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Indiana Jones: Staff of Kings.
Hesitant to include this one because there were some Indiana Jones games released for the Xbox, but I think this was a different game, not a port.

@AlexaAutismo That reminds me. The Agency.
It was a FPS MMO for the PS3 with a James Bond theme. Still sounds like a great idea, and there was even gameplay of it.
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I was LITERALLY getting ready to post this, I was looking for the footage on Youtube

Indy was always a childhood hero as a kid from the 80s, and it's hard to believe we've never had a modern Indiana Jones video game.

The only thing we got was Lego games :/
 
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Oddworld: The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot would have been the final installment in the Oddworld series. If you remember the character of Stranger then you already have an idea of what darker tone the series was going to take with the new protagonist.

I remember a lot of people calling the look of it edgy but from what I read at the time of what the story and gameplay would look like left me hyped for perhaps the last time in my life. It would share similarities with previous titles displaying the inhumanities of industrialization while drawing deep inspiration in design and plot from the Soviet gulag. At the time information on the game was being released to the public the studio was already shutting down. Fangus Klot died in the womb.
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Agartha. A horror game for the Dreamcast developed by No Cliche. A playable demo was leaked. I takes place in a snowy Romanian village.
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I had no idea there was a demo that leaked. Might have to try it out.

Frédérick Raynal (the creator of Alone in the Dark) was working on that if I remember right.

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I was LITERALLY getting ready to post this, I was looking for the footage on Youtube

Indy was always a childhood hero as a kid from the 80s, and it's hard to believe we've never had a modern Indiana Jones video game.

The only thing we got was Lego games :/
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It's baffling. You had the Uncharted games, the Tomb Raider reboots, films like National Treasure doing the rounds, it would have been a perfect time to release a new Indiana Jones, but they never did. I doubt they could do it any more. Harrison Ford is too old, and you can't have nazis or commies in anything without the left throwing a fit.
 
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Mega Man Legends 3. Inafune might be notorious and may never be able to achieve another game in his life at this point, but damn it, it isn't just about getting Mega Man off of the moon, it's also about needing to know what is the future of Mega Man, and what it has in store for the new world. Way too much shit for me to spoil about the series. It just has to happen.
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Yoshinori Kawano was the important person with Mega Man Legends. and also Dead Rising for that matter, his absence is what fucked 3 and 4. apparently he was also involved in the plot for the Mega Man Zero games, I always thought those felt kinda legends-ey. you see reaver bot eyes in the last stage of 2 after all. without him dead rising went to shit, mml stopped existing entirely, and zero became zx. zx might be good I haven't played the games.
 
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I had no idea there was a demo that leaked. Might have to try it out.

Frédérick Raynal (the creator of Alone in the Dark) was working on that if I remember right.


It's baffling. You had the Uncharted games, the Tomb Raider reboots, films like National Treasure doing the rounds, it would have been a perfect time to release a new Indiana Jones, but they never did. I doubt they could do it any more. Harrison Ford is too old, and you can't have nazis or commies in anything without the left throwing a fit.
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Lets be honest, the last good Indie game was back in 2003, which was called the Emperors Tomb. The game you showed DID get made, but only for the Wii, while the 360 and PS3 versions got tossed to the side.
 
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Class of Heroes 3, it hasn't been officially canned but seeing as Gaijinworks hasn't updated their page in several years it's safe to assume it's not getting an English release.
Then there's Capcom's Deep Down a weird Dark Souls like game where the story takes place in some crazy far off future. Safe to assume it'll never come out and the people who worked on it said it was just a glorified proof of concept and the amount of work that would have had to happen to get it to play on a console would have been near impossible but if anything came out of it it was the way the characters are handled by the player those mechanics were salvaged and used in the last three Resident Evil games.
 
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