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

[thx1138]

Jane's A-10 Thunderbolt II, a high-fidelity A10 sim back when EA didn't completely suck. Then they got sold or something and it got cancelled. They had boxes ready and everything. Very disappointed that one didn't come out.

 

[StraightShooter2]

There was a 3D Mega Man X spinoff game I heard about called "Maverick Hunter" with 1 official trailer released:

I'm honestly unsure though whether or not it would be decent or would have sucked - since looking at the trailer, the game looks very generic and I'm not sure if it would have had much in common with the Mega Man X games. (Example - it looks like X's Buster is now just a machine gun).

 

[Dysnomia]

I recently played some of Dinosaur Planet. What ended up being leaked is not the older version with Sabre intact. But it's got Krystal in a cool outfit that reminds me of The Flintstones. She looks way better in this one. The game in general looks really good.

The game is obviously very buggy. I read it runs better on real hardware. Aiming magic is very difficult. Either the bugs weren't worked out or emulation is making it worse. Talking to certain NPCs will sometimes hang the game. Other times it's fine. Like the big longneck dino at the ocean. Swimming there and riding the log is also quite an issue. Polygon overload maybe?

The mammoths in the ice area remind me of the ones in Ice Age. I keep reading their dialog in Ray Romano's voice.


I think it would have been a really fun game had it been left alone. Fox just looks like he doesn't belong there. And at this point in development he's not that interesting compared to Krystal. I guess they were still in the process of replacing Sabre's character and were still unsure of what to do with Fox. The fame still refers to him as Sabre most of the time.

 

[ColorfulCassowary]

I remember there was this cool looking Daredevil game that got cancelled

 

[tehpope]

Infinity, for the Gameboy color. I have a soft spot gameboy color games, and would be happy if we never left that era.View attachment 1427456

Infinity: A Game Boy Color Tactical RPG back after 20 years!

After 2 decades we gathered a team to finish and publish this long awaited game on physical cartridge.

www.kickstarter.com

Its on kickstarter now. Already made its goal. I pledged for the digital package.

 

[Never Scored]

Infinity: A Game Boy Color Tactical RPG back after 20 years!

After 2 decades we gathered a team to finish and publish this long awaited game on physical cartridge.

www.kickstarter.com

Its on kickstarter now. Already made its goal. I pledged for the digital package.

That trailer looks great and I'd love to have that cart, but $90? Jesus Christ.

 

[Ruin]

MGSV chapter 3
Final Fantasy VS 13
Starcraft Ghost
Van Buren

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Coded arms assault nuff said

 

[Adolf Chrysler]

I didn't see it (correct me if I'm wrong) but there was going to be a Highlander game on the xbox 360/ps3. What I remember was that you were going to make your own immortal character and it was going to be an action rpg. Loved the movies and show when I was a kid and would have loved to see a lovingly made game.

 

[Adolf Chrysler]

Some other games I'd like to add:

The cancelled Darth Maul game that was being developed by Red Fly Studio, creators of the underrated Mushroom Men games:

The cancelled Flash game thaat was being developed by Bottlerocket Entertainment:

A couple of people have mentioned Starcraft: Ghost, and it's a shame it was cancelled as it looked promising:

Fun fact about Glover 2, the reason why the game was cancelled was because someone at Hasbro ordered 300,000 N64 carts for the first game instead of 150,000, because Nintendo was offering a deal on bulk purchases of carts. As a result stores wouldn't take the extra stock of Glover carts, causing Hasbro to lose money on the game, hence the cancellation of the sequel. A decent amount of work had been oured into the game before its cancellation:

didn't glover 2 leak? I could have sworn the game leaked not too long ago

 

[Nejnebaganeb]

Steambot Chronicles 2, 2011 after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami Irem canceled most of the game they were working on however ex staff went on to make Granzella which brought back Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories from the dead

Oh man, I wish streambot chronicles 2 came out. I love that game to death.
If that game ever got released i'd assume that some kind of witchcraft were involved or something.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

A bunch, there's some curse that makes half the games I want get cancelled, usually sequels.

Bunch of Rare stuff; Conker's Bad Fur Day 2, Donkey Kong Country 4 among many other things that were actually planned or existed in some form, but also the would-be inevitable Star Fox Adventures 2 (got good sales and reviews).

The Chrono Break, and Last Window sequel. Earthbound 64, Resident Evil Zero, and Super Mario RPG 2 despite being released, since they'd have been different if developed as originally intended.

Pokemon Pink because I can never get enough gen 1. Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 4, Sonic X-Treme, Super Mario 128, Primal Rage 2, and Rebelstar 2.

 

[AnimeGirlConnoisseur]

1. Starcraft Ghost
2. A MGSV that isn't mostly filler
3. Alan Wake 2
4. I would kinda like a sequel to this PC FPS game called Legendary. Someone I know got it for free when they purchased a laptop way back in the day and gave it to me. I thought it was pretty neat.
5. Half Life 2: Episode Three
6. I don't know if this counts (since TellTale games is such a shit show and they've flip-flopped on this), but The Wolf Among Us season 2.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Chrono Break

Trigger was lightning in a bottle. You see how Kato fared without the rest of the team.

 

[The Great Citracett]

BC for the original Xbox.




Was a massive open world game where you played as the chief of an early human tribe, fighting dinosaurs and evil monkey-men, exploring and recruiting new tribe members and ultimately traveling to a dino-free valley for your tribe to evolve in.

Everything was part of a food chain. You could recruit different classes of tribe members, and play as whichever one you wanted. You could craft weapons and armor and basically do whatever you wanted.

Unfortunately it was a Peter Molyneux game, and he chose to cancel it at about 30% finished. Most likely because the studio was busy with Fable, which he clearly had no problem releasing at about 70% finished.

 

[themotherflippin480]

I wouldnt mind playing Megaman Legends 3

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Trigger was lightning in a bottle. You see how Kato fared without the rest of the team.

Yeah but I don't see why they can't get the team back together. Even as a passion project, don't people do that anymore? I know they're rich, busy, and businessmen, but surely they must know their fans cry out for a proper sequel.

Square's official response was we didn't buy enough of their ports. That's really an unfortunate outlook even for a big company, imo.

 

[Dunsparce]

Trigger was lightning in a bottle. You see how Kato fared without the rest of the team.

But many people, including myself, LIKE Chrono Cross(and Radical Dreamers). It's one of those games were you either love it or hate it, very little in-between on opinions. Some say it is a good game but a bad sequel. But one thing I rarely see people diss about it is the score.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Square's official response was we didn't buy enough of their ports.

Cross was a failure. Kato blamed the losses on the fans (he had some choice words for them).

Hot take: I think it was a ploy by Kato to claim 'ownership' over the series.

In any event, it was just some communal side project, and all of those guys left the company. There is no motivation to revive it. Then again, we said the same thing about Mana. The 3D games exceeded sales projections. Who knows?

 

[Marissa Moira]

Cross was a failure. Kato blamed the losses on the fans (he had some choice words for them). I think it was a ploy to claim 'ownership' over the series. In any event, it was a PR disaster which split the fanbase.

At the end of the day, it was just some communal side project, and all of those guys left the company. There is no great motivation to revive it. Then again, we said the same thing about Mana. The 3D games exceeded sales projections. Who knows?

Right now square has Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Nier, and Mana all in positive territories. They could easily add a 5th series to the mix and not be over extended.