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

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Sometimes it's best if a series ends. Even if they did get the gang back together, they should make something completely detached from Chrono Trigger IMO.

 

[Xarpho]

Speaking of EathBound: some of you may already know this, but a lot of Earthbound 64's content was incorporated into Mother 3.

Probably for a the best, but fans of RPGs wound up buying a PS1. Nintendo didn't do much to entice them.

EarthBound 64 from what previews showed and what was talked about was somewhat different and way larger than what Mother 3 ended up being. I'd rather have EarthBound 64 released back then so that EarthBound could've been completed and rest in peace as one of the last great Nintendo series rather than hacks and frauds claim they liked EarthBound and/or Mother 3 and make some truly awful shit with it.

Personally, the cut-off for being a fan of a game should be no more than ten years or proof that you did beat the game legitimately.

 

[Dysnomia]

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?

A lot of people liked it but recognised the flaws. I feel like greatly reducing the amount of characters you could recruit and making the story less convoluted would have helped. It had some impressive things going for it and a great soundtrack. But it also felt too much like a mess. I enjoyed it. But I realise that it has some serious issues.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Personally, the cut-off for being a fan of a game should be no more than ten years or proof that you did beat the game legitimately

Many years ago, I happened on a video of Linkara. He was trashing the Silent Hill comics for ignoring the games. Lewis then admitted he'd never actually played the games.

 

[MysticMisty]

Super Mario 128

Super Mario 128 was literally just a tech demo to show how well the hardware worked with a familiar face. Which they did release a game derived from the coding used from that demo: Pikmin. Miyamoto admitted all of this years ago.

 

[XYZpdq]

running with the old legend that it was an aborted Metal Slug port for the GBC that died in SNK's bankruptcy, Terrifying 9.11

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Super Mario 128 was literally just a tech demo to show how well the hardware worked with a familiar face. Which they did release a game derived from the coding used from that demo: Pikmin. Miyamoto admitted all of this years ago.

Are you sure? I'm fairly certain that it was an actual Mario game in development but it stalled, then they reused ideas and tech for other games.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

3. Alan Wake 2

The American Nightmare game was a gimped out remnant of what they intended to do with Alan Wake 2 (was supposed to take place in Arizona, etc). But I'd love to see a real sequel too, such a unique game.

 

[XYZpdq]

in other GBC bullshit the GBC port of Resident Evil 1 (not that other thing that came out legit, or the weird famicom bootleg)

for some insane reason there was a legit attempt to port the first Resident Evil game to the GBC, much like the insane (and mostly shockingly successful try) to port Dragon's Lair

 

[Captain Syrup]

The American Nightmare game was a gimped out remnant of what they intended to do with Alan Wake 2

I believe it. I tried watching a let's play and couldn't make it past a half-hour.

Honest question: What is even the appeal of Alan Wake? It's really cringey and everything is spelled out for you like a dullard.

 

[cummytummies]

Honest question: What is even the appeal of Alan Wake? It's really cringey and everything is spelled out for you like a dullard.

It's a playable version of Stephen King novels and Twilight Zone episodes for the fans of Stephen King and Twilight Zone. Neither of those two are exactly known for their subtlety.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Mark this down to Muh Autism as much as anything else, but I'd buy and play The Force Unleashed 3, even though I concede the latter half of The Force Unleashed 2 was painful garbage. With a complete tard ending, above and beyond being a cliffhanger.

About a year ago there was talk that something was happening, but apparently nothing was. Probably for the best, as god knows what a pile of dogshit would emerge from LFL as currently constituted in terms of story.

 

[WinchesterWhiskey]

Rainbow Six Patriots and its whole moral gray choices were really cool to me. Then they replaced it with fucking Siege.

 

[Pillar of Autism]

I would have loved to see the cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 in its entirety. Free Radical (the TimeSplitters guys) were working on a third Battlefront game, which would have had massive maps with both ground and space battles that you could switch between at any point during a map, meaning that you could start on the ground, get into a ship, and join the space battle, or vice versa. Unfortunately, LucasArts shitcanned the project. However, an unfinished build of the game got leaked onto Reddit in 2016, and the game's concepts were eventually recycled into Battlefront: Elite Squadron for PSP.

 

[TwinPeaksEnjoyer]

Scalebound, Dmc with the dragons and online multiplayer concept and made by platinum games then Microsoft canceled it.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Van Buren the real Fallout 3 we should have gotten from what I've read about it it sounded like a f****** awesome game

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

The rest of the Space Marine games. Captain Titus deserved better.

 

[Edgeworth]

Besides the obvious... Scalebound and I'm still wounded by Silent Hills, I really wanted that Last Night game to come out.

I am in love with the artstyle and aesthetic. I was behind the concept of not being able to have implants in a future dictated by liberals. But alas, the guy said or did something a decade ago so that means fuckin' cancel him.

"What's that? No, we aren't being hypocrites while we shovel OUR politics into samey games. Thanks for asking, though."

 

[Info Player Start]

Scalebound
I know everyone else has said this, but it's true.

 

[MysticMisty]

I would have loved to see the cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 in its entirety. Free Radical (the TimeSplitters guys) were working on a third Battlefront game, which would have had massive maps with both ground and space battles that you could switch between at any point during a map, meaning that you could start on the ground, get into a ship, and join the space battle, or vice versa. Unfortunately, LucasArts shitcanned the project. However, an unfinished build of the game got leaked onto Reddit in 2016, and the game's concepts were eventually recycled into Battlefront: Elite Squadron for PSP.

You forgot about how they were also planning all these different alternate timelines you could dick around in to keep it fresh too. It had so much potential and I'm so disappointed it got shitcanned.