What are some cancelled videogames/scrapped ideas you wish you could try?

[dope_danny]

Lots of folks play games as just a fun escape like tv shows or movies. But if you like games as more of a hardcore hobby it often leads to an interest in the history of videogames. This in turn leads to the fascinating archives of cancelled games. Plenty of sites like Unseen64 track down and document these projects. Things that might have been that starkly changed direction or simply things that got canned with nothing but a few industry meet up tales to describe it years later.
If you like that kind of thing theres always a few that really stick with you as something you will never get to play -in most cases at least- but what stands out for you?

I'll always wonder about stuff like:

-The original Build of Valkyria Chronicles was a WW1 take on the Steambot Chronicles/Bumpy Trot games (that had their own cancelled PS3 sequel) with a more light hearted tone including 'kemono' animal people instead of Darcsens. Called 'Gallian Panzers' in the scant examples of artwork they saved some ideas which made it into Valkyria Revolution but the rest were brushed onto the cutting room floor.


-"Resident Evil 3.5" was a build of Resident Evil 4 that reached 60% completion before it was scrapped and use to make assetts for Devil May Cry. Originally RE4 was about Leon in a european castle in the black forests of germany, infected with a "P-Epsilon Virus" that was an animate black mist that could animate things like dolls or suits of armour and had a much more supernatural vibe. It was canned because it was 'too much like silent hill'. There has been a demo made by fans using RE4 to rebuild the bits in the trailer but RE could have taken a very different path if this was the release we got.

https://www.unseen64.net/2016/02/23/...ncelled-pitch/
-Silent Hill Cold Heart was the original idea that was in the works that became Silent Hill Shattered Memories. Instead of a retelling of Silent Hill 1 Cold Heart was a none linear narrative about a young girl jumping between her psych evaluations/therapy and getting in an ambulance crash in the snowed in town of Silent Hill. I've always been a SH die hard and love wintery horror so this checks both points off for me. I liked SM a lot but i'll always take a new idea over a retread


-Tomb Raider Ascension. Before it was a bland uncharted clone the Tomb Raider reboot about Teen Lara was actually an open world survival horror game. Caught in a shipwreck a young lara has to survive on an island off the coast of china where WW2 experiments awoke a slumbering tomb of demons and oni. Including more survival aspects and fights inspired by shadow of the colossus with huge oni the game was a really interesting sounding title that got scrapped. Its why for no reason you get magical japanese and chinese enemies in the final act of the retail build because they ran out of time to replace it all.

Its just a few examples but i love these looks at cancelled games, they interest me as much as rebuilds like Doki Doki Panic becoming Super Mario Bros 2 or the Valkyrie Profile remake turning into Lightning Returns. Its a fascinating look at what might have been if the industry trends had leant one way instead of another.

Are there any of these that you wish we saw more of?

[Tenjen]

Starcraft ghost. Classic example.

[TheFirstOnes]

The "first" concept of WoD.

Ya know? With the Mongrel Horde?

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That, or the WoD they promised us during Blizzcon 2013. Cause, that would've been SO much better than what we got now.

[Selastan]

There was cancelled Star Wars game where you played as a bounty hunter. Supposed to be a dark and gritty first person action game, can't recall the title.

Fallout: Van Buren is another, although most of it got rolled into New Vegas

Honorable mention to games unknown that we would have if certain game studios never went down...Pandemic, Maxis...etc.

[Xjev]

Titan MMO? Still curious to know what sort of game-play it had.

[Aoyi]

Starcraft ghost. Classic example.

I've actually played a bit of this one years ago when it was still in development. It was okay, though nothing really special. Granted, I only played the multiplayer, so I'm not sure how the single player experience (if there was one) was going to be. I only got about 30 minutes of hands on with the game though.

As for canceled games I'd like to try, I'm curious what project Titan would have played like. How close to the Overwatch we have today were the controls and concepts. I'm happy with Overwatch, so not disappointed that Titan was canceled. I'm more just curious.

[potis]

Titan MMO? Still curious to know what sort of game-play it had.

It was gonna be a Second Life -ish game with RPG depths for PvE and PvP in a Normal/Futuristic world, aka how some Overwatch areas are.

There is a reason it got scrapped, it was a terrible idea considering it took way too long to be created and that sort of game would never take off in the 2014+ era.

[Ladyoftheforest]

Chapter II and III of Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain.

[damastar]

Mega Man Legends 3
And Chrono Break even though we never really got much of any details into what it was, it was thought to be a sequel of Chrono Cross.

[Mirishka]

Starcraft Ghost and Prince of Persia: Assassins, which was the progenitor of the Assassin's Creed games.

[Lotus Victoria]

STALKER 2. Little information on it other than "it existed", but the Stalker series were dope as fuck, and anything cheeki breeki would be great.

[dope_danny]

STALKER 2. Little information on it other than "it existed", but the Stalker series were dope as fuck, and anything cheeki breeki would be great.

Who doesnt want another nice walk through the woods.

[Lotus Victoria]

Who doesnt want another nice walk through the woods.

PAPALI PAPALI SUKE

fuck duty

[Proskill]

Starcraft ghost. Classic example.

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I've actually played a bit of this one years ago when it was still in development. It was okay, though nothing really special. Granted, I only played the multiplayer, so I'm not sure how the single player experience (if there was one) was going to be. I only got about 30 minutes of hands on with the game though.

As for canceled games I'd like to try, I'm curious what project Titan would have played like. How close to the Overwatch we have today were the controls and concepts. I'm happy with Overwatch, so not disappointed that Titan was canceled. I'm more just curious.

elaboration required. where and when did u get to play it ? does your uncle work for blizzard ? im surprised u didnt get a chance to try titan

[Calfredd]

Prey 2 looked interesting.

[Firatha]

PAPALI PAPALI SUKE

fuck duty

Indeed who would ever join Duty when you can go be a hippy and smoke pot while on patrol with Freedom?

Prey 2 looked interesting.

Starcraft Ghost.

Yes and Yes

[Kasierith]

Mass Effect Andromeda, specifically the more original concepts with hand crafted experiences and interactions before they started trying to figure out how to procedurally generate dozens of world and wasted 2 years of time and budget before giving us the remains.

[Dezerte]

The alternate script for Mass Effect, where dark energy (mentioned in Mass Effect 2) played a big part of the story and it's ending.

[Aoyi]

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elaboration required. where and when did u get to play it ? does your uncle work for blizzard ? im surprised u didnt get a chance to try titan

I don’t remember the specific year, but I worked in management for Gamestop in the early 2000s. I flew out for one of their conferences in Texas and while I was out there, Vivendi and some guys from Blizzard were there showing off their upcoming products. Starcract Ghost was one of them. The other one I remember trying was F.E.A.R.

[dope_danny]

I don’t remember the specific year, but I worked in management for Gamestop in the early 2000s. I flew out for one of their conferences in Texas and while I was out there, Vivendi and some guys from Blizzard were there showing off their upcoming products. Starcract Ghost was one of them. The other one I remember trying was F.E.A.R.

Man, no wonder they canned it if it was being shown next to F.E.A.R. Even today that games still unmatched in some of its mechanics.