A short time in the past I wrote about Troika Video games’ canceled post-apocalyptic RPG prototype, a cool-as-hell non secular successor to Fallout from a number of the greatest who ever did it. That article (and Chris’ useful suggestion) had me wanting to listen to in regards to the PCG group’s Misplaced Lenores.
Could possibly be a ghost of an idea that simply wasn’t meant to be, like Troika Video games’ pitch for Arcanum 2: Journey to the Centre of Arcanum, or one thing extra substantial, like Troika Video games’ demo for a Lord of the Rings CRPG. Might even be one thing not by Troika Video games, however I am unsure I would advocate it.
What canceled recreation do you would like you would have performed? This is our solutions, in addition to a number of from our discussion board.
Robin Valentine, Senior Editor: There’s a complete bunch of cancelled Star Wars video games I might’ve liked to play. Particularly tragic are those that received canned principally only for being within the fallacious place on the fallacious time when Disney purchased the franchise.
Everybody is aware of 1313, LucasArts’ reply to Uncharted, however the one I nonetheless consider ruefully is Battle of the Sith Lords. It was imagined to be an motion recreation starring Darth Maul, with footage exhibiting him gleefully lopping off the heads of a bunch of Mandalorians.
In response to GameInformer, there actually wasn’t rather more there past that concept – they hadn’t even discovered what the story was – however actually, what extra do you want than a double-bladed lightsaber and a load of mooks to apply it to? And man, the idea artwork is superb – Maul and his brother in kickass Sith armour, Maul chucking individuals into the Sarlacc pit, Maul completely pulling off a shoulder cape accent, and so on. We missed out on gold with this one.
Harvey Randall, Employees Author: Anybody else keep in mind Gigantic? I positive do. Motion-heavy moba fashion video games really feel like they have been cursed by an indignant and spiteful god, what with the autumn of video games like Battlerite (which I’ve written about earlier than), Paragon, Monday Night time Fight… the one I at all times want I would performed nevertheless was Gigantic.
It nonetheless appears attractive, with fighting-game tier fight mix-ups I nonetheless hear its fanbase praising to today, and I by no means received my arms on it. For some purpose, the consumer simply did not work on my clunker of a machine again in 2017, so I made a decision I would give it a whirl after I received an improve. It shut down in like a 12 months. The necessity for higher recreation preservation will get thrown into actually stark distinction when you may figuratively blink and miss a MOBA that the majority energetic gamers appeared to jive with. Relaxation straightforward, Gigantic, I hardly knew ye.
Katie Wickens, {Hardware} Author: Does Polybius depend as a cancelled recreation? This darkish, mysterious, vaguely conspiratorial arcade recreation could or could not have ever existed in any respect. It is believed by some to have been a sick CIA experiment, having appeared in arcades for round a single month on the peak of the pastime, earlier than disappearing and not using a hint—no boards or recreation roms have surfaced, however there are those that declare to carry them.
As for gameplay, Polybius was reportedly a sort of quick paced sequence of puzzles that, whereas addictive, had a bent to trigger “illness, amnesia, night time terrors, and behavioural modifications.” Okay, I take it again. That one can keep locked within the ether.
Joshua Wolens, Information Author: For me it is gotta be Rhapsody, the concept that Hangar 13 got here up with after the studio put Mafia 3 (which, regardless of every little thing, I actually preferred) to mattress. It was going to be an ’80s thriller the place you performed a Jewish Russian spy as he received as much as subterfuge and espionage within the waning days of the Chilly Warfare.
You would be passing forwards and backwards between East and West Berlin on a regular basis, your stock restricted to no matter you would smuggle by Checkpoint Charlie. There’d be devices, politics, vengeance, and—you’d hope—a number of classes discovered from the successes and failures of Mafia 3. It seemed like somebody sat down and determined to make a recreation only for me, principally.
It will definitely received transmuted right into a, uh, superhero recreation? The place you fought villains with the facility of music? Earlier than it simply sort of disintegrated as a challenge. I hope some dev out there’s nonetheless carrying a torch for it, although. The world wants extra taut spy thriller videogames and I want extra alternatives to faux to be Stierlitz.
Mollie Taylor, Options Producer: Again after I was a full-time console gamer, the primary recreation I ever performed after I received an Xbox 360 was Kameo: Parts of Energy. It is one in every of my favorite Uncommon video games the place you play as a badass fairy who can remodel into all kinds of various monsters, like a blue yeti who can climb ice partitions and a boxing venus fly entice.
That recreation already had its justifiable share of improvement woes, and its never-announced sequel was no totally different. Disappointing gross sales of the primary recreation and a shift in focus to the Kinect meant that each one we ever received from a Kameo 2 was a tiny little bit of idea artwork. I am unsure for those who can technically cancel a recreation that was by no means identified to the general public till it was gone, however I am nonetheless unhappy about it to today. Kameo had a lot potential, and I might’ve completely liked to have seen the place a sequel might have taken the sequence.
Brian Boru: Oh Command and Conquer Generals 2 is my #1 for positive. Generals Zero Hour was such a unbelievable recreation, my fav of all of the C&C video games—sure, even above the legendary RA2!
Thoughts you, my vote is just for a successor to 1-ZH—the monetization shenanigans they had been speaking about, after shelving the successor concept, was EA at its worst a decade in the past.
Zloth: A second Prey recreation. The primary one was nice enjoyable, and the baddies had been fascinating aliens. Sadly, Arkane has gone a distinct path, and lots of the people central to creating Prey have been scattered across the gamedom.
An actual Crysis 2. The one which received made dumped nearly all the primary recreation’s story and re-did the expertise so the consoles might run the sport. I want we might have a correct Crysis 2 that continued the story from the primary recreation (and its DLC).
It already appears unlikely that we’ll get a second Midnight Suns recreation, regardless of in-game indications. That is a disgrace – I am actually having enjoyable with that recreation.
Hmmm, Ted’s is a 2, Brian’s is a 2, all three of mine are 2’s…
Pifanjr: As a fan of action-stealth video games, I actually preferred the thought of Starcraft: Ghost. Getting some extra Starcraft lore can be a pleasant bonus as properly.
Kaamos_Llama: Somebody has to say it, Half Life 3 (and even HL2 episode 3)
As that ones just about a gimme, in all probability Baldurs Gate 3 because it was initially supposed. Larians BG 3 appears like its going to be nice, however I might have performed the hell out of that recreation 20 years in the past or no matter it was.
Fascinating truth, Arkane didnt need to name the 2017 recreation Prey, Bethesda Zenimax administration principally compelled it on them as a result of they owned the IP and needed to make use of it.
McStabStab: As a fan of horror and Kojima video games, I’m wondering what Silent Hills might have been. PT made its mark in online game historical past. Hopefully the upcoming reboot in addition to Silent Hill f will stay as much as the hype.
Smellincoffee: SimVille. Across the time that SimCity 3000 and The Sims had been such nice successes, Maxis was engaged on a recreation between these two scales — one the place the participant managed a neighborhood, primarily. No selecting between totally different energy vegetation, no “Bob unplug the bathroom”, however one thing in-between.
A part of the attraction was the shared universe: on the time, Maxis was permitting for crosspollination between its video games, in order that Sims from TS1 could possibly be imported into SimCity 4, and SimCity 4 maps could possibly be used to create TS2 neighborhoods, and so on.
