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Canned games that were barely ever shown. Which would you have loved to have seen?

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Zevenberge

Member
SMT x FE.

We didn't even get to see a single in-game pixel :(

Please don't be canceled.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (Wii)

We saw a gameplay trailer of it once. Then it got cancelled and a whole different game was released with the same name.
 
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Hero of Legend

Member
Zevenberge said:
SMT x FE.

We didn't even get to see a single in-game pixel :(

Please don't be canceled.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (Wii)

We saw a gameplay trailer of it once. Then it got cancelled and a whole different game was released with the same name.
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IntSys confirmed it's still in development at E3. :)
 
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Hasney

Member
Krejlooc said:
Fighters Megamix contains a lot of early work they were doing for VF3. Janet, for example, is actually Aoi from VF3 with a different skin, and many of the mechanics and moves from VF3 were hidden in FMM. There were 2 completed versions of VF3 running on the saturn, though.
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Yeah and a theory that the second one was running with an add-on.

Thought of a second one: WCW PS2/GC/XBox by EA and AKi. Became Def Jam Vendetta, but I'd have loved the WCW version.
 
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Vandole

Member
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The Rose Princess for the Wii by Luc Bernard. Seemed like a bizarre enough concept that it would be cool. A violinist who can't touch a man and an alcoholic half robot rabbit team up for something. The game didn't get past the concept stage though because the game was based on Luc's girlfriend and once their relationship ended so did the game.
 
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Sir_Crocodile

Member
Cosmic Walker, Project Hammer & Warcraft graphic adventure

Oh and Hal Barwood's Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis followup, Iron Phoenix. 15 months work before it was canned because it would have been impossible to market in Germany, one of the biggest markets for the genre
 
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N4Us

Member
Mark of the Wolves 2 was supposedly '70% complete' and yet there's nothing out there for it.

Hellraiser for NES, I know the game didn't have much development done by the time it was canned but they did do one level, would like to see the remains of that.
 
S

sörine

Banned
Going a bit older I'll say Crystalis II for Neo Geo and Ys IV for Sega CD. Both were announced but never seen. I'm not even sure if they actually started development or not.
 
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Spring-Loaded

Member
Which of these games had the least amount of preview material though? Some of these canned games I've seen more than a screenshot or two of.
 
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Krejlooc

Banned
sörine;136110625 said:
Going a bit older I'll say Crystalis II for Neo Geo and Ys IV for Sega CD. Both were announced but never seen. I'm not even sure if they actually started development or not.
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Ys IV never really began development. The Sega-Falcom team disbanded almost immediately after Popful Mail.
 
D

DerZuhälter

Member
Considering it was 7 years in development and then canned for not being fun, I'd love to at least see a single screenshot of Blizzard's Titan.
 
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Carn82

Member
2thepoint said:
SCE Liverpool - Wipeout PS4 :(
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This. For the love of -insert your favorite deity-; I want a PS4 Wipeout. I dont care if they just re-release HD/Fury/2048 on it in rock solid 1080p60fps (or even downsample it if possible). If they did and it cost 200 bucks, I would still get it.

I would have liked to see that canned Sony Santa Monica space-ish game. Or was that a Naughty Dog game?
 
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Skel1ingt0n

I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Krejlooc said:
Bonus, this isn't software necessarily but I remember being so stoked for this:

MP3 VMU:

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This was announced right before the dreamcast's death. it was a VMU (the dreamcast memory card) with a hardware MP3 player built in. It was going to come with 128 mb of memory for MP3s.

Back in 2000 this would have been the hottest shit on the planet. Sega was so damn ahead of their time.
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That's awesome. Had no idea this was ever a thing!

... I would have loved to have played Shenmue on Saturn.
 
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Grizzo

Member
Sakujou said:
you have to blind. most of the stuff isnt in the game. on the other hand there is nothing so special about to these screenshots.
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well yeah, now that you said it, that green pipe underwater does look different, but the first pic is nothing special like you said.
 
Alx

Alx

Member
Krejlooc said:
Fighters Megamix contains a lot of early work they were doing for VF3. Janet, for example, is actually Aoi from VF3 with a different skin, and many of the mechanics and moves from VF3 were hidden in FMM. There were 2 completed versions of VF3 running on the saturn, though.
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I once read interviews about early versions of VF4 too, that would have explored the "free 3D motion" of VF3 further. There was a gif of Akira using a chair to hit his opponent for example. I'm not even sure that's what I would have wanted, but I'm curious to see how it would play.
Also the dreamcast version of Gunvalkyrie was supposed to be played with a controller + lightgun combo (the more I think about it, the more it sounds similar to the Wii nunchuck). The final game obviously chose entirely different mechanics, based on dual clicks on the Xbox sticks.
 
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Nairume

Banned
Sir_Crocodile said:
Cosmic Walker, Project Hammer & Warcraft graphic adventure

Oh and Hal Barwood's Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis followup, Iron Phoenix. 15 months work before it was canned because it would have been impossible to market in Germany, one of the biggest markets for the genre
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We actually did end up getting Iron Phoenix! They took what they had for the game and reworked it into being a comic miniseries.

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jts

jts

...hate me...
richisawesome said:
Mother 3 original N64 version, in playable format.

I know we got a couple of shit quality trailers, and that we got it on the GBA, but still.

Also, BANJO THREEIE.
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This actually got released. A quick googling retrieved me the boxart:

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Lupin3

Lupin3

Targeting terrorists with a D-Pad
A polished port of Resident Evil for GBC would have been interesting, just for the fun of it. Reminded me of Monkey Island, for some reason.

Also, Gears of War: Exile!
 
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