Wasn't Sega-Falcom just a branding partnership? I thought Sims developed Popful Mail SCD?
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Canned games that were barely ever shown. Which would you have loved to have seen?
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TatteredHat
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Blizzard's Project Titan.
The rom of Resident Evil GBC was released and it seems downright unplayable
Cool technical feat though!
Now, this tech demo of Resident Evil 2 on the GBA on the other hand... that would have been fantastic
The Crossing by Arkane
Asynchronous multiplayer open world game. Still no one have done anything like itWhat a pity that they didnt have a funding for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRewknGUeY
Minus the cross play with PC and Xbox, Titanfall comes closest as it has Singleplayer/Multiplayer together.
Vyse The Legend
Member
Landstalker PSP.
They only ever showed it once, and it was just the model of one of the towns.
It was never heard from again, and Climax seems to be long gone now.
They only ever showed it once, and it was just the model of one of the towns.
It was never heard from again, and Climax seems to be long gone now.
-Project Offset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_QBGUYmy0
-Elveon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12zjLzIHGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_QBGUYmy0
-Elveon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12zjLzIHGM
All the canned shit from the sonic games are awesome:
And then you had Sonic Xtreme which underwent numerous name changes (Sonic Mars, Sonic Xtreme, Saturn Sonic, etc), platform changes (Genesis -> 32X -> Saturn), engine rewrites... today, we have everything ever done for the game, except the engine. No actual levels were created for this game, just very quick WIPs which aren't too fun to explore:
Pitch video running on Amiga 1200
more pitch animation running on Amiga 1200
Early Isometric version called Sonic Mars at the time, possibly running on stock Sega Genesis
Early version using NiGHTS engine before Yuji Naka had it pulled
More NiGHTS engine
Completely separate "Saturn Sonic" project
Early sketch for second playable character, Tiara Bobowski. Sonic X-treme would have had multiple playstyles in addition to the normal Sonic 1. Tiara Bobowski would have played in 2D like a classic Sonic game
Tiara gameplay
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Sxtreme-jadegully.jpg[/img]
This is how most people remember Sonic Xtreme. This was actually not running on a Saturn, this was a windows 9x program
Again, all of this has been leaked, you can play with it today. All that's missing is the actual game engine, which was never completed or even that far along to begin with. The levels you see were thrown together in 10-15 minutes as tests, when you explore them it's very obvious they're not real levels. There is no sense of level progression, they're just to look nice for pics.
And then you had Sonic Xtreme which underwent numerous name changes (Sonic Mars, Sonic Xtreme, Saturn Sonic, etc), platform changes (Genesis -> 32X -> Saturn), engine rewrites... today, we have everything ever done for the game, except the engine. No actual levels were created for this game, just very quick WIPs which aren't too fun to explore:
Pitch video running on Amiga 1200
more pitch animation running on Amiga 1200
Early Isometric version called Sonic Mars at the time, possibly running on stock Sega Genesis
Early version using NiGHTS engine before Yuji Naka had it pulled
More NiGHTS engine
Completely separate "Saturn Sonic" project
Early sketch for second playable character, Tiara Bobowski. Sonic X-treme would have had multiple playstyles in addition to the normal Sonic 1. Tiara Bobowski would have played in 2D like a classic Sonic game
Tiara gameplay
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Sxtreme-jadegully.jpg[/img]
This is how most people remember Sonic Xtreme. This was actually not running on a Saturn, this was a windows 9x program
Again, all of this has been leaked, you can play with it today. All that's missing is the actual game engine, which was never completed or even that far along to begin with. The levels you see were thrown together in 10-15 minutes as tests, when you explore them it's very obvious they're not real levels. There is no sense of level progression, they're just to look nice for pics.
This was never a game.
I saw a screen for it in a magazine
Bluekaveli
Member
Dirty Harry
Or The Last Guardian
Or The Last Guardian
Okay yeah, that's how I understood it. And I think Falcom might've had more direct oversight/supervision than their other licensed games maybe?
Googling a bit it turns out Sega-Falcom actually had two Mega CD projects canned when they shut down; Ys IV and Super Brandish! Ys IV was originally a cart MD game too it seems so maybe it got further along than we think?
You saw a technical demo of Final Fantasy 6's battle system done in 3D at SIGGRAPH running on a $10,000 SGI workstation that was played with a mouse. There was never a final fantasy 64 ever in production.
B.C. for Xbox
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_(video_game)
Molyneux was probably lying a whole lot. As usual. Was super hyped for it and gutted that it got cancelled after about two years of development.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_(video_game)
Molyneux was probably lying a whole lot. As usual. Was super hyped for it and gutted that it got cancelled after about two years of development.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
That destiny/dead space game sony was working on. Wish we could have at least got some concept art leaked.
couldn't find the thread but I did find this http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/28/sony-santa-monicas-sci-fi-ip-was-to-be-revealed-at-e3-2014-rumour/ http://www.vgleaks.com/details-abou...of-sony-santa-monica-sci-fi-unveil-at-e3-2014
couldn't find the thread but I did find this http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/28/sony-santa-monicas-sci-fi-ip-was-to-be-revealed-at-e3-2014-rumour/ http://www.vgleaks.com/details-abou...of-sony-santa-monica-sci-fi-unveil-at-e3-2014
Ingueferroque
Banned
Ecco the Dolphin 32X:
Ecco the Dolphin Sega Saturn:
Neither game progressed beyond pitch videos. No actual development was done to either. The 32X cart that ran the video above has been found and dumped, the CGI animation is just an cinepak video on the 32X cart.
Still would have liked to see where they would have gone.
Thank god the Dreamcast/PS2 game happened!
The original version of Rayman Raving Rabbids. I feel like it still would have been minigame focused (a lot of the prerelease footage has minigame equivalents) strung together by platforming, but itd still be interesting to see.
Theres assets of the original game still on the wii disc, but no real way to do anything with them.
Theres assets of the original game still on the wii disc, but no real way to do anything with them.
The Dreamcast/PS2 game was a reboot, not a sequel like those were intended. Ecco: The Tides of Time ends on a cliffhanger, this game was supposed to pick up the story. The Dreamcast game was completely unrelated.
That was an SGI Onyx based test for a 3D battle with FFVI characters. It was playable too iirc, you could cast spells by drawing symbols with a mouse or something.
FFVII was never a N64 game, although it was a SNES game at one point.
distantmantra
Member
This.
sörine;136110625 said:
And this.
It was a semi-interactive tech demo running on a Silicon Graphics workstation.
Ingueferroque
Banned
Landstalker PSP.
They only ever showed it once, and it was just the model of one of the towns.
It was never heard from again, and Climax seems to be long gone now.
RIP. I was so hyped over this shot.
Hero of Legend
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StreetsAhead
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For real, I started saving up my pocket money back in the day so I could afford an Xbox so I could play BC. Was heart broken when I found out it was cancelled.
You saw a technical demo of Final Fantasy 6's battle system done in 3D at SIGGRAPH running on a $10,000 SGI workstation that was played with a mouse. There was never a final fantasy 64 ever in production.
What I saw was a magazine printing a screen of it as Final Fantasy 64. I can't be the only one to think that was what it was because if that.
It was this:
I get what it technically was, but it was billed as FF64 at the time.
Well I didn't call it FFVII did I lolsörine;136118038 said:
Sentenza
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Valve's SOB had by far the most intriguing premise and concept art for me.
I'm still mourning its cancellation more than the lack of a HL3.
I'm still mourning its cancellation more than the lack of a HL3.
Technically not canned, but the beta version of Mario World looked radically different and way cooler IMO:
I think you may like this romhack then:
yeah, you can basically play the beta (well, as close as you'll ever get to it anyway)
I can confirm it works on a real snes, tested with my super everdrive. The beta rom graphics are actually hidden in the Super Nintendo Service Test ROM, and are taken from that. It's really faithful. Even the racoon tail is implemented correctly.
BS Zelda 2:
Appears to have been once in development for the Sattellaview. It would have been an SNES update of Zelda 2, much like BS Zelda was an SNES update of Zelda 1.
Metroid 2 DX
Like Zelda: LADX, this was going to be a full color upgrade for Metroid 2 for the Gameboy color. Publicly announced alongside the gameboy color but never materialized.
Appears to have been once in development for the Sattellaview. It would have been an SNES update of Zelda 2, much like BS Zelda was an SNES update of Zelda 1.
Metroid 2 DX
Like Zelda: LADX, this was going to be a full color upgrade for Metroid 2 for the Gameboy color. Publicly announced alongside the gameboy color but never materialized.
What I saw was a magazine printing a screen of it as Final Fantasy 64. I can't be the only one to think that was what it was because if that.
It was this:
I get what it technically was, but it was billed as FF64 at the time.
it was misreported. This is 2014, we don't have to live off the word of 19 year olds at EGM anymore. There never was a Final Fantasy 64.
This is like going around talking about a canceled version of Final Fantasy VII for the PS3. Or a canceled version of Final Fantasy 8 for the PS2. These things never existed nor were they in development.
AcademicSaucer
Member
SMT x FE.
We didn't even get to see a single in-game pixel
I entered the thread for this and megaman legends 3
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
SomedayTheFire
Member
Possession by Volatile games. An RTS/survival horror kinda game where you control a zombie or horde of zombies. Probably would have been terrible but I built it up in my head some much before the start of last gen.
Triggerhappytel
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Good pick. I remember seeing that early on and thought it looked really interesting; was a shame when it got cancelled.
Saint of Killers
Member
+1 for BC.
I remember reading a preview about it in a Xbox mag and my imagination just ran away with me. Was gutted when I later read it had been canned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aisRonTCNCc
Ah well, at least we now have Wild. No dinosaurs in that going by the launch trailer, though.
A GBC rerelease of Kirby's Dream Land 2 was also announced at the same time I believe. Too bad only Link's Awakening, Wario Land 2, Game & Watch Gallery 2 and Tetris only ended up happening.Metroid 2 DX
Like Zelda: LADX, this was going to be a full color upgrade for Metroid 2 for the Gameboy color. Publicly announced alongside the gameboy color but never materialized.
Lupin3
Targeting terrorists with a D-Pad
Yeah, RE2 looks awesome. Well, for what it is, of course!