oh god I must be really tired today, I forgot that were was no tanooki tail in SMW. I got mixed up with SMB3
okay now I kinda get where Krejlooc was coming from in his initial post
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Canned games that were barely ever shown. Which would you have loved to have seen?
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oh god I must be really tired today, I forgot that were was no tanooki tail in SMW. I got mixed up with SMB3
okay now I kinda get where Krejlooc was coming from in his initial post
Mookie1515
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Orniletter
Banned
I would love to see what is left of Fire Emblem 64.
I don´t think there is even a screenshot out there.
I don´t think there is even a screenshot out there.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Oh man, I want that Sword of Legendia game!
Also, Mega Man Legends 3!
Also, Mega Man Legends 3!
woopWOOP
Member
Dragon Hopper for VB. Looked like a cute new Nintendo franchise, might've eventually gotten a sequel on a system that doesn't strain your eyes as much.
They did WHAT
SEEEGAAA!!
your fault for not buying NiGHTs HD and JSR HD at launch, you had to wait til they were on sale
UtterlyPerplexed
Member
Fortress - that FFXII sequel/spinoff that Square-Enix entrusted to GRIN. Quite why they elected to hand it to a studio whose track record hasn't exactly been stunning to say the least we might never know, but we do know that they weren't too happy with how the project was coming along and canned it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1lQeYjceLc
A shame, really. There was the real potential of a sort of open-world Dark Souls-like game with an Ivalice setting and this could have been - in the right hands - a much more enticing Final Fantasy game than any other Final Fantasy game released last gen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1lQeYjceLc
A shame, really. There was the real potential of a sort of open-world Dark Souls-like game with an Ivalice setting and this could have been - in the right hands - a much more enticing Final Fantasy game than any other Final Fantasy game released last gen.
Wenger'sBakedBaguettes
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Rip in Land.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.
Some of the PSP games mentioned here hurted. The Skies of Arcadia and Shenmue HD hurts even more.
Lily Bergamo
This wasn't really canned or hardly shown. It was transmutated into a generic shooter.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
That was being done my Next Level, not Level 5.Super Mario Spikers by Level 5.
Half Wrestling. Half Volleybal. 100% Waluigi Time.
Technically not canned, but the beta version of Mario World looked radically different and way cooler IMO:
They changed that a lot. The 3rd stage look Mario 3ish outside of the Koopa under the water. That would have been an interesting stage.
Daffy Duck
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There was a game years ago (10+ years easily), I swear it was by MS called digital anvil or it might have been by a studio called that, but it was like an open world type game possibly for the PC, but I never heard any more of it. Press shots showed pictures of cop cars and stuff.
Maybe GAF can shed some light on what it was?
Maybe GAF can shed some light on what it was?
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Oh man, I just remembered Cry On. Dammit, I wish that was not cancelled!
Lily Bergamo
Yep. I was really looking forward to it and it still baffles how it became Let It Die.
Project H.A.M.M.E.R. - Wii(was suppose to be a launch title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPhDqetz1k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPhDqetz1k
Dragoon En Regalia
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This is just the worst. Climax did Steal Princess, which is apparently janky but still an isometric action game of sorts. Who knows where Naito, Tamakai, Orimo, and Ohori are now (let alone Nishigaki, who like Eno died before his time).
At least Granzella's doing well. I've no doubt Kujo and co. will get something done with the IP in the future.
Fortress - that FFXII sequel/spinoff that Square-Enix entrusted to GRIN. Quite why they elected to hand it to a studio whose track record hasn't exactly been stunning to say the least we might never know, but we do know that they weren't too happy with how the project was coming along and canned it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1lQeYjceLc
A shame, really. There was the real potential of a sort of open-world Dark Souls-like game with an Ivalice setting and this could have been - in the right hands - a much more enticing Final Fantasy game than any other Final Fantasy game released last gen.
Damn, you reminded me of this. IT LOOKED SOOOO GOOD.
Squareinx pls...Megadragon15
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Robotech on Nintendo 64.
LordOfChaos
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Project Offset. It was so far ahead of the game graphically/technologically, I was pissed Intel killed it. Gameplay looked like a bit like AC combined with Skyrim I think.
http://youtu.be/Lw_QBGUYmy0?t=2m48s
This was 7 years ago, like holy crap. Think about what else was happening in 2007, it was pretty far ahead of most games.
http://youtu.be/Lw_QBGUYmy0?t=2m48s
This was 7 years ago, like holy crap. Think about what else was happening in 2007, it was pretty far ahead of most games.
Hero of Legend
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Dragon Hopper is actually 100% complete, some magazines even reviewed it. Hopefully the rom leaks some day like Bound High did.
Dr. Benton Quest
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True Fantasy Live Online
It's a title I still want desperately.
It's a title I still want desperately.
Lol the screenshots they released were such amazing bullshots.
Gnome Scat
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So much this.
Elitist1945
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Battlefront 3. And by shown, leaked beta footage after it was canned.
Ronan_Berthelot
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Aliens RPG from Obsidian
Japanmanx3
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Every freaking time smh.Lily Bergamo
keltickennedy
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Hero of Legend
Member
Lee Musgrave was the director of Donkey Kong Racing and is at Crash Lab with Steve Ellis. You'd think Nintendo could just grab him and hopefully as much of the team as possible to finally finish it on Wii U.
Storm Raider
Banned
Twelve Tales: Conker 64
bobbychalkers
Member
Space*Agency for DS
It sounded a lot like a 2D Mass Effect 1 with much more style and flair all set to house music. Even had spaceship battles. Made by the same people that made Contact on DS
There was even a pitch trailer:
http://youtu.be/QBRq1GS-jzY
It sounded a lot like a 2D Mass Effect 1 with much more style and flair all set to house music. Even had spaceship battles. Made by the same people that made Contact on DS
There was even a pitch trailer:
http://youtu.be/QBRq1GS-jzY
Gaffercake
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Heavenly Sword 2.
Dreamcast version of Gun Valkyrie:
Content wise, the Xbox Version we got was pretty similar, but mechanically they were vastly different games. The Xbox version controls kind of like a dual analog stick shooter with awful momentum that is hard to play. The Dreamcast version, however, was going to use a special one-handed nunchuck controller with an analog stick and buttons meant to be held in the left hand, while the right hand used the Sega Dreamcast light gun as pointer controls, ala the Wii-mote.
AiR NiGHTS:
Images of the game itself have never surfaced, but the images of the prototype controller have. This giant controller had IMUs built in and could be pointed at the screen and waggled to control NiGHTS, much like the wiimote.
Bonus, this isn't software necessarily but I remember being so stoked for this:
gun valkyrie might be the hardest game to control I've ever played. that alternate method doesn't sound much easier...it's like they set out to create a game with convoluted controls. which is fine, not everything needs to control the same and some people love gun valk, so the fault is on my end.
Space*Agency for DS
It sounded a lot like a 2D Mass Effect 1 with much more style and flair all set to house music. Even had spaceship battles. Made by the same people that made Contact on DS
There was even a pitch trailer:
http://youtu.be/QBRq1GS-jzY
I didn't know this existed. Kind of makes me sad that its not available. I like space RPGs that aren't made by Bioware.
The Black Tower - PC
Haven't seen anything about this game for over a year. I'm guessing its vaporware/canned at this point. Dev said its inspired by PS1 era Final Fantasy's but its looked a little more than "inspired" if you ask me.
http://www.desura.com/games/asa-a-space-adventure/news/introducing-tbt-a-new-rpg-game
http://vimeo.com/66172175
Haven't seen anything about this game for over a year. I'm guessing its vaporware/canned at this point. Dev said its inspired by PS1 era Final Fantasy's but its looked a little more than "inspired" if you ask me.
http://www.desura.com/games/asa-a-space-adventure/news/introducing-tbt-a-new-rpg-game
http://vimeo.com/66172175
Here's one retro gamers in europe might be familiar with, and a heads up for those unfamiliar. The Amiga 1000/500 was released in 1985, 2 years after the NES, MSX, etc. The Amiga 500/1000 was, needless to say, extremely advanced compared to virtually all of its contemporaries, blowing away not only rival game machines but also rival computers. It was one of the most significant leaps in home computing technology in history. It was able to keep pace well into the Genesis and SNES lifetimes when. It was, essentially, a true generation ahead of the competition.
Compare:
NES:
MSX:
Apple IIe:
Amiga 500:
Around 1990, Commodore released a very slight upgrade to the original Amiga graphics chip. The original chip became known as OCS - Original Chip Set, where the new Amiga 500+ chipset became known as ECS, the Enhanced Chip Set. This basically allowed for high resolution still images.
By 1992, the 7 year old Amiga was getting long in the tooth and a much hyped revision was supposed to be upcoming that would have been as big of a boost to then-current graphics as the original Amiga was back in 1985. After delays and revisions, Commodore eventually released the AGA - the Advanced Graphics Architecture for the new Amiga 1200 line, which was backwards compatible with OCS and ECS. It wound up only being a very slight upgrade, compare an original Amiga 500 title to an AGA title:
ECS:
AGA:
A nice improvement but nothing dramatic. The disappointing upgrade that AGA afforded was sort of a dying gasp from Commodore, who closed up shop less than a year and a half later.
Well, the original plans for the graphics upgrade hadn't been scrapped, and continued to progress until the day commodore closed shop as the AAA - The Amiga Advanced-Graphics Architecture. AAA can be seen, functional, on a desk in the documentary The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst filmed about the last 24 hours of Commodore.
upclose image of the board (not the functional one from the documentary):
This thing was supposed to be an enormous step up, and bring the Amiga in line with competition from 486 PCs and upcoming 3D consoles like the 3DO. Shame it never got to a point where demos could be created for the hardware.
Compare:
NES:
MSX:
Apple IIe:
Amiga 500:
Around 1990, Commodore released a very slight upgrade to the original Amiga graphics chip. The original chip became known as OCS - Original Chip Set, where the new Amiga 500+ chipset became known as ECS, the Enhanced Chip Set. This basically allowed for high resolution still images.
By 1992, the 7 year old Amiga was getting long in the tooth and a much hyped revision was supposed to be upcoming that would have been as big of a boost to then-current graphics as the original Amiga was back in 1985. After delays and revisions, Commodore eventually released the AGA - the Advanced Graphics Architecture for the new Amiga 1200 line, which was backwards compatible with OCS and ECS. It wound up only being a very slight upgrade, compare an original Amiga 500 title to an AGA title:
ECS:
AGA:
A nice improvement but nothing dramatic. The disappointing upgrade that AGA afforded was sort of a dying gasp from Commodore, who closed up shop less than a year and a half later.
Well, the original plans for the graphics upgrade hadn't been scrapped, and continued to progress until the day commodore closed shop as the AAA - The Amiga Advanced-Graphics Architecture. AAA can be seen, functional, on a desk in the documentary The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst filmed about the last 24 hours of Commodore.
upclose image of the board (not the functional one from the documentary):
This thing was supposed to be an enormous step up, and bring the Amiga in line with competition from 486 PCs and upcoming 3D consoles like the 3DO. Shame it never got to a point where demos could be created for the hardware.