They're both from an early version of FFXIII anyway. It was in development and the XIII characters probably weren't ready. FFXIII was a PS2 game for a couple of years, and that's what it looked like. You can even see how the hud went from that to what was in the E3'06 trailer to what we eventually got.TheSeks said:
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Games that launched looking or playing much differently than first demoed
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Commanche Raisin Toast
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warhawk
massive futuristic single player air combat game
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massive futuristic single player air combat game
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Mr Sandman
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Twilight Princess. Huge open fields (probably similar to how WW draws its islands), large open forests and a much darker tone. The final game was dark but lighthearted also.
CartridgeBlower
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I love how at the end of that original Halo trailer, there's no shooting, just a Spartan holding up a Covenant at gunpoint. Then the Covenant puts his hands up.
The game would have been so much more peaceful on the Mac.
The game would have been so much more peaceful on the Mac.
For all the mentions of Halo, I'm surprised no one mentioned Halo 2. 18 months in, they ditch the entire campaign and engine and start over.
E3 2003 demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax1nvd8DF1Q
E3 2003 demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax1nvd8DF1Q
riceandbeans
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GhaleonEB said:
To add to that, the first Halo 2 trailer as well. Looks just as good as an early 360 game. Did they ever mentioned why they scrapped the '03 engine? It doesn't look that much different besides added lighting effects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqwdDZSd0g&feature=related
SaggyMonkey
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B.C. to cancelled.
Flying_Phoenix
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ShockingAlberto said:
Holy Shit! How did I forget this? God, it's like everyday I'm reminded how shitty MGS4 was.
And MGS4 wasn't even like 3 at all. MGS3 was an action stealth game through and through. While MGS4 was one act of actual stealth with mediocre level design with the other acts being more or less a variety hour of gameplay and a four hour cinema.
jufonuk said:left 4 dead
You know whats funny ? alphas/betas/early concepts or whatever of Valve games always look like shit. TF2, L4D, even HL. They look generic as shit. There must be some momento during production when Gabe or someone goes "fuck this" and remakes the characters/setting/story to something completely fuckin awesome.
IrishNinja
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ShockingAlberto said:
heartbreaking to know what could've been, here.
you can see totally see it in Act 2 - on my BBE run, i moved fast & saved the whole faction in the beginning, and the rest o the level played out entirely different...but id not've notcied otherwise. man, that would've been awesome.
flipswitch
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riceandbeans said:
From what I've read, the Halo 2 e3 demo was running on an the debug kits with twice as much ram.Had fancy stencil shows which weren't in the final game.What do you mean by scrap the engine?.It's been modified for each sequel since the first Halo.That e3 demo was awesome, and I agree looked great.
Amidst the outcry by former developers Perfect Dark Zero's development was one hell of a ride.
Started on GameCube, first unveiled at SpaceWorld 2000. A former RARE staffer said that the GameCube prototype of the game was actually the most fun to play. Originally scheduled for GameCube launch or launch window.
Somewhere along the way RARE hired UK artist Wil Overton who drew Joanna in a new style for N64 magazine.
MS buys Rare and to our surprise Joanna is cel-shaded. Former RARE staff member starts yelling and screaming on IGN that Perfect Dark Zero won't come out for another 2 years because of staff departures and problems.
Development continues but cel-shading is not the direction they want to take so they build a more realistic style Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox.
As soon as it starts to look good(late 2004) and is 12 months away from completion :
MS decides to put Perfect Dark Zero on Xbox 360
Wil Overton redesigns Joanna again and again and again and again
and finally after 5 years they ship this
May 16th 2005
No this
June 2005
hold on they shipped this
no this
RARE called in Wil Overton to redesign Joanna, he did so about 300 times only for them to revert back to cheeseburgers 5 years later
Untill someone 'got' it
Started on GameCube, first unveiled at SpaceWorld 2000. A former RARE staffer said that the GameCube prototype of the game was actually the most fun to play. Originally scheduled for GameCube launch or launch window.
Somewhere along the way RARE hired UK artist Wil Overton who drew Joanna in a new style for N64 magazine.
MS buys Rare and to our surprise Joanna is cel-shaded. Former RARE staff member starts yelling and screaming on IGN that Perfect Dark Zero won't come out for another 2 years because of staff departures and problems.
Development continues but cel-shading is not the direction they want to take so they build a more realistic style Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox.
As soon as it starts to look good(late 2004) and is 12 months away from completion :
MS decides to put Perfect Dark Zero on Xbox 360
Wil Overton redesigns Joanna again and again and again and again
and finally after 5 years they ship this
May 16th 2005
No this
June 2005
hold on they shipped this
no this
RARE called in Wil Overton to redesign Joanna, he did so about 300 times only for them to revert back to cheeseburgers 5 years later
Untill someone 'got' it
ChackanKun
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LOl that Perfect Dark post is awesome :lol
Ghost Leviathan
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Loved the Perfect Dark Zero post. :lol No wonder the game was a letdown. MS should have just let them release it on Xbox 1 as opposed to rushing it out as a 360 launch title.
As for that Halo 2 E3 demo. Man I was so disappointed when I bailed out of University that day to get Halo 2 LE and play through the entire campaign in one sitting to find that E3 demo level nowhere in the game.
I realised later that Outskirts and Metropolis were basically what they left in. The game was marketed as this epic battle on Earth when you were actually playing as the Covenent half the time in random locations in space. I still enjoyed the game but that demo has to be a greatest "bait and switch" a game developer has ever done.
At least they brought back night-fighting with ODST.
As for that Halo 2 E3 demo. Man I was so disappointed when I bailed out of University that day to get Halo 2 LE and play through the entire campaign in one sitting to find that E3 demo level nowhere in the game.
I realised later that Outskirts and Metropolis were basically what they left in. The game was marketed as this epic battle on Earth when you were actually playing as the Covenent half the time in random locations in space. I still enjoyed the game but that demo has to be a greatest "bait and switch" a game developer has ever done.
At least they brought back night-fighting with ODST.
sixteen-bit
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I'm still salty about how Dark Sector turned out.
DoDonGouki
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House Of The Dead III
Prototype was cel-shaded
Prototype was cel-shaded