VGEsoterica
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Maybe not everyone spends as much time playing, locating and preserving game betas (I have zero to do with TJ&E) but because I do play a lot of betas for cancelled games I've realized that SOMETIMES a cancelled game suddenly becomes one of my favorite games to play. It's not often but occasionally I find or play something that I think would have 100% been amazing had it just been finished and released for everyone to play.
ToeJam and Earl 3 on Dreamcast totally slid into my top 10 Dreamcast games of all time list even if technically it's an unfinished beta that you can't actually "beat". It has all the charm of the original Genesis version except it has that awesome and nostalgic Dreamcast 3D look that I enjoyed the hell out of in high school.
Weirdly the Xbox version is somehow less fun than the Dreamcast beta. Some odd changes and maybe less visually appealing as it doesn't have that "Dreamcast look". Honestly in a lot of ways I'd rather play the Dreamcast beta than the finished Xbox version.
But it got me thinking...I can't be the only one who has a favorite cancelled game? Whether a beta leaked and was fun or just somewhere in your head you KNOW you'd have loved the game (Mother / Earthbound 64 for me...or the original version of D2 on the 3DO M2) had you just been able to play it!
So...what are your favorite cancelled games? lol maybe I'll find an awesome new beta I didn't even know existed
ToeJam and Earl 3 on Dreamcast totally slid into my top 10 Dreamcast games of all time list even if technically it's an unfinished beta that you can't actually "beat". It has all the charm of the original Genesis version except it has that awesome and nostalgic Dreamcast 3D look that I enjoyed the hell out of in high school.
Weirdly the Xbox version is somehow less fun than the Dreamcast beta. Some odd changes and maybe less visually appealing as it doesn't have that "Dreamcast look". Honestly in a lot of ways I'd rather play the Dreamcast beta than the finished Xbox version.
But it got me thinking...I can't be the only one who has a favorite cancelled game? Whether a beta leaked and was fun or just somewhere in your head you KNOW you'd have loved the game (Mother / Earthbound 64 for me...or the original version of D2 on the 3DO M2) had you just been able to play it!
So...what are your favorite cancelled games? lol maybe I'll find an awesome new beta I didn't even know existed
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