Spring-Loaded
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And now you understand the pain
I never played Prey, but after seeing that gameplay, I wanted 2.
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Underrated Games That Had Their Sequels Canceled
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And now you understand the pain
I never played Prey, but after seeing that gameplay, I wanted 2.
Prey 2
Look at this, just look at this !!
Cancelled because Bethesda thought it "didn't meet their expectation for quality". And then they funded Brink and not to mention made Skyrim PS3.
EDIT: Beaten
Look at this, just look at this !!
Cancelled because Bethesda thought it "didn't meet their expectation for quality". And then they funded Brink and not to mention made Skyrim PS3.
EDIT: Beaten
As a series, Fear Effect fared well critically, though didn't quite set sales charts on fire. Fear Effect Inferno was a sequel in development for PS2 (Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on PS1 having been a prequel). Got cancelled, and now the franchise is nothing but a distant memory.
wkureservedp2
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While Ubisoft claims the sequel is still in development, I refuse to believe them. And, based on the sales disaster that the original was, Beyond Good and Evil.
SketchTheArtist
Member
MANDOZA!!!
Yeah, I think Guerrilla Cambridge (Sony Cambridge at the time) was working on it. Loved the world and its characters. It just needed a better developer and they would've fit that role nicely. Shame.
Was it? Hm, the only information I had seen regarding it up until this point had mentioned PS2 while it was still a thing, so it might've been easy for me to overlook. Either way, a shame that it didn't land anywhere in the end.And Xbox
This one still hurts
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yeah, I believe SCE Cambridge Studio were developing it and it was cancelled in 2008.
Edit - here's a link for evidence,although I think this was speculative and never actually confirmed: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-23-heavenly-sword-2-concept-art-leaked
As painful as it is to not receive a sequel, it's for the best. You do NOT want the Ubisoft of today having anything to do with the franchise, would you?
Haha damn I think you are right
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Me neither. The fuck did they cancel it for?
Gaffercake
Member
Heavenly Sword comes to mind.
Compsiox
Banned
Read Winston read!!
Just like Split/Second and Blur, both already mentioned in this thread (except in that case it killed both studios too
).More_Badass
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Crimsonclaw111
Member
As long as Michael Ancel and his team handle it I'll feel better about it.
Anyone else and you may as well take it out to pasture now.
I was really looking forward to this game love cyberpunk settings.Lets not forget the awesomeness that would've been Prey 2
Some gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPMr0joaE6A
A sequel to this game had the potential to be something really special.
Apparently sequel was in the works, but poor sales crossed that out, sadly.
Was The Darkness 3 ever confirmed to be in development?
Bulletstorm makes me sad, though. That game was so much fun.
Not sure if it's permanently cancelled but development on Rage 2 was halted because Doom 4 needed to be restarted or something along those lines.
SonyToo!™
Member
Prey 2 was my most eagerly awaited next gen games.. damn it
Yep, Ive seen the proof of it. Now, whether or not it was as far along is a different story.
ricardo_sousa11
Member
Blur's sequel:
WHAT ARE THIS ?!
I loved Blur, so much fun, I didnt know Blur 2 had been announced...
DarKshodaN
Member
SonyToo!™;145990327 said:
Same here, it's really sad that there canceled it.
Hope someone brings it back on the Table
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I have no idea what this means! XD
floatingcoffins
Member
Black.
I also wish they'd put the original on PSN.
I also wish they'd put the original on PSN.
Well kinda deceptive of me...it wasn't technically called/confirmed to be Blur 2.
But the people who made Blur were making that game until they got shut down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oXT-H6ueLg
http://gamingbolt.com/this-is-what-blur-2-would-have-looked-like-if-it-was-never-cancelled
They apparently improved the basic Blur engine graphics too.
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Why?
Also allegedly Conker's Bad Fur Day's sequel was canned because of Kinect Sports
I always wondered why SCE never did a collab project with Rockstar North for a reboot of The Getaway (which would be now for PS4) instead of that none-to-be-seen AGENT project.
A London-based studio working on a London-based GTA-style game could have been awesome, with which, Guerilla Cambridge could have use such opportunity to come back in the home console space and learn a bit from a bigger studio. I sent a question to Playstation and Boyes on Twitter with #GetawayOnPS4 (seems a bit too tacky) regarding this matter.
Lots of great suggestions. Republic Commando, Bulletstorm, and Timesplitters oh my!
Ill throw out Metal Arms: Glitch in the System.
Jim Sterling did a phenomenal interview about the canceled sequel a few years back on Destructoid.
Ill throw out Metal Arms: Glitch in the System.
Jim Sterling did a phenomenal interview about the canceled sequel a few years back on Destructoid.
This really hurts, because the game ended on a cliffhanger. I guess there are some books that continue the story, but eh...
I don't think that KOTOR 3 was ever really in the works, sadly. Chris Avellone had some amazing ideas for the story of the third game though.
Lightning Count
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Jade Empire.
joey_bone_bomb
Member
The sequel to the Alias (TV show) game for PS2, Xbox & PC was in early development stages before it got cancelled.
The first one wasn't a particularly good game, but I played all the way through it since I loved the show and the game had some really nice ideas, both stylistically and gameplay wise. Also, it was one of the few licensed games of that era that captured the likeness of its stars extremely well, and it also had one of the absolute best soundtracks.
The first one wasn't a particularly good game, but I played all the way through it since I loved the show and the game had some really nice ideas, both stylistically and gameplay wise. Also, it was one of the few licensed games of that era that captured the likeness of its stars extremely well, and it also had one of the absolute best soundtracks.
Sudeki
Whilst the game isn't the best I enjoyed the time I spent with it when it came out, it has aged horribly and I would've loved to see the way the sequel would have improved things.
My 2nd choice is Darksiders.
Darksiders 2 exist? And Darksiders 3 has been discussed by Nordic as a definite possibility in July?
StarlordDial
Member
Psi Ops
Sucker Punch needs to get this game or something...fits their style ;_;
Dr Zhivago
Member
Sphinx was planned as a franchise, but it sold poorly and THQ pulled out. Eurocom owned the IP but couldn't get any publisher interest.
Prey for sure. In reality, Prey 2 was a tremendous accomplishment for a team of only 55 people in Wisconsin. One of the leads from Hangar 13 Games called out Pete Hines for lying about why the game was canned.
I definitely wish Anachronox Prime and STALKER 2 happened, too.
I definitely wish Anachronox Prime and STALKER 2 happened, too.
BrewceJustice
Neo Member
Weaponlord.
Always Weaponlord.
Always Weaponlord.
Prey for sure. In reality, Prey 2 was a tremendous accomplishment for a team of only 55 people in Wisconsin. One of the leads from Hangar 13 Games called out Pete Hines for lying about why the game was canned.
I definitely wish Anachronox Prime and STALKER 2 happened, too.
Did it ever come out exactly why this was canceled?