Weird cancelled games I STILL think about
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
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Taking a stranger trip down memory lane to discuss some of the more forgotten and obscure canceled video game projects.
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Demonik:
• Cancelled Video Game: ...
Possession:
• Possession (Cancelled ...
• Possession Xbox 360 Ga...
Dirty Harold:
www.unseen64.net/2008/04/29/d...
Fear & Respect:
• Fear & Respect - E3 20...
The Getaway:
• [PS3] The Getaway 3 -...
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I wanna hear your suggestions for a part 2! I know there's some weird old game rattling around in your brain. Don't give me that basic stuff like Star Wars 1313 - we've already talked it to death! Hit me here 👇
Frame City Killer - Namco's cancelled hitman game for the 360
Perfect Stride - was an early game by Ben Esposito and the other Arcane Kids. the alpha was released as part of a promotion and is now pretty freely available.
iirc the music literally used a soundcloud playlist so it might break/be broken
I dont know if it was cancelled but darkness 2 left us with a kind of cliff hanger so a darkness 3 could be dope
Mercenaries 3!
Kameo's sequel. I have a soft spot for the original alongside the Condemned series of games.
Dude with all the game channels that lean so negatively you have always been so much more fun to watch.
thanks! I'm trying to put some fun out there. glad you get it
@@JakeBaldino just outright ignored my harker comment bro 😢
Yeah Jake has always been the opposite of toxic. It's why I watch him and gameranx and skillup the most.
Those channels aren't for real gamers, if you enjoy something you don't spend all your time trying to find something to complain or be angry about, that's the opposite of the point of it.
@@cenciende9401 truth
Had no clue Demonic was real. I was just like "damn they made a 'game' just for this movie and it really looks like an in-development title"
Mr. Cheezul cancelled it :(
@@irvingzisman8949 Apparently it did not fly with the sea birds
Same
It was in GamePro Magazine before Grandmas Boy came out. They had a whole story on it w multiple pages of screenshots.
Cancelled games have always fascinated the hell out of me. The mystery of what could have been has an undeniable allure to it. How many cancelled games would have gone on to be classics? We'll never know, and that's a real shame.
I still think about YOU, Jake.
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Grandma’s Boy is a CLASSIC. That movie made me want to play that game so bad.
That robot voice guy has been stuck in my head since I saw it years ago.
Grandma's Boy is amazing and I had no idea the game in it was going to be real at one point!!
You do look like it's target audience lol
@@dr.loomis4221 I that picture I wouldn't really think so, but it is also a super old picture.
@@dr.loomis4221 Tf does that even mean
There was another game based on a film, Stay Alive, that was scrapped once the film bombed.
@Vic T that could have been interesting. I actually own that movie somewhere but don't fully remember it
One i just remembered that i had massive hype for. Pirates of the Caribbean Armada of the Damned. It was supposed to be this Pirates game where you could become this handsom Pirate Hero or Supernatual villain if you so choose. Just the idea of playing a original Pirates of the Caribbean story where i could become a villain was just so crazy to me. But that game just died at some point.
The tv show "When Games Attack" (2004 or 05, hosted by Dominic Diamond) had an episode with Possession, where they showed gameplay, sound design stuff (guy smashing a water melon) and it looked really cool. Was hyped for that. Games like Dirt, and Starcraft Ghost too. Still think about these games from time to time too Jake 😔
I loved the Getaway and it’s dedication to designing the game with no HUD. I’d love a remake or a new game, getting around could be helped with a sat nav or phone maps
Black Monday is still awesome too. Here's hoping for modernized lock, stock esq, sequel
Demonik would have been so cool. Was bummed it never got a leaked or anything.
That game on today's tech would be absolutely mind-blowing.
One game that stuck with me is B.C by Peter Molyneux. I remember seeing it and wanting to play it right away.
The concept and the short trailer / images they had revealed had me excited about the game for a while...... To this day I still think about it and wish it existed.
Honestly thinking about it more, the fact that you only really got to see it via magazines or g4 tv was what really made it exciting. Always something new to look forward to when receiving the new Xbox magazine or if you got lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the g4 episode where they would showcase new info. With today's technology, everything is at our finger tip via our phones. I really do miss those days when you had to wait for the next magazine or g4 episode and rely on your imagination of how the game would potentially be like is really what made it exciting.
The Darkness 3 is still one of my most wanted sequels. Imagine if they made the sequel come out of no where with an up to date engine (similar to how STALKER did).
One cancelation that hurt me when I found out about it was the Legacy of Kain game they were working on towards the end of the 360/PS3 era. It was going to take place where Kain and Raziel were traveling through time so they were absent in the world. You played as a guy who gets murdered by a vampire and then possess his body, sharing it with the vampire's consciousness. I'm pretty sure when it was cancelled, the work was transitioned to Shadow of Mordor.
Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun 😂👍 I literally just posted about this myself!
yep, I remember this, not sure if I would've liked it though by the gameplay videos I saw.
@@tube154you it definitely was an interesting concept. We got something similar with Shadow of Mordor though. I don't really want a legacy of Kain without Kain.
@@AnCoolUsername and that is exactly why I wasn't sure....lol
That's why I was so stoked for Demonic because it looked like it handled like the blood omen game for the Xbox. I really need some demonik in my life!!! I wish that was a thing! I hope at the very least one day we get a Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain game.
Possession featured in an early Xbox 360 magazine, and I always wondered what happened to it. Thank you for scratching an itch I’ve had for nearly 20 years!
Some already mentioned but I would like to second that "This Is Vegas" should be on part 2 of this list.
Hard agree, I was almost expecting it on this list.
Just watched this video 2 months after it first came on. And that's the first game that came to mind. I was following that game so much. I wanted to play it so bad. Pissed me off when they announced it got cancelled.😢😢😢
I had ZERO idea the game from grandmas boy was a real game. character model always made me think of jeepers creepers
Same!
StarCraft: Ghost is #1 on my list of forgotten games I still think about.
That cancelled Jak 4 game still hurts to think about. I really wanted Naughty Dog to go back to that franchise.
If Jak 4 were to ever happen…..would you prefer if it was a more realistic/mature take or more leaning towards the original campy cartoony take?
I know they never officially announced a 3rd Darkness game. But man, i wish they would make a new Darkness game.
There was a Korean developed game called Huxley back in the day. It was supposed to be a FPS/MMORPG. It looked really cool and sounded way before its time.
I came here to comment about Huxley. Game was way too ambitious and ahead of its time.
Damn I forgot about that one, Huxley was a big one I was hyped for. I'm most affected by Project-Offset being canceled by Intel after they acquired it and overestimated their own hardware, people at Intel were trying to help the team get their game back, but whatever higher up at Intel apparently didn't find it profitable enough to spend their time on. Some of the team created Fractiv or went to work on Hawken.
Huxley ended up releasing in asia. I followed it damn near to the end. Was glad Hellgate London came out to fill the gap somewhat, but ifkyk.
I’ll never forget about the XCOM remake trailer that they did years ago. It was a 2K games trailer on IGN back in like 2010. It looked so cool for the time. Almost like a survival horror fps against black ooze alien creatures. I remember being so hyped. But it ended up being XCOM: declassified and looking nothing like the trailer did
As soon as I saw that cover art it made me think of Grandma's Boy! Love how the game is actually real. 😂
Thanks for covering this Jake!
For me it's Deep Down, the kinda soulslike roguelike thing that looked amazing when it was shown.
Really wish it became real
I dare not hope but the game hasn't been officially cancelled. Capcom renewed the trademark in 2018, and even when the project lead left in 2019 he said work would continue. If it does exist it probably went through an overhaul... a lot has changed since it was originally announced in 2013. And I really do wish it exists.
It hasnt been cancelled its just not a priority for capcom right now
YES...demonik. I remember I had a magazine that came out a few months before the 360. The whole mag was a luanch issue for the console and they had all the games that were in development for it. And seeing it in grandma's boy I was like ahhh man this is never coming out...smh
GamePro was the magazine. 👍🤘💯
Love the videos Jake. Order 1886 was on discount today so I finally copped it after all you've talked about it. Excited to play it!
Yesss!
The Darkness was on discount today on xbox lol, I finally got it for the same reason! I've seen a lot about how underrated it is this past year.
Oh man, I remember seeing The Gauntlet, but I only saw that last scene with the approach to the courthouse and that just was such a crazy intense scene. I've never gotten it out of my head completely.
Dude the fact that you brought up Demonik and Posession is insane, I felt like the only person who knew those were gonna be a thing
Nope. I remember all the old school shit. Late 80s-early 2000s were too good to forget lol.
I got one title like that, it buggs me for years now: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was supposed to be something like "Max Payne", but with supernatural twist, with more "horror" approach. There were some amazing artworks flying, Lance Henriksen and Tim Curry in the cast and it looked so cool, that I still can't get over it. Also, thanks for cool video (this one and much more others)!
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I think I remember this one, too
Reminds me of the Apocalypse game back on PsOne that Bruce Willis was the main character. You fought the four horsemen in that.
Wow I’ve actually never heard of Possession before. I would’ve loved to play that, it looks really cool! I love the idea of it.
I love the game Demonic, "dude your beds a car." "Yeah but it's a f****** sweet car"- Grandma's Boy
Man, I completely. forget about the Gateway franchise until you touched on black monday👀
Sometimes before bed I think about Star Craft Ghost.
Funny thing about Demonic I think it turned into Legacy of Kain or Psi Ops
Ghost is legit a legendary game. And I’m not even sure it ever got a release date.
I remember being 9 or 10 playing demo for Psi: ops and i think the game came out and it had potential but never went anywhere sadly, would love to see you cover it!
I had no idea the game from Grandma's Boy was real! That movie was a hit for me in college.
This game was not canceled and sadly it did eventually come out. It was first teased in Game Informer in March 2008. I read that article at least 20 times. I was hyped for the game and it looked amazing. Instead of what was described and envisioned in the article instead we got Aliens: Colonial Marines. I still think about an alien game similar to GTFO. A scary survival squad shooter. In my heart it was canceled.
Dead Rush getting the axe was one of the most crushing cancellations I can remember. Trailer is still on youtube, probably hasn't aged well, but at the time I couldn't wait.
I remember that game! I was super excited for it after reading an article about it in Game Informer... and it just vanished.
Great list! The Demonik and Dirty Harry games were a serious trip down memory lane. The music in the Demonik trailer still rules.
These are the weird cancelled games I still think about:
- P.T. (not much to say, I think we all have it on our list, so I'll just get it out of the way)
- Eight Days (a cancelled PS3 game, the trailer was absolutely insane - like Killzone 2 levels of "there's no way this trailer is real")
- Killing Day (another PS3 game, looked a lot like the Hardcore Henry movie)
- THEY (sci-fi FPS with aliens and an insane amount of weapon customization - the studio cancelled it and made the Witcher 2 instead)
- Redwood Falls (it was supposed to be some sort of survival horror game that takes place in a snowy, mountainous region)
Eight Days. THAT'S what it was called. Thank you 🙏
P.T. wasn't a game it was a demo for a future Kojima Silent Hill game, it literally stands for 'Playable Teaser', yes I know it was removed, and Silent Hills was cancelled, but calling P.T. itself a cancelled game isn't accurate. I'm sure Jake has plenty to say about the cancelled Silent Hills given Kojima's involvement and how it ultimately led to his own studio!
Eight Days looked like the coolest game ever
I feel you for PT. I, until recently STILL had the demo on a PS4 external. Sadly it was corrupted recently and I lost it....
Glad to see someone else remembers Posession.
I still remember Rockstar talking about the game Agent and then never devolping it.
Awesome topic. Some really great picks there. I also was excited for Demonik, and was bummed that Grandma’s Boy was the last we saw of it.
The games that I often think about and lament never getting to play due to cancellation would be Dead Rush and The Lost. Read a big magazine reveal story on Dead Rush back in the day, but it didn’t seem to last much beyond that. And I remember being SO pumped for The Lost, even proudly hanging a poster for it that I got in some game magazine in the early 000’s. Then…nothing. Cancelled and cast aside. Sad days.
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Thanks for the info on the grandma boys game, that’s something I’ve always pondered. Great movie
Ya know, I STILL wish for a 2nd part to the Getting Up game. It was pretty great for its time, and the soundtrack is something I still listen to and use for workouts!
I might be crazy but I distinctly recall hearing about a second Getting Up game being in the works. A weird memory of a poster at e3 one year but no gameplay.
If I’m not mistaken, I believe they’re working on a movie.
I was kinda hype to hear somebody mention “overlord” for the first time in a while. Fond memories of that
I love how you just open your true, unfiltered nerd soul to the world here.
Love the videos man watched you since I was in high school on a budget trying to figure out which game I was into to watching it now as a adult working a job still watching and it’s amazing to see the progress
woah, thanks for sticking around! congrats on becoming an adult
I know Capcom hasn't technically canceled it, and it was probably just a tech demo for what would become Monster Hunter World, but I still think about Deep Down. At least we are getting Dragons Dogma 2 so ill settle for that.
Grandma's boy is a classic and that game always stuck out in my memory. It looked like a unofficial sequel or spiritual successor to Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. At least that's how it looked like it played. I never knew it was a real game and just assumed it was a mod of psi-ops or something made exclusively for grandma's boy.
That game was in GamePro Magazine around the launch of the 360. Before Grandmas Boy came out.
I remember seeing Demonik when we saw Grandma’s Boy back in the day. When I saw the footage I remembered being intrigued. I knew it was a real game cause it would have taken too much time and money to make that footage for a movie. So I looked into it and I was interested.
A game where you play a demon who goes after evil souls meant for damnation. That it likely had mechanics like that Shiny Entertainment game Messiah where ya possess people to sneak into areas of the game etc.
It was a shame when I found out it was cancelled.
I really think Demonic could've been an xbox icon in a different universe and possibly a couple remasters. I thought they made the game specifically for the movie lol
If i'm being honest, the cancelation of Scalebound still hurts to this day
I would’ve gotten an Xbox for that game
On bro
That game was literally the only reason I was gonna get an Xbox for but since it never came out, I never got an xbox😆.
Makes me wanna know if it was in any demo discs I don't think it made it that far but if it did that would be awsome
Grandmas boy is straight up one of the best comedy movies of all time. Never gets old
Awesome video, definitely do more of these, I remembered the Getaway 3 being rumored and watching that tech demo trailer years ago, now that was nostalgic man. Nice!
I was really pumped for Thrill Kill. I followed it for quite some time and was like wtf when they canceled it. Interstate 77 was also another canceled one I was looking forward to cause Interstate 82 was not it lol.
Agreed
Thrill Kill did get "released" though. Not officially, of course, but I remember playing a leaked version of it back in the day. It was pretty rough, but sorta fun. Anyways, you can find a rom of it today to play in like Duckstation, or any other PS1 emulator.
@Tom Andersen . Oh I had heard about that but figured it was fake or awful
Snooooooooop!
Sleeping Dogs 2 hurts still because that first game was so underrated!!
Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure aswell was supposed to have a sequel which was cancelled I believe! That first game was so good!
As soon as I read the title I thought of Possession and Im stoked to see its on the list. That game had kid me super curious and I remember I kept googling for it years later only to be disappointed nothing more came out of it than that short clip.
Bro you're bringing back so many memories. Love this channel and gameranx, top quality gaming content.
Demonic!! Jake were the same age and you never cease to share similar memories putting a smile on my face 😂😂
Thank you so much for the brief, unsolved mysteries theme. You had going there for a moment! Made my day!
The taxi driver game, Akira the game, and the tremors game.
Whenever someone mentions canceled games, I think of Rockstar Games 'Agent'.
It was supposed to be Rockstar Games spy game. It was announced as an exclusive for PlayStation 3, but nothing came of it after the announcement.
It was a bummer for me, because I've always loved games made by R*.
I'm still pissed that Pandemic was shut down, and Mercenaries 3 was lost alongside them. Also, InSANE could've been such a cool game, given Guillermo Del Toro's involvement.
I remember following ‘This is Vegas’ quite closely back in the day. Looked like somewhere between GTA and the getaway actually. Sad to see that fade away. Reminds me of ‘Eight days’ too, also by London studio. I still remember the demo now.
‘Wild’ as well for ps4, that one was painful because it looked fun 😢
Great vid Jake!
My mind was blown when you put up the first image of possession. I was just thinking, right after you presented demonic "that dude kinda looks like that one obscure game I used to see random videos on youtube like 15 years ago" and I was like "I'm never going to remember how it was called. Let alone be able to google it" seconds later you just blew my mind. Thank you for saving me hours of non stop thinking of how I could google that one very specific game.
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Super rough night at work. It's awesome to get home and listen to some dude talk about games before I go to sleep. Thanks, dude
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With all the recent leaks of cancelled games (Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build, Goldeneye XBLA back in 2021, prototype/demos of Dreamcast/Xbox OG games, etc) I always wonder how much time we'll be waiting if Demonik ever finds it way onto the internet some day. The game always looked so fun to play from Grandma's Boy. Hell, even the trailers.
I regularly think of that “Deep Down” game that was shown off alongside the PS4 showcase in 2013. It’s not officially cancelled but is vaporware, and I regularly think about it because at the time I thought graphics could never get better than that.
I've never seen your videos before now, but man I am lovin so much how similar you and I think, while you describe some of these games (the other canceled game videos too) I was thinking 'eh, this game feels more like this series" and like 3 seconds latter BAM you say the exact same thing, im definitely checking out more of your vids
Grandmas boy is one of my favorite stoner comedies lol the part when his grandma finds his stash and makes tea is the best. 😂😂
Mine was called Project White when it was originally shown
It was one where you started playing as a baby monster that had to hide from humans but don’t remember much apart form that
Great work as always, Jake. Like a breath of fresh air
Hey, thanks, you helped me spot a game I had forgotten the name of, but had seen a trailer for as a kid. Although sadly it was cancelled eons ago, but still, I can scratch the itch.
The Alien rpg Obsidian was doing and the Stargate SG1 fps. Both are games I wish had been made and I still watch RUclips videos on them to this day.
Marc ecko’s getting up is a game that constantly goes through my mind because it gave me a different view on different types of art
JAKE YOU MENTIONED OVERLORD!
Legit thought I was the only person who knew, heard or remembered that game.
Got it for a tenner out a bargain bin back in the day and lost myself
Tabula Rasa is the most painfully cancelled game for me (never released, only beta). It was a blast, I was playing a rocket-launcher based character and it was fun. Warhammer Online hurts some as well, but that at least released for a little while.
I loved The Getaway too! I would be down to go back to the London under belly. Blood and Truth looks great though!
This is such a great video idea. The one that sticks out to me the most is the Indiana Jones Xbox game but I guess really never did get canceled but I remember being so blown away by that trailer where they were showing off their euphoria engine and stuff
Bro there was so much stuff here that I had never seen or heard about back then thanks for sharing.
I remember the getaway game, the one that has always stuck with me was eight days for ps3. I remember seeing footage of it and thinking it looked so next gen. Lol
As soon as you started talking about weird games I LITERALLY THOUGHT ABOUT HOW ID LOVE TO PLAY THAT GAME FROM "GRANDMAS BOY"
Ooph, you got me Jake. I always think about Demonik and still hope for something similar to that to come out.
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For me it would be Starcraft: Ghost. Something about a third person SC game and getting to have a better sense of scale of the buildings / units as well as getting to be a stealthy person in the universe sounded SO cool!
Demonik really hit me hard I was super hyped for it to release then it just melted into the aether never to be seen again.
Grandmas Boy is an underrated masterpiece that should have won Oscars. And I'm not even joking. That movie is awesome lol. Infinitely rewatchable.
Fantastic vid, Jakiepoo. I always wondered if they actually made a rough game for Grandma’s Boy😂😂
I worked in the industry around the N64 era, both as a freelance journalist but also for a developer. Sometimes what happens with these reveals is that the developer is making a last-ditch effort to shop around for a publisher to try and save a game through showing there’s a following or hype around their work. This rarely pans out, but that’s why you sometimes see these big reveals that never amount to anything.
Deep down.
Also, One Night Left? The Last Night? I don't remember what it was called but it was a neat looking pixle art game on steam a few years back.
Always love your content man. It's very natural in this weird modern youtube world, which is refreshing.
Honestly with the amount of seemingly solid rumors about rocksteady’s Superman game and then never hearing about it only to see this horrible looking suicide squad game from them will always make me sad (unless it’s an amazing game)
George a Romero’s: City of the Dead…I still watch the trailer to this day 😂 buzzing for that game as a kid, but never got to see it
Jake I absolutely love everything you put out. It always brings be joy and I instantly click your stuff when I see it. ❤
I’ve been watching a lot of Lost Media videos recently, it’s a very interesting topic to talk about, specially when it comes to videogames!
- Telltale’s Stranger Things
- Phantom Dust Remake
- A weird game titled LMNO
- The Last Night (maybe still in production)
That egyptian exploration game by the creators of firewatch... in the valley of gods, once the studio got bought by valve the development froze and i think developing half life alyx got it cancelled
I remember seeing the trailer for the game “killing day”
Looked like a cool FPS. I think it only had one trailer and then was never shown again
I still love Grandma's Boy. It's a guilty pleasure without a doubt. I can't tell you how many times I've joked with friends about car beds, or if they could see me or not.
A video of you talking about The Godfather would be great. One of my favorite games as a kid
just saw grandmas boy for the first time the other day and loved it! love these videos too!!!
I remember seeing possession in a magazine . You brought back a crazy memory
Discovered your channel from SkillUp and the podcast. Great stuff my man. Love the channel
Thanks! Good to know. Glad you’re here
grandmas boy hands down fav comedy of all time