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I remembered they canceled the development after the Syndicate reboot fiasco because they thought the gameplay was similar to that game and syndicate flopped so they pulled the plug.
@@lz9275 Is this true? I did enjoy Syndicate, it was a good like 7/10 shooter with some interesting hacking stuff. It would suck if that got in the way of fucking Prey 2 tho
Deep Down is the canceled game that hurts the most for me. It had Dark Souls & Dragon’s Dogma vibes while also trying new things like aiming at weak points with a spear in combat.
Same here. The graphics and character expressions were insane though, even for current gen standards. You could tell it was made solely as a tech demo. The version that released in Japan is so much more bland
2013 was 10 years ago... To me, the entire PS4 and Xbox1 reveal JUST happened, I still processing what the hell Microsoft was thinking with that press conference. Do you remember, Angry Joe, everyone dropping videos that night. Didnt that JUST happen? How the hell its been 10 years! Its insane, you are telling this part and me going from first to 10th grade was the same amount of that? In my brain, Deep down didnt come out YET, it seems it was just announced, people not believing it is real gameplay footage and all, didnt that was last month... or 10 years ago. Wow man, I have lost touch.
@@TheRealUcanUwillcrazy right? I was just ending grade 12 and wake up realizing it’s been 10 years like nothing Remembering even that ps4 is now “old gen” and 10 years old too is wild lol my OG PS4 will be have it’s 10 year anniversary next year and never has broken! I think PS4/X1 are the last fun console generation and games we had I mean every “sequel or remake” in 2020+ has been a flop compared to the old releases lol and crazy to think I’m calling them old releases 😂 Time flies good luck to you homie 👊🏽
@@TheRealUcanUwillman I feel the exact same way. Time is going so fast and I just can’t keep up. Back in 2013 when those consoles came out I was 20 and now here it is ten years later and I just crossed the 30 mark a couple weeks ago. 2013 still feels like it was maybe max 5 years ago for me not 10!! I’m not exactly sure why this is the case but to me atleast it seems like time felt like it went much slower when we were children. Once you cross that line into adulthood it starts just going by so fast you catch yourself looking back thinking man where did all those years ago? Shit think about this man this November will mark 3 years already since the ps5 and Xbox series S/X came out ain’t that wild?
I’ve never forgotten that Deep Down trailer. But I did forget the name and I’ve spent like 2 years searching for it on and off. So thank you for remembering better than I could
The legacy of Cain reboot seems like it was too ambitious for the power of the ps4, but It seemed perfect for the ps5 with the realm shifting being perfect for running on a nvme Gen 4 drive
I can't remember if you mentioned it in your previous videos, but PT and Rockstar's "Agent" are games I think about all the time. Obviously, these are some of the biggest cancelled games in the industry, but I'd like to hear you talk about it an upcoming video:)
PT wasn't cancelled, it literally means 'playable teaser', that was the game, now the game that PT was a teaser for, a new Silent Hill, that WAS cancelled.
Yes! I love this series and that you just bring whatever you want casually here and not necessarily the newest stuff tho I love gamernx as well, keep up jake!
Still waiting on killzone lul, Got an idea for a video,Like Cut games games that were cut and could of been something better/different Like remember the game singularity that could of been way different
Not cancelled, but I'm counting it because it's not what was released: if you go back and look at the demos for Bioshock Infinite, it's a completely different and much bigger game than what we got. I imagine a lot of the cuts were due to the 360 and PS3 not being able to handle the scale of the project (some _huge_ levels on display there), but the story pretty clearly went through some very major rewrites too. I'll always be curious what happened there, what story they originally set out to tell but seemingly completely abandoned.
I'm a bit bummed about the cancelled Tomb Raider 10 Years Anniversary Edition that was in development by Core themselves. I think it would have been very cool to see the original team behind one of the most genre defining games in that era to get to re-define and enhance their initial work, but alas we got Crystal Dynamics's Anniversary Edition. Which by no means is a bad game, mind you. I just mourn what could have been :')
I wish they'd just create a complete reboot of Blood Omen. Playing Kain's story all over again in third or first person with modern graphics and mechanics would be incredible.
Idk if anyone has said this yet but I was very intrigued by a game called Project Wight. If i remember right it was a Viking game where you played (at least part of the time) as the monster. And the monster grew from adolescence to adulthood with different powers at each age. Anyway, Love this series. Thanks
@@danielossege4985 you don’t need jake to explain it. Just google my man. David Goldfarb’s Project Wight was cancelled and turned into David Goldfarb’s Metal Hellsinger. Same studio same project. Game development doesn’t always go the way you think it will
Deep Down is the one that hurts the most. Capcom really needs to refocus and bring this back since a Capcom-style Demon’s Souls is everything I’ve ever wanted 😢
Although kinda recent, the cancelled game that is stuck in my head is Alice Asylum. I was very sad when they announce the cancellation of Alice Asylum.
god fuck EA! the way they hold on to his IP and just want nothing to do with it. Though it was never picked up, it was always just a push from Mcgee to get a new game out of the franchise but EA just refused to go ahead and make the game in the first place so nothing to cancel.
The game wasn't cancelled because it was never even in development in the first place, they pitched the game to EA but it was never selected for development.
Deep Down and Project Offset... Two games I can't forget. I feel there are way too many solo only games out there, especially when they are based on a high fantasy setting. But these two games were looking great and featured co-op =/
Scalebound and EQNext. Those are the big ones for me. There was also a Stargate Worlds MMO which had the lead developer embezzling the funds that left me beyond disappointed.
I was excited for armada of the damned. Its always there hiding in my mind. I was planning on being an evil pirate. Instead I was a sad pirate, until black flag came out. Then i was a depressed pirate.
Omg, that Legacy of Kain reboot yes! I alwaysremember this video of a female swimming boss head and breast (for some reason). Me and my friends were hoping that with Nosgoth (by what the people from the game said) we could get the IP some attention to the point that they would finally create a new single players game. But after seen the choices they made for Nosgoth playability and design, we could see that that was not gonna happen.
Really a shame Highlander got canceled. I grew up watching the TV show and movies so as a gamer when I saw it for the first time in a magazine, I got super hyped. Then was deeply saddened to read later on about its cancelation. Hope it makes an appearance again
Jake plz look up Battlefield: Home Delivery. It's one of the weirdest cancelled games out there about a panda delivering pizza to people. It was going to be a surreal Japanese game published by Microsoft for the original Xbox, and it was made by the creator of Parappa the Rapper. Seems like it could have been a perfect game for you considering you have a lot of pizzas to deliver.
Game development seems like such a wild job to have. I cannot imagine spending 3 (maybe even longer) years of my life working on something only for it to be trashed and it never comes out....
It's like that with a lot of things, there are teams of people working on advanced hardware that will only serve as a test case at best. My dad worked on the F-14D Supertomcat's AN/APG-71 radar, and that upgrade never saw any action, the Ds production got canceled right after it started in favor of the F/A-18
One I rarely see mentioned I believe was called Cypher Complex I remember obsessing over screenshots of that. The first iteration of Splinter Cell Conviction with a heavily bearded Sam Fisher looked interesting too!
Man, just something about cancelled or unreleased games in limbo has always fascinated me. I will say that the LoK Dead Sun cancellation made me feel a type of way since I loved the previous games, especially Soul Reaver 2.
Dead Sun is my number one when it comes to titles that never seen the light of day that I desperately wish and hope they revisit with a revival of the series, at least as far as the gameplay elements. Looked so cool.
Not a weird cancelled game BUT: After playing Jedi Survivor it makes me sad that the KotOR Remake is stuck in development hell. I can only imagine the exploration/gameplay of JFO/JS with the rpg and companion systems of classic Bioware and the great story of the original game and I just feel depressed.
I love this series, I wouldn’t mind seeing a “games you forgot” series, talking about games that released and have seemingly vanished from everyone’s minds. One game I always forget about is the 2011 Bethesda game “Brink” that’s a cool one to talk about
That game is a now funny reminder to me and my friends why not to get too hyped for a game, we went to the "midnight launch" at our local GameStop that never occurred, if the game had more than a few weeks of real playtime in it we def would've played more of it
All these years I was under the impression that the Legacy of Kain game WAS what later became Shadow of Mordor, but I never thought to do any research on who was involved in both projects.
Have you talked about “WiLD” yet? That game looked so ambitious and rad. Also, the game that was announced as “Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age” that eventually became “Hunt: Showdown”. That original footage had me so pumped for a co-op Supernatural/Red Dead/Monster Hunter style game. Wish someone would pick up that concept and run with it.
Dude Nosgoth what a missed opportunity I remember trying it out for a bit and it had some neat things going for it. Didnt know it derived from the cancelled project.
If you ever do another one of these 'Coded Arms Assault' was a really cool looking PS3 exclusive that got silently cancelled. It was even playable at an E3 but after its initial story trailer it just faded away.
Does anyone remember WET from Bethesda? It was like Max Payne but with this rocking 70's vibe. I thought the game was amazingly fun. The gameplay was rough at times but fun as hell, had a banging soundtrack, and was also kind of stylish. There was a sequel in development but got cancelled in 2011. Bethesda also stating that they would not be the publisher.
I remember the first time I saw "Live a Live" in my subscription to Nintendo Power and looking forward to it. Imagine my euphoria when I learned it was being remade for modern consoles.
@@TheSkaOreo Oops sorry I meant specifically released in English markets. I had seen an ad in an English speaking magazine for it originally. Hence my disappointment when it was canceled for English markets.
Bully 2 is the Rockstar Game that I Honestly would take over GTA 6 if they announced it. I legitimately think GTA V's Los Santos still will hold up as an Open World for at least another 5 years,but I'd love to see an 80s Influenced BULLY 2 with things like More Sports teams like Baseball/Basketball/Boxing/Football/LaCrosse to themed dances that take place over the year like the Halloween Dance/Christmas and the big end of the year Prom. Pranks,factions,more enterable buildings and then the extended Town Outside of the School area would be awesome. As for shooters I'd loved to have seen Rainbow Six Patriots because the plot sounded so interesting and unique,similar to the highly underrated Spec ops The Line that released in 2012.
PT is the one that still brings me down, it would have been really exciting to see Norman Reedus take on the creatures and the mystery of Silent Hill. The collaboration of Kojima and Del Toro would have been one for the record books, bar none.
-at least there's INsane- at least there's Death Stranding....eh and PT was just a demo/playable trailer, the actual game was Silent Hills personally I think maybe they shoulda left silent hill be dead and do a spiritual successor maybe not this teamup but just a new game with the same ideas but set in a rural Japanese town set in say 1990? as some creeping horror drags the town into a hellscape or singles out the protagonist to torment and punish for some sin they committed? would make an interesting setup but I agree how that game was cancelled and Kojima's firing was insane and sad...
PT wasn't cancelled, it literally means 'playable teaser', that was the game, now the game that PT was a teaser for, a new Silent Hill, that WAS cancelled.
First thing that came to mind was Overstrike. Sure it did get released... but only after it got rebranded as "Fuse" and didn't look like the cool interesting trailer we were all excited for. Another one would be the Stargate games. I know there was at least one that got cancelled I have heard rumors of another or something. Man oh man the people who own the rights to stargate (I believe it was MGM now Amazon?) really... REALLY dropped the ball on that one. Having a video game where you can play as SG-1 (or one of the offshoots?) and explore planets would be SO easy for a video game. Plus with the stargate you could literally just keep making new planets to put into the game. The show had amazing stories for all the different seasons, plus the spin off shows, Atlantis, and Universe. I know back when the game(s) were being worked on it was still way to early to do the kinds of stuff they could do now, but still. A stargate game is a no brainer. I don't want to even point out the fact they could easily make a bunch of DLC etc but they literally could with including a dozen or so worlds that you would have to pay a bit extra to get access to. But having a FPS game, but with cool archeology, as well as scientific stuff would be pretty fun. Also a relatively new one though more like a fan remake is Goldeneye 25 which one guy was working on in his spare time building the game from the ground up in unreal engine? And was pretty far along. He was planning on releasing it FOR FREE but whoever owns the rights to 007 these days sent him a cease and desist letter effectively making him stop. Like he was so close to being done because he wanted to release it for the 25th anniversary of the N64 game. And the fact like a year later they announced the crapy port of goldeneye for switch doesn't seem like that much of a coincidence. I am guessing they wanted to put a stop to a much better version of the game being released for free vs having a bunch of people buy a crapy port they did nothing to improve on for the switch so they could get more money off doing nothing. Cause seriously we haven't had a decent 007 game since Nightfire back on the gamecube (avoid the PC version at all costs it sucks). A real shame. And I to remember the highlander games. I was a bit excited for them, however hearing the wind and whatever powers makes it sound stupid so kinda glad we didn't get something stupid like that. I want it based more like the first movie and maybe tv show and less like avatar the last airbender. :S
That Legacy of Kain game reminds me of Shadowman, specially the part about the living world and the deadlands, if not how it was implemented in the actual game, then how it was portraited in the original comic (and the Peter Milligan's reboot and the spin-off Punk Mambo, which is the best title ever).
Deep down I was so hyped for. A monster hunter dungeon crawler with souls like combat would of been amazing. Love monster hunter but the darker grittier aesthetic looked awesome
When you mentioned Midway closing Rise and Fall : Civilizations at War immediately came to mind. Absolutely loved the merging of an RTS with Hack n' Slash gameplay. Wonder why there hasn't really been more games that tried to incorporate something like that?
I was just thinking about _deep down_ recently. It still perplexes me on just what went wrong with that title. Capcom seemed to having something really promising on their hands. The few snippets of gameplay that are out there looked good. What happened, and where did it all go? It mirrors Lunar Software's _Routine_ in a lot of ways, not least of which being that both were announced and disappeared in similar time-frames. At least the latter made an eventual return, much to our delight. Wonder if theres a subreddit of diligent fans hoping to see the return of _deep down_ like there was for _Routine_ ...
Legacy of Kain is the series I want to return the most. Prince of Persia Redemption, the Darth Maul game, Mortal Kombat Fire and Ice, and Enclave 2 are a few that I think of. Also, the cancelled Oddworld games would have been interesting to see. I loved Stranger's Wrath and Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot was supposed to be a follow up. I'm not sure that they were ever in development but Condemned 3 is another game I want, as well as the remasters of Onimusha 2 and 3 that were cancelled. Capcom his been killing it with the REmakes so Onimusha would be great to see again
No idea of what the timeline is like but that Legacy of Kane game looks to me like it may have been canceled in part because it's just so similar to Shadow of Mordor. The combat, the traversal, the world, the whole having-two-characters-in-one-body aspect... Feels very possible that they learned about SoM and decided differentiating things would be too much effort and just shut it down.
I still think about this third person game/prototype that had this fluid cover and movement system. There’s still not many games with that animation and fluidity quality. The main characters where cops I think.. it impressed a lot of people at the time but then it just disappeared completely. Wish I remembered the name of the project.
Anyone remember a preview for a game named Harker? You fought vampires and had a gauntlet that would reflect sunlight and block bite attacks. You also had to used the environment to finish off the vampires you fought.
There was this one I found over a decade ago called Zombies: The Awakening, from a company nobody had ever heard of, but it had a really cool premise and some screenshots that looked really good. It sounded like it was gonna be a zombie survival immersive sim for PS2, original Xbox etc. There was another cancelled zombie game for the same console gen that I forgot the name of, but it basically looked like a GTA clone in a zombie/mutant infested city, with driving and third person shooting gameplay.
Nobody else remembers this I think, but there was a FPS rhythm game called “Chroma” the makers of guitar hero were making that looked so cool that got canceled
Deep Down for sure. After how great Dragon's Dogma was Capcom really caught caught my attention with that one. I've got two more, both around 20 years old now, that still pop into my head every now and again: "Imperator", which was going to be a sci-fi, far-future space opera MMO. The reason it stuck for me is because it was set in an alternate universe where the Roman empire never fell. I don't even know if there was much media for it. Cool idea, though. "Strident: Shadow Front" was going to be an action game (I think) by Phantagram. It looked pretty sharp for 2002. Had some promising features that would have been pretty advanced for the time.
The cancelled game I always remember was Project Offset. Intel bought their tech and scrapped their project. I doubt many people ever heard of it, but it looked so epic at the time. Watched a video of their artist creating concept art for that game, and it got me interested in art. That artist was Khang Le, who was the dude over Hawken, and is now on that Towers project with Dreamlit... who knows if that'll ever come out.
Holy shit thank you. I saw a trailer for this like 15 years ago and always wondered what happened to it. I forgot the name of it and everyone once in awhile I try to remember it and never found it until now.
@@snowballandpals They had created their own engine for it and Intel purchased their tech. According to one of the guys involved, after Intel shuttered it, they tried to buy it back from Intel but Intel refused.
I really thought no one remembered the canceled Highlander game…I think about the picture of the character jumping over a helicopter’s blades in a gaming magazine from years ago…thanks for the spotlight!!👍🏾
Fun collection of games I didn't know about. I do remember Deep Down though and I've been checking on it off and on. Kind of feel like its never going to happen now for sure. The Pirates of the Caribbean game though look actually kind of cool and it's a shame about the Legacy of Kane one. I can't think of too many cancelled games outside of Starcraft: Ghost and The Warcraft Adventures one. Maybe Witchmarsh? I think it's still being worked on though and indie development takes a LOT of time.
I will always remember a game called "Killing Day" that I think had a very quick E3 trailer. It was in the PS3/Xbox 360 Era. It had impressive destruction at the time, part of the teaser showed your player shooting at glass and having an enemy fall through the broken glass. It looked amazing at the time to me, it completely vanished.
I think about Deep Down all the time, it was the first PS4 title that really wow’ed me (Even though knowing now that it probably was running on high end computers). I still hope Capcom returns to it eventually, now that the technology has caught up. The idea behind it was so unique and cool.
Deep Down was the first game I thought of when I saw the title of the first video of this series! Also, I dunno how I never heard of that Legacy of Kain game, but gosh darn do I miss that series. It really needs another entry, it's a shame that one got borked.
There's a couple that oddly live rent free in my head: EXO - (2002) PS2 era ambitious FPS by Particle Systems and Infogrammes, only footage is a 2001 promo trailer, but the game did get some extensive magazine coverage using pre-production images. The Outsider - (2011) Frontier Developments. Was being funded by Codemasters but they dropped it and EA picked it up but pushed the Bourne IP on to it becoming The Bourne Redemption. Game was pretty much complete but cancelled before release. There's footage out there for it.
I’m telling you, the 00’s/very early 10’s were the best period for gaming. Even these cancelled games show all the crazy ideas that got conceived & worked on. Now we just get the same five franchises each year…
Mercenaries 3 my step fathers nephew worked for pandemic studios back then he was the lead animator he signed my mercenaries 2 copy for PS3 but he showed me footage of them working on mercenaries three and it looks way better than one and two but he said it was around the time when EA bought them out to get to bioware.... Really sad it was right when. Ea made the frost bite engine
The Stargate game seemed like it had lots of potential. The other one I wanted that falls more into the category of the cancelled games than the weird cancelled games was Whore of the Orient, the sequel to LA Noire.
There was a game I remember reading about in a magazine that was set in Las Vegas and centered around some mayor or corporate exec trying to sanitize the place while the protagonist was trying to keep it the way that it was. And there was going to be a visual mechanic where the more successful the protagonist was, the more colorful areas of the world would appear. Wonder if that was ALSO This is Vegas.
I remember I got into Nosgoth randomly one summer, had no idea it was a LoK thing, and then out of the blue it just shut down. I still miss it, it was a lot of fun
Holy moly. I was trying to remember the name of Deep Down the other night when talking to my wife about game from yesteryear that I'm still waiting to release, and then this video pops up. Thanks Google for listening to all my conversations, you done me a solid this time.
Just finished watching all three episodes just to make sure my suggestion wasn't talked about yet: Sadness on the Wii. It had a cool teaser trailer and then nothing. It would be interesting what you guys can dig up about this mysterious game.
Some suggestions for future videos: The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot Insane Tremors: The Game Six Days in Fallujah 100 Bullets Brothers in Arms: Furious Four Daredevil (PS1)
On the last video I was trying to remember the name of the Capcom Dark Souls like game... Deep Down! I'm glad it was brought up this time around. That game looked promising.
Dude, you unlocked a memory I have of playing Legacy of Kane games. I remember non of my friends liked it but I thought it was epic. And I had no idea they were making another one; first I’m hearing about it, but I know it would’ve been awesome Love your vids Jake, keep it comin
I remember the biggest thing about "This is Vegas" being Kevin Pereira of G4 Tech TV / Attack of the Show fame constantly going on about the main character looking like him and was probably the only really sizable push the game ever got before its quiet cancelation
I don't understand why there are so few pirate games. After growing up watching Pirates of the Caribbean and the Goonies, I would love to have another good pirate game.
That first one had a cool mechanic. Not the shifting, but the voice In his head talks to him from behind, over his shoulder. That's unique how he walks up from off-screen.
I don't know if I already mentioned it before, but: The Heavenly Sword sequels. - Yea, they might never have been announced and thus "canceled", but that game was planned or even written as a trilogy. And because Sony didn't find it profitable enough (or something) they decided to put it on ice aaand... Yea, that was the end of that. - Because Ninja Theory eventually moved on to do "Enslaved", "DmC", a few other things around those, and of course "Hellblade", which I just see as them making up for the "Heavenly Sword" sequels they didn't get to make. And now they've been working on "Hellblade 2" for at least 3 years. - But anyway, I honestly would be more interested in more "Heavenly Sword", because that game was so cool. Even though it was actually too ambitious as it really bogged down the PS3. And it didn't help that it was so early in its life-cycle, with all its architectural problems that developers had to figure out. But Nariko is really cool with her tasteful sexiness and big weapons and moves, with the combat being a bit tactical with all the different (and many) enemies that need different stances. Then the big setpieces and seamless transitions that you flow through. And the bad guy is Andy Serkis, who also helped write and direct I believe. - And yea, it got some criticism for being kinda short and simple, basically like a summer blockbuster movie, but I didn't really see the issue, even though it could have been a bit more. But the first and only game we got is just a great setup for more. - I think people would praise it for just being a solid game in this day and age, kinda like how people see 'Hi-Fi Rush' today. - Oh, they would bitch about the performance, but yea, it wouldn't be an issue had it been developed... not for the PS3. But I'm kinda pissed at PlayStation for just sitting on that IP, because they probably still just own that, for no reason other than owning it "just in case" or whatever. I don't think they exactly sell it anymore either and I'm not sure about digitally (but probably on the PS3-store, maybe in a back-compat way for 5?). - I've been yelling at Ninja Theory to get Xbox to buy them the IP, as well as at Xbox directly, but even if they saw that and wanted to, I feel like with the tensions between Xbox and PlayStation more recently that PlayStation is never going to sell anything to Xbox again, at least not with Jim Ryan I guess. The only way we'd get anything new is if they see any value in remastering/remaking it for PS5 (and PC) or something, and perhaps THEN find a good studio to make sequels. Then again, the ideas are with Ninja Theory, I think, sooo... It's kind of a mess and just dead in the water, really. - I'd take a sequel, though, cause even though I have the game on disc, it's probably rough to play today.
There was a Zombie one in the early days of Xbox360 that I saw a couple of times in gaming magazines, you are a Zombie leader and you control an army of Zombies. Can't remember what it was called and after a year or two I stopped seeing it in the magazines so assumed it must of been cancelled.
I used to love Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee back on the Xbox when I was young. In fact, I was almost obsessed with it. When Stranger’s Wrath came out, I played it and enjoyed the experience, but found it rather lacklustre compared to Munch (I don’t think I was alone there). I remember reading that a sequel to Munch’s Oddysee was in the works, but obviously nothing came of it. I still think about that.
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We definitely need more of this series of videos. Damn good work here, Jake
Where’s the free pizza promo?
@@ChristovBelmont thanks!
Can a canceled video game ever come to be or be utilized? Or do they just become a memory...?
beyond good and evil 2 has me stumped it had alot of hype then just disappeared from existence
The Prey 2 Bounty Hunter game getting cancelled still crushes my soul.
That EXACT aesthetic/genre is a game ive wanted for decades.
I watched that trailer dozens of time back in the day. Such a cool vibe
Dropkick Pherby, we’re going to need you to get rich and assemble a god tier game studio to make that trailer a reality. It’s all on you now
I wish Microsoft would do something useful for once and get that game made now they own Bethesda
I remembered they canceled the development after the Syndicate reboot fiasco because they thought the gameplay was similar to that game and syndicate flopped so they pulled the plug.
@@lz9275 Is this true? I did enjoy Syndicate, it was a good like 7/10 shooter with some interesting hacking stuff. It would suck if that got in the way of fucking Prey 2 tho
Scale Bound will forever live on in my dreams during naps
I wanted that game so bad, I was willing to sell my ps4 to get it
That Kain game looks so similar to Shadow of Mordor from the level layout, to the combat and even the whole two guys / one body deal.
Deep Down is the canceled game that hurts the most for me. It had Dark Souls & Dragon’s Dogma vibes while also trying new things like aiming at weak points with a spear in combat.
Same here. It was such a perfect culmination of those flavors. But hey, we get DD2!
I hope the team that was working on Deep Down was incorporated into the Dragons Dogma 2 team and they incorporated elements/assets into DD2
I wanted deep down to be a thing so bad what a cool concept.
Same here. The graphics and character expressions were insane though, even for current gen standards. You could tell it was made solely as a tech demo. The version that released in Japan is so much more bland
The same concept that assassins creed has been doing?
2013 was 10 years ago... To me, the entire PS4 and Xbox1 reveal JUST happened, I still processing what the hell Microsoft was thinking with that press conference. Do you remember, Angry Joe, everyone dropping videos that night. Didnt that JUST happen? How the hell its been 10 years! Its insane, you are telling this part and me going from first to 10th grade was the same amount of that?
In my brain, Deep down didnt come out YET, it seems it was just announced, people not believing it is real gameplay footage and all, didnt that was last month... or 10 years ago. Wow man, I have lost touch.
@@TheRealUcanUwillcrazy right? I was just ending grade 12 and wake up realizing it’s been 10 years like nothing
Remembering even that ps4 is now “old gen” and 10 years old too is wild lol my OG PS4 will be have it’s 10 year anniversary next year and never has broken! I think PS4/X1 are the last fun console generation and games we had
I mean every “sequel or remake” in 2020+ has been a flop compared to the old releases lol and crazy to think I’m calling them old releases 😂
Time flies good luck to you homie 👊🏽
@@TheRealUcanUwillman I feel the exact same way. Time is going so fast and I just can’t keep up. Back in 2013 when those consoles came out I was 20 and now here it is ten years later and I just crossed the 30 mark a couple weeks ago. 2013 still feels like it was maybe max 5 years ago for me not 10!! I’m not exactly sure why this is the case but to me atleast it seems like time felt like it went much slower when we were children. Once you cross that line into adulthood it starts just going by so fast you catch yourself looking back thinking man where did all those years ago? Shit think about this man this November will mark 3 years already since the ps5 and Xbox series S/X came out ain’t that wild?
I’ve never forgotten that Deep Down trailer. But I did forget the name and I’ve spent like 2 years searching for it on and off. So thank you for remembering better than I could
The legacy of Cain reboot seems like it was too ambitious for the power of the ps4, but It seemed perfect for the ps5 with the realm shifting being perfect for running on a nvme Gen 4 drive
Indeed hopefully they try again
if we could do reality shifting on ps1, we can do it even on the switch!
It looked like complete shit to me however the "realm shifting" was the one thing that piqued my interest initially.
Nothing about that game looks like it would struggle with a PS3 let alone a PS4.
Didn't titanfall do the realm shift thing? You could travel back and forth in time instantly. I doubt it couldn't have run on the ps4.
Yes! Deep Down, wtf happened? I was really excited for that game, then it just.. foofed out of existence.
I can't remember if you mentioned it in your previous videos, but PT and Rockstar's "Agent" are games I think about all the time. Obviously, these are some of the biggest cancelled games in the industry, but I'd like to hear you talk about it an upcoming video:)
PT wasn't cancelled, it literally means 'playable teaser', that was the game, now the game that PT was a teaser for, a new Silent Hill, that WAS cancelled.
do we have enough games to keep this series going?! I think so
Yes! I love this series and that you just bring whatever you want casually here and not necessarily the newest stuff tho I love gamernx as well, keep up jake!
Guardians 3 video? Movie absolutely ripped
Still sad we will never get another Force unleashed game :/
Still waiting on killzone lul,
Got an idea for a video,Like Cut games games that were cut and could of been something better/different
Like remember the game singularity that could of been way different
Question is do you have enough pizza to keep giving out?
Not cancelled, but I'm counting it because it's not what was released: if you go back and look at the demos for Bioshock Infinite, it's a completely different and much bigger game than what we got. I imagine a lot of the cuts were due to the 360 and PS3 not being able to handle the scale of the project (some _huge_ levels on display there), but the story pretty clearly went through some very major rewrites too. I'll always be curious what happened there, what story they originally set out to tell but seemingly completely abandoned.
I'm a bit bummed about the cancelled Tomb Raider 10 Years Anniversary Edition that was in development by Core themselves.
I think it would have been very cool to see the original team behind one of the most genre defining games in that era to get to re-define and enhance their initial work, but alas we got Crystal Dynamics's Anniversary Edition. Which by no means is a bad game, mind you. I just mourn what could have been :')
I wish they'd just create a complete reboot of Blood Omen. Playing Kain's story all over again in third or first person with modern graphics and mechanics would be incredible.
Idk if anyone has said this yet but I was very intrigued by a game called Project Wight. If i remember right it was a Viking game where you played (at least part of the time) as the monster. And the monster grew from adolescence to adulthood with different powers at each age. Anyway, Love this series. Thanks
That game turned into Metal Hellsinger
@@MrLion1 those two games dont seem to share any design or gameplay elements. would love to hear jake explain how that happened!
@@danielossege4985 you don’t need jake to explain it. Just google my man. David Goldfarb’s Project Wight was cancelled and turned into David Goldfarb’s Metal Hellsinger. Same studio same project. Game development doesn’t always go the way you think it will
@@MrLion1 it didn't turn into hellsinger, more so got put on hold for metal hell singer,
Deep Down is the one that hurts the most. Capcom really needs to refocus and bring this back since a Capcom-style Demon’s Souls is everything I’ve ever wanted 😢
Although kinda recent, the cancelled game that is stuck in my head is Alice Asylum. I was very sad when they announce the cancellation of Alice Asylum.
god fuck EA! the way they hold on to his IP and just want nothing to do with it. Though it was never picked up, it was always just a push from Mcgee to get a new game out of the franchise but EA just refused to go ahead and make the game in the first place so nothing to cancel.
The game wasn't cancelled because it was never even in development in the first place, they pitched the game to EA but it was never selected for development.
Deep Down and Project Offset... Two games I can't forget.
I feel there are way too many solo only games out there, especially when they are based on a high fantasy setting. But these two games were looking great and featured co-op =/
PROJECT OFFSET Jesus Christ I’ve been trying to remember the name of that shit for years
@@spibbymcgoo4877 I think their gameplay vids
Scalebound and EQNext. Those are the big ones for me. There was also a Stargate Worlds MMO which had the lead developer embezzling the funds that left me beyond disappointed.
I was excited for armada of the damned. Its always there hiding in my mind. I was planning on being an evil pirate. Instead I was a sad pirate, until black flag came out. Then i was a depressed pirate.
Omg, that Legacy of Kain reboot yes! I alwaysremember this video of a female swimming boss head and breast (for some reason).
Me and my friends were hoping that with Nosgoth (by what the people from the game said) we could get the IP some attention to the point that they would finally create a new single players game. But after seen the choices they made for Nosgoth playability and design, we could see that that was not gonna happen.
Really a shame Highlander got canceled. I grew up watching the TV show and movies so as a gamer when I saw it for the first time in a magazine, I got super hyped. Then was deeply saddened to read later on about its cancelation. Hope it makes an appearance again
Jake plz look up Battlefield: Home Delivery. It's one of the weirdest cancelled games out there about a panda delivering pizza to people. It was going to be a surreal Japanese game published by Microsoft for the original Xbox, and it was made by the creator of Parappa the Rapper.
Seems like it could have been a perfect game for you considering you have a lot of pizzas to deliver.
Me Thinking of pizza briefly. New Jake video drops* NICE☠️😭
Game development seems like such a wild job to have. I cannot imagine spending 3 (maybe even longer) years of my life working on something only for it to be trashed and it never comes out....
I agree.
Something like that would not sit well with me either.
It's like that with a lot of things, there are teams of people working on advanced hardware that will only serve as a test case at best. My dad worked on the F-14D Supertomcat's AN/APG-71 radar, and that upgrade never saw any action, the Ds production got canceled right after it started in favor of the F/A-18
One I rarely see mentioned I believe was called Cypher Complex I remember obsessing over screenshots of that. The first iteration of Splinter Cell Conviction with a heavily bearded Sam Fisher looked interesting too!
Man, just something about cancelled or unreleased games in limbo has always fascinated me. I will say that the LoK Dead Sun cancellation made me feel a type of way since I loved the previous games, especially Soul Reaver 2.
Dead Sun is my number one when it comes to titles that never seen the light of day that I desperately wish and hope they revisit with a revival of the series, at least as far as the gameplay elements. Looked so cool.
I wish they would make a new Stuntman.
Still play Ignition from time to time.
Ignition was awesome! totally forgot about it
They should make a remaster with a full vr mode
Not a weird cancelled game BUT:
After playing Jedi Survivor it makes me sad that the KotOR Remake is stuck in development hell.
I can only imagine the exploration/gameplay of JFO/JS with the rpg and companion systems of classic Bioware and the great story of the original game and I just feel depressed.
The amount of my mental real estate that is taken up by games like this and sequels I wished we'd gotten is shameful.
I love this series, I wouldn’t mind seeing a “games you forgot” series, talking about games that released and have seemingly vanished from everyone’s minds. One game I always forget about is the 2011 Bethesda game “Brink” that’s a cool one to talk about
That game is a now funny reminder to me and my friends why not to get too hyped for a game, we went to the "midnight launch" at our local GameStop that never occurred, if the game had more than a few weeks of real playtime in it we def would've played more of it
All these years I was under the impression that the Legacy of Kain game WAS what later became Shadow of Mordor, but I never thought to do any research on who was involved in both projects.
The resemblance really is uncanny
Have you talked about “WiLD” yet? That game looked so ambitious and rad.
Also, the game that was announced as “Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age” that eventually became “Hunt: Showdown”. That original footage had me so pumped for a co-op Supernatural/Red Dead/Monster Hunter style game. Wish someone would pick up that concept and run with it.
Dude Nosgoth what a missed opportunity I remember trying it out for a bit and it had some neat things going for it. Didnt know it derived from the cancelled project.
If you ever do another one of these 'Coded Arms Assault' was a really cool looking PS3 exclusive that got silently cancelled. It was even playable at an E3 but after its initial story trailer it just faded away.
Imagine if Deep Down was shown at the PS showcase... 🤯 Always remembered that game
Does anyone remember WET from Bethesda? It was like Max Payne but with this rocking 70's vibe. I thought the game was amazingly fun. The gameplay was rough at times but fun as hell, had a banging soundtrack, and was also kind of stylish. There was a sequel in development but got cancelled in 2011. Bethesda also stating that they would not be the publisher.
I remember the first time I saw "Live a Live" in my subscription to Nintendo Power and looking forward to it. Imagine my euphoria when I learned it was being remade for modern consoles.
Technically speaking it was never cancelled-it just never came to English speaking markets.
Though for years you could play it as a rom.
@@TheSkaOreo Oops sorry I meant specifically released in English markets. I had seen an ad in an English speaking magazine for it originally. Hence my disappointment when it was canceled for English markets.
Honestly my favourite type of video series you make Jake is this
Jake and his wonderful world of Metal Gear shirts.
my uniform
Bully 2 is the Rockstar Game that I Honestly would take over GTA 6 if they announced it.
I legitimately think GTA V's Los Santos still will hold up as an Open World for at least another 5 years,but I'd love to see an 80s Influenced BULLY 2 with things like More Sports teams like Baseball/Basketball/Boxing/Football/LaCrosse to themed dances that take place over the year like the Halloween Dance/Christmas and the big end of the year Prom.
Pranks,factions,more enterable buildings and then the extended Town Outside of the School area would be awesome.
As for shooters I'd loved to have seen Rainbow Six Patriots because the plot sounded so interesting and unique,similar to the highly underrated Spec ops The Line that released in 2012.
PT is the one that still brings me down, it would have been really exciting to see Norman Reedus take on the creatures and the mystery of Silent Hill. The collaboration of Kojima and Del Toro would have been one for the record books, bar none.
-at least there's INsane-
at least there's Death Stranding....eh
and PT was just a demo/playable trailer, the actual game was Silent Hills
personally I think maybe they shoulda left silent hill be dead and do a spiritual successor maybe not this teamup but just a new game with the same ideas but set in a rural Japanese town set in say 1990? as some creeping horror drags the town into a hellscape or singles out the protagonist to torment and punish for some sin they committed? would make an interesting setup
but I agree how that game was cancelled and Kojima's firing was insane and sad...
PT wasn't cancelled, it literally means 'playable teaser', that was the game, now the game that PT was a teaser for, a new Silent Hill, that WAS cancelled.
Yeah and especially because it was like a resident evil before re7 went first person
First thing that came to mind was Overstrike. Sure it did get released... but only after it got rebranded as "Fuse" and didn't look like the cool interesting trailer we were all excited for.
Another one would be the Stargate games. I know there was at least one that got cancelled I have heard rumors of another or something. Man oh man the people who own the rights to stargate (I believe it was MGM now Amazon?) really... REALLY dropped the ball on that one. Having a video game where you can play as SG-1 (or one of the offshoots?) and explore planets would be SO easy for a video game. Plus with the stargate you could literally just keep making new planets to put into the game. The show had amazing stories for all the different seasons, plus the spin off shows, Atlantis, and Universe.
I know back when the game(s) were being worked on it was still way to early to do the kinds of stuff they could do now, but still. A stargate game is a no brainer. I don't want to even point out the fact they could easily make a bunch of DLC etc but they literally could with including a dozen or so worlds that you would have to pay a bit extra to get access to. But having a FPS game, but with cool archeology, as well as scientific stuff would be pretty fun.
Also a relatively new one though more like a fan remake is Goldeneye 25 which one guy was working on in his spare time building the game from the ground up in unreal engine? And was pretty far along. He was planning on releasing it FOR FREE but whoever owns the rights to 007 these days sent him a cease and desist letter effectively making him stop. Like he was so close to being done because he wanted to release it for the 25th anniversary of the N64 game. And the fact like a year later they announced the crapy port of goldeneye for switch doesn't seem like that much of a coincidence. I am guessing they wanted to put a stop to a much better version of the game being released for free vs having a bunch of people buy a crapy port they did nothing to improve on for the switch so they could get more money off doing nothing.
Cause seriously we haven't had a decent 007 game since Nightfire back on the gamecube (avoid the PC version at all costs it sucks). A real shame.
And I to remember the highlander games. I was a bit excited for them, however hearing the wind and whatever powers makes it sound stupid so kinda glad we didn't get something stupid like that. I want it based more like the first movie and maybe tv show and less like avatar the last airbender. :S
Even though I was kid when star wars 1313 was announced, I am sad that I will never play 1313 even as an adult today.
That Legacy of Kain game reminds me of Shadowman, specially the part about the living world and the deadlands, if not how it was implemented in the actual game, then how it was portraited in the original comic (and the Peter Milligan's reboot and the spin-off Punk Mambo, which is the best title ever).
Deep down I was so hyped for. A monster hunter dungeon crawler with souls like combat would of been amazing. Love monster hunter but the darker grittier aesthetic looked awesome
When you mentioned Midway closing Rise and Fall : Civilizations at War immediately came to mind.
Absolutely loved the merging of an RTS with Hack n' Slash gameplay. Wonder why there hasn't really been more games that tried to incorporate something like that?
Because Capcom's Deep Down I bought PS4. So beautiful cinematic cutscenes that even now can't wait to play something looking like that.
I was just thinking about _deep down_ recently. It still perplexes me on just what went wrong with that title. Capcom seemed to having something really promising on their hands. The few snippets of gameplay that are out there looked good. What happened, and where did it all go? It mirrors Lunar Software's _Routine_ in a lot of ways, not least of which being that both were announced and disappeared in similar time-frames. At least the latter made an eventual return, much to our delight. Wonder if theres a subreddit of diligent fans hoping to see the return of _deep down_ like there was for _Routine_ ...
I think about cancelled superhero games like thqs avengers game, daredevil man without fear, superman blue steel
that Flash game also looked awesome
Legacy of Kain is the series I want to return the most. Prince of Persia Redemption, the Darth Maul game, Mortal Kombat Fire and Ice, and Enclave 2 are a few that I think of. Also, the cancelled Oddworld games would have been interesting to see. I loved Stranger's Wrath and Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot was supposed to be a follow up. I'm not sure that they were ever in development but Condemned 3 is another game I want, as well as the remasters of Onimusha 2 and 3 that were cancelled. Capcom his been killing it with the REmakes so Onimusha would be great to see again
Dude that deep down game looks incredible. We need it.
I still want Deep Down… SO BADLY
Love jearing jake just talking about video game stuff.
thank you
No idea of what the timeline is like but that Legacy of Kane game looks to me like it may have been canceled in part because it's just so similar to Shadow of Mordor. The combat, the traversal, the world, the whole having-two-characters-in-one-body aspect... Feels very possible that they learned about SoM and decided differentiating things would be too much effort and just shut it down.
>named baldino
>not bald
come on man
I still think about this third person game/prototype that had this fluid cover and movement system. There’s still not many games with that animation and fluidity quality. The main characters where cops I think.. it impressed a lot of people at the time but then it just disappeared completely. Wish I remembered the name of the project.
I still think about Star Wars 1313 😭🥺
always and forever lol
Wilson Bethel aka bullseye from daredevil season 3 was the main character in that game
Anyone remember a preview for a game named Harker? You fought vampires and had a gauntlet that would reflect sunlight and block bite attacks. You also had to used the environment to finish off the vampires you fought.
I want to play Deep Down so bad
There was this one I found over a decade ago called Zombies: The Awakening, from a company nobody had ever heard of, but it had a really cool premise and some screenshots that looked really good. It sounded like it was gonna be a zombie survival immersive sim for PS2, original Xbox etc. There was another cancelled zombie game for the same console gen that I forgot the name of, but it basically looked like a GTA clone in a zombie/mutant infested city, with driving and third person shooting gameplay.
Deep Down, that's the game I never lost hope on.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you asked Capcom directly, they’d probably forgotten they had even announced it, let alone worked on it.
@@alsybroth HAHAHAH
Nobody else remembers this I think, but there was a FPS rhythm game called “Chroma” the makers of guitar hero were making that looked so cool that got canceled
I still think about GTA6. It's been so long, I assumed it's been cancelled. Lol
lol
Deep Down for sure. After how great Dragon's Dogma was Capcom really caught caught my attention with that one.
I've got two more, both around 20 years old now, that still pop into my head every now and again:
"Imperator", which was going to be a sci-fi, far-future space opera MMO. The reason it stuck for me is because it was set in an alternate universe where the Roman empire never fell. I don't even know if there was much media for it. Cool idea, though.
"Strident: Shadow Front" was going to be an action game (I think) by Phantagram. It looked pretty sharp for 2002. Had some promising features that would have been pretty advanced for the time.
I still think about Deep Down a lot like probably an unhealthy amount
The cancelled game I always remember was Project Offset. Intel bought their tech and scrapped their project. I doubt many people ever heard of it, but it looked so epic at the time. Watched a video of their artist creating concept art for that game, and it got me interested in art. That artist was Khang Le, who was the dude over Hawken, and is now on that Towers project with Dreamlit... who knows if that'll ever come out.
Holy shit thank you. I saw a trailer for this like 15 years ago and always wondered what happened to it. I forgot the name of it and everyone once in awhile I try to remember it and never found it until now.
@@snowballandpals They had created their own engine for it and Intel purchased their tech. According to one of the guys involved, after Intel shuttered it, they tried to buy it back from Intel but Intel refused.
we will never get a titanfall 3, and it makes me sad
I really thought no one remembered the canceled Highlander game…I think about the picture of the character jumping over a helicopter’s blades in a gaming magazine from years ago…thanks for the spotlight!!👍🏾
But do you ever think of Army of TWO?
DO I
@@JakeBaldino Free Salem and Rios lol
Fun collection of games I didn't know about. I do remember Deep Down though and I've been checking on it off and on. Kind of feel like its never going to happen now for sure. The Pirates of the Caribbean game though look actually kind of cool and it's a shame about the Legacy of Kane one. I can't think of too many cancelled games outside of Starcraft: Ghost and The Warcraft Adventures one. Maybe Witchmarsh? I think it's still being worked on though and indie development takes a LOT of time.
I'm salty you reminded me about Ghost; or the fact that I used to love Blizzard once upon a time
legacy of kain dead sun reminds me of the movie face off
wow haha you're right!
I will always remember a game called "Killing Day" that I think had a very quick E3 trailer. It was in the PS3/Xbox 360 Era. It had impressive destruction at the time, part of the teaser showed your player shooting at glass and having an enemy fall through the broken glass. It looked amazing at the time to me, it completely vanished.
Where’s the pizza?!?
I think about Deep Down all the time, it was the first PS4 title that really wow’ed me (Even though knowing now that it probably was running on high end computers).
I still hope Capcom returns to it eventually, now that the technology has caught up. The idea behind it was so unique and cool.
Deep Down was the first game I thought of when I saw the title of the first video of this series! Also, I dunno how I never heard of that Legacy of Kain game, but gosh darn do I miss that series. It really needs another entry, it's a shame that one got borked.
There's a couple that oddly live rent free in my head:
EXO - (2002) PS2 era ambitious FPS by Particle Systems and Infogrammes, only footage is a 2001 promo trailer, but the game did get some extensive magazine coverage using pre-production images.
The Outsider - (2011) Frontier Developments. Was being funded by Codemasters but they dropped it and EA picked it up but pushed the Bourne IP on to it becoming The Bourne Redemption. Game was pretty much complete but cancelled before release. There's footage out there for it.
I’m telling you, the 00’s/very early 10’s were the best period for gaming. Even these cancelled games show all the crazy ideas that got conceived & worked on. Now we just get the same five franchises each year…
Mercenaries 3 my step fathers nephew worked for pandemic studios back then he was the lead animator he signed my mercenaries 2 copy for PS3 but he showed me footage of them working on mercenaries three and it looks way better than one and two but he said it was around the time when EA bought them out to get to bioware.... Really sad it was right when. Ea made the frost bite engine
The Stargate game seemed like it had lots of potential. The other one I wanted that falls more into the category of the cancelled games than the weird cancelled games was Whore of the Orient, the sequel to LA Noire.
That Daredevil game and In the Valley of Gods from the firewatch developers live rent free in my mind
It may not be a game but I still think of the Men in Black and 21 Jump Street cancelled movie. Man that could have been so absurd.
There was a game I remember reading about in a magazine that was set in Las Vegas and centered around some mayor or corporate exec trying to sanitize the place while the protagonist was trying to keep it the way that it was. And there was going to be a visual mechanic where the more successful the protagonist was, the more colorful areas of the world would appear. Wonder if that was ALSO This is Vegas.
Yep that is This is Vegas. 60 million down the drain
I remember I got into Nosgoth randomly one summer, had no idea it was a LoK thing, and then out of the blue it just shut down. I still miss it, it was a lot of fun
Remember Wyld? A Ubisoft game where you play as a Shaman, ride a bear and talk to a giant snake lady?
Holy moly. I was trying to remember the name of Deep Down the other night when talking to my wife about game from yesteryear that I'm still waiting to release, and then this video pops up. Thanks Google for listening to all my conversations, you done me a solid this time.
Just finished watching all three episodes just to make sure my suggestion wasn't talked about yet: Sadness on the Wii. It had a cool teaser trailer and then nothing. It would be interesting what you guys can dig up about this mysterious game.
Some suggestions for future videos:
The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot
Insane
Tremors: The Game
Six Days in Fallujah
100 Bullets
Brothers in Arms: Furious Four
Daredevil (PS1)
On the last video I was trying to remember the name of the Capcom Dark Souls like game... Deep Down! I'm glad it was brought up this time around. That game looked promising.
Dude, you unlocked a memory I have of playing Legacy of Kane games. I remember non of my friends liked it but I thought it was epic. And I had no idea they were making another one; first I’m hearing about it, but I know it would’ve been awesome
Love your vids Jake, keep it comin
I remember the biggest thing about "This is Vegas" being Kevin Pereira of G4 Tech TV / Attack of the Show fame constantly going on about the main character looking like him and was probably the only really sizable push the game ever got before its quiet cancelation
I don't understand why there are so few pirate games. After growing up watching Pirates of the Caribbean and the Goonies, I would love to have another good pirate game.
For cancelled games I’m aways bummed about Project Wight. We need more games where you play as the monster.
That first one had a cool mechanic. Not the shifting, but the voice In his head talks to him from behind, over his shoulder.
That's unique how he walks up from off-screen.
I don't know if I already mentioned it before, but: The Heavenly Sword sequels. - Yea, they might never have been announced and thus "canceled", but that game was planned or even written as a trilogy. And because Sony didn't find it profitable enough (or something) they decided to put it on ice aaand... Yea, that was the end of that. - Because Ninja Theory eventually moved on to do "Enslaved", "DmC", a few other things around those, and of course "Hellblade", which I just see as them making up for the "Heavenly Sword" sequels they didn't get to make. And now they've been working on "Hellblade 2" for at least 3 years. - But anyway, I honestly would be more interested in more "Heavenly Sword", because that game was so cool. Even though it was actually too ambitious as it really bogged down the PS3. And it didn't help that it was so early in its life-cycle, with all its architectural problems that developers had to figure out.
But Nariko is really cool with her tasteful sexiness and big weapons and moves, with the combat being a bit tactical with all the different (and many) enemies that need different stances. Then the big setpieces and seamless transitions that you flow through. And the bad guy is Andy Serkis, who also helped write and direct I believe. - And yea, it got some criticism for being kinda short and simple, basically like a summer blockbuster movie, but I didn't really see the issue, even though it could have been a bit more. But the first and only game we got is just a great setup for more. - I think people would praise it for just being a solid game in this day and age, kinda like how people see 'Hi-Fi Rush' today. - Oh, they would bitch about the performance, but yea, it wouldn't be an issue had it been developed... not for the PS3.
But I'm kinda pissed at PlayStation for just sitting on that IP, because they probably still just own that, for no reason other than owning it "just in case" or whatever. I don't think they exactly sell it anymore either and I'm not sure about digitally (but probably on the PS3-store, maybe in a back-compat way for 5?). - I've been yelling at Ninja Theory to get Xbox to buy them the IP, as well as at Xbox directly, but even if they saw that and wanted to, I feel like with the tensions between Xbox and PlayStation more recently that PlayStation is never going to sell anything to Xbox again, at least not with Jim Ryan I guess.
The only way we'd get anything new is if they see any value in remastering/remaking it for PS5 (and PC) or something, and perhaps THEN find a good studio to make sequels. Then again, the ideas are with Ninja Theory, I think, sooo... It's kind of a mess and just dead in the water, really. - I'd take a sequel, though, cause even though I have the game on disc, it's probably rough to play today.
There was a Zombie one in the early days of Xbox360 that I saw a couple of times in gaming magazines, you are a Zombie leader and you control an army of Zombies. Can't remember what it was called and after a year or two I stopped seeing it in the magazines so assumed it must of been cancelled.
Not Agent, but the PS3 game called The Agency, the spy mmo type of thing. Kind of wanted that to come out.
I used to love Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee back on the Xbox when I was young. In fact, I was almost obsessed with it. When Stranger’s Wrath came out, I played it and enjoyed the experience, but found it rather lacklustre compared to Munch (I don’t think I was alone there). I remember reading that a sequel to Munch’s Oddysee was in the works, but obviously nothing came of it. I still think about that.
Not sure if mentioned in previous videos, but Steambot Chronicles 2. I will never forget.