Orcs Must Die Unchained. Pretty good game overall, was trying to be a league of legends type of game with 3D TD, it didn’t get a player base going, so they swapped it over to a solo game, the maps were fun as hell and picking through 10+ characters was fun, it was really dynamic and the endless mode was very fun to push. They ended all support, it’s offline. Sucks. OMD 3 came out, it’s not even a quarter the game. Theirs 4 different player characters, they are all humans. All enemies are orcs or other bad guy type of mobs, unchained had human enemies and a few other variations, there’s no where near the number of maps and most maps play in a really predictable way. In Unchained there were maps you needed to build a kill box, sell it, move it, all to get one wave killed, at least on the first few waves, anyway. It almost scratches the itch, not not well. I’m honestly perplexed on why they didn’t just include the characters and maps from unchained.
What's a cancelled game you really miss?
Submitted 3 days ago by droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I thought that game came out?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was a must have online servers game and they stopped all support, so it’s gone, canceled, over. Idk. That’s the way I think of it at least.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Limit Theory. Quite the ambitious space simulator being developed by one dude. I recall seeing their dev log videos on youtube.
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Concord
Haha, just kidding.
Vopyr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Silent Hills, it would have been interesting to see what Kojima and Guillermo del Toro would have created… but unfortunately.
Also Starcraft Ghost, the original Fallout 3, Fez 2, Mother 3 on N64, Legacy of Kain the sixth game (not Dead Sun/Nosgoth), the original Duke Nukem Forever, and probably a bunch of others that I can’t remember right now.
SexDwarf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And Junji Ito! It would’ve been epic.
Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 3 days ago
For me it’s Defiance but good thing some studio got rights to game and they going to bring back server soon.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think that was the only full price I’ve bought digitally, because my friend and I wanted to game share and play together.
MMO shooter seems like an undeserved concept. Buy I guess you have the scope of Defiance with the polish of an MMO. Or you have the scope of Destiny and the polish of a normal shooter.
Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 2 days ago
I have even more funny story I bought Defiance in PS3 then 2 weeks later game went F2P 🤣
slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Never played the game, but was sad when the show got cancelled.
illi@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Thattruly is a story I didnot see coming. I’m interested in where it will go
skribe@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Babylon 5: Into the Fire. Killed just months before release after a corporate restructure. The closest we got was some Freespace mods.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The Culling
Before the devs ruined it by throwing away the movement and combat system.
homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 3 days ago
There’s a lot of games being mentioned here that had a full run. Let’s talk about an actually cancelled game - SkySaga: Infinite Isles. Block game in the vein of Portal Knights that was extremely inspired.
The gameplay loop consisted of using “Keys” on a portal at your home island that would randomly generate a floating island with various objectives on it and a boss, all of which was harvestable for materials and blocks to build with back on your home island. There was a social hub city island everyone could access that alowed access to PvP and a few types of guilds with various combat, gathering, and exploration quests. Crafting was pretty good, allowing you to use metals with various properties to mix and match your own gear - some metals did more damage or applied an elemental effect, some had quicker swing speed, some were durable as armor and others not so much but they increased movespeed or jump height.
The game had about a dozen beta access phases then dropped off the face of the earth, with the server (and how it worked) lost forever. Completely lost to time, cancelled before it could release proper. No other block game has come close to the kind of structural appeal it had for me, and I think about it frequently. There’s a few reverse engineering projects in the works but they are stagnant.
I love a lot of the games in this thread but they had an actual release and real servers, you could play them for multiple years. Some others promised a bit more than they delivered, and were cut a bit short by EA or other trash publishers. SkySaga was killed before launch and placed in an opaque prison, truly cancelled.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 days ago
True Fantasy Live Online looked like it would have been amazing.
trd@feddit.nu 1 day ago
C&C Generals 2, they got canceled and then made in to a mobile game. I considerd staying 10 hours in line to try it out at gamescom in köln 10-12 years ago, decided to get drunk instead.
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah that was a letdown for sure. Still better than releasing it as a mobile game I think.
If you haven’t heard they recently released the source code of C&C generals and zero hour and there’s multiple efforts working on a community patch.
I’ve been watching the competitive scene of zero hour for a few years now. It’s really exciting and now that the source code’s out, sky’s the limit on what we can achieve.
ZaphodWilde42@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Revenant Hill, by one of the Night in the Woods developers. Cancelled due to health problems.
micek@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Bound to Light store.steampowered.com/app/…/Bound_To_Light/ I really liked the idea, but as the studio hade to shut down a few Yeats ago I guess it wont happen
thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Honestly, I was really looking forward to EverQuest Next. The idea sounded promising before it was cancelled.
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Mario 35
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is before my time but I remember reading about a canceled movie tie-in game for Star Trek: First Contact.
MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
LittleBigPlanet, can’t wait for Restitched. At least private servers exist and I can emulate LBP2 on my PC
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Marvel Heroes. Hopefully the private servers being worked on will be in a playable state someday.
Salatbart@feddit.org 2 days ago
“The Last Night” looked very interesting, but i dont even know if its been cancelled, just havent heard anything from it in years
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Mag
There’s something so special about the command structure, having your own squad v squad, while a whole other battle is taking place around you. But also that you could be pulled for extra resources if needed.
I tried Hell Let Loose, but it’s too chaotic and open.
dhampirdamsel@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Probably the Hardsuit Labs version of Bloodlines 2. Playing as a thin-blood and getting to diablerie would have been really fun.
mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
i dont understand why nobody has mentioned nosgoth yet. i regularly think about and miss this game so much!!!
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I wish we could have gotten R6:Patriots.
simple@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Loadout. It was a casual PvP (and later PvE) game where you can make your own weapons with wacky combos. It was a bit pay-to-win, but I thought it was very fun. The game crashed and burned because the studio wasn’t sure what they wanted to do with it and kept ignoring fans.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Don’t know if it was ever announced to be in development and existed in any form outside of being told there was going be 3 games, but would absolutely love to have seen what the 3rd Sonic book game would have been like. I still need to play the Black Knight game, but would absolutely hop on board the 3rd if it existed.
That, and would absolutely LOVE if Sega uncanceled the Riders series. Best racing game series to ever exists in my opinion. Too bad the 3rd game sucked so hard it caused the beautiful rose that is the Riders series to wither away.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 days ago
Forgot starhawk not technically cancelled but they never dropped a 3rd game
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 days ago
middle sxhool me peaked at that game, building, jetpacks, exosuits, mechs, transformers, hoverbikes, etc.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Donkey Kong Racing. Oh what could have been.
eronth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Breach. An asymmetric game of 5 v 1 with the 5 heroes working through a dungeon crawl while the 1 enemy sets traps or controls random AI characters.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 2 days ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UsM9qaZ5A Terra Battle 1, created by the OG final fantasy devs and the best gacha ever made. RIP
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Star Wars galaxies