titan fall 2. never actually got to appreciate it because by the time i found it the server matching was completely broken. all they need to do is allow private servers and the game would be playable. makes no damn sense.
What's a cancelled game you really miss?
Submitted 1 year ago by droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s playable now on vanilla servers, but the North Star client also exists, pilot.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
interesting if true
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Star wars 1313 was THE game I was waiting for. Got very sad when it got cancelled.
Also all is the in-progress and for some completed content that just got shelved for Disney infinity because the new management at Disney forgot why games mattered. (Same time when they absolutely gutted lucasarts). Just for them to start from scratch again a few years later when they realised they still need a videogame presence. Which makes the losses of what could have been hurt more.
johntash@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
Starwars Galaxies, pretty CU
Wilco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Man I miss SWG.
johntash@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
I’m hoping the new Dune Awakening game will be good. It gives me some SWG vibes.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s not cancelled, that’s just a game that was taken down.
There’s a bunch of private servers for it too. My first experience is the game was through one of them and it was pretty great.
johntash@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
I completely forgot private swg servers exist. Maybe I’ll try to find one and give it a try
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unreal Tournament series
UE4 movement was buttery smooth
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I really am dissapointed in current gaming, thought wed have a game in each genre that supported custom content, like ue would let ppl make their own maps/weapons, etc. everquest landmark for mmo worlds, etc.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Garry’s mod/source games is about the closest we have to that. Or i guess Roblox too…?
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
maybe with desktop tools being so fleshed out well see better in game tools for creation
LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Honestly, I kind of miss the idea of what “Life By You” could’ve been, as it had the game designer for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 behind it. That game could’ve been a return to form and an actual threat to EA’s watered down and extremely pricey Sims Slop. If only the team Rod Humble had assembled were able to gel their concept into a reality, with Paradox’s backing, could’ve created something magical. Alas, it was not to be…I still imagine the potential for player driven storytelling that Life By You was offering!
Stamau123@lemmy.world 1 year ago
at least there’s Inzoi, from what little i’ve seen it seems like a good sims game
LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I lost hope for that game because they use GenAI to power to create a character, clothing, furniture color/pattern customization. I won’t play a game that utilizes GenAI, as base requirements are increased, GenAI is a security hazard, and it has a damaging effect on the environment. The fact that InZOI requires a constant internet connection as well due to the game’s reliance on GenAI.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This one gets me as well, Paradox had a great history of maintaining and upgrading the base game with money made from DLCs, some of which are content/feature related and others are way cheaper and are cosmetics, all of that while providing mod support. And that model would have been awesome in a sims like game.
LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
It would’ve been interesting, given that Rod Humble wanted to create a fully fleshed out base game…The DLC for Life By You likely would’ve been merely outfits, additional hairs made post launch, and possibly furniture/architecture style sets that could be priced at a reasonable rate. Meaning more players would’ve bought it and those funds would be reinvested in the game for more work to be done! The mod support would’ve been nice for those that want it; I often don’t care for mods (Prepare Carefully, for Rimworld is one of the few that I adore). This situation is truly vexing because the Life Sim scene needs a well funded direct competitor to The Sims that isn’t afraid to make a coherent and interesting Simulation game; one that is built with an engine that actual works and in-depth gameplay! The loss of Life By You will irk me for years to come.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Star Wars galaxies
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
Forgot starhawk not technically cancelled but they never dropped a 3rd game
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
middle sxhool me peaked at that game, building, jetpacks, exosuits, mechs, transformers, hoverbikes, etc.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I thought that game came out?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hellraid looked like it was going to be an awesome spooky fantasy game but then they turned it into a shitty dying light dlc.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Donkey Kong Racing. Oh what could have been.
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 year ago
EverQuest Next. That game would have been the best MMO ever, if they would’ve stuck with it. Unfortunately, SOE got bought out and the new owners were whackos who didn’t care. It’s sad because nothing has come close since then. Only GW2 and ESO have even a fraction of the concepts of EQN.
CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fur me, it works be Beyond Good and Evil. I really wanted to see where the story went next
eronth@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex First Assault
All due to capitalism ruining things as usual…
EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun
I’m sure it was cancelled for a good reason, but man I really want more Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver lore!
ZaphodWilde42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Revenant Hill, by one of the Night in the Woods developers. Cancelled due to health problems.
XM34@feddit.org 1 year ago
Hellraid! God damnit, I was so ready for a first pirson action dungeon crawler in the style of Dying Light 😥
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 1 year 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
Blinsane@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Wildstar! It was the best playing mmo I’ve ever seen. The platforming was neat, the world was varied and cool, there was player housing with almost endless customisation! I miss that game.
Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I came looking for this comment, glad I’m not alone 🫶
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That game came out. I still miss it though, but it isn’t a cancelled game.
Still keep going for a private server. That game ruined other mmos for me.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If an online only game comes out and is shut down sooner than the publisher wanted, it’s accurate to say it’s been cancelled.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Miss the world of wildstar the most - its was a really creative theme park
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I keep hoping Wildstar gets the City of Heroes like revival, just hoping so so much!
yeahbuddy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hawken. :(
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
That game was very cool, had a good time even though i was rubish at it
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Could also be someone doing market research
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Heheh.
Well if it helps, a lot of these are sequels the user was anticipating because they loved a predecessor, so you can go and play that :D
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The StarCraft FPS.
I’m still mad about it.
thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Honestly, I was really looking forward to EverQuest Next. The idea sounded promising before it was cancelled.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Might sound odd to some, but Overwatch.
Early Overwatch was great. Then some updates made it better. The only things wrong with it were design choices that were made for financial reasons. Then they made it much worse. Then they made it worse. And worse. And then they made 2, which turned it into just another ‘left-click on the target’ game, because those make more money. It saddens me that it died.
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Play Marvel Rivals now while it’s still fun. It’s free.
It plays just like 2016 Overwatch did, because it was made by some of the original OW devs. The same ones who left because they were tired of all the fun metas being made boring to please the hardcore players who have no life outside of video games. That isn’t an issue with Rivals yet. Enjoy it while you still can.
Stamau123@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was there gandalf, I hated when they changed the game and balancing around the pro mode, only for their e-sports presence to implode anyway.
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I was on the same boat as you forever. I came back to ow2 late last year. I’ll say this. OW feels better than it ever has. Very balanced and very fair, while maintaining that very chaotic and energized feeling. They added tiered perks which really break up the monotony of the game, and also brought back loot boxes.
It feels like they realized the game became stagnant, and they’re doing as much as they can to bring it back to peak, and past that.
They also are bringing back 'classic overwatch", and I’ll say this… After you play classic and go back to regular you can feel the difference. The only thing I miss is 6v6 but it seems like that’s coming back soon too
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 year ago
6v6 is already back, in open queue format
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Yeah I used to be super addicted to Overwatch 1, but I bailed as soon as 2 came out. I can honestly say I’ve never played it since.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I liked 6v6, they should’ve made more tanks and healers.
I didn’t like role queue, sure it’s a strong team buildup but I don’t think it should’ve been forced. I really liked being able to flex between classes depending on what was needed. Sometimes five DPS and a healer will break through a point. Being a tank or healer with bad DPS makes an already limited role even worse.
Ow2 seems like they just trashed my game ($60aud) and added MTX.
I can’t get into marvel rivals, the time to kill seems too low, Overwatch was a bit more lethal.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Agreed. Role queue was dumb. I liked having the ability to look at how things have been going and say ‘They’re doing X. I’ll swap to this character and screw up their plans.’ The thing I loved most about OW was that it wasn’t locked into the left click first competition. Their Widow is causing trouble? Lucio>wall climb>drop in>boop them out of their safety bubble and get them shredded. Distract them behind a shield to the left so someone on the right can sneak up on them. Or go Sombra and do an invis run/tele to magdump into their head at point blank. Or go monkey and pig meatwall to get close enough to ruin her day. Whatever. Just something with more intelligence than left-click and die repeatedly.
I miss Mayhem too. People complained that it took too long to die/kill but that was what was amazing about it. How many games can you say have ever felt like you were in an epic fight where every thrust, parry, twist, duck, and swing mattered? Where you don’t win by the luck of a single shot but have to tactically manipulate enemy attention so you can change the angle of attack so it favors your healer over their Junkrat? Battles won or lost by the timing and precision placement of a Zarya hole catching the targets thrown by a Lucio boop to hold them just off the payload just long enough to get to the next checkpoint?
Man, I miss that game.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Culling
Before the devs ruined it by throwing away the movement and combat system.
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Mario 35
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 year ago
I some times still think about StarCraft: Ghost.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I sometimes still think about StarCraft: Ghost.
Pfft, I’m sometimes hoping they’ll eventually make the WarCraft point-and-click adventure game.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There it is. Knew Ghost had to be mentioned. I still vividly remember early preview screenshots from a Game Informer magazine.
thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
According to my friends who worked at Blizzard at the time, there’s a reason Ghost was cancelled. Apparently it wasn’t very good, unfortunately.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 year ago
C&C Renegade still released. It wasn’t very good, either. 🤷🏻♂️
SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So I have three different typ of games from the top of my head.
A game I know was a thing that got cancelled. Life by You I am so pissed it got caned. I was looking forward to it so so much.
Then a game I don’t really know if it actually was a thing, I heard about it after it was cancelled, but I can’t really find much about it. Is The Sinister Six it was apparently a game about the Spider-man super villain group of the same name, as they appertaining in Insomniac’s spider man games. All I really remember is that you were supposed to play as the villains and it sounded good, I however only heard about it after it was caned so I really don’t know much more about it.
And then there is this game that was never a thing, but an April fools joke in 2015. There would be a cross over game between The Sims and GTA. I got so excited about it, it still sounds like it could have been awesome.
Those are some different typs of cancelled games that I really miss.
rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 year ago
City of Heroes, everything by Atari Games, the Wizardry series, the Ultima series, many others. I’m old, and I remember some of the games, and developers, we’ve lost.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
City of Heroes
Are you aware of the legit servers running right now? I’ve been playing off and on for a few years now, and they keep adding stuff / fixing bugs!!
rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve heard of them, I might consider trying one someday, but the research and effort to set it up is an obstacle. Plus I don’t run Windows any more, and I don’t even know what Linux support for it is like.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Your comment made me finally get around to setting up Homecoming (hooray WINE!) and I just got to the character creation screen… I haven’t played since before it went to free to play what is all of this stuff? Oh well, I’m sure I’ll feel like I’ve come home once I’m running sewers, lol.
Salatbart@feddit.org 1 year ago
“The Last Night” looked very interesting, but i dont even know if its been cancelled, just havent heard anything from it in years