Mother 64
Mother 3 is my favorite game, but I’m still bummed this timeline didn’t get a fun quirky N64 graphics Mother game. Would have been interesting to see which style elements came through in 3D, which didn’t, and what new spins on things would have added to the series
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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janus2@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
match@pawb.social 2 days ago
I’m still waiting for the mother 3 official localization
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
it’ll be out just in time for us to play it in the retirement home lol
SMillerNL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Really loved Battlefield Heroes as a kid. I’d love to play it again
Vopyr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Damn… Battlefield Heroes… I used to play this game for hours when I was a kid, the game is not without flaws, but damn.
SMillerNL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I saw those two when I just searched for them. store.steampowered.com/app/…/Heroes_of_Valor/ might be easier to deal with though.
EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 2 days 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!
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The cancelled suite of Alternate Reality games.
Krudler@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Omfg…
Yesssssss. Our entire family loved The Dungeon so much. My father wrote a letter to the developers and got a response, with excited descriptions of upcoming games in the series that never came to be. The producer or developer, or whoever wrote him back was bragging about how the next game would have characters you could actually see while in combat!
jerkface@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
The Dungeon already sort of gave up on the original design. Philip Price wrote The City and the extension mechanism that things were supposed to plug into, but The Dungeon didn’t use any of it. So it was a one-way trip… Except you couldn’t actually transfer characters, it was broken. :-/
FRYD@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nosgoth. An asymmetrical, team based shooter where you played as either vampires or vampire hunters. The vampires had more health and mobility but were only melee while the hunters had range and utility. It was buggy and imbalanced and I loved it and clocked like 500 hours before they shut it down.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 days ago
Was a ton of fun, I played it daily til it shutdown, I love when multiplayer games have fun traversal mechanics, tho it leads to many quitting if they do terrible early on.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 days ago
Exactly what I was here to write, had so much fun with that
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
StarCraft Ghost
ONI 2
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Or the C&C3 Renegade game
thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Woah, what? They were going to make a Renegade-style game with C&C3? That would have been so much fun!
Charapaso@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oni was so much fun: I would love to see how it feels now, but my nostalgia for it is off the charts. Martial art combos, plus sci fi guns: there’s just nothing else like it out there, which is a bummer.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Silent Hills
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
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.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s playable now on vanilla servers, but the North Star client also exists, pilot.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
interesting if true
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 day ago
EverQuest next
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are you playing Pantheon?
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not familiar, I was really hopeful for a lot of systems that were described in EQN
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Prey 2
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The Original Lawn Darts. Life is no fun without a bit of risk.
tatann@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Prey 2 : youtu.be/BPkHZfjK5z4
Some friends and I were so hooked on the gameplay demo (we’re big fans of the Mass Effect trilogy), then it was cancelled and replaced by Prey, which was very different (more horror centric and less space opera)
TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The game was basically finished too. It was never released because of a pay dispute. The beginning of the Bethda heel turn.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Anthem was a really great idea for a game that had an absolutely terrible execution.
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What disappointed you most?
billiam0202@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s been a minute, but off the top of my head:
- The story was ass.
- Not enough content for a “live service” game.
- Enemy levels scaled heavily with your gear level, so better gear didn’t make you feel any more powerful.
- The stats system for the gear was trash. Like, equipping one piece of high level gear and then keeping your starting gear for everything else was legitimately better than trying to get BiS for all of your gear.
- Gear had randomly generated buffs, and those might buff other gear. But sometimes it would you would get a drop for something your class could equip (not every class could use every weapon, for example) but with buffs to a weapon your class couldn’t use.
Jumi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Star Wars 1313 and Battlefront 3.
And for books it’s the unfinished Republic/Imperial Commando series by Karen Traviss
sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The Cycle: Frontier. It was a pvpve extraction shooter that had such potential. Struggled to keep cheaters at bay, but it felt like they were making progress until one day they announced they were shutting down. Every month or two someone in our group chat brings it up and we’re collectively sad that it’s gone.
CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fur me, it works be Beyond Good and Evil. I really wanted to see where the story went next
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
villainy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For anyone wondering, the game is Silent Hills. It was cancelled 10 years ago and you can still find people on eBay selling PS4s with the P.T. demo loaded on it for way too much money.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 days ago
That would have been quite something. I’ve seen P.T. being played and that was fucking scary.
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The StarCraft FPS.
I’m still mad about it.
rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days 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 13 hours 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 2 days 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.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 days ago
Lawbreakers was my favorite, high skill floor and ceiling games are my favorite. I wish ppl gave it a chance past its artstyle but matchmaking was rouh with barely anyone and the best players were insanely raw because of that high skill ceiling, high floor made it hard to catch up or feel good in early games I think.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I gave it a chance, and I remember the objective design being different for the sake of it to the point of being worse. They had a capture the flag mode involving charging a battery, but it could be charged to 99% at one base and then scored at the other base at the last second, making everything except the final play meaningless. It had a point control mode, but the points were only active in certain intervals, creating a real stop and go feeling that made the inactive periods as meaningless as the aforementioned first 99% of CTF.
Thoven@lemdro.id 1 day ago
Evolve stage 2! Very fun and very unique game. Their battle pass monetization scheme fizzled out and they took down the servers. There may be some community run servers going, but getting onto them for a small player base that’s going to beat my ass just doesn’t seem worth.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Guns of Icarus, my beloved.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Obligatory “fuck Notch” but I really liked the idea of 0x10c when it was announced.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Omg, i had completly forgotten about that one! I recall being so hyped about it…
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
You mean Mars Effect?
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex First Assault
All due to capitalism ruining things as usual…
XM34@feddit.org 2 days ago
Hellraid! God damnit, I was so ready for a first pirson action dungeon crawler in the style of Dying Light 😥
justsquigglez@lemm.ee 3 days ago
If we’re talking straight up cancelled, then I will forever be sad that Scalebound was cancelled.
I’m sure it wasn’t going to be as great as I was hoping anyways, but damn the concept looked so cool, and when I saw a dude with headphones jamming out to music fighting with his dragon buddy I was like “I want to be that!” Like it felt like that game was being made especially for me and my interests, and then it got cancelled 😔
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’d like to play around with whatever alpha build they made for the original concept of Team Fortress 2.
I love the one that came out (it’s probably my most played game of all time), but those first few screenshots before retooling were captivating when we’d already been waiting so long for the release.
brot@feddit.org 3 days ago
I remember those screenshots in the mags back in the day. Yes, I want to play that version, too - and the tank and heli looked so cool back then!
vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
There was a demo reel of the spy as well that was incredible. I played untold hours of tfc. It is likely what made me a intellimouse fan (thumb buttons for both grenade types?! It was the future).
I truly miss conc grenades. There has never been a more versatile weapon in a game.
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.
EnthusiasticNature94@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
K.O.L.M.
KingBoo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wildstar