Cancelled games that you want revived.

There always seems to be a game that comes along that gets people excited, but that ultimately winds up getting cancelled for some reason or other. I was interested in knowing what games you had high hopes for that you feel could have been worthwhile got canned instead.

The thing is that the game has to be confirmed as in development at some point, not rumoured to be in development, (Eg. Zelda fighting Game being developed by Project Soul) and isn't a tech demo (eg. Rebirth on Gamecube).

Mine was Raven Blade on Gamecube. It was one of the first games that Retro Studios was developing before it was cancelled by Nintendo in a big clean out of the studio, as they redirected their attention to making Metroid Prime.

The footage seems to be a mix of CGI (the molten rock guy) and running on a game engine(some of the action sequences) but the game world and potential for this game seemed (and to me still seems) a tempting game to make. It was a game I really wanted when I saw the video footage years ago and seeing as Retro Studios has finished it's Metroid Prime story arc, maybe they can get back to making this game. Though I guess it would only be in my dreams.

So what game did you look forward to until it got canned?

I was very disappointed when Blizzard decided to pull the plug on Starcraft: Ghost while it was still in its premature phase. It was one of my most anticipated games last gen.BladesOfAthena

I've got to agree with that one. News on it was like a rollercoaster ride. One minute its sounds like it's almost finished, to it being almost cancelled, to being back on followed by a change of studio, repeat. I still wished it would come out even when they canned it.

Van Buren - The true Fallout 3.

Torn

There was a sci-fi tactical game quite a few years ago that was in development by some ex-Blizzard employees. The game looked good, but I don't think they ever found funding.

I was very disappointed when Blizzard decided to pull the plug on Starcraft: Ghost while it was still in its premature phase. It was one of my most anticipated games last gen.BladesOfAthena

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I was heart broken when Bliz canned Ghost :(.

Killer Instinct 3

I can't believe Rare though Grabbed by the ghoulies would be a better idea

Starcraft Ghost... I think it was likely cancelled since the xbox was just ending its generation cycle... its too bad they didn't remake it for this gen.Old_Gooseberry

There was a brief time when someone form Blizzard said it might come out for next(now current) gen consoles but it had basically been put on the backburner permently.

I never quite got into the hype for BC, but I do remember all the references about fur bikinis though. The weirdest thing was that BC 2 was announced before the original was even complete and would have some xbox live multiplayer.

Megaman Legends for the PSP.

Earthbound 64 & Sonic X-Treme.TheLordRagnarok

Second for Earthbound 64. There is no Earthbound love in America :( (I STILL WANT MOTHER 3!)

I thought I would add another game which might have some relevence to a lot of rumours going around now. Back during the gamecube era there was a cancelled game called Dead Phoenix which was part of the "Capcom 5" (Viewtiful Joe, P.N. 03, Killer7 and Resident Evil 4)

This game went into a bit of development hell and there was a lot of rumours that Capcom and Nintendo had partnered up to recreate this game as Kid Icarus. Check out the video to see how close this game could have been modified to become a new Kid Icarus.

Brawl may have sparked recent rumours but this game 5-6 years ago might have been the closest thing to being the real thing.

i was ecstatic when blizzard canceled ghost. that game had the tarnishing of blizzard's standards written all over it. im glad they saw this before they put out a disaster.

for me i would like to see the werewolf game brought back. it was somewhere around the ps1 era that it was in the works. it was based on the werewolf pen and paper rpg, and was to be similar to the vampire games on the pc. shame.

I can name a fair number of games.

Starcraft Ghost did look cool.

Earthbound 64

Now that I know about Fallout, I wish Van Buren hadn't been cancelled.

Propeller Arena (DC)

And just for Famicommander, Shenmue 3.