Which games drastically changed from concept? For better or worse

Quite a lot of devs like to show their games of as soon as they are able to produce a visual representation. So what happens is you get alot of end products that are sometimes, greatly different from what was originall shown. So what games can you think of? Do you think the changes made after were better, or worse? Il start us off with 2 negatives

Final Fantasy X - original concept http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72vckLXI7x4

Its no secret that FFX is my favourite game, but watching what it was originally going to be makes me wish we recieved this instead. Firstly, the graphics look alot better than what was in X. Clothes move as he runs and hair sways. I also find Tidus' design alot more appealing. It seems that Square were also planning on having some sort of online functionality. It would have been amazing but judging by the video, i think it would have been similar to the Shenmue Passprt (which was amazing).

Halo 2 - E3 2003 demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb9o-Ce_hYM Crowd reaction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax1nvd8DF1Q

Not really much that can be said here. It really was all round better. The graphics look like early 360 game and it captures the Halo 1 atmosphere pretty well.

Anyway what about you guys?

Borderlands!

Borderlands!

muzik_mafia

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Linear Silent hill action game

Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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Linear Silent hill action game

nhh18

Yeah, if Shattered Memories ends up being the more innovative game it honestly wouldn't surprise me that much. It's certainly more close to twin peaks than alan wake is already. I swear David Lynch wrote shattered memories...

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goblaa

Yeah, if Shattered Memories ends up being the more innovative game it honestly wouldn't surprise me that much. It's certainly more close to twin peaks than alan wake is already. I swear David Lynch wrote shattered memories...

I find that the original The Two Thrones was better that what Ubisoft released at the end. It seemed more darker. I'll post a video when I find one.

Edit: Found it; here.

Motorstorm, the pre render footage looked stunning with a cockpit view and mud flying all over the winshield. I guess the concept didn't change much but it is like the crysis concept.

Quake.

Quake was orginally designed as a melee weapon based, first person, open/hub world, fantasy game. The design was totally changed to fit with the new tech 2 engine Carmack built, and it brought about Romero leaving/getting fired from id Software.

Killer instinct 3.

Initially, it was suppoed to be a fighting game like this.

Instead, we got this

God, I wish they'd make Killer Instinct 3

Fable. Open world adventure where the world is an actual living one. What we got was...well...not as good.

Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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Linear Silent hill action game

nhh18

I prefer the Silent Hill style one, and dont call it linear cause this game could just possibly refresh the horror genre withits strong story line :)

If you think the Halo 2 video is a drastic change, you should check out the original Halo video for when it was still being developed for PC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqGDfivqShc&feature=related

Motorstorm, the pre render footage looked stunning with a cockpit view and mud flying all over the winshield. I guess the concept didn't change much but it is like the crysis concept.

15strong

Crysis... for worse. Check out the concept video.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlr9dvwnEusTheDuffman26

Thank you, i wish i still had a copy of an old gamming magazine that first featured crysis. It talked about how amazing the AI would be, like they would track your movements through the forrest by following bent grass and other crazy stuff like that. Also you would stumble apon random battles, and choose to help or evade, and if you helped it would benifit you, or maybe not. Also you could explore and find different weapons, and even find aliens attacking soliders before you ever reach the alien ship. One example of this was finding a hunter randomly in a forrest and fighting it. Yeah none of that made it into the game, which is why it was a dissapointing for me. Devs do this all the time, things change during dev time so much, thats why its not always smart to buy into early hype for a game.

Zelda: Wind Waker. I remember there being a realistic looking teaser, but was replaced with a cartoony game. Fantastic game though.

I'll also add Star Fox Adventures. It was going to be Dinosaur Planet on the N64, but no, it changed to a Zelda clone with the commander of the Star Fox Team. Great game, nonetheless.

Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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Why the heck did halo 2 change from that? That game actually looked awesome even now. But the final halo 2 was one of the biggest pieces of crap

Resident Evil 4 Used to be slower paced and more atmosphereic with horror as a prominent element.

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Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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AAllxxjjnn

I agree with the guy above you. Alan Wake footage from 2006 was open world. I'm not really sure what they have done with it. It doesn't help they have only showed about 1 level.

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Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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15strong

I agree with the guy above you. Alan Wake footage from 2006 was open world. I'm not really sure what they have done with it. It doesn't help they have only showed about 1 level.

shadow of the collosuss(sp.) was originally a multi player game(might has been online)

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Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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Linear Silent hill action game

nhh18

Yeah, if Shattered Memories ends up being the more innovative game it honestly wouldn't surprise me that much. It's certainly more close to twin peaks than alan wake is already. I swear David Lynch wrote shattered memories...

totally.

Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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Linear Silent hill action game

nhh18

I know... I was excited for this game until they completely ruined it. How many linear scifi shooters do we need?...

Dark Sector.

From interesting stealth game in space concept.

To generic gears of war/resident evil 4 clone.

Resident Evil 4 Used to be slower paced and more atmosphereic with horror as a prominent element.

Im_single

I'd never seen that footage before, but upon seeing it I immediately have to agree. Had I gotten that product, I perhaps would have been more inclined to actually enjoy Resident Evil 4.

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Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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Linear Silent hill action game

AAllxxjjnn

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Alan Wake- Open world sand box detective game similar to twin peaks television series

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Linear Silent hill action game

nhh18

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[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"] Shows how much you actually know about the game.AAllxxjjnn

Last I heard, the game was no longer to be an open world game.

http://www.totalvideogames.com/Alan-Wake/news/Alan-Wake-No-Longer-Open-World-14384.html" title="http://www.totalvideogames.com/Alan-Wake/news/Alan-Wake-No-Longer-Open-World-14384.html">http://www.totalvideogames.com/Alan-Wake/news/Alan-Wake-No-Longer-Open-World-14384.html

here it is actually.

Quake.

Quake was orginally designed as a melee weapon based, first person, open/hub world, fantasy game. The design was totally changed to fit with the new tech 2 engine Carmack built, and it brought about Romero leaving/getting fired from id Software.

evilross

Deus Ex Invisible Wars.

WHY. DID. IT. HAPPEN.

kameo: originally it was meant to be an action adventure/ strategy hybrid

you could transform into monsters but you could also summon monsters and leave them to their battles, it was going to be a mix of Legend of Zelda and Sacrifice (google it)

early videos

Dark Sector.

From interesting stealth game in space concept.

To generic gears of war/resident evil 4 clone.

jehuty12

As fun as Dark Sector is, who the hell told them to change it!? The original concept was so good.

:cry:

MGS4 ..for the worse

what it was supposed to be

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3m7TRbW0I4

To http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyew_wHvshs&feature=related

Splinter Cell Conviction changed from a hobo blending game to a stealth action game, but no Spies vs Mercs still disappoints me.

Epic Mickey comes to mind.

Resident Evil. From awesome (RE1, RE2, RE3 and RE Code Veronica) to....not so good (RE4 and RE5)

Dark Sector