Cancelled/Beta games

Looking at various early Dead Rising 1 trailers, it's hard to see if much changed besides various hud and location differences. Still interesting to look at video games in an early or unfinished state though.

This used the game models and was rendered real time, pity it got canned.

Also found a canceled Wii FPS which was basically a Left 4 Dead clone. Looks interesting considering how they tried to make that game on PS2-tier hardware, but the FoV makes me sick.

That lightning looks pretty decent for a Wii game. Was it by the same devs from The Conduit by any chance?

I'm pretty convinced "The Ballad of Gay Tony" ripped a lot from this. I was pretty excited when I read about TIV in magazines. What interested me the most is the fact that there is 4 gangs ruling city (named after card suits) and you can choose who to work with, like in GTA 2.

It was. Apparently they even got a Third person shooter running on the 3DS around the time the system launched, but then they went downhill with the botched Zone of the Enders port and eventually became Saints Row devs.

Why not just post a jewtube link? That's not even watchable.

On jewtube quality isn't much better as is.

shit looks cash

So this just got remade into Dead to Rights didn't it?

Although CBFD was a classic, Twelve Tales also looked great. Kinda makes you wish for the beta to be released, but Rare being owned by MS, not gonna happen…

This picture was rendered on the Super FX chip, displaying sprites and non-flat textured backgrounds. Sort of looks like Paper Mario.

Perhaps it's silicon Graphics and i was mistaken, sorry.

Cancelled S.W.A.T. 4 zombie game

says in the description it used assets from Dead to Rights

Here's an cancelled RTS for the PSP. Looks kinda nice.

And this one i remember fondly. A horror turn based RPG for the PSP as well.
It still hurts…

Was this proto JustinRPG?

There was gonna be a sequel to Garou: Mark of the Wolves but it got stuck in development hell do to SNK's financial troubles.

Only few screenshots of it surface and the only things confirmed was a student of Joe Higashi would have been playable and Ryo would have joined the roster as Mr. Karate II.

Although it might actually happen again since SNK has bringing up it up a lot;
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Didn't they turn that into an Light Novel or something?

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They were
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I don't know if it got a release yet but it sucks that for whatever reason the game didn't got a release.

It really doesn't make sense, anything Level 5 seems to make sells like crazy in Japan. But I guess they wanted to make safer bets like Yokai Watch or something.

Does Silent Hills count? It's a shame that was canned, I mean it had Kojima, Del Toro, and Junji Ito behind it, even if it didn't live up to its legacy it would've at least been a great send off for the series.

I just wonder how much work was done on the game before it was canceled.

I feel like this could have been really cool.

At least things aren't completely hopeless, aren't Kojima and Del Toro currently planning to work together again, now that Kojima's free of Konami?

there was some FPS during the PS3 reveal at E3 that showed a guy shooting people at a mall or museum or something and twisting his guns as he did it.

anyone know what I'm talking about?

Fucking Disney.

Brothers In Arms: Furious 4

Wasn't that being made by Gearbox? I hope Burch wasnt involved

That casual stroll always gets me.

And nothing of value was lost.

This video is actually pretty interesting, showing different versions of the game before it was canned.

No? They hired some british cucks to do it for them.

And any beta cart that's outside rare is pretty much worthless since they never actually burned the game to the cart.

thank god this one was canned

also this Plissken game looks epic.>>9330720

FUCK
[spoiled]Maybe it's for the best there's some fucked up stylistic shit going on[/spoiler]

FUCK HOW EMBARASSING

Holy shit talk about wasted potential. That could get real dark real quick, and protag ghost looks pretty neat, for a fucked up crackhead kinda deal.

Lobo for the SNES

It's probably narrated by someone from Rare. That might explain the accent and the Killer Instinct music.

FUCK YOU, VAMPIRE

You mean German. Factor 5 helped them with cartridge compression

That just looks like Blast Corps?

Didn't Rare use carts that erased the data as soon as they were shut off to prevent their stuff getting leaked?

SWAT 4 is already scary enough when you're about to breach a door and worry if there's a room full of junkies with AK47s that you didn't see through your wand.

It is, probably the working title before it became Blast Corps.

Yeah they have a port sticking out of the cart that connected to a computer containing the game, and without any of that and the technical knowhow to get it working the cart is worthless.

Fuck me! I never saw this before! What happened to this title?

Van Buren, what should have been Fallout 3 instead of that Bethesda abomination.

Freelancer 2, thanks Microsoft. Sure why not poz our neg hole with another halo game for plebs

They'll probably "remake" that eventually.

Hopefully, though I doubt Not-Silent Hills will happen anytime soon since their next game is said to be action based.

It apparently had elements made into Battleborn, the FPS/ASSFAGGOTS mix. Nothing of value is lost.

Not so much a canceled game as it is something we never wanted.

We wanted Sleeping Dogs 2, we got a shitty MMORPG that was canceled prior to launch.

FAGGOTS.

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Damn this one hurts. And if it were to make a comeback it would be consolified as shit and fillef. with social justice to the brim

And nothing of value was lost.

Life is cruel.

Holy shit that looks beautiful, everything about it.

mechWARrior 5

Did anyone ever get to finish body harvest? I was a stupid kid back then and didn't understand shit.

possession

Starfox 2 is probably the most interesting beta considering it had a lot of pre-release coverage and was leaked on the Internet and bugfixed, and translated only 6 or so years after official cancellation. And then you get Dylan Cuthbert claiming the leaked ROM isn't even near complete and that Nintendo has an at least 90% complete ROM sitting in their archives, and then you have Miyamoto revisiting it for Starfox Zero design cues. It's probably one of the more documented cancelled games out there.

Man, what is with things with Macross designs and copyright shitfights? It's a fucking shame for all fanbases involved.

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Who knows what evil lurks in the hurts of men…

Nobody wanted to publish it then L4D came out and by time there was interest they had made Bioshock

Holy shit, I remember this one.

Harmony Gold says they own global rights to any Macross designs.

They are also a fucking real estate company, so they have no business fucking with our robots.

Project Vaulderie, was going to be a fan remaster of VTM:B before CCP cancelled it

never ever

they dont respect the robot, they must be removed

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They should have tried porting it to Source 2013 instead remaking it from scratch in Unity. The devs boasting how they would release on Steam with multiplayer, achievements and shit most likely contributed to making CCP shut it down.

Didn't they announce they were continuing with the project and just slap another name on it? Or am I thinking of something else?

Cities Skylines needs a simcopter. and a streets of skylines.

thank god. Battlefield 1 is kinda filling its dogshit shoes.

Harmony Gold makes money by copyright squatting. and overseas embezzlement, apparently.

even the music was great :[

I remember seeing a very early attempt at creating a flight simulator in Cities Skylines. I hope this shit can be done with a full flight model and collisions and shit.

No, if I'm not wrong they started making a completely new game from scratch, I don't know what it's called.

Yeah, I'm also surprised they didn't try to revive the project, now that Paradox has all the rights not CCP

I really have to wonder who dumped the rom to begin with, and how many copies of scrapped games Nintendo has in their archives.

Prey 2 would have been fucking awesome.

Fucking Bethesda, Im still mad.

That game was a fucking insult to everything BiA stood for. Granted the third BiA game was pretty poor too but at least it wasn't that silly.

Furious Four could easily have been a new IP also.

While I wish Fallout 3 never happened, I prefer the story in New Vegas better.

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This hurts the most.

This was never real in the first place, it was vaporware from the start.
Like that Confederate Express game where the actual devs had shilled on chans.
But then ran away with the money after they got kickstarted.

To be fair the same thing was said about SoC. It took almost a decade to actually get finished.

This trailer was on my copy of Battlefront 2 for the ps2. Always thought it looked cool.

I remember seeing the old Euphoria tech demos back before any game featured it. I wanted to play this so bad. Now the only developer that has Euphoria is Rockstar and they keep gimping it with each new game they release to the point where it doesn't even matter anymore.

Yeah, would have been a great space bounty hunter simulator.

Was Thrill Kill ever completed? Is there a rom out there?

was this actually supposed to take place after Fusion? I had figured Sakamoto damned Retro to interquel hell.

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Jojo's Bizarre FPS.

T-that's impossible!

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doesn't look that good tbh fam

To be fair ,Shadow the hedgehog was fair incomplete, but it has over 700 different storylines and gave more variables to endings than anything mass effect ever gave.

You can have 700 different ice cream tastes, but if they're all gonna taste somewhat like shit it won't really make a difference

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How do you call em? I'm not english

Flavors user.

oh right

That was the original plan, I think there are still screenshots of the work they did floating around (which arguably looked pretty nice), apparently they ran into shitloads of problems with the custom scripts Troika used for everything else.

IT turned into some Wutang game.

It is a shame, a game about psycopaths fighting in hell is a good concept.

I'm dissapointed in you Holla Forums

Deep Cover, the last game that Looking Glass was supposed to make.
It was supposed to be a mixture between System Shock and Thief, set in the 60s during the cold war wit hthe player as a spy, running on the enxt version of the Dark Engine called Siege Engine.

Missions would've included infiltration of Castros Villa, extracting a german scientist out of the DDR and disabling a russian missle.

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Seriously niggers?
unseen64.net/

Check out the videos for the M2 version of D2 there. If only Kenji Eno were still alive we may have had that game some day.

im reading the new article about "Silent Hill: cold heart" the interesting game climax was forced to half scrap and turn into a reimagining of the first to please cucknami.

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Well hey you got siege of dragonspear instead, you should be happy goy

interesting

Every thread untill it hurts you too.

Also these this but it was actually just an april fools joke, please use archive.is/forum/thread/108304 , I have the magizine in question in my closet some where.

Welp, whatever: archive.is/tDf4W

remembering the Wii just makes me angry now

That man should have been in-charge of announcing every video game that came out for the 64.
I cracked up, who the hell would say that today.
If only the finish product was like that. This guy was great.

it was pretty much the biggest waste of potential in all of video games. you can count the number of games that used actual motion controls effectively on a single hand.

Backbreaker is the only other non-Rockstar example I can think of.

Red Steel 2 comes to mind, too bad we are never getting a 3 from ubishit.

blame Red Steel 1

It could have been cool even if limited.

What I wanna know is how I had my hands on this in 1998.

Was it Berenstein or Berenstain?

Jesus christ what's with the clown music. It hurts my ears.

I'll never understand why the dev wanted to restart from scratch

Well they did keep the idea of Laura on a plane and being pregnant.

Fuck if I know, I didn't bother with that.

Supposed to be an Adlib (old timey FM synth, OPL3 and the like) rendition of this, which is itself a SNES rendition of a part of the Battle of Yavin track.

and now any interest I had in playing the leaked rom is dead. God damn, if only we could get the near finished rom dumped.

Probably would've been better than Colonial Marines, at least.

So this is how a second person shooter would work?

Project Offset.

What's even worse is that this cancelled game is the closest we'll ever get to a proper Hexen sequel.

Cancelled by a Real Life Japanese Earthquake. It hurts Holla Forums, it really does. This could have been the open world comfy mech game I always wanted.

Project Offset is still one of my most hurtful cancelled games, alongside Half Life 3. It looked like it could have been really good, had such a neat setting that most video games don't seem to want to try for, looked really pretty…

Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was set to be released between Warcraft II and Warcraft III. However, the game was canceled due to perceived lack of quality according to Blizzard. The plot of the game would eventually be released in book form.

Fun fact: The game's animation was to be done by Animation Magic, the same people behind the animation in games such as Hotel Mario, Link: The Faces of Evil, and I.M. Meen.

probably the last major PC exclusive ever.

I had no idea the leaked rom was so incomplete. The leaked one was short but it felt a lot better than the original in every way and it didn't have any loose ends.

probably because realistic physics in games is very gimmicky.

It does look pretty terrible

why

probably the same reason phillips hired them in the first place, they were cheap.

If it was cancelled, why is there a full playthrough video of it? Was it leaked?

Read the description doofus

Holy shit this hread actually has some new material that I havent seen or havent seen in a very long time.

Thanks for all of these things to be sad about guys.

Imagine a game like this in VR

VR has some insane untapped potential.

Wait you got a cardboard for pon what

the best gamers

I really wanted to play Winter

Looks like the plot was kind of the same, so probably it would've been good, not as good as the real thing though

Bad thing it didn't came out for Ds like RE1

Really? I think it looked alright, better than defiance imo

A few months ago I spent four fucking hours scouring the internet for that video of the dragon boss fight only to find out that it had been deleted from youtube and gametrailers sucks a million dicks now because pretty much all their old content (including two uploads of the exact fucking video I was looking for) is gone.

Never say never.

Was it really canned? Or was it all a ruse from the rusemaster?

I always figured it was fake

Yeah, Dread was pitched as a direct sequel to Fusion. It wasn't being made by Retro though.

Although Retro was once working on a Metroid Prime 1.5 that took place on a space station and pitted you against an insane AI.

the google cardboard in it's current state is only good for porn.
there are almost no games because there's no standard input system and trinus is not good enough to turn it into an Oculus emulator yet.

Arkane had some really solid people. Poor bastards are now another of EA 2.0s puppets.

Let it go, everyone fucking gave up when it reached a certain point a few months ago.

So you could choose to control the enemy NPCs of certain parts of the game while someone else controlled the MC? It sort of looks like HL2 too.

You know whats a pity? The Metroid series setting/lore is actually pretty good for some other space adventure hijinks, but you know the game could be anything else but a metroidvania.

Even so though, they could still make one while still being a metroidvania.

Hunt it down space hunter style.

Seriously though, for a series about space pirates, you tend to see a lot of nature and one planet. I think Metroid Prime 3 was the only game that even attempted multiple planets in one game, despite the series being about SPACE PIRATES, and SPACE BOUNTY HUNTERS.

Want to hear something funny. The game was canned by Bethesda because it didn't meet there "quality standard."

Ahh yes, their """""standard""""".

Holy shit that cyberpunk setting looks beautiful. Its like Snatcher or Akira with an Alien touch.
Fuck Bethesda.

HOLY SHIT FUCK BETHESDA.
And Bethesdrones wonder why we enjoy spoiling the endings to their shitty games.

man, ZeniMax really did ruin Bethesda

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I wish I could at least get a port to the ps3 so I wouldn't have to deal with awful slow down. SC is the comfiest game alive.

Anyone here been following DRX's recent ongoing proto releases?

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Fuck you, you ignorant shitpile. 50 Cent Blood In The Sand and Def Jam Fight For NY were great games. Eat a whole bucket of dicks you fucking faggot.

What the fuck? This game is just Dead to Rights 1 with different models.

The current story I'm heard is something like this.

>Personal opinion. Probably a coincidence but it's almost like they knew it wouldn't get a retail release.

Part of me hopes that one day SF2 gets a remake. And with Nintendo already remaking SF64 3D AND "reimagining" SFZ StarFox 64 twice, where else can they go with the franchise?

I definitely like that scene in the dub a lot more.

Be gone, Dirty Whores!

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why did you have to go and remind me?

Did Valve ever release anything on the two or three Team Fortress sequels that came before TF2?

They probably completely wiped all files relating to those games.
From what they said, they didn't feel very different from their other games. I remember one of the devs said something along the lines of "[the scrapped game] felt like Counter-Strike with classes".

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Bethesda is the fucking worst. They did the same shit to Arkane and id.

Fuck off they were a shitty cash-ins on stupid niggers/wiggers.

RE:DS's Rebirth Mode was fun and utilized the hardware. You had to give Richard CPR by blowing into the mic, had knife bound to L, and various knifing segments. It's the 20th anniversary of Resident Evil and Capcom isn't releasing RE:DS2 for the 3DS.

Shamfur display Crapcom.

It became a shitty version of SWAT 3.

daily reminder that "Bethesda" is literally a hebrew word.

Maximo 3

Witcher, 1997
developed by metropolis software

That looks really fuckin cool. No but seriously, the winterly atmosphere and horror theme is just great.

Resident Evil 4 beta

It was real. Next Level even came out and showed what they were working on on and off before the official canning.

They canned it to make Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon

I'm saying that particular one looks fake because it doesn't match up with the style of the other things they showed and they misspelled Metroid.

NLG is still making their Metroid game, though, they're making Federation Force.

[citation needed]

(pain intensifies)

The series has always had potential for spin offs, and some really good.

I always hoped that there would be a game following Fusion where:

>the other is MAnthony Higgs (he was the only good thing out of that shitheap and was the actual hero of Other M)
>MAnthony agrees
>some of them are honestly good guys
>after clearing the first three temples/planets, gets mcguffin that unlocks final planet
>pirates don't give a shit for it
>turns out X-Free parts of Ridley's frozen corpse made it to this planet and the pirates have been helping him regenerate
>your upgrades make you feel strong but don't know if they could be VS Ridley strong
>except one dude isn't all-the-way-dead
>activates wakeup sequence for Ridley
>Ridley wasn't dead yet, and you left him a bunch of pirate corpses to eat
>proceeds to chase your little toy into the upper atmosphere
>screen blanks out
>credits roll
>post credits shows your completion rating
>50% or lower is just a vid of Dane verbally patting you on your back and saying you're lucky to be alive
>51-99% is Dane verbally patting your back while you see battle scarred MAnthony showering up and counting his lucky stars
>100% is all of the above, but then you see Dane replay the last few moments of you trying to escape. Ridley is right on your ass when a sudden iceplosion hit's Ridley in the face followed by enough beam weaponry to put the whole franchise of Starwars to shame. Camera pans over to a shot of Samus standing on top of her "stolen" ship, her armcannon closing before she goes back into the ship and takes off

tfw this will never happen

The beginning of the end for capcom for me. RE4iesta sucked, I don't care what people say.

So like, an unfucked Halo 5?

End of Nations, one of the more tragic RTS game stories.
Depressing.

NLG has nothing to do with that abomination. i don't know who the fuck is working on it, but it sure as fuck ain't NLG.

Why user. Why do you remind me of the pain.

Though, I probably wouldn't have cared much for the constant mini-jumpscares, like the knights falling to kill you. Maybe with some context, like the mansion itself is actively trying to murder you Monster House-style, I could have forgiven it. I would much rathered had this, over what we got.

Basically.

I hate to break it to you, but it's NLG. Look it up anywhere, it's them.

Not really surprising that the people responsible for Mario Strikers made Metroid into a soccer game.

B.C.

I've heard that this was an american invention.
Is it true that in Japan, Samus is just a special ops marine who still works for the federation AND NOT an independent soldier of fortune.

Oh well fuck me. Amusing how the trailers neglect to mention they are involved.

I still think this was completely unrelated to metroid and is just being given the metroid name

it's not like you'll get scanlogs or enjoy the ambiance of anything. Everything looks like a fucking balloon and over inflated, the other 3 guys are gonna be running and gunning and even if with friends who aren't retards, it's not going to feel like metroid in any sense.

no, in Japan she's still a bounty hunter, but she only has that title because it sounds cool.
BANTO HANTA

Samus is a merc.

I can only imagine what this game would have been like. But aside from this trailer and a few screenshots, nothing else is known about it, much like that Dirty Harry game.

The beta only lasted about 3 years, but it really was innovation

I emulated the DS version of RE1 and I couldn't play Rebirth mode, dunno if it was the mic or me failing at a mini game but I was blowing so hard into the mic I started to black out and the fucker would barely budge.

Although it wasn't a CnC style RTS, calling it an ASSFAGGOTS is a disservice considering it was closer to Ground Control with several players controlling their own armies. Like in Ground Control you couldn't build a base so you had to send in reinforcements and win using your strike force.

I still refuse to believe this wa real yet it was.

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Never forget
Thanks Ubishit

So basically Prey 2?

I never emulated the game, so I never had this problem. It's probably just because the hardware can't really be emulated in that regard.

That's fucking neat actually.

I suppose you could make a script that makes the system receive white noise through the microphone when you press a button to simulate blowing.

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That's ironic considering it feels more complete than any of the officially released games in the series. Sure you can make it to the final boss in less than an hour, but it has tremendous replay value. I have to wonder if all the things they were supposedly going to add to would have only made it worse.

I also have a suspicion that Cuthbert might just be pissed that the game got leaked and is lying to "get back" at people. A sort of "O-Oh yeah? Well that's not even the finished version, losers!" type of thing.

I agree, the game does feel pretty finished and he is just being an angry sperg.

On the bright side, this version was reworked into the original Devil May Cry, so we at least got a good game (and series) out of the deal

Whoever stole it did a good thing in hindsight with Nintendo canceling it. At least we have proof that this shit exists.

I just wonder if Nintendo cares at all about Star Fox though, given that they remade 64 3 times already.

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