i dont understand why nobody has mentioned nosgoth yet. i regularly think about and miss this game so much!!!
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I wish we could have gotten R6:Patriots.
Forgot starhawk not technically cancelled but they never dropped a 3rd game
middle sxhool me peaked at that game, building, jetpacks, exosuits, mechs, transformers, hoverbikes, etc.
Loadout. It was a casual PvP (and later PvE) game where you can make your own weapons with wacky combos. It was a bit pay-to-win, but I thought it was very fun. The game crashed and burned because the studio wasn't sure what they wanted to do with it and kept ignoring fans.
I think the PvE spinoff never came out of beta. I was looking forward to it.
True Fantasy Live Online looked like it would have been amazing.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UsM9qaZ5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r8rDBVCN1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kum80OStNZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_betnUPq-uQ
Terra Battle 1, created by the OG final fantasy devs. Best Uematsu soundtrack of that decade and one of the best mobile gachas ever. RIP
True Fantasy Live Online. It sounded amazing.
Steambot Chronicles 2 and Maximo 3. I can’t believe they never finished the Maximo story. It’s such a good hack and slash collectathon of the PS2 era.
Hyper Scape, probably my favorite battle royale. When you died, you could still run around as a ghost and be revived at a dead enemy. It was much more engaging than just sitting there spectating your teammates. Also the loot was a lot more simplified, so you didn’t have to spend time managing inventory or worrying about getting the right ammo type
Infinite Crisis. This was a MOBA based on DC comics. It’s the game that got me into the genre and had some very cool alternate takes on some of the DC characters. Sadly it had a lot of balance problems and other issues causing it to close down after only 6 months.
GunZ
StarCraft Broodwar (need to make a Blizzard account now apparently)
My word, I remember playing this when I was a teenager (and I'm in my mid-30s now).
I remember doing all those trick movements, the slash and dash, wall climbs, weapon switching for quick dash etc.
Then several months into playing, I found out people were using macros for those instead of... Pressing all the keys manually...
My hands hurt so much until that discovery.
Very small minority use macros. You can watch videos of people playing and watch their keystrokes on both physical keyboard and virtual. I recommend kujo on YouTube.
But yeah, very nice memories indeed. Apparently, it's making a comeback on Steam.
That's a blast from the past. Thanks for the shout!
Reset, a puzzle sci-fi game some little Finnish studio was working on.
TimeSplitters 4. If they'd have stopped baiting us with teaser art and promises of someone new buying the bones of Free Radical every few years then it wouldn't hurt so much.
This is before my time but I remember reading about a canceled movie tie-in game for Star Trek: First Contact.
I really miss Megalith. It was a VR MOBA. The small team had to drop the project to work on contracts that made money.
Back in the day I played a browser game called "Inselkampf". That was way before anybody did the whole monetization and one of the earlier browser games. Totally free, no micropayments. It was awesome: You had a level playground. People formed alliances on their own without the game having such a feature. We hang out in IRC channels. We plotted wars, starting in the middle of the night in order to surprise the other alliances. We had diplomats talking to other alliances. People started alt accounts and snuck into the enemy alliances in order to spy on them. Some rose to top ranks, leading to epic betrayals and epic wars.
Everything from that is gone. The game is long offline. The players dispersed, the IRC channels abandoned, everything never to be repeated
Hellraid looked like it was going to be an awesome spooky fantasy game but then they turned it into a shitty dying light dlc.
Donkey Kong Racing. Oh what could have been.
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.