Over on Reddit, gamers are lining up to pour one out for cancelled games that had them hyped. In this industry, many announcements arrive with plenty of fanfare, and sadly many of them get cancelled leaving players upset. A comment with over 1.3K upvotes says “Star Wars 1313. I don’t remember much about what it was supposed to be about other than it looked cool as hell.“It really did look cool as hell. However, it was a very dark and gritty game that was, at the time, rumoured to be R-rated, which doesn’t fit the now Disney-owned brand. If ever there was an IP that could thrive as a bounty hunting adult title, it’sStar Wars.This sparked a mourning for many who dropped titles, some of which were very high profile. This included the infamousSilent Hills- aSilent Hillreboot with Hideo Kojima at the helm which actually received aplayable demo called PT. A reply to this entry says “Hideo Kojima was about to make the most terrifying game of all time”, while others express rage at Konami for cancelling the project.AdvertOther notable games mentioned wereScalebound, which has a reply saying “we can’t have any good dragon games.” Then there’s the always mentionedHalf Life 3, though whether it’s cancelled completely or just stuck in Valve development hell is another story.Star Wars rears its head again with several people mentioningStar Wars: Battlefront 3.Rainbow Six Patriotscomes up several times with many sad that it becameSiegeinstead.Prey 2is another, as well asStarCraft Ghost, both canned for the companies to go on and branch out in different ways.One Redditor throws it back even further mentioningEarthbound 64and bringing up the N64DD, the surprisingly cancelled CD drive that was meant to augment Nintendo’s 64-bot cartridge system. When the DD was dropped, so were the dreams of a newEarthboundtitle.Featured Image Credit: DisneyTopics:Star Wars
Over on Reddit, gamers are lining up to pour one out for cancelled games that had them hyped. In this industry, many announcements arrive with plenty of fanfare, and sadly many of them get cancelled leaving players upset. A comment with over 1.3K upvotes says “Star Wars 1313. I don’t remember much about what it was supposed to be about other than it looked cool as hell.“It really did look cool as hell. However, it was a very dark and gritty game that was, at the time, rumoured to be R-rated, which doesn’t fit the now Disney-owned brand. If ever there was an IP that could thrive as a bounty hunting adult title, it’sStar Wars.This sparked a mourning for many who dropped titles, some of which were very high profile. This included the infamousSilent Hills- aSilent Hillreboot with Hideo Kojima at the helm which actually received aplayable demo called PT. A reply to this entry says “Hideo Kojima was about to make the most terrifying game of all time”, while others express rage at Konami for cancelling the project.AdvertOther notable games mentioned wereScalebound, which has a reply saying “we can’t have any good dragon games.” Then there’s the always mentionedHalf Life 3, though whether it’s cancelled completely or just stuck in Valve development hell is another story.Star Wars rears its head again with several people mentioningStar Wars: Battlefront 3.Rainbow Six Patriotscomes up several times with many sad that it becameSiegeinstead.Prey 2is another, as well asStarCraft Ghost, both canned for the companies to go on and branch out in different ways.One Redditor throws it back even further mentioningEarthbound 64and bringing up the N64DD, the surprisingly cancelled CD drive that was meant to augment Nintendo’s 64-bot cartridge system. When the DD was dropped, so were the dreams of a newEarthboundtitle.Featured Image Credit: DisneyTopics:Star Wars
Over on Reddit, gamers are lining up to pour one out for cancelled games that had them hyped. In this industry, many announcements arrive with plenty of fanfare, and sadly many of them get cancelled leaving players upset. A comment with over 1.3K upvotes says “Star Wars 1313. I don’t remember much about what it was supposed to be about other than it looked cool as hell.“It really did look cool as hell. However, it was a very dark and gritty game that was, at the time, rumoured to be R-rated, which doesn’t fit the now Disney-owned brand. If ever there was an IP that could thrive as a bounty hunting adult title, it’sStar Wars.This sparked a mourning for many who dropped titles, some of which were very high profile. This included the infamousSilent Hills- aSilent Hillreboot with Hideo Kojima at the helm which actually received aplayable demo called PT. A reply to this entry says “Hideo Kojima was about to make the most terrifying game of all time”, while others express rage at Konami for cancelling the project.AdvertOther notable games mentioned wereScalebound, which has a reply saying “we can’t have any good dragon games.” Then there’s the always mentionedHalf Life 3, though whether it’s cancelled completely or just stuck in Valve development hell is another story.Star Wars rears its head again with several people mentioningStar Wars: Battlefront 3.Rainbow Six Patriotscomes up several times with many sad that it becameSiegeinstead.Prey 2is another, as well asStarCraft Ghost, both canned for the companies to go on and branch out in different ways.One Redditor throws it back even further mentioningEarthbound 64and bringing up the N64DD, the surprisingly cancelled CD drive that was meant to augment Nintendo’s 64-bot cartridge system. When the DD was dropped, so were the dreams of a newEarthboundtitle.
Over on Reddit, gamers are lining up to pour one out for cancelled games that had them hyped. In this industry, many announcements arrive with plenty of fanfare, and sadly many of them get cancelled leaving players upset. A comment with over 1.3K upvotes says “Star Wars 1313. I don’t remember much about what it was supposed to be about other than it looked cool as hell.”
It really did look cool as hell. However, it was a very dark and gritty game that was, at the time, rumoured to be R-rated, which doesn’t fit the now Disney-owned brand. If ever there was an IP that could thrive as a bounty hunting adult title, it’sStar Wars.
This sparked a mourning for many who dropped titles, some of which were very high profile. This included the infamousSilent Hills- aSilent Hillreboot with Hideo Kojima at the helm which actually received aplayable demo called PT. A reply to this entry says “Hideo Kojima was about to make the most terrifying game of all time”, while others express rage at Konami for cancelling the project.
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Other notable games mentioned wereScalebound, which has a reply saying “we can’t have any good dragon games.” Then there’s the always mentionedHalf Life 3, though whether it’s cancelled completely or just stuck in Valve development hell is another story.
Star Wars rears its head again with several people mentioningStar Wars: Battlefront 3.Rainbow Six Patriotscomes up several times with many sad that it becameSiegeinstead.Prey 2is another, as well asStarCraft Ghost, both canned for the companies to go on and branch out in different ways.
One Redditor throws it back even further mentioningEarthbound 64and bringing up the N64DD, the surprisingly cancelled CD drive that was meant to augment Nintendo’s 64-bot cartridge system. When the DD was dropped, so were the dreams of a newEarthboundtitle.
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