Remember Starcraft: Ghost? The "not cancelled", shelved spin-off of the popular RTS series hasn't heard from since 2006 aside a novel release. Later yesterday, a user on Reddit scanned and posted images of a 2005 pamphlet showing off units and gameplay types for the game.
Gotta wonder why Starcraft: Ghost literally became a ghost.
There have been so many games from major developers that we have been excited to finally play, that somehow, in some way, got axed before they were ever completed.
It's time to take a look back, and pour one out for all of the lost brothers and sisters of gaming that were taken before their time.
My top 10
Star Wars 1313 - This was my if Star Wars and Mass Effect had a baby, sorta..
Silent Hills - P.T. nuff said.
Deep Down - Visuals were stunning. Capcom, please.
Agent - it has become the R* version of TLG.
Bioshock VITA - It was legitimately planned and in the works, until it wasn't..
Visceral Star Wars - Visceral, Hennig, 3rd person Star Wars action.
Scalebound - Looked awesome early on, other than the Beats By Dre..
Prey 2
Infamous VITA (rumor)
Infamous VITA was a rumor. It was to be called Infamous: Electric Souls and Nate Fox pretty much promised me. Darn you Nate.
The Santa Monica space RPG was a shame. Too bad SSM has such high standards, i bet it wasn't that bad.
Fable Legends? Really? Every other game on that list I can agree with but that. That game never had hype. It had artificial hype from people who wanted it to be more than what it was looking to become. It was hardly ever spoken of outside of list wars and some poor schmuck who was forced to write about the game because it made an appearance at some convention. It wasn't what people wanted. They wanted a proper Fable game. They got a garbage asymmetrical multiplayer game in the vein of Evolve but even less exciting.
These are the games that have been stuck or still find themselves in development hell. Some made it out, others are getting there, and the unfortunate few will be stuck there for eternity.
what could have been
I was actually excited for this game. I even had bets that it existed when none of my friends believed me. Then it got canned, but at least it confirmed that it did exist.
Coming from Blizzard, I honestly didn't expect to see it for years anyways.
Got cancelled cuz it didn't meet blizzards high expectations. O well.
:(
Like everyone else I too was stoked for this title, a shooter/ stealth spy game set in the starcraft universe, I still remeber how dope the image was of her hanging upseide down supported only by her legs as you could zoom in using a sniper rifle, and seeing the universe up close from a diffrent point of view. GAH! awesome!