There used to be a disconnect between gamers and developers. When you were excited for a game to come out, you sat and waited patiently (or not) until you were able to bring home that big black box with an ugly gray cartridge that contained all your heart’s desire. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case. Is there no love lost between gamers and developers, any more?
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "Sometimes, a game getting cancelled is actually a blessing in disguise that either helps the developer or game series reach new heights with what actually does come next or just saves our time and money by keeping what would obliviously have been a bad time lost forever."
okay, I'll bite.
I friggin adored Arkane's version of Prey (it's basically the spiritual successor to System Shock that we never got) but I would have loved to see the bounty hunter iteration of the sequel as well, perhaps as it's own IP.
Scalebound for me was happy it got canned , the concept seemed picked out of a hat lol terrible.
Developing a game is an intricate process. Thousands of lines of code have to be written with thousands of graphical assets. The publishers have to spend thousands of dollars on marketing. Speaking on the behalf of the developers, it hurts us beyond measure when we don't get to witness the fruit of our labour.
Here are The Gaming Report's top 5 games that did not see the light of day.
Sometimes a video game will be announced only to be never heard of again. These cancelled video games showed a lot of promise and today GVN will be counting down the best ones!
^ And similarly, Rebelstar 2: The Meklon Conspiracy. The first on GBA is such an overlooked, underrated gem. 9.5/10.
"Top 5 cancelled video games" that list incorrect .
lets start with cancelled games from Snes up to now, that we old skool gamers have waited for for years only to find out it was cancelled.
If I made a top cancelled games. It'll all be Crash Bandicoot and MegaMan games. *sad laugh*
Self-entitlement and douchebaggery is the new fad among gamers.
I was just talking about this with my wife before Dinner. I miss the days of waiting for games to come out and being excited to see tid bits of information or new in game pics make its way into gaming mag's. Hell I STILL get excited for when my new issue of Game Informer shows up in the mail just to see what the cover story is.
I think with the BOOM of the internet ALOT of gamers have become VERY impatient with the release of games and would rather take to the internet to start complaining to the masses about delays or systems that don't meet there preference of choice.
Things that I wish would change.
Sick of FPS being the mega hit tittles people look forward to instead of being open to trying new games.
Sick of EVERYONE thinking there a game journalist/reviewer and think THEY have the BEST insight into what people want from gaming.
Sick of every game developer thinking they NEED to shoe horn multiplayer into every single player game just so people don't complain about no online co op.
Also tiered of people complaining there SHOULD be some sort of ONLINE multiplayer. What happened to the good old single player adventure games being enough to hold people over. I know there have been a few but a lot of gamers/journalist take points off from games because THEY feel it could of been BETTER with online multiplayer. Sick of this becoming some sort of selling point for games now.
Point is I just wish we could all go back to the way things were before 7th gen. Hanging out with our friends and talking about the things we love/hate about our favorite games. We need to stop thinking we need to change everything and stat enjoying the thing we love most.
Gaming!
Couldn't agree more.