Cancelled Games

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Originally Posted by Vasteel

One that I still wish made it out was the DC Chakan sequel. Those character designs and what they claimed they were aiming for in gameplay just looked so dope.

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There were numerous attempts to ressurect that project on Xbox and PC, too. Guess it wasn't meant to be.

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Originally Posted by voltz

Nah, it was 30fps.

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It looked pretty sweet, but AI was pretty crappy. The guy ran right past the Aliens and they just stood there.

They probably canned it because of the arcade-style experience that was presented in this game. You know how bad home ports from arcades were right? None of those companies ever wanted us to have that. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!

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Castlevania Ressurection





And what the hell Castlevania game is this?!

http://www.actiontattoos.com/castlevania/shin2.jpg

http://www.actiontattoos.com/castlevania/shin1.jpg

-edit- Just a hoax

I stumbled on an interesting cancelled game I had never heard of called TomCat. It was a 3D multiplayer flight combat game (in the same genre as, say, WingWar or Propeller Arena), made by Atari in 1983. It had multiple cabs networked and players could face off against each other. Atari got into financial trouble and were never able to finish it, and eventually scrapped it, but it's an interesting bit of history.

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Originally Posted by Tsubaki

I just don't understand why certain projects are developed to/almost to completion and then are dropped. Certainly there are some bad games out there. But then there are some like Propeller Arena that are pretty much fully developed, had trailers, previews, REVIEWS, and everything but never came out.

What the heck? It doesn't cost them anything to print the discs and have people throw them money.

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Incidentally, this happens because publishers conduct ongoing cost/risk analyses of the games they bankroll, and if at some point they feel that not releasing the game will cost them less than releasing the game, they'll cancel it, even if it's at the last minute. If a game is never released they can write off all the money they spent on it as R&D cost on their income tax and get a break on it. If they release the game they can't use the cost against their income tax, so they'd rather save money by not releasing potentially poorly selling games at all.

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Originally Posted by Josh

Princess Maker 2 for the PC.

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For real.

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Originally Posted by outRider

Incidentally, this happens because publishers conduct ongoing cost/risk analyses of the games they bankroll, and if at some point they feel that not releasing the game will cost them less than releasing the game, they'll cancel it, even if it's at the last minute. If a game is never released they can write off all the money they spent on it as R&D cost on their income tax and get a break on it. If they release the game they can't use the cost against their income tax, so they'd rather save money by not releasing potentially poorly selling games at all.

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That's basically what happened to Half-Life for the DC.

Man, I remember wanting Starfox 2 so bad.

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Originally Posted by Daitokuji

And what the hell Castlevania game is this?!

http://www.actiontattoos.com/castlevania/shin2.jpg

http://www.actiontattoos.com/castlevania/shin1.jpg

-edit- Just a hoax

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It's Shin Dracula X. I provided the info/pics to Gamefan back in the day as Kevin and ECM (lol) can attest to.