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Canceled video games that (maybe) could have made history

doom 4

doom 4 canceled

the long-awaited doom 4 was canceled, and instead id Software decided to make a reboot full franchise with Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal (2020). And we should give thanks for the decision they made, because everything pointed to failure. Although the studio had put a lot of effort into the title, and wanted to give it a cinematic focus, the few insiders and journalists who were able to play the preliminary versions of the title they considered him totally lacking in personality. Some even went so far as to say that it looked like Call of Duty.

silent hills

silent hills pt demo

Every time there is a presentation of new video games, ‘Silent Hills’ becomes a Trending Topic. To know the background of this story, we have to go to the year 2014. Konami launches a teaser playable from silent hillsa reboot of the franchise, which has behind two titans of the stature of Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. And if that was not enough, Norman Reedus I was going to be the lead. What could go wrong?

Everything indicates that Konami crossed the line with Kojima a year later, during the development of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Kojima left Konami, and founded Kojima Productions, which he went to work on. Death Stranding. AND Konami for your part withdrew the teaser from the PlayStation store, throwing even more mystery into this dark title.

Nintendo does not cancel games, rather puts them fallow

And what about Nintendo? These are their titles on “stand by”…

Metroid Dread

metroid dread

Like what Metroid Dread? But if she left a few months ago to switch! Yeah, she ended up leaving. But the sequel to Metroid Fusion was canceled a total of two times when you tried to create for nintendo ds. For a time, some journalists had access to the first versions of the game, generating all kinds of rumors about it. Furthermore, it is known that, in 2009, some insiders they were able to play said project, which according to leaks, was graphically identical to Fusionbut for Nintendo’s dual-screen console.

metroid dread ds leak

The project started in 2005, but in 2010, it became known that the development had been canceled. However, in Metroid Prime 3: Corruptionit would be done again reference to said video game.

metroid dread in prime corruption

Shortly after, Sakamoto acknowledged to IGN that the ‘Dread’ project existed, but that this “Metroid 5” was canceled twice because the technology limited the development of the game. This title would put the end point to the character of Samus. The story was so complex that until the Nintendo Switch came out, its creator did not want to resume the project with the support of MercurySteamthe Spanish study that demonstrated a few years earlier to understand the ideas of the Japanese with the launch of Metroid: Samus Returns. If you have played dread on Switch, you’ll understand why the game would not have had the same quality if it had been released for the Nintendo DS. The narrative, the tension of being defenseless and the cinematics are as important as the game itself. gameplay. If you played previous Metroid titles, you can’t miss this one. game that rose from the deadas it is the only one on this list that has survived its cancellation.

Super Mario RPG 2

mario rpg snes

When we talk about Super Mario and RPG in the same sentence, what comes to mind is Paper Mario. Well, said title. It was not the first RPG starring the plumberor else Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Starsa game that was already released on turn-based combat on SNES.

At the time, it was known that Nintendo was working on a sequelbut finally, ended up being canceled. What happened? Well, everything points to the fact that they had a better idea, and They decided to bet it all on Paper Mariomovement that we are not going to criticize at all, because it was one of the best games we could see on Nintendo 64. If we include this game in this top it is because there are recent rumors that Nintendo plans to rescue this project and release it for Nintendo Switch. The reasons could be low sales of Paper Mario: The Origami King. Nevertheless, Intelligent Systems is also not happy with Nintendo. Its directors have already stated that the Big N excessively limits the creative capacity of the studio, resulting in fairly mediocre games.

The Star Wars games that stayed on the dark side

We admit it: we are fans of video games and Star Wars, so we couldn’t help but make a special mention of the following titles… which will never see the light of day.

Star Wars: Project Ragtag

Star Wars: Project Ragtag

Between 2013 and 2017, Electronic Arts and Visceral Games (formerly known as EA Redwood Shores) were developing a linear action star wars title directed by Amy Hennig, the creator of Uncharted.

Little is known about this development other than that it was a complete disaster. According to EA, Visceral did not have the right staff to give the game enough quality. In 2016, a few months after canceling the project, Electronic Arts massively fired a good part of the developers of Visceral, EA Motive and EA Vancouver, who were developing the game in turn. battle front. As if that were not enough, after canceling Project Ragtag, EA also closed Visceral Games.

Star Wars 1313

Star Wars 1313

Do you remember when Disney took over Lucasfilm and announced new movies? So the acquisition ended the development of Star Wars 1313, a title that promised to tell the boba fett adventureswhich would cross the dark underground world that hides under Coruscant.

the game was highly anticipated by the community, but when Disney came to controlthey fired the LucasArts staff that was with the development of this title. According to Disney, this move was made to minimize IP risksand changing to a licensing model —which we later saw was a brilliant move, right? —. Nevertheless, It is not ruled out that this game rises from the ashes as Metroid DreadWell, the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, has once dropped that they continue to think about said project, and recently rumors have resurfaced around this game.

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