titan fall 2. never actually got to appreciate it because by the time i found it the server matching was completely broken. all they need to do is allow private servers and the game would be playable. makes no damn sense.
What's a cancelled game you really miss?
Submitted 2 months ago by droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s playable now on vanilla servers, but the North Star client also exists, pilot.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
interesting if true
CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fur me, it works be Beyond Good and Evil. I really wanted to see where the story went next
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The StarCraft FPS.
I’m still mad about it.
rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 months ago
City of Heroes, everything by Atari Games, the Wizardry series, the Ultima series, many others. I’m old, and I remember some of the games, and developers, we’ve lost.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
City of Heroes
Are you aware of the legit servers running right now? I’ve been playing off and on for a few years now, and they keep adding stuff / fixing bugs!!
rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve heard of them, I might consider trying one someday, but the research and effort to set it up is an obstacle. Plus I don’t run Windows any more, and I don’t even know what Linux support for it is like.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Your comment made me finally get around to setting up Homecoming (hooray WINE!) and I just got to the character creation screen… I haven’t played since before it went to free to play what is all of this stuff? Oh well, I’m sure I’ll feel like I’ve come home once I’m running sewers, lol.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 months ago
Lawbreakers was my favorite, high skill floor and ceiling games are my favorite. I wish ppl gave it a chance past its artstyle but matchmaking was rouh with barely anyone and the best players were insanely raw because of that high skill ceiling, high floor made it hard to catch up or feel good in early games I think.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I gave it a chance, and I remember the objective design being different for the sake of it to the point of being worse. They had a capture the flag mode involving charging a battery, but it could be charged to 99% at one base and then scored at the other base at the last second, making everything except the final play meaningless. It had a point control mode, but the points were only active in certain intervals, creating a real stop and go feeling that made the inactive periods as meaningless as the aforementioned first 99% of CTF.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Guns of Icarus, my beloved.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Obligatory “fuck Notch” but I really liked the idea of 0x10c when it was announced.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
You mean Mars Effect?
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Omg, i had completly forgotten about that one! I recall being so hyped about it…
justsquigglez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If we’re talking straight up cancelled, then I will forever be sad that Scalebound was cancelled.
I’m sure it wasn’t going to be as great as I was hoping anyways, but damn the concept looked so cool, and when I saw a dude with headphones jamming out to music fighting with his dragon buddy I was like “I want to be that!” Like it felt like that game was being made especially for me and my interests, and then it got cancelled 😔
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d like to play around with whatever alpha build they made for the original concept of Team Fortress 2.
I love the one that came out (it’s probably my most played game of all time), but those first few screenshots before retooling were captivating when we’d already been waiting so long for the release.
brot@feddit.org 2 months ago
I remember those screenshots in the mags back in the day. Yes, I want to play that version, too - and the tank and heli looked so cool back then!
vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There was a demo reel of the spy as well that was incredible. I played untold hours of tfc. It is likely what made me a intellimouse fan (thumb buttons for both grenade types?! It was the future).
I truly miss conc grenades. There has never been a more versatile weapon in a game.
hitagi@ani.social 1 month ago
Dota Underlords
omarfw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I miss firefall. It was very innovative and enormous. The devs were trying new ideas in the alpha all the time.
GusTheBard@midwest.social 1 month ago
I never played that game, but I was about to… I literally installed it, but didn’t play it, and it got canceled and shut down very shortly after. (I was a bit out of the loop, I guess)
I still have it late in my Steam library, so I think about it a decent bit
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 month ago
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The Original Lawn Darts. Life is no fun without a bit of risk.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex First Assault
All due to capitalism ruining things as usual…
XM34@feddit.org 2 months ago
Hellraid! God damnit, I was so ready for a first pirson action dungeon crawler in the style of Dying Light 😥
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Blacklight Retribution was pretty great. I aged quite early in its lifespan, during an event which gave me a special nameplate - nothing more than a participation trophy, and at the time, loads of.people used it.
Signed in a few years later to.play a few rounds, and some guy begged me to let them use my account because of that now-rare nameplate.
(I also had an extremely cool helmet and some seriously powerful guns I got for free in that game’s equivalent of a lootbox)
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Concord
Haha, just kidding.
Vopyr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Silent Hills, it would have been interesting to see what Kojima and Guillermo del Toro would have created… but unfortunately.
Also Starcraft Ghost, the original Fallout 3, Fez 2, Mother 3 on N64, Legacy of Kain the sixth game (not Dead Sun/Nosgoth), the original Duke Nukem Forever, and probably a bunch of others that I can’t remember right now.
SexDwarf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And Junji Ito! It would’ve been epic.
Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 2 months ago
For me it’s Defiance but good thing some studio got rights to game and they going to bring back server soon.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think that was the only full price I’ve bought digitally, because my friend and I wanted to game share and play together.
MMO shooter seems like an undeserved concept. Buy I guess you have the scope of Defiance with the polish of an MMO. Or you have the scope of Destiny and the polish of a normal shooter.
Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 2 months ago
I have even more funny story I bought Defiance in PS3 then 2 weeks later game went F2P 🤣
slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never played the game, but was sad when the show got cancelled.
illi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Thattruly is a story I didnot see coming. I’m interested in where it will go
skribe@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Babylon 5: Into the Fire. Killed just months before release after a corporate restructure. The closest we got was some Freespace mods.
sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The Cycle: Frontier. It was a pvpve extraction shooter that had such potential. Struggled to keep cheaters at bay, but it felt like they were making progress until one day they announced they were shutting down. Every month or two someone in our group chat brings it up and we’re collectively sad that it’s gone.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Star Wars galaxies
Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Orcs Must Die Unchained. Pretty good game overall, was trying to be a league of legends type of game with 3D TD, it didn’t get a player base going, so they swapped it over to a solo game, the maps were fun as hell and picking through 10+ characters was fun, it was really dynamic and the endless mode was very fun to push. They ended all support, it’s offline. Sucks. OMD 3 came out, it’s not even a quarter the game. Theirs 4 different player characters, they are all humans. All enemies are orcs or other bad guy type of mobs, unchained had human enemies and a few other variations, there’s no where near the number of maps and most maps play in a really predictable way. In Unchained there were maps you needed to build a kill box, sell it, move it, all to get one wave killed, at least on the first few waves, anyway. It almost scratches the itch, not not well. I’m honestly perplexed on why they didn’t just include the characters and maps from unchained.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I thought that game came out?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was a must have online servers game and they stopped all support, so it’s gone, canceled, over. Idk. That’s the way I think of it at least.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Culling
Before the devs ruined it by throwing away the movement and combat system.
homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There’s a lot of games being mentioned here that had a full run. Let’s talk about an actually cancelled game - SkySaga: Infinite Isles. Block game in the vein of Portal Knights that was extremely inspired.
The gameplay loop consisted of using “Keys” on a portal at your home island that would randomly generate a floating island with various objectives on it and a boss, all of which was harvestable for materials and blocks to build with back on your home island. There was a social hub city island everyone could access that alowed access to PvP and a few types of guilds with various combat, gathering, and exploration quests. Crafting was pretty good, allowing you to use metals with various properties to mix and match your own gear - some metals did more damage or applied an elemental effect, some had quicker swing speed, some were durable as armor and others not so much but they increased movespeed or jump height.
The game had about a dozen beta access phases then dropped off the face of the earth, with the server (and how it worked) lost forever. Completely lost to time, cancelled before it could release proper. No other block game has come close to the kind of structural appeal it had for me, and I think about it frequently. There’s a few reverse engineering projects in the works but they are stagnant.
I love a lot of the games in this thread but they had an actual release and real servers, you could play them for multiple years. Some others promised a bit more than they delivered, and were cut a bit short by EA or other trash publishers. SkySaga was killed before launch and placed in an opaque prison, truly cancelled.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 months ago
True Fantasy Live Online looked like it would have been amazing.
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 month ago
EverQuest next
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you playing Pantheon?
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not familiar, I was really hopeful for a lot of systems that were described in EQN
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Prey 2
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Silent Hills