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Starwars Galaxies, pre CU
That’s not cancelled, that’s just a game that was taken down.
There’s a bunch of private servers for it too. My first experience is the game was through one of them and it was pretty great.
I completely forgot private swg servers exist. Maybe I’ll try to find one and give it a try
Man I miss SWG.
I’m hoping the new Dune Awakening game will be good. It gives me some SWG vibes.
Really? I was already planning to check it out, 2 people in my D&D group are going to try it … now I really really want to.
I just hope that PvP is not a requirement. That ruins games.
I don’t know if I’ve seen anyone else compare it to SWG, so it might be hopeful lol.
PvP isn’t supposed to be a requirement afaik. It does sound like it’s more helpful to have people in a party vs playing solo though.
Cancelled or shut down? If you wanted a cancelled game to come out, 99 times out of 100, it was your imagination making it into a great game, and they cancelled it because it wasn’t coming together.
For games that were shut down, for me, it was Robocraft. It was only shut down recently, but the version of the game that I loved from about 2017-ish was basically replaced a year later with a version of the game that I was not a fan of, and it stayed that way until the game’s and studio’s closure. I had to get burned by Robocraft in order to come to some realizations about the rot at the core of live service games, and it informed a lot of where I spend my time and money now.
Cries in Star Wars: Battlefront 3
Scalebound. That open-world Star Wars game. SimsVille
Megaman Legends 3.
“We cancelled it because the fans didn’t show enough interest or act like they wanted it badly enough!”
I think a sizable fraction of the world’s population is still salty about that, and it’s been 14 years.
I’m a battle network fan and never played Legends but I feel for you.
Legends was such a weird series. It felt like a Mega Man take on something like Ocarina of Time.
I should give it a try for sure.
It’s a great trio of games (Legends 1 and 2, and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne) with quite a bit of depth and if you ask me a fantastic art direction for their time. The one thing I will say is that the controls did not age very well. You get used to it after a while. These games predate modern dual-stick movement and aiming and use the shoulder buttons for strafing. I think the Playstation versions are superior due to the increased number of buttons available on the controller.
K.O.L.M.
I sometimes still think about StarCraft: Ghost.
Also not really a whole game, but I hate that CDPR cancelled the multiplayer stuff for Cyberpunk 2077. I was really looking forward to that.
Any sort of sequel to the Tribes series. Talk about a franchise that had, at one point, a massive amount of potential that was completely squandered!
It has momentum (the franchise, not just the gameplay mechanic. Lol) and the visuals and world lended itself to be turned into something with great storytelling of they really wanted to make it into a story as well. Plus, it was fun a hell!
Ascend is technically still online, but any sequel that gets “announced” every one in a while is a lost cause from the start
Mass Effect Andromeda. I absolutely love the game and have played through it multiple times, wishing for DLC. for an expansion of this wonderful universe that I love to explore.
sucks really bad that it will never come back 😔
Concord
Haha, just kidding.
Two come to mind. Hardware Rivals which I got for free on PSN ages ago. The other is Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. I think I was in top 100 N7 rank percentile at one point. I’ve never been good at a multiplayer game since.
The cancelled suite of Alternate Reality games.
Omfg…
Yesssssss. Our entire family loved The Dungeon so much. My father wrote a letter to the developers and got a response, with excited descriptions of upcoming games in the series that never came to be. The producer or developer, or whoever wrote him back was bragging about how the next game would have characters you could actually see while in combat! (E: referring to The Arena)
The Dungeon already sort of gave up on the original design. Philip Price wrote The City and the extension mechanism that things were supposed to plug into, but the new developers who finished The Dungeon didn’t use any of it. So it was a one-way trip… Except you couldn’t actually transfer characters, it was broken. :-/
I went back and played The Dungeon about 15 years ago and I just about cried because it was so fucking bad by modern standards lol
Unreal Tournament series
UE4 movement was buttery smooth
I really am dissapointed in current gaming, thought wed have a game in each genre that supported custom content, like ue would let ppl make their own maps/weapons, etc. everquest landmark for mmo worlds, etc.
maybe with desktop tools being so fleshed out well see better in game tools for creation, tho now I use blender and want more games to support mods and custom content.
PT. Still have it saved on my PS4 I think.
Thrill Kill
Oh damn I remember getting a bootleg copy of this game for PSX!
Star wars 1313 was THE game I was waiting for. Got very sad when it got cancelled.
Also all of the in-progress and for some completed content that just got shelved for Disney infinity because the new management at Disney forgot why games mattered. (Same time when they absolutely gutted lucasarts). Just for them to start from scratch again a few years later when they realised they still need a videogame presence. Which makes the losses of what could have been hurt more.
