15 Most Ambitious Games That Have Just VANISHED
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December 18, 2024
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Deep down will never see the light of day, everybody already knows this , its dead and buried
ILL hanst varnished its still in development.
Eight Days game
And I just heard from another outlet that project awakening is supposed to come out this year at some point.
Slitter head, and ill are two I’m hoping for. And pragmata is still on the PS storefront.
Can’t wait for another splinter cell. It’s been so long that I’ll take anything at this point
Ferocious looks like King Kong movie the game.
What controversy? He's entitled to his opinions. Being pro gamergate isn't a controversy. Stop vilifying your own audience
I still want deep down😊
ILL was never even properly announced justt some pre rendered footage which the creator said was inspired by RE games. I really hope it becomes an actual game.
Ooh, i really wish Slitterhead suddenly comes out. Looks pretty great.
I'm still waiting for the "Insanity" for Wii, and "That 90's Arcade Racer".
Pragmata has always had a 'tech demo – but not actual game' vibe to me. its probably phantomware.
Crimson desert is one ive been waiting on for a long time, same with dragon age 4. Think they both almost finished for a 2025 release hopefully.
Cygames just announced recently that PA hasn't been canceled and they're still hard at work on it. Maybe a new gameplay reveal at Sony's next showcase? 🤞
Half of these will never come out kids
I member Deep Down.
I didn't realize that some of these games were in the "vanished" category! I'm so looking forward to some of them!
Deep down was such a missed opportunity, it looked absolutely incredible! I would be so excited if they resurrected the project!
As someone that grew up playing rockstar games it’s so obvious they scrapped agent for grand theft auto 5 content. The whole Michael desantis plot is more than likely the script for agent. Rockstar wouldn’t keep a game back for no good reason, and they wouldn’t wanna flood the market with something that sticks to the wall after throwing shit all day. Probably some tweaks here and there and maybe I’m partially right/wrong, but it sounds likely, you can’t lie.
There was one third-person post-apocalyptic game announced with a trailer back in 2019 or 2020 where a woman is searching for her daughter. The setting was urban and the woman is seen exploring one of the top floors of a building. It had robots or some alien enemy creatures too. We see the woman with a backpack or survival gear. All of a sudden something triggers the buildings to start collapsing and the woman runs for survival to get out. It looked like a decent AAA title.
People in the comments were commenting that devs hired bad animators for character while they were praising the world. I often wonder what happened to that game. Cannot recall the name. Does anyone remember? Trailer was on IGN btw.
Scalebound for me. That would have been the only reason I would have gotten an Xbox One console.
Kotor
I mean, a game can't truly be called "next-gen" if you can play it on current generation's consoles.
Perfect dark was good cuz of tje time it released and was new n fresh.
The new one will be just another fps.
I would guess we see more of slitterhead this summer.
Speaking of Agent and Michel Ancel, was that game WILD ever officially cancelled?
Vigilancer 2099 looks and feels more like a cyberpunk game than Cyberpunk 2077, a small studio can replicate the vibes and atmosphere of Blade Runner that is very remarkable.
Vigilanter looks pretty similar to what Prey 2 was initially going to be but in first person
You forgot Crysis 4.
There was a game that I saw a few years ago and that was supposed to come out last year that looked really good called Aftermath… GONE.
Wheres that one game with the Asian guy with the backpack and the assault rifle in the tower. That game looked amazing.
You didn't need to throw in that "Rare, now owned by Microsoft" bit. They've been owned by Microsoft since Sept 2002. Almost 22 years isn't quite "now" is it??
I don’t think it’s unusual to not hear anything for some time, especially these days given how much longer games take to make. We haven’t heard anything on Insomniac’s Wolverine since announcement, or XBox’s Outer Worlds 2 or Fable (well we saw something from Fable recently but it wasn’t much at all). Or even announced games like Metro 4, Witcher 1 Remake, and many many others that popped up years ago but haven’t seen any updates to the public since. It makes sense and I’d expect updates to come out closer to release. We’re not in the 2-3 year dev cycle anymore. Games easily take 5-8 years it seems now in the triple A space at least and this is why I’d much rather games not announce until much closer to release. Kingdom Come Deliverence nailed it. Announced this year and it’s coming later this year. Perfect amount of time to be hyped but not for the project to be overhyped to the point expectations are out of control.
EverWild I think is the kind of game we need now. However its kinder-gentler world of eco-issues is likely at odds with our current era of Trumpian brutality and crassness. Microsoft, which owns Rare, seems unlikely to make this work. I vote for MS to sell the IP and assets to Dont Nod who recently released Jusant, with much the same art direction as Everwild.
Virtua Tennis!!!…gone
Little Devil Inside is not on your list.
Developer Rare is a mess. Games stuck in development hell.
I hope we will see those games soon
splinter cell remake
beyond good and evil 2
pragmata
Silksong 🤡
Project Awakening is the new Deep Down.
PS4 Exclusive WILD
I was hoping this game was on this list because I could not remember the name of it for nothing Deep Down needs to come out now
What about Hallow Knight Silksong?!?!?!?! 😂
Scalebound.
Wonder if Lost Soul Aside is here
Vigilancer 2099 is still in deep development as they've shifted from UE4 to UE5, no word from developer on it being abandoned.
Project Awakening hasn't been shelved and news has been buzzing around the game the last couple of weeks.