Vaporware/cancelled games you were looking forward to

[Martok]

For me, it was a PC strategy title called Stars! Supernova Genesis (http://wiki.gible.net/index.php/Stars!_Supernova_Genesis) (or SSG for short).

It was to be a sequel to Stars!, a game which is generally considered a staple of the space 4x sub-genre. SSG was going to keep most of the gameplay of the original, but with updated graphics, artwork, ship design, and AI. Having (at the time) recently discovered my love for space strategy games, I'd eagerly anticipated this one in the worst way: The screenshots were pleasant to the eye, the discussions regarding the AI were encouraging, the planned included features were tantalizing, and (perhaps most importantly of all) the developers were clearly very enthusiastic about the project.


And then it was cancelled.

(Actually, "abandoned" would probably be a more accurate term. Apparently the publisher suddenly lost interest in the game, and the developers were unable to find a new publisher before they ran out of funds.)

Oh, how my heart broke. It was one of the first games I came across that had me absolutely slavering with anticipation....but my hopes for it were cruelly dashed in the end. ~:mecry:



So what about the rest of you? What games were you looking forward to that eventually got canned and/or turned into vaporware? Share your sorrows with us; let us hear your tale of woe!

[Beskar]

Stalker, pre-THQ cuts with the ability to host your game as a server on one player, able to do co-op, have people join you, compete against you, etc

[rajpoot]

Microsoft's Mythica. The only MMORPG I was ever remotely interested in.

[Ethelred Unread]

Elite 4 - a new version of the title that got me gaming originally on the ZX Spectrum in the 80's. Yeah i know about EVE online but it's not the same.

I've got a sneaking suspicion though that nothing will compare to the original though (or even Frontier).

[al Roumi]

Not sure if this counts as Vaporware as it may never have had a budget planned but: SMAC2, or to the uninitiated - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri II.

[aimlesswanderer]

Jagged Alliance 3, which seems to have disappeared somewhere along the way.

[Gregoshi]

Babyon 5: Into the Fire is the one that comes to mind. I would have sucked at it (like I do with all joystick games), but oh, my Starfury would have exploded gloriously to a new score written by the TV show's composer Christopher Franke and cutscenes done by the series' actors. I would have died a thousand deaths though to advance into the game far enough to command a capital ship. B5 had great ship physics which would have been fun to play. Earthforce capital ships were beautiful in an ugly kind of way. The worst part of it all is it was just a few months away from release when cancelled.

Here's some gameplay footage:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTyQAB1NPo

[Fragony]

Fatal Frame for the Wii, it was released in Japan but for some reason they canned the US/Euro release

[Kekvit Irae]

Dawn. Seriously, how could you NOT love loading player-controlled fetuses into a catapult and using them as siege ammo?

[TinCow]

Baldur's Gate 3. Well, I wasn't really "looking forward" to it because I didn't know it was planned until a couple weeks ago, but apparently the original idea was to make the Throne of Bhaal portion a complete third game, not just an expansion pack. That's a lot of great content we lost.

[Monk]

KOTOR 3 - certainly rumors were flying around in regards to another Kotor as soon as the week after KOTOR 2 hit, but Bioware created a huge buzz when they announced numerous "project setbacks" some years ago. Among the list of games shelved was, you guessed it, an ambiguously titled "Kotor 3". In the years since many have suggested that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be the faithful continuiation of the KOTOR series and will be the third installment we were all waiting for, but as someone who is burned out on MMOs I can't help but wonder what a game in the same genre as the original could have done. (one that wasn't developed by the black-hole of talent that is Obsidian, i mean.)

The Flash: The Video Game - Super hero games are always hard to do right, largely due to the source material and how much effort goes into them. The Flash was always one of my favorite DC superheroes, and when i learned that not only a game was being mad ebut it was already canceled made me very sad. The extremely early in game footage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrtwUQXuSXY) held a lot of promise (despite the relatively unrefined state). According to what rumor there is, the publisher funding the game tanked and the project indefinitely suspended. Que sera sera. ~:(, i guess.

Aliens: Colonial Marines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens:_Colonial_Marines) - Sega intended to make 2010 the year of their attempts to revive the Alien and Predator game franchises with two games lined up for release, the average in all ways Alien Versus Predator (AvP), developed by Rebellion, and Colonial Marines developed by Gearbox. In development for nearly four years, Colonial Marines (CM) was set to be faithful to the second movie in the franchise and follow a squad of marines as they landed on an infested colony. CM was always notoriously quiet in regards to news, but when AvP hit a flurry of news on CM hit the gaming news sites and did the rounds including screens and plot info. But after a no show at E3 this year and so little said over the course of so long, fans have very little info to go on. Despite Sega promising a 2010 release to Kotaku, Gearbox still claims the release TBA (http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/games/aliens/).

[Vuk]

Deep Cover. I would have loved to see what that turned out to be.

[Vuk]

Look at these... (http://www.somethingstrange.com/ttlg/deepcover/)

[Fragony]

Completely forgot about that one, but yeah

[_Tristan_]

Van Buren, continuation of the Fallout universe... Should have been a lot more fun than FO3