ITT: Retro games that were planned and/or cancelled

>>11897048 (OP)
>planned and/or cancelled
I want to see the list of games that were cancelled without ever being planned

Thrill Kill

Starcraft Ghost

>>11897048 (OP)
>No Phantasy Star V

>>11897251
Would've saved that one 5th gen console I'm sure

Star Fox 2

>>11897253
The CD-i? For sure.

Snatcher 2

>>11897092
Every game anons on here talked about making when they were in highschool

>>11897092
My childhood dream game

>>11897048 (OP)
Meowth's Party

before final fantasy squaresoft were working on a game called Seiken Densetsu: The Emergence of Excalibur.
it kept running into problems and getting delayed, so eventually they cancelled it despite being pretty deep in and switched all work onto final fantasy.
so it turns out that the mana series was almost here first.

>>11897092
Meanwhile every retro game was planned at some point

>>11897531
Early square seemed to be a fucking mess. FF4 was originally going to be FF5 and FF5 was supposed to be a famicom game but got scrapped and remade.

there was the original final fantasy iv.
at the time when it was cancelled sakaguchi claimed that barely any work was done on it, but later on he admitted that the game was nearly complete and it's one of the things he's ashamed he lied about.

>>11897048 (OP)
I wonder about the Sonic 1 port to the Sega CD. It was worked on enough to be shown at CES(?) but was obviously cancelled in favor of Sonic CD. I don't really care about the game itself, but more so the soundtrack. I wonder if it was gonna be remixed (maybe using the demo tapes?) or if it was just a direct port with nothing added.

>>11897534
Only the ones with artificial difficulty. The ones with organic free range difficulty weren't

>>11897531
That artwork you poisted is by Haruhiko Mikimoto most likely, good shit. Didn't know about that
>>11897540
This is pretty interesting too but wtf, FF3 came out in 1990, why start working on another bigass game when the SFC is right around the corner

>>11897181
Still hurts

Axelay 2

American Technos planned on turning the entire Kunio Kun series into "Crash 'n' the Boys" in the west, it just never happened. Street Challenge and this teaser at the end is all that remain.

>>11897048 (OP)
Duality, an FPS with light immersive sim elements by Double Aught, the developers of Marathon: Infinity. Could have been amazing if they got it out circa 98-99 as originally planned. The game engine used a portal-based system for level design, and levels were made even more complicated and dimension-breaking than anything in Marathon: Infinity.

>>11897540
If true, I dont get why Square, or any of these companies for that matter, wouldnt just release these games now. They would be making bank on something that 99% of the work is already done on. It seems like such an obvious thing to do, but its done so rarely.

>>11897181
>>11897251
Shantae (GameCube)

>>11897310
Also, wasn’t PSIV originally supposed to be a Sega CD?

>>11897563
Damn, when I was looking at the pic, I was like, that looks damn good, I'm sold on the game from that pic alone, looks just like Mikimotomeister, but nah, it couldn't be...

>>11897638
Even more because it would have been a game with the SC1 artstyle, before they went full Warcraft style.

>>11897474
What exactly am I looking at here?

>>11897048 (OP)
https://www.unseen64.net/2020/06/07/gruesome-castle-gee-whiz-mystery-club-cancelled/

They released a tech demo of it on PC which was kind of fun to play but very empty.

>>11900384
>>11897540
They could've released it under a non-FF name but I assume consumers would catch onto this game being "the real FF4" and possibly undermine the real one they'd have in mind to take advantage of SNES tech

>>11900308
>levels were made even more complicated and dimension-breaking than anything in Marathon: Infinity
Jesus fucking christ this would have been terrible

>>11901329
>he doesn't appreciate the joy of being lost in surreal landscapes in Yume Nikki/2kki

>>11897048 (OP)
>Kabuki: Quantum Fighter 2
That would have been cool.

>>11897048 (OP)
Cyberdreams unmade games are interesting.
>an resident evil style game with wes craven
>an rpg with Gary gygax
>an adaption of the film species.

>>11901193
Interview with Masaki Takei about plans for elf's Doukyuusei 3

>>11897048 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpLeyVjXIs

>>11901965
They should have released this version on the GBA, DS or PSP.

>>11902930
>GBA

Would've looked like and sounded like ass

>DS

Also would've looked like ass and would've had a terrible gimmick to go with it.

>PSP

Might've looked and sounded good, but at this point, why would they release it?

>>11900384
Probably a combination of "hard-sell to bother going through the online distribution channels for a curio" and "free resource to reuse ideas from for games that they actually intend to release."

>>11902991
Have you seen the GBA port of Rayman 1? If they can do that in GBA this would be more than manageable on DS

>>11902771
SOVL
Shame it never happened

>>11902771
>There some alternate reality were ff actually had a continuity starting with 6
Also Terra has a nice ass

>>11901965
https://youtu.be/D-SkcE7OBWg

>>11902930
theres a rayman 2 on gbc but it re-uses rayman 1 gbc soundtrack

rayman 3 gba has some rayman 2 elements

>>11900431
Looks fake

>>11897048 (OP)

>>11908174
big titty ancient egyptian woman spotted

>>11897181
Warcraft Adventure

>>11897474
>>11901825
FUUUUCCKKK!!!! Doukyuusei series is my favorite dating sim games.
I remember there was an option to ask an NPC about Doukyuusei 3 in Dragon Knights 4 Windows version.
Don't know what they say because my Japanese is very limited, at least I recognized the Doukyuusei 3 word.

>>11908174
Where do you go after the Immortal King for the Egyptian earth?

>>11907283
What we got in Quake still let a massive mark in gaming still

>>11900291
This game was our Smash Bros back in the day

>>11903141
>>11902771
>The original premise was basically Sonic Chronicles with redrawned Final Fantasy 6 characters
This doesn't sit well with me

>>11908178
She's looking down. Im going to pretend she was a giantess boss.

>>11900308
I really like this art style. Reminds me of Panzer Dragoon Saga.