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What's a cancelled game you really miss? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Scalebound. That open-world Star Wars game. SimsVille

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Steambot Chronicles 2 and Maximo 3. I can’t believe they never finished the Maximo story. It’s such a good hack and slash collectathon of the PS2 era.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Infinite Crisis. This was a MOBA based on DC comics. It’s the game that got me into the genre and had some very cool alternate takes on some of the DC characters. Sadly it had a lot of balance problems and other issues causing it to close down after only 6 months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is before my time but I remember reading about a canceled movie tie-in game for Star Trek: First Contact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

GunZ

StarCraft Broodwar (need to make a Blizzard account now apparently)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My word, I remember playing this when I was a teenager (and I'm in my mid-30s now).

I remember doing all those trick movements, the slash and dash, wall climbs, weapon switching for quick dash etc.
Then several months into playing, I found out people were using macros for those instead of... Pressing all the keys manually...
My hands hurt so much until that discovery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Very small minority use macros. You can watch videos of people playing and watch their keystrokes on both physical keyboard and virtual. I recommend kujo on YouTube.

But yeah, very nice memories indeed. Apparently, it's making a comeback on Steam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's a blast from the past. Thanks for the shout!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

True Fantasy Live Online. It sounded amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Chromehounds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hellraid looked like it was going to be an awesome spooky fantasy game but then they turned it into a shitty dying light dlc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Star Wars 1313 and Battlefront 3.

And for books it's the unfinished Republic/Imperial Commando series by Karen Traviss

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Last of Us Factions 2, even though it never came out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

C&C Generals 2, they got canceled and then made in to a mobile game. I considerd staying 10 hours in line to try it out at gamescom in köln 10-12 years ago, decided to get drunk instead.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

64dd, specifically earthbound 64

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Limit Theory. Quite the ambitious space simulator being developed by one dude. I recall seeing their dev log videos on youtube.

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