Creativity has two clear enemys. On the one hand, the creativity of your coworkers. And for another, el dinero. The confrontation of ideas sometimes produces so much friction and wear and tear that movies, comics and video games can be ruined. And also him audiovisual is another very limiting factor. The creative and the developers work for their work. But the company behind it is looking for money. This tug-of-war sometimes ends up with both parties harmed, as unfinished products go on sale, which do not satisfy either the creators or those who put up the money. However, at other times, developments never come to light. Next, we will show you a few projects that were canceled at the time.
Recent developments for PlayStation that were left in the pipeline
These are some titles for the Japanese platform that went up in smoke.
Agent
A Rockstar Games Sometimes things are also halfway done —and we're not exactly talking about GTA Trilogy, which was nonsense. Agent was going to be a stealth game developed by Rockstar North, which is the same studio that ended up producing Grand Theft Auto V. Unlike other games on this list, the title it was not kept secret, but even It was announced at E3. Development first announced in 2007. and then it was mentioned again at the same event in 2009. It had the sony support, so it looked like it was going to come out exclusively for PlayStation. In the years of 2013 and 2016, Take-Two Interactive renewed the 'Agent' trademark, but we still don't know anything about the development of the game. Finally, at the end of 2018 If that decided to stop renewing the brand, so their permission was withdrawn. We can then consider that the game was cancelled, even though No official confirmation was ever given. with said information.
Doom 4
The long awaited Doom 4 was cancelled, and instead id Software decided to make a reboot complete franchise with Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal (2020). And we must give thanks for the decision they made, because everything pointed to failure. Although the study had put effort into the title, and wanted to give it a cinematic approach, the few Insider and journalists who were able to play the preliminary versions of the title they considered it totally lacking in personality. Some even went so far as to say that it looked like Call of duty.
Silent Hills
Every time there is a presentation of new video games, 'Silent Hills' becomes a Trending Topic. To know the background of this story, we have to go to the year 2014. Konami launches a official teaser playable from Silent Hills, reboot of the franchise, which has behind it two titans the size of Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. And if that was not enough, N I was going to be the main character. What could go wrong?
Everything indicates that Konami crossed the line with Kojima a year later, during the development of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Kojima left Konami, and founded Kojima Productions, which he went to work at. Death Stranding. And Konami on the other hand withdrew the official teaser from the PlayStation store, throwing even more mystery into this obscure title.
Nintendo does not cancel games, rather puts them fallow
And what about Nintendo? These are their titles on "stand by"...
Metroid dread
Like what Metroid dread? But if she left a few months ago to Nintendo Switch! Well yes, she ended up dating. But the sequel to Metroid Fusion was canceled a total of two times when you tried to create for nintendo ds. During a time, some journalists had access to the first versions of the game, generating all kinds of rumors about it. Moreover, it is known that, in 2009, some Insider they were able to play this project, which according to leaked, was graphically identical to Fusion, but for Nintendo's dual screen console.
The project started in 2005, but in 2010, it became known that the development had been canceled. However, in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, one would be made again reference to said video game.
Shortly after, Sakamoto acknowledged to IGN that the 'Dread' project existed, but that this "Metroid 5" got canceled twice because technology limited the development of the game. This title would put the full stop to the character of Samus. The story was so complex that until the Nintendo Switch came out, its creator did not want to resume the project with the support of MercurySteam, the Spanish study that demonstrated a few years before understanding the ideas of Japanese with the launch of Metroid: Samus Returns. If you have played Dread on Switch, you'll understand why the game would not have had the same quality if it had been released for the Nintendo DS. The narrative, the tension of being helpless, and the cinematics are just as important as the game itself. gameplay. If you've played previous Metroid titles, you can't miss this one. game risen from the dead, as it is the only one on this list that has survived its cancellation.
Super Mario RPG 2
When we talk about Super Mario and RPG in the same sentence, what comes to mind is Paper Mario. Well, that title It was not the first RPG starring the plumberor else Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, a game that already released the turn based combat on snes.
At the time, it was known that Nintendo was working on a sequel, but finally, ended up being canceled. What happened? Well, everything indicates that they had a better idea, and they decided to bet everything on Paper Mario, a move that we are not going to criticize at all, because it was one of the best games we could see on Nintendo 64. If we include this game in this top it is because there are recent rumors that Nintendo plans to rescue this project and launch it for Nintendo Switch. The reasons could be low sales of Paper mario: the origami king. However, Intelligent Systems isn't happy with Nintendo either. Its managers have already stated that the Big N excessively limits the studio's creative capacity, resulting in quite mediocre games.
The Star Wars games that stayed on the dark side
We admit it: we are fans of video games and Star Wars, so we could not fail to make a special mention of the following titles... that will never see the light of day.
Star Wars: Project Ragtag
Between 2013 and 2017, Electronic Arts and Visceral Games (formerly known as EA Redwood Shores) were developing a linear action star wars title Directed by Amy Hennig, the creator of Uncharted.
Little is known of this development beyond that it was a complete disaster. According to EA, Visceral did not have the right staff to give the game enough quality. In 2016, a few months after canceling the project, Electronic Arts massively laid off a good part of the developers of Visceral, EA Motive and EA Vancouver, who were also developing the game of Battlefront. As if that were not enough, after canceling Project Ragtag, EA also shut down Visceral Games.
Star Wars 1313
Do you remember when Disney took over Lucasfilm and announced new movies? Well the acquisition ended the development of Star Wars 1313, a title that promised to count the boba fett adventures, which would cross the dark underground world that hides under Coruscant.
the game was highly anticipated by the community, but when Disney came to control, they fired the LucasArts staff that was with the development of this title. According to Disney, this move was made to minimize IP risks, and changing to a licensing model —which we later saw was a brilliant move, right? —. Nevertheless, It is not ruled out that this game will rise from the ashes as Metroid dreadWell, the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, has ever dropped that they are still thinking about said project, and recently rumors have resurfaced around this game.