Use code ERUPTION50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/3j2qIdS! What are some cancelled video games you were looking forward to? I didn't bring it up in the video cause there's barely anything, but Mistwalker's Cry On remains a big mystery and hole in my heart.

I always watch a new Austin video to see how he can awkwardly force a reference to how he watches anime into every video

Worth noting with Dinosaur Planet, fans are working to fix up the prototype and make it more of a complete game

On a somewhat related note of canceled games becoming playable, "Shantae 2" is apparently getting a proper release now. Yeah, the GBA one that got canceled after the first sold terribly. WayForward confirmed recently that they are scrounging up all their work from back then and finishing it, with some additional modern day improvements, to be released next year as "Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution". A new GBA release in 2024...go figure. I guess with how much the series has blown up in popularity, five entries and even an assist trophy spot in "Smash" for what that's worth, it's a successful and beloved series now. So why not? Funnily, despite it technically being the sixth released entry, it's still chronologically the "Shantae 2" as it was originally meant to be. So it fills in some gaps between "Shantae" and "Shantae: Risky's Revenge". It's like uncovering a missing chapter to a cult classic book, kind of wild. Especially since I just finished playing the entire franchise for the first time through the PS5 ports, so I'm especially interested.

Mega Man Legends 3's cancellation deeply upsets me to this day :(

Prey 2 is one that still hurts to this day. The reboot that Arkane did could've been an original ip without using the Prey name. I still view Bethesda in a negative light after their sabotage of it.

That Miyamoto knowledge is truly cursed

A canceled game that will always be on my mind is Mother 3 N64, AKA Earthbound 64. While most canceled games are considered to be Holy Grails to some, I consider Earthbound 64 to be more a Lost Covenant because as soon as that game gets leaked, all hell will break loose (Probably)

I think Thrill Kill's Adults Only rating partially came out of its story - some of the endings show/imply stuff like a guy running an unsanitary meat factory killing the inspector and selling his meat to the public, or a dominatrix that kills her husband and sister for having an affair.

It always hurts when I hear about scalebound, I don't think I've ever been as excited for a game when I was younger as when I saw the trailer for this game

for the longest time, I didn't know Star Wars Battlefront 3 was a thing and when I found out about it and that it was canceled I got upset and never got un-upset about the situation. I hope whoever has the almost complete Star Wars Battlefront 3 sitting on a hard drive USB or wherever releases it to the public someday because I would play the shit out of that in a heartbeat.

I think Miyamoto really dropped the ball with Starfox Adventures, I honestly believe that if Rare had released Dinosaur Planet on the N64 it would have been a huge hit. This is coming from someone who freaking loves Starfox Adventures too.

For the PlayStation 3 side of things, there are cancelled games (that have owners, but are not preserved), such as Aero-Cross, Football Genius, and Don't Be Late. For PlayStation 4, there is Racers: Dirt. What's interesting about Don't Be Late is it's a Macross Frontier disc, that has only one known owner, was released around 2013, and has absolutely no documentation or articles surrounding its existence.

Love that the Diehard game used the entire bullet and casing for the slow motion. That's like, 75% more bullet per bullet.

A little surprised you didnt mention Sunman being worked on by Kenji Eno (even though you did show a frame or two of the credit). Kenji Eno, for those of you who dont recognize the name, was the main creative force being D, Enemy Zero and D2 alongside a bunch of really unique Japanese exclusive stuff.

Right before the collapse of 3D0, they were working on a grimdark-like game called The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I would've loved to see more of that. In any case, I suppose the Darksiders saga is the spiritual successor to that.

Two cancelled games that I was looking forward to the most were Full Throttle 2 Hell on Wheels and Sam & Max Freelance Police, both of them being follow ups to a couple of beloved LucasArts adventure games. Even if Full Throttle 2 would have been inferior to the original (with that being the main reason for it's cancellation) and even though Sam & Max's cancellation led to the creation of Telltale Games, I'd love to be able to play a leaked build of these two games.

Castlevania Resurrection is a good one to be covered Originally for the Dreamcast (a build leaked in recent years) Got picked back up for development before Konami rebooted the franchise with the Lords Of Shadows timeline at which point they shelved it again

Correction : What you call a texture glitch in DNF wasn't. Duke's texture looked like that because it wasn't completed so it looks like what it's supposed to. There is supposedly a build from a year later that was even closer to completion that unfortunately didn't get released, if it exists. Also Randy Pitchford calling Duke a Greasy Hamburger is like the pot calling the kettle black.

My favourite leaked prototypes are always from the Sega Dreamcast, just because their always a prototype of a game nobody had heard of before the prototype was dumped online, but something many people are very interested in because it looked really cool or is from a major franchise. From Castlavania: Resurrection to Simpsons: Bug Squad!, almost every Dreamcast leak is so cool. Half-Life on Dreamcast is awesome, the only home console port of Half-Life: Blue Shift & the second only home console port of the main Half-Life itself. The game was practically finished with some bugs left in the build that we have online, but all the content is there & it's all really good, even keyboard & mouse support & rumble pak support! It has unique features like the keyword combination that can unlock secrets & cheats to mess around with like in GTA, & removed content from the final build of Blue Shift can be found scattered around! Unfortunately the company making the game actually went out of business because of this, since this was the only project they worked on & spent all of their funds on it & then Valve had it cancelled, leaving them bankrupt. Propeller Arena is another great game that was slated to release at a very bad time & lead to the cancellation. It's an aerial combat / dogfighting game with multiplayer & NPC battles. Many different maps, references & good gameplay made the game actually really fun to play! This DOES have it's final build online, since the game was cancelled mere days before it was to release, & it was cancelled because the game was going to release the same week 911 happened, & since there was a city map in the game, they figured it would be best to cancel the game to avoid controversy. It is a genuinely phenomenal experience that got destroyed by a tragic event. Interestingly, this was a 1st party game being made by Sega. Ecco The Dolphin 2: Sentinels of the Universe is another one we have online, although in an extremely rough state that barely functions. It was going to be a sequel to Ecco: Defender of the Future, however it's development stretched on a while after the Dreamcast was killed off, & they decided due to the decline in interest in the franchise & the fact they'd be releasing a Dreamcast game in 2002-2003, they canned it. What there is is pretty cool, although again most of it is unplayable or reused from Defender of the Future. Still, it's a project that could've been so cool that got cut short. Simpsons: Bug Squad! is a licensed game, yes, but it's also really cool & was found in a super lucky chance. The game would've been similar to Jet Grind Radio of all things, with shell-shading & big maps to explore, however the prototype online only contains parts of the Simpsons' house. It was found completely by chance though, someone had purchased a broken Dreamcast Dev-Kit they planned on using for parts, & while looking through the files on the hard drive before wiping it, he stumbled upon the prototype of the game. Turns out there was a story behind it, the company that made the prototype was Red Lemon Studios, & this was actually a concept for a game they wanted to develop for Dreamcast. Supposedly, Fox liked it but stated the fact it was for Dreamcast was unfavourable & didn't greenlight the project. It's a pretty rough build, but also a really interesting build & very unique for a licensed game & a Simpsons game. I could go on & on, Internet Game Pack, Daytona USA 2, Virtua Golf, etc. but you get the point. Some of the most interesting cancelled projects reside on the Dreamcast.

With the recent announcement of South Park's new 3D multiplayer game, which kinda reminds me of the OG N64/PS1 FPS, this topic reminds me of the unannounced cancelled open world SP game that was suddenly found in an XBox Dev kit some years ago. It was almost like Simpsons Hit and Run but based on South Park. And while it was finished (and recently dumped on-line), a Game Boy Color puzzle game themed after the show had its release cancelled because the show's creators found unappropriate that a game based on a TV-MA rated show would be made for a handled mainly aimed at a much younger audience. EDIT: the latter was featured on the video very early on so that's neat XD

Also, you should do a follow-up video on specific topics of leftovers, scrapped, and unreleased titles for Sega Genesis games. There's like a whole lot of them. One of them being is X-Women: The Sinister Virus (It was made by Clockwork Tortoise: A rebrand of Zyrinx.)

As a fan of Star Fox and _Golden Age_ Rare, Miyamoto couldn't have made a worse call with Dinosaur Planet. Also just a clip of Dead Sun hits in the feels. RIP Legacy of Kain.

If there is one canceled game I kind of want it would be this weird sega game called clockwork knight 3 and maybe oddworld Munich’s exodus!

I worked with someone who was a producer for Star Wars Battlefront 3 and I always chuckle whenever people mention what couldve been. She was like "we cancelled it because it sucked and it wasnt fun. If it released you all wouldve hated it." I did see recently that a few devs had mentioned they missed working on it and think it wouldve been great, but part of me wonders if they think it wouldve been great based on stuff they couldnt get working, or ideas they never made happen.

From what i understand, a lot of the plot points and canon that would've taken place in Starcraft Ghost was moved over and reworked into what we got in the optional Starcraft 2 Nova Covert Ops mission packs. At least there was some small faction of people working at Blizzard that wanted to make this happen!

So it's Miyamoto's fault erotic Krystal signatures were everywhere on the internet in the 2000s.

Can we also pay our respects to “Jazz Jackrabbit 3D”? Poor old Jazz never had the chance to jump into the third dimension. There should be a prototype floating somewhere.

I think the DNF prototype is the greasy burger, and the DNF we got is more like a Mr. Beast burger, big and greasy for sure, but definitely undercooked.

‘All your base are belong to us’ comes from the bad translation of the mega drive game ‘zero wing’

I feel bad for them making the cancelled games too, they put a lot of time into it only for them to not matter...

Fun-fact: Sonic Xtreme's ENTIRE conceptual soundtrack was finished and can be listened on KZfaq. And considering how much of a banger Space Queens is, that hurts.

you know you're early when a video literally says "1 view" (which I doubt. but KZfaq plays catch up.. VERY slowly)

These examples are more polished than most AAA titles released nowadays

Starcraft Ghost's cancellation still hurts. I had it pre ordered and knew a guy who got to try a demo for it at Blizzcon. Wish we got that 2000 version of Duke Nukem Forever. I prefer the Half Life style for FPS games unlike most these days that just keep copy pasting Doom/Quake. Die Hard 64 looked cool, might've been better than the GameCube one. Heck, probably better than Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza for the pc. That XXX game looked fun, forgot that movie even exists. I remember the Riddick films and games though. For me, I'm disappointed we didn't get a sequel to The Punisher 2005 game from Volition. An open world improved version of the original sounds awesome. Oh and the cancelled sequel to Black and Timesplitters 4. Plus the cancelled sequel for Turok 2008. What could've been...

Based Austin coming to the rescue with dinnertime KZfaq content once again, I'm eatin good tonight, thanks Edit: as one of the prime Starcraft nerds, seeing the "Starcraft: Ghost" as the related game under the video hurts me on a personal level. I was looking forward to that game like no other when the screenshots and loose talk was floating around. :(

Bio Ape looks nuts, how the hell were the programmers able to get smooth scrolling that fast on an NES?

Aw yeah, an Austin video to watch during a chill Sunday Lunch

Imagining Austin playing True Fantasy Online Whatever MMO but alone years after, a few generations later, is both hilarious and sad. Just "Yo its me Austin" and.. nobody answers lol.

I’ve always found cancelled media more interesting than what came out. I guess that’s just because of how little we know about most cancelled games and movies

I feel like maybe he doesn't realize torc is a pun on Torque (the measure of force that can cause an object to rotate about an axis).. because as awesome as Kill Wheel is you gotta go with the pun

God I wish StarCraft: Ghost was a thing that happened. An action stealth/shooter taking place in the StarCraft universe, playing as a Ghost, being able to hang upside down from overhead pipes and snipe enemies...being multiplatform on PC, ps2, Xbox, and even GameCube! I'm bitter/depressed guys, it could've been great.😢

Primal rage 2 actually has a fully finished release that you can play on a technically official arcade cabinet in Galloping Ghosts arcade. The owner managed to get his hand on an unfinished arcade board of the game, and then had people finish the game.

I just came to see my boy Thrill Kill being shown here, wasn't disappointed. Dude, I remember buying a multitap for 4 player games just to play this amazing game. Perfect game for a 14 year old.

I will always remember GamePro describing Toejam and Earl 3 as ‘Toejam and Earn do so much crazy crap your head finna explode in a big mess’

I always remember when I was little I had a comic that had an ad for a game based on Police Academy: The Animated Series for the NES. And you know...that's the last I heard of that. Then I grew up and found out it got cancelled, which is incredible. It got far enough to have ads for it but it still got pulled. Can you do that? Yes. Yes you can. I don't know that we missed a classic or anything, but if it was at all possible I'd like to play that myself.

I have been trying to find Thrill Kill for YEARS Nobody believed me when I told them there was a fighting game where a monster shoved an old woman into a mail box - thank you

I would never have thought it was "Tiny Tunes", but my Berenstain moment was just now that it is "Toon" instead of "Toons"

I love how you actually put one of the results you found for Vin Diesel XXX into the video. That clip was noticed and noted 😉

Was literally rewatching some of your videos and I now stumble across this!

One game that comes to mind that never got realized is the original, team based, almost survival horroresque version of Alien: Colonial Marines. I remember reading about it from multiple magazines and getting really exited. Then many, many years went by and we got a trailer for a game that had transformed into a generic fps. Still a bummer.

Surprised you didn't mention the Core Design version of Tomb Raider Anniversary Edition, that one finally got leaked a few years back.

I'd give an arm and a leg to have gotten to play Battlefront 3. DICE ran the franchise into the ground

Man, i wish SE canceled project Athia. That game indirectly gave millennial writings a bad rep

Wow, such odd timing. I was watching a tech demo of DynoBlaze (Which is a Sega Genesis game that never gotten released, and it was cancelled. But there's a rom for it being dumped decades ago.)

I was just hoping you was gonna mention Scalebound. As a Playstation head i was ready to buy a whole Xbox One JUST to play Scalebound (and wouldve bought Sunset Overdrive just because). Im still sick that it was canceled smh.

KillWheel actually reminded me of Giant Boulder Of Death.. if anyone remembers that game.. though Rock Of Ages might be a better example

Thanks for the information I would have never known but thanks for the hard work on everything.

This channel is just fantastic. Seriously, I'm hooked.

You've sparked memories of seeing Kill Wheel in magazines I completely forgot about.

There are a LOT of good looking cancelled games, but if i have to chose personaly then - Total Overdose 2: Tequila Gunrise , Scarface 2 / Scarface Empire , Ultimate Spider-Man 2 - because the first ones are one of my favorite games. Even tho i have only played a bit THPS 4 on PC, it is so stupid that Activision didn't went with THPS 3+4 remake, even tho THPS 1+2 remake was great success. p.s. Activions were the ones who cancelled Scarface 2 and USM 2. S2 because "there already to many open-world games for Activision at the time". USM 2 because first USM didn't sell as much as they wanted and Spider-Man 2 movie game sold way more, so they focused more on Spider-Man movie games aka Spider-Man 3. .... f**k Activision, seriously, for me they are even worse in my eyes now than EA.

Katakis, an Iridion 3D style shmup on the GBC was leaked months ago, I was so happy after hearing about it, was made by the Turrican man himself iirc.

I love these videos so much. Thank you for your hard work!!! ❤️

I always look forward to these vids!

Regarding cancelled games, I will forever be salty about Larian's cancelled _The Lady, the Mage and the Knight._ LMK was set in The Dark Eye, a very popular German ttrpg and would supposedly have explored a comparatively little known era of that setting, the mage wars (thus the German title, _ Legenden der Magierkriege)._ There's a playable demo around and its cancellation eventually led to Divine Divinity, but I still mourn what could have been.

Starfox 2 was worth that lifetime wait... StarCraft ghost hinted at what could and *should* be but never was

My “white whale” is the sequel to Steambot Chronicles, known as Bumpy Trot 2 in Japan, which was announced for the PS3 but was cancelled after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Even though Steambot never got a numbered sequel, I recently got a PSP so I’ve got to discover and enjoy the charming “Battle Tournament” spin-off which has a unique story alongside the very strange Blokus (yes, the board game) spin-off

For a cancelled game that was fully finished, shoutouts to Pokemon Picross on GBC. Bunch of cute illustrations and just a nice Picross game all around. It dropped back in the Giga leak!

I'll always be bitter that we never got Oddworld: Fangus.

Dinosaur Planet really saddens me... I wish Grandad Mayo left it alone

Well, I can thank heavens Metroid Dread never went to waste... even if it wasn't the DS game we wanted...

11:18 So, there's no Trickie going "Byaaad gaiyyys!" O.o Heyo I unironically and ironically love that voice clip lmao, it's a bonofied staple of my vocabulary when playing games hahah

Austin's Magik obsession doesn't surprise me

Miyamoto has done so many crimes to the Star Fox series.

Suspended prison sentence means you technically are guilty and convicted for whatever crime but you don’t go to prison, it’s the ultimate slap on the wrist. So Naka San called them liars from home while checking for a job on the dish washing industry

It's pretty sad to see lots of cancelled video games, because they had a huge potential to be one of the best. With the current technology of PS5 and Xbox Series X, maybe we could see some cancelled games being resurrected. Never say never, right?

The most tragic cancelled game will always be Faith And A .45

I blew air out of my nose at the Finger 11 reference, nice callback

Dinosaur Planet was the first cancelled leak I've played. I couldn't get far without it crashing, but I felt so much nostalgia since I played Star Fox Adventures a lot as a kid. If more progess has been made on the leak, I will happily revisit it!

Say what you will, I've been on that Nomura train since day one. Those FF13 versus trailers still look good

I was so sad when I found out "Werewolf The Apocalypse" was cancelled back in the late 90's

Then there's the games that should have been cancelled the day before release

Around a year ago I played the leaked prototype for the castlevania Dreamcast game. I love how stuff like this keeps leaking.

I remember reading old game informer about the original idea for human element and that’s my big unreleased one

The Vegas skyboxes in the canceled Duke Nukem Forever are insane, why did I never see that style and level of detail in other games. There’s an uncanny vibe to it definitely but they’re gorgeous, I love it. Even rendering some of the background casinos for added depth - that was gonna be a real showcase level.

Good example of this is Bully 2. Entered development twice.

I was one of those people that was massively dissappointed that Chrono Break didn't come out. My friend and I was making theories of what the game's story would be like and everything.

I remember finding out that the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game that came out on Xbox was originally meant to be DreamCast and Ico was meant to be PS1

Dinosaur Planet!!!! I remember back in the day that I got an large poster of it in an magazin ages ago!

14:23 it's so mind boggling to me that now everything that is slightly old is called "boomer" and old first person shooters are called "boomer shooters", specially because back in the day actual real boomers would do everything they could to censor and cancel first person shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem. "Boomer" is quickly becoming one of those overused words that will soon mean nothing to anyone.

21:28 AUSTIN! Why would you unearth such memories

Austin I have an idea for your next video. Low tier series/sequels still being released. Not your typical AAA's.

you're not lying about the heat man, it's been above a hundred degrees everyday here in texas for like the past month

I remember this one magazine back then with info for StarCraft Ghost and was so excited. Would ask about it for years. Was a surreal moment being able to try the leaked build during lockdown…

Starting my day with Austin 👌🏻

The Bio Force Ape looks like the Ultimate Warrior

A part of me is kind glad Sonic Extreme was cancelled because that fisheye lens along with the awkward level design probably would have given every poor sap who played it motion sickness. Duke Nukem Forever though, still kinda upset that the original build was scrapped because after it was just recently dug up, it would have been genuinely fun to play, and a way more solid experience than the Forever we actually got.

Quite a video. And that's not even counting the earlier versions of ultimately released products. The early incarnations of Nioh, the PS2 version of FFXIII, the semi-legendary Versus XIII, the early builds of the original Prey. Two cancelled titles from my own experience were LEGO Galidor, and Bionicle: Legend of Mata Nui. The former was canned near completion and ended up releasing in budget bundles (has a surprisingly good BGM by Richard Jacques), and the other has been rescued and reconstructed by Bionicle fans from a combination of alpha and beta builds. Also, a moment's silence for the lost Deus Ex sequels between Invisible War and Human Revolution

26:21 AFAIK, Jedi Knight III was just an early concept of what would later become Jedi Academy.

I really appreciate how Austin talks about “low hanging” or “well known” projects like Star Craft Ghost or Dino Planet. Even if people in our circles have talked about them ad nauseam some people just might not know. For me it’s a good review, like the Treasure Tiny Toons and aforementioned Star Craft Ghosts.