7 Great Games You’ll Never Get to Play

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7 Great Games You’ll Never Get to Play

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With game development being a long, hard process, and game developers being laid off in their thousands, there are plenty of promising games that get lost along the way. But despite our being sad about it, games we’re excited for continue to get canceled, and studios we love continue to get closed. Join us now as we take a moment for seven more great games that, without some major unforeseen intervention, you will never get to play.
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@snakebelmont Ай бұрын

Prey 2 cancelled 2014. Prey 2 cancelled in 2024. Prey 2 to be cancelled in 2034

@boobah5643 Ай бұрын

I'm just annoyed he referred to Arkane's _Prey_ as a reboot when the only thing it had in common with the earlier game was squatting on the name.

@joshuaperez81299 Ай бұрын

Hmm... I'm sensing a pattern here.

@DoesNotEqual Ай бұрын

After a third game simply titled "Prey" comes out, of course.

@joemomma3648 Ай бұрын

Prey 2, Prey 2: 2, and Prey 2: 2 - II

@TheHufflepuffSaint Ай бұрын

@@snakebelmont There'd probably be a remake or a remaster or another reboot of Prey before we get Prey 2. (If it can find a new studio to helm it of course.) But might like Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead which seems to be allergic to the number 3. Prey is a franchise allergic to the number 2. 😹

@SirAsdf Ай бұрын

The fact we now have two Prey 2s that will never see the light of day is frankly hilarious, in a morbid "time is a flat circle" kind of way.

@matthewapril3119 Ай бұрын

Too soon bro, too soon.😂😂😂

@OrangeDog20 Ай бұрын

Prey 2 (2) was never even leaked as in development, let alone announced.

@CrazeeAdam Ай бұрын

Honestly.. I'm also disappointed there's next to a 0% chance of another Evil Within now too. Really enjoyed both of the first two.. But we can't have nice things

@fireblade295 Ай бұрын

Still waiting on the original feel to True Detective... 3 seasons now that lacked the cosmic/eldritch horror that was in the first one...

@Gamer3427 Ай бұрын

Honestly, as someone who loved the original Prey, I was pretty sad that we never got its sequel. I didn't really care for the new Prey, but it is still kind of disappointing that apparently the name is cursed and those who were fans of that newer version now share in that pain. Can't wait for another studio to do another "not connected at all, but still shares the same name" reboot that gets another new fanbase, only for it to never get a sequel either.

@armelior4610 Ай бұрын

"beware spoilers on the possibility of the following games existing"

@hill2hell Ай бұрын

Similarities about the gaming industry & a criminal syndicate. -All the money goes to the high ranking officials. -Exhaust employees until they're useless. -After an operation will get rid of the underlings. -Uses loopholes to get around laws.

@WBWhiting Ай бұрын

Bruh that's just capitalism.

@hill2hell Ай бұрын

If you work at a different kind office do they fire you after you did what they told you to do? Pretty sure other offices just transfer people to other projects and not fire the whole production floor.

@WBWhiting Ай бұрын

@@hill2hell Its called Downsizing.

@hill2hell Ай бұрын

Downsizing is pretty different from getting fired. When downsizing get paid their severance fee or sue if it's not enough to what they should get. Laid off or fired employees don't get paid and pretty sure they can't sue unless they got wrongfully terminated.

@Kleyguerth Ай бұрын

@@hill2hell Where have you been these past two years? Lots of non-gaming big companies laying off half their workforce hit the news. Gotta keep the profit line going up, if sales are not doing it, cutting costs through laying off workers is the next step.

@jones81381 Ай бұрын

7:13 Funnily enough, Jane, Spiders-Man is an alternate universe version of Spiderman and is actually a hive-minded swarm of thousands of tiny spiders that killed and ate no powers Peter Parker but somehow absorbed his consciousness in the process. Wracked with the guilt of killing Peter they became Spiders-Man to help people.

@Sorain1 Ай бұрын

huh... so a bit like Blacklight becoming Mercer. (Just with a lot less 'holy crap this guy was EVIL!' and eating people.) Neat.

@DreamerOnDrugs Ай бұрын

Dont tell Ellen.

@WorldsUnhealthiestFitPerson Ай бұрын

@@Sorain1 Or going back further, it's a dusting off of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.

@JohnnyFedora1 11 күн бұрын

Without googling that, I have no idea whether or not it is true, but it says something about Spiderman comics that it seems like a perfectly plausible thing that probably happened at some point. Update: Yep, that is 100% an accurate description. Man, alternate universe Spider-things are wild.

@grumble Ай бұрын

Just a note that Arkane Austin and Lyon developed Dishonored 1 together, with Austin making the Daud DLC on their own, while Lyon started production on Dishonored 2. Lyon then made Death of the Outsider while Austin worked on Prey. Zenimax did them so dirty, insisting they make Redfall a live service game that no-one actually wanted 😢

@Patrick-Phelan Ай бұрын

Like buying BioWare and making them make Dest... Anthem. Yeah, that's not... really what Bioware does, EA.

@jackharkness5454 Ай бұрын

@@Patrick-Phelan Ironically, Anthem appears to have been Bioware's idea... which nobody could seem to figure out how to actually make.

@Patrick-Phelan Ай бұрын

@@jackharkness5454 I think I had heard that, but my brain refuses to retain that information, because it refuses to recognise a situation where one can, but does not, blame EA.

@NocturnalDecay Ай бұрын

Microsoft shuttering Tango as they were pitching Hi Fi Rush 2 is something I will never forgive them for

@Insomniaaron Ай бұрын

A crime punishable by Xbox death? Tempted to say the same for the execs but that's a bit too far. Homeless perhaps in that case.

@Marcel2278 Ай бұрын

Wanna know something even sadder, like a week after closing tango, a Microsoft exec or someone said Microsoft needs more Japanese devs....

@NocturnalDecay Ай бұрын

@@InsomniaaronIt would be nice if Microsoft's earnings reports come out at the end of the financial year and you just see a steady drop from May onwards, lol. Maybe then they'll reconsider saying they need more games like the one they just shut down the studio behind.

@UpperDarbyDetailing Ай бұрын

God damn developers gotta start learning to say NO to microsoft, ubisoft, activision, bethesda… You’d think they’d figure out by now that they’re only getting purchased so they can get their hands on their IPs. Why, I have no idea since they mostly just let them rot.

@arenasviscatanius Ай бұрын

It's Microsoft. Didn't suprised us

@Bloodglas Ай бұрын

Alice: Asylum never even got considered for development but not getting that is a shame. especially considering it ended up leading to the creator not only giving up on trying to continue the series, but quitting the games industry entirely.

@Nix_Abyss Ай бұрын

This I’m legit so disappointed we may never get another

@Lanka0Kera Ай бұрын

Worth pointing out that American McGee & his studio worked on their design plans for years on their own budget before even trying to get the approval is just heart breaking.

@kamo7293 Ай бұрын

man that was hard to hear about. I love the first game, second was solid, and just wanted to play more

@VonBlade Ай бұрын

Imagine living in a world where HiFi Rush 2 is canned, but Redfall gets released.

@deannelson7027 Ай бұрын

You do know that they're from completely different studies, right?

@theREALfearsKLOWNs Ай бұрын

@@deannelson7027Both of them owned & closed by Microsoft. Your point?

@Blue-EyesWhitePrivilege Ай бұрын

@@theREALfearsKLOWNsTheir point is that those two things have nothing to do with each other. OP didn't necessarily mean they did, but the reply still stands.

@theREALfearsKLOWNs Ай бұрын

@@Blue-EyesWhitePrivilege Again, considering Microsoft owned & closed both studios - and the release & canceling of both games were direct results of the timing of this event - it's wild to think they have nothing to do with each other.

@elijaheumags5060 5 күн бұрын

Welp, Hifi Rush is saved. Another studio has acquired the game and dev team. Though the publisher who purchased them is none other than the people responsible for PUBG.

@frodobaggins7710 Ай бұрын

It makes me so sad to see Tango get shut down. Hi-Fi Rush is one of the best games I've played and it absolutely deserves a sequel. You get a robot cat in it, for crying out loud!

@Darkreaper1982 Ай бұрын

Not getting Prey 2 is such a shame. 1st Prey and Moon-Crash were criminally underrated.

@Maniacal.Menagerie Ай бұрын

No one tell Jane that Spiders Man is both a real thing in comics and also one of creepiest concepts in marvel history.

@BriarPatchNyra Ай бұрын

Aw I love spiders man!

@whisperinwind87 Ай бұрын

I mean the X-men has some pretty messed up stuff, but a spider man made of thousands of tiny spiders the consumes and replaces everything is definitely a high on the creepy concept list...

@Maniacal.Menagerie Ай бұрын

@whisperinwind87 Yeah, that's why I said "one of" lol. Marvels got some pretty horrifying stuff under their belt. Especially if we get into like the cancer universe or one of the marvel zombies runs.

@shadowcat1606 Ай бұрын

@@Maniacal.Menagerie The "cancer universe" ?

@Maniacal.Menagerie Ай бұрын

@shadowcat1606 Yeah, it's a lot to explain in a comment thread, but if you are curious, look up Earth 10011. I'll warn you in advance, though, that storyline is bleak.

@KayinGD Ай бұрын

Six and seven hit bloody hard. Evil Within 2 was superb, and closing down an award winning, suddenly beloved studio off the back of Hi Fi Rush is a real 4D chess move from Microsoft that's sure to win them many more fans. It's a gambit that wouldn't have looked out of place during the darkest of their Xbox One days.

@truekurayami Ай бұрын

I liked Evil Within 2, but with how it felt compared to the first game I think the series is better off with only two games as the cast of characters would have a hard time keeping the same levels of tension and drive.

@xrichie7924 Ай бұрын

Supposedly the Life By You devs weren't actually that far off from a player ready early access version but the project was canceled for the usual shareholder reasons

@L-92761 Ай бұрын

Just want someone to be worthy competition to EA cause the sims franchise has definitely been on a downwards spiral for a while

@meikahidenori Ай бұрын

Probably for the best. The problems they currently have with city skylines is actually pretty terrible, worse than simcity😅 there's still stuff the failed sim city game does better than skylines and that should be concerning 😂

@daggern15 Ай бұрын

@@L-92761 Luckily there are still some other life sim games in active development. They all scratch a slightly different itch and LBY seems to be the only one that really catered to Sims 3 fans specifically but there's at least still some anti-EA hope to go around.

@Fetidaf 27 күн бұрын

@@meikahidenorigotta hard disagree that Cities is worse than SimCity… It was literally impossible for the vast majority of people to play, and the people that could were severely disappointed… that’s much worse than a few bugs or bad optimization.

@andycyca Ай бұрын

I love this video as a quiet, but strong protest against all the layoffs

@oxfanblink4115 Ай бұрын

Bully 2 is another one that’s getting more and more unlikely to actually hit stores (physical or digital) anytime soon due to GTA 6 and the original being 18 years old as of right now

@Patrick-Phelan Ай бұрын

Yeah, the original is now old enough to play GTA5. So it's going to take Rockstar's approach and just spend all its time focusing on GTA5.

@truekurayami Ай бұрын

I"d be concerned how Bully 2 would play out given the relative social narative, and what western society looks like now. It's one series that probably got lucky no dev seems interested in bring out a sequel, instead of the mutilation it would get from both the greedy publishers, and idiotic political actors that have ruined so many games with potential within the last decade.

@Fetidaf 27 күн бұрын

@@truekurayamiwhat social narrative do you think Bully had? “Bad people are bad and seemingly bad people can be good” isn’t exactly a groundbreaking or controversial take…

@Ani-rq7wv Ай бұрын

It feels like so many entertainment companies are making essentially complete projects and then cancelling them before release. Movies, tv shows, games. Such a shitty new trend

@tyrus1235 Ай бұрын

tax write-offs, the way I hear it. Completely absurd and a massive waste of talent and artistic skill...

@NickW855 Ай бұрын

Note that the 200 million copies sold figure attached to the Sims includes any DLC expansion as a copy. So by that logic, you bought 3 copies of Witcher 3, two copies of Elden Ring, five copies of Borderlands 2, etc. The ACTUAL number of Sims base games sold total is around 40~50 million. Numbers do lie.

@homerman76 Ай бұрын

Kind of like how either the DS or the PS2 have the most console sales of all time, but which one it is depends on whether or not you count the different iterations of DS, including the DSi (Ds vs DS Lite is one thing, since it's no different than the PS2 vs the PS2 slim, but the DSi is a weird one that's harder to decide how it fits in.)

@Patrick-Phelan Ай бұрын

There is something to be said about how THOROUGHLY the Sims marketing strategy is focused on DLC, admittedly - and that might be "that is bad, why are you doing that, oh wait you are Electronic Arts, okay I get it, still bad though", but it does mean you do have to kind of nod at the DLC. Maybe "Forty to fifty million sold, including thirty million large expansions and around seventy million smaller 'stuff packs'" would be worth the saying. I'm pulling the numbers out of my hat here.

@Dark_Mishra Ай бұрын

Agreed. As someone who’s bought almost every version of Skyrim, I fully understand how game devs use their stats and sales numbers to lie to consumers. When it comes to actual “unique buyers” of most games I’d bet the true sales number is maybe as low as half of what they say. Tons of people bought the base game of Sims, Skyrim, Witcher, etc, but I’d be willing to bet most players aren’t buying season passes or DLCs, so they wait to buy the cheaper bundles/GotY/Complete editions of the game. It’s even worse for app devs because they go by “total downloads” NOT actual sales. When tons of people have owned several models of phones and multiple devices by now, and they’re redownloading the app to their multiple, the unique sales numbers for an app might be as low as 20% of what they claim - especially for games like Minecraft! I’ve bought 3 versions of that myself for the Xbox 360, PS4 and Switch.

@truekurayami Ай бұрын

Only five copies of Borderlands 2? most of us bought 20+ by that logic just from the skin packs and head hunter expansions.

@kaneaquino8295 Ай бұрын

Now the opposite: Top 7 Terrible Games You'll Never Get To Play

@toongrowner1 Ай бұрын

I mean, spiderman the great web was already on this list

@imperatoriacustodum4667 Ай бұрын

Wouldn't the true opposite be "Top 7 Terrible Games You Can Play"

@JohnDoe-hj9fh Ай бұрын

@@toongrowner1nice one

@oldvlognewtricks Ай бұрын

@@imperatoriacustodum46677 Terrible Games You Wish You Couldn’t Play

@shadowcat1606 Ай бұрын

It should be called "Top 7 Terrible Games You'll Never Haver To Play" then

@sterling7 Ай бұрын

Not sure which is sadder. The promising games we'll never get to play, or the AAA games that will come out this year that will make us say, "THIS? THIS IS WHERE YOU PUT YOUR TIME AND MONEY, INSTEAD?!"

@Aldragon Ай бұрын

And 90% of them will have many microtransactions that more than make up for the actual loss of copies sold, thus being considered a success by the people making decisions. People who throw money at microtransactions are actively making the gaming space worse for the rest of us.

@VraerynDaDragon Ай бұрын

@@Aldragoncompanies try so hard to make more money while doing less and less, and the worst part is it works well enough that they can keep doing it. People pay hundreds upon hundreds on games that often require external servers to even run, and no one does anything when that game is shut down and that money evaporates into nothing. So we only get the premises that are easy, while we mourn the ones that were actually compelling.

@Plsrateeight Ай бұрын

@@Aldragonstop crying about microtransactions get a job you bum, many of you crying about those stupid transactions are the same people who have these computers that are insanely expensive

@philiphunn194 Ай бұрын

Spider-Mans is the most grammatically-correct phrasing, but Spiders-Man is a Spider-Man made of spiders who think they're Peter Parker.

@oldvlognewtricks Ай бұрын

Spider-Men, surely?

@LateSleeper Ай бұрын

People really underestimate how weird the Spiderverse is.

@NameRealperson Ай бұрын

Spiders-Mens

@emilyraetz3889 Ай бұрын

Spidermeese

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield Ай бұрын

A group of spider people has a number of applicable names: a Thwipping, a menace, a responsibility, a quip/sarcasm. 🌟 "THE MORE YOU KNOW"

@Brasc Ай бұрын

_~Embracer Group goes on IP spending spree~_ *Fans:* Yay! We'll see beloved IPs come back! _~Saints Row remake happens, whole thing collapses~_ _~Microsoft goes on IP spending spree~_ *Fans:* Yay! We'll see beloved IPs come back! _~Microsoft goes through "cost cutting measures"~_

@MyRegardsToTheDodo Ай бұрын

If Microsoft buys a studio that basically means the death of that studio's IPs. Even when they bought RARE all those years ago they didn't do anything with these IPs. Microsoft can't even keep it's own IPs alive (if it isn't Halo), let alone bought ones.

@georgeoldsterd8994 Ай бұрын

We can't have anything good anymore, not from Hollywood, nor from AAA companies. Just give up on them.

@fanofbioshock2nolastname861 Ай бұрын

so all of this is due to Saints Row..knew it

@tyrus1235 Ай бұрын

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Even Halo is languishing in the Infinite mines. Game was released half-assedly and after all this time they have only focused on the multiplayer aspect of it. The fact that the Master Chief Collection on PC never got a split-screen mode is proof enough that 343 and Microsoft have no idea what the hell they're doing with the franchise. Also, about Rare... They actually made a new Xbox 360 Banjo & Kazooie game, but most fans didn't really enjoy it. They also did a remake of Conker and more recently released a major collection of their classic titles. But it seems like the folks at Rare prefer to work on new IPs, as evidenced by their enthusiasm with Sea of Thieves (which is a fun game).

@pyd2215 Ай бұрын

The Prey 2 and Hi-Fi Rush 2 ones hurt. Corporate consolidation is the death of industry

@TheZoenGaming Ай бұрын

I just wish game dev companies would stop selling themselves to production companies.

@Lanka0Kera Ай бұрын

I wish game dev companies included a clause in their sale contract that if the studio is shut down it can just walk away with it's staff and all the IPs it had. Now it seems multibillion publishers are just shopping around for IPs to put on wall like some weird collectors...

@TheZoenGaming Ай бұрын

@@Lanka0Kera The whole point, as far as publishers are concerned, of acquiring a dev are to gain the IPs, not the devs themselves. It's been that way since the 1990s.

@pairot01 Ай бұрын

Silent Hills. I still can't believe Konami didn't go thougg with it considering the impact of P.T

@tyrus1235 Ай бұрын

Everything points to them really wanting to fire Kojima even back then, so that was probably a big part of the reason why.

@blue_ranger Ай бұрын

I just went to steam to look at Hi Fi rush, and after only typing "Hi" in the search bar, I saw a Silent Hill 2 remake coming out in October, with a 13 minute video. Looks great graphically.

@danielwolf8365 Ай бұрын

Microsoft using their unlimited money to buy all the promising studios, then scrap them based on a single underperforming title is starting to become a pattern, and it doesn't look great for gaming.

@megslo-fimore624 Ай бұрын

That has been part of microsoft for the longest time if i remember right (thank u matpat for the lesson) microsoft had a purchase adapt destroy model that got leaked to the public so now they just do it legally like how there are 15 direct to dvd horror sequels that lose the plot instead of something meaningful by the people that loved their franchise.

@donultrawide Ай бұрын

This is how I found out Life By You was cancelled 😭

@annijaklamer Ай бұрын

Same 😢😢

@paulbennett2284 Ай бұрын

This is how I found out it existed!

@DistinctionDave Ай бұрын

Just got Paralives to cling onto now!

@melissa-hadfield Ай бұрын

Cancellation is preferable to the new Paradox method of release and abandon.

@Liamishly Ай бұрын

Google inzoi

@jockpackage1770 Ай бұрын

No, Capcom has just seen over 10 years of growth. Many companies can't claim such a winning streak. Hi Fi Rush was awesome. It's tragic that we won't get more of it. I guess it wasn't buggy enough for Bethesda to not consider it brand damaging. Can't have players expecting functional games, where said players don't have to finish development themselves with mod, now can we?

@crazyjack5646 Ай бұрын

Bethesda softworks is different to Bethesda game studios. The latter is known for buggy open source games that reach mod heaven and the former is yhe umbrella company for Bethesda game studios, Tango gameworks, ID software and probably many more. The dark age might be axed as well.

@jockpackage1770 Ай бұрын

@@crazyjack5646 Still using Bethesda as the namesake so it carries the stench, as far as reputation. They chose that.

@SapphireCarbuncle009 Ай бұрын

The worst part of the Tango closure is that it fully recontextualizes the "Shadowdrop Darling" story behind Hi Fi Rush into Microsoft send the game out to die so they have an excuse to shutter the studio when it flopped Only it didn't fail so now Microsoft just looks like even more of an asshole for shuttering Tango.

@tyrus1235 Ай бұрын

There have been rumors point towards that, yeah... Would make a lot of sense - set them up to fail for an easy "cost cutting measure"... Only they weren't expecting the devs were actually making a pretty solid game.

@AllTeam Ай бұрын

Killing Prey games (original 2 and reboot 2 would have been awesome) was just another shot into the heart. Ubisoft canceling their games for xdefiant also irked me.

@tyrus1235 Ай бұрын

The tragedy of the original Prey is that it's a very underrated FPS and one of the rare titles to use the Doom 3 engine basically as well as Doom 3 itself. I'd argue it used the idTech even better than id's own Quake 4 (which was also incredibly underrated).

@Jonathon_Hennessey Ай бұрын

It's a shame that Microsoft shut down the studio that made the Evil Within series, I would have liked to see a third game. The first two were pretty good survival horror games.

@KimiTheV Ай бұрын

I thought they hinted at the end of the 2nd game you might find Joseph or maybe even play him. We will never know😢

@karlolausson Ай бұрын

Disco Elysium 2 😢

@oldvlognewtricks Ай бұрын

Oof - this whole story was horrifying. There really is no justice.

@PineappleLiar Ай бұрын

In fairness I’d rather it be dead than a soulless shell of its former self.

@tyrus1235 Ай бұрын

that whole Disco Elysium debacle made me glad I purchased the game before they screwed the devs over... Otherwise I might have just pursued *other means* of obtaining the game.

@clovergannon Ай бұрын

Prey was amazing, and it absolutely deserves to have its sequel realized in earnest by its original dev team

@Lanka0Kera Ай бұрын

It gets even weirder when publishers clinging on to their trophy-IPs later decide that they actually want a sequal *now*, give it to some completely different studio to work and then wonder why it flopped in reviews. Shouldn't be too hard to find enough examples for a 7-video... :/

@truekurayami Ай бұрын

Banjo Kazooie, was the first thing that came to mind. Though I think it is even worse when the publishers leave the IPs with the same studio for the sudden remake/sequals and micromanage it to death that even the great studios and teams behind the original success can't save it.

@Michael_Lindell Ай бұрын

Yet you can easily get your hands on 'Ride to Hell: Retribution'... You will however never play a version that works.

@Sorain1 Ай бұрын

What was that line "A delayed game may eventually be good-"?

@chrispilcher2024 Ай бұрын

the Great Web would've been AMAZING, at least for Ben Reilly fans, as he's been subjected to the roles of Jackal 2 and Chasm in the comics which also character assassinated him twice,

@dastvan8002 Ай бұрын

The endgame is just 12 variants of Paul

@FaultyGear9 Ай бұрын

Hi-Fi Rush 2 and The Evil Within 3 hurt the most... Tango was such a wonderful studio.

@0DeathTheKid15 Ай бұрын

The Hi-Fi Rush cancel was nothing short of criminal. The game was so good on release I would place it amoung one of the best games of the last decade.

@SnakeintheGarden Ай бұрын

Microshaft is so brainless, I have no idea what they were even thinking shutting down Tango. "Wow, look at how successful Hi-Fi Rush is! Let's shut it down." At least I live in peace knowing no matter dumb I am I will never make a decision more idiotic than that.

@Okusar Ай бұрын

Microsoft is a 3 trillion dollar company. Hi-Fi Rush made around 6 million. That's 0.0002% by comparison, hardly even a rounding error as far as Microsoft is concerned. It's pretty clear that Bethesda, id and possibly Machine Games were all that Microsoft were really interested in, but were forced to buy all of Zenimax in order to aquire them. Now they're just divesting themselves of the unwanted studios that came included as part of that deal.

@tappydani9378 Ай бұрын

@@Okusar Any company with that level of cold, anti-consumer, anti-worker mentality is worth boycotting. Or better yet, passing labor-reform for gamedevs.

@yoogrldude Ай бұрын

No prey 2, no dishonored 3, rip arkane 😭

@floofyhoots8129 Ай бұрын

Dishonored games are developed by Arkane Lyon which still exists, not by Arkane Austin.

@Patrick-Phelan Ай бұрын

@@floofyhoots8129 I made the same mistake. Which one did Deathloop? I liked Deathloop a lot. ...Lyon! Hurrah.

@JoeJaJoeJoe Ай бұрын

RIP to the Deus Ex series. Guess we'll never find out what Adam Jenson (or his clone) got up to 😢

@ainlLeek Ай бұрын

I liked the original Prey, the one from 2006. (It was doing portals before Portal did portals.) I liked what the second one was doing, it looked like Mirrors Edge crossed with Mass Effect: play a bounty hunter in a cyberpunk alien city. I'm not aware of another game doing anything like that. It could be set in a handful of existing sci-fi universes, too.

@bobbyfernando Ай бұрын

...well, this is how I learn that _Life by You_ has been cancelled, apparently.

@thundercookie3214 Ай бұрын

Putting all my hopes into Paralives now.

@bobbyfernando Ай бұрын

@@thundercookie3214 Yep - I actually often mistook both of those games for each other, but...well, that's no longer going to be an issue, now, haha.

@TheHufflepuffSaint Ай бұрын

Its a shame about that Sims-like game. Would've been interesting to have a more realistic take on the genre. But I'm still good with The Sims we have. Btw; there's nothing wrong with removing the steps to the pool while Sims are in it. It's called experimenting plus they've really just gotta work on their upper strength to climb out the pool without steps or a ladder.

@chrispilcher2024 Ай бұрын

Yeah it was a real shame, a realistic take on the genre would've at least appealed to the realistic simmers, as the Sims series was always meant to be cartoony seeing as the Sims franchise was designed to be satirical since the 1st game.

@liamnehren1054 Ай бұрын

There really needs to be a change to copyright laws, if a company owns something and they don't have a planned project being worked on with maximum a 5-7 year release date they should lose all rights to it and it should then immediately become public domain.

@pauleyc6264 Ай бұрын

I hate to say this but we'll probably never see a Deus Ex Mankind Divided sequel and a proper ending to Adam Jensen's story. Something I would've asked for...

@ChristophBrinkmann Ай бұрын

Big same. Also a full remake of the original with modern mechanics and gameplay, plus fixing the many problems it had.

@seanmc2999 Ай бұрын

That cancelled Prey sequel where you're a space cowboy bounty hunter is one of the biggest missed opportunities in gaming, that trailer was so cool it lives in my soul

@BranBal Ай бұрын

It's a crime that P.T. Silent Hill got cancelled too😢 Still today after more than 7 years since i last played and I still have nightmares about it

@TheLiamster Ай бұрын

I really wish we had a Mandalorian game but it got cancelled unfortunately

@SethHirschman Ай бұрын

The show DID feel very sidequesty. Excellent though.

@michaelandreipalon359 Ай бұрын

Not a Legends game though, and since the show started jumping the shark because of The Book of Boba Fett and Season 3...

@JoeJaJoeJoe Ай бұрын

this is not the way 😢

@nickdejager8873 Ай бұрын

So Arkham Knights but Spider-man. I also saw Silk in the promo, so there would have been hope for additional characters in DLC. Not that we ever will get it.

@TK-_-GZ Ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, there was a quite intriguing but ultimately failed crowdfunding campaign by a team spun out from former BioShock devs called "The Black Hand' or the "Dark Glove" or some such. Seemed like an interesting action adventure magic via hand endeavor., and I was slightly disappointed to see the campaign sink.

@TheRealCodeBlack Ай бұрын

Mike talking about Skullomania as an unacceptable drawback to SF-EX, as if Skullo isn't one of the most famously beloved cult classic fighting game characters of all time.

@jvanyai Ай бұрын

01:41 Jane: "assume direct control"- Harbinger, is that you?

@bennykill709 Ай бұрын

"Zero-sim game" Jane, was that you? This pun is incredibly funny, and I commend whoever wrote it!

@mikedangerdoes Ай бұрын

Just a shout out for whoever is consistently coming up with excellent wordplay for the titles. "Brawl work and no play" is inspired. Well done.

@goranisacson2502 Ай бұрын

Mentioning Tango Gameworks almost made me upset enough to forget the Skull-o-Mania slander. But I did not forget. I will not forget.

@Datboi_23 Ай бұрын

Damnit, why did you have to remind me that Spiders-Man exists?

@ripopol Ай бұрын

"tom clancy used to be a man, now he's more of an idea, an emotion" Well I for one look forward to our Tom Clancy/Yankee Candle crossover collab. obviously it would have topnotes of gunpowder, with a lingering scent of applepie, ash and mustard.

@MistsMagic Ай бұрын

I will still never forgive Blizzard for canceling StarCraft: GHOST...

@nicholasfarrell5981 Ай бұрын

Oh man, that's an oldie.

@aidencooper63 Ай бұрын

TITANFALL 3 sadly.... we'll never get it ....

@shadowkhan422 Ай бұрын

To be fair , they never even fixed the issues with Titanfall 2 . Did you know that if you use Windows 10 with onedrive, TF2 doesnt save your game? Shows that this wasnt the focus to the big wigs since the start

@xstarsystemsx Ай бұрын

Coming right after the spiderman entry, that weird spandex skeleton just read to me like another spidersmans. Also, he's now my favourite character.

@Neopulse00 Ай бұрын

A game I was excited about long ago was MegaMan Legends 3 😢

@Patrick-Phelan Ай бұрын

Oh, Mega Man. Still on the moon.

@Pandalf_Darwin Ай бұрын

Microsoft was the real villain all along

@ChristophBrinkmann Ай бұрын

And Sony. And EA. And Ubisoft. And Konami. And Nintendo. And WB. And Activision. And Sqenix.

@Pandalf_Darwin Ай бұрын

@@ChristophBrinkmann oh yeah those too

@INikeAir Ай бұрын

You know, I HATE the ftp/battle pass/games as a service model, but I’d be down to check out a division version of that

@GoldenSun007 Ай бұрын

No Golden Sun mention? We were one game away from finishing the story!

@JohnWilliams-cr2sz Ай бұрын

I will forever mourn the loss of Spider-Man: The Great Web

@tripplec6798 Ай бұрын

Epic Mickey 3 was planned and supposedly in development so much so that Epic Mickey 2 ends on a literal cliffhanger setting up the third game. Was gonna be more that just one co-op possibly 4 player and feature the Pete's as the new antagonists. But then the studio got shut down along with any hopes of a return to Epic Mickey being dashed. That is till recently with the whole Epic Mickey Rebrushed going on. Will this result in the third game? Maybe not but hey Epic Mickey is back and that's enough of a win for me.

@emptycradle1304 Ай бұрын

i remember one of the sims games i played had a simspeak line that sounded like "You gotta wobble it" cracks me up every time.

@SolidSonicTH Ай бұрын

I never heard that CFAS was going to have an SNK guest character. Also CFAS gave way to Capcom Fighting Evolution, which even included one of CFAS's original characters in Ingrid, but...that game was probably Capcom's worst fighting game since Street Fighter: The Movie.

@PMDacpano Ай бұрын

Please tell Jane two Spider-Mans is called Spider-Men, and more than two is called Spider-Many.

@TheRealColestep13 Ай бұрын

You already made this list. 👿That was five years ago and this list is completely new... and now I feel old. 😟

@jtpotts617 Ай бұрын

Was it intentional to have Mike hype two videos that were not actually the ones linked? If so, bravo.

@shaysela6989 Ай бұрын

The studio that made the game where the villains were corporate heads that didn't care about a quality product or the consumer, just about making more money being shut down by corporate heads that didn't care about a quality product or the consumer but just about making more money feels kinda ironic. I'll never forgive Microsoft for this

@dubya13207 21 күн бұрын

Not sure how to name this category, but “Game remasters we’ll probably never see” My top picks: No One Lives Forever and NOLF2…but Diddy Kong Racing comes to mind

@BenMarcWilliams Ай бұрын

Never before in my life had I seen footage of Street Fighter EX 3, but, holy shit, it looks like some sort of uncanny valley Soul Calibur.

@NGMonocrom Ай бұрын

You made the right decision, Andy. This world is bull💩

@BanuxMV Ай бұрын

Sunset Overdrive 2 for me is the one that hurts. I love the first game. I guess we can count Bully 2 cause that is never seeing light of day either

@Iymarra Ай бұрын

The night in the woods devs next game not coming out will be a great loss imo.

@chinthor 21 күн бұрын

Every one of these entries: "Oh, yea. I remember the announcement for tha. Sounded cool! I wonder what happened...(remembers what video I'm watching) oh, no."

@Mister_Vyar 28 күн бұрын

Never heard of The Great Web before now, but that's the most baffling cancellation on this list by far. Insomniac's Spider-Man games are absolutely brilliant, playing basically the same thing but with friends just sounds even better.

@Relaxedplaythroughs Ай бұрын

I would have liked the Spider-Man one but after kill the Justice League they probably saw their game as too similar and didn't want to put another out into the market to die.

@chriswest6988 Ай бұрын

I do wonder if they got spooked by Gotham Knights' relatively poor reception (I think SSKtJL is too late to be a factor?) or if it was just deemed too expensive or something.

@Relaxedplaythroughs Ай бұрын

@@chriswest6988 maybe but game companies keep making bad discussions without any real logic behind them. Like with skull and bones releasing right next to sea of thieves on PlayStation two very similar games but only one is clearly going to survive and it's sea of thieves with its art style that'll age better and all the years of content that was worked on for Xbox and PC players is available on PlayStation now. While skull and bones I think people are going to go back to playing black flag or sea of thieves over that game.

@Plsrateeight Ай бұрын

Never even heard of the Spider-Man Co-op game that was planned, that probably would have been as fun as the Batman without Batman one

@aq5426 Ай бұрын

Speaking as a Division fan, I am crushed that Heartland got cancelled. I played in all the betas, and it looked like it was going to be a lot of fun. :(

@andrewwowk9385 Ай бұрын

I really hope that wherever Shinji has ended up, he makes The Evil Within 3 (even if it's not named that but is fundamentally that game)

@NORFIE123456 Ай бұрын

Something tells me that we may still get some form of multiverse content for Spiderman 2 from Insomniac. The hook for that content/game was with the bot collection and the scene with Lara Croft at the bar. The concept seemed pretty sound in all honesty.

@Leee275 3 күн бұрын

Hi-Fi Rush sequels can actually happen now.

@shaysela6989 Сағат бұрын

11:46 This aged like milk, but I'll drink that spoiled milk with a huge smile on my face and with some great music in the background

@DoorsInTheLabyrinth Ай бұрын

Eternal Darkness 2 is the first that comes to mind. And the "Darkstalkers Return" teaser still hurts my heart. Well, FIRST to mind is Drakan 3, but I don't think it was ever announced, but seriously, why has no one picked up that license?

@gustavgold9768 Ай бұрын

Just wanna say, I've been watching y'alls videos since I was about 14 and y'all are the ONLY channel from back then I'm still subscribed too lol. Your videos always make me feel sentimentally happy so I just want to say thank you!

@Fenrisson Ай бұрын

10:58 - Including Strider Hiryu! I love that character.

@duanegee7636 Ай бұрын

Jane, I think the correct term is a Murder of Spider people

@haymakerplays Ай бұрын

a Dead Uncle of Spider People

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield Ай бұрын

I think a menace, a Thwipping, a quip/sarcasm, or a responsibility is more applicable

@davidh871 Ай бұрын

I’m not a fan of co-op games, but I remember when I read about Ninja Theory’s Razer, I became intrigued. At least its cancelation lead to Hellblade, but I always wonder what might have been.

@kpr2 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure what Mike thinks he's pointing to there on the end card, but it doesn't line up with what he's saying and, well, that suits me fine, haha! 🤣Always great stuff, guys! Rock on!

@Mathijsss247 Ай бұрын

Man that hi fi rush mention hit the feels :(

@Nyperold018 Ай бұрын

I don't know about anyone else, but I've got the one about Weird/Worst Guns You Don't Want in Your Armory, and the one about Unbelievable/Suspiciously Easy Ways You Got Good Karma. Can't predict the algorithm, I guess.

@mercerpatterson6290 Ай бұрын

Another video, another day I’m grateful that the Wolf Among us 2 hasn’t been scrapped

@MidBoss666 26 күн бұрын

The problem with Capcom Fighting All-Stars was NOT that it played poorly, the sole issue the players had with it was that it was 3D and not 2D, it had NOTHING to do with the gameplay itself. Nor could they even polish the game if they wanted to, because of the backlash, the higher ups forced the development team to scrap the game and make a new 2D one, hence how we got Capcom Fighting Jam, their very last new 2D fighting game. As they refused to make any more after this whole drama. Please guys, don't go Watchmojo on us and start making up false myths, you're better than that.

@tooclosetokyle Ай бұрын

Prey 2 breaks my heart. Such an incredible game.

@riksweeney Ай бұрын

Capcom Fighting All-Stars did eventually become Capcom Fighting Evolution, but yeah, they stayed away from 3D games until (the utterly sublime) Street Fighter IV.