#cancelled video games

[shadowwingtronix]

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[zed-the-buggy]

ok so larry and geeta

i really hate to rag on a character other people like for my own blorbo so uh, geeta fans i am so so sorry i would recommend skipping this post, i doubt its actually this deep </3 you are allowed to like her prommy

ok but ACtual analysis time, what the FUCK is up with larry and geeta (people who have never had a shitty two faced boss before ask. /j)

larry expresses anti institutional ideologies a lot, he wants to do things outside the system hes in will allow. he expresses a lot of negativity about his position, a lot of remarks which could rock the boat. which they HAVE with the amount of people now realizing most gym leaders have second jobs. and the system might! be kinda fucked! and deal shitty pay and is just kinda a whole gimmick of an industry in the whole universe. and larry sorta points directly at that, when he actively complains about Having to be a gym leader, Having to be an e4 member.

Geeta in this position would fucking hate Larrys guts! and would also point to her just quietly not saying anything when the player likes larry most. Because Geeta doesnt just dislike larry in this position. Geeta dislikes the ideals hes lowkey pioneering here. And when the player likes larry, its like the player is siding with larry. The player believes hes in the right, not Geeta, and it directly pits the player and Geeta at odds, in a very quiet way.

Geeta cant say shit. Geeta has to keep up the appearance of one big happy league full of amazing, positive members and they're all strong and etc etc. She keeps the facade of the entire league. Whether she genuinely loves the league or not, she has to keep an incredibly dedicated face up about the view of the league. But this same rule doesn't apply in private. The gym leaders, her workers have to keep that facade also, especially with Geeta, but Geeta doesnt have to give them that same light of day. Geeta can do whatever she wants, and the gym leaders just kinda have to deal with it.

i very much believe geeta and larrys relationship proposes this really. really sad idea. because geeta is larrys boss, and they. really dont like eachother! and geeta has. power. larry is afraid she will "dock his pay" for chitchat. but really it comes down to his chit chat going against the status quo, the status quo which Geeta benefits from. And ultimately, she does have the power to dock him for chit chat. She can rob him for being honest. And while Geeta's true treatment of the gym leaders as a manager will probably remain unknown, Larry's existence really offers the idea that it's probably not a great role.

Larry is not special. And thats the problem. Hes not breaking ass to go all out on a cute gimmick, hes not loving the institution as much as everyone else is to the point of doing more than its worth. Hes just doing the bare minimum to get by. Actively complains about his job, which for people in the right spheres it could seem like a huge deal to be a gym leader, and an elite four member. like bro! thats awesome! you just get to do pokemon battles all day! but really its not. once you live in the system, and you get sick enough of it, it loses its luster, and you realize that its just another grind, dodging pay cuts, trying to please the right people and constantly bust ass just to pay for the rent on your apartment and maybe groceries.

Larry is a pawn in the same system as everyone else. Geeta needs larry to be special. But he wont be. And Geeta doesn't take well to that.

Thats why hes the exceptional ordinary man. His ordinariness is what makes him the exception.

[milkahia]

Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War | Lewyn & Sylvia for “A Distant Melody: FE Music Zine”

[melonthesprigatito]

History of Detective Pikachu

2013: "Too bad this game is never going to be finished"

2016: "Too bad this game is never going to get an English translation"

2018: "Oh my god, they actually released it outside of Japan? Oh, it ended on a cliffhanger. Too bad it's never going to get a sequel."

2019: "Ex-fucking-scuse me??????"

2023:

"WHAT"

[poppetsisters]

Cancelled Poppet Sisters Game

Like so many projects of mine, most of them never reach the finish line, however I want to share with you a game I had intended to make after Planter's Diary. It's a point and click life-sim called PK ULTRA!!

The premise of PK-Ultra was that it took place in an alternate history where "brain-compatable technology" has been around since the 1970s. In the modern day, this meant that you could purchase cartridges (or plug-ins) for your brain that could assist you with any number of things. Below are a collection of advertisements for "Brain Plug-ins":

You play as Wesley, a trans boy who's looking for work in the fast-paced tech world.

Using your trusty smart watch, you have an assortment of ways to manage your stats.

But this life-sim isn't the cozy escape you expect it to be. This is a survival game about managing your hunger, paying your rent, and working in a gig economy.

How will you ever manage all this on your own? Well remember, this is an alternate universe with brain enhancements, and take a wild guess what the main gimmick of the game is:

Yep! Throughout the game, you'll be required to purchase these plug-ins to performance-enhance your life. Anything from Hourglassy: the encyclopedia for your brain. Znoose: the sleep aid which lowers the amount of time you have to rest. TURBO BRAIN: a super duper safe plug-in that overclocks your brain. or even PAWS: which teaches you wholesome American values such as racism.

You'll be able to explore a semi-open world full of weird and wonderful side characters. One of them is a programmer named Edith, who's working on a modded Znoose which can instantly put your brain to sleep with the push of a button.

Her ultimate plan is to enter the astral plane by essentially locking her consciousness out of her body using this tech. Whether her plan succeeds or fails is... left to interpretation.

The villain of the game is Leon LeMain, the CEO of a company called Hourglass which produces Rightaway. He ends up being at the centre or a grand mind control conspiracy (who would've guessed) and it's all up to you and a small group of friends to tear the whole operation down.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed what was essentially an art dump for a no longer in-development project. Maybe someday I'll salvage these ideas for something in the future. Here's a bus ticket if you ever want to visit this setting again.

[comfortfoodcontent]

1993 Alien vs Predator for Super Nintendo Magazine Ad

It's very interesting to see this ad basically claim it is the same game on SNES, Game Boy and MS-DOS. The Game Boy game got the subtitle "The Last of His Clan" and is different and the MS-DOS game never actually got made. It was titled Alien vs Predator: Nightmare on Ryushi and seemed to be an FPS adventure game. Ryushi was the colony from the original AvP comic series and it looked to be a faithful adaptation of that series. It was advertised in an Activision catalog and some screenshots have made their way online but that's all anyone seems to know about it. I would have LOVED this game.

[moosecow]

To all the people out there that had that one show, game, movie, song, book, podcast, fanfic, or whatever other obscure thing that had just kept them going, that suddenly got canceled, dropped, deleted, or discontinued…

I see you, and I feel you. I hope you get another season, a revival, or I hope you find something that you can love deeply again, or whatever it is you need to get you through the hard times.

❤️💜💙🧡

[itbe-jess]

I translated this French magazine article for Rayman 3, and Rayman is addressed by both male and female pronouns. And apparently he dated Mario.

The bigender icon we all deserve!

[chatretr0]

EarthBound 64 Gameplay (Cancelled)

[captainjonnitkessler]

Okay, time to start Disco Elysium. I'm very excited to finally find out who Harry and Kim are. I've heard SO much about them and not one bit of it has made any sense.

[cleolinda]

I’m a dork who enjoys watching Poppy Playtime playthroughs, and I need all the professional gamers to be on high alert for chapter 3.

[atomic-crusader]

I found out about a cancelled Xbox game called B.C. and it has an absolute 11/10 tyrannosaur

[alphacomicsvol2]

Batman - The Dark Knight (Cancelled Game) Concept Art by Goran Bukvic

[some-murmurings]

Revenant Hill died.

You ever see reality write the morose, melodramatic poetry for you? Feels all sorts of bad. Complexly disheartening.

[caffeinatedopossum]

Do they make... like... hearing aids for people who's hearing is *too* good so they can "turn down" the sounds or is that impossible or just too niche of a problem? Asking for a friend