They had a character from that planned for PS All-Stars but people didn't support the game. The 2011 network outage may've played a part, but still.
Anyway for me one of the cancelled games I would love to play is Earthbound 64. Always was intrigued how that IP would translate into 3D, and they seemingly had some great concepts for it.
Maybe Nintendo returns to it in the near future.
They cannibalized parts of the story for Mother 3, as well the M3 manga adaption. For those reasons it will not, and cannot, happen. Hell, even Nintendo itself probably lacks the patience or employee skill necessary to coax greatness out of dated hardware like the 64 at this point. They'd have to re-teach themselves damn near everything.
1) Anyways, I have a load of picks here, most pretty obscure. Echo Delta for the 64DD got as far as having E3 builds playable (EB64 did too, fwiw) and was an RTS styled game where you controlled a sub underwater and had to build contraptions with it to complete levels for part of a plot. Thats my personal, very obscure, white whale.
2) There was a scrapped version of Toe Jam and Earl for DC that played a lot like the Genny version, would have been much better than what we got (and there was a fan attempt to get it released, but I think it fell through.)
3) BC was a caveman-styled original Xbox game where you would have had a squad of cave bros go out and kill dinosaurs and build your cave settlement. Very ahead of its time idea that got into development hell due to lack of focus and died at or soon after the 360's launch.
4) True Fantasy Online would have been console Everquest/WoW with cute Japanese girls on voice chat saying hello to you. This is what OG Xbox era Microsoft chose to moneyhat from Japan instead of anything that came out. The studio making it, Factor 5, later did a bunch of shit of middling quality like White Knight Chronicles and Yokai Watch, and is still around today.
4) RE 1.5 is a very famous loss we could have benefited from.
5) The original 2010s version of Skull and Bones would have been plain good simple fun.
6) And, of course, rip Scalebound.
7) And rip BN Singapore's presumably generic version of Metroid Prime 4, I suppose. Probably dodged a bullet with it though, to be honest.
