Most Wanted Cancelled Games

There have been many amazing video games, and we've all got our favorites. But sometimes, amazing looking games like Prey 2, Star Wars 1313 and Silent Hills never see the light of day. This is for the games we'll never get to play.

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Real-Time Results(actually, partially randomized placeholder data for now)

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    Silent Hills
    Ranked by 45 users
    245 +87
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    Star Wars 1313
    Ranked by 35 users
    161 +74
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    Prey 2
    Ranked by 23 users
    118 +47
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    Earthbound 64
    Ranked by 21 users
    100 -74
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    Chrono Break
    Ranked by 19 users
    82 -43
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    Star Wars: Battlefront III
    Ranked by 11 users
    74 -74
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    Half-Life 2: Episode Four
    Ranked by 10 users
    72 +58
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    StarCraft: Ghost
    Ranked by 17 users
    69 -4
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    Van Buren
    Ranked by 14 users
    63 -5
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    Zone of the Enders 3
    Ranked by 13 users
    62 -88
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    Mega Man Legends 3
    Ranked by 14 users
    60 +11
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    Fez II
    Ranked by 12 users
    54 +31
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    Jak & Daxter 4
    Ranked by 10 users
    52 +67
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    Scalebound
    Ranked by 10 users
    49 +38
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    Star Wars: Damage
    Ranked by 10 users
    49 -52
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    Conker: Gettin' Medieval
    Ranked by 8 users
    47 -42
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    Rayman 4
    Ranked by 10 users
    44 -70
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    Oddworld: The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot
    Ranked by 7 users
    41 +55
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    Cry On
    Ranked by 6 users
    37 +88
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    Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans
    Ranked by 9 users
    37 +56

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  • 7 years ago
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    Am I at all responsible for a certain game's high placement on this list?
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  • 7 years ago
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    I just realised that I am most fortunate in that I have never had a game I am looking forward to get cancelled :)
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  • 8 years ago
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    Why is this called "Most Anticipated" if it's meant for games that will never be released? Shouldn't it be like "Most Wanted" instead?
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … It was favourite cancelled games but we said that didn't really fit since something can't be your favourite if you haven't played it.
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    • Filly Vanilli
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      Editing … I feel like that makes more sense than "anticipating" something that you know will never be out, when the word actually means "to regard as probable; expect or predict."
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … I think you're meant to presume the anticipation happened before the cancellation. Most disappointingly cancelled games would be a more accurate title, doesn't have a nice ring to it though.
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    • Filly Vanilli
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      Editing … Yeah, it makes more sense when you put it that way, but they still wouldn't be anticipated *anymore*. Ah well though, I can't really think of anything to put on this list atm anyway.
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … Rich is making a good point but I'll go with Filly on this one. It does make more sense to have "wanted" instead of "Anticipated" when you look at this list.
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … I vote "most disappointingly cancelled" myself. Most wanted implies you still expect them to come out just like most anticipated does (also that the former developers have a bounty on their head)
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    • Filly Vanilli
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      Editing … I don't think so. If I say I'm anticipating something I think it means I'm expecting it with bated breath. By contrast, though, you can want something and still realize it will never happen.
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … You nailed it and that's exactly (hopefully) the point of this list. If it gets really popular, it would be awesome if a developer would decide to revive a game because the game is really high on this list.
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    • Explojin
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      Editing … I don't like the original title or the current title... none of it rolls off the tongue. I have nothing constructive to add. (and mostly I just wanted to post on this because of original UnikG squad goals...)
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … "shit that ain't ever going to see the light of day"
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  • 8 years ago
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    #Silent Hills is the greatest game that never saw the light of day.
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  • 8 years ago
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    I want to rank Overstrike (AKA #Fuse) and the version of #BioShock Infinite we never got.
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … Yeah, I can think of a fair few games where promising parts of the early concept got scrapped and then the final game was disappointing. That's probably happened a lot more often than promising games getting outright cancelled.
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    • Husky Wing
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      Editing … ^ Perhaps we can rank those when sub-pages are ready? Lots of people still miss the original version of #I Am Alive, too
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  • 8 years ago
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    Favourite seems the wrong word for this, something can't be your favourite unless you've actually experienced it. Rename it most promising cancelled games maybe?
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … @Papissama
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    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … I agree with you, but favorites don't have to be rational. Most promising is worse since it implies we are in a position to judge how promising the games are.
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … I'd say the same logic applies here as with the most anticipated list. The reason it isn't called the favourite future games list is we haven't played them yet so even if we're looking forward to them we can't really call them favourites. Same deal here, even though we're disappointed they're cancelled/thought they seemed promising, we haven't played them so we can't call them favourites.
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    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … I know, problem being "cancelled games that you had anticipated the most" or "cancelled games you wish hadn't been cancelled the most" isn't very concise. Maybe just call it "most anticipated cancelled games"? Most anticipated being used in the past tense, of course. Past tense of 'most anticipated' is still 'most anticipated'! ;)
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … Yeah, I know what you mean. Favourite's the wrong word for this list but what it really is is a games you were most disappointed to hear were cancelled list and that's a bit of a mouth full. I'd second most anticipated cancelled games, probably the best name we could give it.
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    • Fincher
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      Editing … Least Favorite Game Cancellations.
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    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … oh, that's good
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … Oh hey Pape renamed it! The system works.
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  • 8 years ago
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    Is #Beyond Good & Evil 2 a canceled game yet?
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … It's in limbo but I don't think it's cancelled.
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … Maybe we should be able to rank games that aren't officially cancelled. Bioshock Vita and Rockstar's #Agent haven't been officially cancelled but I'm pretty sure they're never going to come out. I don't think BG&E 2's one of those cases though, I'm hopeful it'll still come out eventually.
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  • 8 years ago
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    I did not know 99% of these even existed :/ I will pass on this one
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … It's fun looking through though, check this out: https://www.unseen64.net/
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … Don't think I'll bother either. Hard to have a favourite game you haven't played.
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … But don't you really want to play any games off that never got finished? Husky has been crying over Prey 2 since Favslist began.
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … I look forward to games and get disappointed about delays now and again but I can't think of anything I was incredibly excited for that got cancelled.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … TIL that "The Last of Us" was going to have a dog companion. Thank god that didn't happen :/
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … The only cancelled game I was hyped for was "Final Fantasy Versus XIII" and I'm technically getting a version of it next year, so it doesn't really count
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    • Dr Eggnog
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      Editing … I didn't even let myself get excited for Silent Hills.
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    • Not Important
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      Editing … The only canceled games I have been hyped were The Last Guardian and Prey 2, and TLG is coming after all.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … Or is it.........SpoilerYea, probably :P
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … Does a game have to be announced as cancelled to be on this list? A lot of the time publishers just stop talking about games and leave them in development hell with a small team still technically working on them.
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  • 8 years ago
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    I can hear @Husky Wing celebrating loudly in the distance.
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