With Fez II being cancelled following a twitter outburst from the series’ creator, Phil Fish, a lot can be learned from this damned mess, particularly regarding the importance of a healthy gaming press-developer relationship.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "Sometimes, a game getting cancelled is actually a blessing in disguise that either helps the developer or game series reach new heights with what actually does come next or just saves our time and money by keeping what would obliviously have been a bad time lost forever."
okay, I'll bite.
I friggin adored Arkane's version of Prey (it's basically the spiritual successor to System Shock that we never got) but I would have loved to see the bounty hunter iteration of the sequel as well, perhaps as it's own IP.
Scalebound for me was happy it got canned , the concept seemed picked out of a hat lol terrible.
Developing a game is an intricate process. Thousands of lines of code have to be written with thousands of graphical assets. The publishers have to spend thousands of dollars on marketing. Speaking on the behalf of the developers, it hurts us beyond measure when we don't get to witness the fruit of our labour.
Here are The Gaming Report's top 5 games that did not see the light of day.
Sometimes a video game will be announced only to be never heard of again. These cancelled video games showed a lot of promise and today GVN will be counting down the best ones!
^ And similarly, Rebelstar 2: The Meklon Conspiracy. The first on GBA is such an overlooked, underrated gem. 9.5/10.
"Top 5 cancelled video games" that list incorrect .
lets start with cancelled games from Snes up to now, that we old skool gamers have waited for for years only to find out it was cancelled.
If I made a top cancelled games. It'll all be Crash Bandicoot and MegaMan games. *sad laugh*
Fez was a great game and I'm sad the sequel in canceled. But honestly, Phil Fish always whined about everything. Just read his Twitter history. I'm glad someone called him out on it.
What I took from it is, even if you were the number 1 a-hole in the world, there'd still be people hell bent on defending you.
Heck, even murderers and rapists have supporters.
I never liked Fish, but there was no need for the blatant slander against him by what's his face. I would have been royally pissed off as well.
Both parties made fools of themselves, one of which was doing so for a long time and towards other people. This type of pettiness is something we can all do without. As we have seen here, it has harmed the end user, the average gamer.
Sadly, dickheads roam the Earth. The ease of ignoring them and punishing them with our wallets is probably a price worth paying in my books. The cost of the whole breakdown in relations between a developer and the press in this instance has lost us a game, something worse than putting up with someone we may disagree with if you ask me.