What are the Best Video Games That Were Never Made?

were started and then abandoned. And um. The article that I wrote mentioned several video games that fizzled out and development, but we're going to talk about some other ones as well as some video games that may not have even been thought about by anyone other than ourselves. At this point, I'm going to throw this over to Chris. You're gonna give us get us started here, So Chris, yeah, you know, as as Jonathan is so happily pointed out, I am

a fan of systems that are no longer invoked. So I think my favor it would be a civilization too for the Amiga, which we're still waiting for those of us who still own Amiga's um which for those of you who don't know as a as an old computing system that was brought to market by Commodore and then part of their hands and went to a couple others. But in a more modern note, I'm interested to see

what happens with SPOR this year. Hopefully they will be bringing that to market Electronic Arts and will write, um, it looks fascinating. And they've been threatened with the vapor wear title for not bringing it out sooner because they keep promising it and then you know, the date slips.

But right this this is a common problem. Um, you have video game companies that announced the video game early in the development cycle and they promise all these different functions and then they realize they have to deliver on those functions or risk gamers wrath, which the gamers among us know is great. Indeed, so this the things happened before. There was a video game called Fable which had a lot of different promises that some gamers felt it didn't

deliver upon. So some people are being a little more cautious or they're they're saying, well, we're going to we're not going to release it until it's it's ready, and then it just never seems to get ready. There's one very famous example of this. It's called Duke k Newcam Forever. We mentioned it in the article, but no discussion about video video games that were never made as complete without it.

It was first announced more than ten years ago and we're still waiting, but are three D Realms says that it's coming, so we'll just have to wait and see. I guess maybe another ten years. They just want to get it right right. So, do you have a favorite a favorite video game that's never made? Um? Well, it's kind of hard to say, isn't it, but uh, yeah, I'm a trekky or trekker if that's the politically correct term. Now. I was very much looking forward to Star Trek Online,

which unfortunately has fizzled out. Um. We hope that maybe one day team will get together and actually deliver on this, but for now, not so much. Well what about yourself? Do you have a favorite one that's been never been made? Um? You know, to tell you the truth, I really haven't. Um, but simply because there are so many that I haven't gotten around to playing yet. Um, you know it's there.

I have a backlog, a stack. Perhaps a better question to ask is is are there any video games that you wish someone would make that haven't been mentioned by anyone yet. Well, you know, I was thinking about the possibility of of, you know, taking an existing franchise and and bringing it up to date, maybe with a celebrity endorsement like Dick Cheney's Duck Hunt Excellent. It's a it's the game where you you shoot the other player as opposed to the ducks. Oh, you know, you bring that

added amount of realism to it. That's fantastic. Well, that's a that's a good point. Know. I was also thinking about we were talking earlier about the Lego series of games.

For those of you who are not familiar, Lego has partnered with some franchises such as the Star Wars franchise, the Indiana Jones franchise, the Batman comic book um and produced some really fun, fun games that are both true to the spirit of the original franchise and they bring some levity and silliness in with the whole Lego aspect. And there's some properties that we talked about that that

might benefit from the Lego treatment. Um we had the Lego Lord of the Rings, very very tiny Lego Hobbits would be excellent they would have to be very small to to fit in the minifig tradition. And I suggested to Jonathan, who is a wrestling fan, that we could have a Lego w w E game. When someone gets blown apart in these lego games, they fall to pieces,

so it'd be great to see one of them. Uh, you know, the victim of a really spectacular move where I'll give you an example, so the Undertaker delivers a tombstone pile driver to John Cena, and then John Cena would would split up into tiny little pieces. I would buy this game twice. I would buy it from multiple systems. I'm looking forward to this game that will probably never exist,

so my expectations are already high. But we were also talking about other things, so just to see an interesting take, I suggested a Lego Glen Garry Glenn ross um which show would have a little Lego Alec Baldwin yell at you and and fire you. That would be a very interesting game. I'm sure you can think of a thousand others. Uh, and Chris and I we could We could talk about these all day long because we have um, but we'll

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