Felipepepe's Top 15 Cancelled RPGs

[SwiftCrack]

Does anyone remember the name of the game that got cancelled and we instead got Neverwinter Nights? Something short and snappy but fuck me if I can remember it still.

Not sure exactly what you're referring to, since Bioware had been planning to make Neverwinter Nights since the very beginning. There are NWN references in Baldur's Gate 1.

EDIT: Torn, possibly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2VJlmJzcM

 

[Rpgsaurus Rex]

Not sure exactly what you're referring to, since Bioware had been planning to make Neverwinter Nights since the very beginning. There are NWN references in Baldur's Gate 1.

EDIT: Torn, possibly?

Yes. Torn. Motherloving Torn.

 

[pippin]

heh. the icewind dale music was used for the original nwn trailer as well.

 

[SwiftCrack]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6S9ht0mShg

Here's the 'trailer'.

 

[TripJack]

top 15 pieces of shit we are better off without and also grimoire would be a more accurate title here

 

[felipepepe]

The Apple II had programs to make screenshots

Are you sure? Then why magazines and even official ads all used phographs from monitors? Here's a Ultima V ad from 1988, with screens from the Apple II, and they are clearly just shitty photographs:

Not to mention the chances of a .gif from a canceled game surviving 30 years...

Also, no Torn or Stonekeep 2, but 2 lame JRPG remakes? And I thought jumping in Lie Alexander's sack was Felipe's lowest point...

Torn looks popamole as fuck, and Stonekeep 1 was already mediocre... I really don't think they would be any special. And there's very little to talk about them as well.

 

[Infinitron]

Messaged the proprietor of this website to ask him about the Meantime images: http://8bitweapon.com/meantime-archive/

He made an EP dedicated to this game, so it's possible that he made those mock-ups as well.

 

[SwiftCrack]

That TORN trailer reminds me of the Descent trailer that was on the Baldur's Gate Disc 1 for some reason.

 

[Melcar]

Hey, you're missing AoD there.

 

[Rpgsaurus Rex]

Torn looks popamole as fuck, and Stonekeep 1 was already mediocre... I really don't think they would be any special. And there's very little to talk about them as well.

Torn was the sort of game that my local game mags kept hyping up for MONTHS. "You liked Fallout? You liked Baldur's Gate? Here's the next great RPG coming soon (tm)!". It was a huge letdown to hear it got cancelled.

And then we got to play NWN OC :troll face:

 

[Melcar]

Yeah, Torn looked like decline. The artwork for that game though

 

[Stompa]

Dev interview:

Sergei Klimov: We're one of the oldest Russian teams on the East European games scene and we've been working on a way to mix strategy, tactics, RPG and adventure since early '97 when we started developing our own Chronicles of Time universe and the corresponding RPG set. The first multi-genre game from the Chronicles, Warlord Vseslav: A Hero's Tale, should ship next spring. It's set in a totally accurate XI century, but the Highlander series and Lord of the Rings and the Eternal Champion novels have been great inspiration since we've read lots of sci-fi and fantasy in our days - still keep reading!

Hahaha, oh wow. Warlord Vseslav: A Hero's Tale was also canned after multiple delays in 2003. I suppose they wanted to use its engine for Stormbringer, but, since it wasn't finished, they were left empty-handed.

 

[Turjan]

The Apple II had programs to make screenshots

Are you sure?

No, I never had one myself. In 1988, I had an Atari 1040ST, and the only Apple programs I ran were on a Macintosh emulator.

 

[throwaway]

[There are NWN references in Baldur's Gate 1.

Mind elaborating?

Also, I never got past 55% of the Why did Sirotech go bankrup thread. Damn shame those mockups were the only thing we got, cancelling the auctions was a crime.
So a couple of Qs : Is that why Brenda gets so much flak here? Just how much of Cleve's ramblings were confirmed?

 

[Infinitron]

There are NWN references in Baldur's Gate 1.

Mind elaborating?

http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Foreshadow

 

[throwaway]

Heh..totally wooshed when I played it.

 

[Rpgsaurus Rex]

There are NWN references in Baldur's Gate 1.

Mind elaborating?

http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Foreshadow

Wait... did the city of Neverwinter only get added in the 3rd ed book of Forgotten Realms?

 

[Infinitron]

There are NWN references in Baldur's Gate 1.

Mind elaborating?

http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Foreshadow

Wait... did the city of Neverwinter only get added in the 3rd ed book of Forgotten Realms?

No, of course not. The dialogue is just weird because they wanted to insert that reference. There was a Neverwinter Nights MMO in the early 90s, remember

 

[Infinitron]

felipepepe

Hi Infinitron, nice to meet you! I created these images my editing the UI & Portraits from the Apple II version of Wasteland, since MT was to be the spiritual sequel before being dropped.

also check out my work on this apple II game that is inspired by wasteland & bard's Tale. https://www.facebook.com/LawlessLegends
Lawless Legends

Mystery solved. And all these years these images have been passed around as genuine screenshots...

 

[Jaesun]

So the worlds first video game.... photoshop?

 

[Turjan]

And all these years these images have been passed around as genuine screenshots...

Well, the article said mock-up.

 

[A user named cat]

Why there are no super-hero RPGs? Hero Games tried to answer that in 1992… and never made it.

A couple years later there was this if you want to count hybrids (which reminds me I need to catch up on a million DOS games):

 

[Ezrite]

These games hurt my feelings.

 

[Melcar]

They are triggering.

 

[felipepepe]

Why there are no super-hero RPGs? Hero Games tried to answer that in 1992… and never made it.

A couple years later there was this if you want to count hybrids (which reminds me I need to catch up on a million DOS games):

Yeah, a lot of people pointed me towards it. Hoboken will be on the book and all that, but I don't think it counts... it's a parody, not a actual super-hero game. I mean, your character's power is to organize flowcharts. And aside from the combat, the rest plays like an adventure game.