why though? mother 3 was made and everyone played it. if itoi doesnt want to make a new one, thats that. its not like how atlus doesnt just release the announced smt v after 3 years.
Sucks Itoi rejected the pitch, but yeah not much could be done there since when it comes to Earthbound "if Itoi says no then that means no," even if Iwata was the one who was trying to help get the project off the ground.
@@JakeRanney I'd honestly rather it look like Smash Bros or Persona Q, but yeah, it'd be really cool to have an Earthbound Triology remake, especially if the Three games use the Mother 3 gameplay and are rebalanced to fit.
Ew. No? I’m confused as to Why you think this would be a good idea? What about crono trigger would somehow enhance Mother? Looking like Dragonball? No. Playing like Final Fantasy? No. Written like Dragon Quest? No. I’m confused.
Mother is good as it is. Only Itoi could come up with ideas that scream Earthbound. And if he doesn’t want to do it again, people just need to leave the series as it is. Meanwhile there are plenty of indies and fan games to fill the gap!
Honestly a Earthbound and Chrono Trigger crossover wouldn't fundamentally work at all. There is just too many differences between them to make it not forced!
@@TristanLackey I'm not saying a crossover I'm just saying if some people from the Chrono team worked with HAL on an Earthbound sequel it might do even stronger in certain areas compared to the original Earthbound.
you should start putting the title of the game you’re showing video of in the corner so it doesn’t confuse people , its weird when you’re talking about a game called “Flux” but have Billy Hatcher gameplay in the background .. just doesn’t mix
Character models, water, and light effects still look decent, but it's got some REALLY muddy textures that were sub-par even by the standards of the time of its release.
In these videos sometimes there are cases where I'm unsure if the footage being shown is of said unreleased game or from another game. I recommend you label what game's footage is being shown similar to how you credit footage/images by their respective users/sites so it's clear what is shown.
The game being shown should be labelled, cause I was never sure when I was looking at the game you were talking about or random footage unless I happened to know the game.
@@LycanLink No kidding if they finished it and released it as a thing we wouldn't be talking about it, considering how unfocused the project was, it's not surprising to see it get the axe in the end. Now if we can just get Metal Arms back...
You know I don't blame Swingin' Ape Studios for taking Blizzard up on that offer but as a guy who loved Metal Arms it's a shame that they never got to make that sequel.
I feel bad for them. They cancelled what likely would've been a highly anticipated sequel to make *another* game that would get cancelled. I wonder what would've happened if they just stuck with the MA sequel.
Honestly a lot of these games sound really interesting, don't know how some of them would sell but I would love to try them. It just sucks how many games didn't make it due to not finding a publisher. Really shows how hard it is to sell a new IP.
For real!! It's even worse nowadays, it seems like 90% of games being released are reboots, remakes/remasters/reimaginings, or sequels. Rarely are new innovative IP's released, makes me sad to be honest.
I'm not sure if it's a common thought, but I can't help but suggest that these videos are in desperate need of pauses... You go from one topic to another so quickly that it's easy to lose concentration. Give viewers a chance to think of what facts they were just told by pausing in between topics. It's important to give periods their proper timing.
Besides Earthbound (which was never even started so it can't be called "cancelled") surely no one really is sorely missing any of these titles here. They all look like the typical 6/10 at best stuff that was everywhere in the PS2/GC/Xbox era.
It's such a disconnect to see them talk about one game while showing footage of a COMPLETELY different game just to have filler video. Also: 8:48 developed by "CAR-a-space"
yeah.... i wanna play a game about an isolated south american tribe of 400-to-500 people _easily colonizing_ the modern-day united states and its brutally-cruel, inhuman technology-dependent weaklings... teaching us so-called “1st-world” nations how to be Civilized and learn how to survive in this world without killing 17 animals every time we eat a sandwich and putting 14 plant species into extinction everytime we manufacture a new innovative “product”.... you could call it “the bright continent”
@@Zack-xu2zw thanks for reminding me of this cool story i wrote 4 months ago! it points insightfully at the doublestandard of centrist media depicting old non-european civilizations as being wise & healthy and then refusing to depict them as kicking western society’s ass
Looking back at a lot of these, several promising games seemed to fizzle due to lack of publisher wanting to pick it up. It really makes me glad for all the indie programs and digitally distribution channels available for self-publishing games nowadays
We know quite a lot about the story of Starcraft Ghost, actually. A few months ago, someone uncovered data for several missions' worth of gameplay and many story conversations.
We often think about big game studios like Rockstar, Ubisoft, Naughty Dog, etc etc. But there are a lot of game studios trying to break in the industry but didn't make it.
I thought that realsitic looking Basketball game with Mario characters (which I just learned is called Street Kings) was a fever dream. I must have run across the trailer on UA-cam for it over a decade ago or footage of it somehow aired on TV.
Yea, I guess it does. But it is another tornado game, & we don't get enough of those games, especially nowadays. It would've been *awesome* if we got Tornado Alley on the GCN, instead of it being cancelled 😢
Forgot if it was this episode or the last one but I completely forgot about the game i ninja. I played it so long ago and forgot it existed. It's crazy how many things from my childhood I forget about until someone brings it up. I do remember that growing up in the 90s and early 2000s was awesome. The 90s had their own feeling to them that hasn't been replicated since
Ion Runner looks like it would have been a good game. I really like the artwork. Stuntpigs looks and sounds like it would have been a fun little game too. Asylum on the other hand looks like it would have been absolutely terrifying.
I can get not wanting to do the GCN Mother game as a SEQUEL, but not doing it as a remake of the first, second or both original titles in the new art style, was a huge missed opportunity, even if it had remained Japan only.
You're talking about 'Flux', but showing footage from 'Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg'. I spent the entire clip going "wait, that game did come out, I KNOW THIS", and went on a quick hunt for the name. I realize and sympathize that there's going to be very little footage -- if any -- of cancelled games. But you really need to make it EXPLICIT when you're showing a video clip not related to what's being discussed. That was incredibly confusing. :P
Wow, I guess Shigesato Itoi is completely responsible for not letting the Earthbound games from growing and why there's only 3 games and likely why only two of the games ever got localized.
"News that will disappoint EarthBound/MOTHER fans everywhere..."
Oh please. There is no such thing, we have become fully numb to any of that.
That’s our secret Cap. We’re always disappointed
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The only thing keeping me from going crazy is all the great fangames being made in the mother community
why though? mother 3 was made and everyone played it. if itoi doesnt want to make a new one, thats that. its not like how atlus doesnt just release the announced smt v after 3 years.
Seems like the earthbound fans are the new half life 3 confirmed guys. Earthbound 2/mother 3 confirmed?
The early 2000s were such an odd and experimental time in gaming... it's crazy to think how much more of that we could have seen.
I'm imagining that Earthbound-sequel "lunch meeting" with Iwata and Itoi going down a lot like Steamed Hams.
ter?
It's a Tōhoku dialect...
"Hello iwata, came here for the lunch meeting!
So, what are we eating?"
Ah yes, my favorite character archetype: "The girl"
"Nice and legal."
I laughed a lot with that too, like, 'the girl' equally prepared to kill monsters as much as the hero, the scientist and the engineer
The obligatory woman character "the girl" lol
Example of this archetype: Kairi
@@Pyrospriter042 Not to be confused with the playable/actual party member version: The Chick
Earthbound on GameCube with the claymation style would've cool if it was released
I'm still holding out hope that they do a remake of the Earthbound/MOTHER Trilogy in this style
I agree
Sucks Itoi rejected the pitch, but yeah not much could be done there since when it comes to Earthbound "if Itoi says no then that means no," even if Iwata was the one who was trying to help get the project off the ground.
@maltese 84 I'm pretty sure the art style in earthbound was inspired by peanuts character like charlie Brown
@@JakeRanney I'd honestly rather it look like Smash Bros or Persona Q, but yeah, it'd be really cool to have an Earthbound Triology remake, especially if the Three games use the Mother 3 gameplay and are rebalanced to fit.
An earthbound sequel with one of the main team from Chrono Trigger would have been amazing
If only I lived in an alternate universe where this game exists
Ew. No? I’m confused as to Why you think this would be a good idea? What about crono trigger would somehow enhance Mother? Looking like Dragonball? No. Playing like Final Fantasy? No. Written like Dragon Quest? No.
I’m confused.
Mother is good as it is. Only Itoi could come up with ideas that scream Earthbound. And if he doesn’t want to do it again, people just need to leave the series as it is. Meanwhile there are plenty of indies and fan games to fill the gap!
Honestly a Earthbound and Chrono Trigger crossover wouldn't fundamentally work at all. There is just too many differences between them to make it not forced!
@@TristanLackey I'm not saying a crossover I'm just saying if some people from the Chrono team worked with HAL on an Earthbound sequel it might do even stronger in certain areas compared to the original Earthbound.
you should start putting the title of the game you’re showing video of in the corner so it doesn’t confuse people , its weird when you’re talking about a game called “Flux” but have Billy Hatcher gameplay in the background .. just doesn’t mix
YES
agreed
Yeah, I often get the game he's talking about and the gameplay on screen confused
True. Having never seen many of these games, it gives the impression that he is showing gameplay of the unreleased game he's referring to.
Agree. I almost thought i was looking at those rare footages
Honestly it's sad when such possibly amazing games get cancelled. even sadder when you realize that we'll possibly never get to play them
Unless they somehow still keep prototypes of the game and such which could be accessed and salvaged by fans
@@TheMedjed-k9n yes but they never share them with the world, and most of the time. we are not even able to get to em
Ikr, the Barbie game that got canceled was what everyone wanted and they ruined it.
Right? These videos always make me depressed because we’ll never see how these games might have turned out
At least the Kirby game got released eventually, first heavily reworked into Triple Deluxe and then in its more or less original form as Star Allies.
Me in the middle of the night
TV: (whispers) *GAMECUBE*
Too spooky
Normal
challenge EVERYTHINg
All this Mario Sunshine footage looks so clean
Never really realised how good the game actually looks.
Character models, water, and light effects still look decent, but it's got some REALLY muddy textures that were sub-par even by the standards of the time of its release.
Most game cube games still look absolutely fantastic even today such an underrated machine
I remember reading a promo for Four Horsemen in a copy of Tips and Tricks magazine back in 2003. I was so hype for it to come out, but it never did.
Darksiders is closest we got
I miss my GameCube. Switch needs to start emulating stuff. The potential for nostalgia buying is ridiculous. They limit only themselves.
7:34 rip syd mead.
God i love his Turn A Gundam,Turn X Gundam, and Sumo designs.
In these videos sometimes there are cases where I'm unsure if the footage being shown is of said unreleased game or from another game. I recommend you label what game's footage is being shown similar to how you credit footage/images by their respective users/sites so it's clear what is shown.
Did you not look at the bottom right?
The game being shown should be labelled, cause I was never sure when I was looking at the game you were talking about or random footage unless I happened to know the game.
12:43 Is that... Super Punch-Out's Little Mac?
Yes, he is playable in Fight Night: Round 2 for the Gamecube.
Yep. The GameCube version of Fight Night Round 2 had the Super Punch-Out!! version of Little Mac as a playable character.
Yes, and he's hideous.
Ah, yes, StarCraft Ghost...what a mess that was amidst all the other cancellations.
Gosh, I was so excited for that back then. What a bummer. :(
@@LycanLink No kidding if they finished it and released it as a thing we wouldn't be talking about it, considering how unfocused the project was, it's not surprising to see it get the axe in the end. Now if we can just get Metal Arms back...
Yeah, there was a “Wha Happun” episode on it. It was quite good.
I find it funny that they made a novel for a game that never was
I dont play starcraft but I do want to play this. Shame it never developed
A gamecube mother game would have been amazing
Yeah
These games could’ve been something I grew up with, I like to think about what that would’ve been like
Imagine if that Earthbound/Mother game did come out, the amount of people playing it might have kept the series alive even if it was just niche
@@Druid-T or flux
"In news that'll disappoint Earthbound/Mother fans everywhere..."
That's okay, they're used to overwhelming disappointment by now anyways.
So, we almost got a Mother game by a Chrono Trigger team lead, fully backed by Iwata.
I love Itoi, but goddamn.
1:31 Says IGN , shows Gamespot logo.
You know I don't blame Swingin' Ape Studios for taking Blizzard up on that offer but as a guy who loved Metal Arms it's a shame that they never got to make that sequel.
Same here...
I feel bad for them. They cancelled what likely would've been a highly anticipated sequel to make *another* game that would get cancelled. I wonder what would've happened if they just stuck with the MA sequel.
The Monster Island project would've been amazing. Let's hope a project like this comes back in some way!
You guys should also do a GBA episode of the cancelled games series.
I second this idea
Agree
7 months later and still no episode of this. I want this to happen as well
hee
That four horsemen game actually ended up becoming a graphic novel. My grandma got a signed copy during a comic convention she took me to years ago
Minor thing, but you know what I love about this channel? That I always learn something new about a game.
Honestly a lot of these games sound really interesting, don't know how some of them would sell but I would love to try them. It just sucks how many games didn't make it due to not finding a publisher. Really shows how hard it is to sell a new IP.
For real!! It's even worse nowadays, it seems like 90% of games being released are reboots, remakes/remasters/reimaginings, or sequels. Rarely are new innovative IP's released, makes me sad to be honest.
I'm not sure if it's a common thought, but I can't help but suggest that these videos are in desperate need of pauses... You go from one topic to another so quickly that it's easy to lose concentration. Give viewers a chance to think of what facts they were just told by pausing in between topics. It's important to give periods their proper timing.
But what would be done during these pauses? Idk I don't find it hard to follow
Besides Earthbound (which was never even started so it can't be called "cancelled") surely no one really is sorely missing any of these titles here. They all look like the typical 6/10 at best stuff that was everywhere in the PS2/GC/Xbox era.
6:03 Ah yes, just like with the early concepts of A Link to the Past, we have the timeless and unforgettable player class - girl.
I SEE NESS, I CLICK.
i mean your profile pic is ness so
Very Epic.
@@explodingegg123 and he is epic Ness gamer 445
actualofficeman We are ALL epic Ness gamers in the inside
That was my same thought lol
I love how you put Luigi footage over the bit about Nam: Tour of Duty
The gamecube curse: "You go bankrupt, you go bankrupt, everyone goes bankrupt!"
Did you know? The Gamecube game Super Smash Bros Melee was developed by Masahiro Sakurai who also created Kirby and voiced King Dedede
I cry every time I think about GameCube Mother
"A sure-fire way for siblings to learn cooperation." Whoever came up with this has never had a sibling-
That's the joke
5:59
...Thought my eyes were deceiving me, but that Japanese name 「アンギラス」 translates to "Anguirus". Cute.
Ah yes, the best giant lizard boi.
"Baseball Game for the Gamecube"
**plays Mario Baseball Series Music**
It's such a disconnect to see them talk about one game while showing footage of a COMPLETELY different game just to have filler video. Also:
8:48 developed by "CAR-a-space"
Love these videos
8:47 "caraspace"...? that says "carapace", like, a beetle shell.
I just came to see if anyone else noticed
I'm glad a game with "the dark continent" was not released, honestly.
yeah.... i wanna play a game about an isolated south american tribe of 400-to-500 people _easily colonizing_ the modern-day united states and its brutally-cruel, inhuman technology-dependent weaklings... teaching us so-called “1st-world” nations how to be Civilized and learn how to survive in this world without killing 17 animals every time we eat a sandwich and putting 14 plant species into extinction everytime we manufacture a new innovative “product”.... you could call it “the bright continent”
@@AuntBibby cool story bro
@@Zack-xu2zw thanks for reminding me of this cool story i wrote 4 months ago! it points insightfully at the doublestandard of centrist media depicting old non-european civilizations as being wise & healthy and then refusing to depict them as kicking western society’s ass
15:43 For who was playing phantasy star online for the GameCube, who had there team mates names as Sonic Tails Amy Knuckles, made something amazing
It is worth mentioning that Mother 3 was briefly considered to be shifted over to the gamecube
Looking back at a lot of these, several promising games seemed to fizzle due to lack of publisher wanting to pick it up. It really makes me glad for all the indie programs and digitally distribution channels available for self-publishing games nowadays
I used to pronounce Ubisoft as oo-be-soft, but the company actually pronounces their name like "you-be-soft".
No mention of the cancelled Banjo Threeie, that was shown off at SpaceWorld 2000?
Banjo Threeie was not in development. That is a tech demo for a non-specific Banjo title to demonstrate the hardware's capabilities.
Oof I remember the days of GameCube playing mario party with my cousins. *So much nostalgia* ❤
nice
That four horsemen game, don't suppose anyone connected to it ended up making Darksiders by any chance
8:30 12 Volt sounds like it's related to Re-Volt on N64, a kickass RC car racing game
Seeing clips of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat in this video made me realize how much I miss playing that game :( So underrated
Thanks for mentioning lady sia! One of my favorite gba games.
We know quite a lot about the story of Starcraft Ghost, actually. A few months ago, someone uncovered data for several missions' worth of gameplay and many story conversations.
Have you ever thinking of making PS1 Secrets, Rumors and Censorship with TetraBitGaming?
3:22 "All in a day's work." -Knuckles
Ah man no mention of the Gamecube port of Lionhead's "The Movies"?
Really stocked up on the Donkey Konga footage for this episode lmao
How about making more cancelled games videos for Xbox and PlayStation? It would be interesting
Oh boy!!! Part 2!! This means the cancelled wii games is around the corner
Welp
We often think about big game studios like Rockstar, Ubisoft, Naughty Dog, etc etc. But there are a lot of game studios trying to break in the industry but didn't make it.
"This title was developed by Caraspace"
Logo literally says Carapace
Kirby gcn flashback again...
The Monster island idea sounds like how War of Monsters came out.
22:14 ok guess we're just not gonna talk about gary coleman
Damn, Dead Rush was in development 3 generations early
Some really good concepts in here. Real shame to hear that none of these will ever fully develop.
Shoot. It's kind of incredible any game ever makes it to market.
Okay but "Dark Black" sounds amazing we need that game. Kinda looks like Outlast meets Eternal Darkness which just sounds AWESOME
It's sad how many games never get to see the light of day, good or bad these deserved to be played
>Shows "Carapace"
>Says "Caraspace"
Ah yes, every bug's most important body part, the caraspace.
15:08 I turned myself into ricochet Morty! I'm Ricochet Riiiiiiiiiiiick!
I thought that realsitic looking Basketball game with Mario characters (which I just learned is called Street Kings) was a fever dream. I must have run across the trailer on UA-cam for it over a decade ago or footage of it somehow aired on TV.
Tornado Alley's gameplay sounds somewhat similar to Tornado Outbreak.
Yea, I guess it does. But it is another tornado game, & we don't get enough of those games, especially nowadays. It would've been *awesome* if we got Tornado Alley on the GCN, instead of it being cancelled 😢
I really hope our game don't end up on a list like this one day 😭🤣 Spent 5 years on it and poured our hearts into it
Forgot if it was this episode or the last one but I completely forgot about the game i ninja. I played it so long ago and forgot it existed. It's crazy how many things from my childhood I forget about until someone brings it up. I do remember that growing up in the 90s and early 2000s was awesome. The 90s had their own feeling to them that hasn't been replicated since
Cool I didn't know that
Some of those GameCube game look like they would have been cool games to play😲😲
I know right?
What a good console.....
@matt back in the day? Woow yeah SNES is a timeless console.
6:13 one might argue that the GameCube gave no flux
I would love to see Monster Island into a full game
A UA-camr named cake found the lost prototype pickles
Holy cow Nightmare Creatures 3's og concept sounds awesome
Ion Runner looks like it would have been a good game. I really like the artwork.
Stuntpigs looks and sounds like it would have been a fun little game too.
Asylum on the other hand looks like it would have been absolutely terrifying.
Twilight princess was going to be a sequel to Wind Waker but due to the complaints of wind wakers art style it was repurposed into what it is today.
Honestly, Wind Waker’s art style wasn’t that bad, just different.
Omg so much creativity present on the GameCube
A third-person Starcraft sounds pretty rad.
ah yes, my fav authority archetype, the girl
I'd imagine the 'girl' would've been a damsel in distress turned into a badass sorta thing
The greatest tradegy here is that Metal Arms Glitch in the System 2 was cancelled for another cancelled project.
6:25 *if that chicken doesn't chase a green-clothed ELF... i am NOT INTERESTED!*
I can get not wanting to do the GCN Mother game as a SEQUEL, but not doing it as a remake of the first, second or both original titles in the new art style, was a huge missed opportunity, even if it had remained Japan only.
You're talking about 'Flux', but showing footage from 'Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg'. I spent the entire clip going "wait, that game did come out, I KNOW THIS", and went on a quick hunt for the name.
I realize and sympathize that there's going to be very little footage -- if any -- of cancelled games. But you really need to make it EXPLICIT when you're showing a video clip not related to what's being discussed. That was incredibly confusing. :P
16:49 If I've learned anything from Guru Larry, it's to never trust anything Peter Molyneux says
Music at the end was very satisfying to my ears no joke
I just wished they would develop earthbound with real life elements and modern setting like mother 2...guess I'll just create one with Kojima
"Ascending to become an all-star... where you can get your game on... and go play?"
I completely forgot about StarCraft Ghost. The name has never been more fitting till now. -_-
I miss Creature Labs...I loved their games.
Can you guys make a video on Crazy Taxi with Video Game Dunkey please?
stage debut looks like mmd with characters walking around and dancing on a small stage
Wow, I guess Shigesato Itoi is completely responsible for not letting the Earthbound games from growing and why there's only 3 games and likely why only two of the games ever got localized.