From what I heard about ScaleBound is that when microsoft was helping PG fund the game they secretly used the money to develop a different game behind MS back and lets just say Microsoft was not too happy about it and shut down the game immediately after finding out.
@Rollbrand370 Idk if it's Astral Chain, but I'm guessing that's the one since it was developed around the same time as ScaleBound. Also, even after everyone was giving Microsoft shit about canceling the ScaleBound. PG was actually defending Microsoft, saying they take full responsibility for ScaleBound's failure. Also, Phil Spencer not commenting about it made things even more suspicious. So that's probably most likely what happened to SB
The cancellation of Scalebound still breaks my heart to this day. If it hadn’t been killed off maybe the Xbox One would’ve sold at least 90 million units instead of ultimately 60 million units.
Going by what they showed it looked like a mess. It would've bombed. Platinum either makes top notch games or absolute gutter trash, no in-between with them
The whole cancellation of scalebound is what killed the Xbox one for me. My dad literally bought the system just out of anticipation for it and then platinum killed it by saying that there’s “not enough hype for the game” or that “it was too fast paced” for them to put out
Fun Fact: Demonik was the game used in the movie "Grandma's Boy". The movie is about a game development studio and Demonik was the game the main character was working on.
@@Nick-4K I was super suprised also. I jumped down here to state it myself but @Sinyckle already did. Pretty large piece of info they skipped there if you asked me. scrolling down i see a bunch of people already said it too lol
I always thought the game from that movie looked so good and had such a cool art direction. Used to be obsessed with it. SO pissed it was an actual game we never got.
How do you mention Demonik without talking about Grandma's Boy? It's a 2006 stoner comedy that is centered around a stoner worker as a game tester who is making his own game, that game being Demonik. They used real footage from the game and made it look pretty good as well. It was also supposed to be a movie tie in with Clive Barker, also called Demonik, which also got cancled when Barker pulled out. So Demonik had a lot more intresting stuff surrounding it that you could/should have mentioned.
Oddworld: The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot deserves more mention. It has a working prototype floating around somewhere (Just Add Water is said to have a build), has some story outlines known, and EA drama behind the scenes.
@@shlakenjake I wish we could have experienced it as it could've been, but hopefully these last two remakes of Oddworld give Inhabitants the spark to make something similar.
I played it during the invite run and it was horrible. No one liked it, idk if you're just remembering your time playing it or something, but Christ I remember everyone saying on the fable forum (i believe it was lionhead forums) how bad it was, and I remember distinctly getting into a party chat with numerous people who hated it, too. It wasn't even a Fable game. It was a MOBA with no ties to Fable.
The fact that you didn't cover B. C. for the original Xbox baffles me. I remember being a kid and that game getting tons of coverage and being so hyped.
Rare Ware being almost deleted from the scene along with a lot of other notable developers in the late 1990s and early 2000s and being merged into larger companies really ruined some of the magic or spirit that old gaming had. Before major companies saw games as solely money makers and took them based on statistics of what consumers are into like nowadays with everything being a PUBG rebrand. Back in the day you had people devoting 5-10 years to make one game with one plot and when it came out they put everything into it the only thing that limited them was the time they produced it in. Now adays you have developers with seeming no limitations from graphics and audio perspective however you practically see the same game year after year. Because again it’s based on market data everyone wants to make money not take chances I wish we’d go back to that era and perhaps we will someday.
@@cooljoshua4959and Game Pass made devs content mess like RedFall because they know ppl will play it for free anyways so they made a bad and buggy game thats why GP is 50/50 for me also many 3rd party devs will not all-in in the service cuz they will lose some profit
I hope to see Scalebound coming back as a single player hack and slash game with cutting edge technology for the Xbox Series or the next generation of Xbox consoles. Platinum Games are really good at making games like that, or maybe they could get in contact with Kamiya since he's unemployed at the moment and provide him with an studio to work on it.
I remember 10-15 years ago watching a video of a cancelled game called ghost boy I think. It was for the og xbox I believe and showed a ghost character walking around a cemetary. I haven't been able to find that video or anything about it since. Anyone know what I'm talking about? and no it isn't the ghost game featured in this vid
So that's where the random tiger from Diddy Kong Racing came from... I assume now that all of those little random animals came from Pro-Am. Right? Unless I should've recognized them from some other game. Idk. I rented DK Racing when I was really young and loved it. I thought it was so cool that you could fly planes. I never owned it though but always wished that I did. So then when I was in my mid 20's I got a new N64 online and played it with my friends for a few years. One day I was like, I'm gonna' get DK Racing finally. I waited like a week and a half for that game to show up, and on the second day that I owned it my N64 quit working. 😞 lol Such is my luck in life.
Honestly at this point they need to bring some of theses back. Gears is dead, fable is dead , and halo is in a weird spot. Aw yeah and ps5 got Spider-Man and gow. I mean come on what do we got to lose at this point 😭
Rocketsloth did zero information on the topic, and idk which one of the two that wrote the script -- but they were both woefully BSing most of these. What game were you asking had (or didn't have) BC? Most entries of all the Xbox generations are BC on the consoles now, with the exception of a few that the publisher won't provide the ability to allow it.
@@itsJoshW Not Backwards Compatibility, there was a game called BC for the original Xbox that was frequently advertised in OXM before they announced that it had been canceled.
I need help looking for a canceled xbox 360 project called “virtual girl” ? It was supposed to let you make stickers and shirts and have a social aspect to it but got canceled because they didnt want people selling the own virtual stickers or something I wanted to know about it and if it actually existed, thank you
It’s not Microsoft’s fault for ScaleBound it’s actually platinums. They were using Microsoft’s money to fund their own game behind Microsoft’s back. And obviously they shut them down. Platinum has even given an apology and was defending Microsoft cause of all the hate they were getting.
Dude literally this lmao. Marathon will literally flop, too. I can't wait to watch that tanker burn on fire and the crazed Halo community say "But extraction shooters are the new FPS wave, it failed because Microsoft" or some weird crazy sht. No one likes Extraction Shooters that plays FPS games. The only ones who do, usually suck at FPS games.
Most of these games could have been potential bangers. I guess in the alternate timeline these games would have been more or less successful and Halo wouldn´t be the popular Xbox franchise.
What's the reasoning behind Platinum not using the assets from Scalebound or even the concept to make a new game? Is it cuz it's all owned by Microsoft since they own the IP?
Bro i wonder what the actual fuck is going on at Xbox that the only games that actually come out are either horribly broken, painfully mediocre or both meanwhile they cancel the interesting ones
@@oo--7714 Exactly, I don’t think it would have made waves or anything. It’s one of those games in the $10 section at Walmart you’re grandma buys you for Christmas lol
*i mean Microsoft really ought to give everyone who buys and xbox x or s 60$ in Microsoft funds because we were deliberately told the ourchase would come with fable. It had a rating, it had a trailer and literally didn't drop. Having 0 exclusive games is a red flag. Backwards compatibility isbthevonly thing that jeeos xvox relevant.
All the games that disappear because they couldn't find publisher. That's the one sad part about the physical games era. (Everything else is great, 'cause physical copies and actual bug testing QC) Also, not sure how you screw up pronouncing a popular game but it's "bal-dur's gate" not "bal-der's gate". Make an effort to say things right, you'll offend fans otherwise.
I dont care if I get burned at the stake for this but am I the only one who thought scalebound looked cringe as fuck? I never got the appeal of this game at all. it just looked like a barely average hack and slash with the typical edgelord protagonist that only catered to edgy "gamers" that dress exclusively from hot topic and think funko pops is a valid form of interior design
Being a fan of Fable, Fable Legends getting cancelled was something that really bummed me out. I was really hyped for it because the idea of getting to play as a villain controlling minions and the nature of the quest that the other players were undertaking was a pretty cool idea. The open beta looked promising and it, along with Scalebound, would have been a pretty big driving factor for me purchasing an Xbox One instead of making the transition to PC gaming at the time.
Fable Legends was cancelled because it wasn't even Fable. It was a MOBA reskinned later by Lionhead and, after they blew a lot of budget, still was filled with numerous issues and absolutely nothing to do in the game. Lionhead deviated so far from "fable" in this game, and that's why it was cancelled. It was unrecognizable from the "Fable" branding, with zero affiliation to the series. They coined it, not as a spin off, but a mainline entry. And there was zero story (despite claiming it was under development), and only the MOBA. It was cancelled, from literal online sources upon cancellation, because it was universally disliked by the public and Microsoft.
@@Prawnsacrifice ?? I played it. I hated it. No one liked it. It was a MOBA. Even it's freaking wiki says it is. You had 4 characters with the "DM" as the villain making the enemies appear. It was horrible. It was multiplayer only. There was no story. There was no "fable". It wasn't an RPG. Are you dumb?
I still bet that they are going to reuse the IP but please not this stupid multiplayer crap. That was a insta turn off for me. Multiplayer games are meh, an niche as not all will be good
@@MTTT19 Xbox Series X is easily following that title. With such terrible management, it's a wonder they manage to get anything out. Though, their stuff usually releases broken nowadays besides
Always weird hearing someone mention Pirates of the Burning Sea. One of my cousins I was raised with worked on that game as their first project out of college. I don’t know if they went in the credits as their actual name or their code name they used back then. But he was featured in a dev log about how he nearly choked to death on a steak.
Fable Legends looked cool? You may be one of the only people I've heard say that. Legends was a game nobody at the time wanted, and had next to no hype. The only reason its even remembered is to be listed in fanboy arguments about all the games MS canceled 😅 In reality, game was canceled in beta because nobody cared about it.
Literally wrote basically a dissertation on the video with this. No one wanted that game to be made, absolutely no one, especially when it was allowed for beta/alpha access. Everyone universally hated it, with Lionhead having to close their forums after all the hate threads popped up. I remember that distinctly, as I was actually pissed that they turned the beloved Action RPG series into a freaking MOBA that, even by itself, was horrible in design. The game was filled with bugs, was "promised to have a story", yet there was zero evidence of story even being involved. The game (Fable Legends) was also cancelled because it was a massive waste of money for a reskin MOBA that everyone hated, even Microsoft lol. I remember they had a "live player count" for the beta testing in the game, and seeing the number in double digits at one point. It was sad, but it's true: Lionhead did not make a Fable game when they created "Fable Legends". They made an entirely new, horrible IP, branded it "Fable", and sold it to the market as being "Fable". Literally hilarious when you realize that RocketSloth did zero actual research for this video and simply collected a large group of games cancelled and made up things about each game based on quick Google searches. The one I laughed about was "the cancelled Halo game by Black Tusk Studio", which in 2012 they were rumored to be working on a PC game, which turned into Gears. The difference: Rocketsloth said it was "Actually Halo", and the article claimed that it was trying to "be what Halo did to the consoles, but for the PC". Essentially, claiming that it would revolutionize the PC FPS market. That development studio renamed themselves to The Coalition, and before working on Gears, they were created as "Microsoft Studios Vancouver", which they were originally hired to develop Microsoft Flight Simulator, which was cancelled in 2012.
Demonik was also HEAVILY featured in Grandma's Boy as a game developed in secret for the OG Xbox by the protagonist Alex. In the commentary they make a joke about the game.being on the 360 and the movie coming out in 2005 but getting not 360s for the movie do to budget. Fantastic stoner comedy. It's my favorite movie. Highly recommend.
There was a game called Freefall 3050AD that was either close to finished or possibly complete that never came out for the original Xbox. I believe it would have come out after the 360 had launched, and it wouldn't have done that well so it was shelved. There's leaked versions floating around the internet. It was actually a port of a Nuon game (an MPEG-2 DVD decoder chipset that could also play games).
You forgot the most important one: Cry On by Mistwalker (Lost Odyssey) for the Xbox 360. There is even an official trailer reveal by Microsoft Srudios.
@10:59 fun fact: the primary developer working on the game built it from the ground up while living at his grandmother's house. The studio the dev was working at stole the game from him, but he proved it was stolen from him when his grandmother beat the "prodigy" studio owner in a 1v1 on demonik multiplayer. His weed dealer's monkey also drove him to the studio for the 1v1.
Maybe I missed it, but you forgot to mention some of the titles made by Press Play under Microsoft, a big one being Project Karoo from 7+ years ago that would eventually be revived under a new studio being Flashbulb Games after MS let them keep the assets on leaving. and given a new title being trailmaker releasing on PC but also returned to xbox a few years after. It's still a great video, though, and I'm still holding out hope for Scalebound.
From what I heard about ScaleBound is that when microsoft was helping PG fund the game they secretly used the money to develop a different game behind MS back and lets just say Microsoft was not too happy about it and shut down the game immediately after finding out.
To be honest, not wrong on their side. Platinum screwed this.
Still sad and mad it never happend
Was the secret game Astral Chain?
@Rollbrand370 Idk if it's Astral Chain, but I'm guessing that's the one since it was developed around the same time as ScaleBound. Also, even after everyone was giving Microsoft shit about canceling the ScaleBound. PG was actually defending Microsoft, saying they take full responsibility for ScaleBound's failure. Also, Phil Spencer not commenting about it made things even more suspicious. So that's probably most likely what happened to SB
@@Rollbrand370I thought it was Nier Automata. Could be wrong but that's what I heard.
@@route77productionsIt was Nier and that time It was PS Exclusive 😂
The cancellation of Scalebound still breaks my heart to this day. If it hadn’t been killed off maybe the Xbox One would’ve sold at least 90 million units instead of ultimately 60 million units.
Going by what they showed it looked like a mess. It would've bombed. Platinum either makes top notch games or absolute gutter trash, no in-between with them
Xbox one sold around 51 million units
The whole cancellation of scalebound is what killed the Xbox one for me. My dad literally bought the system just out of anticipation for it and then platinum killed it by saying that there’s “not enough hype for the game” or that “it was too fast paced” for them to put out
Sixty. Million. Can you even actually fathom the size of sixty million?
If scalebound released and was a good game xbox still wouldn't have sold 90 million
Fun Fact: Demonik was the game used in the movie "Grandma's Boy". The movie is about a game development studio and Demonik was the game the main character was working on.
I was actually surprised he didn't mention it
@@Nick-4K I was super suprised also. I jumped down here to state it myself but @Sinyckle already did. Pretty large piece of info they skipped there if you asked me.
scrolling down i see a bunch of people already said it too lol
We all had the same idea lol. Definitely one of my all time favorite stoner comedies, my family as well, we always watch it when I go home to visit.
I always thought the game from that movie looked so good and had such a cool art direction. Used to be obsessed with it. SO pissed it was an actual game we never got.
Shit I should’ve scrolled, literally just posted the same thing haha
The HALO Mega Blocks Game is a MASSIVE MISSED OPPOURUNITY the demo they had looked incredibly fun and would have competed with TT's Lego games.
Isn't that kind of like saying mouthwash is going to compete with scotch? I mean you could make the argument but...no.
@@leviwarren6222you're smoking
@@nononoohfuck Wait a minute, are you actually defending mega bloks? Sure, they may not be woke like Lego but their product sucks.
How do you mention Demonik without talking about Grandma's Boy? It's a 2006 stoner comedy that is centered around a stoner worker as a game tester who is making his own game, that game being Demonik. They used real footage from the game and made it look pretty good as well. It was also supposed to be a movie tie in with Clive Barker, also called Demonik, which also got cancled when Barker pulled out. So Demonik had a lot more intresting stuff surrounding it that you could/should have mentioned.
Oddworld: The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot deserves more mention. It has a working prototype floating around somewhere (Just Add Water is said to have a build), has some story outlines known, and EA drama behind the scenes.
After enjoying Stranger's Wrath I saw this in a magazine and got super excited. But reality gut punched me.
@@saintxrage2311 Tell me about it. It's sad we'll never get it as it was (if at all).
@@shlakenjake I wish we could have experienced it as it could've been, but hopefully these last two remakes of Oddworld give Inhabitants the spark to make something similar.
Oddworld has so much cancelled material. That would make a good video by itself
@@wkody7 Really? How many projects did they cancel? And were they announced like Fangus was?
I played fable legends during it's alpha run and all I can say why. It had such a fun feel, rough yes but fun.
My favorite game 😢
I played it during the invite run and it was horrible. No one liked it, idk if you're just remembering your time playing it or something, but Christ I remember everyone saying on the fable forum (i believe it was lionhead forums) how bad it was, and I remember distinctly getting into a party chat with numerous people who hated it, too. It wasn't even a Fable game. It was a MOBA with no ties to Fable.
@itsJoshWashington im starting to question you know what a moba is josh.....
@@Prawnsacrifice Have you played Fable Legends? It was a moba clone, it's rival was suppose to be LoL & SMITE.
@itsJoshWashington 😅😅 no it wasnt it fable ledgends was a asymmetric multiplayer game most definitely wasnt a moba 😅
Fun fact: Demonik had gameplay shown in the movie called “Grandma’s Boy”. I thought that game was fake haha.
Demonik ended up being used as footage for a game "in development" for the movie Grandma's Boy.
The fact that you didn't cover B. C. for the original Xbox baffles me. I remember being a kid and that game getting tons of coverage and being so hyped.
I still have project spark and that conker campaign. Gonna sell my Xbox with it on it some day once it becomes a collectors item to be able to play it
It's amazing how Turn 10 is the only Xbox Developer to not have a cancelled project.
Because they aftually deliver
Demonik is giving a lot of Advent Rising vibes in the mechanic. I'm still waiting for a sequel to the game MAJESCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rare Ware being almost deleted from the scene along with a lot of other notable developers in the late 1990s and early 2000s and being merged into larger companies really ruined some of the magic or spirit that old gaming had.
Before major companies saw games as solely money makers and took them based on statistics of what consumers are into like nowadays with everything being a PUBG rebrand. Back in the day you had people devoting 5-10 years to make one game with one plot and when it came out they put everything into it the only thing that limited them was the time they produced it in.
Now adays you have developers with seeming no limitations from graphics and audio perspective however you practically see the same game year after year. Because again it’s based on market data everyone wants to make money not take chances I wish we’d go back to that era and perhaps we will someday.
Back to when games had spirit and charm.
Gamepass has basically made devs feel more comfortable doing different things. Try some of the games in there
@@cooljoshua4959and Game Pass made devs content mess like RedFall because they know ppl will play it for free anyways so they made a bad and buggy game
thats why GP is 50/50 for me also many 3rd party devs will not all-in in the service cuz they will lose some profit
Outer wilds looks good, I hope they don't that away
I played the Fable Legends Beta it looked so good for that console generation. Also og Phantom dust is free now on xbox
Halo mega Bloks game would of been cool and I see halo mega Bloks or cheep version of it in Argos catalogue.
It should be noted that Demonik (11:01) played a significant role in the film Grandmas Boy.
RIP scalebound, I miss it more knowing it's platinum that were making it
Platinum Games was the reason it was canceled in the first place. Because of embezzlement and liying to MS and their shady business practices
I hope to see Scalebound coming back as a single player hack and slash game with cutting edge technology for the Xbox Series or the next generation of Xbox consoles.
Platinum Games are really good at making games like that, or maybe they could get in contact with Kamiya since he's unemployed at the moment and provide him with an studio to work on it.
I remember 10-15 years ago watching a video of a cancelled game called ghost boy I think. It was for the og xbox I believe and showed a ghost character walking around a cemetary. I haven't been able to find that video or anything about it since. Anyone know what I'm talking about? and no it isn't the ghost game featured in this vid
Was it called Rain? If that's it, it's downloaded only on ps3 🤔
I would've preferred that MGS-esque Perfect Dark than what we're getting now
You missed B.C. and true fantasy online
I remember me and my friends being excited for that game.
I thought Demonik was developed soley by Alex Covert at Brainasium, he used his Grandma as a beta tester. Also, Nobody F's with a lion!
That Majesco game reminds me of the game from Grandma's Boy
Demonik looks sick, any other games out there that look like that ?
There's Infernal Hell's Vengeance, Second Sight, Psi-Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy
@@bamban_garcia5562 ty for the recommendations, i shall look into them!
Now this is a birthday gift! thank you RocketSloth for the amazing video! :D
The cancellation of Scalebound is one of the most absurd decisions in gaming history
6:20 this just kind of sounds like a Souls game
Demonic was a promotional piece in the movie grandma’s boy
Still Got my fable legend artbook. Was surprised that they published it
This is why Xbox is a distance 3rd.. even behind the Switch. Microsoft is just too loose with it's devs and deserves what it gets.
That Halo Megabloks game had potential. Could have been an answer to the Lego games.
So we almost got a halo game in unreal engine from the people who would go on to take over the gears of war franchise. Thats crazy.
Dissapointed with Xbox where are all the games. What a joke
So that's where the random tiger from Diddy Kong Racing came from... I assume now that all of those little random animals came from Pro-Am. Right? Unless I should've recognized them from some other game. Idk. I rented DK Racing when I was really young and loved it. I thought it was so cool that you could fly planes. I never owned it though but always wished that I did. So then when I was in my mid 20's I got a new N64 online and played it with my friends for a few years. One day I was like, I'm gonna' get DK Racing finally. I waited like a week and a half for that game to show up, and on the second day that I owned it my N64 quit working. 😞 lol Such is my luck in life.
Is that the Megaranger theme song playing in the background?! 4:32
Does anyone ever say your voice sounds similar to Matt mcmuscles? Every once in a while I hear it.
Honestly at this point they need to bring some of theses back. Gears is dead, fable is dead , and halo is in a weird spot. Aw yeah and ps5 got Spider-Man and gow. I mean come on what do we got to lose at this point 😭
Did they ever mention BC for the original Xbox or did I miss it?
Rocketsloth did zero information on the topic, and idk which one of the two that wrote the script -- but they were both woefully BSing most of these. What game were you asking had (or didn't have) BC? Most entries of all the Xbox generations are BC on the consoles now, with the exception of a few that the publisher won't provide the ability to allow it.
@@itsJoshW Not Backwards Compatibility, there was a game called BC for the original Xbox that was frequently advertised in OXM before they announced that it had been canceled.
Glad I'm the only one who noticed that.
Wait, what? Newly developedd studio for the new Fable? New Fable is developed by turn10....
Knights of Decayden looks a lot like Panzer Dragoon
I had Call Of Duty United Offensive on disc tho??? It was a dlc to cod 1 howver back then, it was a second disc.
The background music in the first 3 minutes goes kinda hard, anybody got a link? 😎
10:58 isn’t this the game from grandma’s boy. Demonik had a whole movie ad for it and still didn’t come out
I would love a Mega Blocks or Lego Halo game
Didn't that Unholy come out recently ?
Unless i missed it you did not mention that MMO been made for OG xbox by Level 5 studios.
I need help looking for a canceled xbox 360 project called “virtual girl” ? It was supposed to let you make stickers and shirts and have a social aspect to it but got canceled because they didnt want people selling the own virtual stickers or something I wanted to know about it and if it actually existed, thank you
I legit thought Voodoo Nights actually released.
This is some Berenstein bears shit. Wtf
11:13 looks like the game from the movie grandmas boy 😂
Demonik was the game in Grandmas boy that the main character was developing.
It’s not Microsoft’s fault for ScaleBound it’s actually platinums. They were using Microsoft’s money to fund their own game behind Microsoft’s back. And obviously they shut them down.
Platinum has even given an apology and was defending Microsoft cause of all the hate they were getting.
Brute Force 2
Brute force anyone?
Dangerous alone. Deadly together.
What I don’t understand games like scale bound and phantom dust why is it so impossible for them to work on those games make those games happen
i wantd to play scalbound so bad the ida itself looked epic also i am a huge eragon fan
Bungie reviving Marathon. You mean using eververse to fund the failure that will be the marathon extraction shooter.
Dude literally this lmao. Marathon will literally flop, too. I can't wait to watch that tanker burn on fire and the crazed Halo community say "But extraction shooters are the new FPS wave, it failed because Microsoft" or some weird crazy sht.
No one likes Extraction Shooters that plays FPS games. The only ones who do, usually suck at FPS games.
Man y'all must be from the future. Y'all are talking a lot of crap about a game that hasn't come out yet.
You had to hurt me with reminding me of scalebound
If they bring back a solid Conker and Fable I'd go back to Xbox
I want the Halo Megablocks Game and i want it now
They cancelled a game about dragons... and I was pissed!
Most of these games could have been potential bangers.
I guess in the alternate timeline these games would have been more or less successful and Halo wouldn´t be the popular Xbox franchise.
Still furious about Scalebound.
They could at least try bringing these games back now.
What's the reasoning behind Platinum not using the assets from Scalebound or even the concept to make a new game? Is it cuz it's all owned by Microsoft since they own the IP?
Yeah pretty much Platinum Games cannot touch anything Scalebound related since its not their property
They could use the concept, if they want to burn a bridge with Microsoft for years
We need one for PlayStation
Omg a lot of these games were trash! Thank goodness someone had brains to cancel these games
The Goldeneye 007 remaster is downloadable and playable.
Can't buy it out front though
Bro i wonder what the actual fuck is going on at Xbox that the only games that actually come out are either horribly broken, painfully mediocre or both meanwhile they cancel the interesting ones
timestamps?
That's eds3 sir
thats the grandmas boy game smoke weed every day
"Over 147" So you mean 148?
Im i the only person who thought and still thinks Scalebound doesn’t look very good? I never cared about it or got the hype
It was gonna be a flop, looked like a discount final fantasy.
@@oo--7714 Exactly, I don’t think it would have made waves or anything. It’s one of those games in the $10 section at Walmart you’re grandma buys you for Christmas lol
Pc player watchin XBOX and Playstation duke it out. Way more impressed with the PS5 exclusives right now. What's a great Xbox exclusive?
What is an....Xbox ex...ec...ecxlxl.....exclusive? Xbox exclusive?
?????????
*i mean Microsoft really ought to give everyone who buys and xbox x or s 60$ in Microsoft funds because we were deliberately told the ourchase would come with fable. It had a rating, it had a trailer and literally didn't drop.
Having 0 exclusive games is a red flag.
Backwards compatibility isbthevonly thing that jeeos xvox relevant.
Bro the demonik game looks like the game in grandmas boy 😂😭
(Holy shit it’s the same game, never knew that)
@11:02
All the games that disappear because they couldn't find publisher. That's the one sad part about the physical games era. (Everything else is great, 'cause physical copies and actual bug testing QC)
Also, not sure how you screw up pronouncing a popular game but it's "bal-dur's gate" not "bal-der's gate".
Make an effort to say things right, you'll offend fans otherwise.
❤❤❤
What's with Microsoft and just being full of idiots?
Must suck to be a Xbox fanboy 😂😂😂
I dont care if I get burned at the stake for this but am I the only one who thought scalebound looked cringe as fuck? I never got the appeal of this game at all. it just looked like a barely average hack and slash with the typical edgelord protagonist that only catered to edgy "gamers" that dress exclusively from hot topic and think funko pops is a valid form of interior design
Demonic........ from Grandma's Boy....... was real.......
The viewer experience on this video:
*gets invested in project*
*heart broken finding out it was canceled*
*repeat for 45 minutes*
Being a fan of Fable, Fable Legends getting cancelled was something that really bummed me out. I was really hyped for it because the idea of getting to play as a villain controlling minions and the nature of the quest that the other players were undertaking was a pretty cool idea. The open beta looked promising and it, along with Scalebound, would have been a pretty big driving factor for me purchasing an Xbox One instead of making the transition to PC gaming at the time.
Fable Legends was cancelled because it wasn't even Fable. It was a MOBA reskinned later by Lionhead and, after they blew a lot of budget, still was filled with numerous issues and absolutely nothing to do in the game. Lionhead deviated so far from "fable" in this game, and that's why it was cancelled. It was unrecognizable from the "Fable" branding, with zero affiliation to the series. They coined it, not as a spin off, but a mainline entry. And there was zero story (despite claiming it was under development), and only the MOBA.
It was cancelled, from literal online sources upon cancellation, because it was universally disliked by the public and Microsoft.
@@itsJoshW? wrong as someone who played it. It was not a moba 👍
Same man I really wanted to play it looked fun
It was weird, I played the closed alpha. If you ever played the multiplayer of Dragon Age Inquisition it was a lot like that.
@@Prawnsacrifice ?? I played it. I hated it. No one liked it. It was a MOBA. Even it's freaking wiki says it is. You had 4 characters with the "DM" as the villain making the enemies appear. It was horrible. It was multiplayer only. There was no story. There was no "fable". It wasn't an RPG. Are you dumb?
It’s a shame Scalebound never came out. It looked like it could’ve been something special
I still bet that they are going to reuse the IP but please not this stupid multiplayer crap. That was a insta turn off for me. Multiplayer games are meh, an niche as not all will be good
One of the reasons why the Xbox One was nicknamed “The console with no games”
@@MTTT19and they said Wii U is a failure when that console has a ton of freaking games its just it became GameCube 2.0 also shitty marketing and name
@@MTTT19 Xbox Series X is easily following that title. With such terrible management, it's a wonder they manage to get anything out. Though, their stuff usually releases broken nowadays besides
Need to do one for PlayStation if possible
Yea
I really wish Phantom Dust 2 was a real thing. The Xbox/PS2 era was the best era in gaming.
/gamecube/dreamcast
Always weird hearing someone mention Pirates of the Burning Sea. One of my cousins I was raised with worked on that game as their first project out of college. I don’t know if they went in the credits as their actual name or their code name they used back then. But he was featured in a dev log about how he nearly choked to death on a steak.
Fable Legends looked cool? You may be one of the only people I've heard say that.
Legends was a game nobody at the time wanted, and had next to no hype. The only reason its even remembered is to be listed in fanboy arguments about all the games MS canceled 😅
In reality, game was canceled in beta because nobody cared about it.
Literally wrote basically a dissertation on the video with this. No one wanted that game to be made, absolutely no one, especially when it was allowed for beta/alpha access. Everyone universally hated it, with Lionhead having to close their forums after all the hate threads popped up. I remember that distinctly, as I was actually pissed that they turned the beloved Action RPG series into a freaking MOBA that, even by itself, was horrible in design.
The game was filled with bugs, was "promised to have a story", yet there was zero evidence of story even being involved.
The game (Fable Legends) was also cancelled because it was a massive waste of money for a reskin MOBA that everyone hated, even Microsoft lol. I remember they had a "live player count" for the beta testing in the game, and seeing the number in double digits at one point. It was sad, but it's true: Lionhead did not make a Fable game when they created "Fable Legends". They made an entirely new, horrible IP, branded it "Fable", and sold it to the market as being "Fable".
Literally hilarious when you realize that RocketSloth did zero actual research for this video and simply collected a large group of games cancelled and made up things about each game based on quick Google searches. The one I laughed about was "the cancelled Halo game by Black Tusk Studio", which in 2012 they were rumored to be working on a PC game, which turned into Gears. The difference: Rocketsloth said it was "Actually Halo", and the article claimed that it was trying to "be what Halo did to the consoles, but for the PC". Essentially, claiming that it would revolutionize the PC FPS market. That development studio renamed themselves to The Coalition, and before working on Gears, they were created as "Microsoft Studios Vancouver", which they were originally hired to develop Microsoft Flight Simulator, which was cancelled in 2012.
Demonik was also HEAVILY featured in Grandma's Boy as a game developed in secret for the OG Xbox by the protagonist Alex. In the commentary they make a joke about the game.being on the 360 and the movie coming out in 2005 but getting not 360s for the movie do to budget. Fantastic stoner comedy. It's my favorite movie. Highly recommend.
The fall of Rare is one of the most unforgivable storylines in Xbox's history
the fact that two okay concepts, banjo racer and banjo remake came together into a boring and very not good game LOL
There was a game called Freefall 3050AD that was either close to finished or possibly complete that never came out for the original Xbox. I believe it would have come out after the 360 had launched, and it wouldn't have done that well so it was shelved. There's leaked versions floating around the internet. It was actually a port of a Nuon game (an MPEG-2 DVD decoder chipset that could also play games).
You forgot the most important one: Cry On by Mistwalker (Lost Odyssey) for the Xbox 360. There is even an official trailer reveal by Microsoft Srudios.
@10:59 fun fact: the primary developer working on the game built it from the ground up while living at his grandmother's house. The studio the dev was working at stole the game from him, but he proved it was stolen from him when his grandmother beat the "prodigy" studio owner in a 1v1 on demonik multiplayer. His weed dealer's monkey also drove him to the studio for the 1v1.
Microsoft's horrible handling of Rare is why I am worried about every single company that Microsoft eats.
Canceled exclusives for Xbox Series : everything
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Maybe I missed it, but you forgot to mention some of the titles made by Press Play under Microsoft, a big one being Project Karoo from 7+ years ago that would eventually be revived under a new studio being Flashbulb Games after MS let them keep the assets on leaving. and given a new title being trailmaker releasing on PC but also returned to xbox a few years after. It's still a great video, though, and I'm still holding out hope for Scalebound.