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Unfinished Adventures

Posted by michael on from the beat-goes-on dept.

Obiwan Kenobi writes "Just Adventure has an interesting article on unfinished games that were nixed in mid-development. Amongst the casualties are incomplete trilogies, an off beat 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea game, Blizzard's ill-fated Warcraft Adventures and the Star Trek title "Secret of Vulcan Fury.""

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  1. Warcraft Adventures didn't TOTALLY die... by D'Arque+Bishop · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, while everything they said about Warcraft Adventures was true, they did leave out one bit of information: the storyline was too important to the Warcraft mythos to drop entirely. Warcraft Adventures was later reworked and became the book Lord of the Clans by Christie Golden. The events of the book are also referenced in the orcs' backstory in Warcraft III.

    Just my $.02...

  2. Re:Just an observation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You obviously don't know your Vulcan history. In the time before Surak, Vulcans were an emotional and extremely destructive species (similar to the Romulans). Surak was able to bring logic and peace to his people but only by burying all emotion.

  3. Re:Duke Nukem Forever. by NotAnotherReboot · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure why the parent currently has a score of 3, Duke Nukem Forever HAS NOT been cancelled. A simple check of 3D Realm's site [www.3drealms.com] shows that it has not been cancelled, although they do joke about the "when it's done" thing extensively.

  4. Re:He's dead Jim. by ctaylor · · Score: 5, Informative

    I worked at Interplay at the time of Secret of Vulcan Fury.

    DeForest Kelly was too ill by the time of the voice recording to actual record his lines. He never did record SoVF dialogue. They used a voice actor in his place.

    The main reason SoVF was cancelled was:

    a) Not enough progress had been made on the game due to a couple changes of directions in the design, change in management on the project and the typical delays associated with game development.

    b) Budgetary reasons and the decline of the adventure game market. They had spent millions on the project, and it needed millions more to be completed (mostly due to art: lots and lots of animation time, and lots of rendering time). They did a basic P&L (profit and loss statement) and the project was not going to make money.

    As cool as the project was, Interplay could not afford to develop a game that would automatically lose money over games that would only potentially lose money... :)

    pax,

    -Chris