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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. Re:unfinished adventures... by Kizzle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would imagine that most game companies re-use alot of their code. And they probably have a good ammount of their own intelectiual property tied up in there. Also many of them probably licence code from 3rd parties that they can't re-licence themselves.

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  2. Re:Just an observation... by Quirk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Secret of Vulcan Fury.""

    trekkie shame on you all. Vulcan Fury was part of the mating ritual. Spock betrothed refused to mate with him and she chose Captain Kirk to defend her right to refuse Spock as a mate in a fight to the death. Bones injected Jim with a serum that made him appear to have died. During the Vulcan matting ritual Spock went ballistic but latter complimented his erstwhile bride on choosing Kirk as her champion as she knew Spock would refuse her for having forced him to kill his Captain and friend. Spock thought her choice immenently logical.

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  3. Re:Dry eyes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Come on, every Star Trek game ever made was a heap of crap. I'd say Vulcan Fury was cancelled for good reason all right.

  4. Just another observation.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A sci fi trivia fact is modded once.

    Some jackass making some vapid flamebait joke about someone who knows a little trivia, is modded to the rooftop.

    What's wrong with this picture..?
    (name withheld to avoid massive karma hit from moderators on fucking crack)

  5. Re:Just to add to the mix... by Peyna · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Read up on the upcoming Sim City 4 (January 2003). It sounds pretty much like the 'Simville' you describe.

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  6. Re:Babylon 5: Into the Fire by abischof · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Differing reports on how close it was to completion. Some said it was 90% there. Other reports said at least another year of work.
    Those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive ;). See also the Ninety-Ninety Rule.
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  7. Aeon Flux video game... by MsGeek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The crazy reason why the Aeon Flux video game was cancelled was the demise of Viacom Interactive. However, the game was a piece of crap. Bad controls! Bad, bad! ;-)

    Also, around that time, a game called "Tomb Raider" came out. TR basically was what the AF video game should have been, without the kink factor.

    Simon And Schuster/MTV Networks should have bought the Tomb Raider engine and redid the AF game as a TR mod. However, since the AF series was cancelled after only one season (just like MTV did to Downtown, alas...) I'm sure it was commercially moot by then.

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