10 Cancelled Video Games That Would've Been GOTY 

Star Wars 1313 cancellation was soo heartbreaking 😢

The Sleeping Dogs sequel could've been amazing, just bigger and better than the first with even more amazing combat animations.

Scalebound had so much potential

I remember playing the PT demo over and over. To this day, it's still the scariest thing I've ever played.

Love how this video progressively made me more depressed with every entry. Made me feel like my hope of the games releasing were my fist, and the very existence of the games were the sand.

That daredevil joke was CRAZY.

Yes!! You finally talked about the daredevil game and the last LOK game!! I've been waiting for years!! You should include the flash cancelled game, it was going to use every resource of speeds in games to make people feel like they were the fastest man alive.

Wow, never actually heard of some of these. Obviously, SW1313 and PT are there, but a Daredevil game and 19th century Batman? Those sound amazing. Really hope something can come of them in the future, with Rocksteady having Arkham success and Insomniac making Spider-Man and Wolverine. Maybe DD can even appear in SM3

Hilarious timing, as it was announced today that daredevil for ps2 is being finished and released according to spawnwave

Why don't you guys use video chapters to split up your top 10 lists?

Legacy of Kaine, such a divine game.

5:00 they also had a playable version of that trailer. wich was amazing at the time of prerendered scenes, as it featured every gameplay element the trailer showed.

You left out Days Gone 2. Looked awesome.

Man the world at war game play just brought back waves of nostalgia. Getting the ray gun on the first map was something else. I was adiment that you could get the ray gun on every level. I mean why have an Easter egg at the start to get the ray gun and not allow you to find one in every level. To get them end credits after beating the game on veteran(and if you haven't well has to be hands down the hardest cod to do veteran, the grenade icons are hell)and feeling amazing to only get "that" cut scene of the zombies was hair raising.

Honestly surprised Prey 2 wasn't higher on the list, considering how far along it seemed like the game was at the time. That trailer still kicks major ass.

How could you forget about Starcraft Ghost!!!

I want all the legacy of kain games put on current consoles please

for context Kojima was in the middle of both Silent Hills and MGS5 at the time. konami released MGS5 with only two 3rds of the game complete and was going to release part 3 as DLC. Kojima was so mad about them releasing a game he had not finished he just walked out on them.

I'm not sure it would have been "Goty" but I was really looking forward to Stargate SG-1: The Alliance.

Before i watch this, Scalebound has to be on here. No other game even comes close to goty probably than that. Maybe star wars 1313 or whatever it was called.

Prey 2 is so heart breaking to this day! The “revamped” prey that had nothing to do with the universe I fell in love with playing the first prey and what we were teased with that trailer still hurts to this day. That game would have been infinitely better! I’m very glad it made the list! I liked the jab that fallout 76 was good enough to release but Prey 2 had to be scrapped 🤭

Hey Jess, I don’t know if you have forgotten, but Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings was NOT cancelled! It was originally going to be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360, but it got changed over for the PS2 and Wii.

I wanted Megaman Legends 3

As I understand it, "Fear over quality" was Bethesda's given reason for why they cancelled Prey 2, but the actual reason was that they wanted to purchase the developer, and the developer didn't want to be purchased. So, they more or less cancelled the game out of spite. No idea if that's accurate or not, but worth looking into.

You mean Johnny Cash's cover of Soundgarden' "Rusty Cage" (which btw was in original in the soundtrack of my favourite racing game of the 90s - "Road Rash", along with a lot of other amazing heavy metal tracks).

Scalebound should have been on this list too. I was so hyped for it.

Highlander This Cancelled Game Still Hurts Imagine characters like Connor MacLeod & Duncan MacLeod voiced by their Original actors even that chick from Highlander The Raven a deep cut what could've been

DC Universe Online actual has the Victorian Detective Cowl in the game. It's pretty nice.

Faith And A .45 deserves to be on all these “what could have been” lists.

Pirates of the Carribean

in the case of 1313 ... at least we will be getting SW: Outlaws ... and we got Cal Kestis out of it

4:04 "...and it would never see the light of day. Not unlike its protagonist." Wow, that was dark (pardon the pun lol)! 😅😂

Who knows? Maybe someday any of these listed games will be revitalized and released as actual games. Better late than never.

Starcraft Ghost deserved to be on this list or at least an honorable mention

Two games that could have made the list > Starcraft: Ghost > Darkwatch 2

Megaman legends 3

The Rainbow 6 Patriots Teaser & all the controversy around it. got leaked, then there was an official trailer/demo to circumvent the leak. and that was it.

how we got 20k likes but only 583 views the math ain’t mathin

1:09 "The City of Lights" is Paris, not Las Vegas.

Maybe 3 of these would have actually had a shot, especially since horror, like in film, is often shunned for awards.

Yo, my HIGH ass thought the dirty harry games was a Ace Ventura game, and I would've been all for that!

A vision mechanic in a game about a blind superhero? Interesting.

Someone make bully 2 I take fan made version at this point 😂

Cancelling Silent Hills was bad enough, but removing PT from the online stores was just adding salt to the wound

Now I remember when the psp best known as PlayStation portable Indiana jones and the staff of kings came out on that one I mean it was good for the fans but I can remember playing that game when it came out

I remember backaday a game called ‘Faith & .45’ looked really good then unfortunately got the cancellation treatment

The getaway 3.

I'm surprised Scalebound didn't make the list

Orient had a HUGE GameInformer spread back in the day... looked rad as I recall

Freedom Fighters 2 is still at he top of my list. After reading it was scrapped to make the Kane and Lynch games I decided to never play any Kane and Lynch game.

Scalebound would be better than most of these.

Triad wars aka sleeping dogs 2 would’ve been one of the greatest games of all time

Starcraft: Ghost I was sooooooo pissed when I found out that was cancelled.

Nevermind cancelled, I'm growing old waiting for the wolf among us 2

Sleeping dogs 2 got scrapped too just worth a honorable mention

Gameranx would've mentioned Fable Legends and Scalebound

I feel the Prince of Persia remake deserves and honorable mention here

Scalebound was the first game that came to mind when I heard the title of this list. I was so salty this game was cancelled after Microsoft spent so much time hyping Scalebound.

Star Wars Battlefront 3!

Surprised Starcraft Ghost wasn't on here.

I enjoyed L.A. Noire so the Dirty Hairy game might have been a game I would have enjoyed. I feel L.A. Noire is an under-appreciated game.

Wait Nintendo already made dirty Harry... What a game.

Does this mean Beyond Good and Evil 2 isn't cancelled yet?

Maybe not GotY material however I would have loved to see 3DO's Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Highlander game both get released.

No mention of Scalebound? 😭😭

Tomb Raider Ascension is my pick, a survival horror inspired Tomb Raider game? Sign me the f up

Eight Days looked so badass.

The highlander game would have been awesome.

harker! City of the dead by george romero! Dead rush!

Overstrike would have been amazing over Fuse

StarCraft Ghost!

The Star Wars game that would’ve featured Darth Maul with Arkham combat would have been Heaven

I wanna see a Mandalorian Video Game

Every titles idea on that list is still very interesting. Maybe they will come in some kind out as long as they not going they gotham nnight way; a game full of great ideas which executed with a almost desperate addiction to shout out "different" ... instead of delivering quality, just different isn't better sometimes just clunky. Gaslight, 1313,,Indiana Jones still interesting

Johnny Cash version of Rusty Cage.

I was so mad when then cancelled silent hills

I see a universe where Daredevil was released and it bombed. WTF is that, Marvel's Pro Skater?

5:15 assassins creed?? Lol

COULD have been … plenty games being hyped and ended up horrible.

Imagine an indiana jones game by naughtydog & (the old) lucasarts.

CoD is the only game to have pulled off a historical setting to mass success? Assassin’s Creed would like a word.

I have never been more triggered than with the sentence "the Johnny Cash song Rusty Cage" (despite it kind of being correct), but Prey 2 could have been wonderful.

Pirates of the Caribbean

No Starcraft: Ghost on the list?

Even if Indiana jones had released on PS3 and 360, it would’ve been middling at best and I actually like Staff of kings

Its pretty damn presumptuous to assume games that were never even completed would've been game of the year quality. Potentially great, sure, but GOTY is a stretch.

I would have loved it if Flashback 2 side-scroller platform game (there's a yt video of the unreleased game) was released for the SNES instead of the awful 3d thing they did release. Also the travesty of not releasing the N64's Goldeneye on the Xbox original, though they made it.

If it was canceled I highly doubt it was going to be GOTY. Well I guess if budget was an issue it wasn't necessarily a problem with the game itself. Didn't Daredevil actually get released? You can probably play it on a modded PS2. They cancelled Prey 2 due to fear of it's quality? How the hell did Fallout 76 get approval? 6:44 Don't you mean 19th century? Jack the Ripper was around in 1888.

Spiderman still beat daredevil with the ps1 spiderman game. That looked awful. Game of the year you must be ob some strong drugs

Title should have been could've not would've

legacy of kain? if that game were released if would have been an interesting one

I wish you could individually block videos from channels if you like the channel but not certain hosts on it.

Looks like daredevil stole assets from Jet Set Radio Future.

Johnny Cash did not write Rusty Cage. Rusty Cage was written by Chris Cornell and recorded by the band Soundgarden and was the first track on Badmotorfinger. Big L!!!! Thumbs down emoji and a dislike!!!

Disney and EA, the two largest destroyers of beloved franchises, especially game franchises. Konami is just as bad these days...focusing ONLY on Japanese "Slot Machines," causing many beloved franchises, like Castlevania....to die. If you're not going to use your IPs, SELL THEM TO THOSE WHO WOULD!!!

I really wish people would get over star wars 1313. The last GREAT star wars game was KOTOR.

karyudo the videogame

We all knew Silent Hills would be no1

What does goty mean?

Im stil saulty prey 2 got changed 2 stupid hard game