Cancelled at the 11th hour because it just wasn’t fun, right?
SlothfulMedia
Then we got a crappy alternative called Overwatch instead.
skettynoodle9145
we were robbed
hkscfreak
They even had a full back story for Nova. A great read if you’re really into StarCraft lore
choicetapioca
What a flashback! I remember looking forward to both True Fantasy Live Online and StarCraft: Ghost, only to be sorely disappointed smh
Real-Variation-8681
It’s always crazy for me seeing these early 2000s gaming conventions, culture videos, etc.
Because there’s something about it that’s extremely familiar and nostalgic to me, despite the fact I was literally 1 year old and didn’t get into gaming until like 2009/10.
I think it’s because I grew up around my dad who was the type of guy you see in those old low resolution videos like: “waiting outside GameStop at midnight with the boys for the newest World of Warcraft expansion- 2007” and I was always brought with him to local 3rd party conventions, tournaments and stuff around this kinda time period.
Idk man, it’s weird.
Kahzgul
They had a playable multiplayer, too. You could hop into a siege tank. It was pretty fun.
Negafox
That looks like the multiplayer demo which was a lot of fun. Blizzard struggled with the single-player side on trying to make it more than a rather empty tech demo.
DrakeJGC
No version of this was ready to be released. A demo is not the same as a full game. This is the swinging ape version to be clear and the multiplayer was a ton of fun but it was the same era where shadow run failed because it didn’t have single player even though it was an amazing multiplayer game.
Spimanbcrt65
“literally”
GooseInternational66
I’ll take cancellations that still upset me for 200
Magoimortal
StarCraft ghost was scrapped because 2005 launched xbox 360 and next gen, they didnt wanted to release a game on an inferior hardware and sure didnt wanted to redo the game for the 360.
Schnoofles
Ghost was not even remotely close to ready. I played a leaked version and I watched all the available screenshots and videos. It was a really cool concept and I would’ve loved for it to be finished and polished up, but the only form it ever existed in was woefully incomplete, janky garbage.
Training-Relation-59
…and tbey prefer diab lo IV wuahahaha
badaboomxx
The beta that was leak, wasn’t complete, it could be amazing to see a close to finish version leak, like the warcraft point and click adventure.
GuZz91
Ghost had a cool concept and fun multiplayer but the game was messy, had a difficult and slow development and it was already “old”because 360/ps3 were just around the corner at that time.
MAXin2Dtv
I’ll never forget how pumped I was as a kid seeing the article in Game Informer or whatever magazine it was.
BurritoRolo
Man I remember seeing this game in the little Blizzard booklet that came with the other games (D2 or wow expansions). I was so excited for it.
Izenberg420
**blink twice**
Evanecent_Lightt
And then.. just like that – *poof* It was gone.. like a Ghost..
TheRealMoash
I played it, it was not ready, and it was janky as fuuuuuc.
geekolojust
I think it would have been Command and Conquer Renegade, but in space. Also, tune in for HL3 updates here!
Gamers often flip-out when they talk about canceled games, like they were robbed of some amazing experience or whatever.
But really, if the publisher of a game spends 10s of millions of dollars on developing a game, and after multiple years takes a closer look and decides “We are going to cancel this project outright and eat the entire investment cost we made, because there is no path in which this thing will be good enough to make any money…”, it was a dogshit game that should have been canceled.
KeinVater
Wrong. Because they have a Demo and some Gameplay ready doesn’t mean the Game was done.
Labarynth_89
You can technically get the files for ghost and play it more or less.
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Cancelled at the 11th hour because it just wasn’t fun, right?
Then we got a crappy alternative called Overwatch instead.
we were robbed
They even had a full back story for Nova. A great read if you’re really into StarCraft lore
What a flashback! I remember looking forward to both True Fantasy Live Online and StarCraft: Ghost, only to be sorely disappointed smh
It’s always crazy for me seeing these early 2000s gaming conventions, culture videos, etc.
Because there’s something about it that’s extremely familiar and nostalgic to me, despite the fact I was literally 1 year old and didn’t get into gaming until like 2009/10.
I think it’s because I grew up around my dad who was the type of guy you see in those old low resolution videos like: “waiting outside GameStop at midnight with the boys for the newest World of Warcraft expansion- 2007” and I was always brought with him to local 3rd party conventions, tournaments and stuff around this kinda time period.
Idk man, it’s weird.
They had a playable multiplayer, too. You could hop into a siege tank. It was pretty fun.
That looks like the multiplayer demo which was a lot of fun. Blizzard struggled with the single-player side on trying to make it more than a rather empty tech demo.
No version of this was ready to be released. A demo is not the same as a full game. This is the swinging ape version to be clear and the multiplayer was a ton of fun but it was the same era where shadow run failed because it didn’t have single player even though it was an amazing multiplayer game.
“literally”
I’ll take cancellations that still upset me for 200
StarCraft ghost was scrapped because 2005 launched xbox 360 and next gen, they didnt wanted to release a game on an inferior hardware and sure didnt wanted to redo the game for the 360.
Ghost was not even remotely close to ready. I played a leaked version and I watched all the available screenshots and videos. It was a really cool concept and I would’ve loved for it to be finished and polished up, but the only form it ever existed in was woefully incomplete, janky garbage.
…and tbey prefer diab lo IV wuahahaha
The beta that was leak, wasn’t complete, it could be amazing to see a close to finish version leak, like the warcraft point and click adventure.
Ghost had a cool concept and fun multiplayer but the game was messy, had a difficult and slow development and it was already “old”because 360/ps3 were just around the corner at that time.
I’ll never forget how pumped I was as a kid seeing the article in Game Informer or whatever magazine it was.
Man I remember seeing this game in the little Blizzard booklet that came with the other games (D2 or wow expansions). I was so excited for it.
**blink twice**
And then.. just like that – *poof* It was gone.. like a Ghost..
I played it, it was not ready, and it was janky as fuuuuuc.
I think it would have been Command and Conquer Renegade, but in space. Also, tune in for HL3 updates here!
https://youtu.be/8h-S25k8Bo4?feature=shared
It’s a shame what Blizzard has become
Gamers often flip-out when they talk about canceled games, like they were robbed of some amazing experience or whatever.
But really, if the publisher of a game spends 10s of millions of dollars on developing a game, and after multiple years takes a closer look and decides “We are going to cancel this project outright and eat the entire investment cost we made, because there is no path in which this thing will be good enough to make any money…”, it was a dogshit game that should have been canceled.
Wrong. Because they have a Demo and some Gameplay ready doesn’t mean the Game was done.
You can technically get the files for ghost and play it more or less.