Life Support: Games in Danger (2011 Edition)

[Sexy Beast]

Last year, IGN released a list of games that were announced, but there was doubt on whether or not they were coming out. IGN catalogized these games and has labeled them on the likelihood of ever seeing the light of day.

List of statuses:

* Recovering: Out of the woods and heading toward eventual release. There is concrete evidence that these titles are more than vaporware.
* Stable: Don't scare us like that! Once thought to be goners, these titles might just make it after all. All they need is some intensive care.
* Comatose: Time to call friends and family. Games in this category don't even know us anymore. Drooling vegetables, they linger between life and death.
* Critical: So much blood. Things are not looking good for these games. If something doesn't happen soon, we'll lose them.
* Flatlined: It's the circle of life. Some games have to die in order for others to be born. The only thing that will bring them back is the zombocalypse.

Here is the link to the 2010 list: http://www.edgegamers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=122635


Here is the 2011 list.

Games:

2 Days to Vegas: Flatlined
The Agency: Flatlined
Aliens: Colonial Marines: Stable
Beyond Good & Evil 2: Comatose
Black 2: Flatlined
DogTag: Urban Warfare: Flatlined
Duke Nukem Forever: Recovering (This is due to the recent delay)
Earth No More: Comatose
Eternal Darkness 2: Critical
Eternal Light: Flatlined
Fallout Online: Comatose
The Grinder: Comatose
Heat: Flatlined
I Am Alive: Comatose
Jumpgate Evolution: Flatlined
Kid Icarus Wii: Critical
Metroid: Dread: Critical
Omikron: Karma: Flatlined
The Outsider: Comatose
Ride to Hell: Comatose
Shenmue 3: Flatlined
Six Days in Fallujah: Critical
StarCraft Ghost: Comatose
This is Vegas: Flatlined (Should be listed as dead)
Timesplitters 4: Comatose
Tomonobu Itagaki: Recovering
Too Human 2: Critical
Viewtiful Joe 3: Flatlined
Warhound: Flatlined


Games that are dead:

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Alliance: The Silent War
Champions Online (360 edition)
Chrome 2
Croteam Untitled Project
Edge of Twilight
Elveon
Eyedentify
Faith and a .45
Guillermo Del Toro's Sundown
Hei$t
Huxley: The Dystopia
Peter Jackson Projects
Star Wars Battlefront III
Theseis
They
WarDevil


For further explanations why a certain game is labeled a certain way, here is the article:
http://games.ign.com/articles/995/995409p1.html

 

[Sexy Beast]

Also, lol at everyone last year who thought that Duke Nukem Forever was a joke being listed as critical...and lol at me for assuming that Starcraft: Ghost was dead and buried.

 

[mdgrim]

why would they kill off the battlefront series -_-. Battlefront 2 is still one of my favorite shooters

 

[Beta]

The Del Toro game is already in trouble? Man didn't it just get announced?

 

[Rogue Sniper]

Fallout Online is just going through legal troubles... its not going to die... eventually Interplay and Bethesda will get things straight.

With Fallout as a big series it would hurt both not to release FO:O

 

[Sexy Beast]

why would they kill off the battlefront series -_-. Battlefront 2 is still one of my favorite shooters

Pandemic went down and then Free Radical. The game is cursed man.

The Del Toro game is already in trouble? Man didn't it just get announced?

Actually he just jumped projects. He's now developing a game with Volition, the guys responsible for Saints Row and Red Faction...the game is called InSane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_(2013_video_game)

 

[ChocolateVillain]

Ya but the whole MMO thing is a hard sell for people. Look at all the MMO's that have tried and failed. I would be surprised if Fallout MMO is ever made.

 

[Sexy Beast]

Ya but the whole MMO thing is a hard sell for people. Look at all the MMO's that have tried and failed. I would be surprised if Fallout MMO is ever made.

Agreed, a Fallout MMO would need, at the least, a $100 million budget.

 

[Carmine]

I thought Ghost WAS canceled, never saw anything that gave any other signs.

 

[Sexy Beast]

I thought Ghost WAS canceled, never saw anything that gave any other signs.

What they say on the IGN site:

Since I started Life Support back in ancient times, StarCraft Ghost has been the most requested addition. I resisted adding it, mainly because I thought it would eventually drop from up-in-the-air to straight-up-cancelled. But I was wrong. At the 2011 DICE Summit in Las Vegas, MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce about a list of cancelled Blizzard games the company flashed on a slide during a talk at the event the year before. When it came to the inevitable StarCraft Ghost question, Pearce gave this surprising answer: "It never was technically canceled. It's just a focus thing for us right now. We've got a finite amount of development resources and a lot of different things that we want to focus on so there's always the possibility.." So that means after the next two StarCraft installments and Diablo III are finally finished, you should probably go ahead and pre-order StarCraft Ghost. With intergalactic credits. From your flying car.

 

[OSVG]

well thats news to me I thought Ghost was long canceled

 

[KuNai]

We need a defibrillator for Battlefront 3..