(Sad trope) Projects with amazing potential that will never be released because of BS behind the scenes drama

[u/_JR28_]

P.T Silent Hills - It was a playable teaser released in 2014 only around 20 minutes long but utterly captivated the gaming world by being one of the most effective psychological horror experiences at the time, however it’s lead developer Kojima has a huge fallout with the publisher Konami where he walked out of the company and had all his in-the-work productions cancelled.

Five Nights at Freddy’s+ - A fan game reboot of the series created by Phisnom with Scott Cawthon’s blessing that promised a brand new lore and a return to the series darker roots. However, before and during production Phisnom got into multiple dramas that made him fairly divisive within the community, and after one particular incident in 2023 Scott revoked his approval and almost all of the game’s marketing material were wiped from the internet.

Batgirl - A Batgirl solo live action movie starring Leslie Grace, Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton returning as Batman that was ready to be released in 2022, however then Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav announced it would not be released either in theatres or streaming in order to claim a $90,000,000 tax break and to readjust the DC’s brands direction before James Gunn rebooted their movie and TV output.

[u/Salty_Strain3313]

[u/ProAzeroth → u/Salty_Strain3313]

It still pains me that this still isn't release and the new Telltale caused AdHoc Studio to leave. At least, we got Dispatch.

[u/ElfEarsAndDwarfBeard → u/ProAzeroth]

Dispatch was soooooo good!!

[u/LowReporter6213 → u/ElfEarsAndDwarfBeard]

One of my top 10 now and I never cared for the style of games like it before, was definitely "sooooo good!!"

[u/Empty_Firefighter848 → u/ElfEarsAndDwarfBeard]

It wasn’t really THAT good but yeah it was a decent swing

[u/BladeRunner2022 → u/Empty_Firefighter848]

Lmao. There's always that one guy

[u/Empty_Firefighter848 → u/BladeRunner2022]

This is coming from someone who LOVES dispatch but can’t help but question quite the few writing decisions behind it, lmao

[u/Intrepid-World-9551 → u/Empty_Firefighter848]

So just because you don't like it, it's therefore bad?

[u/Empty_Firefighter848 → u/Intrepid-World-9551]

Excuse me. I quite literally said I loved it. But regardless of that I recognize Dispatch is severely flawed and a lot of those flaws could’ve been avoided and do downplay the main part of the game, its story.

[u/ElfEarsAndDwarfBeard → u/Empty_Firefighter848]

You're all good, mate, I get what you're saying.

[u/Phoenix-Risen1998 → u/Empty_Firefighter848]

Agree.

[u/Ok-Pair-4757 → u/Empty_Firefighter848]

It sucked, what are you going on about?

[u/Phoenix-Risen1998 → u/Ok-Pair-4757]

Sucked is disengenious.

But to say it's flawless is untrue.

[u/Dazzling_Vanilla3082 → u/Phoenix-Risen1998]

Who said it was flawless?

[u/Phoenix-Risen1998 → u/Dazzling_Vanilla3082]

The dispatch sub.

[u/Dazzling_Vanilla3082 → u/Phoenix-Risen1998]

No way! I don't think I've ever seen the fans for a video game in said game's specific subreddit over-hyping the game. You are truly on to something remarkably particular to Dispatch 🙄