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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we are looking at video game sequels whose cancellation hurt
00:16us the most.
00:17Oh, what could have been.
00:20Oh, give me strength!
00:25But before we get into it, we publish new content all week long.
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00:34Days Gone 2 While Days Gone initially struggled to find
00:46its audience, it clearly got there eventually considering how many players still mourn the
00:52fact that the series won't continue.
00:54Bind Studio had several ideas in mind for a sequel, including co-op within a shared
00:59game world, which had to be cut from the original.
01:16The first had sold decently enough, but the mixed reviews and lengthy development period
01:21caused Sony to reject the team's pitch for a sequel.
01:26That's a pretty big bummer since we ended on a cliffhanger, promising fallout from the
01:30shady Nero organization, and that there was more to the genetically altered freakers than
01:35players thought.
01:45Legacy of Kain Dead Son The Legacy of Kain series still retains a
01:58loyal following, despite the fact that it hasn't seen a new entry since 2003.
02:03Well, one was in development during the 7th generation of consoles, but was sadly cancelled
02:09in 2012.
02:26Dead Son would have been set in the distant future and focused on two new characters,
02:31a vampire named Gein and a human named Asher.
02:35When it was cancelled, Square Enix stated it just wasn't the right game at the right
02:40time.
02:41The multiplayer portion was saved and reworked into Nosgoth, but reception was poor since
02:46it was too different from what the series was meant to be, and it never made it out
02:50of the beta stage.
02:52Meanwhile, desire for a new Legacy of Kain has never wavered.
03:02Fez 2 If you've played 2012's Fez, you know it
03:14to be an incredibly charming and inventive puzzle platformer, and you were probably just
03:19as interested in a possible sequel as we were.
03:22Unfortunately, one person who was completely disinterested was the creator himself.
03:28During the sequel's announcement, Phil Fish got into an argument with journalist
03:32Marcus Beer on Twitter, which seemed to be the final straw in him putting up with the
03:37games industry.
03:45It was unceremoniously cancelled a month after its announcement, and Fish left game development
03:50behind for good.
03:51He later clarified that he saw the argument as quote, an out, and that he never really
03:57had any personal desire to make Fez 2, which never got past the concept art phase.
04:12Mortal Kombat Fire and Ice When Mortal Kombat began to receive spinoffs,
04:25they got off to a pretty bad start.
04:28But one that was actually pretty good was 2005's Shaolin Monks.
04:33Following Liu Kang and Kung Lao, it blended the franchise's signature violent style
04:38with beat-em-up gameplay, which was praised by critics and players, especially when playing
04:43in co-op.
04:53It also sold fairly well, meaning a sequel was greenlit in Fire and Ice, which would
04:58have featured the duo of Scorpion and Sub-Zero in a similar format.
05:02However, publisher Midway eventually went bankrupt in 2009, which caused the developer
05:07to close down and the sequel to go no further than a single prototype stage.
05:18The Thing 2 John Carpenter's brilliant sci-fi horror
05:30film The Thing got a 2002 sequel in the form of a video game, and it was actually pretty
05:36awesome.
05:37You controlled a captain in the U.S. Special Forces, sent to the fateful research base
05:41to figure out what happened to the team, only to then be confronted by the horrific, shape-shifting
05:47alien.
05:53It sold and reviewed well, and so developer Computer Artworks immediately began planning
05:58a follow-up.
05:59The sequel never got very far, though, with only concept art and demo videos produced.
06:04Computer Artworks experienced financial difficulties going into receivership before closing in
06:102003.
06:19Sleeping Dogs 2 As far as open-world, crime-ridden action
06:34games go, 2012's Sleeping Dogs is among the best.
06:38United Front Games brought modern-day Hong Kong to life spectacularly, and navigating
06:43its criminal underworld as an undercover officer and martial artist was nothing short of badass.
06:50The studio had lofty ambitions for the series that tragically never got to see the light
06:54of day.
07:04A sequel went into development soon after the first game's release, which would have
07:08given us a corrupt partner and tied in with a mobile app whose actions could impact the
07:14game's world.
07:15It seems disappointing sales in the eyes of publisher Square Enix were the cause of the
07:19sequel's cancellation, and the developer closed soon after.
07:33Mega Man Legends 3 There are a few sub-series within Mega Man,
07:49but for action-adventure gameplay with a stronger sense of story, you have the Legends games.
07:55While they didn't perform as strongly as the Blue Bomber's core entries, they still
07:59developed an incredibly passionate fanbase.
08:02A third game was announced in 2010 for Nintendo's 3DS, but ended up getting cancelled the following
08:08year, and fans were very vocally upset about it.
08:20It had been 10 years since the last installment, and Capcom claimed cancellation was due to
08:25a quote, lack of interaction with the development rooms it had created to utilize fan feedback
08:31and submissions.
08:33To this day, there are players who yearn for the revival of Mega Man Legends 3.
08:45Conker's Other Bad Day With its incredibly mature humor wrapped within
08:59a delightfully cartoonish style, Conker's Bad Fur Day is a fan favorite of the N64's
09:04library.
09:05Even though it didn't sell well, Rare began working on a sequel that would have dealt
09:09with the foul-mouthed squirrel's unsuccessful time as King, which he became at the end of
09:15the previous game.
09:25It didn't get very far, however, as Rare was purchased by Microsoft in 2002, who reportedly
09:31had no interest in creating a sequel.
09:34A remake of Bad Fur Day did eventually release on the Xbox, and while Conker did appear in
09:39later titles, most players found them disappointing compared to what this cult classic platformer
09:44offered.
09:55Baldur's Gate 4
10:07The game that everyone was obsessed with in 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 brought Larian Studios
10:13immense success.
10:15Although the team considered DLC for the game, it eventually transitioned to a full-fledged
10:20sequel that got as far as a playable build.
10:24So what happened?
10:26Simply put, the developers decided they wanted to create something new rather than be tied
10:30to a world that existed outside of their work, the forgotten realms of Dungeons and Dragons.
10:47According to director and studio head Sven Vinke, this choice increased morale and excitement
10:53Making this decision for the betterment of staff was the right call, and we have no doubt
10:58that someone will make a Baldur's Gate 4 someday.
11:02But we're still a little sad that Larian won't be the team to bring it to us.
11:11Silent Hills
11:23We'll forever be bitter over this one, and we know we aren't alone.
11:27In 2012, Konami enlisted Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima to revitalize the Silent Hills
11:33series.
11:34Guillermo del Toro signed on as assistant director, and Norman Reedus was to star as
11:39the protagonist.
11:40What this project would have looked and felt like was revealed in 2014 via P.T., standing
11:47for Playable Teaser.
11:56From all corners of the internet, this terrified every single one of us.
12:01It was an exciting promise for a future that would sadly never come.
12:06The public falling out between Kojima and Konami, in which the latter was definitely
12:11in the wrong, led to the cancellation of Silent Hills.
12:15Konami even removed P.T. from digital stores.
12:18The studio is currently attempting a comeback with Silent Hill, but the loss of what could
12:22have been is a huge disappointment.
12:34What sequel cancellation are you still bitter over?
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