Interesting report on Vaporware that made it...

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/games-that-shed-vaporware-status

Still interesting, although a bit old. Ironic...

Eh...I don't think 4 years qualifies as vaporware. They set the bar too low to enable a larger spread of games to list.

Prey and DNF, sure.




The Jedi Master

By those standards Falcon 4 could have been considered vaporware.

True- but from the titles selected I think they went sureshot for mass-market ones.

Kind of makes sense.

Yeah, 7 years certainly qualifies. That thing was definitely scrapped once and restarted, maybe twice, I forget.



The Jedi Master

Freelancer- though...

Fighter OPs....

Excellent pick! I had totally forgotten about that one until you mentioned it.

I am surprised Storm of War/ Cliffs of Dover is not high on the list.

Yeah, 4 years feels like a stretch.

Fighterops doesn't count. If there was no coding done, can it be called vapourware?

It was a scam, not vapourware.

I think All American: 82st Airborne in Normandy has to take the cake. It's the sequel to 101st Airborne in Normandy, a PC game from the mid 90s. It was slated to be released in 1997 but is still "in development" and the producer is still taking pre-orders for $54.95.

Look at the minimum specs!

General minimum requirements:
Pentium II 300 MHz
32 MB RAM
Minimum 250 MB hard drive space required
6X CDROM
Windows 95 or better
Windows compatible sound card


http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Shrapnel_Games/AA/AA_page.html

Er...I guess that developer's building is caught in some kind of space/time bubble where the year is 1999?

I don't know, 250MB is pretty steep storage wise.




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