10 Anticipated Games You'll Never Get To Play

[GameBanshee News]

10 Highly Anticipated Video Games You'll Never Get To Play is the title of a list on Cracked.com looking at great games that weren't. Yeah, sorry guys, another list.

Diablo III is perhaps the most obsessed-over game to never have its existence officially acknowledged. Numerous sites and message boards are dedicated exclusively to a game that's developing into a legend on par with Bigfoot or Richard Gere's poor gerbil.

How much ass would it have kicked?
The Diablo series is what happens when you let red-blooded, meat-eating Americans make a role-playing game. Gone are the androgynous heroes, talking raccoons and quests that revolve around retrieving used panties you find in Japanese RPGs, replaced instead with demon killing. Lots and lots demon killing. Besides Blizzard simply doesn't make bad games, producing literally nothing but genre-defining classics for the past decade plus.

So is there any chance it'll come out?
Unfortunately for Diablo enthusiasts Blizzard North, the division of the company devoted to the Diablo franchise, dissolved a few years back. Several Blizzard North employees subsequently formed their own company and started developing Hellgate: London, a game fans considered a spiritual successor to Diablo II right up until the moment it came out and they realized it was complete crap.

Things aren't all grim though. Blizzard posted job listings on their website back in 2006 calling for people to join the "team behind Diablo I and II" and various Blizzard big wigs have said they would continue work on Diablo in the future. Considering how long it's taking Starcraft II to show up, "the future" seems to mean, "Some time before the sun goes supernova."

Spotted on Rock Paper Shotgun.

[Siberys]

Well this is crap, a couple of those games are highly likely to come out or DID come out for a brief period of time.

Admittedly, Star Craft Ghost was horrendous, but it was released for a short period of time before being called back.

Diablo 3, someone will make this game. Doesn't matter if it's blizzard or not, SOMEONE will.

Oh....and Hellgate london did not suck. For a standard action RPG with first person view and the combination of shooters, sword wielders, and spellcasters, I found it rather fun.

[GawainBS]

I may be wrong, but wasn't Diablo made by Blizzard back in the days when they were in the UK?
Also, what kind of moron wrote this? He obviously never played an RPG on PC before. Despite liking to play Japanese "RPG"s, I feel inclined to put quotes around RPG in that case. It can be a very nice genre, but certainly not the stock to which to compare all RPGs.