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Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
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During development, The Park was conceived as a procedurally generated maze. However, in testing, this was found to be too distracting from gameplay and difficult for players who often got lost in the area. However, the concept was salvaged in the The Cemetery wherein The Director chooses from four alternative layouts and navigation pathways.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person Megaman9000 calendar_month December 11, 2013
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Resident Evil Survivor
Resident Evil Survivor (2000)
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There was a little known port of the game created with a new engine and mouse aiming support for PC. The port was only released in China and most likely due to this version being riddled with bugs and glitches all plans to release it elsewhere were cancelled.
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person Mass Distraction calendar_month December 11, 2013
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Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
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In the commentary for Left 4 Dead 2, the developers stated that Nick's character was originally an escaped prisoner who stole a nice suit, but he was eventually adapted into his current con man persona. Nick is the only playable Survivor who retained his appearance from either beta screenshots or trailers out of all of the playable Survivors.
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Development, Early Idea
person Megaman9000 calendar_month December 11, 2013
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Kirby's Return to Dream Land (2011)
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Attachment An unused alternate design for the enemy Walf can be seen in the game's files. The early design is missing the blue cap, has a brighter shell color, a simpler eye, and no alternate facial expression textures.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month December 11, 2013
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Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
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The game was originally supposed to include a female DMV worker and a male firefighter but both were removed before the final version.
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Development, Early Idea
person Megaman9000 calendar_month December 10, 2013
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Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II (1993)
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Attachment There is an unused animation of Raiden lifting up and shocking someone. It was likely a Fatality, as Raiden would eventually use a similar Fatality in Mortal Kombat 4.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Cavery210 calendar_month December 10, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
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Attachment An early pre-release screenshot of Playboy X depicted him wearing a different colored sweater.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month December 10, 2013
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Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IV (1991)
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Attachment While Kain cannot cast any magic in Final Fantasy IV, the data in the SNES version contains a two-frame animated sprite for Kain casting spells, as all other spellcasters have. The Final Fantasy IV Settei Shiryou Shuu shows a screenshot of Kain with a White Magic command, and there is an unused empty magic spell list that, based on the internal character order, was intended for him.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
person Cavery210 calendar_month December 9, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Attachment The beta version of Big Smoke is shown wearing a white jersey and black trousers, with Smoke having a bald head. This can be seen on the statue of Smoke in his crack palace in East Los Santos.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month December 7, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Attachment The beta version of Sweet wore a black t-shirt, a long sleeved white undershirt, black trousers and a black skully, which can be seen in a picture inside the Johnson House.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month December 7, 2013
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Dr. Robotnik was created to be the opposite of Sonic, and to be the bad guy. During the development of the game, there was a growing debate between developers and environmentalists, and Robotnik was created to represent machinery and development, as apposed to Sonic, who represented the environment.

His egg shaped redesign came from Naoto Ōshima wanting to give the characters designs that were easy enough for kids to draw.
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Development, Inspiration
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month December 4, 2013
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Silent Hill
Silent Hill (1999)
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Due to the lack of processing power on the PlayStation for an open-world map, the developers used the fog to allow the game to load objects as the player approached them.
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Development, General
person Stryker94 calendar_month December 4, 2013
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Franchise: Metroid
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Samus' Morph Ball exists only because Nintendo's programmers couldn't animate Samus getting on all fours and crawling through tight spots.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person Stryker94 calendar_month December 3, 2013
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Fur Fighters
Fur Fighters (2000)
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The secret Fluffmatch level, Land of the Happy Moles, is based on Bizarre's former office, even containing photographs from the office itself.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person RadSpyro calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Franchise: Mario
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Koji Kondo, the composer of various Mario games, tries to make music that people can repeatedly listen to without getting sick of. He would listen to his own music for hours to see if he would get sick of it or not.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Music, Real Life
person ShadowOfTheServer calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Company: Hasbro Interactive
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With Hasbro Interactive at one point acquiring multiple studios and making increasing profits in game sales, Hasbro Interactive's former president, Tom Dusenberry, had aspirations of one day acquiring Electronic Arts.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 2, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013)
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Attachment The Priest ('Shinpu' in Japan which means 'Priest') retains his name in all versions of the game, despite having it previously changed by Nintendo of America to 'The Loyal Sage' in all versions outside of Japan in the original The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, to avoid any religious references.
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Censorship, Development, General, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
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Rosalina's Storybook was written by Yoshiaki Koizumi, who wrote it at night without anybody knowing what he was doing. The following day he presented the story to Shigeru Miyamoto, who was surprised when Yoshiaki told him that nobody else knew about it.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Company: Valve
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Along with "The Orange Box", a collection of five Valve games utilizing the Source engine, Valve was originally going to release "The Black Box", which would only contain the three previously unreleased games: Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. The Orange Box also includes Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One, each of which had already been released individually.

Production of physical copies of The Black Box was cancelled, but the collection is still available for download through Steam, using a coupon found in an ATI bundle that included an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT and a coupon for the Black Box.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person Spherix calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
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Attachment The enemy Blargg from Super Mario World is found in the game's code, but it's model and programming are unfinished. It has an animation for jumping out of lava, but doesn't do anything else.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person RetroRex calendar_month December 2, 2013
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