At 6/23/25 05:51 PM, NanoSoft wrote:Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. I'd like to discuss cancelled games you're not over.

For me, I am still yearning over the cancelled Resident Evil 4 version, the Castle version. It was gonna take the Resident Evil fixed camera style to the next level, pushing the Gamecube to it's limits tech-wise. And the story was gonna be crazy too....Leon would invade the Umbrella HQ, the Spencer Castle, in Europe to take them down. That would have been so cool to play and beat.


Unfortunately, the games industry has escalated to impossible heights, and such a game wouldn't be possible today even with today's tech. Resident Evil games have become so mainstream and casual that a fixed camera tank controlling game wouldn't appeal to those newer fans, that came in with the recent REmakes, let alone the average gamer now. Everything now either has to be over the shoulder, which the finished product of RE4 pioneered, or first person, barf.

That is why I wish for more information on this game....even a leak/s of builds of this vintage style of survival horror that would never be made again by the company responsible for it's development, Capcom.

I played and beat the final released version of RE4 for years, and there was a time where I really cherised Leon's rescuing of the president's daughter thing going on in that version. But the scrapped Castle version's storyline had much more to do with the prior entries and focused on the horror aspect much more and was gonna be so important to the storyline with the focus being to take down the main bad guys Umbrella directly in their core.....what could've been.

So Newgrounds, do you have any cancelled games you yearn for?

At 6/23/25 05:51 PM, NanoSoft wrote:Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. I'd like to discuss cancelled games you're not over.

For me, I am still yearning over the cancelled Resident Evil 4 version, the Castle version. It was gonna take the Resident Evil fixed camera style to the next level, pushing the Gamecube to it's limits tech-wise. And the story was gonna be crazy too....Leon would invade the Umbrella HQ, the Spencer Castle, in Europe to take them down. That would have been so cool to play and beat.


Unfortunately, the games industry has escalated to impossible heights, and such a game wouldn't be possible today even with today's tech. Resident Evil games have become so mainstream and casual that a fixed camera tank controlling game wouldn't appeal to those newer fans, that came in with the recent REmakes, let alone the average gamer now. Everything now either has to be over the shoulder, which the finished product of RE4 pioneered, or first person, barf.

That is why I wish for more information on this game....even a leak/s of builds of this vintage style of survival horror that would never be made again by the company responsible for it's development, Capcom.

I played and beat the final released version of RE4 for years, and there was a time where I really cherised Leon's rescuing of the president's daughter thing going on in that version. But the scrapped Castle version's storyline had much more to do with the prior entries and focused on the horror aspect much more and was gonna be so important to the storyline with the focus being to take down the main bad guys Umbrella directly in their core.....what could've been.

So Newgrounds, do you have any cancelled games you yearn for?

At 6/24/25 04:57 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/23/25 05:51 PM, NanoSoft wrote:Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. I'd like to discuss cancelled games you're not over.

For me, I am still yearning over the cancelled Resident Evil 4 version, the Castle version. It was gonna take the Resident Evil fixed camera style to the next level, pushing the Gamecube to it's limits tech-wise. And the story was gonna be crazy too....Leon would invade the Umbrella HQ, the Spencer Castle, in Europe to take them down. That would have been so cool to play and beat.


Unfortunately, the games industry has escalated to impossible heights, and such a game wouldn't be possible today even with today's tech. Resident Evil games have become so mainstream and casual that a fixed camera tank controlling game wouldn't appeal to those newer fans, that came in with the recent REmakes, let alone the average gamer now. Everything now either has to be over the shoulder, which the finished product of RE4 pioneered, or first person, barf.

That is why I wish for more information on this game....even a leak/s of builds of this vintage style of survival horror that would never be made again by the company responsible for it's development, Capcom.

I played and beat the final released version of RE4 for years, and there was a time where I really cherised Leon's rescuing of the president's daughter thing going on in that version. But the scrapped Castle version's storyline had much more to do with the prior entries and focused on the horror aspect much more and was gonna be so important to the storyline with the focus being to take down the main bad guys Umbrella directly in their core.....what could've been.

So Newgrounds, do you have any cancelled games you yearn for?

Just to name a few examples:
Resident Evil 4 (Original Version)
PT Silent Hills (To this day I really want to know why exactly it was called Silent Hills).
Silent Hill 5 (Team Silent Version)
Banjo-Threeie
WWF Backlash
WCW Mayhem 2
Duke Nukem Forever (Original Versions)
Resident Evil Zero (Nintendo 64 Version)
Earthbound 64
Star Wars 1313
Super Mario 64 2
Super Mario 128

There’s probably a whole lot more I can think of but that’s all I’ve got at the moment.

At 6/24/25 05:01 PM, NanoSoft wrote:

At 6/24/25 04:57 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/23/25 05:51 PM, NanoSoft wrote:Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. I'd like to discuss cancelled games you're not over.

For me, I am still yearning over the cancelled Resident Evil 4 version, the Castle version. It was gonna take the Resident Evil fixed camera style to the next level, pushing the Gamecube to it's limits tech-wise. And the story was gonna be crazy too....Leon would invade the Umbrella HQ, the Spencer Castle, in Europe to take them down. That would have been so cool to play and beat.


Unfortunately, the games industry has escalated to impossible heights, and such a game wouldn't be possible today even with today's tech. Resident Evil games have become so mainstream and casual that a fixed camera tank controlling game wouldn't appeal to those newer fans, that came in with the recent REmakes, let alone the average gamer now. Everything now either has to be over the shoulder, which the finished product of RE4 pioneered, or first person, barf.

That is why I wish for more information on this game....even a leak/s of builds of this vintage style of survival horror that would never be made again by the company responsible for it's development, Capcom.

I played and beat the final released version of RE4 for years, and there was a time where I really cherised Leon's rescuing of the president's daughter thing going on in that version. But the scrapped Castle version's storyline had much more to do with the prior entries and focused on the horror aspect much more and was gonna be so important to the storyline with the focus being to take down the main bad guys Umbrella directly in their core.....what could've been.

So Newgrounds, do you have any cancelled games you yearn for?

Just to name a few examples:
Resident Evil 4 (Original Version)
PT Silent Hills (To this day I really want to know why exactly it was called Silent Hills).
Silent Hill 5 (Team Silent Version)
Banjo-Threeie
WWF Backlash
WCW Mayhem 2
Duke Nukem Forever (Original Versions)
Resident Evil Zero (Nintendo 64 Version)
Earthbound 64
Star Wars 1313
Super Mario 64 2
Super Mario 128

There’s probably a whole lot more I can think of but that’s all I’ve got at the moment.

Silent HIll 5?! Wtf. Gimme THAT Konami. Get Team Silent back and make that....not the crap and remakes you're churning out now....

At 6/24/25 05:06 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/24/25 05:01 PM, NanoSoft wrote:

At 6/24/25 04:57 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/23/25 05:51 PM, NanoSoft wrote:Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. I'd like to discuss cancelled games you're not over.

For me, I am still yearning over the cancelled Resident Evil 4 version, the Castle version. It was gonna take the Resident Evil fixed camera style to the next level, pushing the Gamecube to it's limits tech-wise. And the story was gonna be crazy too....Leon would invade the Umbrella HQ, the Spencer Castle, in Europe to take them down. That would have been so cool to play and beat.


Unfortunately, the games industry has escalated to impossible heights, and such a game wouldn't be possible today even with today's tech. Resident Evil games have become so mainstream and casual that a fixed camera tank controlling game wouldn't appeal to those newer fans, that came in with the recent REmakes, let alone the average gamer now. Everything now either has to be over the shoulder, which the finished product of RE4 pioneered, or first person, barf.

That is why I wish for more information on this game....even a leak/s of builds of this vintage style of survival horror that would never be made again by the company responsible for it's development, Capcom.

I played and beat the final released version of RE4 for years, and there was a time where I really cherised Leon's rescuing of the president's daughter thing going on in that version. But the scrapped Castle version's storyline had much more to do with the prior entries and focused on the horror aspect much more and was gonna be so important to the storyline with the focus being to take down the main bad guys Umbrella directly in their core.....what could've been.

So Newgrounds, do you have any cancelled games you yearn for?

Just to name a few examples:
Resident Evil 4 (Original Version)
PT Silent Hills (To this day I really want to know why exactly it was called Silent Hills).
Silent Hill 5 (Team Silent Version)
Banjo-Threeie
WWF Backlash
WCW Mayhem 2
Duke Nukem Forever (Original Versions)
Resident Evil Zero (Nintendo 64 Version)
Earthbound 64
Star Wars 1313
Super Mario 64 2
Super Mario 128

There’s probably a whole lot more I can think of but that’s all I’ve got at the moment.

Silent HIll 5?! Wtf. Gimme THAT Konami. Get Team Silent back and make that....not the crap and remakes you're churning out now....

It would have explored the town of Silent Hill how it all started out. Probably focusing on the everyday life’s of it’s citizens and events. Just an ordinary lively town and over time throughout the process of the game, starting out very normal and full of life, slowly deteriorating and becoming the more dark and haunted, nearly empty and abandoned town we all know it as it is today.

At 6/24/25 05:24 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/24/25 05:06 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/24/25 05:01 PM, NanoSoft wrote:

At 6/24/25 04:57 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/23/25 05:51 PM, NanoSoft wrote:Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. I'd like to discuss cancelled games you're not over.

For me, I am still yearning over the cancelled Resident Evil 4 version, the Castle version. It was gonna take the Resident Evil fixed camera style to the next level, pushing the Gamecube to it's limits tech-wise. And the story was gonna be crazy too....Leon would invade the Umbrella HQ, the Spencer Castle, in Europe to take them down. That would have been so cool to play and beat.


Unfortunately, the games industry has escalated to impossible heights, and such a game wouldn't be possible today even with today's tech. Resident Evil games have become so mainstream and casual that a fixed camera tank controlling game wouldn't appeal to those newer fans, that came in with the recent REmakes, let alone the average gamer now. Everything now either has to be over the shoulder, which the finished product of RE4 pioneered, or first person, barf.

That is why I wish for more information on this game....even a leak/s of builds of this vintage style of survival horror that would never be made again by the company responsible for it's development, Capcom.

I played and beat the final released version of RE4 for years, and there was a time where I really cherised Leon's rescuing of the president's daughter thing going on in that version. But the scrapped Castle version's storyline had much more to do with the prior entries and focused on the horror aspect much more and was gonna be so important to the storyline with the focus being to take down the main bad guys Umbrella directly in their core.....what could've been.

So Newgrounds, do you have any cancelled games you yearn for?

Just to name a few examples:
Resident Evil 4 (Original Version)
PT Silent Hills (To this day I really want to know why exactly it was called Silent Hills).
Silent Hill 5 (Team Silent Version)
Banjo-Threeie
WWF Backlash
WCW Mayhem 2
Duke Nukem Forever (Original Versions)
Resident Evil Zero (Nintendo 64 Version)
Earthbound 64
Star Wars 1313
Super Mario 64 2
Super Mario 128

There’s probably a whole lot more I can think of but that’s all I’ve got at the moment.

Silent HIll 5?! Wtf. Gimme THAT Konami. Get Team Silent back and make that....not the crap and remakes you're churning out now....

It would have explored the town of Silent Hill how it all started out. Probably focusing on the everyday life’s of it’s citizens and events. Just an ordinary lively town and over time throughout the process of the game, starting out very normal and full of life, slowly deteriorating and becoming the more dark and haunted, nearly empty and abandoned town we all know it as it is today.

Others I forgot to mention but are also noteworthy include:
WWE Brawl
Sonic Xtreme
Twisted Metal Lost (Sequel to Twisted Metal Black).
Resident Evil 1.5
Dinosaur Planet

Again there’s probably some I’m forgetting but these are definitely honorable mentions.

At 6/24/25 05:26 PM, NanoSoft wrote:

At 6/24/25 05:24 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/24/25 05:06 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/24/25 05:01 PM, NanoSoft wrote:

At 6/24/25 04:57 PM, SolidSnakeOnAPlane wrote:

At 6/23/25 05:51 PM, NanoSoft wrote:Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. I'd like to discuss cancelled games you're not over.

For me, I am still yearning over the cancelled Resident Evil 4 version, the Castle version. It was gonna take the Resident Evil fixed camera style to the next level, pushing the Gamecube to it's limits tech-wise. And the story was gonna be crazy too....Leon would invade the Umbrella HQ, the Spencer Castle, in Europe to take them down. That would have been so cool to play and beat.


Unfortunately, the games industry has escalated to impossible heights, and such a game wouldn't be possible today even with today's tech. Resident Evil games have become so mainstream and casual that a fixed camera tank controlling game wouldn't appeal to those newer fans, that came in with the recent REmakes, let alone the average gamer now. Everything now either has to be over the shoulder, which the finished product of RE4 pioneered, or first person, barf.

That is why I wish for more information on this game....even a leak/s of builds of this vintage style of survival horror that would never be made again by the company responsible for it's development, Capcom.

I played and beat the final released version of RE4 for years, and there was a time where I really cherised Leon's rescuing of the president's daughter thing going on in that version. But the scrapped Castle version's storyline had much more to do with the prior entries and focused on the horror aspect much more and was gonna be so important to the storyline with the focus being to take down the main bad guys Umbrella directly in their core.....what could've been.

So Newgrounds, do you have any cancelled games you yearn for?

Just to name a few examples:
Resident Evil 4 (Original Version)
PT Silent Hills (To this day I really want to know why exactly it was called Silent Hills).
Silent Hill 5 (Team Silent Version)
Banjo-Threeie
WWF Backlash
WCW Mayhem 2
Duke Nukem Forever (Original Versions)
Resident Evil Zero (Nintendo 64 Version)
Earthbound 64
Star Wars 1313
Super Mario 64 2
Super Mario 128

There’s probably a whole lot more I can think of but that’s all I’ve got at the moment.

Silent HIll 5?! Wtf. Gimme THAT Konami. Get Team Silent back and make that....not the crap and remakes you're churning out now....

It would have explored the town of Silent Hill how it all started out. Probably focusing on the everyday life’s of it’s citizens and events. Just an ordinary lively town and over time throughout the process of the game, starting out very normal and full of life, slowly deteriorating and becoming the more dark and haunted, nearly empty and abandoned town we all know it as it is today.

Others I forgot to mention but are also noteworthy include:
WWE Brawl
Sonic Xtreme
Twisted Metal Lost (Sequel to Twisted Metal Black).
Resident Evil 1.5
Dinosaur Planet

Again there’s probably some I’m forgetting but these are definitely honorable mentions.

There's other builds of it out there yet to be found. But fortunately, there is a build of RE1.5 that did leak. It's pretty unfinished yet really satisfying to play what is there, and to glimpse at what could've been.