10 Rejected Video Game Ideas Literally EVERYONE Would've Loved
8. Maverick Hunter
It’s hard to imagine that at one point, Mega Man was a gaming icon. He was essentially the mascot for developers Capcom. Now, he’s a hazy nostalgic memory.
In 2010, six months after the release of Mega Man 10, creator Keiji Inafune announced he was leaving the company to, in his words, “start his life over”. Capcom, in a panic, cancelled the four Mega Man titles that were in development. Unlike Mega Man 9 and 10, these weren’t just nostalgic 8-bit platformers. One of these was a new game in the Legend series and one, most bizarrely, was a gritty first-person reboot.
That phrasing might well make your stomach turn but consider that Maverick Hunter was being worked on by Armature Studio, whose founding staff had worked on Metroid Prime 3 and it suddenly makes a lot of sense. Furthermore, to design X’s new suit the company somehow tapped Adi Granov, the man who had recently redesigned Iron Man for the big screen.
Early footage of the game exists and is a teasing glimpse into what might’ve been before the project was shut down after just six months of work. Maverick Hunter would’ve definitely been a risky release but anything is better than the nothing the series has had in the last 12 years.