Mega Man Legends 3
As the fourth game in the Legends sub-series of the Mega Man franchise, Mega Man Legends 3 (don’t ask) had a lot of hype built around it. Mega Man games were nothing if not consistent, and certainly building up to that hype was the fact that the last Legends game came out 15 years ago. Creator Keiji Inafune said that he’d like to make a game and wasn’t able to at the time, but that didn’t stop Capcom from announcing Legends 3 and getting people all revved up for a 3DS adventure with the blue Digger. Throw in a pair of new characters and getting fans involved, and everything was set for success.
Until July 2011, when Capcom announced that the game had been canceled. Sure, Inafune had left Capcom, but there were people still working on it. No one really knows what happened; Capcom Europe’s Twitter account tried to shift the blame on the fans, and that went about as well as could be expected when over 20,000 fans signed a petition. There was also going to be a Prototype Version released on the 3DS shop to serve as a prologue to actual game, but that got axed along with the full game and will never see release. The cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3 is something that still stings fans to this day, and eventually talk of Capcom leads to bitter rage over what could’ve been. But hey, at least there’s Mighty No. 9!
Chances of coming back: Sit at its grave and cry about how much you miss it.
