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[Aquamarine]

Biggest issue? c'mon aqua

yo you don't understand

i was really, really looking forward to exploring that castle

 

[oneils]

Is that skyrim ? I remember it being inaccessible only during the intro mission

I think that's a road on the border of sky rim leading to cyrodil or something like that (if I remember correctly). It teases you about what is beyond the borders of sky rim.

 

[Acorn]

Morrowind and Cyrodill in Skyrim.

 

[Andrefpvs]

Unfortunately, the moment you step foot in the grass the game freezes. But man, the theories at the time were crazy. I don't think there will ever be anything quite like "pre-mainstream Internet" Pokémon.

 

[legacyzero]

My first choice.

Ouch...

I hate you for posting this.

Sort of unaccessible, I'd just like to see what they've would've been like but...

The glitch areas in SOTC, especially the dam...

Like everything in that game, the way it sits there with no purpose is so haunting.

This, and the top of the Tower. What a fucking tease.

 

[stn]

Skyrim - Morrowind
Deus-Ex: HR - Upper Hengsha

Plus tons more.

 

[Kinsei]

Do you know how long I spent searching for a lava world that was cut from the game?

 

[SargerusBR]

The archtrees in Ash Lake from Dark Souls

 

[NinjamicWZ]

Both those cities beyond the racetracks, why are there not metropolitan based levels in the Mario platformers?

'cause the ravenous industrialization of dense population centers are anathema to the mushroom kingdom's feng shui with the natural world

 

[Myriadis]

Do you know how long I spent searching for a lava world that was cut from the game?

Iirc you meet him again in Hailfire Peaks in the sequel, which is partly a lava world. But yeah, back then before the sequel came out it drove ne crazy too.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Skyrim - Morrowind
Deus-Ex: HR - Upper Hengsha

Plus tons more.

Didn't someone do some searching and found that most of Morrowind is actually in the game or something? I cant remember if it was that or something a fan was doing.

 

[Gartooth]

In Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts after reaching the top of LOG's tower you get to look at the world outside of Showdown Town's gates. Always wished you could go out there in a vehicle and explore since there was quite a bit of detail put into the landscape.

Here

Hyrule Field in Wind Waker is another good one. Such a damn tease halfway through the game.

 

[CloakedPuppet]

I think we'll see a fair bit of Destiny mentioned in this thread. Fantastic art and production - just want more of it!!

 

[DaBoss]

This is a fairly recent example. This is in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.

See that dark water areas at the top? You can't go there because the water currents push you left, so it is impossible to go up there. It would bother me every time I went through there lol.

 

[mazpratim]

1999 AD

 

[twobear]

This is Dragon Age: Inquisition, the thread. The whole game so far has involved me looking at the skyboxes and thinking that they look way more interesting to explore than the actual gameplay areas.

 

[Astral Dog]

Mother Brain lair on Other M.

 

[Castef]

The Borealis.

 

[Lionel Richie]

In retrospect, this whole Ariana thing was moronic, but the concept of this extra dungeon always had me dreaming.

I mean, what the fuck would you even do with the Triforce?

 

[Love Deterrence]

Ground Zeroes: the rest of the game.

(But seriously, I would have loved to walk around town in Catherine!)

 

[Woorloog]

Just about every non-playable area in Halo 3/Reach.
Though technically, i did get to explore them by using a theater-mode trick. Unfortunately this also ruined those areas for me, they were nowhere near as interesting as they seemed to be.

Inaccessible areas are only cool as long as you can't get to them. Usually.

 

[Slixshot]

I love Xenoblade for letting me explore everything that I could see, without exception.

One of the many amazing parts of the game.

 

[Jonm1010]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution- Upper Hengsha and Montreal. both was planned to be city hubs but didnt make it in time and were cut out of the game.

Didn't know that. That really bums me out. I remember just staring out the window at upper Hengsha because it was one of the most beautiful things in all of deus ex and wishing I could go there.

They should of made it a DLC or something.

 

[igor]

You can't walk on top of these pillared structures can you? Always bothered me.

 

[ITA84]

I don't know why, but the first thing that came to mind was the region beyond the Dauna Checkpoint in Breath of Fire III

The fact that there's a gate means there's got to be some civilization on the other side, and since we can explore pretty much the whole known world in the game it bothered me a little

 

[Shadowman16]

Shenmue 2 had a few areas either cut (because the game wasn't supposed to end "there") or Yu was already working on Shenmue 3 and these areas are from there. Its been so long I forget the exact reasoning. The area is Bailu village, the small rural Chinese town Ryo is heading to after leaving Hong Kong (screens from Shenmue Dojo)

I'd kill to be able to explore Shenmue 2's cut content, mainly because even to this day I'd love to see just where the game goes after 2's ending.

 

[sade]

Destiny, the area they literally told "I could go there right now" in that infamous dev diary.

 

[jrush64]

Final Fantasy XIII - Nautilus and Palumpolom especially. Both very good looking places.

 

[Woorloog]

Destiny, the area they literally told "I could go there right now" in that infamous dev diary.

The funny thing is Bungie said the same about places beyond the game area in Halo 3. "It is all rendered, you can go there" or some such shit.
Wasn't true. (If you could bypass the invisible barriers, the ground has no collision so you'd fall through it,)

 

[Maledict]

This is Dragon Age: Inquisition, the thread. The whole game so far has involved me looking at the skyboxes and thinking that they look way more interesting to explore than the actual gameplay areas.

Barring the giant wolf a status in one zone I would say Inquisition is exactly the opposite. I loved the fact that I would see vast zones and things in the far distance and then get to explore them.

(Val Royeux I guess as well as something you see but don't touch).

 

[Watevaman]

So many regions of the Mass Effect series, mainly more of the Citadel, but some areas (like the Krogan planet) would've benefited from some more exploration.

And yeah, the Upper Hengsha area in DE:HR.

 

[sade]

Heavenly Sword Nariko's underwear.

 

[noqtic]

I would really like to be able to explore the last city in Destiny.

The tower isn't really interesting. Destiny is a decent game but it could have been so much more, every time I play it I feel disappointed because Bungie dropped the ball on creating an interesting universe

 

[CorvoSol]

Pretty much the entire Final Fantasy XIII background.

Exactly what I was thinking.

1999 A.D. in Chrono Trigger

Even more so that one palace on that one island in 12000 BC.

 

[TM94]

Destiny.

That game has the most glorious skyboxes.

Deus Ex HR as well.

After playing through the Director's Cut with the commentary they let players know about all the stuff that they had to cut, some of it sounded incredible.

 

[SuomiDude]

Uh, actually, Bionis had a shoulder that showed up once in a cutscene but that you never actually went to: http://xenoblade.wikia.com/wiki/Bionis'_Shoulder

Holy shit :O Never knew about this, the game could've been so much much more than what it already was :O I mean the game is one of my favorite RPGs ever, but seeing how much was cut from the game...

 

[Rebel Leader]

I love Xenoblade for letting me explore everything that I could see, without exception.

Not everything

Colony 9 (Beta) The town you see at the end of the game

 

[ppor]

Some guy hacked the Act 6 enemies into the game, looks like a race of beast men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANGfZP3hcqU&index=1&list=PLH-cMCF0_NrbhOUJ5y8dBG3Dopq1WSgnK

 

[Elija2]

the carpark (and beyond) of the burnside skatepark in tony hawk

All of the levels in Tony Hawk. They always showed you just a little bit of what was outside the boundaries of the level and since those games had tons of secrets you'd always think that being able to leave the level was one of them. I know I spent many hours trying to moon jump into areas I wasn't allowed to go to.

 

[MindCollizion]

The wind waker castle hyrule area.

 

[Tuck]

Peach's castle in Super Mario Galaxy.

But you did get to explore it. Just not in that game.

 

[makingmusic476]

Even in WWHD, I still spent a decent amount of time trying to get to underwater Hyrule. =(

Also, the 6th Archstone in Demon's Souls and the Castle in Royal Raceway in MK8.

 

[Tribes of Trusty]

Skyloft concept art.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the final product. But that right there is a thing of majesty

I was so disappointed with the Skyloft and generally the whole upper world concept. I thought I would be free to explore all the world's sky and discover interesting islands and cities (like Wind Waker, but more optional).

I would've loved to explore the cut areas and content from Tomba! (PSX). Apparently there was a metal village that was scrapped. Plus there are empty entries in the event log (that drove me insane back then) that show cut content.

 

[forest]

A kid in my 2nd grade class told me that once you completed the Pokedex and maxed all of your Pokemon's levels that Prof. Oak would give you the ability to jump over all of the hedges and barriers you wanted.

I miss pre internet video game rumors

 

[Chrom]

But you did get to explore it. Just not in that game.

I know.

 

[TeddyShardik]

Basically everything cut in Soul Reaver (I remember finding the "TheLostWorlds" site one day and being amazed and disappointed at the same time.) but mostly Turel's Domain.
I know many things were used in the sequels but I gotta say the return to Avernus and finally meeting Turel there Defiance was kinda underwhelming.

 

[NekoFever]

I'd pay for a Mass Effect game with no objective. Just a significant chunk of the Citadel to explore with shops, clubs, residential districts, etc. Like just roaming the city in a GTA game.

 

[woopWOOP]

Not just this, but I remember spending a lot of time in MK64 trying to hop on mountains and other areas to explore the beyond of the tracks. Usually that meant falling down into the void eventually, but I did find this neat little cliff side on Koopa Troopa Beach you could station yourself on.

Nasrad from Skies of Arcadia has this area with a whole market place below, but you're stuck on a bridge above it. Also sucks that after certain events this whole area is inaccessible for the rest of the game.

As for beta stuff, I'd love to walk through Mario 64's moon filled beta castle.

 

[Diablohead]

Usually any land which is polygon created but out of reach because of water or death plains.

Sometimes you find ways over and it's an area you can actually stand on or you fall straight through because of no collision, still fun though.

 

[kanamechan]

All the content cut from Secret of Mana/Seiken Densetsu 2 when it stopped being for the "SNES CD" :/