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Cut/Changed Content in Games - Moonface - Jul 11th, 2026

Naturally, every game is going to inevitably have something changed or outright removed during its development, and sometimes we get to know or even see what that content could've been. There's even an entire website dedicated to it. So what stuff has caught your eye that falls into this?


I have a few things I know I've seen that I'd put here, but for now I'm going to share this cut content from Shadow of the Tomb Raider that I just learned about. So the game was going to receive an 8th DLC taking place in Croft Manor, but for some reason was cancelled during its development despite seemingly being pretty far along as there are voice lines for the entire DLC recorded in multiple languages. One of the cut lines addresses the size of the infamously large sink in Tomb Raider 2, and I love it finds a silly way to canonically explain something that at the time happened due to limitations with the game engine. LOL
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Wrote:
Miss Croft. Having now examined our original documents, versus the blueprints from which the work was executed, we have discovered that the initial designs were measured in feet, but the blueprints were drawn up in meters. This is the reason for the oversized proportions to your kitchen.


RE: Cut/Changed Content in Games - Maniakkid25 - Jul 12th, 2026

What immediately comes to mind is the Arwing that's in Ocarina of Time's game files. Even knowing why it's there (testing the Z-Targeting system), its still a very silly crossover.

Next thing that comes to mind is Bioware and Obsidian. Oh, my god, the stories I could tell. KotOR 2 by itself is a treasure trove of cut content, to the point that the mod restoring said content has its own Wikipedia page! The Mass Effect series as a whole has loads upon loads of unused audio and text, including stuff that alludes to the romance options all being available to both sexes (most of them are limited to just one). My favorite is Male!Shepard saying verbally "I am not screwing Garrus!" We know the context of this because Fem!Shepard can say the exact same line (If you start romancing Garrus, one of the other characters comments on the health effects it could have [long story], and she can say that), but I so wish that they had kept that as an option. Garrus and Male!Shepard is already the best bromance ever, and turning into a romance would be just perfect.

Being me, I gotta bring of Legend of Dragoon somehow, and while I don't know about anything from that game, I do know a game that was going to reference it as DLC: Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale! *Crickets chirping* Does--... Does anyone remember Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale?! That Super Smash Bros. knock-off by Sony?! No? ...Okay. Well, it was a thing, and Dart (the main character of Legend of Dragoon) was planned and basically all built up and ready to go, before all development was dropped on the game because of lagging sales numbers. Thus, we were denied any chance of Legend of Dragoon representation in a game meant to represent Sony's catalog of characters! *flips table*