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no thanks
maybe next time number 10 The Legend of
Zelda CDI releases it’s a grand feat to
ruin an IP as synonymous with greatness
as The Legend of Zelda which has firmly
been gaming royalty for the last 30
years but when the Philips CDI was
released it was decided that it should
get some heavy air quotes Zelda games
[Music]
if making Zelda for a no-good console
wasn’t enough of a bad omen outsourcing
development to Russian studio animation
magic was the last nail in the coffin
while the game’s our most memorable for
their poorly animated cutscenes the
gameplay wasn’t much to shout about
either as they were clunky and limited
side-scrollers i won
number nine shack fou the 1990s were
awash with poorly made licensed video
games and shaq who was destined to
become one of them from its very
conception a fighting game based on pro
basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is
bizarre from the beginning but throw in
some atrocious 2d graphics and broken
gameplay and you’ve got a real stinker
on your hands unanimously considered one
of the worst video games ever made it’s
hard to see why EA ever thought it would
be a good idea
number eight Duke Nukem Forever it’s
easy to believe that if Duke Nukem
Forever had released two or three years
after the last entry in the series 1996
is Duke Nukem 3d it wouldn’t have been
branded with anywhere near as much
infamy unfortunately the game Lestrade
and development held for some 14 years
and when it finally released it was
still using the arcade game mechanics of
the 1990s shuffled from Studio to studio
there’s no telling what it would have
been like had it been released promptly
by 3d realms at its core it’s not
actually a bad game just pitifully
underwhelming any game with this much
Resident Evil went from being one of the
most lorded franchises in gaming to a
veritable laughingstock as entries got
more and more ridiculous over the years
while Capcom managed to take this series
back to it’s terrifying roots with
Resident Evil 7 the six numbered
installment was everything players
didn’t want it went so far away from
Resident Evil it was unrecognizable even
featuring a jet plane segment where
you’re tasked with destroying an
aircraft carrier it turns out that
trying to make the most Resident Evil
Resident Evil of all time was a disaster
number 6 radical Heights by now you’ve
all heard the story of how radical
Heights failure also led to its
developer boskie productions shutting
down but how could the company not see
this coming
not only was the game released in early
access in a less stable condition than
pub G at the time but it’s radical 80s
theme seemed to desperately scream dude
were in with the kids like someone
trying way too hard to be the next
fortnight we are just moments away from
seeing if our contestants can grasp
those so really the game failed to
understand both young and old battle
royale fans alike so it’s no wonder the
game was doomed from the start
number 5 Shenmue
excuse me but how do you think you are
if you were to say that Shenmue laid
down the foundation every single
open-world game since has been built on
few people would argue with you its
hailed as a masterpiece but failed at
its original aim which was rescuing the
Dreamcast and Sega from financial
decline while it became the fourth best
selling game of all time on the
Dreamcast it was so ridiculously
expensive to produce that it was
impossible for to actually turn a profit
and was an enormous commercial failure
to tell my mom GamesRadar even
infamously said that in order for
Shenmue to make any money at all it
would have to have been purchased by
every single Dreamcast owner twice got
it see you later
you’d be forgiven for thinking that
blizzards overwatch was the only
action-packed hero based first-person
shooter to be released in May 2016 but
three weeks before overwatch gearbox
software came out with battle born a
game in a similar vein while they were
far from clones of each other as battle
born incorporated a campaign and had
MOBA elements releasing a game of the
same style as overwatch in the exact
same month decimated the player count
though in gearboxes defense they decided
on their release date months before
Blizzard everybody switched to overwatch
and unfortunately never went back to
it’s the only game on our list whose
failure was so inevitable it was
actually canceled mid development when
the plug was pulled in 2016 while the
original EverQuest games are MMOs as
good as any other EverQuest next had to
be put out of its misery because its own
they wanted to set it in a parallel
world called Norrath and take it back to
an older style of MMO game play but
stripping away all of the positive
changes that have been made to a
long-running series just for the sake of
returning to its roots was never going
number two marvel heroes a free-to-play
MMO with everybody’s favorite Marvel
superheroes ticks every box but it
wasn’t destined to last Marvel heroes
was created by gazillion entertainment
in partnership with Disney and things
were shaky from the beginning it took
four years and eighty million dollars to
launch but only operated for three years
until Disney unceremoniously entered
their relationship with the studio lead
developers left promised events for new
MCU movies never appeared and then all
the employees were fired without pay
severance or benefits the week of
Thanksgiving 2017 gazillion had amassed
debt so huge that when Disney cut them
loose the company had to be liquidated
immediately well hail Hydra
number one fallout 76 very few games
have managed to invoke the fury of
gamers like Bethesda’s latest cache in
the idea of playing a fallout game with
friends isn’t necessarily a bad one but
when you build your game on an aging
single-player game engine that was never
designed to handle multiplayer it’s no
wonder the game turned out to be as bad
with no NPCs no real story outside of
optional text logs
game-breaking bugs encountered every 10
minutes frequent server drops and PR
disaster after PR disaster after PR
disaster
Bethesda are going to have to work extra
hard to restore gamers faith in them
West Virginia may be enormous but it’s
as empty as todd howard’s pre-release
promises do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
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ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
watchmojo.com 10 video games that were
doomed to fail
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to get notified about our
latest videos for this list not all
games were looking at are terrible in
fact
some will be the complete opposite but
they all will have failed in some regard
no thanks
maybe next time number 10 The Legend of
Zelda CDI releases it’s a grand feat to
ruin an IP as synonymous with greatness
as The Legend of Zelda which has firmly
been gaming royalty for the last 30
years but when the Philips CDI was
released it was decided that it should
get some heavy air quotes Zelda games
[Music]
if making Zelda for a no-good console
wasn’t enough of a bad omen outsourcing
development to Russian studio animation
magic was the last nail in the coffin
while the game’s our most memorable for
their poorly animated cutscenes the
gameplay wasn’t much to shout about
either as they were clunky and limited
side-scrollers i won
number nine shack fou the 1990s were
awash with poorly made licensed video
games and shaq who was destined to
become one of them from its very
conception a fighting game based on pro
basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is
bizarre from the beginning but throw in
some atrocious 2d graphics and broken
gameplay and you’ve got a real stinker
on your hands unanimously considered one
of the worst video games ever made it’s
hard to see why EA ever thought it would
be a good idea
number eight Duke Nukem Forever it’s
easy to believe that if Duke Nukem
Forever had released two or three years
after the last entry in the series 1996
is Duke Nukem 3d it wouldn’t have been
branded with anywhere near as much
infamy unfortunately the game Lestrade
and development held for some 14 years
and when it finally released it was
still using the arcade game mechanics of
the 1990s shuffled from Studio to studio
there’s no telling what it would have
been like had it been released promptly
by 3d realms at its core it’s not
actually a bad game just pitifully
underwhelming any game with this much
Resident Evil went from being one of the
most lorded franchises in gaming to a
veritable laughingstock as entries got
more and more ridiculous over the years
while Capcom managed to take this series
back to it’s terrifying roots with
Resident Evil 7 the six numbered
installment was everything players
didn’t want it went so far away from
Resident Evil it was unrecognizable even
featuring a jet plane segment where
you’re tasked with destroying an
aircraft carrier it turns out that
trying to make the most Resident Evil
Resident Evil of all time was a disaster
number 6 radical Heights by now you’ve
all heard the story of how radical
Heights failure also led to its
developer boskie productions shutting
down but how could the company not see
this coming
not only was the game released in early
access in a less stable condition than
pub G at the time but it’s radical 80s
theme seemed to desperately scream dude
were in with the kids like someone
trying way too hard to be the next
fortnight we are just moments away from
seeing if our contestants can grasp
those so really the game failed to
understand both young and old battle
royale fans alike so it’s no wonder the
game was doomed from the start
number 5 Shenmue
excuse me but how do you think you are
if you were to say that Shenmue laid
down the foundation every single
open-world game since has been built on
few people would argue with you its
hailed as a masterpiece but failed at
its original aim which was rescuing the
Dreamcast and Sega from financial
decline while it became the fourth best
selling game of all time on the
Dreamcast it was so ridiculously
expensive to produce that it was
impossible for to actually turn a profit
and was an enormous commercial failure
to tell my mom GamesRadar even
infamously said that in order for
Shenmue to make any money at all it
would have to have been purchased by
every single Dreamcast owner twice got
it see you later
you’d be forgiven for thinking that
blizzards overwatch was the only
action-packed hero based first-person
shooter to be released in May 2016 but
three weeks before overwatch gearbox
software came out with battle born a
game in a similar vein while they were
far from clones of each other as battle
born incorporated a campaign and had
MOBA elements releasing a game of the
same style as overwatch in the exact
same month decimated the player count
though in gearboxes defense they decided
on their release date months before
Blizzard everybody switched to overwatch
and unfortunately never went back to
it’s the only game on our list whose
failure was so inevitable it was
actually canceled mid development when
the plug was pulled in 2016 while the
original EverQuest games are MMOs as
good as any other EverQuest next had to
be put out of its misery because its own
they wanted to set it in a parallel
world called Norrath and take it back to
an older style of MMO game play but
stripping away all of the positive
changes that have been made to a
long-running series just for the sake of
returning to its roots was never going
number two marvel heroes a free-to-play
MMO with everybody’s favorite Marvel
superheroes ticks every box but it
wasn’t destined to last Marvel heroes
was created by gazillion entertainment
in partnership with Disney and things
were shaky from the beginning it took
four years and eighty million dollars to
launch but only operated for three years
until Disney unceremoniously entered
their relationship with the studio lead
developers left promised events for new
MCU movies never appeared and then all
the employees were fired without pay
severance or benefits the week of
Thanksgiving 2017 gazillion had amassed
debt so huge that when Disney cut them
loose the company had to be liquidated
immediately well hail Hydra
number one fallout 76 very few games
have managed to invoke the fury of
gamers like Bethesda’s latest cache in
the idea of playing a fallout game with
friends isn’t necessarily a bad one but
when you build your game on an aging
single-player game engine that was never
designed to handle multiplayer it’s no
wonder the game turned out to be as bad
with no NPCs no real story outside of
optional text logs
game-breaking bugs encountered every 10
minutes frequent server drops and PR
disaster after PR disaster after PR
disaster
Bethesda are going to have to work extra
hard to restore gamers faith in them
West Virginia may be enormous but it’s
as empty as todd howard’s pre-release
promises do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
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