Top 10 Video Games That Were Doomed To Fail

fate can be a cruel mistress welcome to 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 [Music] 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 hype was doomed from the start number seven Resident Evil 6 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 waiting to happen 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 especially when it was playing catch-up 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 number four battle porn 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 battle born number three EverQuest next 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 developers decided it just wasn't fun 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 to succeed 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 as it did 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 ring the bell to be notified about our 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Published: Sun Jan 13 2019