10 Video Games That Tried Way Too Hard To Be Cool

10. Duke Nukem Forever

Duke Nukem Forever is not a good game, I think we can all agree on that. But the tragedy is that it thinks it is.

This is a title that was stuck in development hell for over fourteen years, and at one point it probably could have been the next big thing, which explains the arrogance and swagger seeping out of every pore. Of course, when it came out, it might as well have been a fossil from a bygone era that had been unearthed and sold to players - one that you almost pitied being compared to other games of the time.

That's because Duke himself felt like an old man at a wedding who doesn't know he's causing a scene, and that the reason he has to follow everyone around is because he's absolutely not funny, and everyone is just trying to get shot of him.

Speaking of shots, the game took them at everything from Master Chief to Christian Bale's on-set Terminator breakdown (very timely, that one), and yet came out the butt of the joke each and every time. It thought it was being so cool and relevant, but each punch Duke threw missed so widely it ended up coming back round and hitting the old geezer in the head.