10 Video Games With MASSIVE Potential (That Still Failed)

8. Duke Nukem Forever

Duke Nukem Forever sat in development for over a decade before arriving in 2011 so you’d expect something cooking for that long to be pretty darn good. Unfortunately, it was not good. Turns out when a game needs to be transitioned through different engines, developers, and console generations multiple times it has a rough time coming out as something you’d want to play.

Between those issues and the ongoing conflicts regarding the game’s licence and budget and you have a recipe for disaster.

The game certainly served up the mindless shooting action some players were after but its delays meant that the humour which might have worked in the late 90s felt awkward and forced, and many critics at the time slammed it with perhaps the worst label you can get as a game, “boring”. Despite the famed nature of the series and its impressive predecessor, Duke Nukem 3D, it seems like the series should have been put to rest on that 1996 high.