8 Video Games That Could Have Just Been An Email
These video games didn't even touch the sides.
There probably isn't a person among us who hasn't played at least one video game and thought, "Well, that was definitely a game."
For one of many reasons, a game might leave you feeling utter indifference, the experience failing to move you in any way or stoke any sort of strong feelings.
It was a game that existed, and you probably stopped thinking about it the moment you closed it off.
While not all games can be immortal, generational bangers, sometimes you might play a game and consider it such a fleeting, ephemeral piece of work that, well, it basically could've been an e-mail.
And that's absolutely true of these games, each of which are either woefully undercooked entries in beloved franchises, or hyped-up original games that came and went in the mere blink of an eye.
Time hasn't been kind to these titles which, in the grand scheme of things, mostly feel like pointless excursions which wasted the time of both the developers and players alike.
Though each of these games were hotly anticipated pre-release, they fell out of the cultural conversation in record time because there was so little meat on them bones...
8. Devil May Cry 2
Impressively even more polarising than 2013's Devil May Cry reboot, Devil May Cry 2 is one of the most bafflingly undercooked sequels of all time - a bewilderingly naff rush-job which Capcom sloughed out less than 18 months after the acclaimed original.
Devil May Cry 2 put basically every foot wrong - the combat was intensely casualised to the point of tedium, Dante's edgy personality was cleaved away in favour of generic stoicism, and the repetitive level design was an absolute snoozer throughout.
Combine all this with a brief five-hour play-time and how blatantly the storytelling was nothing but filler, and it's little surprise that even ride-or-die DmC fans often recommend newcomers to skip this one and jump straight into the brilliant third game instead.
Devil May Cry 2 did the one thing just about nobody expected - it made the character action franchise boring, damn-near derailing its momentum before it even firmly established itself as a core Capcom staple.