8 Video Games That Made You Hate Yourself

At least Battlefront II's gameplay fundamentals were relatively solid, the same of which certainly can't be said for Duke Nukem Forever, a game where morbid curiosity surely accounted for a massive portion of its sales.

Having spent so long in development - more than 14 years! - that it was jokingly dubbed "Duke Nukem Taking Forever" by the gaming press, the long-gestating FPS sequel finally released in 2011 to dismal reviews.

Most critics had little love for the game's woefully dated visuals, moldy humour, and general lack of polish, and yet for anyone who threw down day-one dollar and was left shocked by the naff end result, there was a profound sentiment of, "What did you expect?"

This is, after all, a game whose chief artistic achievement is the player's ability to grab a turd out of an unflushed toilet and throw it at the wall - an apt metaphor for the experience of playing it itself.

Buying in day-one is an embarrassing enough memory, but what about those poor souls who splashed $100 on the "Balls of Steel" special edition, which included all manner of vacuous tat - including a five-inch bust of Duke himself.

In the very least, it served as a fittingly junky monument to the dross you just flushed mad money away on. We all knew in our bones that Duke Forever would be utter dog-water, and yet, many of us just couldn't help ourselves.