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9 Incredibly Expensive Video Games That Didn’t Turn Out Very Well

Making a game is really expensive. I mean, like really expensive. Way more expensive than making a cake, or a wardrobe. Games are a lot more fun and interesting though, so it's all relative - right? I mean, what video game would be less fun than looking at a wardrobe? Especially when the cash thrown at it is so immense.

8) Duke Nukem Forever – 2011

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Estimated cost: $30,000,000

What can be said about Duke Nukem Forever that hasn’t already been said about Guantanamo Bay? It’s a horrific blemish on the skin of humanistic society, and the President himself needs to see that its wiped from history. That is to say, it was a poor quality video game.

Duke Nukem, though! That guy’s the boss, to be sure. He deserves the title way more than Bruce Springsteen. He stamps on aliens’ faces and objectifies women while wearing a vest. He’s a modern hero. Right? Unfortunately, when you have a central character this deep, getting a game together good enough to house him is always going to be a lengthy process.

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10 years, in fact. And probably just as many studios. George Broussard (boss of ill-fated 3D Realms) is said to have laid down $20,000,000 on the rights to the game alone. In the end it landed on Randy Pitchford’s desk, the man who later gave us the nauseating disaster Aliens: Colonial Marines – another game that wouldn’t look out of place on this very list.

Keep clinging to Borderlands, Randy!