Comments on: DNF: The Story So Far (Sorta)

By: solios

solios — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:45:50 +0000

Phil : Those are good examples, but let’s not forget the Star Wars prequels. Huge steaming turds the lot of them, yet they still raked it in hand over fist.

DNF doesn’t have to be the second coming of awesome. It just needs to be fun. And since we won’t know if it’s going to be fun until it’s actually, yanno… done….

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:13:44 +0000

Seems like the twitch gamer that was itching for this game 10 years ago has grown up and moved on to other things. The twitch gamer of today has no interest in the Duke, never having played the original. I think the game is up for a big fall. I truly pity 3D Realms position; they painted themselves into a wall long ago. I wonder if it’s even worth putting the game out at all since it will cost millions more in marketing.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:01:17 +0000

Huge hype can turn to anti-hype before you blink if your core demographic is geeks and everything isn’t just so – look at Playstation 3, Lost season 3 and to a lesser extent our dearly beloved Bioshock.

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:59:28 +0000

Keep in mind this is exactly the type of Hype that works badly for them too. Because everyone is going to wait to see how it does — everyone wants to know if it will SUCCEED, not what it costs at EB.

There was an awful amount of rhyme in that…

By: Mouj

Mouj — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:04:36 +0000

All in all, seems to me all this is doing is building up the hype, somehow : finally, we’re all still talking about Duke, and we’re all eagerly waiting to see it’s long-awaited sequel.. Got to acknowledge that a hype built over a decade is one heck of an advertisment campaign !