Comments on: Duke Nukem Forever Wednesday

By: dn3d

dn3d — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:12:16 +0000

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By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:27:44 +0000

There’s no way it’ll be better as a game than it is as a running gag.

By: The_B

The_B — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:21:19 +0000

An hour early, here it is.

Now hurry up RPS, and get it up here. Bloody inferior Shacknews.

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Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:58:34 +0000

[...] kid: an hour to go? hell yes! [...]

By: kid

kid — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:50:41 +0000

an hour to go?
hell yes!

By: Wrestlevania

Wrestlevania — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:53:57 +0000

It’ll be Prey – less portals, plus pole dancers – with a bit of light swearing thrown in for good measure.

Garbage, in other words.

By: Pod

Pod — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:21:06 +0000

Duke looks like Bruce Willis these days. My, what age can do to a person…

By: mno

mno — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:48:08 +0000

Forget about Duke Nukem, i want Shadow Warrior 2. Lo Wang Come For You!

By: roryok

roryok — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:43:36 +0000

well, I was a big duke fan from the outset. I can remember making maps for duke3d, and waiting for DNF so i could do some mapping with a more advanced game engine. I got a bit tired of waiting and decided to try out a new game instead, something called ‘Unreal’. that was 1998.

Its almost ten years since then and still no sign of it, but I fully expect it’ll be out next year. It’ll never live up to the hype of course. Nothing can. But then again, Half-Life 2 also had an awful lot of hype to live up to.

People look back at duke3d and think of it as a brainless shooter because the lead character was a typical action hero. But the actual game implementation was far from brainless, introducing us to all sorts of interactive gameplay that had never been seen before, providing hours of fun and endless mod possibilities with the bundled editing tools (one of the first games to bundle the actual tools used to make the game if I’m not mistaken)

Whatever you think of DNF, you have to admire 3dr for sticking to their guns in the face of all the howls of derisive laughter the internet has unleashed upon them again and again over the years, and for refusing to rush something they’ve already spent over a decade trying to get right.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:26:25 +0000

I’ve never been excited about DNF – cos DN3D was kinda, well, meh for me. So let’s reframe this. Imagine if we were talking about something really exciting – Doug Church and Warren Spector getting back together – at Valve – to make System Shock 3 – or let’s go the whole hog and say Underworld 3 – would I still thrill to the possibility of it seeing the light of day EVEN after ten years?

Hell yeah. I’ve waited 15-odd years (so far) to meet the love of my life, I can wait 10 years for that rarest of things, a genuinely awesome game.

Pity, then, that as I say the idea of DNF doesn’t float my boat :)

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:21:08 +0000

I think this is like the most awesome marketing campaign ever. They’re just waiting until everyone has completely given up on the game. Only then will they release DNF, and it will be so amazingly and surprisingly awesome that everyone will go into fits of hysteria over Dune Nukem’s perfection. It’s kind of like starving. Food tastes much better when your starving and you’ve practically given up on your chances of getting a meal.

Well either that, or they’re just stalling because they know the game will be a massive disappointment. But I’m pretty sure it’s one of these two.

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:07:50 +0000

I suspect that 3DR are wondering how much longer this particularly tedious practical joke can be played for.

I think it will be impossible to carry it on past 2011, and sooner or later somebody will have to admit that there never was and never was going to be a DNF.