By Kieron Gillen on June 5th, 2008 at 8:00 pm.
When I saw the thread over at Qt3, I presumed I was about to be Rick-rolled. But no. Really. Footage. Hence the blurry grab of the footage of the game that is known as Duke Nukem Forever in the autoplaying footage which you can see beneath the cut.
The end time is nigh.
It’s part of the Jace Hall show. There’s interview with the 3D realm guys, which… well, you’re going to skip it and go to the footage. Start 4:10 in…
First impressions: Duke Nukem Forever is a First-person shooter video-game.
Mr Hall also asks ‘em why it’s taking so long (3:30, for skipping around fans). Hookers and Cocaine is blamed, which we understand. Also other things. This quote is lovely:
George Broussard: “There’s a lot of mistakes and lessons we had to learn. But most of all, there’s also been a lot of World of Warcraft”
Scott Miller: “We want our Duke… but we also want our level 70 character”
Life is hard.
05/06/2008 at 20:06 phuzz says:
Bloody hell, there’s going to be some hats eaten now.
Unless it’s an elaborate hoax of course.
Let the trolling begin!
05/06/2008 at 20:06 The Fanciest Of Pants says:
First-person it surely is. Other then that… erm.. well it isn’t total bullocks which is an achievement.
Side note; Rick Astley, does not forgive, does not forget.
05/06/2008 at 20:20 Pidesco says:
If it doesn’t cure AIDS and ends all wars it is a disappointment.
Why is Jason Hall making tv shows, by the way?
05/06/2008 at 20:24 Ging says:
I noticed that it seemingly popped up what was either a score or a dollar value whenever they killed anything – that seems, jarring.
05/06/2008 at 20:25 Chris Evans says:
Who is Jace Hall? This is madness!
05/06/2008 at 20:31 Al3xand3r says:
Prey + Half-Life 2 = Duke Nukem Forever? Could be good I guess, it’s all up to the content’s quality and the fun you can get out of it.
05/06/2008 at 20:32 CrashT says:
Jason Hall, formerly with Monolith and head of Warner Brother’s Interactive Entertainment division.
05/06/2008 at 20:32 Kieron Gillen says:
Jason Hall.
KG
05/06/2008 at 20:33 Aubrey says:
Jason Hall:
http://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/jeffk/myNewE3333/index-03.htm
05/06/2008 at 20:37 Feet says:
The man helped bring us No One Lives Forever. I like him.
DNF shaky cam footage? Meh.
05/06/2008 at 20:44 Raziel_axd says:
One of the reasons DNF is taking so long is WoW? I hope someone nukes the 3DRealms studios.
05/06/2008 at 20:50 CrashT says:
Looks like a slightly better looking version of Prey which I guess I can live with, if it has the level of interactivity in the environments that Duke Nukem 3D had.
Man, most of my time at school was spent making things in Build… it’s pretty weird to be seeing new Duke Forever footage ten years later.
05/06/2008 at 20:57 major says:
Wow it doesn’t look like garbage. I’m very surprised at this.
05/06/2008 at 21:05 Smee says:
Start to crate rating of 7 seconds. Not too bad.
05/06/2008 at 21:09 fluffy bunny says:
“Wow it doesn’t look like garbage. I’m very surprised at this.”
Really? Did you seriously expect it to look like garbage? Wow.
05/06/2008 at 21:13 Optimaximal says:
If World of Warcraft is their primary excuse since 2004, what about the other 10 years?
05/06/2008 at 21:14 sana says:
One of the reasons DNF is taking so long is WoW? I hope someone nukes the Blizzard studios.
Fixed!
05/06/2008 at 21:14 Joe says:
@ The Fanciest Of Pants
Nor is he ever gonna give you up, or let you down.
05/06/2008 at 21:21 Frans Coehoorn says:
I’m surprised we still have an economy, seeing World of Warcraft ruining everything and all. Even DNF got delayed because of precious lvl 70′s. Unbelievable. ;)
05/06/2008 at 21:23 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:
Looks kind of… boring.
05/06/2008 at 21:29 Nimic says:
Am I the only one who instantly thought “Serious Sam” when watching that footage? That could seriously (pun only realized when written) have said “Serious Sam 3: Deadly Serious”, and I wouldn’t have doubted it one bit.
05/06/2008 at 21:30 Meat Circus says:
How can there be in-game footage of a hoax game that does not and has never existed?
05/06/2008 at 21:44 monchberter says:
@ Nimic. I’m with you on the Serious Sam shout, and for a start, Serious Sam is probably more well known than Duke among the youngling gamers out there.
Then again, i’m a fan, and i drink my tea out of a Serious Sam mug at work. :)
05/06/2008 at 21:44 restricted3 says:
@kieron, aubrey
Jason Hall:
http://www.bluesnews.com/archives/aug97-1.html
Search for “Got $100 on Thresh?”
As for DNF, it looks nothing special after all this time. It will still be a joke even if it gets 10′s everywhere. Not surprising considering where it comes from.
05/06/2008 at 22:06 Scandalon says:
It looks like Duke Nukem. In 3D. (Er, real 3D, not 2.5D.)
So, yea, 40+ year old man-children making the same game…
(Not that I’m entirely dismissing this type of game, but when that’s pretty much the only thing I’ve seen from these guys…)
P.S. – The show was pretty horrible too. Watching it full screen when our secretary came in to see “Group Sex” in big letters was pretty not cool, either.
05/06/2008 at 22:16 Dinger says:
I say this with the greatest respect for Duke Nukem 3D: watching that thing made me lose 10 IQ points. And I didn’t have that many to give in the first place.
05/06/2008 at 22:34 major says:
@fluffybunny
Yes, yes I did.
05/06/2008 at 22:39 Cigol says:
Heh, it’s going to suck, can’t wait for the internet breaking on the day of it’s release.
05/06/2008 at 22:41 Rook says:
Anyone else getting severe Daikatana vibes from this game? I half expected to see at treefrog in amongst all those shitty grubs they have running around.
05/06/2008 at 22:45 MeestaNob! says:
When the shaky cam footage came up I nearly punched my computer.
I’m so sick of the bullshit, come on, if it exists, why cant they show us something that I can actually see.
-Apathy level: RISING.
EDIT: And btw, auto-starting lag fest videos – NOT COOL.
05/06/2008 at 23:00 McTecman says:
I’m not really sure what I like and what I dislike about this… some things looked polished (loved the Chaingun and Devastator looks, appreciate the minimalistic menus), some things (like the white-ish look of the Shrinker that reminded me heavily on the Portal gun) felt off…
@Ging : That’s an Ego counter, you get Ego points for kills, kind of like in that platformer DN game I can’t recall the name of.
05/06/2008 at 23:05 fluffy bunny says:
@Major
Well, okay. That was a bit foolish of you, then. :-)
I mean, seriously – I can understand that some people doubt the game will live up to the expectations or that it’s going to be old-fashioned or… well, lots of things. But I can’t understand that someone would actually think it’s going to be garbage. That’s just nuts.
Basically, there are two alternatives here:
1. Duke Nukem Forever is going to be a pretty good game. Could be anything from Prey-good to HL2-good.
2. It’s never going to get released.
And right now, it seems 1 is most likely. What’s not likely, at all, is that they would release a crap game after all this time. After everything they’ve said and all the years they’ve wasted due to not wanting to release a game they weren’t satisfied with in the first place, that’s just not going to happen.
05/06/2008 at 23:16 terry says:
This would be the most amazing thing ever but its not in 2d and there seems to be no green yamo
05/06/2008 at 23:18 Saflo says:
The fear is less that it’s going to be unplayable crap and more that it’s basically going to be a remake of Duke 3D with shiny graphics, which would be incredibly lame of them to do at this point.
05/06/2008 at 23:31 Nick says:
Yeah, but I’d still enjoy playing it.
05/06/2008 at 23:35 Ozzie says:
I think it’s going to be just okay.
It looks technically solid, but else totally boring.
I nearly felt asleep while watching this footage…
06/06/2008 at 00:14 Gap Gen says:
Yeah, I’m not sure what took them so long to make a game that seems like this, even if it is pretty shiny. I guess Penny Arcade was on the money when it accused 3D Realms of playing Everquest the whole time.
06/06/2008 at 00:23 DragonSix says:
Anyone else getting severe Daikatana vibes from this game? I half expected to see at treefrog in amongst all those shitty grubs they have running around.
That’s exactly what I was thinking too.
06/06/2008 at 00:25 Chris R says:
Man, the video doesn’t work for me, no matter which site I access it from. Probably for the best anyway.
06/06/2008 at 00:40 Pijama says:
“And in the End Times, thou shalt see the release of DNF – And all shall despair.”
-> Gamer’s Bible.
06/06/2008 at 02:03 Mark says:
Did I hear someone say “shrink ray” in that video? That sounds interesting.
06/06/2008 at 02:34 Erlam says:
Probably the best thing going for this game is that the developers have absolutely no problem making fun of themselves.
As long as it’s hilariously-in-bad-taste, I’m there.
I think it will do much, much better than most people would think.
06/06/2008 at 03:12 Fazer says:
!Spoiler alert!
Best question ever:
“I say this with all love that anyone could possibly say.. WTF IS TAKING SO LONG?!” XDD
Also, who is that guy with a pipe?
06/06/2008 at 03:15 Razor says:
Holy. Shit.
06/06/2008 at 03:23 Albides says:
Duke who?
06/06/2008 at 03:34 S-Guy says:
That’s a pretty good screenshot. O_O
The gun in the screenshot looks kinda like the chaingun from Duke Nukem 3D.
06/06/2008 at 05:33 Mo says:
Everyone has been taking the piss out on DNF, but I always have, and still maintain that the game will be great. I base this around two reasons:
First, that the game hasn’t been in development for 12 years. It’s been 4/5 years. The difference between DNF and Daikatana is that Daikatana never had a reboot. The DNF we know (and love) now is not the same game that was announced 12 years ago. Heck it isn’t even the same game that was shown at E3 2001. Therefore the game isn’t going to be “aged” tech-wise or gameplay-wise (except where intentional for the latter).
My second reason is the E3 2001 trailer. I know you’ve already seen it, but just watch it. Seriously, watch it. Doesn’t it look amazing? I’d play that game if it came out today, aged graphics and all. In terms of the set-pieces, interactivity, etc, it looks way ahead of its time considering HL2 came out 3 years later. If they scrapped that to make something better … holy crap.
In conclusion: Always Bet On Duke. :)
06/06/2008 at 05:52 Lucky says:
If I somehow figured out how to make the video play, I’d have something more to say than that I’ve always believed in DNF and hope that it’s going to rule.
06/06/2008 at 05:53 Anthony Damiani says:
So, uh…. the video don’t run on my machine.
I’m sure I could get that fixed, but it seems so very apt…
06/06/2008 at 05:56 RichPowers says:
I think the interwebs is just angry that a tried ‘n true meme will be lost once the game is actually released.
But since it will never be released, we can go on making silly jokes about it until the end of time. :)
06/06/2008 at 09:40 Larington says:
Heh, the video gave me the impression the DNF dev team consists of less than 10 people – Mostly from seeing this one tiny cluttered little room through the door from that boardroom.
And that World of Warcraft has a lot to answer for… Kaaaaahhhhhhn!
06/06/2008 at 09:55 Slappeh says:
Well least as some have said it doesn’t look totally bollocks. At least its against creative monsters and not just your standard space marines or zombies.. well, I hope not.
Still, I don’t think its worth the wait in anything but name.
06/06/2008 at 10:13 phuzz says:
Sod Duke Nukem, what about The Duke Spirit?
http://www.dukespirit.com/
06/06/2008 at 10:18 Valentin Galea says:
Jace Hall kinda wants to be Larry David here…
06/06/2008 at 11:35 Ok says:
That’s totally Prey 2
06/06/2008 at 13:55 Alex says:
You mean like Prey which got rebooted and rebooted.. and rebooted.. and ended up being a decidely mediocre game, at best?
06/06/2008 at 14:12 wien says:
The original Prey was effectively cancelled. The Prey that actually made it to market is a different game from a different developer (Human Head). 3DRealms only “oversaw” Prey development, unlike DNF. I’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing though.
06/06/2008 at 14:19 Mo says:
The critics didn’t seem to think so. 80%+ from a couple of respectable publications is pretty great, actually.
06/06/2008 at 15:36 Chaz says:
For those like me who couldn’t get that video to play, some one has posted the gameplay bit up on YouTube, hurrah!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcqJt2MfOwU
06/06/2008 at 16:48 Jack Monahan says:
“I think we’re known most for games your mother wouldn’t want you to play,”
“when we started making games, we were already 30+ year old game developers. We wanted mature games for ourselves, we’re making the kind of games we wanted to see ourselves; we always catered to the adult gamer–because that’s what we are.”
06/06/2008 at 16:53 Irish Al says:
Prey is 83 in Metacritic.
07/06/2008 at 11:33 GothikX says:
So, taking into account that after a game is announced, we typically get unofficial first-glimpse footage say… one third into development, on average, we can expect DNF to release sometime in 2030?
Disclaimer: the ‘one third on average’ bit was totally came up with on the spot.
edit: got some errors too when submitting comment, something about the email regex; I shamefully admit I’m a developer and still I didn’t copy it… sorry!
07/06/2008 at 18:33 nexus says:
looks like “Vampuka”, bit funny… budget scores few coins гг
mannered PR.
фак…
screening product*zie
09/06/2008 at 04:06 Duncan says:
While none of that footage looked that promising I think 3drealms are just giving us enough to know that the game is indeed being made. I predict a real trailer will be coming out in the next few months where they will unveil, hopefully, an action spectacular on par with those old E3 trailers.
I have faith that they can pull this off.
09/09/2008 at 18:47 solarkis says:
Wow Jace is showing signs of age. He looks tired the whole time. Welcome to the WB, jace. :P
Duke Nukem is pants always has been.