By Alec Meer on September 3rd, 2010 at 5:50 pm.
UPDATE: CONFIRMED! And due for release next year. Wowsers.
Initial picture proof (Thanks to these chaps.) And here’s more. And more. And more. Honestly: it’s real.
Video stream on the ongoing PAX announcement below, including attendees actually playing it with their actual hands. Pigs flew after all.
ORIGINAL:The hot word on the hot street is that 2K are unveiling something hot at that time, live from the showfloor of the Penny-Arcade Expo. Hotter still, it’s hotly-tipped to be Gearbox’s rumoured finishing-up of Duke Nukem Forever. Is it? Maybe/probably/everyone on the internet’s saying it is, so don’t blame us if it isn’t. Look, Randy’s even wearing a relevant t-shirt today, though maybe he’s just a massive prankster.
Find out for yourself by pointing those beautiful eyes of yours at the live-streaming videobox below at 6pm BST, 1pm EST, 10am PST and 7pm CET (It is DNF. Maybe. Probably. Everyone on the internet’s saying it is anyway, so don’t blame us if it isn’t).
The embed code gave me a choice of colours for the border. I chose pink, just for you.
I think it is true this time I really do, what do you guys think?
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I think I’m going to make a cake.
Mmmm. Cake.
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I made a cake preemptively.
Mmm, preemptive cake.
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What are you waiting for, christmas?
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Get back to work you slackers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CjlUgyN3W0
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Now that’s seriously memic.
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Its unfortunate that the cake is a lie.
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I’m going to have to go with “Bullshit”.
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Bullshit on the preemptive cake? Never.
Now preemptive bullshit cake? I could see that. I see the announcements and STILL don’t believe it’s real.
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Hm.. really does sound like they are going to show off DNF.
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It certainly does, and in a 1UP interview George said that DNF would be released when pics fly
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Not even God himself could stop this now.
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Pics?
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I ‘m sure he meant pigs. Mainly since the owner of 3D realms tweeted a picture of flying pigs. One wearing sunglasses simmilar to those of the Duke.
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@M
O RLY?
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@GOD
YARLY
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Always bet on Duke!
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+1
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I am hereby handing in my official notice of conditional pre-blame w.r.t. the announcement not being about DNF.
So there!
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They’re gonna announce it as a facebook game
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If only the vid and the third more (pic) wasn’t there
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If this is fake, it will immediately rise to the top on the “trolling teh internets” list (yes, there is a list), receive the title Epic Troll, and knock Broussard down to second place.
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So 5pm BST?
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What does BST actually stand for? Bristol? I keep assuming it was Bull Shit Time until they showed that it is indeed being worked on by Gearbox.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=BST
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That’s 6pm BST, not 6pm BST.
So 6pm current UK time. If you come back at 6pm GMT that’s 7pm and you’ve missed it.
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Duke Nukem Forever
A new game from 2k Games
Due 2016
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N***er best NOT be joking.
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You mean 6pm BST, not 6pm GMT.
So 6pm current UK time. If you come back at 6pm GMT that’s 7pm BST and you’ve missed it.
So, UK people, come back at 6. Just so we’re all clear.
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This is not tears in my eyes, is the wind, yes, dust in the wind.
I want to be Duke Nukem again, and say mean and political incorrect things again. Probably uncover a politician fucking a $2 cheap whore in a motel called “Hot Coffe”.
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Gearbox dev posted this 40 mins ago too… (look at the picture in the tweet)
http://twitter.com/mikeyface/status/22896853924
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I don’t mean to be a jerk, but do people actually think DNF is going to be any good? Isn’t it probably just going to be an average shooter with gameplay somewhere between Serious Sam and Gears of War with some lame jokes thrown in? It seems to me people are only excited about the game because it’s been delayed so long. (Although I guess Gearbox has a good reputation?)
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I think I still have a weakness for silly over-the-top shooters and there haven’t been much of those recently. All is gritty, brown and realistic nowadays, so DNF might hit a sweet spot.
Plus, there is of course a lot of nostalgia involved. I played Duke 3D with my friends for quite some time and it was an awesome multiplayer title back in the days.
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How you can say that?
If you dad returned after a 4 years travel. Will you hug him even if he have a long beard, and his covered in dust?
And now, Imagine if your bad is jesus, and he returned with heavy guns to fix thing here in earth.
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Tei, that is possibly the most amazing and sacreligious metaphor I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
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By this point it doesn’t matter. People will buy it just because it’s finally here. And if it is absolutely horrible, then it’ll be a fitting end to an era anyway. I mean, as long as he actually takes a shit down an alien bastard’s gaping neck cavity.
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I’m excited because 1) DN3d continues to be fun as hell to play and still has a brilliant level design and thus there’s a chance that it might be true in Forever as well, 2) it has a heavy chance to stand out from the current boring FPS crowd, 3) Gearbox are good devs and 4) the footage trailer thingy that was released earlier this year after the (supposed) closure looked interesting and fun to play.
People moan all the time about not getting sequels to their beloved games from eons past. This one has a chance to happen now, no matter how much of a joke it became. I’m not going to start cynically brushing it off just because.
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but everyone who worked on the original games died 100 years ago.
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I don’t know, from the video footage I saw of it, it looks like it will be at least a decent game. Definitely not enough to make it worth the long wait, but it still looks like it’ll be worth playing.
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Two words: Remember Daikatana?
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My money’s on Cooking Mama.
What?
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Suck it down.
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Randy Pitchford is about to make you his bitch.
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Wrong way round, Randy Pitchford is everyone’s bitch. And he loves it.
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This guy may as well just change his name to pitchfork and be done with it.
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I believe it is time for this thread to fill up with all the one-liners from
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem
Also, why isn’t there a tinychat chatroom or something running for this?
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http://blog.pikimal.com/geek/2010/09/03/piki-at-pax-the-duke-he-has-returned/
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well that looks pretty official, to be honest they should have just shipped him to dignitas and let it be but nevermind.
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He lives!
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I like how he has absolutely no expression on the shark painting. Like he does this every day.
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i’m just posting to see the time :)
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just posting….ain’t trolling….just drooling!
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THE CAKE IS A LIE! THE CAKE IS A LIE!
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http://twitter.com/SEKCobra/status/22903552555
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*Sits and patiently waits for the final 2 minutes.”
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Well that was fun. Nothing to see here, move along.
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jeeeesus chriiiist just let this stupid, gigantic waste of time and money die, pleeeease
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…and it grinds to a halt.
Not entirely unexpected.
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Mr. Meer must be psychic, as soon as the stream started I was treated with an ad for the Vanish detergent, with the tagline “Trust Pink”.
Really should’ve been “Always bet on pink” though :)
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… except it went off air again straight after, so I guess I no longer trust pink! :p
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Jesus Christ it’s actually playable – THE END IS NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH!!!!!!!!!!
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stream dead?
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I got that wonderful ad for Vanish.
And that was it.
So the new game is based on Vanish Laundry detergent?
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It’s, like, 4 minutes past 6, and still nothing!. The only explanation is that the world has exploded, making PAX a lot further away from RPS than it was, thus the delay in getting the streaming signal.
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What’s the betting this is now going turn out to be console only?
WHY HASN’T IT STARTED YET?
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18:05 and all I’ve seen is some stupid Vanish advert.
… *sigh* we’ve been brutally trolled haven’t we?
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Confirmation at http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/03/controversial-long-awaited-duke-nukem-forever-will-finally-be-released/
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And so the cycle begins anew…
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Eight will get you five Gearbox is finished before Duke Nukem Forever is.
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Live broadcast started 5 minutes ago
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Is Duke Nuke showing late? is not buffering here.
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http://twitter.com/GearboxSoftware/status/22904222245
FUCK YES
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Thanks chaps. Thaps.
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That’s not Duke Nukem — I know, because he’s not holding a cup of tea. This is the real Duke Nukem.*
(*by the ever-amazing TooMuchSpareTime)
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Hah! All I got was a detergent ad as well. Maybe its a metaphor for getting rid of the blight that is Duke Nukem Forever fandom? Doubtless I’ll be proved wrong in ten minutes or so when it turns out they do announce it, but man! What if they actually announced something new, y’know, something exciting! Aaaah, who am I kidding?
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Aww man, poor show past me, you suck at this. :<
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The stream is up, but it’s just stupid “interviews” with people waiting to see the demo. I hate TV news.
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Worth it for the “Where are you gonna pre-order it from?” “BitTor- oh”
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3D Realms was here to chew gum and develop a video game, but they must have had a lifetime supply of gum to work through.
Never change, Duke. Never change.
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I can’t wait until Gearbox finish Half Life 2 Episode 3
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Dear god the live comments can’t seem to get past that the first guy talking was black.
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HOLY SHIT – IT’S REAL and I have burst spontaneously into song…
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Duke:
He is trampling on the aliens and making monsters puke
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift Nuke
The Duke is marching on
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Fuck off with your yo-yos and show us the game!
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Stream is up and running and I have to admit that I am a wee bit excited. Will be disappointed, though, if it doesn’t have multiplayer. With the shrink gun. Man, those memories…
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All I’m getting from this is yo-yos.
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What the hell am I watching.
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Hey, what if it turns out they will only release it for consoles? What an epic trolling that would be.
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@Lars Westergren:
I was holding my breath when Randy Pitchford said “Xbox, PS3…” but he added “…and PC” quickly afterwards.
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Oh my this is exciting!
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Tell him to SPEAK UP
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Pritchford just said 2011.
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Effing adverts. Haven’t 2K got enough money? They trid to shuff DRM down my throat and now they’re shoving washing powder up my arse. I had to switch off. Duke would’ve agreed with me.
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firefox + noscript + addblock plus addon. Much faster browsing also. And you can allow sites like RPS to have ads.
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The advert was part of the video at the start though, so I wouldn’t have thought that was skippable?
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And they aren’t going to show the video.
That’s a pretty good punchline, you have to admit.
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I thought that was bloody hilarious when she said “ok we’re not going to show the video” and walked out of the booth.
There was a good 5-10 minute lag on the Ustream comments, and they were obviously going to flip out over that. Sure enough, a few minutes later the comments caught up and exploded in a slew of caps locks and furiously typo’d swearing.
Brilliant!
Schadenfreude aside, the whole thing was a total waste of time. It didn’t help that afterwards when they went to video the people playing the game instead, the camera man / woman was totally useless and kept pointing the camera off screen at the backs of random people’s heads and changing between screens every couple of seconds. That coupled with the crappy low bitrate video, heavy lag, camera wobble, dropped audio, mic feedback, low contrast and bad angles made it utterly worthless to watch.
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Blueballed. Waste of time.
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Gearbox is a good choice. Their sense of humor fits the franchise and they Borderlands had very solid shooter mechanics.
Apart from that, I don’t really know what to say. Like Bob Dylan sang: How many sharks can a man jump over?
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Well that was a waste of time.
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To be released 2011, he said.
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Eh. Whatever. At this point I have zero interest in Duke Nukem in any form. It might have been nice, you know, ten years ago, but now? Meh. Boredom.
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Oh crap.
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It’s a console game.
So it’s shit.
Thanks for nothing, traitors.
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If it’s shit, that’s very far from being the reason.
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I honestly wish duke would die. Duke was a fun fps for the time, I liked it a lot, yada yada, but it was just a running joke. Watching some play footage now, all I see is a generic first person shooter. They will add in some punchy 1 liners, woopty do.
I can see what happened here though, a serious company that can release games bought the ip, threw in duke 3d assets, and now will churn out a generic FPS game. Maybe the only thing that I can look forward to with this game is that I can finally stop reading about duke after it gets released and forgotten.
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Not really, they stated they used all of 3DR’s asset’s – the game was more than 80% complete when they went under. Also, if you’re not as happy (and flabbergasted!) about this as everyone else in the thread, why post?
Just to make it clear, I know it’s gonna be just another FPS, but I’m just happy that all that hard work those people put in isn’t going to waste.
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Yeah, it’s nice that it didn’t go to waste, but man. We’re set up for another Daikatana here– lots of showing stuff off, lots of development and bragging, publicity each way, and, what, 12 or 13 years of development? I could be wrong, but I think it’s going to come out, be widely lauded for about 2 days, and then sink without a trace as people realize that it’s totally irrelevant in every way. Heck, it would have been irrelevant in 2000.
It’ll be interesting to see what comes of it, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for it being anything but dated and ridiculous.
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Reapy… you and me are like one mind thinking the same thoughts. Duke was good when i was 15 and first person shooters with speech were relatively new.
15 years later things have moved on (not as much as it should’ve, but moved nonetheless)
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Pink makes me feel pretty…
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“…and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see DNF”
seriously though, i can’t wait till it’s unveiled and it turns out to be another run of the mill bobblecam brown shooter. PAX WILL BURN!!!111
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Well, I’m happy about it, what can I say.
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What impressed me was the marker eraser bit.
Impressed as in ‘what a stupid waste of time and money that nobody will ever notice this level of OCD is what killed the game and 3d realms in the first place’.
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I was confused. Saw ‘DNF’ written in comments as I scrolled past them all, and thought of racing games – “Did not finish”? That would apply to Duke Nukem 2000 then.
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laugh laugh
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Are you kidding me, RPS comments? It’s the return of the king!
For what self-respecting PC gamer is this NOT a day-1 purchase? Even if it’s only to bask in the glory of its 13-year, two-studio failure?
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Me.
I don’t believe in buying games just because they took ages to make.
I buy games that I believe will be good. Preferably based on a demo.
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For example, do any of you know the tale of how cornmeal came to be?
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You have an odd idea of “self-respect.”
I respect myself enough to wait on the reviews and not buy it just because it’s there.
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Gah. You guys are lacking your requisite gooey cores of sentimentality. The story of DNF is the only true romance left in this internet age of everything, right now, yesterday is two months ago. This is the game we all grew up not playing!
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I agree with BooleanBob — DNF has been a part of the PC gaming lexicon for so absurdly long that, at the very least, it’s a meme worth paying for.
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However good the game turns out to be, it will never be equal to the losing of an amazing meme.
Duke Nukem Forever finally becoming vapourware was the perfect non-end to the story!
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I’m so looking forward to this. It’s about time that something came along to replace Daikatana in my life.
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Blow it out your ass!
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I’d kill for one of those tshirts….
Well, not a person, don’t worry, I’m not that much of a sociopath. I’d happily genocide a few species of cockroaches if it would get me one though!
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Hatin’ on roaches.
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I’m lookin’ for a cockroach toilet to dump some bricks in. Who’s first?
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I am here, laughing at the freakouts by enraged PC-purists that it’s a multiplatform game. Silly angry people.
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Seriously, ‘freakout’ is the only way to describe it. There’s one guy in the stream comments screaming every 30 seconds about how the game has regenerating health and how Gearbox should be burnt at the stake for it.
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I don’t care what platforms it is on, I just know it better be classic-style FPS with a fast pace and over-the-top action. If it’s super slow paced like a lot of console-focused shooters then it isn’t a Duke game.
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@Dominic White
It’s true. I wonder what the Duke would have to say to such puritans….
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Well, it’s certainly going to have an extremely low field of view just like Borderlands and be nauseatingly unplayable on a pc without severe .ini file editing because of it.
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Regenerating health, I can live with.
But please please please have a health bar instead of a sodding screen gray-out when being shot at.
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I’ve not got anything against it being a multiplatform game or having regenerating health… but Checkpoints? Only being able to carry a limited number of weapons? I HATE checkpoint-only saving and there is absolutely no reason for it, but the second could actually hurt the Duke Nukem-style gameplay.
Having loads of ridiculous weapons at your disposal was part of the greatness.
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The Duke could carry 100 weapons with one arm tied behind his back!
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dukenukemforever.com seems to be a non-site? Anyone have the actual URL?
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Well, http://duke-nukem-forever.com/ seems to be something.
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http://www.dukenukem.com/
She says it wrong about 50% of the time.
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Today’s weather report from hell: chilly, with a chance for snow. :P
…but that’s nothing. I foresee that on the day of Duke Nukem’s release, a shockwave from a gamma ray burst originating near the galactic core, will sweep by the solar system; eradicating all but the simplest lifeforms. Then, we will have to wait another five hundred million years for creatures to become intelligent enough to once more enjoy the fine art of computer gaming. Just our luck.
…of course, if that doesn’t happen, we might always die from a heart attack by share awesomeness. Or something. If not, if we do, against all odds, live to see the release of this game (and it lives up to the sky-high anticipations, which I find unlikely), then yay, and hell yeah!
It’s about fucking time.
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BALLS OF STEEL
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I’m predicting 65%. Solid gun play, occasionally humorous, but 10 years to late. We’ve moved on.
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Rickroll in any moment on the live cast.
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“It’s a console game.”
PC is the main SKU actually.
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I wonder what the rationale for banning videocameras in the auditorium is… I get that they don’t want grainy footage of the trailer all over the place, but they’re probably gonna release the proper video themselves immediately after their presentation anyway so the cam version won’t have time to spread much.
Games PR puzzles me.
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@manveruppd: well, according to Randy, it’s because the video hasn’t been ESRB rated. And it’s a trifle naughty, apparently.
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Ah, didn’t catch that bit. Still pointless since any 14-year-old can “confirm” that he’s 18 over on gametrailers, but I suppose they couldn’t really stream it live.
Hope RPS will update this post with a link to the trailer when it’s released!
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They are playing with a gamepad. Fail!
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…on a PC as well! Bizarre!
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Its looking pretty good. I saw him kick the head off the boss like a football and give a whoop with his fist. The menu screen has a close-up of his crotch saying “Its going to be big”.
At least it will be funny unlike 95% of FPS games. I guess the only challenger will be Bulletstorm, but that just seemed OTT with the language.
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Personally I think its a nice end to the story, I hope the designers who lost jobs got them back to finish of the coding and design with gearbox.
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I hope they burn in a special hell.
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@ pakoito
Don’t blame the designers. They were as pissed off about it as anyone. Blame the management. Blame the people that insisted on switching engines every time a new one came along. Blame them for wanting to add every cool feature they saw in other titles. That’s where the blame lies on this one.
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Hurray! The return of a running gag! :D
I hope Take Two continues to make the marketing as non-existential as it always was, so that the game can just pop into existence and surprise us. Anything else would be inappropiate!
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Well it’s definitely a game, whether it’s going to be a good one remains to be seen. I guess Gearboxes way of thinking about it is that if nothing else it’s going to sell units based on the novelty factor.
What I’m kind of interested in is knowing the breakdown regarding the agreement reached. No mention of 3DRealms at all, just Gearbox and 2K.
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I’d be interested to know that too, but sounds like they’re keeping their lips sealed.
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Hey Kadayi! Straying from normal internet form, I’d like to admit being wrong in a discussion with you about a year ago (or more), when I was convinced the lawsuit and seizure of Duke material would lead to a court stalemate and result in work on DNF never being resumed. You were right, go you, smart internet person!
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@D
That’s very gracious of you. The way I figured it is, that everyone involved wanted to make money somehow so ultimately they’d reach some form of agreement and try and salvage what they could, sooner rather than later. Antiquated and redundant as the franchise is, it’s non appearance has provided it with a degree of cult status (even non gamers know it from Wired’s annual Vapourware awards), which ultimately (with the right marketing) they can capitalise on. Hell, I was never a huge DN fan, but I know I’ll probably get this just out of morbid curiosity if nothing else. I doubt very much that it’s going to set the world on fire, but if they play it completely for laughs it might not be all bad.
I’d definitely like to know whether the 3DRealms guys are still involved in the development in some ways or whether it was a complete hand off to Gearbox for a large cheque and the signing of a non-disclosure agreement. Personally I’m hoping that Gearbox at least picked up some of the guys 3DRealms had to let go when the project floundered last year.
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I’m sorry, but who’s to say this is even going to be good. FPS’s have come a long way from simply needing cheesey humor and strippers showing pixelated tits to be a quality game. This will be Mafia 2 all over again except even worse
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The original Duke didn’t rely on cheesy humour and pixelated tits to be great.
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*brain assplodes*
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Think I’ll wait for a bit more information before passing judgement. Wildly uninformed guess is that it’ll be pretty, fun and shallow. Which ain’t bad.
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If this comes out before Episode 3 I’m going to be pissed!
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Sounds like 2K finally bought the Duke Nukem IP, what with the official DN forums closing and all…
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Between this and Deus Ex: HR, I think I’ll be happy with the FPS’s I get in 2011. I actually got mildly excited watching some of the gameplay… When I COULD watch the gameplay. Epic cameraman FAIL, because he only stayed on one monitor for like 3 seconds before moving on to another monitor that was either doing the same thing as the other guy was before, or was in some completely other part of the level. Jesus! Just stay on one goddamned monitor, or at least stay for 2 or 3 minutes so we can get some sense of how the game actually PLAYS! HOLY CRAP MAN!
So ya, other than that bit of rage that came up, I’m all of a sudden looking forward to this game!
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Yeah, I only watched the stream for a couple of minutes before giving up. The cameraman has chronic ADD. Also, apparently no knowledge of how to handle a camera.
Most interesting thing I saw was this tiny little punk-rocker type chick with crazy tattoos all up and down her arms, playing the demo about a dozen times better than most of the people just running in circles and getting blown up.
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Terrible terrible damage.
To my soul.
Leave Douke alone already.
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Randy just said that he became a game designer because of the Duke (he worked on Duke Nukem 3D at 3DR).
I think the game has a special place in his heart so there is really hope this will be a kickass game and not just some quick cash job.
The trailer is embargoed because they want something special for people at PAX.
We should expect the trailer soon though (probably next week after PAX ended or maybe it gets leaked before).
A guy was interviewed who said he was former 3DR and that Gearbox formed a special project team with him and others from 3DR.
So hopefully the original material will fit with the stuff they had to create at Gearbox. :)
To me this is the best news of the year so far and this game will be pre-ordered regardless of price (I only do this with WoW Collector’s expansions these days).
Really, really happy! :)
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You know, I think I might actually make a cake. Seriously.
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I can’t help but notice my replies arent replying to the posts I reply to anymore. What the hell?
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oh except that one. Of bloody course.
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I don’t understand this business with cakes. I mean, cake is always good, do you need a special occasion for making a cake? And why is Duke relevant to this, is there some soundbyte I have missed?
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No, I honestly just saw all the cake references (which I think were Portal references) and I thought, you know what I haven’t done in like, years? Baked a frikkin cake!
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Make coffee and walnut and then mail me a slice!!
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Make sure the layer in the middle is pure testosterone.
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Yeah, but can someone show me some sales numbers?
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I won two software vouchers in the 3dr caption competition, I always had them saved up for DNF. I doubt gearbox will accept them but I might just post em in anyway.
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If they’ve learned anything from ValvePR, it would totally net you a copy. Go for it, and take pictures!
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You know, it is going to be insane fun when this gets released and every reviewer blasts it to oblivion due to absurd expectations. :D
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Yeah… no game can live up to the hype. I still reckon it’ll be good fun though.
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I quite like the look of that Ego/Health system (can take so much Ego damage – which regenerates – before your actual health starts getting eaten into). Operation Cock Block? Duke cheerily making his way up the lift with his pair of… rocket pistols?
Colour me cautiously optimistic.
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I cannot believe that one of the constants in my life will be no more next year. What’s next, is Episode 3 releasing tomorrow? Or maybe RPS will finally ditch the PC and exclusively review Virtual Boy games.
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I’ll be waiting for a Wot I Think of 3D Tetris.
You know another constant to be broken, Black Mesa Source. It’s due out before the end of the year.
Your life is crumbling before your eyes Arvind, crumbling!
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It can’t be! Noooooo!
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What about the peeps that have worked on it under ID’s wing and aren’t going to get any money from the profits or even the acquisition after they were all made redundant?
Unless they are getting some money, whep.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmx8Gvm2rs
Nuff said.
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i too am an apathetic loser
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I was 11 when it was first announced and I’ve waited ever since. I don’t care what that says about me, I just want the damn game.
Now we wait for the new first official delay
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great, another 2k game thats also getting a 360 release, ive written it off as simplified console shit.
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Doesn’t someone have to eat their own hat now? It slips my mind who promised it but they better do it…
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C’Mon the clue’s in the title, this was always going to take Forever…
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Just played it at PAX. It was alright but still looked a bit early stage. Run through some scripted corridors. Fight a big bipedal monster in a football stadium (forgot the name). Then some vehicle driving in another level and running through some more open terrain-ish level where you had a railgun, a shotgun and a shrink-ray gun.
Overall it felt like Duke to me. It also felt like they put a lot of humor and passion into it. We’ll see!
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That’s.. unexpected. Strangely I can’t feel much excitement about this although I did really enjoy Duke Nukem 3D way back when.
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Duke Nukem Forever is here, it’s queer, get used to it.
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Why do people after a decade still say it looks unfinished and the graphics unpolished and whatever.
It frightens me both for what people expect and what is going to come out of this on a virtually no-money-left-just-finish-it-already budget push-out rush-move that is the consolified cancerification of the former Duke.
Can’t someone just secretly leak all of the raw content onto some site and subsequently torrent somewhere so that some insanely obsessed community modders can make us a true Duke game out of it?
Or in other words, I sure do hope this isn’t a closed as heck engine and moddable to hell and back.
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its based on unreal so hopefully it’ll be moddable.
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Except it’s a multiplatform game and those usually aren’t moddable at all (there are some exceptions like Fallout 3)
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well, one of the most loved things about the original was that it shipped with a level editor, so anyone could make their own maps. I’d wager a lot of people in the industry started out running Build, and I’d hope Gearbox continue that tradition by including an SDK
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Isn’t this one of the signs of the oncoming apocalypse?
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Well, it’s too late, because Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy came out first. They have nothing to achieve now, since they couldn’t even beat out Axl Rose’s super-ego.
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Console port? Health regen? What the fuck Gearbox, what.the.fuck???
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Why do you people care? This game is a joke now. It’s been 11 years in development. Forget it.
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you’re obviously too young to remember, but duke used to mean something
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He might be too young to play DNF! :))
(Alright, alright…I wasn’t exactly 18 when DN3D came out….buuuuut those were different times – blood was pixelated, tits had covered nipples…and pigs didn’t fly!)
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Did too fly… don’t you remember their little planes?
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You people are so so so so very very wrong. Duke Nukem 3D was amongst some of the first video games I ever played a long time ago. Please shove your insipid judgements right up your anal cavities.
As for DNF, are you kidding me? This game is 11 years in the making. What a bloody joke. What game could ever live up to 11 years of hype? It’s a game about shooting people, for fuck sake. It’s only ever going to be a game about shooting people.
I hate to piss on the parade, and i’m sure it will actually be fun once it’s released, but seeing floods of idiotic comments screeching like it’s the second coming of christ boils my piss. Yes, duke ‘meant something’ but that’s irrelevant when this iteration of the series has been a running industry joke for over a decade now. It’s stupid that they’re actually making this again. LET IT DIE ALREADY!
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Gearbox?. Bah. If it was Valve..
See you in 2020.
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Yeah right…If it were Valve, it would’ve come right after Ep. 3 and HL3….and L4D 4
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always bet on duke.
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Im hoping it catches the true spirit of Duke Nukem instead of trying too hard. Only worry I have is that Duke Nukem the character might seem out of place in these modern times he reminds me of the 90′s.
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My perfect Duke Nukem game, would be see Duke reduced to working in a supermarket, his fame faded as the modern world no longer accepts his form of testerone shooting maschismo. His mighty size thirteen boot now only used to kick the trollies accross the car park.
Then the pig cops come back, and there’s only one Aryan fuckcannon the world can turn to.
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Ok, ok, I believe you – it’ll be released.
But how can it ever be worth the time it took? I’m afraid Gearbox will have just slapped together whatever they inherited in the easiest way to make it into a passable game.
It’ll be worth about 75% in reviews and the legend will be lost. Never meet your heroes.
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It’s almost 2012 and DNF has an actual, real, confirmed release date?
On the other hand, how is this ANY different from the other promised release dates, and the near-completion footage of the game?
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The public has actually seen it and played it. That’s the main difference.
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So, is this going to be a paint by numbers modern shooter? Looks that way. If that’s the case, then that’s extremely disappointing. I could care less about the fact that it’s multiplatform, but that just seems to be the kiss of death for FPS games. I’m about ready to give up on the genre entirely. Every game I hear about seems to be getting cheapened to appeal to a mass audience. Nobody wants to deviate from the formula.
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Duke will be released with all its outdated machismo and the revelation will be that it’s not outdated at all. Games are still like that. Gears of War, Unreal, Starcraft. All macho, macho, macho. We haven’t moved on one bit.
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Thankfully.
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