In case you missed it, 2K revealed a playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever today, developed by Gearbox. Read all about it.
It'll be available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the PC and is being polished for a release sometime in 2011.
Typo in the title from rushing to be the first to create the thread?
For shame man!
After years of going against the naysayers...... of being a resolute participant of the 3D Realms forums..... of having to endure whenever it was mentioned as the butt of someone's highly unimaginative joke..... I AM VINDICATED!
After years of going against the naysayers...... of being a resolute participant of the 3D Realms forums..... of having to endure whenever it was mentioned as the butt of someone's highly unimaginative joke..... I AM VINDICATED!
If you say so... You've been wrong for over a decade, but whatever floats your vindicated boat
I was going to be a jerk and *cough* the original catch-all, but realized DNF's announcement predated this site by five whole years.
(It also predated the Dreamcast, if you can believe it).
Yeah I was surprised there wasn't already a thread about this.
I want to be here on the first page, so that 10 years from now when they are still developing this cursed piece of IP, I can look back fondly on the time when we all thought this was actually going to happen.
This is actually going to happen!
hahaha nice.
So when this gets released, what's the new piece of infamous vaporware? We already got Alan Wake and StarCraft 2.
Diablo 3?
I just wish I could still be interested. The anachronistic character of Duke Nukem is just no longer really relevant, and the ups and downs of this game's release has just turned me off to the franchise.
The big question is what happens to Gearbox between now and the supposed release date? Hit by asteroid? Overrun by zombie apocalypse? Something has to stop them.
I feel like this'll be part of the "decade in review" moments that websites, tv shows, and magazines (like Time) do every 10 years.
It's funny how things tend to come full circle and for Randy Pitchford full circle it has come. Pitchford worked on Duke Nukem 3D. He left 3D Realms to begin his new company, Gearbox Software. Now Gearbox has in its hands the task of finally bringing to an end one of the longest development cycles to ever grace a video game production.
That's actually a really interesting bit of trivia I was unaware of.
So when this gets released, what's the new piece of infamous vaporware?
Beyond Good & Evil 2?
...they just...keep....stringing me along.....
After years of going against the naysayers...... of being a resolute participant of the 3D Realms forums..... of having to endure whenever it was mentioned as the butt of someone's highly unimaginative joke..... I AM VINDICATED!
Regardless of how good DNF is if/when it's released, as a long-time gamer, I feel somewhat obligated to buy it.
Considering that it's in the hands of Gearbox now, I think there's a reasonable chance that the game might actually be decent, or, dare I say, good.
There's "footage", which is terrible, but worth it for the dude who says "Graphics need some polish, but it's early." Yeah, dude, it's early! Plenty of time to tighten it up!
Another fun fact: even if it ships in 2010, Duke Nukem Forever will have taken longer than all of Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel (including both the ceiling and the massive Last Judgement fresco).
It's kind of cool that this is happening but I can't see it being any good. Gearbox hasn't had much time with it, meaning that they're likely working with whatever tech and assets were there when the project died and if the last teaser before then is any indication, it looks pretty dated. If they're "polishing" now and the game's feature locked, I think this is just 2K trying to recoup what they can from the title rather than just writing it off. Hopefully something good can come out of it though. I'm not much of a Gearbox fan myself but Borderlands was good.
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You and your kind are a blight on this forum...
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If you say so... You've been wrong for over a decade, but whatever floats your vindicated boat :)
Yeah, but it's made more potent by the fact that my current location's sh*tty internet connection gave me a double post several minutes after the first!
Another fun fact: even if it ships in 2010, Duke Nukem Forever will have taken longer than all of Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel (including both the ceiling and the massive Last Judgement fresco).
I'll believe it when I play it, still. And if I do play it, it will most likely be a dissapointment. I can't even begin to mitigate my expectations.
There's "footage", which is terrible, but worth it for the dude who says "Graphics need some polish, but it's early." Yeah, dude, it's early! Plenty of time to tighten it up!
Saw that, facepalmed myself in vicarious shame.
It's not going to come out. Someone is going to sue 2K and kill the project in a few months.
Or the world will end. One of the two.
That this has been handed over to a competent developer is the only thing that gives me any hope. Had I not played Borderlands I would't give it a second thought.
Let's hope this isn't the albatross that drags Gearbox to the depths of developer hell.
It's kind of cool that this is happening but I can't see it being any good. Gearbox hasn't had much time with it, meaning that they're likely working with whatever tech and assets were there when the project died and if the last teaser before then is any indication, it looks pretty dated. If they're "polishing" now and the game's feature locked, I think this is just 2K trying to recoup what they can from the title rather than just writing it off. Hopefully something good can come out of it though. I'm not much of a Gearbox fan myself but Borderlands was good.
I think the absolute best thing they can do is release this as a budget title. They'll get a huge number of people picking it up just for the hell of it. $60 is too much for an ironic purchase.
I think the absolute best thing they can do is release this as a budget title. They'll get a huge number of people picking it up just for the hell of it. $60 is too much for an ironic purchase.
Agreed. I'd buy a physical copy day 1 if it was $30 or less, just because.
Dimmerswitch wrote:Another fun fact: even if it ships in 2010, Duke Nukem Forever will have taken longer than all of Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel (including both the ceiling and the massive Last Judgement fresco).
Holy. sh*t.
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