Fun Stuff > CLIKC

Duke Nukem: Forever is Official

<< < (3/13) > >>

ackblom12:
I think that perhaps you guys are seriously underestimating the nostalgia value of Duke Nukem and the hype that the conclusion of the internet's longest running meme will produce.

KvP:

--- Quote from: jhocking on 03 Sep 2010, 14:36 ---I just heard about this on another forum. I'm also wondering why Gearbox took this project, but for a different reason. Nobody cares about Duke Nukem anymore, don't they have anything more interesting to work on, like another Borderlands or something?

--- End quote ---
As far as I'm aware, Gearbox is an independent game development wheelhouse, which is an increasingly rare thing to see these days. Even with the relative success of Borderlands they may not have the luxury of being picky.

Alex C:
I don't really think nostalgia would be enough to take Duke Nukem beyond being a low rent novelty release if the gameplay isn't there. It's easy to forget now in this post Counter-Strike everything-can-be-modded world of ours, but Duke Nukem wasn't just a cheeky game with titties and pig cops. The maps were pretty inventive for the day and the title took the faux 3d sprite based shooter about as far as the model could go. Quake's robust modding community and next gen engine would eventually dethrone Duke, but for a while there it was a tighter contest than is readily apparent from just looking at engine capabilities with the benefit of hindsight. I mean, let's face it: for all their technical excellence, Id games tend to be as dull as dishwater when it comes to the little details. God bless John Carmack for all he's done for 3d gaming, but forgive me if I point out that a shotgun and a super shotgun isn't really a very compelling and diverse set of gameplay tools. Meanwhile, Duke 3d had jetpacks and trip mines. Combine that with elevators and Duke had a real edge when it came to dopey fun like booby trapping hallways and camping your friends until they got so mad that they tried strangling you with your own mouse cord. Duke wasn't truly revolutionary, but it was about much fun as you could have with a pc for a good 8 or 9 months even without the low brow humor.

JD:
How much of DNF is actually finished?

Ozymandias:
End of the first level:


--- Quote from: Kotaku ---Cue the Duke Nukem Forever logo and a camera pulls back to show that Duke, in first-person, was playing a video game. He's got a gold Xbox 360 controller with the face buttons re-named as D, U, K and E. There's a busty lady in a schoolgirl outfit near the bottom of your first-person view. And there's a second one. One stands up and wipes her mouth.

"What about the game, was it any good?" one of them asks.

"Yeah, but after 12 fucking years it should be," he answers.

--- End quote ---

Best. Game. Ever. Fuck you, haters.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page