Author Topic: 3DRealms/DNF dead - Today is truly the day PC gaming died (Read 7106 times)

TVC15 · « **on:** May 06, 2009, 09:20:28 PM »

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pilonv1 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:26:53 PM »

how do you die when you haven't done anything in years?

bork · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:28:26 PM »

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:29:17 PM »

What?

They can't do this, not before they release DNF!!!!! OMG, somebody get Ja Rule on the phone, so i can make sense of all this shit. Where are you jaaa

TVC15 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:30:55 PM »

I grew up playing Apogee shareware games. 3DRealms and Duke will always have a warm place in my heart

bork · « **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:33:16 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on May 06, 2009, 09:30:55 PM

I grew up playing Apogee shareware games. 3DRealms and Duke will always have a warm place in my heart

Old Duke was great; it's just hilarious this happened after all the Duke Nukem Forever delays is all. Seems like a fitting end for this vaporware of a title. Maybe now the rights will revert to a company that will actually release the game.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:34:44 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on May 06, 2009, 09:30:55 PM

I grew up playing Apogee shareware games. 3DRealms and Duke will always have a warm place in my heart

so did i but that's not the 3DRealms of today.

commander keen

drew · « **Reply #7 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:41:35 PM »

wait, so now duke nukem forever will never be released?

never ever?

Third · « **Reply #8 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:42:57 PM »

PC gaming?

I bet the game would've been released for PS360 first.

And good. DNF can finally die. I'm sick of all the release rumors.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:53:00 PM »

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #10 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:13:56 PM »

worst day of my life

the great 3drealms joke was not supposed to have such a lame punchline :'(

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Crushed · « **Reply #11 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:17:39 PM »

what the hell is that gif from

Jansen · « **Reply #12 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:20:37 PM »

super robot taisen og saga

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #13 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:28:50 PM »

That .gif makes me lol everytime

I admit that it is kind of a lame ending. 3D Realms should just release whatever they had of DNF (lol) and let the community decide from there.

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:31:41 PM »

I guess 3D Realms is out of gum.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #15 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:32:44 PM »

nooooo

quick someone update the "things accomplished during DNF's development" list ... for the last time ever :sniff

can we find a celebrity who lived their entire full and productive life in the public sphere

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:40:53 PM »

their work on the game will most likely be picked up by someone else, right?

Himu · « **Reply #17 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:41:10 PM »

@ that kosmos gif

originalz · « **Reply #18 on:** May 06, 2009, 11:15:01 PM »

http://duke.a-13.net/

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #19 on:** May 06, 2009, 11:28:46 PM »

WHAT?

?

FUCK.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #20 on:** May 06, 2009, 11:36:32 PM »

I bet someone else will pick up the IP and knoci it out in under a year

pilonv1 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 06, 2009, 11:39:30 PM »

Did Not Finish

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #22 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:18:08 AM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on May 06, 2009, 10:32:44 PM

can we find a celebrity who lived their entire full and productive life in the public sphere

Lindsay Lohan?

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #23 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:20:04 AM »

She did have Parenttrap/Mean Girls for however little that's worth.

I'd go with Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian

Bebpo · « **Reply #24 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:20:43 AM »

I don't get it. Isn't the Duke franchise still worth $$$? Like if they were closing up, wouldn't they sell the IP to some other company who in turn would finish DNF and release it to make some quick and easy cash?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:49:26 AM »

Quote from: Green Man on May 07, 2009, 12:40:17 AM

Wait, so Prey 2 and Earth No More will never be released?

Both of those were transferred to Radar Group, with development of Earth No More being done by Recoil Games.

maxy · « **Reply #26 on:** May 07, 2009, 03:29:18 AM »

Nooooo!
:'(

dark1x · « **Reply #27 on:** May 07, 2009, 08:46:59 AM »

Seriously? I never imagined that it would end like this.

Hopefully we get SOMETHING out of this. Either the complete story, an early build, or or...anything.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #28 on:** May 07, 2009, 09:43:17 AM »

Well actually, i believe we have a bigger chance of getting a new Duke Nukem game than ever before. 3D Realms shuts down, their IPs will end up going to somebody, and that somebody will make a game based on them.

tiesto · « **Reply #29 on:** May 07, 2009, 09:48:15 AM »

Wow, what a lame-ass ending to the whole Duke Nukem Forever development saga.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #30 on:** May 07, 2009, 09:50:52 AM »

Quote from: dark1x on May 07, 2009, 08:46:59 AM

Either the complete story, an early build, or or...anything.

I'm holding out for a ten-disc making-of documentary.

Tauntaun · « **Reply #31 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:34:29 PM »

Give DNF to Valve. DO IT!

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #32 on:** May 07, 2009, 03:18:33 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on May 07, 2009, 02:00:36 PM

Quote from: Tauntaun on May 07, 2009, 12:34:29 PM
Give DNF to Valve. DO IT!

No way, unless Turtle Rock Studios is going to work on it.

Poppin' pills.

Yeti · « **Reply #33 on:** May 07, 2009, 04:01:59 PM »

I thought DNF would be in development forever. It's like waking up to find out the sky is no longer blue.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #34 on:** May 07, 2009, 04:11:33 PM »

What I don't get about the DNF thing is that it wasn't that ambitious a project. I can see how you could keep scrapping everything and starting over if you've got some grandiose vision in your head and so everything has to match it perfectly, but this game is just a dumb shooter. Even if everything were executed perfectly, it would still be just a dumb shooter, so who cares if it's flawed?

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #35 on:** May 07, 2009, 04:19:53 PM »

http://gamingisstupid.com/2009/05/06/the-chair-story-revival/
wtf? There's no way this is real.....right?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #36 on:** May 07, 2009, 04:36:15 PM »

Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 07, 2009, 04:11:33 PM

What I don't get about the DNF thing is that it wasn't that ambitious a project. I can see how you could keep scrapping everything and starting over if you've got some grandiose vision in your head and so everything has to match it perfectly, but this game is just a dumb shooter. Even if everything were executed perfectly, it would still be just a dumb shooter, so who cares if it's flawed?

They should have just released the awesome 2001 build.

dark1x · « **Reply #37 on:** May 07, 2009, 04:38:34 PM »

Quote from: Kestastrophe on May 07, 2009, 04:19:53 PM

http://gamingisstupid.com/2009/05/06/the-chair-story-revival/
wtf? There's no way this is real.....right?

That seems too ridiculous to be real...but it would be cool if it were.

TVC15 · « **Reply #38 on:** May 07, 2009, 05:52:12 PM »

Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 07, 2009, 04:11:33 PM

What I don't get about the DNF thing is that it wasn't that ambitious a project. I can see how you could keep scrapping everything and starting over if you've got some grandiose vision in your head and so everything has to match it perfectly, but this game is just a dumb shooter. Even if everything were executed perfectly, it would still be just a dumb shooter, so who cares if it's flawed?

George Broussard hyped it up by saying things like it would be the most interactive game of all time, whatever that means.

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The game was touted for its "unprecedented interactivity", aiming to "push the limits of gaming and establish new standards in interactivity, variety, and pure fun."

Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 07, 2009, 04:36:15 PM

Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 07, 2009, 04:11:33 PM
What I don't get about the DNF thing is that it wasn't that ambitious a project. I can see how you could keep scrapping everything and starting over if you've got some grandiose vision in your head and so everything has to match it perfectly, but this game is just a dumb shooter. Even if everything were executed perfectly, it would still be just a dumb shooter, so who cares if it's flawed?

They should have just released the awesome 2001 build.

The gossip from that one dev was that everything (er, at least the gameplay) in the 2001 build was created only for that demo video. It was phony.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #39 on:** May 07, 2009, 06:13:11 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on May 07, 2009, 05:52:12 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 07, 2009, 04:36:15 PM
Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 07, 2009, 04:11:33 PM
What I don't get about the DNF thing is that it wasn't that ambitious a project. I can see how you could keep scrapping everything and starting over if you've got some grandiose vision in your head and so everything has to match it perfectly, but this game is just a dumb shooter. Even if everything were executed perfectly, it would still be just a dumb shooter, so who cares if it's flawed?

They should have just released the awesome 2001 build.

The gossip from that one dev was that everything (er, at least the gameplay) in the 2001 build was created only for that demo video. It was phony.

At this point I really wouldn't be surprised if that's true, even though the whole story was incredibly bizarre.

border · « **Reply #40 on:** May 07, 2009, 06:54:52 PM »

I can't wait to hear the story behind this.

Is Georgre Broussand just some insane perfectionist/terrible manager? After all this time, I get the sense that he'd rather see this project killed than have it come out and be anything less than perfect. I would love to see all the levels and artwork and story stuff that they did, but I also imagine they will just bury it and not want to put their shame on display.

If you believed a story where CliffyB tackled some dude and threatened to stab his eye out with a broken leg chair, I would say you are an utterly gullible distinguished mentally-challenged fellow. But then I believed this game would eventually come out, so I guess I'm the bigger distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on May 06, 2009, 10:32:44 PM

can we find a celebrity who lived their entire full and productive life in the public sphere

Heath Ledger seems like the obvious choice.

originalz · « **Reply #41 on:** May 07, 2009, 08:32:27 PM »

Quote from: Kestastrophe on May 07, 2009, 04:19:53 PM

http://gamingisstupid.com/2009/05/06/the-chair-story-revival/
wtf? There's no way this is real.....right?

This was originally posted on Something Awful...there's some stuff missing though. In the original post, the story ended with something like "...and then I woke up".

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #42 on:** May 09, 2009, 11:55:10 AM »

Did Not Finish :'(

Crushed · « **Reply #43 on:** May 09, 2009, 09:55:13 PM »

[youtube=560,345]bDGTopCzbPM[/youtube]

killzone 2, every single console fps annihilated by a defunct company's vaporware

Purple Filth · « **Reply #44 on:** May 09, 2009, 10:21:48 PM »

Quote from: Crushed on May 09, 2009, 09:55:13 PM

[youtube=560,345]bDGTopCzbPM[/youtube]

killzone 2, every single console fps annihilated by a defunct company's vaporware

After 13 years i guess they had to do something

Anyways the finger was awesome

originalz · « **Reply #45 on:** May 10, 2009, 12:28:00 AM »

Hmm, looks like it had potential, although the environments look kind of generic. What made Duke3D great were all the interactive environments and fun things you could do, levels that weren't generic warehouses and caves.

demi · « **Reply #46 on:** May 10, 2009, 01:10:27 AM »

video got taken down

pilonv1 · « **Reply #47 on:** May 10, 2009, 05:06:48 AM »

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/316675.html?playlist=featured

looks awesome

Purple Filth · « **Reply #48 on:** May 10, 2009, 07:19:42 AM »

While the use of Twitter accounts to give some cryptic and/or hype information is flawed i will still post this

http://twitter.com/ApogeeSoftware/status/1747381530

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New press release from Apogee Software regarding Duke Nukem coming next week.

i wonder

TVC15 · « **Reply #49 on:** May 10, 2009, 07:22:13 AM »

Quote from: Purple Filth on May 10, 2009, 07:19:42 AM

While the use of Twitter accounts to give some cryptic and/or hype information is flawed i will still post this

http://twitter.com/ApogeeSoftware/status/1747381530

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New press release from Apogee Software regarding Duke Nukem coming next week.

i wonder

Apogee is developing Duke Nukem Trilogy for the handhelds (and maybe XBLA? I forget). It has nothing to do with DNF.

Diunx · « **Reply #50 on:** May 10, 2009, 08:29:21 AM »

Duke Nukem 3d is still the best fps ever made, halo, killzone and half life fangirls can eat shit and die.

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #51 on:** May 10, 2009, 09:14:12 AM »

Whoever gif-ified this at GAF is my new hero.

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #52 on:** May 10, 2009, 11:24:04 AM »

You're not the only one, I would have bought it.

Hollywood · « **Reply #53 on:** May 10, 2009, 05:25:42 PM »

That game looked badass. Strippers, vulgar one liners, flipping the bird, crazy violence. Sure as fuck beats the 4,000 generic space marine games out there nowadays. A game like this I could have liked, and I rarely play FPS's.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #54 on:** May 10, 2009, 06:31:35 PM »

It actually makes fun of itself, which no game does that much anymore. Even duke's model has the proportions of a action figure I guess.

It looks like the game was basically done but maybe 3DRealms couldn't get a publisher for it because maybe they weren't willing to give up the distribution rights or something.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #55 on:** May 10, 2009, 06:55:26 PM »

Quote from: am nintenho on May 10, 2009, 06:31:35 PM

It looks like the game was basically done but maybe 3DRealms couldn't get a publisher for it because maybe they weren't willing to give up the distribution rights or something.

Take Two has had the distribution rights for years now.

TVC15 · « **Reply #56 on:** May 10, 2009, 07:14:59 PM »

Quote from: am nintenho on May 10, 2009, 06:31:35 PM

It actually makes fun of itself, which no game does that much anymore. Even duke's model has the proportions of a action figure I guess.

It looks like the game was basically done but maybe 3DRealms couldn't get a publisher for it because maybe they weren't willing to give up the distribution rights or something.

If it were almost done, there wouldn't be so many non-texture mapped modeling demos. If anything, the video confirms that it wasn't almost done.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #57 on:** May 10, 2009, 07:25:26 PM »

looked done to me, artistic vision, yadda yadda.

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #58 on:** May 10, 2009, 10:00:52 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 10, 2009, 06:55:26 PM

Quote from: am nintenho on May 10, 2009, 06:31:35 PM
It looks like the game was basically done but maybe 3DRealms couldn't get a publisher for it because maybe they weren't willing to give up the distribution rights or something.

Take Two has had the distribution rights for years now.

Someone at Kotaku said that 3D Realms asked for another $5 million from Take Two to finish it, but Take Two said no and offered $30 million to take it and finish it themselves. So George shut down 3D Realms instead...

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #59 on:** May 10, 2009, 10:08:10 PM »

Quote from: ferrarimanf355 on May 10, 2009, 10:00:52 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 10, 2009, 06:55:26 PM
Quote from: am nintenho on May 10, 2009, 06:31:35 PM
It looks like the game was basically done but maybe 3DRealms couldn't get a publisher for it because maybe they weren't willing to give up the distribution rights or something.

Take Two has had the distribution rights for years now.
Someone at Kotaku said that 3D Realms asked for another $5 million from Take Two to finish it, but Take Two said no and offered $30 million to take it and finish it themselves. So George shut down 3D Realms instead...

That's pretty much what I'd do if I were in Take Two's position.

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