Duke Nukem Forever - the Thread

[Cravis]

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/duke-nukem-pax/

Wired got to briefly play the demo behind closed doors. I love it. Operation: Cock Block

I saw enough to reassure anyone worried that a developer change would take the edge off Duke’s greasy sexist charm. Perhaps the high point was the arrival of a building-size, grotesque green alien with three pendulous nude breasts.

“Yeah, I’d still hit it,” Duke growled.

[Diunx]

This will be the first pc game I have ever buy

[cool breeze]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/111/1118251p1.html

Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

[iconoclast]

Randy Pitchford is the best thing about Gearbox.

[The Fake Shemp]

"Chilean Miner"

[Sho Nuff]

The best part is, Pitchford left 3D Realms because he was sick of Broussard's bullshit. Broussard also publicly expressed his amusement in a really assholeish fashion when Pitchford's first company (Rebel Boat Rocker) folded. Who's laughing now, sweetcheeks? 

[demi]

I'm gonna assume Chilean Miner means Randy gets to shove his cock in his wife's ass.

[chronovore]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/111/1118251p1.html

Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

I'm gonna assume Chilean Miner means Randy gets to shove his cock in his wife's ass.

That, or she pegs him.

[SantaC]

so what is g4 going to give this game after metroid was offending and sexist.

[Great Rumbler]

Well, one is a parody of sexist, male stereotypes and the other is a parody of the Metroid franchise, so I guess about the same score.

[naff]

The beginning of DNF shown at PAX is a remake of the end of Duke 3D right? It ends with the giant alien boss fight in a stadium whose eye falls out and he kicks it over the goalposts.
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[ferrarimanf355]

Yeah, after you beat that boss in DNF, it pans away to show that Duke is actually playing a video game while getting sucked off by two chicks at once.

It sounds like the demo is made up of the leaks from last year...

[iconoclast]

Yeah, after you beat that boss in DNF, it pans away to show that Duke is actually playing a video game while getting sucked off by two chicks at once.

It sounds like the demo is made up of the leaks from last year...

Yeah, an ex-3DR employee has been blogging up a storm about how almost all of the work on the DNF PAX demo was done by 3DR and Triptych.

At least DNF is going to wind up being the game it was always meant to be, regardless of who takes credit for it.

[demi]

He's only bitter because dumbass "game journalists" are spreading info wrongly. I don't blame THEM because they have no way to find this info out, and since they get paid peanuts for shit, why should they? Just spew whatever 2K/GBX says and post it on Kotaku and hope people click your article.

[The Sceneman]

Whats funny are the people saying "oh, Gearbox has picked this up. The game should actually be funny now." (a lot of people on other boards are saying this). WTF?

I don't think Brothers in Arms was funny, Borderlands was sure as shit painfully unfunny. I mean I like Borderlands, and the first time you fight a midget youre like "alright that was OK". But then you fight tons of those guys and... yeah. They're not funny. Is "Scooter" meant to be funny? Because he's a redneck? And Dr. Ned, who has "nothing to do with Dr. Zed from the last story." HAHAHAHAAHAHA THATS SO FUNNY

Even Deathspank is funnier that Borderlands

[Stoney Mason]

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[naff]

Stfu Randy and show us the game ffs. Good to see it in a decent resolution but it'd be good to see more interesting, telling gameplay not a crappy boss battle. Was a crappy boss in Duke 3D, looks crappy in DNF. Still looks good visually though, I don't see what the negative nerds at PAX were on about.

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

The pigs are awesome. Can't wait to mow em down.

[Don Flamenco]

Is this one of those cheesy-as-fuck games that fans try to explain away as "teh satire" but is really just another masculinity fantasy for gamers?  looks like it. 

[Stoney Mason]

Is this one of those cheesy-as-fuck games that fans try to explain away as "teh satire" but is really just another masculinity fantasy for gamers?  looks like it. 

It's a videogame called Duke Nukem. C'mon.

[Don Flamenco]

Is this one of those cheesy-as-fuck games that fans try to explain away as "teh satire" but is really just another masculinity fantasy for gamers?  looks like it. 

It's a videogame called Duke Nukem. C'mon.

yeah, but i want to hate on it

[Stoney Mason]

 

[Positive Touch]

are they gonna make this console-only or will it still be on pc?

[Great Rumbler]

are they gonna make this console-only or will it still be on pc?

2K Games and Gearbox Software announced today that forever is nearly here, as Duke Nukem Forever® will officially make its long-awaited debut for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in calendar 2011.

[maxy]

probably non important news

EG

The Gearbox-adopted shooter will launch worldwide on 6th May.

The US plays slightly earlier from 3rd May.

Confirmation comes from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford and 2K president Cristoph Hartmann, who both outed the date to Game Informer magazine.

duke

trailer
http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/duke-nukem-forever-reveal-trailer

So hot

[SantaC]

2011

not by 3DRealms  :'(

Gearbox sucks. Who can forget the awful Halo PC port they did, or Counter-Strike Condition zero 

[maxy]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Great Rumbler]

Who can forget the awful Halo PC port they did, or Counter-Strike Condition zero 

Pretty much everyone, I guess, considering that Gearbox's latest game [Borderlands] was really good.

[maxy]

boxart

[Great Rumbler]

So awesomely bad. 

[iconoclast]

Gah, I want to buy this but I'll probably have no money for its release. :'(

Ah well, it's probably suck compared to Duke 3D.

[ferrarimanf355]

So awesomely bad. 

So '90s it hurts. 

[Sho Nuff]

Omg get in my pants, game

[ManaByte]

GAME OF THE FUCKING MILLENNIUM ANYONE WHO DOUBTS THAT IS A MOUTHBREATHING JAPFAG GAFFER

[Dickie Dee]

Loved the three-tittied boss monster 

[Great Rumbler]

HOLY FUCK YES!!! PLEASE HAVE THE MEGADETH THEME IN!!!!

[youtube=560,345]6K00DCK1l98[/youtube]

[Trent Dole]

Haha, it launches here on my birthday, awesome.

[Raban]

Gearbox sucks. Who can forget the awful Halo PC port they did, or Counter-Strike Condition zero 

Wrong. Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Borderlands are all awesome, and yours is the first negative opinion I've heard of Halo PC.

[Herr Mafflard]

yeah I remember liking Halo PC. That SantaC comment confused me, it actually made me doubt my memories of the game. Like, "I'm sure Halo PC was pretty good, right?"

[TEEEPO]

2011

not by 3DRealms  :'(

Gearbox sucks. Who can forget the awful Halo PC port they did, or Counter-Strike Condition zero 

you're judging the merits of gearbox based on two games they had nothing to do with design wise as well as being nearly a decade old?

bravo.

[Stoney Mason]

Its SantaC, people.

This.

[Raban]

Its SantaC, people.

I sometimes forget the standard procedure, sorry.

[Great Rumbler]

Gearbox sucks. Who can forget the awful Halo PC port they did, or Counter-Strike Condition zero 

Wrong. Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Borderlands are all awesome, and yours is the first negative opinion I've heard of Halo PC.

The Brothers in Arms games are supposed to be okay, but I haven't played any of them myself.

[Stoney Mason]

Honestly I don't even really view this as a Gearbox game. With the amount of time they've had it mostly sounds like polishing and finishing has been their task. I doubt there has been much redesigning going on here outside of tweaking.

[Diunx]

Is this one of those cheesy-as-fuck games that fans try to explain away as "teh satire" but is really just another masculinity fantasy for gamers?  looks like it. 

It's a videogame called Duke Nukem. C'mon.

yeah, but i want to hate on it

[Dickie Dee]

Honestly I don't even really view this as a Gearbox game. With the amount of time they've had it mostly sounds like polishing and finishing has been their task. I doubt there has been much redesigning going on here outside of tweaking.

I don't think we'll ever know until we get a post-mortem

(they're getting ~2years to develop this right?) Sounds more like they have the luxury of cherry picking what they liked, but reworking everything from various levels of completion and probably doing many bits from scratch. They probably had little to worry about on the creative side as far as leftover monster design and dick jokes go. I don't think Gearbox could've made a good DNF from scratch, but I'm not sure it should be underestimated the rework they'll have to do.

[Great Rumbler]

Honestly I don't even really view this as a Gearbox game. With the amount of time they've had it mostly sounds like polishing and finishing has been their task. I doubt there has been much redesigning going on here outside of tweaking.

I don't think we'll ever know until we get a post-mortem

(they're getting ~2years to develop this right?) Sounds more like they have the luxury of cherry picking what they liked, but reworking everything from various levels of completion and probably doing many bits from scratch. They probably had little to worry about on the creative side as far as leftover monster design and dick jokes go. I don't think Gearbox could've made a good DNF from scratch, but I'm not sure it should be underestimated the rework they'll have to do.

It's hard to say how much time Gearbox has been working on it, but it's probably closer to one year than two.

[Stoney Mason]

edit: I'm a dummy. I didn't see maxy had already posted the video up above.

[SantaC]

yeah I remember liking Halo PC. That SantaC comment confused me, it actually made me doubt my memories of the game. Like, "I'm sure Halo PC was pretty good, right?"

Its SantaC, people.

I sometimes forget the standard procedure, sorry.

Make fun of me all you want, but some people here seems to have pretty bad memory:

While many Xboxers enjoyed playing through the game cooperatively with a friend, no such feature is offered on the PC version. I tend to be a bit more forgiving of this omission than some of the other editors around here, but it's still unfortunate that PC players won't have the same chance to take on the entire game alongside a buddy.

On top of that it had choppy performance and a horrible netcode. I remember playing this on the PC and said FUIT after just a few sessions. (as reflected on the average review scores compared to the xbox version)

[Smooth Groove]

I do remember that performance of Halo PC dropped quite a bit when the first Flood level began and a pretty beef PC was needed to keep playing with high settings from that point on. 

[Great Rumbler]

yeah I remember liking Halo PC. That SantaC comment confused me, it actually made me doubt my memories of the game. Like, "I'm sure Halo PC was pretty good, right?"

Its SantaC, people.

I sometimes forget the standard procedure, sorry.

Make fun of me all you want, but some people here seems to have pretty bad memory:

While many Xboxers enjoyed playing through the game cooperatively with a friend, no such feature is offered on the PC version. I tend to be a bit more forgiving of this omission than some of the other editors around here, but it's still unfortunate that PC players won't have the same chance to take on the entire game alongside a buddy.

On top of that it had choppy performance and a horrible netcode. I remember playing this on the PC and said FUIT after just a few sessions. (as reflected on the average review scores compared to the xbox version)

That doesn't change that your bringing up a port from more than six years ago when Gearbox has far better examples of their development skill from within the past two years.

[Stoney Mason]

Hopefully the game turns out decent enough for people anticipating it. Honestly that trailer doesn't really do anything for me. If that game wasn't named Duke Nukem, I'm not sure a lot of people would even be into it. I think bulletstorm seems more Duke Nukem than Duke Nukem.
 
But who knows.

[Joe Molotov]

Make fun of me all you want, but some people here seems to have pretty bad memory:

While many Xboxers enjoyed playing through the game cooperatively with a friend, no such feature is offered on the PC version. I tend to be a bit more forgiving of this omission than some of the other editors around here, but it's still unfortunate that PC players won't have the same chance to take on the entire game alongside a buddy.

On top of that it had choppy performance and a horrible netcode. I remember playing this on the PC and said FUIT after just a few sessions. (as reflected on the average review scores compared to the xbox version)

That was like a million years ago. No one cares. 

[iconoclast]

Halo PC is indeed garbage. The console version shits on it.

Borderlands is pretty shitty too so it's not like Gearbox has improved a ton.

[Great Rumbler]

Halo PC is indeed garbage. The console version shits on it.

Borderlands is pretty awesome so Gearbox has improved a ton.

.

[chronovore]

That doesn't change that your bringing up a port from more than six years ago when Gearbox has far better examples of their development skill from within the past two years.

NO-ONE HERE ASKED FOR LOGIC, GRATE RUMBLAH! Leave your common sense at SantaC's front doorstep, where all other weapons must be checked.

[SantaC]

That doesn't change that your bringing up a port from more than six years ago when Gearbox has far better examples of their development skill from within the past two years.

NO-ONE HERE ASKED FOR LOGIC, GRATE RUMBLAH! Leave your common sense at SantaC's front doorstep, where all other weapons must be checked.

 

As Stoney Mason said though, if this game wasn't called Duke Nukem, people probably wouldn't care as much.

[SantaC]

As Stoney Mason said though, if this game wasn't called Duke Nukem, people probably wouldn't care as much.

Well, no duh, though.  If a Zelda game wasn't called Zelda, people wouldn't care so much.  If a Sonic game wasn't called Sonic it might not break a million copies sold.  IP means something, both for the company and the consumer.

Point is that this game isn't from the devs of Duke Nukem. What if Quake or Doom was from someone else than id?

[iconoclast]

Then you'd get Quake 4

 :'(

[chronovore]

Point is that this game isn't from the devs of Duke Nukem. What if Quake or Doom was from someone else than id?

Yeah, what if there was a Metroid game that wasn't from Nintendo or Intelligent Systems? Or a Tomb Raider game that wasn't developed by CORE?

[SantaC]

Then you'd get Quake 4

 :'(

ugh, I forgot that id didn't develop Quake 4. What a pile of steaming crap that game was!

Yeah, what if there was a Metroid game that wasn't from Nintendo or Intelligent Systems? Or a Tomb Raider game that wasn't developed by CORE?

Metroid has always been under Nintendo's guidance in one form or another.