Duke Nukem Forever Coming in May
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Been doing that for 14 years.tsb247 said:
Gearbox bought up the rights to the franchise and employed the 8 ex-3DR guys to finish the game.
Money, a good lawyer, and the fact Gearbox's CEO, Randy Pitchford, worked on Duke 3D before going off to start Gearbox.
It's not that they weren't doing anything, it's that the technological boom and the graphics race hit them hard for 10 years. With so few people working on the game and graphics speeding ever forward, they just couldn't keep up. The only reason they managed to get this version done is because we actually slowed down for a second before making the graphical bar be raised to much higher standards than a few years ago.Staskala said:
That, combined with George Broussard being very critical of the game itself so as to avoid flaws, led to what those without deductive reasoning call "Doing jack shit for 10 years".
I'm gonna miss the days of being able to laugh when I saw stories, articles and videos(Yahtzee's most notably) lambasting Duke Nukem Forever and how it was coming Never. But now I and everyone else will actually be able to play the game so Im okay with that
Actually, if they don't come up with a new engine and make it Half-life 3, they'll REALLY disappoint their fans. Not much chance of that happening.Sixcess said:
You know, as great as it is that DNF's coming out, there is just one problem. The boxart.
http://www.giantbomb.com/dnf_360_fob/51-1687971/
My eyyyyeeeessssss.
http://www.giantbomb.com/dnf_360_fob/51-1687971/
My eyyyyeeeessssss.
Personally, I just think it's going to be painfully average, but everybody will hate it because of the long wait.Tr3mbl3Tr3mbl3 said:
I'm quite sure Duke Nukem 3d and it's precursors gained fame not because of silly jokes (though they were part of the charm) but because they were all solid games in their time. Duke 3D had incredible level design and was easily the best of the "shoot some dudes to find a key in order to open a door and shoot more dudes" style of shooter in this regard. Graphically, the game looked fantastic and featured little touches that were either rare or never seen (brass ejected from weapons, some weapons had to reload, explosions generated debris - hell, there was even a degree of destructible terrain!). It was also relatively easy to modify leading to a vibrant mod community who produced gems like Platoon (one of the best single player mods to a game I've ever seen when considering the starting product) along with hundreds of maps for every purpose.Jonci said:
Duke Nukem 3D was well regarded because it was, at the time, an incredibly solid First Person Shooter. It pushed the technical envelope, it offered new gameplay concepts, it popularized entire new interface methods and had touches of humor perfect for the target audience at the time.
I guess we couldn't avoid it. Duke Nukem Forever is coming. I bet it'll do wonders for how women are treated in video games.
Am I the only one who thinks that putting out a game with so much obvious misogyny is looking back to a stereotype we're trying to escape as an industry?
Imagine if they put out a game where black people were treated as idiot servants. Why is that more taboo than putting out a game where women are feeble sex objects? They're both equally offensive! Honestly. Are we all twelve? Is treating women as inferior really the type of humor we still think is funny?
Just think about it for a minute. Imagine yourself as a woman. Now imagine that people look at you and treat you like you don't belong, like your only purpose is to be sexy and have sex.
I'm not trolling, I'm being serious. I'm so tired of this stuff. Can't we please grow up? I just want to go to a convention and not be confused with a booth babe. I just want to play in a tournament and not have my opponents mocked for being beaten by a female, or assume that it's because I'm a female the times when I lose.
Am I the only one who isn't looking forward to a game where the women are kidnapped, naked, slutty, and feeble? As a mainstream title?
Am I the only one who thinks that putting out a game with so much obvious misogyny is looking back to a stereotype we're trying to escape as an industry?
Imagine if they put out a game where black people were treated as idiot servants. Why is that more taboo than putting out a game where women are feeble sex objects? They're both equally offensive! Honestly. Are we all twelve? Is treating women as inferior really the type of humor we still think is funny?
Just think about it for a minute. Imagine yourself as a woman. Now imagine that people look at you and treat you like you don't belong, like your only purpose is to be sexy and have sex.
I'm not trolling, I'm being serious. I'm so tired of this stuff. Can't we please grow up? I just want to go to a convention and not be confused with a booth babe. I just want to play in a tournament and not have my opponents mocked for being beaten by a female, or assume that it's because I'm a female the times when I lose.
Am I the only one who isn't looking forward to a game where the women are kidnapped, naked, slutty, and feeble? As a mainstream title?
Well the tone of the game plays a big part in why I don't feel it's really offensive. Duke does respect women, he just also really likes their bodies as well. Besides, the only women you've ever seen in a Duke Nukem game are strippers, whose job is to be slutty/sexy. That's because the entire point of the game is to save the kidnapped women of Earth from a horrible fate of constant alien-based rape to produce an alien super-army. It's not that every women is weak or a slut, it's that the aliens have kind of already taken the strong and independent ones to produce the best cross-breed.Sydust said:
But it all plays as an over-the-top action movie. It's not meant to be taken seriously or as a statement towards a woman's role. Yes alot of the women you see will be sex appeal, but their strippers. That's their job. Besides, leaked scripts suggest Duke gets a strong female sidekick at some point. The mere fact she is able to fend off the initial raids and kidnappings by herself says a few things.
So I don't think Duke Nukem Forever is saying "All women are weak and meant for sexual pleasure". They're saying "Those alien bastards are going to pay for stealing all our strong women. Except the strippers for some odd reason". Come to think of it, how ARE the strippers still around? Did they forget to look or something?