Duke Nukem Forever Having Drinks With Yahtzee

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Yo Yahtzee, be sure to ask them how much of the game will be cut in order to make it to Australia!

 

[Kouen]

This is what you really call a "Trail by fire" Gearbox have Brass Balls xD

 

[Theta]

What stood out to me about this is that Yahtzee's gonna do a Q&A with Randy Pittchford, A.K.A. the cringe-worthy dude from the Amsterdam viewing of DNF. The people demands video!

P.S. I'm sad that I live half-way around the world from Australia so visiting the Manabar isn't really an option.

 

[WaderiAAA]

So they'll be showing it in Australia, even if there is a risk it will be banned their when it is released?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Mr. Atkinson? You know that you wanted to keep out all those horrible games? You know, those 18 rated ones?

Well, a certain Mr. Croshaw and Mr. Pitchford are teabagging your corpse.

 

[Niccolo]

HAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!

You all made fun of Australia, that we were a failure as a nation of gamers! Laugh now, all of you who aren't in Australia!

I can almost count the seconds until some twit mistakes my humour for me being serious and flaming me.

 

[Snarky]

They should demo it in Houston. Everyone knows Houstonians are all clones of Sam Houston who was the basis for the character Duke Nukem. We practically invented the Scifi and industrial wasteland environments at port of houston and the houston space center.

 

[sunpop]

Have fun playing a game that will never get released in your country. At least not until they dislodge the stick from their lawmakers ass.

Really I want to go play this/meet Yahtzee and this game will never make it to Australia. This game will also not be finished because gearbox will somehow go out of business for no reason at all.

 

[duchaked]

if there was a Mana Bar relatively close to The Escapist headquarters I'd totally visit

 

[Cryo84R]

Mana bar in Seattle!

 

[The Youth Counselor]

They do know about this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever], right? Or are they doing this solely to make awkward conversations with the manager?

I think that's why...they wanna see if they can make him give the real game a good review...doubt it but stull ya never know.

I'm also sure Gearbox/3D Realms is aware of this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1448-Borderlands

This:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...ation/7170-Extra-Punctuation-Goth-Mercenaries

And most glaringly this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...ion/8112-Extra-Punctuation-Duke-Nukem-Forever

As many of my correspondents have been quick to remind me with insufferable glee, the big story of this year's PAX was the announcement that Duke Nukem Forever is alive and kicking, penciled in for release in 2011 and being completed, courtesy of none other than Gearbox Software. Most will know them as the developers of Borderlands, although they started out as the developers of official expansion packs for Half-Life, such as Opposing Force and Blue Shift, and to me will always be "those guys who lived off Valve's run-offs."

It's nice to see that Randy Pitchford and Gearbox has a sense of humor. George Broussard and 3D Realms was known to get hostile, nasty, and threatening when people cracked jokes about their long development time.

Or they might just have a vendetta. I wouldn't put it past Pitchford [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUJrKGN3C0] to bring a derringer to stage. In which case I hope somebody tapes and posts it on the Escapist.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Heh. The Mana bar.

Too bad it didn't open like 8 years ago...

You know, when I was a student at QUT...

In Brisbane. XD

Now I live in a different country half way across the planet.

Oh well.

I guess if I can't go bother Yahtzee, I can go stalk Rebecca Mayes instead.
I mean, she lives just around the corner really. XD

 

[VirusHunter]

Wait didn't Yahtzee already review Duke Nukem Forever? And he really liked the game...or so I hear...

 

[Ocelano]

So quick query is this a good natured luagh after zp's DNF Review or a slap in the face for a favourite british yank? I cant tell if this is goodwill or just rubbing salt in the wound by having a game which he had such a comprehensive winge about in his bar

 

[Ocelano]

Wait didn't Yahtzee already review Duke Nukem Forever? And he really liked the game...or so I hear...

He did a mock review about the greatest game never made here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever (I don't know how to link in these so just copy/paste). In which he really kind of took the piss about everything about this game which from his point of view would never happen and to take from his appearance in the overindulgence podcast, would never get a good review as everyone had been hanging on for over a decade. So yeah should be fun. Note to self if escapist don't show the best bits I must check you tube.

 

[Richioso]

Why not Hedestad?

 

[Amondren]

I wish I could go but i have school >__>

 

[HentMas]

OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

PUT ONE IN MÉXICO!!!!

PLEASEE!!!!!!!!

 

[VirusHunter]

He did a mock review about the greatest game never made here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever (I don't know how to link in these so just copy/paste). In which he really kind of took the piss about everything about this game which from his point of view would never happen and to take from his appearance in the overindulgence podcast, would never get a good review as everyone had been hanging on for over a decade. So yeah should be fun. Note to self if escapist don't show the best bits I must check you tube.

Your sarcasm meter...it needs to be checked out

 

[MirrorSweep]

Lives in Brisbane, jealous?

Fuck yes you are.