Duke Nukem Forever Leaks to Torrent Sites

[tj236]

I really doubt an early release of this game will hurt sales. Even if the reviews are bad, I think most people are expecting this game to blow chunks, anyways. I know I am.

I am just looking forward to playing as Duke, in a modern era graphical game, one that was never supposed to be made. Hearing the catchphrases, seeing the pixelated boobage, and ripping off heads and shitting down necks is all I really care about.

Side note, no one has answered this yet, but who is playing the opening theme to this game? Megadeth? Sweet...

 

[Croaker42]

Pre ordered and ready to go.
I ran through the demo and I don't see what everyone was bitching about. Is it the two weapons thing? You can pick up a new one at what seemed like every 30ft. The humor was their and the rest was a fairly standard shooter..... with pigmen.

As far as the leaks go..... I am not surprised and I am sure we can blame anything including the color yellow.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Well, I never played the demo, but luckily my local rental store always gets new stuff about 2-3 days ahead of schedule. The game's installing on my PS3 right now, and I'm kinda psyched I'll get to experience a piece of video game history, for better or worse.
It's nice to be able to play things early without pirating them.

Do let us know what it's like! I want to know if I should be renting or buying.

 

[Doclector]

Apparently, Even the Duke sometimes accidently comes earlier then he expected.

Made my day, friend, made my day.

I almost hope people review it. As anti piracy as I am (this may or may not have anything to do with my plans of working in the film industry), with one day to go until uk release, we have no critical reviews. I. Hate. Embargos. With a passion. To the point that I have cancelled long held plans to buy Alice madness returns due to a ridiculous embargo making the review official playstation magazine exclusive. Seems like that backfired, as they gave it 5/10, and now I'm left fearing it's a complete mess gameplay wise, with no other reviews to confirm or deny such a thing. In a world where some parts of games are locked off to everyone except people who pre order and buy on release, this will simply not do.

Luckily neither Alice or the duke have valuable pre order bonuses. So I said screw you to both the embargo spewing assholes and put my trade in credit towards the much recommended mortal kombat, which I am enjoying massively.

Huh. I've gone on something if a tangent here. Basically, I hate piracy, but would be ever so grateful for a pre release review seeming as gearbox don't trust players to make an informed decision instead expecting us to blindly hand over cash based on a six month old demo or sheer blind faith. Hell, maybe that's why people torrented it, they're damn fed up with being forced to fork out for games uninformed. Quite frankly, if you embargo reviews, you deserve whatever piracy follows.

 

[Waaghpowa]

Cheers for pointing out that it's the console version being leaked.

I'd like to see Jim Sterling's comment on that. He had this rant in the wake of Crysis 2's leak, about how PC gaming is dying, because we're all filthy pirates.

Nevermind that Crysis sold more copies as a PC exclusive, than Crysis 2 ever will, across 3 paltforms, with all it's marketing.

Spoiler

Because Crysis was a good PC-centric game, and not a cheap console knock-off.

That's both disturbing and uplifting, don't ask me how that can happen at the same time. But yes, Crysis was, and still is, significantly better than Crysis 2.

 

[Firehound]

Duke Nukem Forever has been a strange beast, from it's humble origins 12 years ago, and up until the week of it's release.
Piracy on consoles only. Oh Duke. u so crazy.

Indeed, Duke seems to live in some kind of bizzaro-land where everything is completely backwards. I bet that the Xbox Live voicechat for the multiplayer will feature people acting universally civil.

Nah, even that's too far-fetched.

lol.

 

[Sonicron]

Well, I never played the demo, but luckily my local rental store always gets new stuff about 2-3 days ahead of schedule. The game's installing on my PS3 right now, and I'm kinda psyched I'll get to experience a piece of video game history, for better or worse.
It's nice to be able to play things early without pirating them.

Do let us know what it's like! I want to know if I should be renting or buying.

Been to the movies for the last couple of hours, so I only got in about an hour or so of playtime up to this point.

My impressions so far:
- Painfully shoddy graphics and animation
- Uncanny Valley alert
- sluggish controls (on PS3), even with aim assist
- bad writing (to be expected)
- immature one-liners and moments in gameplay that'll make you giggle
- weapons lack OOMPH
- traipsing around the levels looking for stuff to interact with in order to increase your health meter breaks game flow
- frequent framerate drops
- epically long loading times, even after a single measly death

My recommendation so far:
Rent. Don't buy.
(Keep in mind, this is only after about an hour of gameplay... I'll play a few more hours tonight, maybe it'll improve... but I kind of doubt it.)

 

[Wintermoot]

As the old saying goes, "Pirates should be hanged"

I think keelhauling is more appropriate.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Been to the movies for the last couple of hours, so I only got in about an hour or so of playtime up to this point.

My impressions so far:
- Painfully shoddy graphics and animation
- Uncanny Valley alert
- sluggish controls (on PS3), even with aim assist
- bad writing (to be expected)
- immature one-liners and moments in gameplay that'll make you giggle
- weapons lack OOMPH
- traipsing around the levels looking for stuff to interact with in order to increase your health meter breaks game flow
- frequent framerate drops
- epically long loading times, even after a single measly death

My recommendation so far:
Rent. Don't buy.
(Keep in mind, this is only after about an hour of gameplay... I'll play a few more hours tonight, maybe it'll improve... but I kind of doubt it.)

That's pretty much what I gathered from the demo too. Was hoping it would have been improved on due to everyone yelling about the demo being an 'old build.'

 

[Sonicron]

That's pretty much what I gathered from the demo too. Was hoping it would have been improved on due to everyone yelling about the demo being an 'old build.'

It gets better... better as in worse. I just spent a good while running through game rooms and corridors in Duke's casino while shrunk... and now that I'm tall again, guess what I'm doing? Yup, walking back the way I came through exactly the same places.
12 years, and they're pulling the 'level reverse' card within the first two hours of gameplay?!

 

[Balobam]

I do so hate it when people blame bad sales on piracy, especially for the PC. I mean, I'm no stranger to torrenting, and I DO regularly pirate games, but I also then buy them if they're entertaining, even then I still buy games without pirating them first, such as Crysis (the original) and actually a good deal of my games. And then with that, I own a LOT of games, in disc format, let alone what I own via Steam, but for the 360? Nothing, I will honestly say I've pirated everything I own on that console and didn't think twice about it.

But as it is, I even pirated Amnesia back in the day, but I found it so damn good (even though I could only get about 10 minutes in before scurrying off) I bought it almost immediately after. Then games like Crysis 2 come out, and I will admit I pirated it, had it on my HDD, but I didn't even play it, hell, I didn't even install it, then I deleted the .iso and that was that, I haven't played it and I do not plan on it, yet EA will still scream "PIRATES RUIN GAEMS" despite the fact, as far as I'm concerned anyway, it was just a bad game and I didn't even want to play it for free. I've seen a Lets Play of it, and I played the demo when it was released, and I was disappointed to see their focus was on the multiplayer (as that was all I COULD play) instead of continuing on where Crysis left off with the SP campaign.

I've easily put over 60 hours into that games SP just playing it over and over and over, finding new ways to do the missions. But EA will still say it was piracy and that will be that. Unfortunately the same will apply to Duke. I'm not saying it wont get pirated, as I know not all pirates are like I am, but the point is, I was looking forward to it, but not even releasing the demo on the PC? Come on. Then they remove all the features that made it what it was! Sure they were 'dated' by today's standards, but it was fun and today's standards aren't anything special as they once were, so they completely ignored the core demographic (the people who played the originals), and have limited their chances of gaining a new demographic by making it a generally mediocre shooter. But I can bet, quite safely, that they will blame piracy before admitting they made a poor game.

Sorry that this is insanely long, but I had to vent, and I hope some of you will read this and that some will even agree with me. But in all honesty, I hope the people that preordered it and plan on buying it get their money's worth, 14 years worth to be precise.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

"with a week to go before its June 14 release in North America, Duke Nukem Forever ended up floating around on public torrent sites."

It's been on legal Steam here on Europe for at least a day... :0

 

[Delusibeta]

"with a week to go before its June 14 release in North America, Duke Nukem Forever ended up floating around on public torrent sites."

It's been on legal Steam here on Europe for at least a day... :0

Yep. This article was pretty much academic, since the Euopean launch date was two days after the leak. My money is on the source of the leak being somewhere in Europe.

 

[commandx]

Well today it made its rounds on the pirate sites for the PC, so it leaked on the 7th for consoles (Escapist started the thread a day after it leaked) and now on its official release date internationally its leaked on PC. So 3 days difference between platforms, with consoles leaking 3 days before international release.

So Duke is back for everyone except legitimate purchasers in the U.S, the reward for being good and buying the game is waiting an extra week from when the pirates get it, and 4 days from when the international market got it.

 

[LT Cannibal 68]

the pc version of the game is up on the piratebay.......I've heard.

 

[samsonguy920]

Considering what our friends over the pond have already shared since they got it first, I don't feel any desire to get this game, even over the torrent lines.
Some people wasted a bunch of time to do this.
"Hey Bob, what's the downloads for DNF?"
"3...no, 2, someone just cancelled."
"And it's only been a week..."

 

[samsonguy920]

the pc version of the game is up on the piratebay.......I've heard.

If that is true, then their credibility just took a broadside.

While games like often not [http://www.amazon.com/Crysis-2-Pc/dp/B002BS47YE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1307555548&sr=8-3]], negative reaction to the leak could be enough to torpedo the game.

I've watched video of gameplay made by our friends over the pond of DNF. TotalBiscuit [http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut#p/c/2272A4EE84269E1F/2/y5Yngipvz6M] exclaimed more than once of being bored while playing it. I was ready to fall asleep through the video and that Never happens in his channel.

If Gearbox hopes to redeem themselves and sell further content of Duke Nukem, they best keep anybody remotely related to 3D Realms away. Far away.

 

[Hamish Durie]

called it!
(adding this because i dont want to bet a warning)