Duke Nukem Forever Review

[DerTiger]

what, you took over 1 hour for the queen *****?
damn, you suck. took me about 10 minutes in 3 retries on medium.

don't think DNF is as bad as you're presenting it.

also ACK to Akalabeth. The main activity in the game is not to piss or throw shit or slap walltitts. you CAN do it, if you want. but you don't have to at any time in the game.
you don't even have to piss in the start scene. just press E and you're back in the game.

 

[Alan Fawcett]

Let's be honest here - Queen, at least on second difficulty, is not really hard. There is an obvious safe spot on the left near the ammo crate where she can't hit you at all. Supporting monsters come in 2 ways: a pregnator egg thrown towards you - shoot it with a rocket - or an octobrain. There is always only 1 egg or 1 octobrain, and there is significant time before new spawns so you just sit in the safe spot, kill those 2 monsters, then shoot Queen. In fact, once you realize what you are supposed to do this battle is piss easy, requires 0 effort and therefore becomes almost dull. On my first run I've killed Queen in about 7 minutes on my first try. On my second run I knew exactly what to do and how and it took me about 4 minutes. I play on PS3, if it matters.
Well, there are unfair moments - for example, to reliably beat Battlelord on the Dam you must bring a beer and a holoduke with you for his second phase, then it will take 2 minutes, otherwise it'll be a horrible chore.
I've completed the game and I'd give it 7/10. Really appreciate the gore.
There is 1 alarming fact in the whole review. Only one, but it's important. Reviewer actually spent an hour trying to beat alien Queen. Really? You never even tried to think it seems. It's a disgrace. I can see someone spending maybe 15 minutes - figuring the right spot and minion spawn pattern - but an hour? Sorry, but reviewer sucks at this game. And that is a fact said reviewer basically admitted. It's all right to criticize the flaws, and God knows DNF has them aplenty, BUT if player sucks that bad himself... The criticism becomes largely irrelevant.
DNF - 7/10
Escapist review of DNF - 3/10

re the queen ***** fight eh is it just me but why is everyone waiting for her to open up before you can shoot her? just do what the game hints at when enter the fight chuck pipebombs on the jump pads to the right detonate them when they are near her and she opens up and you have time to stick 4 rockets in her. why are people waiting for the patern???

 

[Charmi the ninja]

I love all the arguments and issues that have come up because of this game. Its a bad game, but it still gets defended cos some people genuinely enjoy it, but its still a bad game. Even I don't know what to think about it.

One thing i can't stand is the amount of people using a subjective arguement to attack/defend an objective statement(and vice versa). And then poo flinging ensues when people start merging facts and opinions. C'mon guys, hasn't "extra credits" taught us better?

Anyway, besides that, I just wanted to flaunt me pervy-ness, by announcing that I enjoyed looking up girl's skirts as shrunken Duke

 

[themilo504]

I knew that his would happen when I played the demo and saw the ego bar. it?s the same danm problem as in bullet storm. Recharging health is not fun it?s not. its overused and it should not be used in every shooter. give us diversity . it seems like every time a new super popular fps appears everybody tries to copy it. I know that?s true of every genre but in the fps market it seems really extreme. Can?t we have a lot of different fps like some war games with recharging health some games that play a bit like half life and some that play like old school fps. But no instead we follow the leader and now duke nukem forever has become a example of why following the leader is a bad plan.
And I thought gearbox could do it ugh whatever .

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

You know, I never had an issue with the previous Duke Nukem games but after watching that little bit of footage from the game the franchise is officially on my shit list.

Jesus Christ, they should've just called the game Boob Boobem Boobever because that's all it seems to revolve around.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Say whatever you want, I liked Duke Nukem Forever. I actually think this is one of those times where playing it as a reviewer and playing it for dumb fun makes a big difference.

Sure the strip club level was way outta place, but other than that the transition between levels was pretty well done - or horribly done, depending on your own view - 'cause most of the time i didn't pay much attention to exactly "how" Duke got between different levels.

The greatest bother for me was that the intro music was kick-ass, but the in-game music was nowhere near of the same quality, it was fitting for the scene, but i wanted some heavier tunes - at least for the boss battle.

 

[Sean Deli]

Bulletstorm was exactly what DNF was supposed to be:
- silly in a 90's action-cliches sort of way,
- fast-paced and action packed,
- over-the-top in gore and graphical violence.
also - Bulletstorm gave us the word "dicktits", for which we are forever in debt.

If only they would skip the whole emo "My whole crew was killed, my friend is a cyborg - thus I failed as a father" from Grant (or was it Grey?) - it would be perfect.

So yeah, DNF should have been scrapped when it still had the chance to die in dignity.

 

[NKnight]

Oh, boy! Jack Thompson is going to be haaaaaappy! -_-

But really, maybe we are looking at this in a wrong perspective. If we were immature teenagers we'd probably love this! It's like Twilight, it's really, really bad, but it's good for teenage girls... and that's their target audience. So, technically, Twilight and Duke Nuke Forever are really excell... I'm sorry, I just can't finish that sentence! But, do you get my point?

KILL! MAIM! BURN! I'll take your skull for Khorne for such an insult of The Duke! @_@

lol Sorry man, I was just trying to make a point. But bringing Twilight to the table, in comparison to any game, even if it's only comparing the age of their target audience, is just... not cool xD. Sorry about that

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Told y'all, bitches!

Seriously, I did. About 2 months ago. On this site. Whatever.
Played it, 'twas an utter shitstorm. I kinda like Gearwhatshisface company 'cuz they made Borderlands, which I liked. Particularly the 3rd DLC, that was seriously good stuff. But this is unforgivable. And that reminds me:
Where was I going again?

Right. Give this game lots and lots of unadulterated hatred. It deserves it. Maybe the creators will think at least a bit about making better games next time.

 

[MonkeyPunch]

As said many a times, on many a site: totally what I was expecting.

The thing which makes me sneer somewhat are the players saying "this isn't the Duke they knew" etc... No. Just 'no'. This is exactly the Duke you used to know and precisely one of the reasons that the game is like it is.

To be fair the die-hard Duke fans would have called it either way. It isn't the 'Duke of old' if the game sucks and if the game had been OK (that's the best I would have ever imagined it doing) it would have been because it was the Duke of old.

 

[Levethian]

I'm happy Duke Nukem Forever didn't go down the Doom 3 route and forget what it was.

The thing which makes me sneer somewhat are the players saying "this isn't the Duke they knew" etc... No. Just 'no'. This is exactly the Duke you used to know and precisely one of the reasons that the game is like it is.

Exactly.

No idea what people were expecting with this title. It was either going to be childish, or an abandonment of what made Duke 3D memorable.

 

[Withard]

Someone should make a Bulletstorm Video with Duke Nukem quotes.

hmmmm

 

[Archemetis]

I don't get it...

Is the rest of the world playing a different game to me?

I mean...

I'm enjoying it so far...

Not so brief edit: Also, what the hell?
It's just occurred to me that practically everything in this joke of a list are very small things.

Shit, that whole 'level' that Mr.Pitts seems to have an issue with, lasts all of about 10 minutes...

Also, it's called 'Titty City' not 'the strip club level'

'You can pick up poop!'
Yeah, all of about once... For an achievement. OH NO!

'You can take a piss!'
My lord! I suppose we were done embracing bodily functions when the MGS games stopped doing them, huh?

'You can look up girls skirts when shrunk!'
Again, it happens once... and it's entirely optional.

'Drinking beer to get tougher!'
My only complaint about this is actually the burping the and grunting after the one can it takes to get drunk. But using beer and 'roids as a power-up... It's fucking Duke Nukem!

'lifting weights and stuff to increase Ego(not health)'
Yeah, 'cos Lord help us if a game encourages interactivity with the game world through a fun and necessary way...

'Drawing dicks* on whiteboards!'
It happens ONCE and I'm sure it's not even mandatory.
*Also, it's up to you whether or not you draw a dick or not, might want to get together with your real age and discuss how you slipped up like that... I personally drew a square.

'Naked chick hanging from the ceiling!'
They had those in Duke Nukem 3D, just so you know...
Also, considering that entire level is full of 'pregnators' and what-have-yous... I think we can forgive naked women exploding with alien babies... Also, it works out that killing is much easier than just letting them explode into a shower of alien babies...

'slappable wall tits!'
I noticed the wall tits, did not know they were slappable.
I suppose when a game like Duke Nukem rolls around and celebrates the idea that he's a relic from the 90's who loves slapping titties, it'd only make sense to have it as a mechanic in the game.

For one sodding level!

Seriously, Mr.Pitts, complain about something worthwhile...

Like, I dunno, the seemingly unreasonable starting difficulty, or the forced vechile section...

Or how about something that happens outside of the first hour of the game that occurs more than once!

 

[sunburst]

I cannot understand why so many people are White Knighting [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhiteKnighting] for Duke Nukem Forever. It's an ugly game with bland gunplay and stupid jokes. Any elements added beyond that, be it the puzzles or the platforming or the poo-throwing, only serve to waste time and annoy the player.

I think DNF might be the Waterworld of video games. Lots of hype, both positive and negative, lead up to the release of a bland, boring product. It's not the worst game I've ever played but it delivers absolutely nothing interesting. And that's somehow worse than if it were an abomination.

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The video was not an in-depth review of DNF. It was a list of "very small things" that Mr. Pitts found stupid but might have liked when he was 12. If you want a deeper look at the game's larger flaws, read the review. Just like he tells you at the end of the video.

 

[bootz]

I played it through and it was ok not good but ok

I did love the parody levels of certain games.

A lot of people were like its like this game well because your playing a parody level of that game.

Theres a rainbox six : vegas level, couple half life 2 levels, goldeneye level, halo level
mass effect level.

I really liked the level design. The rest was meh.

 

[Fatal-X]

This review was too harsh. I'd give the game a 3/5.
But yeah, the game has flaws.
There should be less puzzles, more kicking ass like in Serious Sam or Painkiller.
The health should be old-school style with med kits(or beer, whatever). And you should have the ability to have more than two weapons at once.

 

[dantoddd]

meh...

it seems like, purely speculatively speaking, the reviewer didn't like one level in particular and decided to paint the entire review with that brush.

i thought having to hide to replenish duke's ego was simply a master stroke.

In any case i'm only about 20 mins into this game and it seems ok. nothing impressive though

 

[ClockWork]

So its a terrible game says the escapist, and oh, whats this, the site is currently plastered with ads for the game? I'm starting to understand LulzSecs rationale.