Duke Nukem Forever
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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I happened to be one of those who got to play Duke Nukem this year at PAX. I've never played the original games, (falling just on the cusp of "too young") but the game felt more like an homage to me than anything. Like it was paying tribute to the crude, over the top antics of nineties culture. You start the Goddamn game by taking a leak, (as in, "Press X to piss") and several of the guns have a max ammo capacity of 69. The game, or at least the demo, is self-aware, referencing its long development time and what-not. It certainly won't be anything we've never seen before, but it'll definitely be something we haven't seen in a very long time.
"Hype and anticipation is like Schroedinger's Cat; everything's fine until the subject actually gets released and then the waveform collapses."
Anyone else besides me bugged by the blatant misuse of Schrodinger's cat (and I don't mean the misspelling)?
Anyone else besides me bugged by the blatant misuse of Schrodinger's cat (and I don't mean the misspelling)?
It had better have everything you listed in your mock-review, or I'm going to be very dissappointed.
And you could get extra points for executing people while catching air and grinding! I wanna see a shoulder mounted nuclear missile launcher launched from a Skate Board now!Koeryn said:
I have to admit, I'm kinda lookin' forward to it.
Having never anticipated the game, never looked forward to it in the past thirteen years my expectations haven't risen that high. The only thing I hope for this game is what nearly this entire damn comment line is on about; Mindless ammo spreading fun.
If Serious Sam 2 could pull it off in an era where games where getting serious already, then this game has the potential to bring this back to common life.
Having never anticipated the game, never looked forward to it in the past thirteen years my expectations haven't risen that high. The only thing I hope for this game is what nearly this entire damn comment line is on about; Mindless ammo spreading fun.
If Serious Sam 2 could pull it off in an era where games where getting serious already, then this game has the potential to bring this back to common life.
As I've said elsewhere I'm not entirely sure that Duke Nukem Forever is a game that we really even want anymore.
Go find a picture of Mr. Nukem somewhere. He's covered in pouches, he's got a constant scowl on his face and his only personality trait is a bad attitude. This is a character who would fit right at home on the cover of any given issue of an Image comic book from the 90's.
And people are right to openly criticize the over the top macho-man grim and gritty bullshit that was running rampant in the comics industry at that time, it was juvenile at best and insulting at worst.
So why are we expected to praise this game like it's the second coming of Christ?
I'd like to think that this game will fail miserably because nobody really wants to shell out their hard earned cash for this kind of bullshit anymore, but given the fact that The Expendables has raked in $188,000,000+ I suppose I shouldn't be too optimistic.
Go find a picture of Mr. Nukem somewhere. He's covered in pouches, he's got a constant scowl on his face and his only personality trait is a bad attitude. This is a character who would fit right at home on the cover of any given issue of an Image comic book from the 90's.
And people are right to openly criticize the over the top macho-man grim and gritty bullshit that was running rampant in the comics industry at that time, it was juvenile at best and insulting at worst.
So why are we expected to praise this game like it's the second coming of Christ?
I'd like to think that this game will fail miserably because nobody really wants to shell out their hard earned cash for this kind of bullshit anymore, but given the fact that The Expendables has raked in $188,000,000+ I suppose I shouldn't be too optimistic.
What are you saying?nightfish said:
Half life's story is more serious but it never got into your way. The gameplay was and still is damn good. I'm glad that HL didn't adopt the cover system and is one of the last FPS games that doesn't have the aming down the sight, but instead has alt fire.
I really don't know why you think that HL killed fun. To me it's the total opposite. HL has the most fun gameplay of all shooters
I liked Wolfenstein, I just didn't vote.
Also, if you don't like cover-based shooters,why not give Halo another try? It's a great game, and the enemies stand out in the open.
Also, if you don't like cover-based shooters,why not give Halo another try? It's a great game, and the enemies stand out in the open.
Great article and probably the closest game writer today to the classic English EMAP magazine writers from the 80s/90s and about as mean as "Mean Yob" (aka Julian Rignall), I can't believe it used to take six months to get a letter published in a magazine (was sent out by boat.)
Duke Nukem may not be the best FPS of all time, but he's the game Gotham deserves... not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him... because he can take it... because he's not a hero... he's a silent guardian, a watchful protector... the most sexist pig this side of the Clinton administration.
Goal.
Goal.
I'm glad Yahtzee feels that we need stupid over the top shooters again, as I feel this same way and this is the sole argument that has kept my interest in Duke Nukem Forever alive. The game just needs to be good enough to remind us all what video games are supposed to be about.
Fun.
Fun.
A lot of the gearbox guys started working at 3D Realms and a lot of the 3D realms guys have been taken in by Gearbox.
But I think it will be good to get back to the shotguy in a pigmans face action.
But I think it will be good to get back to the shotguy in a pigmans face action.
i don't expect this game to be the end all shooter game, but i do expect it to be a lot of fun
and like you once said yahtzee "variety is the spice of life and status quo is the starch"
and like you once said yahtzee "variety is the spice of life and status quo is the starch"
Yahtzee asked "Just please, please, let me feel the wind on my face, rather than the side of a wall. Or tits. Tits on my face would be good too."
Perhaps this has been said before, but it bears repeating:
If The Duke is involved, it's a fairly safe bet that tits will be as well.
Perhaps this has been said before, but it bears repeating:
If The Duke is involved, it's a fairly safe bet that tits will be as well.