Anyone who says that DNF was reviewed fairly isn't thinking straight. For me, it was obvious that DNF review never truly reviewed Duke Nukem Forever, but a bunch of other things.
It judged the Duke Nukem Franchise. The 15 years in development. The "cancelation" of the series due to the staff being laid off at 3D realms. The massive hype. The impact that Duke Nukem 3D had in FPS, 15 years ago.
The game was good? I can hardly say so. But it wasn't bad neither horrible. It was a average game with a huge name, only that. Most that says that it was horrible, only play "mainstream" games which almost always scores more than a 8. If they picked "unknown" games, with no knowledge about their quality before, they would have a lot more games with the same quality as DNF, but they would say it was "mediocre, at best". They simple think DNF is horrible because it was one of the few games from a HUGE franchise which failed in going past mediocre. Many also say DNF are horrible simply to join the bandwagon.
With a metacritic of 54, DNF is that. Mediocre. Regular. It's neither good or bad. You may even say "Oh, cool!" to a few things, but don't expect anything more than that. You can also say "God damn, that's shit" to a few other things. But either hardly come off as majority. Just as there was a review which gave DNF a 16 score, there was a review which gave it a 85 score. But in the weird review grid we have now days, the 7-10, where anything lower than 9.0 isn't anything impressive, and anything below 8.5 is utter shit, things get distorted.
I never expected DNF to be impressive, or even good. I just expected it to be DOUK. And it was. It was about shooting aliens left and right, with huge guns and big explosions. It was about having many interactive objects, hot girls and one liners. Ok, maybe the humor wasn't top-notch, but I felt it being Duke. For me, it was obvious that it would NEVER like up the hype. How could less hyped/antecipated games, with development sequels almost as long (Too Human anyone?) couldn't live up to its promises, how could a game from such a huge franchise, like DNF?
Get over DNF people. It was a huge letdown? Yeah, it could be a awesome game. But 3D realms fucked up, and fucked up hard. But now Gearbox have the IP. I enjoyed Bordelands VERY much, as I enjoyed Opposing Force. And I trust that Gearbox can build, from zero, a true Duke game. But if everyone keep gonig "BLUNDER OF CENTURY" "NEVER AGAIN DUKE" "BURN ALL THE COPIES!", Gearbox will simply let such a awesome franchise die, because they wouldn't be interested in working on a game from a franchise that the community seems to hate.
They would love to make a new duke Game? Shit, I bet Pitchford dreams about making a game true to Duke. But they are a company, a business, and they won't waste time from their main developer team for a game which won't sell. Stop hating on Duke, or we won't have another duke, not for another 15 years, but forever.
It judged the Duke Nukem Franchise. The 15 years in development. The "cancelation" of the series due to the staff being laid off at 3D realms. The massive hype. The impact that Duke Nukem 3D had in FPS, 15 years ago.
The game was good? I can hardly say so. But it wasn't bad neither horrible. It was a average game with a huge name, only that. Most that says that it was horrible, only play "mainstream" games which almost always scores more than a 8. If they picked "unknown" games, with no knowledge about their quality before, they would have a lot more games with the same quality as DNF, but they would say it was "mediocre, at best". They simple think DNF is horrible because it was one of the few games from a HUGE franchise which failed in going past mediocre. Many also say DNF are horrible simply to join the bandwagon.
With a metacritic of 54, DNF is that. Mediocre. Regular. It's neither good or bad. You may even say "Oh, cool!" to a few things, but don't expect anything more than that. You can also say "God damn, that's shit" to a few other things. But either hardly come off as majority. Just as there was a review which gave DNF a 16 score, there was a review which gave it a 85 score. But in the weird review grid we have now days, the 7-10, where anything lower than 9.0 isn't anything impressive, and anything below 8.5 is utter shit, things get distorted.
I never expected DNF to be impressive, or even good. I just expected it to be DOUK. And it was. It was about shooting aliens left and right, with huge guns and big explosions. It was about having many interactive objects, hot girls and one liners. Ok, maybe the humor wasn't top-notch, but I felt it being Duke. For me, it was obvious that it would NEVER like up the hype. How could less hyped/antecipated games, with development sequels almost as long (Too Human anyone?) couldn't live up to its promises, how could a game from such a huge franchise, like DNF?
Get over DNF people. It was a huge letdown? Yeah, it could be a awesome game. But 3D realms fucked up, and fucked up hard. But now Gearbox have the IP. I enjoyed Bordelands VERY much, as I enjoyed Opposing Force. And I trust that Gearbox can build, from zero, a true Duke game. But if everyone keep gonig "BLUNDER OF CENTURY" "NEVER AGAIN DUKE" "BURN ALL THE COPIES!", Gearbox will simply let such a awesome franchise die, because they wouldn't be interested in working on a game from a franchise that the community seems to hate.
They would love to make a new duke Game? Shit, I bet Pitchford dreams about making a game true to Duke. But they are a company, a business, and they won't waste time from their main developer team for a game which won't sell. Stop hating on Duke, or we won't have another duke, not for another 15 years, but forever.
