all hail the great prophet Yahtzee, he who guides video games out of developer hell. all hail the prophecy of DUKE, for it has come to pass. all ye faithful join us in praise. -chanting: yathzee, yathzee, yathzee...-
PAX 2010: Hands On Duke Nukem Forever
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I have to believe that the Duke Nukem Forever we will finally play will be a shadow of its former self, whatever that self may have been. We'll get a competent FPS that would've gotten decent reviews at any point in the pre-Bioshock, pre-Call of Duty era.
But the feature creep that mired down the development process(if rumors are to be believed)will probably be stripped out of the game by Gearbox. The wonderful melange of half baked ideas and grand ambitions won't see the light of day, and that's too bad.
Because at the end of the day, none of us think Duke Nukem Forever is going to be a good game. But that's why we want to play it. We want to play it for the glorious Titanic of the gaming world that it is, flaws and all. Playing anything else, anything that vaguely conforms to our modern standards of gaming, will just be dull and boring. Give us Daikatana, not Prey.
But the feature creep that mired down the development process(if rumors are to be believed)will probably be stripped out of the game by Gearbox. The wonderful melange of half baked ideas and grand ambitions won't see the light of day, and that's too bad.
Because at the end of the day, none of us think Duke Nukem Forever is going to be a good game. But that's why we want to play it. We want to play it for the glorious Titanic of the gaming world that it is, flaws and all. Playing anything else, anything that vaguely conforms to our modern standards of gaming, will just be dull and boring. Give us Daikatana, not Prey.
I can't imagine the hype being that much of a problem, as was stated in the article, it's quite likely that people will see this as a bad game being cobbled together for a quick buck. I can hardly imagine that people actually expect that it will be worth a 12 year development time, the question is, will it be worth the money you spend on it?Zeeky_Santos said:
You what's ironic about Duke Nukem being non-serious/non-pretentious/non-artistic? That by subverting the current trend and going all out on stupid and testosterone it vaguely becomes a self-depricating parody that actually has *gasp* some cultural comment in there. Think of the recent movie Machete for reference. I guess FPS had to again come to a state of generic blandness for the stars to align and the Duke to retake the helm of B-game humor.
OR
they're just being lazy guys, trying to score the big money over the name of some old video-game character after wasting everyone's time for 12 years.
Because this "bland ego-shooter" you're talking about.....we have that already. Remember this guy: http://wire.ggl.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/serioussam1.jpg
That's what you were describing. Minus the cultural comment-stuff. DNF as we've seen it so for has neither of it. Although I'm sure they'll come up with that explanation to justify their lack of any interesting concept.
frankly if there is a series that hurt from trying to be modern and fresh is Duke Nukem, in the end it´s just a tongue in cheek goof about 1980 action movies heroes, and the game works best driving on with that.-Samurai- said:
I say Hail to the king baby!
I'm waiting for someone to say "April Fool's."
Yes, I know it's September, but for all you know this is 2007's April Fool's joke.
Yes, I know it's September, but for all you know this is 2007's April Fool's joke.
Well, according to this video [http://gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/03/29/valve-studio-tour.aspx] it seems Valve employs over 200 people(skip to 4:30).dogstile said:
200+ is a lot of employees, and they most likely got that much by gradually hiring people. And a few years ago Yahtzee actually visited Valve and remarked it employed just over 100 people. This would be just after the Orange Box was released.
I'm sure there's a dedicated team that grew gradually as time went on.
