my bro and I were having a discussion about things that would hint about the coming apocalypse, I said the release of "duke nukem forever", the next day, I saw the announcement on kotaku...Its coming.
PAX 2010: Hands On Duke Nukem Forever
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Erm... this has probably been posted about sixteen times by now... but that bit with the Cycloid. Wasn't that the ending of the third campaign of "Duke Nukem 3D"? Including the eyeball bit?
Wow. It's actually coming out. In other, non-gaming related news, hell has just frozen over, and swine have recently become airborne.
This might sound stupid...
But I, for one, am glad it will only be getting released 14 years after its initial showcase. (First shown in 1997, so it had already been in production for a couple of months, and now it will get a release in 2011 = not 12 years, but at least 14 years.)
Reason? We are being engulfed by 'modern warfare' crap like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield on one side and the 'serious sci-fi' puddle with Halo, Crysis and Killzone. Now, I'm not saying they're bad games, not by a long shot. Hell, I even own a couple myself. But I want my TimeSplitters, Duke Nukems and old school Quake/Unreal-like games back!
Will it be worth the wait? Hell no! No game is worth a wait that long, but dammit, I'm gonna get myself a copy nonetheless.
But I, for one, am glad it will only be getting released 14 years after its initial showcase. (First shown in 1997, so it had already been in production for a couple of months, and now it will get a release in 2011 = not 12 years, but at least 14 years.)
Reason? We are being engulfed by 'modern warfare' crap like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield on one side and the 'serious sci-fi' puddle with Halo, Crysis and Killzone. Now, I'm not saying they're bad games, not by a long shot. Hell, I even own a couple myself. But I want my TimeSplitters, Duke Nukems and old school Quake/Unreal-like games back!
Will it be worth the wait? Hell no! No game is worth a wait that long, but dammit, I'm gonna get myself a copy nonetheless.
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...-
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.