Poll: So Duke Nukem Forever is $5 on Steam....

[Fumofu]

The PC version is fine, the loading times aren't as long and the ability to hold four weapons at once is nice. It is definitely worth a good laugh if you can appreciate how bad it is behind its many flaws.

EDIT: I guess I should add that I only ever found out about Duke Nukem Forever a year before it was released so there was no sense of hype for it to live up to for me.

 

[Kahunaburger]

I would download it if they paid me 5 dollars.

 

[Tanis]

I wouldn't even DOWNLOAD this crap off of PB or MU.
It ain't worth the damn bandwidth.

No, seriously, go play a BETTER game...like Superman 64...instead.

 

[Peter Whitmore]

Look at all of you, blindly bashing a game that you probably didn't even play.

I bought the game on launch day, and I had mixed feelings about the experience. All the reviewers trashing the game was a bit harsh. Yes, there was 14 years worth of hype behind this project, and nothing could have possibly lived up to that, but I certainly wouldn't call this the worst game ever.

I see that the main complaints people throw at the game are the regenerating health, two-gun carrying limit, and limited sprinting. Doesn't EVERY FPS have that these days? Why does DNF get trashed for simply going with the flow?

Although the level design, while it does have plenty of creative setpieces, all of them feel taken from some other game, and usually done better. In the end, DNF felt like a poor man's Halo. Even the multiplayer, which is still fun in its own right.

 

[SpaceBat]

The new humble bundle is about 5 bucks as well. I'd recommend you pick four decent indie games over one horrible game.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Didn't like it that much, couldn't get around to finishing it, but I'll try and help by listing things I liked, and things I didn't:

Yay
- The 1911 looks and feels like something I could use all day, everyday, all game, in every game. It's just sex on a stick.
- Ummm...that's about it

Nay
- The humor just felt embarrassing. Maybe because I played Duke3D when I was just a kid (shit I even played Commander Keen), and now I'm almost 30, but it just didn't work. Alot felt forced, and just too much ass-kissing that it wore off less than 5 minutes in.
- Ego bar and regenerating "health". Didn't fit in the concept of Duke at all, and calling it Ego, which recharges by hiding behind something is just...no.
- 2-weapon limit - for the Duke?? Dafuq is dis?
- Stupid objectives (that mission where you have to run around like some dumbass to get a lapdance, while they spend every minute up to that point talking about how Duke is the "King" and everything, I mean, what?)

It just felt awkward from the onset. It just felt like a stupid game, that was trying to make it OK by admitting that it took too long to build, or poking fun at itself. You are only allowed to do that if you are a true masterpiece of a game, an actual budget crappy game, or parody of AAA games. You don't get to do that when it's Duke Nukem Forever, I'm afraid.

 

[2fish]

I would say no just because of the other games you can get for that price. Binding of Issac, Dungeons of Dreadmor, breath of death, xcom, AvP, cthulu saves the world, ect.

While I do not think it is as bad as people say it is I would say it is no better than ok.

 

[Ninedeus]

Wouldn't recommend it. True it had its moments but for me the frustration and irritation in the game outweighed the fun of playing in it.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

I'll buy myself a $5 foot long and watch Tobuscus play it again. Way more entertainment value there. Watching him play it was a riot.

 

[Darby]

It's $12.49 here... Damn you, other countries.

 

[Vivi22]

I used to think that it was possible to get $5 worth of fun out of anything. But I paid $2.50 for Deus Ex: Invisible War and felt ripped off. DNF wasn't even that good. Save the money or buy something else with it. There are far better games on Steam for $5 than DNF.

 

[Yureina]

No thanks. I'd rather save my money.

 

[Entropywarrior]

Still not gonna buy it, the game was horrible in the demo, I dont imagine it improved drastically after it.

 

[Tanis]

Look at all of you, blindly bashing a game that you probably didn't even play.

Played it (hell, still OWN it) on the PS3.
Friend played FULL price for this garbage and gave it to me after beating it.

The load times are NUTS - makes Skyrim feel like a the blinking of an eye.
Game play was trying to emulate MODERN shooters (which didn't feel right).
When playing the difficulty seemed to change.
Graphical consistence were laughable.
The story was boring and unfunny - this coming from someone who LAUGHS at 'crude' humor.
Also, I felt like the controls 'lagged'.

 

[RaNDM G]

Even if it were free, it would still be too much.

 

[Ashannon Blackthorn]

Can you afford the 5 dollars? If so get the game and ignore all the folks here who insist yelling they know the answer. if you actually bothered to post, you've considered it enough to just get it.

Forum elitist can suck on the toe of a menopausal Valkyrie.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I would go buy a Cornetto but only if the Drumsticks are sold out. Otherwise I would put $5 towards buying a starving child Minecraft.

 

[omicron1]

Flotilla (think, stylized indie space battles) is $2.50 right now; do yourself a favor and buy it instead.

 

[zombieshark6666]

Probably the best rape jokes in video game history, GO FOR IT!

(please don't buy it)

 

[Signa]

Having beat it recently, I'd say yes, there were definitely some areas that makes a $5 price tag worth it. Unless $5 is worth something meaningful to you, I can think of a ton of other things you can do with $5 and end up wasting it more than buying DNF.