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

[tzimize]

I'm going to say this one time.

I liked Duke Nukem Forever.

It was a fun game. The level design was interesting at times. The weapons were varied enough, the enemies were nice re-imaginings of what we had in Duke 3d and there were some genuinely novel ideas (like the kitchen scene).

It was a strange hybrid of old and new and I enjoyed it. I had fun with it. For $5 you probably will too.

I mostly agree with this. The problem is that the experience was so horribly uneven. While some sequences were actually good...others were just awful. Like the stupid brown cowboy village in the middle of nowhere. It just SCREAMED unfinished.

But by all means. 5 dollars is not that much money. Isnt it worth it just to experience a part of gaming history?

 

[Sewer Rat]

Yes, it is an awful piece of shit by all accounts

Alright, that was too strong a wording, let me rephrase:
Yes, the game was universally panned by critics, and the most who played it have little good to say about it.
There, that better?

 

[Raika]

Yes, the game was universally panned by critics

PC Gamer reviewed it positively(very positively, in fact, they liked it more than I did).
Game Informer had mixed things to say about it with a fairly even positive/negative split.
GamesRadar was similar in their critique to Game Informer.


Duke Nukem Forever is not the worst 2011 release in terms of critical reception(Thor: God of Thunder is), nor is it the most poorly received first-person shooter(Call of Juarez: The Cartel is). The internet took a big sloppy shit on it because they thought it would make them look cool to their e-friends when they're not talking about how hip and anti-establishment they are for sticking My Little Pony into fucking everything(that annoys me a little bit, for the record). What's funny about that is that the humor in Duke Nukem Forever probably went over the heads of most of those people, and there's nothing at all that's highbrow or even intelligent about it. It's just a lampoon of the idiotic concept of machismo and a display of the world as seen through the eyes of every dick-waving meathead who actually thinks people like him.

I'll go ahead and rewrite your statement for you in a way that makes you sound like you've done your homework.

"Yes, the game carries a certain amount of infamy on internet forums that shit on anything that isn't The Legend of Zelda anyway."

Then again, what the hell do I know? I liked Final Fantasy XIII.

Why am I awake at this ungodly hour?

 

[TheFinalFantasyWolf]

If your that curious, then just go for it, it's only $5.00. However just don't expect to enjoy yourself too much with that game. It's a less than average game, that only thinks it's being funny. -_-

I think a donation COULD make for better use, but eh. Your money.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Duke Nukem 3D is also $5.99 on GOG. Buy that instead.
OT: Duke Nukem Forever is the dissapointing type of bad, not the hilariously bad type of bad. If you were thinking about it just to make fun of it, don't waste your money. Get Darkseed 2 or something else that is so bad that it's funny.

 

[Roganzar]

If I hadn't already played it I would pay $5 for it.

 

[evilneko]

Wait til Steam is GIVING it away.

I mean, they gave away Portal--a much, much, much better game--for a while. DNF is a shitty game. They should just give it away for a week then purge it from their systems forever.

Duke Nukem 3D is also $5.99 on GOG. Buy that instead.
OT: Duke Nukem Forever is the dissapointing type of bad, not the hilariously bad type of bad. If you were thinking about it just to make fun of it, don't waste your money. Get Darkseed 2 or something else that is so bad that it's funny.

Oh hell yes. For a dollar more go get a better game!

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[Arina Love]

i wouldn't take it even if it were free, there is no way i'm going to touch that filth.

 

[Saulkar]

I'm a little torn about buying it,
Yes, it is an awful piece of shit by all accounts, but I'm wondering if it is even good for a laugh because of how bad it is (see The Room and Troll 2). So I'm wondering what the escapist has to say: do you think DNF is worth $5?

You forgot to add "Gimme dat 5 dollar" to the poll. I'm waiting... waiting... waiting...

 

[Braedan]

you have to realize that money is not the only thing with value. Time as well has value, and even at 0 dollars there is a net loss when playing DNF.