What could have justified Duke Nukem's development time?
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I could understand if the developmental budget was spent on hookers and blow. Or the occasional Charlie Sheen visit/Andrew W.K. party, as either of those can get quite expensive.
According to GI (GameInformer), 3DR kept trying to change the style of the game deep in the development process, forcing them to start over over and over again over the years. Then again, I read it a pretty long while ago, so...
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An arcade machine for you to play in game that has hints to the original game. I'm thinking of "Turbo Turkey Puncher" and "Sarge's Bear Blaster" from Doom 3
A holodeck, failing that, a robot.Zaverexus said:
Seriously, the entire mars rover program was planned, announced, launched, and COMPLETED in the time it took these *****'s to get a game out.
http://duke.a-13.net/
A list of things which took less time than this game to run out, or social phenomenon that took less time to run through.
It would have to have build the entire freaking world, and have moon city exploration levels as well. That and
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1968-Viewers-Choice-Duke-Nukem-Forever
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1968-Viewers-Choice-Duke-Nukem-Forever
A game that takes 13 years to come out needs to be able to produce deep dish pizzas on demand, print money, and be able to give a d*** good blow job. But then again, DNF didn't take 14 years to make, just to come out. I only really count the dev time from Gearbox as actual work, the 3D Realms development was a joke and other than IP had nothing to do with the finished product. I bought a copy myself, and if it wasn't for my university's firewall blocking Steam I'd be playing it right now.
That's not the question I would ask.
The question I would ask is "why exactly were you waiting for twelve years? Didn't you have other things to do in that time?"
The question I would ask is "why exactly were you waiting for twelve years? Didn't you have other things to do in that time?"
Let's be honest. There was nothing they could have done. NOTHING! Nothing will ever be so good that a decade or greater development time will be worth while.
So what could they have done to justify the development time? Release it about 8 to 10 years ago.
So what could they have done to justify the development time? Release it about 8 to 10 years ago.
I really dont understand anyones logic when hateing on Duke with this game, everyone who reviewed it is saying "this wuld be cool in 1999 when this ideas where new and cool" it was a game that would turn the gameing world upside down, but du to #d relmes tanking and then Gearbox haveing to ducktape a mess together ended up floping the game.
I really dont think anything could live up to a 14 year development time unless it was universally accepted as the greatest artistic venture of the human species. Or to put it another way it would have to be what Shakespear was to literature
The thing is people think DNF was developed over 15 years but it really wasnt even close to that (my facts might not be 100% right here Im writing this from memory). It started development in 1996 with the quake engine. Then in 1998 Unreal was released and 3D realms decided they wanted duke to look the best which meant either getting a hold of the Unreal engine or designing one themselves (which would have taken many more years). They scrapped the current DNF project and got the rights to the unreal engine before continuing development. In 2002 it happened again with the release of the Unreal engine 2, development got scrapped and they started over a third time (thats six years of this happening btw). More time passed and as far as I know nothing happened before 2009 when 3D realms began downsizing, lawsuits were filed for them not producing DNF, and 3D realms stopped development. The next year 2k announced that Gearbox picked the project up (as far as I know they never said how long Gearbox had it before that announcement). Earlier this month it was released
That leaves DNF with a development time under Gearbox of about a year (possibly longer but a year is as much as we can confirm) along with the time 3D realms had begun actual development spanning from 2002 to 2009. Thats a total of 8 years, still a long time but its also about half of what people think the development time was.
The thing is people think DNF was developed over 15 years but it really wasnt even close to that (my facts might not be 100% right here Im writing this from memory). It started development in 1996 with the quake engine. Then in 1998 Unreal was released and 3D realms decided they wanted duke to look the best which meant either getting a hold of the Unreal engine or designing one themselves (which would have taken many more years). They scrapped the current DNF project and got the rights to the unreal engine before continuing development. In 2002 it happened again with the release of the Unreal engine 2, development got scrapped and they started over a third time (thats six years of this happening btw). More time passed and as far as I know nothing happened before 2009 when 3D realms began downsizing, lawsuits were filed for them not producing DNF, and 3D realms stopped development. The next year 2k announced that Gearbox picked the project up (as far as I know they never said how long Gearbox had it before that announcement). Earlier this month it was released
That leaves DNF with a development time under Gearbox of about a year (possibly longer but a year is as much as we can confirm) along with the time 3D realms had begun actual development spanning from 2002 to 2009. Thats a total of 8 years, still a long time but its also about half of what people think the development time was.