Zero Punctuation: Duke Nukem Forever (for real this time)
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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I agree, he DID sound sad. I think because, in his Extra Punctuation regarding DNF after he made the mock review, that he would enjoy DNF if it was a complete throwback to the classic that was 3D: with the 9-weapon carrying and the camp and Mighty Foot and everything!Solon_Mega said:
Instead, we got a game that was bright and campy for the first few levels before plunging deep into Yahtzee's pit of "generic FPS"-dom. Not to mention the fact that it had a two-weapon system(seriously, WTF? I don't wanna play a shoddy attempt at a Halo clone. I wanna play DUKE FUCKING NUKEM) and a melee-with-weapons system(see my earlier point).
If DNF was a complete and total throwback to the 1990s FPSs like Doom and Sin and Quake, then I bet Yahtzee would've LOVED this game. Instead...we got a Halo/Modern Warfare/Killzone semi-clone...
Poor, beleaguered, violated, dead-on-arrival Duke Nukem Forever. Maybe they can make a good game now that this one's given its feeble moneyshot.
i still think the source engine is good looking. still detailed and not a hardware eater like some other engines out there. seriously, i think the source engine (HL2) looks much nicer then what we see in DNF.
and i think valve would have done a better job with the DNF then what we got now.
and i think valve would have done a better job with the DNF then what we got now.
You know Yahtzee, I remember you making a call to developers to have a "luck" bar instead of a health bar and I believe the Ego bar sounds about perfect. You couldn't at least say you were pleased by that for what it was? I haven't played it yet so I don't know if I hate you or agree about the rest.
"thats not true. Even on a top end PC it has those issues."
Why do I keep seeing this? My PC is nowhere near top end, core i5 and a single Geforce 560 Ti. On max settings, I never saw slowdown, and with my standard 7200 RPM HDD I never saw loading times over 5 seconds at the absolute max (I timed it). There must have been a patch or something, because so many people parrot this when it's not at all true (maybe it was at some point...?)
I had some pretty good fun with the PC version. I have no idea how the console versions are, but I really couldn't care less. If it isn't Gears, Halo or CoD, the community dies in a month and there are no mods, ever.
I'm not saying the game is awesome or anything, but choosing the X360 version was a bit of an odd choice in my opinion.
Why do I keep seeing this? My PC is nowhere near top end, core i5 and a single Geforce 560 Ti. On max settings, I never saw slowdown, and with my standard 7200 RPM HDD I never saw loading times over 5 seconds at the absolute max (I timed it). There must have been a patch or something, because so many people parrot this when it's not at all true (maybe it was at some point...?)
I had some pretty good fun with the PC version. I have no idea how the console versions are, but I really couldn't care less. If it isn't Gears, Halo or CoD, the community dies in a month and there are no mods, ever.
I'm not saying the game is awesome or anything, but choosing the X360 version was a bit of an odd choice in my opinion.
I tried, honestly tried to play through this. I thought we'd get an average game with at least an attempt at cheeky humor, so talk about a let-down. I can't even imagine a college of drunken frat boys plugging this in and coming out the otherside not feeling disturbed, even after downing a garbage can full of grain alcohol and Tang.
There's just no excuse for this, not one. The story is awful even for Duke Nukem standards, the grahpics are crap, the controls are crap (I heard it was even worse on the consoles so take from that what you will) and the humor is outright disgusting when it isn't simply bad. I mean it's like mysoginistic snuff-film bad. I kept expecting the Cinema Snob to lean out of my PC and slap me in the face for playing such a piece of drivel. Not that he had the opportunity since the game crashed every other loading screen, meaning I've spent more time of my life waiting to play Duke Nukem Forever than actually playing it.
There's just no excuse for this, not one. The story is awful even for Duke Nukem standards, the grahpics are crap, the controls are crap (I heard it was even worse on the consoles so take from that what you will) and the humor is outright disgusting when it isn't simply bad. I mean it's like mysoginistic snuff-film bad. I kept expecting the Cinema Snob to lean out of my PC and slap me in the face for playing such a piece of drivel. Not that he had the opportunity since the game crashed every other loading screen, meaning I've spent more time of my life waiting to play Duke Nukem Forever than actually playing it.
