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Duke Nukem Forever.. is back on.
- blahblahblah 16y agoLet me guess... it's now going to be a skateboarding game with a turtle as the main character. ;-)
- pclark 16y agogreat book.
- keltex 16y agoIt's supposed to be a fantastic game according to the review: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1968-Viewers-Choice-Duke-Nukem-Forever http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation...
- ancornwell 16y agoShake it baby!
- ciupicri 16y agoI think this is Tanya's line from Red Alert.
- dsteinweg 16y agoThat was Duke all right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D#Controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D#Controversy
- ciupicri 16y agoIt seems that we're both right according to "Top 10s: Best In-Game Quotes" [1] and this making of video [2]. [1] http://www.armchairempire.com/Features/Top-10s/quotes.htm http://www.armchairempire.com/Features/Top-10s/quotes.htm [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE46xsJ11GU#t=0m47s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE46xsJ11GU#t=0m47s
- wazoox 16y agoI knew it! Duke Nukem forever couldn't really die. It must remain The Ultimate Vaporware for decades to come :)
- sliverstorm 16y agoNaturally. Without Duke Nukem Forever, how would we know what vaporware is?
- kingkilr 16y agoPerl 6.
- chromatic 16y agoWe've released 34 versions of Rakudo. As well, I've had publicly available and working Perl 6 code since 2005.
- viraptor 16y agoBuilding current trunk weekly != release. It was acknowledged that those "releases" are not what people in the "real world" are waiting for (http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411 http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411). It was fixed with Star which is a release for "early adopters". It's polished alpha by another name. It's only one little step ahead of vaporware. Can we get over it now?...
- chromatic 16y ago> Building current trunk weekly != release. I agree, and that's why we've had a documented and polished release process for almost three years now. Existence is a binary condition, and binaries have existed for (almost) three years. A claim of vaporware is trivially dismissable FUD.
- compay 16y agoTextmate 2?
- lurkinggrue 16y agoI never gave up hope.
- mcgraw 16y agoPlease don't delay this product another 10 years... This should be a good one!
- electromagnetic 16y agoForever is how long I'm willing to wait to play this game, in that I have little to no excitement and don't care if I don't play it within my lifetime. I loved Duke, he was a hero of mine. Now, because of fucktardRealms his franchise has died, he's now associated with the most successful money-hole ever invented and it's going to have to be a complete reboot to even hit relevancy now. Seriously kill Forever and start a new game called 'The End' and release it in 2012. (Edit: I'm serious, do a parody alien-Mayan end of the world, cash in on the popular hype, sell it to a new expanded market and then do Forever)
- Swizec 16y agoParody alien-Mayan Duke Nukem ... didn't Serious Sam already do that?
- bd 16y agoMore details in The Wall Street Journal: The game is being finished by Gearbox Software and will be published by Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series. The game is currently expected to ship in 2011, although given its history, Pitchford [CEO of Gearbox Software] is understandably reluctant to be more specific. "We’re in the polishing phase now. This is a game where we can not make a promise we can not fulfill," he says. "We need to get past the shock and awe and then we can go to all the retailers and first parties and work out a launch plan." http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/03/controversial-long-awaited-duke-nukem-forever-will-finally-be-released/ http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/03/controversial-long... ---- Edit: And some more from Kotaku. Here is a video of people actually playing it at PAX: http://kotaku.com/5629655/your-first-look-at-duke-nukem-forever-in-action http://kotaku.com/5629655/your-first-look-at-duke-nukem-fore... Few screenshots: http://kotaku.com/5629778/the-duke-nukem-forever-pax-demo-a-not+for+kids-photo-gallery/gallery/ http://kotaku.com/5629778/the-duke-nukem-forever-pax-demo-a-... First impressions: http://kotaku.com/5629782/duke-nukem-forever-impressions-two-girls-one-duke http://kotaku.com/5629782/duke-nukem-forever-impressions-two...
- sliverstorm 16y agoThis is interesting. Modern graphics is beginning to make his character look dated, rather than stylized. (Not because we are 'used to better', but because of a more realistic background) They can't really change how he looks much either, because everyone and their brother knows what he is supposed to look like. That's really an interesting puzzle. What do you do when graphics outstrips your content?
- zepolen 16y agoThe box cover art [1] had a more realistic version of Duke than the ones in the linked article (which feel more cartoony). [1] http://dorol.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jeu_duke_3d_dorol.jpg http://dorol.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jeu_duke_3d_dorol.j...
- eavc 16y agoYou either up the realism on the character model or scale it back on the environment, physics, sound, story, gameplay, etc.. The Team Fortress 2 art style would be perfectly appropriate to keep him looking smarmy and impossibly perfect. A grittier character model like what you see in most modern war games would work too. You can still give a guy blonde hair, huge muscles, and dark glasses without making him cartoony. You'd just make him look like Ivan Drago or something.
- JanezStupar 16y agoI think that Dolph Lundgren has all the necessary qualifications: In January 2009, Lundgren's Marbella home was reportedly broken into by three masked burglars who tied up and threatened Qviberg, but fled when they spotted a family photo and realized that the house was owned by Lundgren.[Wikipedia]
- dagobart 16y agoFull link to the passage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_Lundgren#Personal_life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_Lundgren#Personal_life
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- eavc 16y agoI guess it's because I'm slightly too young to have enjoyed it in its prime, but I don't get the excitement over the Duke franchise. It seems like a standard FPS with some cheeseball bravado, sexism, and sex wrapped around the mechanics. Also, I can't imagine why anyone would think the same people could make a modern game, which is 1000x more complex and expensive to produce than the games of old, with the same success that they made the old, relatively simple one. So what's the major excitement here? Humor? Pure nostalgia for the days when the cheeseball stuff was really satisfying?
- mattmanser 16y agoOh god, I feel a little sorry for you. This game was like seeing The Matrix without anyone telling you the basic plot. Your first hacker news post where pg actually responds to it. Your first bungee jump. Your first go on a real gun. Your first pvp kill in eve online. It was ground breaking. It blew your mind and sent a chill up your spine. It's just one of those things that when it came out it was so ahead of its time. It opened your eyes to what could be done. Now it seems dated, then it was amazing. I guess those that had that the first time round are all hoping it will do the same thing again.
- eavc 16y agoHa--great answer. Thanks. So it was technologically groundbreaking? Novel game-play? Both? My game like that was either Ocarina of Time or maybe Goldeneye 64.
- bd 16y agoTechnologically it looked very well for its time, but mostly it stand out as a game with "character" (art design, levels, weapons, sound effects, voice acting, writing). It was so cheesy and over the top that it became masterpiece (like Tarantino / Rodriguez movies, or recent Old Spice commercials). id soft may have had technologically superior games (Quake is about the same age and had full 3d models instead of just sprites) but they were incomparably bland compared to Duke Nukem. Also, gameplay was really fun. There were some very inspired gameplay elements: shrink and freeze guns, laser traps, remote triggered pipe-bombs, jetpacks. I still fondly remember multiplayer Duke sessions late in the night at lab in my university.
- malkia 16y agoThe real enemy of the Duke: "Rest in pieces 3DRealms!"
- philcrissman 16y agoWell, it has to be. How could it remain eternal vaporware if someone isn't continuously claiming that they're working on it?
- gamble 16y ago...and it will run on a new line of Amigas.
- dschobel 16y agoAny word if George Broussard is involved at all (or any other ex-3dr people)?
- jkantro 16y agoThis is a joke right...riiiiiight??? Who knows it could be real. Look at Chinese Democracy, that eventually got released.
- Revisor 16y agoYou can relive the nostalgia here http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/duke_nukem_3d_atomic_edition http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/duke_nukem_3d_atomic_edition
- sliverstorm 16y agoIt will be strange to live in a world where Duke Nukem isn't vaporware. It's status as vaporware has always been one of the basic tenants of the internet as I know it, up there with Rule 34.
- alttab 16y agoI was at a mutual gathering and I ran into someone who had worked on an iteration of Duke Nukem Forever. He seemed genuine about the product and he definitely said it was still on... even though he wasn't actively working on it. We all want it to be coming, that's the point. :)
- shaunfs 16y agoAnyone get the feeling this game is going to sell like crazy. It's like an urban legend you can purchase. They should embrace the jokes and try to leverage it to build suspense and PR before the release. I was awaiting this game as an 8th grader for crying out loud, and now I'm 28!
- zavulon 16y agoI'm with you. The first ever issue issue of PC Gamer I bought in 1997 had this game on the cover as "coming next year". I was psyched!
- sutro 16y agoDoes anyone know if any of the original developers are still working on the game? I'd like to believe that this is the story of a few intrepid programmers overcoming great odds to ship a release that everyone had given up on. But I suspect that all remnants of the old team are gone and a whole new team was put in place when the IP changed hands recently.
- shaunfs 16y agoIn the spirit of Duke here is the best web comic ever: http://www.pidjin.net/2010/01/25/iwish/ http://www.pidjin.net/2010/01/25/iwish/