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I wish I read these reviews before buying the game, because every last one of those reviews is well-deserved. I know no game can ever be good enough to match t

by ben1040 15y ago

I wish I read these reviews before buying the game, because every last one of those reviews is well-deserved. I know no game can ever be good enough to match the 13 years of false starts and anticipation inherent in DNF. If I waited 13 years for Half Life 3, even a Valve masterpiece would feel a little anticlimactic (BTW, pretty please, Valve, please don't make us wait 13 years for a Half Life sequel). I expect some degree of toilet humor and raunchy jokes, because that's what Duke Nukem was all about. But DNF is fraught with slow loading times, tedious cutscenes you can't skip past, and in general from the hour or so I've played it, it just isn't that fun.

agentultra 15y ago
The load times are a feature. I figured it out last night when I sat down to play it. It takes so long so you have time to go grab a beer, snack, etc. The game got better the longer I played it for some reason...
- gaustin 15y ago
  The load times are remarkably short on my machine. There is an almost imperceptible flicker at save checkpoints. Though it is kind of a monster. DNF is exactly the game my teenage self was hoping for. As an adult, it's a little flat but I can't see it as heinously bad as many reviews are painting it.
- tim_iles 15y ago
  Maybe it just seemed to get better as more and more braincells died?
  - rl41 15y ago
    I think that's the joke...
- ben1040 15y ago
  With how many times it seems to stop to load, I'll go black-out drunk if I went for a beer every time the game offered me the opportunity. I'm playing the 360 version and haven't loaded it to the internal disk. Maybe that will help the load times.
  - bonzoesc 15y ago
    It definitely will; the demo load times weren't nearly as bad. Microsoft should add a requirement that any loading screens that require an action to continue (DNF requires you to press "A" once loading is complete to start the game) make some kind of noise when they finish.

by ben1040 15y ago

agentultra 15y ago

The load times are a feature. I figured it out last night when I sat down to play it. It takes so long so you have time to go grab a beer, snack, etc. The game got better the longer I played it for some reason...

gaustin 15y ago
The load times are remarkably short on my machine. There is an almost imperceptible flicker at save checkpoints. Though it is kind of a monster. DNF is exactly the game my teenage self was hoping for. As an adult, it's a little flat but I can't see it as heinously bad as many reviews are painting it.
tim_iles 15y ago
Maybe it just seemed to get better as more and more braincells died?
- rl41 15y ago
  I think that's the joke...
ben1040 15y ago
With how many times it seems to stop to load, I'll go black-out drunk if I went for a beer every time the game offered me the opportunity. I'm playing the 360 version and haven't loaded it to the internal disk. Maybe that will help the load times.
- bonzoesc 15y ago
  It definitely will; the demo load times weren't nearly as bad. Microsoft should add a requirement that any loading screens that require an action to continue (DNF requires you to press "A" once loading is complete to start the game) make some kind of noise when they finish.