I think it's gonna flop. It's been too long and many people have either lost interest, died or even forgotten about Duke Nukem since they first announced this game all those years ago 😒... i bet most young teens don't even know who Duke Nukem is 🤣

Back then i was very excited but it wore off after the first few years of waiting.

Still going to get it. If, in fact, it is ever finished.

SKARDAVNELNATE wrote:

Still going to get it. If, in fact, it is ever finished.

I will probably still get it too, but to be honest the game i'm really excited about is "Deus Ex: Human Revolution"... I hope it's as good as the first game and better than the second 😀

The name is too famous for it to be left alone. A generic boring FPS that would otherwise go unnoticed will sell a lot more copies with the DNF name.

Generic boring? YOU CAN SHRINK!! FPS games released with a shrink gun since Duke3D = 0

leileilol wrote:

Generic boring? YOU CAN SHRINK!! FPS games released with a shrink gun since Duke3D = 0

Yes that was a neat device, then squishing said foe under your boot was a nice touch too 😁

And of course it wouldn't be fun without a Duke Nukem Soundboard now would it 😉

Clicky!!!

If anything DNF will sell even better than it would have 10 years ago simply for the controversy alone. I'm psyched. But I'm expecting to be let down. How much so I don't know...but everyone who's had inside info and who's played it said it "feels like a Duke game".

MusicallyInspired wrote:

it "feels like a Duke game".

I don't recall, what does a Duke game feel like? Each one has had its own appeal that was different from the others.

They probably were referring to Duke3D. Whereas a lot of the third-party titles didn't have the same feel at all.

As much as I agreed with the 3D Realms philosophy of game development while I was still primarily developing games, once DNF passed the three year mark I was starting to wonder what the heck was going on. The only thing I can think of is that the dev team wanted the game to be "perfect", and as anyone who's done any production work in film or gaming can tell you, "perfect" takes forever and the only way you ever get anything out is to settle for something that isn't.

That said, I still love almost all the Duke Nukem games and still occasionally load up Manhattan Project or the very first "Duke Nukum". As for Duke Nukem 3D... I probably spent far more time in the Build editor than actually playing the game, routinely making levels that looked like Populous, Tron, or some bizarre flat-shaded 3D polygon world. ;D

If DNF does ever get finished, regardless who does it, I'll still give it a play, but I've long since passed the point where I cared if the game ever came out or not.

Reminds me of a game a friend of mine was 'waiting for', Harpoon 4, or something it was to be called.
He had been waiting for this game for 8 years when we finally heard it was cancelled!
Even now when I say the word "Harpoon 4", we both know what it means haha!

First of all, the developers following up on a true sequel to Duke Nukem 3D - The FPS, made the biggest blunder of all - by naming it FOREVER!

Then while making it, they saw the Quake II. 3D Realms must have thought " Damn, that's so cool! Alright guys, there is a major change to our product" and started re-programming again.

Then while re-programming, another game called Half-Life came out and took the world by storm. The 3D Relams guys must have been left speechless. Back to the drawing board again.

And then Crysis. They must have thought "How the heck did they do that? It would have made a great add-on called Forever in the Tropics." Back to the drawing board.

And guess what, the DN Forever guys are too busy playing OTHER FPS games to implement or improve upon them in DNF.

And by the time it comes out (IF it EVER comes out, that is), it's heat of expectation will drop from 'extremely hot' to downright FROZEN. Best kept in the museum - PC Gaming Museum, at the No.1 Vapourware Of All Time section.
(The only other worst thing can happen is that people are actually CHARGED to pay a visit to see it.) 😁

I appreciate the longest running gag in the gaming industry. We have our Elvis sighting!

They might as well start writing it as a holodeck game because that's what we'll all be gaming on by the time it comes out. 😁

Malik wrote:

And guess what, the DN Forever guys are too busy playing OTHER FPS games to implement or improve upon them in DNF.

And by the time it comes out (IF it EVER comes out, that is), it's heat of expectation will drop from 'extremely hot' to downright FROZEN. Best kept in the museum - PC Gaming Museum, at the No.1 Vapourware Of All Time section.

Except the people who are not working on DNF aren't the same people who spent ten years working on it before. Get with the program.

The release date and trailer have been released! It's coming May 3rd! I've gotta say after waiting nigh 14 years I'm psyched for this!

The press release on Game Informer

The Trailer

No, wait! If they delay it to 2012, they can have a huge ad campaign about how its release fortells the End of Days! Don't you see? The Mayan calendar was actually the release schedule for DNF all along!

Or not.

ask ken silverman :p

Watch the game really be Duke Nukem 3D with an expansion pack.