"Duke Nukem Forever" not dead?

[Neil]

Can't be bothered to re-load the video, what's at 8:20? I loved the line about, something like, 'if I had this right, that guy would still have his arm' No... It will be lost in translation... You need to see it You can move straight to it with Youtube...

[MinionZombie]

Oh yeah that bit. hehe, yeah I liked that bit. That's exactly the sort of stuff I want to see in DNF. Balls out humour and just a ruddy good fun time ... I love the thing after defeating that monster where you kick a field goal with its giant eye. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that boss battle the climax of Duke Nukem 3D? Perhaps this is some sort of 'picking up where it left off, but in a really meta kind of way' thing that they're doing. Whatever really, the footage looks good to me. Looks like good fun.

[Neil]

Oh yeah that bit. hehe, yeah I liked that bit. That's exactly the sort of stuff I want to see in DNF. Balls out humour and just a ruddy good fun time ... I love the thing after defeating that monster where you kick a field goal with its giant eye. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that boss battle the climax of Duke Nukem 3D? Perhaps this is some sort of 'picking up where it left off, but in a really meta kind of way' thing that they're doing. Whatever really, the footage looks good to me. Looks like good fun. What I don't understand is, it wasn't long ago that the game was canned, yet here they are showing a working game... So clearly it was in a reasonable state, and yet it/they went belly up... No wonder Bioware jumped in! And given Bioware's track record I'm hoping the games lives up to the expectations!

[MinionZombie]

Bioware? It's Gearbox isn't it? *has a look at Wiki* So the DNF team got laid off as there was no money, Take Two still had the publishing rights though, a bunch of leaks of footage and shots happened as a sort of "goodbye and sorry", then Take Two sued 3D Realms for buggering it all up considerably, and then this year the lawsuit had been settled and dismissed between 3DR and TT. Then: Gearbox revival, 2009– Despite the discontinuation of internal game development at 3D Realms, development of the game did not cease entirely. Nine ex-employees including key personnel like Allen Blum, who later became Triptych Games - an independent studio[63] that is currently housed on the same building as Gearbox collaborating with them,[64] continued game development throughout 2009 from their homes. After ceasing internal game development, 3D Realms approached noted game developers Gearbox Software[65] and asked them if they were interested in helping Triptych Games polish the nearly finished PC version and port it to the consoles.[66][67] Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, who had worked on an expansion to Duke Nukem 3D and very briefly on Forever before he left to found Gearbox, felt that "Duke can't die" and decided that he was going to help "in Duke’s time of need".[68] He started providing funding for the game and contacted 2K Games' president to persuade his company that Gearbox and Triptych can complete the development of the game and get it released on all platforms in time. Piranha Games was contracted to do additional work for the game, which at this point has not been specified. The game was officially re-announced at the Penny Arcade Expo 2010 on September 3, 2010.[69][70][71] It was the first time in the game's development history that gamers were able to actually try the game - according to Pitchford, "the line has gotten up to four hours long to see the game".[68] On the final day of the Penny Arcade Expo during the Gearbox Software panel it was announced that the company has bought the Duke Nukem intellectual property from 3D Realms and 2K Games now holds the exclusive long-term publishing rights of the game.[72][73] It has since been officially confirmed that development has been almost completed with only minor polishing to be done,[74] before the game is released in 2011.[73][75] Pitchford has stated that a playable demo will be released once they figure out the timing.[68] Mikey Neumann, creative director of Gearbox, has revealed on the Avault podcast Episode #100, that the game is going to be released in early 2011.[76] Software retailer GameStop and online shop Amazon.com list a February 1, 2011 release date.[77][78] On October 1st, Randy Pitchford showed for a second time realtime gameplay footage from the game, at the Firstlook gaming convention in Amsterdam.[79]. A few levels of the game were available for play for visitors, showing at least one level with distinct similarities to the boss level of Duke Nukem 3D. On that last note - a-ha! - my memory did serve me well! So it seems that they were quite far ahead with it - for PC - but needed Gearbox to ruddy well sort it the hell out and then port it to consoles in addition, and now 2K had the publishing rights. As some have been speculating, there was probably a load of wanked-up code to sort-out to bash it into shape. So all-in-all, the people actually doing the building of the game generally did a good job - the real problem was Broussard, and his idiotic chopping-and-changing and demanding for new features everytime he saw something cool in someone else's game, so it appears.

[CoinReturn]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...ease-date.aspx Releasing May 3rd in NA, May 5th elsewhere. I still remember the PC Gamer with DNF as the cover story in 1997. Buying this game on principal alone.

[Neil]

Wow!!

[CoinReturn]

New trailer as well:

[MinionZombie]

I may be the best part of 15 years older since I was playing Duke Nukem 3D, but I still dig big guns, insane violence, and videogame bewbs ... so I'm up for this. The graphics aren't going to be up-to-standard, but that's hardly surprising - although most of it looks pretty decent. What is most important though is: 1) Stability 2) Gameplay Now ... whether to get it for PC or 360... *ponders*

[Tricky]

PC I'd say dude, the modding community will go mad over this & you'll get shitloads more extra content!

[MinionZombie]

PC I'd say dude, the modding community will go mad over this & you'll get shitloads more extra content! Hmmm ... duno ... maybe ... although I've never been all that fussed about mods, myself. I've rarely been bothered enough to venture into that world, but I do respect it, and the big thing is - online activation. I fucking hate that shit, and forces me to either not get a game, or get it on 360. I also hate how XP gets shat on in the graphics department now - I still use XP, because I fucking despise Vista, and I can't stand Win7. /grumble

[Neil]

Hmmm ... duno ... maybe ... although I've never been all that fussed about mods, myself. I've rarely been bothered enough to venture into that world, but I do respect it, and the big thing is - online activation. I fucking hate that shit, and forces me to either not get a game, or get it on 360. I also hate how XP gets shat on in the graphics department now - I still use XP, because I fucking despise Vista, and I can't stand Win7. /grumble Remember you said this when the 'fuzzy patches' are removed by a simple hack on the PC, but the same doesn't apply to the XBox ---------- Post added at 01:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:08 PM ---------- I may be the best part of 15 years older since I was playing Duke Nukem 3D, but I still dig big guns, insane violence, and videogame bewbs ... so I'm up for this. The graphics aren't going to be up-to-standard, but that's hardly surprising - although most of it looks pretty decent. What is most important though is: 1) Stability 2) Gameplay Now ... whether to get it for PC or 360... *ponders* As long as it's got plenty of Duke un-PC gameplay etc, it'll be a riot Wonder what certificate the game will be?

[Tricky]

Its bound to be 18, the first one was and that was the days when they couldnt do half the things they can now do visually, there will be bouncing boobs & full length porn booths, the lot! not to mention extreme gore & risque jokes...

[CoinReturn]

Here's the ESRB rating, don't think I've ever seen such an epic listing of awesomeness:

[Neil]

Here's the ESRB rating, don't think I've ever seen such an epic listing of awesomeness: For the trailer? Or for the game?

[CoinReturn]

The game.