Hail to the King, baby!!!

[Letho]

Who wants some? (http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/)

Need I say more? The Duke is back, bitches! Even after all these years spent in development, changing hands, getting shut down, changing engines, I always firmly believed that this would happen. I feared it might not be in the foreseeable future, but folks up at Gearbox Software might finally give us the game some time next year. Which probably means 2012, but I don't really care. I'm buying this on day one, even if it sucks. For old times sakes. :cool:

Anybody else as nostalgic as I am?

[SirArtemis]

good times...

[Taskmienster]

No clue what this is...

[Letho]

I'm guessing you never played Duke Nukem 3D, back in the early days of the FPSs. It wasn't the first, it wasn't the best, but Duke was badass and you could give money to strippers to see their gazongas. In all their 2D pixelated goodness. It was the first FPS I really loved, and a first FPS that I played in multiplayer. As Artemis said, good times.

[SirArtemis]

It's the Duke Nukem game that's ... been... paused for like a decade.

[SirArtemis]

Were there redheads? i cant remember.

[Letho]

http://mimg.ugo.com/200811/14699/strippper-duke-nukem.jpg



:D

[Taskmienster]

Oh, Duke Nukem! I didn't realize that this was part of that franchise...

I played that one, but never really had the chance to get into it. According to my parents, it was the work of satan and I couldn't play it. :p

[Bloodrose]

While there is a part of me that celebrates the fact that yet another studio has picked up the Duke, there is a larger part of me that wishes 2k had just let him rest in peace.

A Duke Nukem release of any kind at this point would be the video game version of Boondock Saints II: the fans expectations are going to be way to high, and the game is going to spend most of its time desperately referring to previous Nukem games in a "Hey, look at how cool we were... I mean are" sort of way.

[Wolfman 20]

Dude, Nukem was the best FPS next to Doom when I was growing up. I mean I was only a kid but it was still one of the best. But hey, to each his own. I'm just speaking my two cents.

[Slayer of the Rot]

The Duke is gay.

[Cyrus the virus]

I always loved all the secrets and breakable walls and such.

[Scrotus]

Secrets were the best part... And trip mines... ANd playing the hardest difficulty with cheat codes... Duke's quotes were the best actually.

"I'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your throat."

"I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm alll outta gum."

[Letho]

While there is a part of me that celebrates the fact that yet another studio has picked up the Duke, there is a larger part of me that wishes 2k had just let him rest in peace.

A Duke Nukem release of any kind at this point would be the video game version of Boondock Saints II: the fans expectations are going to be way to high, and the game is going to spend most of its time desperately referring to previous Nukem games in a "Hey, look at how cool we were... I mean are" sort of way.I don't know. Gearbox did Borderlands, and if Borderlands was anything, it was mindless fun. Kind of like what Duke used to be. I don't really expect it to live up to expectations, because I don't think there's a way to live up to 12 or so years worth of it. But I don't think it's going to be a gigantic turd like Daikatana had been (another game that had been developed for years).

Dude, Nukem was the best FPS next to Doom when I was growing up. I mean I was only a kid but it was still one of the best. But hey, to each his own. I'm just speaking my two cents.I never got that much into Doom. Back in those days, getting your hands on a game - any game - was difficult, especially where I lived. So by the time I got Doom, there was already Duke and Quake out, though the latter needed a pretty fucking powerful PC to run smoothly. Back in those days, having a 3D graphic card was a luxury.


I loved Duke's multiplayer. I loved shrinking people and then stomping on them.

[Tainted Bushido]

"I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm alll outta gum."

I liked that quote better when Rowdy Roddy Piper said it...

[Scrotus]

You talking FMJ?

[Little Lies]

I actually never played much Duke growing up. I was always more into Doom and Wolfenstein 3d.

[Scrotus]

Wolfenstein was righteous. Righteous almost to the core

[Tainted Bushido]

You talking FMJ?

They live

[Saxon]

No. I'm not even remotely on the same planet as you are about caring about this thing.

*goes back to reading*

[Silence Sei]

I don't see what the big deal is.

Captain Planet kicks this Duke Nukems ass all the time. (http://www.turner.com/planet/static/graphics/duke.gif)

[Letho]

So now that the unlikely happened and the Duke is finally out, I'm reviving this bitch to ask: anyone tried it out yet?

I have. I installed that sucker yesterday and played for about an hour and a half. And I can't really see where all the hate is coming from. If you check most of the reviews, they're kicking the Duke's ass. And while I agree it isn't a brilliant, ground-breaking, better than sliced bread game that a lot of people expected after such a long development cycle, guess what? Neither was Duke Nukem 3D when it came out.

By then its competitors were already superior, most prominent being Quake which had a much more advanced graphics engine, and compared to them Duke was just as juvenile and outdated as it is today. But it was fun, mindless, simple, and so far I can say the same for DNF. I mean, if you put it under the microscope and analyze every aspect of it, it's a very mediocre game. The graphics are decent at best, the gameplay is simplistic, the enemies are dumb as shit and the environments are unimpressive. But Duke was never meant to be the next Modern Warfare and I for one can say THANK FUCKING GOD! I'm personally tired of these copy/paste, one-a-year military FPSs like Call of Duty that haven't brought a sliver of innovation for half a decade. You can shoot a terrorist in a face and save the world from WMDs only so many times before you get bored. Or at least you'd think that's the case. Only it's not and these things sell like hot cakes.

But I digress. The skinny of it is, if you never liked Duke to begin with, you will not like Duke Nukem Forever. And even if you liked Duke once upon a time, chances are you still won't like DNF because you got so used to the present day shooters. I almost started feeling that way once I started it until I reiterated to myself what Duke's supposed to be about. It's about babes and one liners and blasting aliens. And Duke Nukem still knows how to do that. So I'd say check it out, demo at least. My two cents anyways.