"May 3 is the North American release date. May 6 is worldwide."
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...ve-duke-nukem-forever-has-a-release-date.aspx
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...ve-duke-nukem-forever-has-a-release-date.aspx
Not me, particularly. If it's a fun game I'll buy it. There are lots of first person shooters, each with their own universe (or genre). You've got fantasy, horror, WWII, space, science fiction dystopias, etc. There's plenty of room for a FPS in the "wise-cracking lone-wolf renegade" genre.Does anyone really care anymore?
Well, there's me, so that's at least one.How many people actually played the original?
Does anyone really care anymore? How many people actually played the original? I would bet that a huge cross section of gamers today have never heard of Duke Nuk'em or have never played it.
I was always looking forward to it; I had DN3D on pre-order so many years ago and played it extensively with co-workers. Great game for multiplayer and the original game had a great story. But today, they have to pull a major game changer to really make it nothing more then another "me-too" 3D shooter type game. I seriously doubt it will be any good.
Can anyone say Daikatata (sp?), and the wonderful marketing, "Jon Carmak is going to make you his bitch." Yeah, that worked well. Games that have been hyped for so long and then finally made it out, rarely are any good, in fact 99% of the time they just downright suck.
So... what about Starcraft 2? That was 12 years. I remember seeing ads for SC2 on the back of... Half Life? I can't remember where, but on the back of some game I purchased shortly after SC1. But was that a flop? and to future proof your comment... what about Diablo 3?
SC2 was not in development for 12 years. Blizzard didn't even start until much later, they couldn't. They didn't own the rights to everything about the game until much later and those that did have them were not interested in a SC2. And in between they made another little game that has a small sub culture called world of warcraft. Diablo 3; oh yeah another game that they didn't start developing until much much later. In 2006 they release patch .13 the "last" of the patches for Diablo II -- they had no plans for D3 at this time.
DNF has been ACTIVELY (basically) worked on since the last one was released; that is quite different. SC2 and D3 were not spoken about or hyped at all until three years before release. DNF has been spoken about, shown or whatever since DN3D was popular.
DNF has been ACTIVELY (basically) worked on since the last one was released; that is quite different. SC2 and D3 were not spoken about or hyped at all until three years before release. DNF has been spoken about, shown or whatever since DN3D was popular.
It will be a mediocre ho hum shooter thats only noteriety is from it's outrageous content.
The perfect recipe to sell millions of copies to immature teenagers...
7 years is PLENTY time to be applicable to this statement. Do you REALLY think DNF has been ACTIVELY developed for who knows how many years? Come on. It takes 1 year to make a game of that caliper. Look at the COD series, even with the love/hate story between their two sets of devs.
Can anyone say Daikatata (sp?), and the wonderful marketing, "Jon Carmak is going to make you his bitch." Yeah, that worked well. Games that have been hyped for so long and then finally made it out, rarely are any good, in fact 99% of the time they just downright suck.
What I loved about Duke was the over-the-top attitude and if that trailer is anything to go by it's still there. Even if the game play isn't anything to write home about I'll still have fun playing it.
That said, I'll believe it when I see it. The game always seems to be six months away...
Duke Nukem was pretty popular in it's day, so if they game is at least decent it will probably do alright. One thing I wish they would do is release some of the earlier, abandoned versions of Duke Nukem Forever, even if there are only one or two playable levels. A trip through development hell.