Duke Nukem Forever Took So Long Because "Sh*t Happens"

[mindlesspuppet]

Gaming needs Duke, I'm tired of all these boring real war based shooters.

 

[paketep]

Shit does happen. This wasn't shit. This was incompetence at the helm.

 

[Snotnarok]

I'm pretty sure the level of nonsense here is high. They changed engines 3 times from what I remember, that's called psychotic.

 

[Adzma]

How many gamers actually remember the *original* Duke Nukem Forever announcement back in '97?

Right here! I was about six at the time and I was stoked! Yes I did infact play Duke3D when I was that age too. LOOK HOW VIOLENT AND DEPRAVED I TURNED OUT RAWR!

Ahem.

Broussard also explained his belief that a character like Duke Nukem can still be relevant in today's first-person shooter market. Well, duh. How could a character that kicks so much ass ever go out of style?

Kids of today don't appreciate his badassery. All they care about it is gritty boring and brown "realism." We need Duke to save us!

 

[thedeathscythe]

Well, at least he's honest... =P

That's what I'm thinking. He can't pull a Polyphony and say that he just wanted it (Gran Turismo 5) to be perfect, at least he has the stones and the dignity to say that it was problems that set it back so long.

 

[kibayasu]

Well, at least he's honest... =P

That's what I'm thinking. He can't pull a Polyphony and say that he just wanted it (Gran Turismo 5) to be perfect, at least he has the stones and the dignity to say that it was problems that set it back so long.

Like hell.

Broussard just doesn't want to admit his own incompetance. It doesn't take a miracle to put out a game like Duke Nukem. It takes the exact same amount of effort as it would to put out any other generic first person shooter these days, just in this case you add Duke Nukem humour. It's no miracle that Gearbox was able to release the game so soon after aquiring it, that's just insulting.

 

[Kurokami]

I'm having a Duke Nukem holiday when it comes out. Strippers, aliens, you name it.

Why not make it stripper aliens, hit two birds with one stone.

 

[Fenring]

GeorgeB3DR is a pretty cool guy. I wish I could have met him at PAX. DNF lacked a little polish and seemed a bit behind the times there, but I think GBX should be easily able to fix it up so it's a pretty awesome game.

 

[ark123]

I read the headline and thought "What? Is DNF being made by Blizzard?!"

 

[clockout]

"Come get some"!

 

[qbanknight]

Or maybe it's because you were a complete asshole and unprofessional game designer

 

[samsonguy920]

I kept careful attention on DNF's progress from its initial announcement. As soon as a new engine came out they threw everything away and started over from scratch. First it was the new Quake engine, then Epic put out a new Unreal engine and 3DR went with that, then they went with another party's engine, then it was back to Quake, and then the last word I heard (shhh) was 3DR went with Unreal's newest engine.
This isn't bad luck, this is bad judgement.
Makes me seriously hope that Broussard is nowhere near this project as it is now. And that he needs to grow a pair of lobes before he ever touches being in charge of a game's development again.
Of course this whole fiasco began about the same time as John Romero had his egotrip in developing Daikatana. I sense symmetry at work here.

 

[Enigmers]

By the way, it's worth noting that getting heads 5 times in a row is 1/(2^5) or 1 in 32. I suppose that makes us pretty damn lucky.

 

[ark123]

By the way, it's worth noting that getting heads 5 times in a row is 1/(2^5) or 1 in 32. I suppose that makes us pretty damn lucky.

It really does depend on how many times you attempt it

 

[DirgeNovak]

I haven't played any Duke Nukem. This game seems irrelevant, like if they came out with an HD remake of the first Crash Bandicoot.

HEY! Don't diss Crash!

 

[Dogstile]

"Imagine flipping a coin 5 times and getting heads each time," he said.

It took me two attempts to get that with tails. Not that unlikely

 

[Exort]

Old game franchises getting a new least on life can work. I mean look at Fallout.

but the gameplay for fallout changed quite a bit.

 

[Exort]

"Imagine flipping a coin 5 times and getting heads each time," he said.

It took me two attempts to get that with tails. Not that unlikely

It is 0.5 ^ 5 which is 3.125%.

 

[BENZOOKA]

All I care about is that it's coming out eventually.