Poll: When do you think Duke Nukem forever will come out?

[Woe Is You]

To put it into perspective...

When Duke Nukem Forever was announced, the fastest processor available to consumers was a 233Mhz Pentium. Since then the fabrication process has decreased from 250nm to 45nm and the clock speed of consumer processors has increased over 64 times.

Two Mars rovers were proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars where they have been exploring the surface for over 4 years.

Over 20 consoles have been released (including handhelds) during 1997 and today.

I'm sure it'll come out someday. Prey eventually did. Whether it'll be worth much more than a joke killer, we'll see...

 

[Omega87]

Make a time machine and, then keep going forward. When you reach the end of time, the guy asleep next to the street lamp will still be waiting for it to come out.

You think Jasper will be waiting for it too?

Yes, he and Chrono will be siting at the end, waiting. The game will come out just as Chrono says something. (It's going to be awhile).

You're right. AAAAAAALLLLL kinds of while. We're gonna need to put some gas in Epoch after all that waiting.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

My estimates calculate Duke Nukem Foerever will be released in the year 9074, for the Xbox 720. And it will be the best holodeck experience ever.

 

[1337mokro]

I never played Duke Nukem, but i must say that a game that has been in development for 10 years, by a company that somehow gets money to make a game for ten years without making any other games, must either be a work of art sent to us by God or a evil cult's tool of resurrecting their dark lord with our sorrow at how bad the game is once it comes out.

However i am honestly looking forward to a game that is about a macho, blond, women obsessed alien buster. It actually sounds like fun because somehow I can't take it serious and with currently the story taking a greater roll than actual fun in modern day gaming i am looking forward to see my grand children play it.

 

[ExplosionProofTaco]

It will come out......when it is done.

 

[blackcherry]

I take it you guys didn't see this? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnNYUbNdfg

If there is anything I take from that (other than Jace Hall is a douche), its that it must be stuck in some sort of game development hell. Seriously, they should have said "Fuck Technology, just release this game." years ago and then worked on next tech if they still had jobs.

Also, what hype? No one is hyped for this game, hype died years ago. Now its more like a curiosity. I'm sure it will sell a few copies and not be anything special. If they try to hype this though, that will become instant fail, like it should be released with like no lead up press at all, just suddenly one day have it pop up on Steam for $20 and we'll pick it up just out of wondering what took so freaking long and have a good laugh at how silly it is. I expect 50% - 60% ratings at best for this slow poke.

Honestly I feel this will happen and 'chinese democracy syndrome' will happen. Its been delayed for so long it cannot help but be a disappointment that will leave people wondering what took so long.

 

[masterblaze0]

EDIT: *Notices that has already been mentioned*

Hey. Chinese Democracy wasn't supposed to come out, and it came out this year.

I guess that means Duke Nukem Forever has a chance of coming out.

 

[Railu]

I take it you guys didn't see this? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnNYUbNdfg

If there is anything I take from that (other than Jace Hall is a douche), its that it must be stuck in some sort of game development hell. Seriously, they should have said "Fuck Technology, just release this game." years ago and then worked on next tech if they still had jobs.

Also, what hype? No one is hyped for this game, hype died years ago. Now its more like a curiosity. I'm sure it will sell a few copies and not be anything special. If they try to hype this though, that will become instant fail, like it should be released with like no lead up press at all, just suddenly one day have it pop up on Steam for $20 and we'll pick it up just out of wondering what took so freaking long and have a good laugh at how silly it is. I expect 50% - 60% ratings at best for this slow poke.

Honestly I feel this will happen and 'chinese democracy syndrome' will happen. Its been delayed for so long it cannot help but be a disappointment that will leave people wondering what took so long.

I don't see how it could possibly be any good. Any game that takes this long has fundamental problems. If anyone else works in the industry, you know what I'm talking about.

Root problems of most cancelled/delayed games:
1. Technical/engine issues. Choosing an incorrect game engine to power the game can mean the difference of 6 months up to 2 years of unforeseen development time. In some cases, an engine is abandonned altogether.
2. Poor design choices. This can caused by item 1 (ie. not knowing the capabilities of the engine). Also can be made by designers who suffer from autism-like (not making light of it) symptoms and can't understand why his/her ideas are going to cause problems.
3. Mis/Re-allocation of development resources. Often times in a company that is developing multiple titles, resources are shifted in order to make deadlines, while another is sacrificed. Sometimes, key team members leave the company and this can cause setbacks.
4. Underestimating development time/poor time management. This is a common problem.
5. Inadequate pre-production. This is a killer in the industry. 2 titles I've worked on suffered numerous delays because certain parts of the game were not planned well enough in advance. If there is not a clear vision of the end product by the first day of production, you will have many problems.

and IMO the biggest is called 'Feature Creep'. This is essentially getting close to internal deadlines and features are still being added/changed.

DNF appears to suffer from all of the above and I think it's a miracle it hasn't been scrapped.

 

[742]

duke nuken forever will come out when jesus comes back, waits a few years, gets bored, and goes to work on it himself. keep in mind when reading this that im not a christian.

 

[Iron Mal]

While I would like to think that DNF will be out in 2009 there is no denying the fact that it would be unreasonablely optimistic of me to actually believe that. I think if it isn't out by 2012 then it never will be.