Returning Duke Nukem after one day

[Zeema]

I wasn't really shocked at all or interested in this game nothing made me go 'i wanna get this game' . i watched the Demo Play through on Nova's channel. I thought this is a PS1 game?

it was all Brown the game was a Brown and now everyone is like 'What the Brown'

 

[Logie--bear]

I had originally pre-ordered a copy of the Balls of Steel edition. Luckily I cancelled it and instead reserved a Day 1 rental copy.

MY GOD. This game is just balls.

Like the OP I went in with no expectations for the graphics, I wasn't even sold on the sense of humour but I wanted to give DNF the benefit of the doubt. I haven't been a Duke Nukem fan, mainly out of not playing the games rather than out and out hatred. So I thought I'd represent the new generation of gamers who didn't rely on nostaliga.

I don't think even the darkest shade of rose tinted glasses can cover this game up. Graphics are AWFUL. Don't need to harp on about that but they look a lot like Doom 3's idea of "Make everything glossy and that will make the graphics look good". Actually Doom 3 looks better. MOVING ON.

The sense of humour is just plain bad. Imagine any comedy where the jokes fall flat, not just some of them, ALL of them. This is the Epic movie of games. That's how bad the jokes are. Duke sounds dated and bored. As a character he just is not interesting. Every single line of dialogue that comes out of his stupid mouth sounds EXACTLY THE SAME. He is even less than 1 dimensional. The game touts that ladies want to be with him and guys want to be with him, but even the worst NPCs (and they are awful) have more character than Duke. I'd rather watch the characters in Oblivion talk about Mudcrabs for 10 hours straight than listen to this shit.

Music = generic
Level design = Un-navigable and bland
Weapons = Boring
Enemies = lame and stupid

Ladies and Gentleman, we have a contender for the year's worst game.

 

[SovietSecrets]

"But no. No creativity here. After a few cute opening jokes and smearing shit on the bathroom walls like a mentally handicapped gorilla, the game devolves into what is quite literally the most piss-drab, deathly boring experience I have ever had the displeasure to play" and "Duke Nukem Forever. Is just. So. Fucking. Generic" made me laugh so much.

What the hell were you all expecting?

 

[2fish]

To those who say...
"It's not the same Duke" I can only respond with...
"It IS the same Duke and that's the problem!"

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The real duke is frozen in the artic and will come back to fight the evil fake duke (the one that is in this game) once the time lines align and the real duke from the future can go forwards into the past to free himself after a long weekend party in Vegas using the fake dukes credit card.

This will bring a new Duke series and a trilogy with four games in it.

Other than that sorry you wasted you cash op I was very skeptical on this game just due to the amount of money put into ads.

 

[archvile93]

It's scoring 80s on Metacritic.

Games journalism is in a bad, bad way.

Depends on which one you look at, the 360 version is 22 points less than the PC last time I checked. I'm not sure what to think about that. I never thought this game had much of chance. It was in development hell for over a decade which probably meant that the development team was too busy fighting amongst themselves to get much done. The design Gearbox got was probably made when 3D Realms was floundering, which would mean it was not getting the resources it needed to be good, kind of like what happened to Blacksite: Area 51. Since Gearbox just touched up the one they had rather than build a new one from scratch, it amazes me the game is as good as it is.

 

[WorldCritic]

Well thank you for your opinion, I am grateful to know some of the games flaws before it is released here in the states (even though it sounds like it I'm actually not being sarcastic.)

 

[TxMxRonin]

Yeah it's true it sucks.
The fact that it's day 1 of its release and there is not a single person to play with online in all the continents of the world except America,means something.

That's weird considering it doesn't come out in America till the 14th.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Ya know what I haven't heard yet about DNF? The actual game length. Is DNF a great, long, coiling piece of shit or, is it a little bitty rabbit-pebble like Homefront?

 

[Randvek]

"Aye"
A game that followed the same "brilliant" game design plan as Daikatana? BAD?
Nawwwww!

After all this time, Daikatana is still the pinnacle of over-hyped crap. I bet most gamers these days never even played it. Getting old. >.>

 

[JackWestJr]

So it wouldn't have mattered if it was banned in Australia anyway looks like it...

 

[Blops]

I played it for an hour, and then walked it back to the store. Really not good enough in 2011. They should have at least made it a $20 game, or an arcade title, what a piece of crap. Even if it was $10 I wouldn't play it again.

Agree with the OP.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Wait. Duke Nukem has regenerating life? I thought this was supposed to be some throwback to the "hardcore" FPS's of the days of yore. Whatever..didn't really want this game anyway. Duke had it's moment and made its mark a long time ago. There was no reason to ruin it by releasing it as just another generic shooter. Cause god knows we don't have enough of those nowadays.

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

Did you get to try out the multiplayer?

Yes I did.

I only played one full round in one map though. All players were shrunk and the whole level was a big kitchen, which I thought was actually really clever and cool.

But then I realized that your success depends entirely on two weapons. The instakill tractor-beam thingy and that double rocket launcher thing you use to kill the big cycloid at the start.

Those weapons are so absurdly powerful that all the others are just wet newspapers by comparison.