On browsing the local Canadian dollar store I happened upon this 'gem'. not even for sale alone, it was bundled back to back with another game for 3 dollars. someone play the funeral march.
Well the inevitable has happened...Duke nukem forever is at the dollar store
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Go out and buy it now, when you return back home give it a proper send off by burning it in a fire. Then you can spread it's ashes around gearbox software headquarters. Though that last part would require you to get on a plane to texas but im sure your willing right?
This is what I really don't get about the whole DNF situation...how could people possibly have been let down by this game?Evonisia said:
Gameplay: Well it was in the lowest, darkest, most shit-filled pit of Development Hell for what...13 frickin' years? Passed between how many different development studios? If you expected this game to have good and engaging gameplay then I'd argue you should be disappointed in yourself.
Story: It's Duke Frickin' Nukem. We all played DN3D, right? I mean that's why everyone "dreamed" of this game for those 13 or however many years. Do you remember what kind of story DN3D had? Take Beavis and Butthead humor...then make it even more immature. That's the kind of writing you could have expected from this game, and that's the kind of writing this game delivered. Why? Because that's the kind of writing we had in DN3D, and that's where the "charm" came from...it was so over-the-top ridiculous. The problem is that said humor doesn't really age very well. So again, if you expected this game to make you snicker like a 13 year old at teh bouncin' bewbies, then you should be disappointed in yourself because hopefully you've moved on from such humor.
This game was exactly what it was meant to be...it's just that those of us who were waiting for it grew up during the time it took to make the game. I rented the game for nostalgic purposes and enjoyed it for a weekend because I only had to pay $5 to rent it, but I knew before I even put it in my 360 that it was going to be absolutely terrible. As such, I enjoyed it the same way I enjoyed that infamously "hilariously bad" movie: The Room.
I then laughed in the face of a good friend who actually bought the game for full price...and knew within the first hour of playing it that he had made a terrible mistake. It's essentially the same as laughing at Chris Farley's physical humor: you know he's actually ok, but the superficial humor of a fat guy throwing himself onto a coffee table and completely obliterating it is just too good to resist.
Because it does everything wrong that the original did right?RJ 17 said:
I doubt many people expected it to be good, but I'd reckon some of them expected it at least to be something like it's predecessor. People bought a Duke Nukem game and got a linear Halo game (Again, that is doing the exact opposite of what it's principal inspiration did right) with toilet humour.
I never understood why people expected the game to be anything beyond shit... In 15 years, those of us alive and conscious of gaming all have changed and those of us who remember Duke3D fondly also were 15 fucking years younger... I mean we hadn't been burned by Daikatana yet when DNF was announced and then... well gaming was different.
Fast forward 1.5 decades later and things have changed. Some of us have kids now (mine's in high school, same age I was when Duke3D came out in fact). Crazy. Things change, people change and DNF didn't change anything. I didn't hate it, but I'd already passed that phase and my nostalgia is for the original game, not this junky clunky crap.
Fast forward 1.5 decades later and things have changed. Some of us have kids now (mine's in high school, same age I was when Duke3D came out in fact). Crazy. Things change, people change and DNF didn't change anything. I didn't hate it, but I'd already passed that phase and my nostalgia is for the original game, not this junky clunky crap.
Go back and play Duke 3D.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
DNF changed a lot of things and they were all changes for the worse.
Duke 3D had open levels you could freely explore.
Duke Nukem Forever is a linear corridor shooter.
Duke 3D had innovative guns (Pipe Bomb, Shrink Ray, Freeze Thrower, Laser Trip Mines).
Duke Nukem Forever has the same guns but You can only carry 2 at a time, so you only get the fun guns when the game wants you to have them.
Duke 3D had an inventory of useful items (Scuba Gear, Jetpack, Protective Boots, Health Kits, Steroids),
Duke Nukem Forever does not.
Duke 3D didn't have regenerating health, you actually had to manage your resources throughout the levels and not rely on constantly respawning scripted ammo drops.
Duke 3D didn't have the "Looks like you're... Fucked" scene. Nor did you literally play with a turd in it.
So yeah, DNF did change things. The wrong things. For the worse.
Is my intense resentment for DNF obvious or what?
This is it right here, I didn't expect DNF to be the greatest game ever made. I did however expect it to funny and entertaining, and it failed miserably at both points. It didn't make me laugh, which Duke 3D still does, played it again just recently, what it did do was make me cringe and feel a few I.Q. points less for pre-ordering, tack on a few more I.Q. points less again for a collector's edition which I hide as it is shameful. Want to see how to update a classic? Flying Wild Hog took an incredibly racist but hilarious 90s FPS Shadow Warrior and made it into a great modern FPS. I so hope the rumors are true and Flying Wild Hog has the rights to reboot Blood...Mutant1988 said:
It's justified, and you are not the only one.Mutant1988 said:
I preordered the game and managed to enjoy it, but it definitely felt unfinished (missing music, weird AI behavior, old textures in some places, etc) and the level design made it feel like 3 seperate games that got stitched together (Duke Nukem Forever 2001, Aliens VS Predator ripoff and generic industrial complex). If it had come out as a digital-only release at $20 I think people would have been more forgiving, but Gearbox promised a full AAA experience which we never got and that's why it got such harsh criticism.RJ 17 said:This is what I really don't get about the whole DNF situation...how could people possibly have been let down by this game?Evonisia said:
Gameplay: Well it was in the lowest, darkest, most shit-filled pit of Development Hell for what...13 frickin' years? Passed between how many different development studios? If you expected this game to have good and engaging gameplay then I'd argue you should be disappointed in yourself.
Story: It's Duke Frickin' Nukem. We all played DN3D, right? I mean that's why everyone "dreamed" of this game for those 13 or however many years. Do you remember what kind of story DN3D had? Take Beavis and Butthead humor...then make it even more immature. That's the kind of writing you could have expected from this game, and that's the kind of writing this game delivered. Why? Because that's the kind of writing we had in DN3D, and that's where the "charm" came from...it was so over-the-top ridiculous. The problem is that said humor doesn't really age very well. So again, if you expected this game to make you snicker like a 13 year old at teh bouncin' bewbies, then you should be disappointed in yourself because hopefully you've moved on from such humor.
This game was exactly what it was meant to be...it's just that those of us who were waiting for it grew up during the time it took to make the game. I rented the game for nostalgic purposes and enjoyed it for a weekend because I only had to pay $5 to rent it, but I knew before I even put it in my 360 that it was going to be absolutely terrible. As such, I enjoyed it the same way I enjoyed that infamously "hilariously bad" movie: The Room.
I then laughed in the face of a good friend who actually bought the game for full price...and knew within the first hour of playing it that he had made a terrible mistake. It's essentially the same as laughing at Chris Farley's physical humor: you know he's actually ok, but the superficial humor of a fat guy throwing himself onto a coffee table and completely obliterating it is just too good to resist.
I'd love to see a straight up remake of that game in 3D graphics, with nothing else changed. Just the exact same game in 3D.Strelok said:
Well okay, maybe add a few more enemies to it and perhaps add some new levels here and there to mix things up. Not a ton of variety in enemies in Blood (At least, as far as I've gotten it's mostly just a ton of zombies, cultists and gargoyles) and honestly, a bit too many crypts (Thematically appropriate, I know. But still).
I didn't really like the Shadow Warrior reboot as much as the original. The plot, as far as I got in it, wasn't as compelling. Rather than fighting your former boss, it's just demons wanting to destroy the world or some crap.
They nailed the character however.
Hahaha, yeah.
I saw it in a £2 bin at a Blockbuster once. (Yeah there was still a Blockbuster where I used to live, it's gone now).
My boyfriend initially thought about getting it when it was coming out, but I had a feeling it was gonna suck and so we waited for general opinion to come in. Glad we didn't waste the money on it. (Unfortunately his nostaligia blindness became too much for him when the new Thief came out and we DID waste the money on that).
I think DN is just... kinda dated, to be honest.
I saw it in a £2 bin at a Blockbuster once. (Yeah there was still a Blockbuster where I used to live, it's gone now).
My boyfriend initially thought about getting it when it was coming out, but I had a feeling it was gonna suck and so we waited for general opinion to come in. Glad we didn't waste the money on it. (Unfortunately his nostaligia blindness became too much for him when the new Thief came out and we DID waste the money on that).
I think DN is just... kinda dated, to be honest.
