@ARboom:
Yeah, but it's been done since (anyone remember Serious Sam?), and that kind of over-the-top humor won't fly the way it did back in the days of 'take the DOOM engine and pump out some mildly offensive rehash of the gameplay' games came out.

The game would have to stand on more merits than merely being vulgar nowadays, for better or for worse, we've moved past the point where that kind of gameplay experience is going to really stoke the fires of the gaming masses.

I'll wait for a demo to see if it's even remotely worth the demi-hype it's gotten over the last decade.

Furiursa

Witz, I'm sure that the game was scrapped for years and this is only a recent (maybe in the past 2 years since next-gen dev kits went out) effort to bring Duke back. The choice to use DNF as the title, I think, is a good nod at the sense of humor we can expect to be treated to... then again, if they've been working on the title this entire time, well, it better be able to turn water to wine.

dunetiger

I have a hard time imagining this game succeeding.... The old one was successful because 3D games that weren't Doom were novel at the time.

These days, it'll take them a lot more to convince people to buy into it.

PlayerX

The making of the game lasted longer than WWII lasted.

Thats bad.

Witzbold

@Ampillion : Now with 50% more LJ gaming blog.: You completely missed the point of Duke Nukem. Have you even played it? It's a humor game, it makes fun of all the over the top action stars from the 80s by creating a caricature that takes on a life of his own. Those games were freaking hilarious cause they were so over the top.

ARboom

I've not been following the saga of this, but, since it has been delayed for ten years, when did they finalise the choice of engine? Are we gonna be rocking some 32x style graphics.

I loved playing DN on the PC, i wonder how badly they will ruin it.

PS: anyone remember the "Really Ready Room?"

GMC

I just watched the e3 2001 trailer. I'd almost rather it came out looking like that. eXtreme!

Xeronius

@KingBroly: Agreed, I'd like to know what has been happening for over ten years. Even if the game sucks, the documentaries would probably keep me entertained for a while.

Xenigma

@KingBroly: The "Making Of" dvd would come in a 3 volume boxset collection :p

y2julio

Sorry, this game is about ten years too late for me to care about another installment.

... also, I now have full access to internet (i.e. - pornography), so the preteen appeal of the game is completely gone now.

NoFunShogun

Until I have the game IN MY CONSOLE, I don't care about their press releases anymore.

Aside from the momentary amusement, of course.

Setzer IIDX

@Atheist Jew: I've played the past ones, I have seen the teaser. Although it isn't much, the "Macho-Badass-Alien-Banger" idea is dead. This game will have a cheezy story, a bunch of lame 1-liners and I can almost bet the overall experience will be mediocre.

I hope it will do well, but come on, honestly you know it won't.

stoptheoncoming

@KingBroly: That would be awesome, but come on, it would have to be like a 4 disc set making of, given how long this was in development.

mrantimatter

Has anyone else taken a look at the 3D Realms website? It looks like it's from 1996. Please let DNF be real.

njhardcoreguy

Will this game support directX12?

Seriously though, Prey ended up coming out ok after such an ungodly development cycle, maybe this will too. Just think, they have been working on it for so long that Duke might be self aware now. You won't even need to actually PLAY!

Xeronius

"I ready to kick ass 'n' chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum!" maybe...

DON KING

This game took so long to come out the visuals were quite outdated in that teaser trailer. Duke looked stiff and was quite inanimate as well.. I wish they beefed it up a bit considering development is older than my little brother!

Gameplay though.. Ahh.. Good times.

mr_dimsum

@GoKeithGo: Agreed this thing actually has to install, get threw the start menu, and be able to play the thing myself before I ever believe its real.

geoffcbassett

haha Could you imagine the media circus that would come about from a game with actual nudity, cussing, and shitting down the neck of an alien?

Rurik

Day 1 if it comes with a "Making Of" DVD. It would be the best gaming purchase ever.

KingBroly

I'll believe it when I see it. Actually, even if I'm holding a copy in my hand on the way to the checkout counter, I still probably won't believe it.

GoKeithGo

Of course we all know that legally we have to buy it now.

Pezdispenser

Ah, the hope of audacity.

PositivelyGreg

@stoptheoncoming: @theespacepope:

You two must have the ability to travel into the future and play a game that hasn't been released yet! PLEASE, SHARE YOUR SECRETS OF CHRONOTON GENERATION WITH ME! My Heisenberg Compensators aren't compensating!

While we're waiting for the secret of temporal displacement to be revealed unto us, I should probably state that I will believe this game has been released when I am sitting at my desk at home, holding the box and installing the thing on my system.

Atheist Jew

"Shake it baby!"
"Your face. Your ass. What's the difference."

Classic Duke...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

I still want this badly. Most badass videogame character ever!

bOOmStiCK83

Why does Duke look like Bruce Willis in this shot?

SwordandSorcery

Hope? Hope's not really the word I was looking for here. I honestly can only imagine DNF doing well if everyone who's ever heard some oddball internet crack about the game picks it up, as I really just don't remember Duke being a memorable game outside of the 'shock' value of his brash language and economic benefits packages directed towards women with progressing clothing deficiencies. Am I the only one?

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The Duke is a lie!

hondo

@geekgrrl: Fox News? Never heard of them. You talking about Faux News?

y2julio

I'll feel obligated to buy it just to say I own the most delayed game in the history of the world.

Ollivander

@theespacepope: alien boobies? do i smell another mass effect debacle? someone tell fox news!

geekgrrl

I will probably have a family with kids in school by the time this game comes out.

y2julio

Hmm, graphics may have changed, but everything else might be the same.

Omnidum

Duke Nukem Forever is a LIE!

iamspoo

sorry to be harsh but what do you guys ACTUALLY know about a game that hasn't been even played by a reviewer yet?

I'm up for waiting til theres a product before I pass judgement...

elronathon

lol I still don't believe that it will ever come out. Lies all lies!

ballaboy311

@stoptheoncoming: Agreed, i am sure it will be standard fare with terrible one liners and some alien boobies. If it comes out on consoles i will rent it. This is getting old.

theespacepope

If this game sells well, it will be because its DNF. But other than that, its a dead series and its ratings will fall in ~5/10

stoptheoncoming

No matter how terrible this game might end up being, I have to buy it. My gaming soul will have a ghost finally set free with Duke Nukem Forever...in my hands...as an actual existing object. I will put down the critically acclaimed games from last year that I still need to beat, just to put an end to what I thought would absolutely never happen. It was only a year or two ago I thought this game was a long running joke. 3D Realms laughing as they report progress of the fictional shooter as they hold doodles of what the game might actually look like if it was real.

It's almost here ladies and gentlemen. It's almost here... *sniff*

SG_Mahonay

To be brutally honest... this is like launching a brand new IP. And the best-selling new IP in a while, Assasin's Creed, will likely do better than Nukem ever will.

If they expect any brand loyalty to get them sales, they will be sadly mistaken. Former Duke fans will be eagerly awaiting some actual reviews before laying down any more cash, seeing how some of us here have pre-orders from Babbages.

Tonx

@OpiZA:
Are you really saying you want Duke Nukem to have substance? Really?

People seem to forget, this is Duke Fucken Nukem. You're not going to get a deep plot with a well thought out backstory, or some oscar award winning writing. This is a game where aliens come to steal the worlds supply of babes.

Its just supposed to be a fun and silly take on action hero's from the 80's. Don't go in expecting anything more then that.

Khabi

@okenny :): All Prinnies have wings. You just cant see mine since Im just a close up of the face.

The green prinny is Kurtis Prinny.

Play the game and find out who he is. ;D

Witzbold

I have totally lost all interest in Duke Nukem by now.

It was cool in my pre-teen and teen years, when "naughty" things were awesome, but the whole concept is really lame now.

Deozaan

Dammit I miss duke Nukem release this game already, this is crazy.

Streeks1984

Having Duke 4 come out gives them an incentive to make PSN/XBL ports of the original sidescrollers, as well as an enhanced Duke 3d.

Then we can look forward to Commander Keen: The Universe is Toast in 2015.

mrantimatter

Duke Nukem WILL rule FOREVER!!!

bitefight

Yeah its coming this year. Want to know how I know? 2 things said by 3DRealms at various points.

Here goes:
1) Broussard said last summer that because of the problems with this game in the past, there won't be any media "storm" until 6 months before release.
2) When the teaser trailer was released at Christmas, 3DRealms stated that people should watch out for the real trailer that will be arriving "in the coming months".

When the official trailer is released, the media storm obviously also begins and the game is released 6 months later. Note they said in the coming months, not years, but months. That means some time in 2008. Anyone with half a brain about video game marketing knows if you're releasing in Q3 or Q4 of 2008, or even Q1/Q2 of 2009, you want your game displayed at E3. Otherwise its obviously pretty sucky. This is/was a well established franchise so its going to be on display at E3. So I would expect the trailer some time between early March and late April, and if not then, then definitely at E3, which will put it in line for a Christmas 2008 release.

Nayl

I want to believe.

ビッグ ボス

@Nekura20x6: BTW - the best fact: Both World War II and the entire development of the atomic bomb took less time than Duke Nukem Forever.

Nekura20x6

Do I dare to care?

D_DubDSU

Part of me secretly hopes it sucks because I don't play PC games any more. Given the cost of keeping my PC hardware up-to-date compared to the massive number of Triple-A titles on the 360, I made the switch and never looked back.

Here is a list of facts and things that have happened since Duke Nukem Forever was announced in April 1997: [duke.a-13.net]

Nekura20x6

@OpiZA: You probably aren't old enough to remember how LONG ago this was announced, and how many times it was canned. The entire charm and selling power of this games comes ENTIRELY from the fact nobody believed it would ever be released. It doesn't matter how bad it is, pretty much everyone is going to buy it anyways. I was almost tempted to shit in a bag and put it on my local Gamestop's wall with "Duke Nukem Forever" written on it and see if it sold.

Dreadfish

Not interested in this game at all.. that teaser vid looked very amateurish. But we can hope for something with substance

OpiZA

@Witzbold:
LOL... remember Dark Messiah? I'm sure it wasn't a "feature" that you could basically kick your entire way through the game (when it actually ran without crashing that is) :D.

@ZeeX: Halo 3 has something like 23000+ one-liners (or pieces of dialog or something rather)? It would be awesome if they packed duke so full of them that you basically never heard the same thing twice :)

BTW... are you like Dark-Witzbold? LOL... I love those wings on your avatar!

okenny :)

I think they're tightening up the graphics...

twonjosh

T-Ray rocks, his work on the Fallout games was amazing

Briosafreak

at least their past the scribbling notes on restoraunt napkins phase

Dimipapa

Nostalgia factor is the biggest selling point for me on DNF. (provided it gets released) I just hope that Dr. Proton from the original side scroller is still the main antagonist.

I'm still holding a torch for ROTT 2, though. If that ever happens, my life will be complete.

ShaggE

Duke will make everyone want to stop all the downloading on PC and pay to play! And he'll help John Romero love himself again!

manitouwadge

This game would have to be sooooo freakin' good to justify all this nonsense, but where are they really going to go with it? It'll be a shooter. Even if it's an extrodinary shooter, so what? OTOH, TF2 worked out pretty well...

zibby

Duke is the truth! He will single-handedly save the faultering shooter genre. Ok, I know that's bullshit, but I don't care. DNF = GOTY for me no matter what.

WoodyNvincible

No! Don't release DNF! It'll set the medium back by 10 years! I refuse to be sucked into the timewarp.

nomadder

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was released, so anything is possible.

ExplodingKayNine

@cyberdemon23: Supposed to be a want in there.

cyberdemon23

@Witzbold: I the shrink/enlarge rays back. Nothing beat shrinking someone and then stepping on them.

cyberdemon23

All they need to do is re-release the original Duke Nukem platformer/sidescroller games on PSN/XBLA and the world will be a happier place.

@ZeeX: I still play Shogo on occasion and used to play Diablo every now and then (The single player campaigns, I'm not really into multiplayer games) so I fall on the same category, I want to love it despite the endless development cycle and all the idiotic things that Broussard has said over the years.

zoesch

@Pornosaur: Eastmost peninsula is the secret.

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It will be released as a 2-disc set with Guns n Roses´ Chinese Democracy.

Wait and see.

Soon you´ll shoot some aliens listening to Axl Rose screaming through your headphones! Go figure! :D

lucasreis

@elronathon:
I completely agree with you. I don't think it's fair to pass judgment based on a few screen shots.

That being said, it'll be hard for the game to live up to the hype that has built up over the years.

StupidDufus

on an related (?) note, DMC is like the spiritual cousin of duke in the cheese area.

But Duke's the man. I want 360 DNF this year.

SkutSkut

@ARboom: Furiursa nailed it. I remember the goofy quotes and ridiculousness, but the gameplay was mediocre. When I was younger, sure, I wouldn't mind so much. But when you're in your late twenties, gaming becomes more about fun than about watching some chop-sockey kung-fu flicks. If I wanted that, I'd just watch a movie, something that doesn't require me to suffer through a poor game to do it.

If this were something entirely new, and trying to instill that same sort of juvenile off-the-wallness in a new generation, it'd have to do something different than it did the first go around, and I just don't think it'd work as well. Not to mention, when we were younger, there wasn't this huge attention to gaming as there is now. Games were seen like kid's toys way more so back then, so your parents usually ended up buying you the game thinking little of it. Nowadays? I think more parents might catch on to it, what with all the glorious news stories about how evil games are.

Part of the problem with basing your game (Or movie, comedy, etc.) around shock value is that you have to constantly one-up yourself to keep people's attention. And unless this thing is going some sort of Postal route, I don't see people buying into it for any reason outside of nostalgia. Or even gag humor. Because that's really all the game has going for it at this point.

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The original Duke Nukem 3D was a blast to play. Hopefully DNF will be just as much fun.

exolstice

I hope it's mutliplayer pipe bombs and holographs FTW. Also, how come almost everyone has an advance copy to review except me.

Pornosaur

90% Of Dukes likes are quotes. They have 10 years of quotes to work with. haha...

Personally I will buy this game and hopefully love it. I'm as excited as you can be for a 10 year old game... (I still play StarCraft and Diablo, they are coming up on 10 years soon)

ZeeX

All will be forgiven if I can kick while running and they brought back the holoduke + pipebombs.

Witzbold

@dunetiger: Actually, I'm afraid Witz is right. They haven't ever officially stopped the development, it's just been ported to newer and newer tech. Though I'm pretty sure by this point none of what they started with remains in there.

Dragonzigg

@dual45s:
Hey leave me out of it!

cchrist

Please, sweet effin' Christ, let this not suck, I've been holding a candle blindly for too long.

dual45s

I always thought the world would end before this game saw store shelves, so upon closing my eyes - that's what I saw.

Ryadic

If it does come out, we won't have the running joke any more.

Dammit, I guess we'll still have the Phantom console.....

mydogisdexter

Apparently Duke used the downtime during the delays to do a few cycles and hit the iron.

Homeboy is jacked!

iamtehawesome

So, I was born before they started making this game and when it comes out, I will be old enough to buy it?

I'll buy it but if it's not better than everything I have experienced in my life so far, I'm gonna sue.

JaxMyth

No More Heroes Forever.

Dudemeister

Hmm, I was starting to think this game was just an idea concocted by a very elaborate troll.

Destrudo

Wow, I think the world's close to ending.

Ashkihyena

Oh shit! The world is going to implode from sheer awesomeness!

Mico Mico Nurse

Hey, we could use a shooter that doesn't take itself seriously in these stagnant days of Blockbuster shooters with irrelevant plots and faceless playable characters.

Sabre_Justice

@Furiursa: @Ampillion : Now with 50% more LJ gaming blog.: I agree that as far as shock value, that card's been played. However, if they could pull it off with some decent FPS gameplay with the badass on steroids spirit of the original, the game might not be as bad as everyone who knows zilch about it (me included) thinks it will be. This is all speculation of course, but I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, as they're a decent developer with some good games in their portfolio.

ARboom

Finish the Figh-, er, the GAME!

DELICIOUS_BUNNY

...did someone mention Rise Of The Triad?!

Ah, what memories. Imagine a sequel...hi def drunk rockets. And that eyeball that always plopped down after mincing an enemy at close range.

pylon_trooper

didn't surfer girl say that this game is coming out this year?

i will buy 3 copies of this game. there's just little chance this game's gonna suck.

bubuli

/and/probably "juiced" as well.

And I don't know..."polishing" could just mean they made some assets and they're making them look pretier for concepts and pitches...Try not to hope...it can hurt. *sniffles*

Parsifal

I hear that after they are done polishing those set pieces they are going to tighten up those graphics on level three.

I can't wait!

PapaStu

@Parsifal: Unlike WWE, Duke Nukem doesn't have to follow any laws, that includes using the roids, but yeah, he seems alot bigger then he did back in 3D.

Ashkihyena

Up in Smoke...

smeee

Dare to hope? I've the game on pre-order so long that the gamestore doesn't have it on record anymore! This company takes way too long to make something. Look in Next Generation magazine with Messiah on the cover from 1997. It's got the game Prey in it! If they ever announce another game, I'm just not going to care anymore.

goodknight

@Sabre_Justice: Seconded. Duke was always just about the fun of playing the game and the jokes and one liners. It's not a serious game, and as long as it's fun and makes me laugh it will do exactly what I wanted it to do.

I now have a hankering for booting up DN3D and cracking out some of the old Build maps, wonder if I still know how to use the damned thing.

Degreeless

Software proceeds to the point where it is ninety percent complete about halfway through the development cycle. If the polishing is currently going on, the game should be out in another 4-7 years, measuring the total development time to this point and using it to predict the time the remainder will take.

ChaoticLimbs