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2003 Vaporware Awards
7x7 writes "Wired News has the 2003 Vaporware Awards available for your perusal. Winning the Lifetime Achievement Award, if you hadn't guessed already: Duke Nukem Forever!"
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let us have a moment of silence. (seriously).
that was such a kick in the nuts.
-fren
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
...do these awards, erm, ever get presented? :)
These sigs are more interesting tha
GNU Hurd didn't make it into the list. Odd....:-)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Duke Nukem Forever
/anon
10. RadioShark (Griffin Technology)
9. Amiga OS 4.0 (Amiga)
8. Wrist PDA (Fossil)
7. HDTV TiVo (TiVo)
6. RealPC (FWB)
5. Wi-Fi SD Card for Palm (SanDisk)
4. Team Fortress 2 (Valve)
3. Phantom Gaming System (Infinium Labs)
2. Fallout 3 (Black Isle Studios)
1. Half-Life 2 (Valve)
Come on, out of who knows how many votes for AmigaOS 4, they picked me?
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
I think I might have pre-ordered DNF, but I have moved 4 times since, and have a feeling some lucky person will end up with my copy in 2054.
Holy crap, think about, all those people that pre-ordered will end up buying another copy just because they forgot they preordered.
huh?
But... you can pre-order the game:
Duke Nukem Forever Preorder
Only one more year! =P
HTML standards-compliant Slashcode. ;)
.... of why you shouldn't Pre-Order stuff.
I'm still waiting for Gran Turismo 2000 to hit the shelves.
Software Etc. will listen with empathy about my loud proclamations of GT2K == GT3-Aspec, and the sales weasels will agree with me. But the mgmt. shall not, will not, could not would not refund my money, nor give me a store credit until:
1) A game called Gran Turismo 2000 ships.
2) Official word from Sony arrives that the game is canceled.
bastards.
do() || do_not();
I think we should take a poll to rename the word "Vaporware" to "Duke Nukem".
Then next year we can have " the 2003 Duke Nukem Awards"..
Ahh, just a thought...
from reading/playing with the code (erm, I mean a friend told me, yeah, that's it), the hl2 source was no were near ready in Sept./Oct. HL2 ship date would have been pushed back even if the source had not been stolen, because it simply wasn't done. If anything, having it release was a good thing, because it gave them a public excuse to delay, and causes them to perform a decent code review when it's finally "done."
As for TF2, it's now a mod for HL2, so of course it's delayed.
I've recently begun work on the next-generation game engine called "WMD Hunt". Current version is 0.0.001-pre-alpha. Notable changes include leveraging multiple synergies across player groups and enabling your gaming buddies to achieve your goals via graft and military-industrial contracts. Some degree of randomness has been added to account for the "lone strikers" play meme. I'm still trying to speedup and optimise the UN code though - it's slow enough that most players won't be able to use that option. Also, the "relative agression level" needs to be more fine-grained; You could be agressive towards your own relatives, or turn your level down instead of simply having a blanket policy. As opposed to a *real* blanket, if your home was recently destroyed.
C|N>K
How does the stealing of source code delay shipping?
Well DUH! It was stolen. Don't you watch ST:Voyager? When someone downloads something from you (like your EMH), you no longer have it.
If you need further proof of this, just ask anyone in the RIAA or MPAA.
[drumroll.....] ....catchy huh?
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"Little Piggies That Should Never Have Went to Market"
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A goal is a dream with a deadline
the 1st thing on my list would be Diakatana. *shudder*
I was never lucky enough to have played this particular game. I did a web search for the name and came up with this website.
Truly frightning.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
They don't need investors. They made enough money off of Duke Nukem and the Max Payne license to fund themseleves.
"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov
I always wondered whether 3D Realms have any motor racing anoraks on staff.
:-)
When you're looking down a results sheet, you will find some drivers will have 'DNF' printed against their names.
This stands for 'Did Not Finish'
Greg
(Inside a nuclear plant)
Aaaarrrggh! Run! The canary has mutated!
The Official Duke Nukem Forever FAQ
There's really not much mentioning of the delay except that they changed engines during the development, which set them back quite a bit. But there is some interesting information regarding other apsects of the game.