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Duke Nukem Forever Update
Gamasutra reports on an update to one of the longest running jokes in the games industry, Duke Nukem Forever. The title, already ten years in development, may (possibly) see release this decade. From the blurb: "3DR's George Broussard also demonstrated world interactivity that includes Duke standing in front of a computer and emailing the player, if he provides his email address for the game. But, according to the piece, Broussard was bashful, overall, about showing off the game, commenting: 'The problem is that when we show it, people are going to be like, Yeah, whatever. Honestly, at this point we just want to finish it.'"
April Fools day was on the first. This story is 13 days too old!
This sounds great...where can I preorder it?
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And you forgot the "OMG P0n13s!!!11"
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
"mainly just pieces of the game in progress and tech demos", including "an early level, a vehicle sequence, a few test rooms"
OOOoooo, an early level *and* some test rooms? Sounds like they've been busy these past ten years! If we're lucky maybe they've also completed a Pong mini-game, which leaves nothing left to create except the game itself.
Once again proving the old adage that all computer programs evolve until they can handle email.
I expect we'll see a realease right after Duke Nukem gets threaded news reader and RSS support.
until ( $win ) { &cheat }
Honestly, at this point we just want to finish it.
;)
Yeah, whatever.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Hell, I get it just to put it on the shelf, whether it is crap or win.
It might look good next to BOB and Daikanata.
Common sense is not so common
So they've built a spambot that runs from inside a game? And all it took was 10 years. Wow...what innovation.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
...even the duke nukem forever april 1st joke is late!
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
1. Some game website will first frown on it, then get a beta copy and hype all the neato features.
... oh fuck call it Far Cry 2.
2. Other testers will then buy $800 graphic cards to test it out on their vapor cooled 5Ghz Pentium4 box, then say, meh, only gets slightly better FPS than Jazz Jackrabbit or something equally stupid
3. The game will be released, it will sit on 5 CDs instead of one DVD to keep "costs down" and pirated versions will appear with all the speech replaced with mexican festival music
4. People will realize the game is as deep as the pamphelet their latest credit card came in and will toy with the game until 17 minutes after initial release someone posts a complete walkthrough with every secret bonus and glitch found.
5. The online site will be inundated with delinquant 13 yr old sharp shooters who won't give us hard working adults a chance to just play the game and have fun.
6. Some dude in Korea will die after playing the game for 79 hours straight.
7. A full week after the release of the game a dozen patches will come out to fix various holes in the game [re: pirates] and each one will take a full 200MB to replace 39KB of code in the binary.
8. A full week and one day after release the game will become yesteryear news and people will be clamouring about the latest "let's kill the mutant aliens in obviously dangerous situations game"
9. The folk at 3DR will be vindicated then bought out by MSFT and outsourced to India to make the "books" look good.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Can the moderators forgive me for not saying anything of value but:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! pull the other one.
Seems feasible, it clearly isn't intelligent design.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
Why would they? This is the joke to end all jokes about delays. No need to call in lesser jokes.
AccountKiller
I think its just too funny to see a) that Wiki has DNF listed in their site and also b) the image used on their page. That image alone really dates the game. I vote they use that original image for their auctual game box.
Click Click Bloody Click PANCAKES!
Are they going to be developing Duke Nukem forever?
"The problem is that when we show it, people are going to be like, Yeah, whatever. Honestly, at this point we just want to finish it."
Inspired, insightful thinking like that is getting Duke Nukem finished and downloaded to your computer at lightning speed.
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make install -not war
Yeah, there can be a multitude of reasons but I think it boils down to: Someone in the chain of command didn't know when to call quits.
When to quit tweaking the game. When to quit adding shit. When to quit revising it. When to quit the project period.
As I recall, these attributes are considered to be a good thing within the Open Source community.
Three Squirrels
[b]A Random Gamer:[/b] Hurry up now and finish Duke!
[b]3D Realms:[/b] Why? We running out of time?
[b]Gamer:[/b] Technically, yes. The universe is collapsing and the time dimension is starting to rotate into a physical dimension.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Damn, that's pretty cutting-edge, being able to store and retrieve string data.
But this is special string data that has been touched by the blessed DNF engine (may it bring us everlasting joy amen).