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3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever
WeAz writes "GameSpot has news that 3D Realms has no plans on rushing Duke Nukem Forever. Despite the $500,000 bounty that Take-Two Interactive was found to be offering for the game after a filing with the SEC last week, George Broussard, President of 3D Realms, has given his official response: 'We're certainly not motivated by that amount of money, after all this time, and getting the game right is what matters. I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.'"
You mean it's possible to rush Duke Nukem Forever at this point????
I was so worried that they'd release it too soon.
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...when it IS done, this game is gonna use that totally awesome Quake 3 engine! AM I RITE???
I wonder what's weirder: That DNF has taken longer to develop than Windows Vista, or that Windows Vista has taken almost as much time to make as DNF?
"3D Realms has no plans on rushing Duke Nukem Forever" This has to be said, but did anyone really think Duke Nukem Forever was being rushed?
I know we were all worried about this.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAH....
Duke Nukem Forever... Ship Early...
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
DYWYPI?
Boy. Theres a shocker headline.
Right up there with "A new study shows that Men like to have sex" and "The sun is expected to rise in the morning"
Wait. Im being handed a piece of paper. Holy Cow! Breaking news! "Companys like free publicity!"
... cause major problems with the globally accepted definition of vapourware. My god, what if the damn game actually gets released?
What would the kittens do?
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3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever
Oh yeah, well how long will they be rushing it?
Bad-dum-dum
Get it? Forever? Like they'll be rushing it forever
Thank you!!! I'll be here all week!
Meanwhile, they continue to delay it and the project clearly has no well-defined sense of direction. They've basically scrapped it and started over from scratch I don't know how many times
Wait a minute, are we talking about Vista?
and feature creep is not so much a problem as it is a religion for them.
Ah, I guess not.
Finkployd
I think they *did* consider a re-write 10 re-writes ago.
...okay, that's two gratuitous references to Vista on an unrelated topic by you so far.
One more and you'll have made your fucktard hat trick.
3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever
1998 called. They want their story back.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
At this point I hope they *don't* ever finish DNF. It's a great running joke and the name just fits oh-so-perfectly! It would be a tragedy to lose that. :'(
"I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.'"
This must be some new usage of the word 'early' that until now I have been unaware of.
I -honestly- had diet coke fly out my nose after seeing that headline. Thanks a lot for the burning proboscis!
...Steve
And even weirder still, I was working on this really funny response, but then this new humor engine was available and I started using it and went back to square one. Then I thought, crap, I can adapt a humor engine better suited to my style than any off-the-shelf models, so I started work on that. But the whole concept of what constitutes high quality jokes changed in the meantime, so I started over again. There will be a really funny rejoinder here real soon now.
I am not a crackpot.
A game is only late until its released, but a space probe which smashes into the body it is orbiting because it doesn't know the difference between feet and meters is gone forever.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
He was misquoted...
"I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.'"
What he really said was:
"I would never ship a game"
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1) There are 17 members on the 3DRDNF team. Including programers.
2) 70% of our time is spent on DNF. The other 25% is spent playing golf and laughing at forum posts.
1&2b) The rest of our time is spent polishing up math skills.
3) There are some good reasons. But you couldn't handle the truth. Actually, we're still looking for a good excuse. Do you have one?
4) Sorry...
DNF is not late untill its released.
JF.
Doesn't DNF stand for "Did Not Finish" in NASCAR??? Eerily appropriate in this case too...
"But this one goes to 11!"
3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem, Forever
.-.
There is no game. No one is working on the game. The investors got fleeced.
That's all I needed to read to know you're full of shit.
There are no investors. 3Drealms has been in business sincde 1991, has never taken out a loan, and has never had a layoff.
In short, there was no post. You did not make a post. The readers who thought they were reading a post were fleeced. You're a moron.
everything in moderation
I think what everybody is missing is the right context to interpret the word "rush" here, so i'll give it a try at sketching it:
Imagine you have a snail. The snail has been moving from one city to another distant city. This has been going on for the last 5 years.
Thus "rush" in this context means making the snail go faster, but still within it's capabilities.
Now, just fill in the blanks by considering that the Duke Nukem Forever development team departed one year before the snail and the snail already overtook them and you'll get the picture...