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Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released
smithtuna33 writes "As of today there is a teaser up for Duke Nukem Forever at 3dRealms. It's up on Youtube as well, since the site is already slow. Not much actual game-play, but still ... might this game actually see the light of day after so much talk?" 1up, GameTrailers, and Voodoo Extreme have it too.
Now if only there were an actual GAME to go along with it. Maybe they can cobble together a direct-to-DVD movie instead?
Only as a punchline. "We'll see that when Duke Nukem Forever is released" will now imply a concrete date. Which would be disastrous for the type of person who reads and posts snarky comments on video game news posted to Slashdot. :-/
Dare to Hope. Prepare to be Disappointed.
Is this the one you're talking about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHU3sq8Wfjs
And yeah, that one is better.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
The truth for me is that I have still not played a FPS that was more FUN than Duke3D... Sure I have played games with better graphics, better engines, better stories, better mechanics, better multiplayer. But I have yet to find a, FPS game that was so consistantly "fun". It was just the right blend of cartooney, hard boiled, tongue'in'cheek, and psudo-realisim. And I don't believe anyone else has got it quite right yet.
I will still buy it on release day. Even if I have top buy it in...
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Look at the games or the mega release just this year. All the innovation, the spectacular graphics. The new ideas in gameplay (Portal, Timeshift, etc). What the hell can Duke Nuke offer? Serious Sam has the crappy "Kill everything that moves" so what space will Duke Nuke offer with a one dimensional character and "wacky" characters?
Hell, even when Doom 3 came out, it had the novity factor of being to powerful for the systems of the day. What will Duke bring to the table?
Er... As another poster brought up, this was a video for a company Christmas party. Give it a break. Secondly, it IS the same voice actor. Thirdly, it's not CGI, it clearly comes out of the engine (look at the horrible normal mapping on Duke's pants). Fourth, it's got gameplay, albeit not a lot of it, but you can see a fair bit of in-engine in-game shots.
I don't get why the Slashdot groupthink is trashing this. It's been vaporware for way too long, I for one look forward to the possibility that it will get taken off the vaporware list in the foreseeable future.
If this is nothing but Duke Nukem 3D with an upgraded engine, it is quite frankly going to be more interesting to me than most of today's FPS games. Last time around, we got laser trip mines, jet packs, freeze guns, shrink rays, holograms, interactive environments, humor, cool music, cool monsters, and fun levels. Shit. I'm going to reinstall it tonight.
A lot of the duke nukem lines are from the movie They Live. It includes the "It's chew bubble gum and kick some ass. But I'm all out of gum."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
And the rest are from Army of Darkness
The truth for me is that I have still not played a FPS that was more FUN than Duke3D...
I second the sentiment!
All you need to do is enjoy the all-out fun of shooting an RPG into a teleporter or, and I so wish SOMEONE would reintroduce it, leave a bunch of pipe-bombs out in multi-player to appreciate just how much fun this game really was.
Running up to try and pick up a pipe-bomb before the other guy(s) detonated... what a great concept.
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
Don't forget steroids[r], holoduke[h], shrink ray, and laser trip mines. The beauty in the weapons/items in that game is that they had a small selection of very well implemented weapons/itmes that would work the way you expected them to work.
Did anyone else know the steroids would instantly grow you from a shrink... neither did most opponents on Heat.net the best is the second time they shrink you, you holoduke instead of steroids, and then get behind them and 'roid it up and shoot them dead. Beauty. It is just a far cry from the current state of FPSs which is: "Snipe, tank, or rocket"
I have yet to find something more satisfying than sending an elevator full of pipebombs at an unsuspecting player.
Maybe the timesplitters series is something for you. Less gory humor, but still very funny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimeSplitters
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