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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.
LIES!
...Four horse-like aircraft seen flying across night sky.
If they actually release the game how can I continue to classify certain projects at work as 'Duke Nukem Forever' priority!!
"I only speak the truth"
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Is that "soon" geologically, or "soon" cosmologically?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Seeing the words 'Duke Nukem Forever' and 'released' in the same sentence almost made me choke on my toast. Next time, try to break the news lightly or you may end up with a slightly reduced readership.
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.
This isnt the first trailer for the game, and in comparison, the first trailer back in 2001 was MUCH better.
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Read the 3drealms website. It was an unfunded effort by a few employees to make something for the company Christmas party. Lighten up, Francis!
Too much repetition my too much repetition!
The voice actor is the same, Jon St. John. That's Duke's voice alright.
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
You know, I'm actually all out of jokes for this topic.
If it's anything like DN3D, it won't be about a particularly innovative engine
It'll be about details. Mostly humorous.
There will be strippers you can pay, and rob. There will be pool-tables with semi-realistic billiard ball physics. There will be sinks you can smash and urinals you can piss in (and you'll gain health for this for some reason).
You won't be stuck some place with a 2-inch curb you can't climb over to keep you in. Instead, the map boundaries will seem reasonable. Or at least, physical. You might still question why someone built a building across a four-lane street...
And there will be genre-jokes. Perhaps there will even be an arcade with a working version of Ms. Astro Chicken or something, to which Duke makes some comment about it taking so long to come out and not being worth the wait.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
According to an article on ars technica over 18 months ago, a member of their game group managed to cobble together most of the game into playable fashion, and wrote a review of the game.
Nuke Dukem Whatever...
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
...even their April Fool tricks are 8.5 months late!
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.
You know what, I'll believe that this game is actually shipping about the time that Duke Nukem Forever is rel....
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