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Duke Nukem Forever 'Confirmed' For Late 2008
An anonymous reader writes "A Dallas newspaper is claiming that the long-in-development title Duke Nukem Forever is headed for retail release in late 2008. Unfortunately, game creator 3D Realms says that's not exactly what they meant. 'What the modest Texas newspaper actually seems to suggest is that 3D Realms is "on target" to release the mythical sequel sometime this year, though company president Scott Miller adds, "we may miss the mark by a month or two" (wink, wink). Miller also hinted that "hitting the big three" (in this case, PC, Xbox 360 and PS3) is the obvious development strategy, but he continued to stress that 3D Realms has not "formally announced any platforms for DNF."'"
Now it's just sad.
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Nopers, still vaporware. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51163
Seriously people, 3D Realms told us time, and time again. They will announce it on their site when it's real. Stop falling for this.
That being said, this still made my heart skip a beat.. or four
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That is the time I am expected to finish solving the Towers of Henoi by hand...
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Are the people who played this game 12 years ago still playing video games now?
on my Infinuim Phantom console!
More music, fewer hits
This will go down as the greatest joke in gaming history.
I can't wait for the actual game to come out, for an amazingly low price! Gamers pop it into their ready computer, suddenly a huge picture of duke comes up with the oh so famous "I've got balls of steel" soundclip, follow by a picture of those at 3drealms.
After this is done, it will immediately be followed by Rick Astley's newest single.
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Don't hold your breath, you just might be holding it 'Forever'.
The game has gone gold, but they are still waiting for their Moller to fly the master over to the factory.
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Yeah, I heard it'll be released right alongside Microsoft Flight Simulator: Porcine Edition.
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Does George read slashdot, I wonder? Does he still post at Planet Crap? Is Planet Crap still online even? DN4ever has taken so long I'm not only not looking 4ward to it anymore, I haven't played anything but "Road Rash" in ages. Oh wait, I played "guitar hero" with my great nephew last Christmas, that game ROCKS!
As to what took it so long, George and Charlie were waiting until their toddlers were old enough to buy it (NC17, right? Or am I thinking of movies? Damn, speaking of DN4ever I'm getting old.
I was playing Duke Nukem since he was a squeaky little side scroller. I wonder if he still has hair and teeth?
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I think itwould be kind of tragic if did come out, actually. We'd need to find a new persistent vaporware joke. :(
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Why stop now? I mean, is it Directx 10.1? If not, I'm going to be disappointed. The ONLY solution, rewrite it with the newest tech.
How can people honestly believe they're "on target" for a release this year when they haven't even nailed down which platforms they're going to be targeting? Now, with cross-platform libraries you can hit a couple of them at a time of course, but even then a certain degree of work needs to be done on the ports, plus all kinds of licensing and such. Sorry, this is the worlds longest running practical joke, and every gamer that believes anything about DNF without actually holding the finished product in their hands is just being suckered in by the joke.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
I like the "big three" not including the Wii. Might want to check the sales figures again, Scott.
Scott Miller also predicted a couple years ago that the Wii would finish "a distant third" and that it could mean the end of Nintendo, or something along those lines.
It's kinda sad to see the guy who wrote the Kroz series become obsessed with graphics at the expense of gameplay. Though then again, most of Apogee's game weren't especially innovative gameplay-wise, a lot of their success at the time was based on marketing (the episodic shareware model and so on). Plus after the first few years Apogee mainly started publishing others' games (id being the most famous, but a lot of other smaller companies as well), not doing much of their own stuff. So maybe it's never really been about gameplay for him, in which case it makes perfect sense for him to advocate for the PS3.
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The day Duke Forever is released, I will be looking up at the sky to see which of the other seals of the apocalypse have broken.
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Super Mario Galaxy took 5 years to develop. It was originally to be a Gamecube title after about 2 years of development, but obviously the extra 2-3 years spent in development were time well spent, even if it meant missing the Wii launch.
I somehow can't imagine the last 7+ years has been development time well spent.
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2008 on which calendar? I'm betting on the Islamic calendar, where the current year is 1429.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
The end is nye! Everyone scramble for your bomb shelters and tinfoil hats!
Unless, unless some brave soul can stop the release of this game... all hell will break loose and the world will end.
Won't somebody pick up a big fucking gun and stop the release of Duke Nukem Forever?
I hear the in-game soundtrack is going to be Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy.
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Just over ten years ago, in 1997 my girlfriend and I danced around the apartment for at least fifteen minutes after she had finally killed the giant boss in the arena with (if my elderly memory serves me correctly,) the machine-gun. It was by far the best and hardest victory over a computer game ever and even getting the Warthog to the spaceship in Halo 1 was well.. an anti-climax. The Duke's hilarious remarks were killer, one of the best being "In an ideal world, you'd already be dead." and "Shake it baby, shake it" still works for me.
... they were like the blink of an eye.
I have the DN port on my present machine and while Final Fantasy 12 on the PS2 and Oblivion on the Xbox 360 command my attention, I still find time to while away the hours shooting out urinals. I wasn't quite five years old when Alan B Shepherd made the first sub-orbital space flight and had to wait a long, long time for computers, computer games and mobile phones to arrive,(I shall try not to mention flying cars, those bastards) so I am hoping to play DNF before I collect my first pension payment.
Those 10 years
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Yeah, I bet there are more Wiis in the world than PCs
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
I think Soviet Russia was still around when DNF was announced...
How is 3D Realms staying in business? Do they have any other games bringing in money?
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Geez, I've been waiting outside my local game store for what seems like a decade now.
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Well, it is doomed. In the not too distant future, Wii sales are going to plummet. My guess is that it will happen some time after Nintendo releases it's next console. I could be wrong though, it could be after MS or Sony release a new console. This will lead Nintendo to drop production on new units, and all of the existing will eventually fail, wiping the Wii from the face of the earth. Granted, it might take a decade or two for all of this to come to completion, but...
The Wii is DOOMED! DOOMED I tell you!!!
For all those people posting "What about Wii" comments...
Did you ever play Duke Nukem?
Can you imagine some of the gestures they'd include in a Wii version??
Do you really think Nintendo would do anything other than gag and possibly pass out, upon seeing the demo???
Yeah, no way they'd get licensed.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
Bah! Daikatana sucked, we all know. But there's Prey. That game was announced alongside UNREAL. It was so long in the past, I was asking around a couple of years ago and none of my (huge gaming nerd) mates even remembered it. It was announced in the day of the SNES and I've got it on 360. It's a great game! Not a classic along the lines of DN3D or Doom, but it's a helluva lot of fun.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
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"I work at 3D Realms..."
"Really? What's that like?"
"It's pretty sweet... we sit around a dream up cool stuff based on a 10 year piece of software..."
"A what do you do with these ideas?"
"Press releases, screen mock-ups, teaser trailers... that sort of thing."
"That doesn't sound like a whole lot of work..."
"Nope... we pretty much just like the sound of fake deadlines."
"Fake?"
"Yeah... it's nice to have a boss and investors who don't really care about releasing actual product."
"I wish my boss would take a page out of that book..."
"Who do you work for?"
"Microsoft..."
*snicker*