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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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A press release from the White House recently stated that Hell hath frozen over. Spokesmen close to the President hail this as a significant advance in the war against terror.
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?
-mcgrew
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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.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
2008 on which calendar? I'm betting on the Islamic calendar, where the current year is 1429.
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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
How is 3D Realms staying in business? Do they have any other games bringing in 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*