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Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-no-idea-how-much-I-care dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Jace Hall Show launched today on Sony's Crackle with a real gameplay preview of Duke Nukem Forever. Jace Hall is a former video game producer and Warner Bros exec and apparently this is his foray into online celebrity. DNF is 12 years in development ... it might be real after all." And if you have had enough self-indulgent gaming-news patter, another reader says "If you want to simply skip right ahead, it's about 4:20 in."

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  1. Re:DNF cannot be completed by Quinn_Inuit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean people still expect video games to have some sort of quality control done to them prior to launch? Wow. I always wait a year to get a new game. MOO3 I waited about three years and the fans were _still_ patching it. (They did a really good job, though.)

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  2. Re:DNF cannot be completed by Rams�s+Morales · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It will never live up to the expectations, but if it is good and fun, people will buy it. But I guess that no game can be profitable after 12 years of development.

  3. Re:DNF cannot be completed by lilfields · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think this is known as Doom 3 syndrome...I remember it being pumped at Quakecon for years...then I got a multiplayer preview...which was fun...then finally the game was released...and I never actually finished the single player. The multiplayer is actually kind of fun...and my friend made a really cool mod. Anyhow that's irrelevant, the moral to the story is that Doom 3's single player was completely disappointing, though in all actuality it probably wasn't that bad...but my expectations were set so high after getting the leaked alpha E3 demo...that it just wasn't enjoyable. I did buy it though...I'd expect the same of Duke Nukem Forever.

  4. Duke Nukem may live... by Nim82 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...but what about the dopefish?

  5. Trailers by TheLink · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah. I mean look at TF2, they intentionally made it look cartoony.

    Duke Nukem _is_ a cartoony character :). Making the graphics more realistic can be counter productive.

    That said, trailers can be very deceptive, you might have just seen all the best parts and that's it.

    A little bit of editing goes a long way, for example:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXxi9IKZSA

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  6. Re:DNF cannot be completed by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But I guess that no game can be profitable after 12 years of development. They could update Duke Nukem 3D & Shadow Warrior to run on the new engine.

    Toss them in a box and charge $10~$25 for the pair of games.
    Offer $5 off if you buy it with DN: Forever
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  7. Re:DNF cannot be completed by budgenator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    yeah that sounds good. Games are like computers, every time you think you've got the optimum price to performance ratio, there a new breakthrough so you start over refactor for the new tech. There is a saying "The road to failure is paved with perfection, The road to success is paved with good-enough".

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  8. The shrink gun is in ! by Cochonou · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah !
    That was about time we saw such a gun in another game than a sprite-based First Person Shooter.

  9. Re:DNF cannot be completed by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's one thing to have things teleporting into a room when you first arrive there (a la Doom 1), but it is entirely another thing to have some monster waiting in some tiny, undetectable compartment, ignoring you until you've walked past it exactly 7 times. The irrationality of such rubbish spoiled the immersion, and thus the game... Didn't Duke Nukem 3D spoof this with the monster in the toilet?
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