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Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show
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."
Never. Because it will bomb.
Why? What if it's good? Doesn't matter. It can't live up to the expectations. However good it may be, somewhere in the resume there will be the line "well, it has X, but after Y years of waiting, you could expect something more than just Z, and they could have taken that extra months to iron out the W".
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If I can play with em, they're real. I can't play DNF, so it's not.
Great, if we do actually get to see Duke Nukem forever for sure... in our hands... what will replace the ever popular Duke Nukem Forever vaporware meme? Spore?
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I suppose it will run on a Linux Desktop, right? And the online edition will run from a secure Windows server...
And so soon after it made the list.
The bikini models are at 5:14 into the video. I'm not kidding.
Upon entering the final level, you realize that it all looks suspiciously familiar...
It is the first level!
The game is an infinite loop!
You have to play Duke Nukem forever!
There are a few pros and cons to releasing Duke Nukem Forever.
When it is released, we will be able to play Duke Nukem Forever, which by this time, better be awesome!
However, after it is released we then lose a lot of Duke Nukem Forever jokes. We will have to put thought into what will take its place in Wired News's Vaporware Awards.
The post-Duke Nukem Forever released world, will be vastly different to what we know today... and that makes me scared.
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The engine is actually based on heavily modified Unreal/Unreal 2 tech.
To be honest, we had a meeting back in 1997 to figure out how to piss off a guy named stormwatch on something called slashdot in the year 2008. We came to the inevitable conclusion that we would have to first invent slashdot work with adobe to develop flash, waste years of development time on Duke nukem forever, then release a video in swf format and post a slashdot story with a link to it. Now all of years of hard work have paid off.
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"12 YEARS in the Making"
"Most Anticipated Game of Last 3 Generations."
"If You thought Duke Nukem 3D (1996) was good... then HOLD ON TO YOUR COCKS!"
This will be an amazing hit with people who went into coma a decade ago and the last thing they remember was playing Duke Nukem with their Voodoo 3 card.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but the run-and-gun genre is just so damn... boring. Maybe I'm just too damn old.
See bad guy, shoot, run, see another bad guy, shoot, run....
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At least until the next rewrite.
On September 9, 2004, GameSpot reported that Duke Nukem Forever had switched to the Doom 3 engine. Those screenshots from the Unreal 2 engine were ancient, release in 2001. They've gone through about 5 major renderer overhauls since then.
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So Broussard says they're using the Unreal/Unreal 2 tech, but that they've redone the rendering 100%. Parse that as you will.
(From http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=50481)
...but what about the dopefish?
The end times are near.
The release of DNF has been foretold as the final harbinger of the end times. When the Final Duke goes gold, the seventh seal shall be broken and all the gamers shall cry out and lament that their RAM is insufficient and their video cards unworthy.
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
Most swf-players play an FLV (either streaming or not). FLV uses H.264 or H.263 (in the recent incarnations). These are the latest and greates codecs. And Flash is less evil than quicktime or realplayer, the other common ways to stream video online.
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On the Phantom, no less.
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There's no reason to apologize to us, we aren't the ones depriving ourselves by holding to some vacant principle.
Yeah. I mean look at TF2, they intentionally made it look cartoony.
:). Making the graphics more realistic can be counter productive.
Duke Nukem _is_ a cartoony character
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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Maybe our interest cannot extend past the demo, because we've actually waited these 12 years.
I'm 25, so that means I was about 12 when DN3D was popular. Are you honestly saying that the 12-year-olds of today will not buy and play the game regardless of its development history?
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FLV is a video format.
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Oddly enough, a sufficient amount of time has passed to let the ghost of oldschool Duke Nukem fade away. The result is that, much in the same way that TF2 took so freaking long that the people originally looking forward to it grew up, got jobs, had kids, joined the Masons, and died - leaving a largely new batch of people who weren't that familiar with the original context the game arose from. So to with DNF, I suspect. Let's be honest here - the average 22 year old kid who sees a review of DNF on some game site in six months isnt going to have the 12 years of expectation and context that the rest of us might have. The result? I suspect DNF will actually do just fine. We all went from growing expectations over time, to mocking it, to effectively forgetting about it and moving on. DNF is now a game for a new wodge of users, who won't be all that familiar with its history. DNF has gone on long enough that, like TF2, the clock has actually kind of reset.
the Jace Hall show, along with all the new content on crackle.com is show with pro equipment and encoded in H.264 - that's why we require a recent build of the flash player. if you have a fast internet connection you can watch the 2Mbps 720p H.264 stream. we think it's some of the best looking video on the web today.
Yeah !
That was about time we saw such a gun in another game than a sprite-based First Person Shooter.
I'd wager there was a lot of 4:20 time influencing how long of a delay it's been for this title to be completed.
Um, because they HIT far, FAR more often than they miss, especially compared to all the other video formats.
And Flash has an insanely high penetration rate.
If your pc is screwed up and can't see it, don't blame them, blame you for not running a half decently configured pc.
Who the hell spends $1k on a gaming pc? I just put together a gaming machine last week. 2.53 GHz core 2 duo, 8800GT, 2 GB 1066 DDR2 = $350. Processor, video card, and ram are the 3 most important components to a speedy system. Runs everything I throw at it with all the in-game settings maxed.
Delayed, over and over... Multiple trailers and gameplay videos shown, some with features that never made it into the actual game, most of which were just cool, and made you want the game now...
Original game was a bestseller, a genre-defining blockbuster, with the kind of ending that demands a sequel... Sequel came out ten years after the original, and was at least five years in development. I'd expect the anticipation would be at least as hard to match.
Can you guess?
Half-Life 2.
Oh, and they did it again, to a lesser extent, with Team Fortress 2.
Now, it's possible Duke Nukem Forever may never be released. Maybe it will be a Windows Vista, and suck so much that most people would rather play Duke Nukem 3D.
But I see no reason why it couldn't be released, and be every bit what we expect -- especially when most of us don't have expectations much higher than yours.
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You forgot to mention that your screen is a 14" LCD at 800x600...
I hereby swear, by the great spaghetti monster, that I, indeed, shall shell out the bucks to buy this game irl should it ever surface in this desert of the real.
I would even be tempted to buy a backup copy as well!
I believe they've decided to scrap the current version of DNF again, and rework it as an MMORPG...
The sad thing is, if they announced such today, I really wouldn't be surprised anymore.
Hey, a large portion of those here on slashdot *have* boobs. Big ones. Unfortunately those same individuals are male...
we all get rick rolled once or twice. It's just too bad it always happens when it comes to Duke Nukem. :D
-- All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer.