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The Nuking of Duke Nukem
Rick Bentley writes with more on the story behind the meltdown of Duke Nukem Forever, the game that will now live on only as a cautionary tale: "Although the shutdown was previously reported on Slashdot, this new Wired article goes in-depth behind the scenes to paint a picture of a mushroom cloud-sized implosion. Developers spending a decade in a career holding pattern for below market salary with 'profit sharing' incentives, no real project deadlines, a motion capture room apparently used to capture the motion of strippers (the new game was to take place in a strip club, owned by Duke, that gets attacked by aliens), and countless crestfallen fans. *Sniff*, I would have played that game."
Ah, memories from childhood. One day my friend told me he had found a kickass game from a BBS and asked if I wanted to go play it with him after school. He described it to me and I was already sold, but but... My mother Giovanna had told me to help my father at our family pizza place after school. Damn it!
School day became to end and I tried to consider my options, but there were none. I had to go help my papa make pizza. Frustraded, almost crying, I walked the streets of Naples back home. Every now and then I watched inside a window on the street and noticed someone playing on computer. I was thinking if that could be it, but I'd never know.
I decided to think for a moment. Like a good oven takes its time and peace to bake and finish a delicious pizza, my padre would wait for me. It was time to go see what the game was about.
And I was amazed. Great looking graphics, funny sounding man that I did not understand and girls with something on their chest that looked like doughnuts with a salami on top of it. It was truly marvelous.
While later serving customers at my fathers pizza place, I couldn't but think that I have to get a computer and this Duke Nukem 3D game. I mean, I loved baking pizza. But there is a time when a boy must choose between leisure and girls. But my father never got me a computer.
Like an overbaked pizza, my dreams were crushed when Duke Nukem Forever never came.
Developers spending a decade in a career holding pattern for below market salary with 'profit sharing' incentives, no real project deadlines, a motion capture room apparently used to capture the motion of strippers
Really, that's just too easy. Can't you at least make it a challenge to get +5 Funny???
Oh well, here goes... Sounds like my job, but without the strippers.
I knew I shouldn't have pre-ordered back in 1999.
Yeah. I'd like a copy of the assets of those assets.
And I'm all out of money.
Kick ass and chew bubble gum, Damn I'm all out of money!
... I saw him yesterday in Avatar.
I had to laugh today when I signed into Slashdot to see we are still talking about Duke Nukem.
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
I will make my own game with Black Jack... and strippers! Oh they tried and failed? Oh crap!
"Ones and zeros were everywhere. I even think I saw a two!" - Bender
Just because something is pretty doesn't mean to say that it is good.
+1 Avatar reference
A project where they are motion capturing strippers, no wonder the project has got nowhere! Probably the most uncovered women these 'nerds' have seen in their life. Why would they want to stop that?!
Take Nobody's Word For It.
The project was put on hold in 2008 while I got out of the Slashdot-posting basement and looked for a girlfriend. I finally got one around the end of 2008,
Wow... phrased like that, getting a girlfriend is like a side quest in the RPG of your life.
Well, You know what they say. It's better to have motion captured strippers and lost, than to have never motion captured strippers at all...
I refuse to believe that they've cancled this... *nah* *nah* *nah* I can't hear you.. AC - patiently holding my breath since 1997
It's ok.. I heard a rumour that it is going to come pre installed on the Apple tablet.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
If only the real-life girlfriend quest was as easy as finding a girl with a giant exclamation point over her head.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Well, considering the time it took, the kids that played DN are now old enough to buy Mature rated games, so...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Ah yes, slashdot, the only place I know of where a discussion about video games will devolve into a debate about who knows more about watching naked women dance on a pole.
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If only the real-life girlfriend quest was as easy as finding a girl with a giant exclamation point over her head.
It can be... But then it's a real pain in the ass 'cause she starts talking and you've got to keep pressing the A button to skip over it.
Bow-ties are cool.
and the comments are strangely not off topic...
One would expect that given the social life of the average slashdotter, all stripper-related comments would be +5 Informative.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Pretty sure that's illegal in most states...
No, no, that's *capturing* strippers. Motion capturing them is quite legal. You just have to ask really nicely before you try to stick the little green dots on them. Or so I hear. I've never even touched... er, met... umm, I mean *seen* a stripper. And I've never been within fifty yards of an elementary school in the... Hey, is that Ubuntu? You should show me how that works and stop reading this post before my parole off... mom gets here.
Aww, dammit.
Crap, now I have to let all of those strippers out of my basement.
The world is how you make it