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Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed - Again
Blacklaw writes "Duke Nukem Forever, the game that turned into the industry's longest running joke as it entered development hell, has encountered one last delay to its launch."
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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.
was delayed again
I thought it was really going to happen this time. Man, fool me once shame on you, fool me....like 20 times?
When it was originally announced in 1997, I immediately went out and bought a state of the art Pentium 233 with 4MB RAM and a humongous 1GB hard drive.... it's sitting there waiting...waiting ....
Hopefully it still runs on MS Windows 3.11
Slashdot has been reporting on the delay of Duke Nukem Forever since 1999.
Maybe their CD printer is in Japan?
I'm telling you, this is whole "We're releasing Duke Nuke'Em Forever" thing is just a very elaborate April Fools Day joke from Gearbox.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Thecnically, there was never a release date before the game was handed over to Gearbox, so it had never suffered any delay before this one.
I mean, a hasty release wouldn't be good for the quality, right?
Or you could just use your purchased copy's map files with something like JFDuke3D, which even includes an OpenGL renderer created by the same guy who wrote the Duke3D Build game engine.
As I recall, this port natively supports TCP/IP.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
You didn't realize that Slashdot was launched by Taco et al for the sole purpose of tracking Nukem's release cycle?
They started posting other stories as fillers.
What part of FOREVER don't you understand?!
>>>When it was originally announced in 1997... Hopefully it still runs on MS Windows 3.11
Your timing is a little off. The state-of-the-art in 1997 was:
Windows 95 or NT 4.x
Nintendo64 or PS1 or Sega Saturn
I figure by the time Duke Nukem Forever arrives, it will have graphics no better than an N64 or DS.
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Cute, but I can tell you're a young'n because a Pentium (MMX) 233 would never have come with only 4 MB RAM, the Pentium II was the state-of-the-art in 1997, Windows 95 was out in 1997 (duh), and no good games ran on Windows 3.x. But thanks for playing. Now get off my lawn!
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because he won't come too soon...
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Or if you ever went to the bathroom because you were thirsty, kicked the toilet until the porcelain shattered, and drank the water spraying out, you might have played too much Duke Nukem.