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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i remember duke from childhood

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:i remember duke from childhood

[jon787]

It occurs to me that someone may not even have been in HS yet when the game was announced, graduated from HS, gotten a college degree, and could now be working on DNF.

Re:i remember duke from childhood

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Mod parent Sad.

Re:i remember duke from childhood

[Motor]

So DNF is still among the remaining great "unsolved problems" of slashdot? Much like Hilbert and his famous list of math questions, this list echoes through the generations.

Solved

Releasing the code for slashdot (free slash!) DONE

Releasing Kevin Mitnick (free kevin!) DONE

Unresolved questions/problems

How to petrify Natalie Portman in an undressed state - UNSOLVED

Does it run Linux (default answer must be YES) - UNSOLVED

"Why were these stories rejected?" With a list of obscene article titles - UNSOLVED

The whereabouts of OOG THE CAVEMAN - UNSOLVED

The whereabouts of Jon Katz - UNSOLVED

The ultimate fate of the "slashdot cruiser" offered as a prize and never delivered - UNSOLVED

The assassination of "Signal 11" - NOT YET COMPLETED

My first post

[Anonymous Coward]

was delayed again

Thanks for the notice... I almost unpacked my P233

[Anonymous Coward]

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

To give them the benefit of the doubt ....

[scharkalvin]

Maybe their CD printer is in Japan?

Of course.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Of course.

[zill]

Seeing as how Slashdot is the #1 time waster for programmers, it could be ironically responsible for DNF's forever delays.

People!

[muckracer]

What part of FOREVER don't you understand?!

Re:WOW, they almost had me

[cbiltcliffe]

I'd be willing to bet - not much, mind you, but willing - that they did this not because of any technical glitch, or anything like that, but rather, for the humour and irony in delaying the game yet again, when it's actually finished.

After all, it's Duke Nukem Forever. It can't possibly be released without a delay, right?