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Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold
An anonymous reader writes with enthusiasm "Duke Nukem Forever has finally gone gold!"
Looks like it'll be on shelves around June 10th with a demo available for Duke Nukem First Access Club members available June 3rd. Can it really be true?
There has to be some correlation between the guy preaching the end of the world this week and Duke Nukem actually coming out. One of the two was just off by a few days. Is hell going to freeze over? The doomsday guy didn't scare me before (I'm a christian, he's a nut) But NOW I''m starting to worry.
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Then it will really be the end of the world.
Harold Camping was right in his adjustment.
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Maybe the world did end after all?
I hope their creators aren't claiming the Vaporware Award 2011 again.
May 21st, May 24th...that's close enough to chalk up to a rounding error, right?
Looks like Lucifer will finally have to buy a pair of ice skates.
They waited until Rapture takes all the rightful away?
Really?!? I guess I better get ready to kick some @$$ and chew some bubble gum...
Will it have mapping tools? Or do we get to play the same few maps over and over until nobody buys the DLC and we still play the same stock maps?
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Assuming it's not the most elaborate joke ever, I'm waiting for an explosion in the duplication factory, wiping out all of the original copies of the golden image. "Game delayed to early November, promised to be on shelves in time for Christmas."
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I hope this runs on a Beowulf cluster of Natalie "Hot Grits" Portman.
Don't believe anything I say. I crash test crack pipes for a living.
Too bad it's a Steam exclusive. I don't even know why they bother printing those useless disks then they don't do anything for you.
A game I waited more than a decade for, and I can't, in the end, play it because of the DRM.
Then it is true. the end is near.... as was fortold in the old documents....
"And lo, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse will be announce by a messenger, the actual release of Duke Nukem Forever will seal the fate of mankind as they will bask in the light unaware that the horsemen will approach and deliver their doom unto them." -- Speculese 14:10
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Then Duke Nukem Forever. What will the third sign of the apocalypse be?
Answer: "Duke Nukem goes gold."
What is: "Headlines we'll never see?"
This joke was funny up until yesterday. :(
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Sorry Duke, Life was a blast back in the day. But, well, you see Duke, while you were in rehab, I got married and settled down. I've got three teenage daughters now and, well.... don't get me wrong - you'll always be a friend Duke - but my wife,see, she won't take kindly if you show up. I afraid I won't be able to play with you anymore. Good luck Duke.
DNF comes out and then the very next day we get invaded by pig like aliens from space.
Now if Dr. Dre would only release Detox.
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To all the naysayers over the years..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3jIgOjUvs [SUCK IT DOWN!!!!]
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Snowball fight at Lucifer's house!
For those who can't wait to immerse themselves into the apocalyptic mixture of shooting and nudity, here's a manner to do a bit of that until the official release: http://www.boob-tube.eu/duke-nudem/
It's the beginning of summer....why is it so cold in here!
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
It's time to delay release and chew bubble gum.
And I'm all out of delays.
ah, i remember buying a blisteringly fast pentium II 300MHz PC just to be ready to play this. that was back in....1998 i think...i can't even remember anymore.
I'm going to call my girlfriend to tell her I love her because the world is definitely ending.
I can see it now... June 3 comes and goes... No word for three days, then on Monday Randy Pitchford of Gearbox makes a short public statement that they've had "a really bad weekend" and will have to regroup... By Wednesday they'll say they miscalculated the release date and it'll be sometime in November. Wired gets one last chance to vote DNF "vaporware of the year"...
Then it's all rendered moot on October 21 when the world ends. DNF fanatics on rooftops are still trying to torrent the leaked beta while the lava moves in.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
I was just thinking that biking to work today. It's after the long weekend in May! WTF?!?
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
Oh no! They are going to publish a game and kill the Duke Nukem Forever meme. How cruel!
Duke Nuk'em in Name Only. They hired a hack job studio to slap together a game. It might be ok, but it won't be the amazing game Duke Nuk'em was.
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In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Doesn't the term "gone gold" refer back to silver, gold, and platinum records? A gold record is one that has sold 1 million copies. How has DNF done this before it's even been released?
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Looks like it'll be on shelves around June 10th... Can it really be true?
No, its not true. The Ars, Amazon and EBGames all list the release date nearly a week later on June 14th.
Pfft. Duke Nukem Forever just went gold. If you think it's cold wherever you are, you should see hell right now.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
I loved Duke Nukem 3D. It was crap loads of fun and I miss it! I might just have to either get a machine for Windows so I can run Duke Nukem Forever or figure out how to use wine to my advantage.
I wonder if Duke will have aged like Schwarzenegger and appear as a grey shriveled shadow of his former self.
I.....I have tears in my eyes. This is a troll, right? The game of my childhood did not really just go gold, did it?
Seriously though, 3D games (of the 2D variety) are so late 1990s. Smart phones mean that sidescrollers are back. Given me Duke and Keen for Android (with a bird ray gun) and I'll be happy.
June of ... WHAT YEAR?!
--Udo.
World to en on Oct 20 2011!
The End Times have come!
Repent Sinners for your doom has come! It is time to Kick Ass and Chew Bubble Gum. And we're all out of bubble gum...
DN3D is still a fun game that has more edge than most games. Assuming they haven't screwed up the game play and the content hasn't been tamed by the years I think it will find a large following in the younger crowd who were barely out of diapers last go round. I'll play it but I have a family, job, and life outside of video games now. Duke will be like those buddies your G.F./wife hates but you still go do stupid things with every now and then.
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
Is it still coming out on Sega Saturn?
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It'll be released on January 1, 2013.
We just need to coin a new unit of time called the DNTBR: Duke Nukem Time Between Releases value. It can be used to measure the amount of time to consume a LoC amount of data.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
The end of an era.
Grammar nazis are to this community what excrements are to gold.
server room?
Now I'm going to have to mug my grandfather for his pre-order.
At least they will be able to put on the box "Most anticipated game in the history of ever!"
I joined in 1999 so assuming UIDs were given out sequential order...
It's definitely the right era though.
So it really is the end of days? Will it be out before the October 21st apocalypse?
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
This will REALLY mess up Wired's annual vapourware awards.
it looks like they are using steam which means 1) mandatory on line registration if you purchase it. 2) free in 2 months if you don't.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
I guess they must have high traffic on their site right now too: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
These two projects are so tightly coupled...
Oprah retiring was the 3rd Trumpet of the Apocalypse. Duke Nukem Forever is the 5th. So we still have to wait for Carrot Top to sell out Yankee Stadium. I just don't see that happening before June 10.
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George Broussard...states, "Duke Nukem Forever and its journey to store shelves is legendary. It's an epic tale of four game development studios that banded together and did the unthinkable and shipped the unshipppable. When you play this game you will be reminded of that epic journey at every turn and in every small detail of the game."
So, even according to the creative director, DNF will be cobbled together from the tears and broken dreams of a decade? I don't know about you, but I don't want a game that looks like it took 4 development teams more than a decade to put together. I want a cohesive game that doesn't expect me to be impressed by their pretty graphics, because I'm too busy having fun.
That the world ends.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Pfft. Duke Nukem Forever just went gold. If you think it's cold wherever you are, you should see hell right now.
Whoosh?
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion
Most people are generally nice, but there's always a vocal asshole on the Christian side -- maybe not representative, but it's there. More than that, the "most Christians" you're talking about never seem to have anything constructive to add to these discussions -- most Christians would rather avoid any discussion which requires them to examine the foundations of their beliefs.
Oh, and while I made the same assumption you did, it's not a given that this is an atheist. Quite a lot of religions manage to paint other religions as foolish, though rarely with as much success as those who paint all religion as foolish.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
The day has come. Any day from now on is different. The duke has been released. How can you not post in this story. Take a breath look around and have the feeling of history unfolding. Time to move on.
It will probably still require a 3GB patch download right after install to run the game.
At first glance I thought it said, "a demo available for Duke Nukem Fist Access Club members"
Netcraft hasn't confirmed it...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
http://slashdot.org/submission/1591158/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Preview-amp-Interview
I consider it vaporware until I'm playing it.
How many here remember BitBoys Oy's "Glaze3D" graphics card that never happened despite being hyped almost as much as DNF?
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love the cold..hate the heat with all the humidity and stuff in the air..everything smells like fried hydrocarbons..
It's been in developement for 15 years.
*In 15 years we have seen 2^256 different shooters, of which a good 90% is just total trash.
*It didn't really have a story back then, probably won't have a story now either.
*Shooters are not played for their story anymore, but for mere fragging fun online.
*Most new shooters are slow and boring, nothing compared to UT99 and Q3 when they were new.
*Coolest thing about DN3D was the map editor, which was real easy and require almost no skill, and sharing maps online.
*Most of the content that can be found online indicates reuse of old story and monsters. Yes it's cool as it is nostalgic, but who cares. Dosbox is nostalgic too.
*Killing monsters will get boring after 10 minutes, and you'll go play halo, gow or some other slow shooter online on a console.
*Duke's bad 4ss attitude is outdated, South Park has more swear words, vulgar statements and displeasing visuals.
*Duke Nukem 3D was good, and should have been left at that.
How long before the pirated torrent is released?
And the universe is like, made up of STRINGS! And they sort of like...vibrates and shit. (Takes another toke) And the subatomic particles have many flavors, man, weeeird. Whoah! And like there might be infinite manifestations of our universe out there in infinite other dimensions. And there are like DARK MATTER that we have never seen and it all began with a BIG BANG! Duuude...
Wonder if they just bought RED5 game and put the name Duke Nukem FOREVER on ?
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Very very much the same look and levels.
and Vancouver goes to the cup....a perfect night
On the day DNF is released, the CERN LHC will go to full capacity. Then we will find out that a time traveling Higgs Boson was what was preventing Duke from being released in the first place.
Shit I thought it felt cold this morning, hell must have frozen over.
It's the beginning of summer....why is it so cold in here!
It's winter here sunshine and its fucking freezing.
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Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
It's the beginning of summer....why is it so cold in here!
It's winter here sunshine and its fucking freezing.
Signed,
The Southern Hemisphere
There, fixed that for... uhhh... me.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Looks like Lucifer will finally have to buy a pair of ice skates.
Hoo! Hoo! Hooi! Good one. If he wants a pair that fit, he should invest in a pair of CCM Vectors. Guaranteed to fit even the oddest goat's foot or debbil's claw.
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