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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.
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
Then it will really be the end of the world.
Harold Camping was right in his adjustment.
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BMO
Maybe the world did end after all?
I hope their creators aren't claiming the Vaporware Award 2011 again.
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."
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
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.
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.
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.
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To all the naysayers over the years..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3jIgOjUvs [SUCK IT DOWN!!!!]
"Liechtenstein is the world's largest producer of sausage casings, potassium storage units, and false teeth."
Ditto sentiment here. I violated my 'no Steam ever' policy for Civ V. Never again. Patches are involuntary, and I once was told by the Steam software that I couldn't run my own damn bought and paid for game. Luckily it was just a fluke error and it worked when I tried again a few minutes later, but it puts things into perspective. Any time Valve wants to yank your ability to run something, they can, for virtually any reason, and you're left holding your dick.
There so many of games from indie developers and from non-DRM sources like gog.com that I will, never, ever again buy anything that requires Steam or any similar service that makes you some distributor's bitch serf.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
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'
This is so true.. although i'm still a 'slave' to the monster out of need.. valve has royally screwed me just like that one time.
I lost my entire account (The entire thing, banned) with well over $300 worth of games. Almost everyone valve-made game. CoD: MW, BF:BC2
How does this happen, you say? You receive a gift from a random friend who you never talked to (The gift was Left4Dead 2, because he wanted someone to play with) and it turns out whoever's credit card he used, issues a chargeback... your account is locked/banned permanently!
No matter what I did or said, I could not get my account back. They wouldn't just remove the offending game. They wouldn't let me pay the ***MEASLY FIVE DOLLARS (on sale) THE GAME COST WHEN THIS HAPPENED*** to get my account back.
They pretty much thought I was part of some kind of credit card fraud ring and banned me outright, when I offered to fax them multiple forms of identification AND the credit card used to purchase *Every single game* on my account...
But no, in the end, it came down to one single $5 gift given to me randomly from some douchebag to take away all my games.
Fuck you Valve.
(I still love you, though.. Portal 2 was awesome.. but this just isn't fair)
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Oh no! They are going to publish a game and kill the Duke Nukem Forever meme. How cruel!
If Knuth announces version pi of TeX...
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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Actually, 3D Realms were actively developing it just before closing doors, and the project was handed over to Gearbox (which isn't a 'hackjob' studio) to finish it up. Given that Gearbox only had it in their hands for 6 months, I'd say the game was already pretty far long before 3DR closed up shop.
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.
That's fine; given the length of most AAA games nowadays, you'd still have plenty of time to finish and resell it back to Gamestop before the PigOverlords divest you of your innards.
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.
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.
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?
"We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
also, the trailer looked pretty damn faithful - hell, prodigy's 'invaders must die' was the soundtrack....
Nope not shriveled... just fat.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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."
Now I'm going to have to mug my grandfather for his pre-order.
Well, of course it's them saying it, but the current developper said they aimed for a quite long game. Sadly Google don't want to give me back the link that said it.
pssssssst..
here is a little life advice
friends on internet, are not, you know, real friends
At least they will be able to put on the box "Most anticipated game in the history of ever!"
Then Duke Nukem Forever. What will the third sign of the apocalypse be?
The Hurd 1.0
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I joined in 1999 so assuming UIDs were given out sequential order...
It's definitely the right era though.
Man, don't tell 4ch or Anon about this -- they'll start a campaign to use stolen credit card numbers to start mass-closing accounts... and not even cost the card anything! It's like a VISA ping of death...
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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
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.
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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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?
-AI
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!
On the other hand, you can take your Steam folder with games and all, copy it to a new computer with a different version of Windows, double-click the Steam.exe, and your old games will work. Or download the games again, even if you switch from Mac to Windows. Usually, things aren't quite so easy with Windows games, even with self-contained game folders like Quake3. So Steam is simply a much better game service than pretty much anything else.
You may jabber on about not "owning" your games due to DRM, but the simple fact is you don't "own" all those other games you bought either. The games you bought for Windows 98 often won't work properly for Windows XP and later, and there's nothing you can do to fix them. You don't have the source.
Looks like you're already a bitch, but kinda accept it.
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.
Your tales of Steam porting only work if your account still does, which doesn't mean shit.
I can have virtual machines of older operating systems, so I can run anything on anything, basically forever. Guess I'm nobody's bitch.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
It will probably still require a 3GB patch download right after install to run the game.
Yes, and normally a Steam account will work, which is more than can be said about the games you pretend playing in virtual machines.
Guess you're a little sore.
Netcraft hasn't confirmed it...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Will they be flatulent? I saw that on Doctor Who. Well, OK, it didn't involve Duke Nukem Forever. But the aliens were pig-like.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
http://slashdot.org/submission/1591158/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Preview-amp-Interview
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Arnold+s+new+ride+BHtgXqYT6Ail.jpg is in better shape than 99.8% of Slashdot and taken this year. There were a few bad pictures the guy took after his open-heart surgery, but the guy is still fucking built.
Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997.
Your UID is too high to know his UID is too high to make that joke.
-- Terry
love the cold..hate the heat with all the humidity and stuff in the air..everything smells like fried hydrocarbons..
Even though it's technically your fault (as in you shouldn't trust strangers bearing gifts), Valve were pretty shitty for not restoring your account for reasons basically of out your control. They have really bad support service.
It's crap like this which makes me extremely wary of Steam. As the saying goes, never put all your eggs in one basket. I've seen someone's Steam profile which had 900+ games - what if that guy has his account disabled for whatever reason and can't get Steam to restore it? He's fucked. Having access to a large collection of software accessible solely by an account which is in the end controlled by someone else and not you is dangerous.
The CEO and cofounder of Gearbox worked on Duke Nukem 3D and was working on Duke Nukem Forever before he left. Gearbox also did the successful Borderlands.
That would be good, then Valve would have to change this god-awful policy.
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...
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.
I'm running Linux Mint on my main desktop and have been for years.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
It's the beginning of summer....why is it so cold in here!
It's winter here sunshine and its fucking freezing.
Signed,
+8 GMT
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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