Duke Nukem Forever Trailer

[Mr. Analog]

Hell may not have frozen over yet, but still...

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/19/duke-nukem-forever-teaser-perpetuates-cycle-of-non-delivery/

meh.

[Lazybones]

Ya I saw the announcement yesterday, it better deliver game play like nothing before it, because graphically it is only OK.

[Thorin]

That link led me to another article entitled "Happy 10th un-birthday Duke Nukem Forever!".  Some great comments on there:

I never get tired of telling the story. When DNF was announced, my younger brother was a high school stoner. He's now a surgeon. Yes, you can actually create a Doctor in less time than it's taken 3DR to release this game.

And further down

Never mind creating a surgeon in that time. Since DNF was announced NASA have announced, researched, launched and completed a mission to Mars.

[Lazybones]

LOL those are great.

[Tonnica]

Duke Nukem Forever has long since decended into a long-running gag or urban legend, much like Polybius. That being said, I have to admit to being enthralled at 3DRealms' commitment to hanging there from the chin-up bar trying to do a single chin-up for 10 years.

Seriously though, once they release it the universe will end. Up will be down, happy will be sad, and Bizzaro Superman will just be regular Superman.

[Darren Dirt]

Duke Nukem Forever has long since decended into a long-running gag or urban legend, much like Polybius.

The esteemed historian?


:wink:

[Tonnica]

The esteemd historian?

The perennial legend of a mind control game experiment gone wrong. One of my favourite uses of Polybius is to see who I can convince into thinking it existed and in what form. It's a lot like telling a good ghost story - all in good fun. I like to go with nihilist brainwashing just outside of human hearing, prolonged exposure causing a psychosomatic onset of Meniere's Disease, and the screen starting to bleed when you manage to "loop" the score counter. Of course once I get to that point people can tell I'm pulling their leg.

[Mr. Analog]

Never mind creating a surgeon in that time. Since DNF was announced NASA have announced, researched, launched and completed a mission to Mars.

This quote is just brilliant!

There's commitment to a project and there's just futility. DNF better rock the world... and not the world of 1997.

[Thorin]

Well, in DNF they have to figure out bullet trajectories to determine what part of the body got hit.  NASA doesn't have to figure out trajec...  Oh, wait.  They did.  And with a horrible lag between sending the command and receiving the command.  I'm sure I could come up with a bunch of other comparisons (for instance: DNF has to do ragdoll physics and re-spawn you when you die, NASA had to figure out how to land a fragile little wheeled robot on Mars and there was no re-spawn if it crashed, it just died).

Really puts the length of game development in perspective, eh?

[Mr. Analog]

Well, in DNF they have to figure out bullet trajectories to determine what part of the body got hit.  NASA doesn't have to figure out trajec...  Oh, wait.  They did.  And with a horrible lag between sending the command and receiving the command.  I'm sure I could come up with a bunch of other comparisons (for instance: DNF has to do ragdoll physics and re-spawn you when you die, NASA had to figure out how to land a fragile little wheeled robot on Mars and there was no re-spawn if it crashed, it just died).

Really puts the length of game development in perspective, eh?

I just have this feeling like this video will be the halfway point milestone to the actual game, here's to another 10 years!

[Melbosa]

Wired listed it as top 1 of their 10 Vaporware listing for 2007 (http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/multimedia/2007/12/YE_Vaporware?slide=10&slideView=10).  But really liked this quote:

A commenter on our 2000 Vaporware awards joked that Van Halen would reunite with David Lee Roth and release a new album before Duke Nukem Forever hits the shelves. Ironically, the re-formed band plans to head into the studio in just a few months. Reader Tiberian Fiend, who pointed this out to us, says, "Old jokes become sad reality as development on Duke Nukem Forever trudges on...."

[Mr. Analog]

Wired listed it as top 1 of their 10 Vaporware listing for 2007 (http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/multimedia/2007/12/YE_Vaporware?slide=10&slideView=10).  But really liked this quote:

A commenter on our 2000 Vaporware awards joked that Van Halen would reunite with David Lee Roth and release a new album before Duke Nukem Forever hits the shelves. Ironically, the re-formed band plans to head into the studio in just a few months. Reader Tiberian Fiend, who pointed this out to us, says, "Old jokes become sad reality as development on Duke Nukem Forever trudges on...."

It should get the lifetime achievement award.

I was disappointed with this years' list. I mean Diablo III? C'mon!

[Darren Dirt]

Well, in DNF they have to figure out bullet trajectories to determine what part of the body got hit.  NASA doesn't have to figure out trajec...  Oh, wait.  They did.  And with a horrible lag between sending the command and receiving the command.  I'm sure I could come up with a bunch of other comparisons (for instance: DNF has to do ragdoll physics and re-spawn you when you die...

I predict that this game will bring hours of enjoyment more than DNF. Especially since it ain't vapo.

[Mr. Analog]

Well, in DNF they have to figure out bullet trajectories to determine what part of the body got hit.  NASA doesn't have to figure out trajec...  Oh, wait.  They did.  And with a horrible lag between sending the command and receiving the command.  I'm sure I could come up with a bunch of other comparisons (for instance: DNF has to do ragdoll physics and re-spawn you when you die...

I predict that this game will bring hours of enjoyment more than DNF. Especially since it ain't vapo.

But it's soooooooooooo old already...