Duke Nukem Forever: Rises from the grave?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

More like the lack of outside funding to pressure a deadline meant that they could dream big, take forever to "perfect" it, and then end up with others pushing out similar or neater things before their never-coming launch date. And then each time a new game came out or a new engine emerged with some kind of neat element in it, Broussard could direct his developers to try to add the same thing or some kind of expansion on it to the game, compounding work and even scrubbing previous work.

I'm not going to knock the guy for trying to create an amazing, top-end, superb-quality product that could sit at the throne of FPS games, but his small team and desire to assimilate anything he thought was cool combined with his funds let him in effect push back the real world too long.

Unless Gearbox has some pretty wicked ideas up their sleeves [or were left some by 3D Realms that we haven't heard of yet], I'll remain skeptical of the wow factor of any Duke title, let alone its actual release.

I just said that.

In fewer words, actually.

[greed]

In all seriousness this is pretty good news. Gearbox seems like just the right guys to do this. Plus they seem pretty on the ball as far as getting shit done. I mean it's not going to be worth the wait, but I reckon it'll be pretty good.

Originally Posted by RobinStarwing

Seriously?

No, Bioware wouldn't get it. They are into innovation and getting something out on time. So is Bethesda.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh man Bioware couldn't innovate it's way out of a paper bag. All they do is do what Obsidian/Troika/Black Isle/CAPCOM did but polish it. Not knocking them, they're a good company, but innovative they are not. Similar deal with Bethesda, except they can't write.

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I just said that.

In fewer words, actually.

Then I misinterpreted your meaning with "it at least stole enough from everything else over the years to potentially be good". 'cause this wasn't going to be all that good.

[Amake]

I predict Dwarf Fortress will go far enough in its quest to emulate everything in the entire universe for people to create in the game a Duke Nukem Forever that is everything it should have been before Duke Nukem Forever is released.

Just a guess really.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I have this feeling that Duke Nukem will never die.
I remember when I was in elementary school and a friend told that they're gonna make Duke Nukem Forever. And another one claimed to actually have the game.

Last Duke game I played was Zero Hour which, at the time, I thought was really great, even though it wasn't even an FPS, or maybe because of that, since the only good N64 FPS games ever were GoldenEye and to a greater extent Perfect Dark.

Greabox have a huge load on their shoulder's now. They could be the ones to destroy the myth that is Duke Nukem Forever and make it Duke Nukem Right Now, Bitches or something.

I just noticed the Duke followed me my entire life. When Duke Nukem Forever gets released a part of me will die.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Maybe it's not that DNF wasn't ready for this world but that the world wasn't ready for DNF.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

If DNF ever actually gets released, I'm pretty sure the universe implodes or something.

[Aerozord]

I dont really follow this game, for obvious reasons. So someone fill me in. They were self funded right? So how did someone take the game away from them? Isn't the franchise theirs to do what they will or were they just granted liscencing for it?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

I have no faith in this finally getting finished and released. This is likely just to continue it's legendary internet statis.

[Marc v4.0]

Gearbox strikes me as the sort of team that will either release it, it'll be really good and take a lot of people by surprise...or delay it forever while they laugh at us and point.

Eitherone sounds like GB