Duke Nukem Forever: Rises from the grave?

Sky Warrior Bob · 08-11-2010, 08:03 PM

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There are no words. I am completely... This makes no.. Why?!?!?!?!?

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/111/1111626p1.html

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You've waited 13 years already, so what's another few months? Reports are suggesting that the comically delayed and subsequently cancelled Duke Nukem Forever has been resurrected, with Borderlands developer Gearbox tasked with taking the project to the finishing line.

Having begun in 1997, development on Duke Nukem Forever had seemingly halted after the game's development staff at 3D Realms were let go in May last year. Due to 3D Realms failure to complete the game it was sued for breach of contract by publisher Take-Two, a matter that was resolved earlier this year.

But that's not where Duke Nukem Forever's story ends, it seems. A report on Kotaku suggests that Duke is alive and that Gearbox would be taking the game to completion. Sources at both Take-Two and Gearbox are remaining tight-lipped, although it wouldn't be the first time that the Borderlands developer was associated with the cigar-chomping action hero; Gearbox was outed as the company behind Duke Begins, a project that was scrapped before it ever saw the light of day.

The reports claim that more could be revealed at September's PAX, and that a playable demo could even emerge as soon as this year.

The story of Duke Nukem Forever is a strange and unique one � could this be the final twist in the tale? We'll bring you more as we hear it.

Kim · 08-11-2010, 08:08 PM

Why do people care about Duke Nukem anymore? Do they? It's going to be an average FPS at best.

Aerozord · 08-11-2010, 08:09 PM

I love the release date

US: "When its done"... if ever

synkr0nized · 08-11-2010, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by NonCon

Why do people care about Duke Nukem anymore? Do they? It's going to be an average FPS at best.

This.
By now anything they were thinking of doing is probably trite and no longer innovative.

Secretly, Duke is the fifth vault hunter...

Yumil · 08-11-2010, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by synkr0nized

This.
By now anything they were thinking of doing is probably trite and no longer innovative.

It's kind of true, but most people are just interested due to the joke it's become.

I don't know about the most recent version, but I had friends doing freelance art and help with some of the mocap when they used UTDs mocap lab for it about a year before it was canceled and many of them told me that they were told that the project had been scrapped and redone multiple times during its life.

Heck, at one point they apparently hired a bunch of kids out of school and didn't get someone with any experience to oversee them. When they finally did, they found out all the work done was not usable and lost at least a year of work basically. Fun stuff.

Sky Warrior Bob · 08-11-2010, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by NonCon

Why do people care about Duke Nukem anymore? Do they? It's going to be an average FPS at best.

It wasn't all that great of a side scroller either. I do remember it did have a soundtrack if you had a soundblaster card, but back in those days not everyone did. Haven't spotted a YouTube vid with anything but PC speaker sound.

SWB

stefan · 08-11-2010, 08:43 PM

See the thing about duke nukem forever was, Duke Nukem 3D made such hilariously ridiculous amounts of money that 3D realms was pretty much able to do everything in-house with no oversight whatsoever. This, coupled with the lead designer's crippling perfectionism, meant that the game basically got to near-gold completion several times when the designer would say stuff like, "add a snow level to show off our particle physics," or "the engine isn't good enough anymore, scrap it and build a new one," or "I've decided to make sweeping changes to the plot, we're throwing out most of our work and redoing it."

in short, perfectionist designer + massive budget - any sort of oversight = delays, delays everywhere.

Loyal · 08-11-2010, 08:49 PM

Duke Nukem Forever is a legend - a myth to be shrouded in the mists of time - and should remain that way simply because there is no project so tragically composed as that.

Kim · 08-11-2010, 09:04 PM

I want it to come out and turn out to be a turn-based jRPG where everyone except Duke looks like Cloud, Sephiroth, or female versions thereof.

Mannix · 08-11-2010, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by NonCon

I want it to come out and turn out to be a turn-based jRPG where everyone except Duke looks like Cloud, Sephiroth, or female versions thereof.

Just watch, it'll turn out to be a turn based strategy game ala Romance of the Three Kingdoms except everybody is an adorable Pokemon.

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Kim adorable Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 12,950	Why do people care about Duke Nukem anymore? Do they? It's going to be an average FPS at best. __________________ this post is about how to successfully H the Kimmy

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Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	I love the release date US: "When its done"... if ever __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

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Kim adorable Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 12,950	I want it to come out and turn out to be a turn-based jRPG where everyone except Duke looks like Cloud, Sephiroth, or female versions thereof. __________________ this post is about how to successfully H the Kimmy

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08-11-2010, 08:43 PM	#7
stefan Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 870	See the thing about duke nukem forever was, Duke Nukem 3D made such hilariously ridiculous amounts of money that 3D realms was pretty much able to do everything in-house with no oversight whatsoever. This, coupled with the lead designer's crippling perfectionism, meant that the game basically got to near-gold completion several times when the designer would say stuff like, "add a snow level to show off our particle physics," or "the engine isn't good enough anymore, scrap it and build a new one," or "I've decided to make sweeping changes to the plot, we're throwing out most of our work and redoing it." in short, perfectionist designer + massive budget - any sort of oversight = delays, delays everywhere.