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Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by mistrQ »

jseliger wrote: post #27
mistrQ wrote: post #5

I read this and thought TextMate 2 was out for some reason :)

Funny -- there was just a thread on the Mac Ach at Ars Technica on this subject: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=113190... , and the top post says: So remember the Duke Nuke'em Forever jokes back in summer 2008!. It's now nearly 2011. Still not even a rumor of a beta. Will this product ever be released? Another person said: I really think it's sill in development. I mailed him few days ago to still…

TM2 is a lost cause.

I'm banking on Coda 2 now!

Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by jerf »

electromagnetic wrote: post #9
checoivan wrote: post #3

Very appropriately launched on Dec 28th, the Latin version of April's fools. I think I'll wait for retail :)

Ditto, I'm not even going to believe it when I'm holding a disc in my hand loading it into a drive. I'll believe it when I'm halfway through (what by now should be the first FPS to break the 10+ hour mark, really it should be breaking the 100+ hour mark) and it wasn't a half-complete last-ditch scam to keep the project alive and funded. I'm serious, until that point I believe DN:F is fake. This wouldn't be the first…

As long as we're having a bit of fun, here's Yahtzee's "review" of DNF, which your post reminded me of:

http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2010/09/01/zero-punctuation-viewers...

I have linked to someone embedding the video because as of this writing the Escapist magazine appears to be down. It ought to be living at http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation... .

For the record, this "review" dates from shortly after the cancellation was announced and quite a bit before the current company picked it up, so when it refers to the game being released it was being very "review"y.

Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by CrazedGeek »

trotsky wrote: post #10
bayleo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was initially skeptical when Gearbox announced that they were releasing it (I figured they had just scrapped most of what was there and built their own game), but apparently 9 ex-3D realms employees formed their own micro-studio (Triptych) and continued development from their homes until they could muster support from Gearbox to help polish and build the console ports. So far Gearbox/2K has also done a great job of…

So it's still developed for the PC and ported to the consoles instead of the other way around? GBX's shoddy pc port of that RPG shooter makes me wary...

Borderlands? Seems to be a solid port to me.

Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by guywithabike »

mistrQ wrote: post #31
jseliger wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny -- there was just a thread on the Mac Ach at Ars Technica on this subject: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=113190... , and the top post says: So remember the Duke Nuke'em Forever jokes back in summer 2008!. It's now nearly 2011. Still not even a rumor of a beta. Will this product ever be released? Another person said: I really think it's sill in development. I mailed him few days ago to still…

TM2 is a lost cause. I'm banking on Coda 2 now!

You, sir, are a master of nuanced satire. Kudos.

Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by potatolicious »

moondowner wrote: post #34
code_duck wrote: post #13

Ha! I know someone who pre-ordered it like 8 years ago. Not falling for that this time.

I wonder whether this guy's pre-order will be approved :) http://obnoxiousgamer.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/duke-nukem...

It would be in GameStop's best interests to do so.

After all, he's still on the hook for all but $10 of the purchase price. If I were GameStop I'd get a camera crew together and make this some good press for a $10 "loss".

Marketing like this doesn't get cheaper than $10.

Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by potatolicious »

tomdeal wrote: post #7

Is anyone expecting more than a mediocre game?

I played it at PAX. It will be mediocre by objective standards - the graphics are nothing to really admire at, and the gameplay is the same old FPS gameplay we've been used to for the last N years.

But the game is gut-bustingly funny, crude, and blatantly offensive in the way only Duke can. In that sense, I'm fairly confident about it.

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