14 Years of Waiting Have Come to an End: Duke Nukem Forever
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#2There must be something wrong with me. I haven't been a "gamer" for a little over a decade, but the more of these "negative" reviews I read, the more I want to play this game. Not ironicly.
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#3At least Axl Rose can feel a tad less bad about Chinese Democracy now.
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#4There must be something wrong with me. I haven't been a "gamer" for a little over a decade, but the more of these "negative" reviews I read, the more I want to play this game. Not ironicly.
it's better than people are making it out to be. if you enjoyed the first, you'll enjoy the nostalgia. it's a little uneven in terms of fun and pacing (as such a frakenstein'ish project with multiple hands and such a long development cycle will lead to), but i think it's worth playing.
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#5related: http://www.xentax.com/?p=303 - "Duke Nukem Forever exposes crap reviewers - 100 reviews compared"
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#6There must be something wrong with me. I haven't been a "gamer" for a little over a decade, but the more of these "negative" reviews I read, the more I want to play this game. Not ironicly.
it's better than people are making it out to be. if you enjoyed the first, you'll enjoy the nostalgia. it's a little uneven in terms of fun and pacing (as such a frakenstein'ish project with multiple hands and such a long development cycle will lead to), but i think it's worth playing.
Seriously? I've been watching some playthrough videos and it just looks BORING. Long, long stretches with no enemies, the enemies themselves are canonfodder and in sparse supply. It looks like a sketch of a game that's highly derivative of Half-Life.
I'm gonna save my money for Serious Sam 3.
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#7Rape and abuse of women as a plot point? Lost me there. Take your money and buy Dragon Age 2, which brings a refreshing new take to gender dynamics in video games. http://jezebel.com/5785846/video-game-lets-players-slap-wome...
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's better than people are making it out to be. if you enjoyed the first, you'll enjoy the nostalgia. it's a little uneven in terms of fun and pacing (as such a frakenstein'ish project with multiple hands and such a long development cycle will lead to), but i think it's worth playing.
Seriously? I've been watching some playthrough videos and it just looks BORING. Long, long stretches with no enemies, the enemies themselves are canonfodder and in sparse supply. It looks like a sketch of a game that's highly derivative of Half-Life. I'm gonna save my money for Serious Sam 3.
Yeah I have to agree - I really thought I was up for a return to the past, a good classic action FPS, a great piece of history that will go back to the classic FPS formula...but it looks and plays like a mod of Hexen or Quake or SIN. A very boring, half assed Hexen mod. It manages to take everything people HATED about FPS games back then (ie. long boring puzzles, long areas with no enemies, confusing jumping puzzles, the "run around the room mashing the use key to figure out what to do" gameplay) and put it in one package. So while it's certainly a return to the past, it's also a return to a style of gameplay that got killed off because it was boring as buggery.
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#9Rape and abuse of women as a plot point? Lost me there. Take your money and buy Dragon Age 2, which brings a refreshing new take to gender dynamics in video games. http://jezebel.com/5785846/video-game-lets-players-slap-wome...
I'm a little puzzled by comments such as this. Haven't we been pointing out that "it's just a game" when people point to the unending stream of murder and genocide out of videogames for the past 30 years?
Besides, I'm fairly certain at least the rape in this case is being done by the alien bad guys....
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#10related: http://www.xentax.com/?p=303 - "Duke Nukem Forever exposes crap reviewers - 100 reviews compared"
Has the author of that post looked at the distribution of reviews in other cases at all? From everything I've seen a bimodal distribution in reviews is not at all uncommon in the real world, especially for a product that is trying to be edgy.