It's just not the same. It's a game by the same name, but this isn't the DNF that we were waiting for: The possibly end-all be-all of games because it took so long to develop.
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…
Well that's actually really good to hear. I have a lot of faith that Gearbox can bring the desired level of polish. With the ex-3DR employees on-board this game will probably be pretty faithful to what they had originally wanted to release. Good news!