That's one doomed space marine! Duke Nukem 3D's multiplayer was far more fun than DOOM's; more interesting weapons (shrink ray, freezethrower, laser tripbomb) and fun items to play with (the trademark jet pack or "Holoduke" to deceive your enemies). The levels were also more detailed and realistic. You can probably see why people were so excited to be getting a new Duke Nukem game!

Ooooh, perhaps I can indeed find an abandonware version of it to try out, then. I know I can JFGI this, but were they released around the same time.

Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1996, so a few years after DOOM and just before Quake (hence Duke quipping "I ain't afraid of no Quake" in a level). It uses Ken Silverman's famous Build engine.

So it IS being released before TBG.

Yeah, but it's not like TBG was started before it so that Duke Nukem lapped it or something.

and it has a large, paid team who's only job is to make that game.

Well, when the Freebuild devs get paid as much as 3DRealms coders, and haven't published the game after 14 years of development, you may mock and scorn them too.

Actually 3D Realms were making a decent bit more than DNF, the first thing that comes to mind is the trippy FPSish game Prey. And I know I have seen them produce a few other games. That is, unless you are talking about the 20 or so people WITHIN 3D Realms that were in charge. And yeah, their job wasn't necessarally to make DNF, but to appease to their boss, whose name skips my mind, but he was the person who wanted to add everything possible to the game, and it kept delaying it. Thus the "when it's done" release date ( updated to 2011 though! )

Aye, that topic I linked to earlier in the thread claimed that the boss you mention at 3DRealms was the king of the Feature Creeps, and led to giant sections being occasionally scrapped. Thanks for the point of clarification, CDI; I wasn't aware they published anything else in the meantime.

Prey was developed by Human Head Studios after 3D Realms failed to do anything with it.

3D Realms hasn't developed a game since Shadow Warrior in 1997. Well, technically they also did the Duke Nukem 3D port to Xbox Live Arcade - but I don't think that really counts for anything.



You might have missed that it is now being created by a different developer. Gearbox Software is now heading up development, and they are the ones who announced a 2011 release date (meaning we will probably actually see the game in 2011).

Weird fractured double post? I doubt that the Xbox Live Arcade actually took a whole lot of new coding or work.

*shrug*

Dunno what happened there.



Probably took an intern like a whole month or something crazy

I bought Borderlands GOTY Edition the other day, and just noticed I got a free "first access" certificate to Duke Nukem Forever. I'm going to redeem it and see what I get. It doesn't sound like I'll get anything immediately.

Yeah, I saw a lot of articles about that phenomenon; considering how pricey I heard the Borderlands GOTY was, in the $50-$6- range, I'm glad that you didn't buy it just for the early Duke Nukem demo, which I think would sorta be a waste of money.

I may or may not buy it. Definitely not going to get all hyped up about it, and I'm definitely not going to overly promote it (even if it's finally developed). IMHO, I don't think it's going to be that great. I absolutely loved all the other Duke games, but I just don't have faith in DNF...


Also, fun link: http://duke.a-13.net/
TL;DRs: Scroll past the article. There's a few amusing lists

The article is a good read, though.

I read the list first and was rewarded with some epic amusement. It's like a mini Total Perspective Vortex with Duke Nukem Forever as the Universe.