http://kotaku.com/335467/duke-nuke-em-forever-trailer-hits-tomorrow

This is the craziest thing in the world

I'm not even joking here

does anyone care?

Awesome! Give that bad boy another 5 or 6 years, and we'll be just in time for a full trailer!

I SHAT BRICKS.

Then, I thought it was a joke, then realized it wasn't and shat more bricks.

So should we measure the amount of time it has taken them to do this in decades or centuries?

Whoa...I forgot about that guy.

o.o
*spews green tea*

Well son-of-a-bitch. I didn't really believe this was ever coming out. Actually, I'm currently replaying Duke Nukem 3D right now and loving it. This teaser had better blow my mind, 'cause I haven't been waiting ten-years for nothing.

Oh, and does anyone this those graphics look like the Doom 3 engine? If so, that worries me a bit. *keeping fingers crossed*

Ziffy88
does anyone care?

Yes.

















A lot.

I was eight when they began creating this game.

It had better be fucking good.

I don't know I mean they keep on trying to release but delaying. I was never a big Duke fan anyways. Actually the FPS that I played alot in my childhood were the Dark Forces games and Outlaws. Man LucasArts used to be good at creating good shooters with great atmosphere. Now they just stick to what they know(at least the Dark Forces sequels were fun)

Maybe they'll release at and maybe it will be good. I just don't know it seems in between the time of Duke Nuke em 3D(not counting Manhattan Project) and now the FPS has changed drastically. We have smart shooters like the Half Life series and dumb ones like the Serious Sam. But then again maybe this is something different.

Well I see your point, Ziffy88, but I tend to disagree. Of course I am a little biased, being a major Duke fan, but I think the real reason people are excited about this is because it promises something different.

I mean, we've killed aliens, we've killed demons, and we've killed terrorists, but nothing has done that sort of thing with as much irreverent appeal than Duke Nukem. Even as far back as Duke 2 I think Duke was doing things differently. He had an ego, he had an attitude, and he was a lot more than a little politically incorrect.

Duke 3D added a mix of good level design, weapons that were unique, and an easy to modify game engine. Now, you're right when you say time has gone on, but that is making the assumption that this game will be a carbon-copy of Duke 3D. If it is, then it will suck, but if 3D Realms did it right (and I really do trust those guys to deliver), then it will retain all the features that made Duke 3D a classic while keeping the experience fresh.

I just want to play a game where it's not the same old serious alien shooter like Halo. I'll take a little humor mixed in with my ultra-violence any day.

I mean, look at what they did with Prey. I loved that game, though I know a lot of people didn't really care. I still think it was ten times better than most of the rehashed FPS games I've played.

There are over ten Duke Nukem games and only one that was any good. I won't be getting my hopes up until I see some features that set it apart from everything else out there.

isukun
There are over ten Duke Nukem games and only one that was any good. I won't be getting my hopes up until I see some features that set it apart from everything else out there.

Hmm, have you played all the Duke Nukem games? I certainly haven't (and I believe you may be overestimating the number of games released, unless you're counting console ports of 3D) but can tell you that I liked each and every one of them for different reasons.

I played Duke Nukem 2 when it first came out, and I loved the fact that a Dos game could go toe-to-toe with my SNES and be just as fun. The graphics were pretty good for the time and the gameplay was fun. It hasn't held up well, but is still a good play now and again.

Duke Nukem 3D I played a long time after it was released and I loved it for reasons stated in my above post. Just a real innovator.

And Duke Nukem: The Manhattan Project was an underrated gem. It was simple, yes, but sometimes it's fun to go back to the old style of yore and play something where you don't have to memorize a bazillion controls and navigate complicated levels. Plus, it was sold at budget price so that was like the icing on the cake.

Overall, I think the majority of the Duke games (not the two insipid Playstation ones and the half-way tolerable N64 one) were fun.

Duke Nukem is the ultimate American hero. I'd love to see this get finished and released.

I would hang out with Duke Nukem.

Duke Nukem 3d did have good level design. But the humor wasn't something I cared about

Duke Nukem is your father.

Hmmm... gotta say, I'm not impressed by the graphics. Not these days, anyway.

Hmm, have you played all the Duke Nukem games? I certainly haven't (and I believe you may be overestimating the number of games released, unless you're counting console ports of 3D) but can tell you that I liked each and every one of them for different reasons.

I've played all the PC games and most of the console games. The majority of the console versions weren't ports of Duke Nukem 3D, and were either very mediocre and fairly buggy shooters (Time to Kill, Zero Hour, Land of the Babes, and Advance were all pretty awful) or fairly boring platformers (Gameboy Color and despite being on the PC Manhatten Project wasn't any better). I hated the first two Duke Nukem games on the PC. They were bland platformers with boring level design and poor graphics even compared to other shareware platformers of the time. The only advantage Duke Nukem II had over Commander Keen was the fact that Duke Nukem was in 256 colors while Commander Keen was 16. Keen still had better/smoother animated and drawn sprites, more solid gameplay, and much, MUCH better level design.

TH89
Duke Nukem is the ultimate American hero.

True, but he actually looks Russian. A Russian speaking Duke would if anything, actually be even more hardcore.

He always looked more Austrian to me.

Has always sounded like that...I honestly don't remember

isukun
He always looked more Austrian to me.

I dunno, Arnold's the only Austrian I know who's ever really looked like that and he's not even a blonde really...

Either way, the image fits into those old stereotypes and the red shirt sort of cinches it :)

Am I the only one who played a Bubblegum Crisis mod of the old Duke Nukem game? That was cool. XD

Inkmonkey
...Hmmm... gotta say, I'm not impressed by the graphics. Not these days, anyway.

Well I watched the teaser a number of times (I think seven, but who's counting?) and I have to say it really doesn't show enough to say. I still think they're going with a modified version of the Doom 3 graphics engine, which isn't exactly a new kid on the block, but I thought what I saw looked okay, at least up to Bioshock level. It's not gonna be Crysis, but so what? Duke's always been more unrealistic than anything, and I don't want to see this game turned into a tactical shooter or anything.

Oh, and to Isukun, I have to say, it must be sad to have lost your sense of fun. Why'd you play each game if you hated them? Oh well, to each his own. I enjoyed them, even if you didn't.

SarahN
Am I the only one who played a Bubblegum Crisis mod of the old Duke Nukem game? That was cool. XD

That sounds hot ^_^

I liked the Robotech one ^_^

The old Duke Nukem games I played back in th eday when there wasn't much offered on the PC market. Being still in high school at the time, my mother was strictly against console systems, so I had to make due with what I could find for my desktop. So I tried a lot of PC games back then, but I never found the first two Duke Nukem games all that fun (and yes, I did beat them). After playing through Duke Nukem 3D, I kind of hoped the design sense and fun gameplay would carry over to new 3D projects, but was consistantly disappointed. That's why I'm skeptical about this one. Get burned enough and you start to get used to it.

As for my sense of fun, as I said before, there were much better games for the PC back then. I played through Duke hoping it would improve somewhere, but it didn't. Why continue to play a shit game when you've got better games to choose from?

isukun
After playing through Duke Nukem 3D, I kind of hoped the design sense and fun gameplay would carry over to new 3D projects

Yeah, that's why I didn't bother with the other versions... That knowing, cheeky sense of humour in a standard 3D shooter is what made it a fun 3D shooter.

Without that... You may as well ignore it.

I've never quite gotten into the humor shooters. I'm more of a story person than a gameplay person too. I likes games with a sense of a plot(adventure games are awesome. It's same with FPS for me. I like nice epic stories(which the Dark Forces games surprisingly did have)

Duke Nukem Forever in Development


Seriously though
I think it can be a good shooter, they where going to release Duke nukem before Prey in 1996 (and prey for 1998), but they released prey first in late 2006 and i find it to be really good even for today's standards.
So i think Duke Nukem might be good.

I also dont think a game should be rated by its graphics alone because graphics dont make a game good or bad and its becoming a trend that developers use all the resources in graphics and the games end up being bad... and i prefer gameplay quality than pretty graphics. (an example would be System Shock 2)