April 1, 2010: The Day DNF Didn't Go Gold

[Userremoved]

"soon"

 

[HalJordan]

Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, Jersey Devil, Moth Man, and Duke Nukem...

 

[alchemy69]

I'm still waiting for Bandersnatch and Psyclapse on the ZX Spectrum.

 

[Yuka]

Just get the game out already, but make it 20 hours worth of cliché phrases and boobies. We don't need more than that... Oh, maybe some explosions here and there, prolly some big guns too and nasty aliens to kick.

Cheers! 8)

 

[e-rock]

Does this mean the Duke Nukem forever has become the 9th wonder of the world?

 

[DM0407]

This makes Blizzard games look rushed...

 

[kenjiuchimura]

[citation][nom]Confused Stu[/nom]When I was young, I played the best games I've ever experienced on my Spectrum. So many of the games were amazing and even now I wish modern games could be as good. Then I bought a CD with an emulator and 1000 Spectrum games on it. All the ones I remember as excellent are now REALLY rubbish and pathetic.My point - some things are best left as remembered with Nostalgia only and should never be revisited. Maybe it's right that it's time Duke joined those who need to stay out of reach on the other side of the rose tinted glasses?[/citation]

If that was a reply to me: It wasn't just DN3D. I had played all the original side scrollers as well as DN Zero Hour, which I really enjoyed the atmosphere of, and also Shadow Warrior which used an updated DN3D engine (and to a lesser extent, a crappy game called Redneck Rampage). I also had fun building maps for both DN3D and SW. This all evolved from other games like Wolf 3D, Blake Stone, Doom, etc, where DN3D held king for quite a while for me, even after Quake 2 came out. Whether the game itself would turn out good or bad, it'd still be worth hearing Jon St. John's voice character again.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]ElCdt[/nom]"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And i´m all out of gum."[/citation]

Wrong!!! WRONG WRONG WRONG!

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all out of gum."

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]gr33nf00t[/nom]A good April Fool's would have been to say that StarCraft: Ghost has gone gold.[/citation]
But it DID go gold! It's locked up with Noah's Ark, Duke Nukem Forever, and a functioning wand of magic missle (with a rumored 13 charges!!).

 

[Gin Fushicho]

[citation][nom]tinmann[/nom]It was originally supposed to use the Quake 2 engine. It was rumored to be almost finished. Then they switched to the Unreal engine in mid stream. This has become the biggest joke in gaming history. We are more likely to see Sonic-The Hedge Hog in a first person shooter before Duke Nukem "Took Forever". When It's Done........Guess What? Sick a fork in it.....It's Done.[/citation]

They pretty much already did, except it was Shadow the hedgehog with guns. Don't believe me? Here is your hedgehog with guns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_the_Hedgehog_%28video_game%29

 

[nottheking]

A shame that DNF never really seemed to make it. At pretty much any point it was demonstrated, it looked, both graphically and gameplay-wise, worlds beyond anything else the gaming world had seen. I still remember the gameplay footage they had shown in 1999; the graphics were more comparable to what you'd expect out of late-cycle Xbox or PC games in 2003, or even as good as Half-Life 2, with what was certainly riveting gameplay, showing a variety of well-designed weapons, vehicles, environments, and the like.

Just a shame that we will never really know what it would've been like. Rest in peace, DNF. You will be missed.