Duke Nukem Forever: 2006?

This game has been in production so long... that we'll all need to install a VESA 2.0 layer over the top of our graphics drivers to play it when it's released.

Originally Posted by Zip

Phantom is probably a bigger hoax.

yeah, good point, gg

Originally Posted by speculative

This game has been in production so long... that we'll all need to install a VESA 2.0 layer over the top of our graphics drivers to play it when it's released.

VESA would be an overkill, however, a 3dfx Glide wrapper may come handy.

Everyone bust out your Voodoo video cards for this bad boy...the graphics of yester-year are gonna be great!

This game isn't ever going to happen.

Oh yeah, baby ->




Quad core FTW

Aren't there any screenshots or other pictures about this game somewhere? If it's going to be released this year, there should be some screenshots already.

Nobody knows for certain if it's really going to be released this year or even next year. They have also stated that they would start releasing screenshots and everything when they knew the game was near completion, which it obviously isn't right now.

Originally Posted by Azral

p.s.
Daikatana was so terrible it was legendary... John Romero was just plain silly when he made that game.

I still like Daikatana. No matter what anyone says.

Originally Posted by Umma

Aren't there any screenshots or other pictures about this game somewhere? If it's going to be released this year, there should be some screenshots already.

Originally Posted by The Article in the OP

3DR's George Broussard also demonstrated world interactivity that includes Duke standing in front of a computer and emailing the player, if he provides his email address for the game. But, according to the piece, Broussard was bashful, overall, about showing off the game, commenting: "The problem is that when we show it, people are going to be like, 'Yeah, whatever'. Honestly, at this point we just want to finish it."

GTFO.

Originally Posted by Nukkus

I still like Daikatana. No matter what anyone says.

Stop doing that in my thread.

Duke Nukem Forever will rock the house...because it's not some crap ass game like Daikatana.
And you know what? Duke will even make a reference to that game, somehow. Like, in one of his awesome quotes.

Quote:

Posted by Matt
Duke Nukem Forever will rock the house...because it's not some crap ass game like Daikatana.
And you know what? Duke will even make a reference to that game, somehow. Like, in one of his awesome quotes.

Yes, yes, of course he will. And it'll be so awesome he'll jump right out of the screen and you'll go mow down some aliens together then kick back at the titty bar and have a beer in celebration.

There there. It'll be all right Matt.

I hope we see something at E3, but I remember reading that they'd never show anything at E3 again...

This is taken from an interview with 3DRealms' Scott Miller, fully readable here.

Quote:

THR: You must have done even better with your "Duke Nukem" franchise.

Miller: Oh, absolutely. Back in 1996, it took us two years and $350,000 to build the first "Duke" game. Of course, things were a lot different back then. And we've recently been offered $80 million for the franchise.

THR: What about the latest "Duke" game ... the one that seems to be taking forever to build?

Miller: We've put about $7.5 million into that and we've been working on it since late 1998. So it really hasn't been that much of an investment. And once it comes out, if it's as successful as we think it'll be, we'll make that money back in the first day or two of sales.

THR: 1998? You've been working on it for eight years?

Miller: I know, I know. It's embarrassing.

THR: Maybe you can explain to readers who don't know the games industry why it should take that long to make a game.

Miller: It shouldn't. And I'm dumbfounded myself. A huge part of the problem is that it's really hard hiring good developers to come to Dallas. This place used to be a hotbed of game development. But, nowadays, people seem to want to go to Austin instead. Plus we have this reputation now -- that our games don't ever come out, so ...

For being so long into development, it hasn't really cost them that much.

Hopefully someone will spill the beans with release info soon.
I was disappointed when I didn't see anything from them at E3. No demos, demonstrations, nada.

Hasn't cost them *that* much? That all depends on how much money the final game makes them. 7.5M to not make the game, or let's guess, 3M to make and ship it. So with the number I made up, they would have saved/made an additional 4.5M assuming games of equal gross. Now, if that 7.5M actually improved the product, or even resulted in anything saleable, then things might be different.

Was DNF actually at E3 this year?

As a comparison. Shenmue was 7 years in development and cost somewhere between 30 and 70 million dollars US.

I'm pretty sure DNF wasn't at E3 this year, but they've said time and time again that they don't want to show it off until it's done, so they don't get distracted. Don't forget, it takes time to make demos and videos and such, and they just want to get it done at this point.

I wouldn't be surprised if that interview is dead-on about hiring troubles for them. With the way the project is going, I can imagine it's hard to hire new people for DNF development.

The only thing I'm afraid of now that it'll be released on an ancient engine like a certain OTHER development hell game *COUGHDAIKATANACOUGH*. I don't wanna be killing pig cops on the Unreal engine.

Originally Posted by RABicle

As a comparison. Shenmue was 7 years in development and cost somewhere between 30 and 70 million dollars US.

wtf? I just don't get these long development times. 7 years before Shenmue's release there wasn't even a Dreamcast around. What did they develop it on, Amigas? I guess the moral of this story is really that if you want to make a game for PS9, you'd better start now...

If DNF is still a "real" game that will really come out someday, they will probably have ported it to 4 different engines just to keep up with the times by the time it gets released...

Originally Posted by Zip

Phantom is probably a bigger hoax.

lol, good one i like that.

Anyway, i think the Duke Nukem Forever might not make it to 2006, but it will come out none the less, i think that they have something going for them that they don't wanna mess up which is why it is taking so long. I saw a trailer for it (not the best graphics) but the game looked phenomenal, it was everything people wished for in a better looking version of the game. In honesty, the game may be just like another Stalker in the sense that it will keep having to re-do it's graphics when better engines come out but if they can just tap the game into Unreal 2007 engine then i believe that DNF might just be the kind of game the world has been waiting for!