Duke Nukem Forever video (NSFW language)

[Hoopz]

It'd be nice if TakeTwo or whoever owns 3D Realms now would finish and release this game.

[SNAAKE]

got a headace from watching that video. I think I need a nap..

[Malenko]

the guy trying to do duke's voice is trying too hard, sounds horrible. I do a better impression.

[AtomSmasher]

the guy trying to do duke's voice is trying too hard, sounds horrible. I do a better impression.

I remember reading that the footage from that video is actual gameplay footage leaked from the former 3D Realms, but all of the audio was faked and not from the game.

[Hoopz]

Duke Nukem Forever to be released May 3rd, pigs begin to fly

Today appears to be a snowy day in hell. On the same morning that European streaming music service Spotify has finally broken a years-long stalemate with the big music labels and defied everyone’s expectations by signing a real deal with a major music label, Duke Nukem Forever — the most famous piece of vaporware software in history — has finally gotten a release date that isn’t “when it’s done.”

“Somehow the guys at Game Informer magazine discovered Duke Nukem Forever’s launch date before I did,” joked Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software and executive producer of Duke Nukem Forever. “But I cannot imagine any better video game news source team than Game Informer to reveal the moment of truth for the most inconceivable, incorrigible and inspiring turn around story in the history of the video game industry – the coming of Duke Nukem Forever on May 3, 2011.”

That’s only about three months from now, although the rest of the world will have to wait until May 6th.

Needless to say, 2K Games is thrilled, since they’ve been trying to get this game out for over a decade.

“The moment fans all over the world have been waiting for is almost here,” says Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “May 3, 2011 marks Duke’s return as he unleashes his brash and brutally honest wit on the world. His return is going to be epic and one that will make video gaming history!”

There’s a lot of words to describe Duke — a video game character known for using spurting neck as toilets and shaking dollar bills at every stripper who jiggles by — but I’m not sure “wit” is one of them, Christoph.

Either way, mark the date: according to the Mayan prophecies, May 3rd, 2011 is the date of the end times. Duke Nukem Forever is going gold.

[opt2not]

Here's the newest video trailer released today:


I think it looks pretty good...and the one liners are pretty hilarious.

[Ginsu Victim]

Saw this earlier and I CAN'T ---smurfing--- WAIT! It looks great.

[SavannahLion]

Holy


---smurfing---


---steaming pile of meadow muffin---


Is this real?!?

I've been looking forward to this game since I have no clue when. It had better be real.

[Ginsu Victim]

Yeah it's real. The guys who made Borderlands did it.

[SavannahLion]

Yeah it's real. The guys who made Borderlands did it.

And then God schedules the Second Coming on May 7, 2011.

[Hoopz]

Yeah it's real. The guys who made Borderlands did it.

And then God schedules the Second Coming on May 7, 2011.

If you're scheduling a sick day for work, plan for the 3rd not the 7th....   

[Malenko]

it actually looks pretty good. Seems like the humor is there too.


Hmmmm, dont have time to play with myself.

[Hoopz]

it actually looks pretty good. Seems like the humor is there too.


Hmmmm, dont have time to play with myself.

I would say that sounds like a customer title but the last time I said that, Saint showed his sense of humor.

[Malenko]

I would say that sounds like a customer title but the last time I said that, Saint showed his sense of humor.

You're a trouble maker (and an inspiration for birth control!)

srsly though, sooooo many great one liners in that game.

[Hoopz]

srsly though, sooooo many great one liners in that game.

Duke Nukem 3D was awesome because of Duke.  He had more personality than all other FPS put together.  The jet pack, shrinker, etc made deathmatch much different than Quake too.

[SavannahLion]

Yeah it's real. The guys who made Borderlands did it.

And then God schedules the Second Coming on May 7, 2011.

If you're scheduling a sick day for work, plan for the 3rd not the 7th....   

I'm pre-ordering it. Maybe ill get it thes time

[Howard_Casto]

I would say that sounds like a customer title but the last time I said that, Saint showed his sense of humor.

You're a trouble maker (and an inspiration for birth control!)

srsly though, sooooo many great one liners in that game.

Personally I never found Duke to be funny or even clever.  If ripping-off on liners of far more personable and memorable characters several years after the fact and spewing them out at random is considered funny then I'm the frikkin funniest guy I know.  I always saw duke as a lame doom with strippers.  Because of the strippers and the fact that most doom fans were teenagers... duke sold well.   

[opt2not]

Personally I never found Duke to be funny or even clever.  If ripping-off on liners of far more personable and memorable characters several years after the fact and spewing them out at random is considered funny then I'm the frikkin funniest guy I know.  I always saw duke as a lame doom with strippers.  Because of the strippers and the fact that most doom fans were teenagers... duke sold well.   

I've always liked Duke 3D for it's weapons, and the ability to look up and shoot -- unlike Doom. This is where I feel it was a step ahead in the deathmatch dept. Also, the option of co-operative play through the campaign was also really well done for it's time (with the ability to save progress!). Top that off with a cool visual level editor, and you've got a lot of replay value.

Yeah, he's not funny nor clever, and definitely not a replacement for Ash...but its pretty cool when you hear him say "hail to the king baby" after pipe-bombing 8+ enemies at once.

I'm glad they kept that cheesy macho-testosterone vibe of the original, just like 80's action movies, it's a guilty pleasure to enjoy for me

[Malenko]

Personally I never found Duke to be funny or even clever.

x 2

-1

What are you? Some kind of bottom feeding scum sucking algae eater?

[NiN^_^NiN]

I love in the video the monsters there naked and he still goes "id still hit it" dukes back baby

I use to play duke when he was just a 2d platformer then when duke 3d came along whoa baby it changed everything totally different from doom even tho the concepts are kinda the same

Shame Rise of the Triad wasnt as popular that weapons in the game like the hand of god where fantastic

Now i feel like playing duke 3d on the big screen

[WhereEaglesDare]

OH MAN I totally forgot about RotT.  That game was awesome!  I was up late playing it all the time about 15 years ago.

Now that is a game that needs a Redux!

[RayB]

For the record, the developers just finished off what 3D Realms had already done (that they were forced to hand over to the publisher).

It was in a complete enough state for years, but 3D Realms' Broussard was too paranoid that it wasn't good enough.

Good read here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1

[SavannahLion]

Because of the strippers and the fact that most doom fans were teenagers... duke sold well.   

Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- dude, if you got your jacks off looking at the strippers in DN3D then you were obviously wearing your grandmothers prescription eye glasses by mistake. There was far better looking gif porn on usenet or the BBs at the time.

Most of my friends and I played games like DN3D and RotT because the requirements could be run on all of our PCs. (I think RotT had some sort of unique licensing that allowed more than one installation without resorting to warez but I can't quite recall). In a nut shell, not all of us (at the time) could afford to compete fairly in GLQuake and those who could run GLQuake didn't want to step down to Quake to be on equal footings with those on less capable systems. Hell, I didn't even get my first GL capable card until Unreal was released in '98. By then, I could afford to splurge for two Voodoo2 cards.

As for the one liners... well, they're so cheesy they're pretty cool.

[RayB]

Let's give credit where credit is due. When Duke came out, they did several "WOW" things in the game that the previous king of FPS's (Doom) did not. It was "real" 3D in that you could have areas above other areas (Doom was 2.5D in that respect). I loved that there were tons of things to interact with in the world. No other game before it could let you demolish an entire building, trigger avalanches, working movie theatre, etc... Sure they were "scripted" events you could only activate where it was designed to, but it did a lot for the enjoyment and story, and no FPS did it before Duke.  It was also the first FPS I played that had working mirrors! And entering a bathroom, opening a door and finding a monster sitting on the john... that was hilarious! All this for a "shareware" price tag too.

[SavannahLion]

Oh yeah. The working mirrors. There aren't a whole lot of FPS games that use mirrors that I can recall. Even the FPS games that faked mirrors had to make do with the limitations on the engine.

Remember how many user maps ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up the mirror maps? It's like those morons only read half the manual the decided to plop the mirror smack dab in the middle a half finished map.

When I tore up my old desk three years ago I found a bunch of DN3D BUILD notes under about ten years worth of notes and phone numbers. It was kind of funny to find the conversion numbers.

[Paladin]

Anyone play Shadow Warrior?

'Who want's some Wang?"

[SavannahLion]

Anyone play Shadow Warrior?

'Who want's some Wang?"

LOL, totally forgot about that game. No, I never played it. Can't remember why though. Wasn't there some controversy surrounding the game release or some such?

Checked the Wikipedia and the damn thing is sorely out of date.

The third one, Deadly Kiss from SillySoft remains unreleased, but screenshots were released on January, 1998.[10] Unlike other add-ons, the release of Deadly Kiss may be completely canceled.

Yeah... I'd say so. 

The Linux port has my attention though. I'll have to check into that.

[NiN^_^NiN]

Anyone play Shadow Warrior?

'Who want's some Wang?"

You want to wash wang? or your want to watch wang wash wang?

LOL i loved that game it was an asian themed duke (used the same engine)

It had some good one liners in that too

As for controversy it was the stereotyping of Asians in the game

Now for Commander Keen 3d to be released lol

[Mikezilla]

I would say that sounds like a customer title but the last time I said that, Saint showed his sense of humor.

You're a trouble maker (and an inspiration for birth control!)

srsly though, sooooo many great one liners in that game.

Personally I never found Duke to be funny or even clever.  If ripping-off on liners of far more personable and memorable characters several years after the fact and spewing them out at random is considered funny then I'm the frikkin funniest guy I know.  I always saw duke as a lame doom with strippers.  Because of the strippers and the fact that most doom fans were teenagers... duke sold well.   

Do you like anything that ISNT Nintendo related?! Jesus. Duke was great because it was TRYING to be cheesy and it pulled it off. The developers even said that he was a combo of John Wayne, Clist Eastwood, and Arnold. The jetpack was great, like hoopz mentioned, it made deathmatch not so boring or repetitive. I used to like setting traps with the pipebombs. The whole dynamic was great. I cant wait for this to come out, the trailer had me sold. Duke sold well because it was an awesome game. It had a bunch of pop culture references too. My favorite was when you had to crawl in the conveyor and you saw the terminator skeleton and duke was like "whoa terminated". Doom is so damn overrated anyway. Did the dude from doom even have a name?

[opt2not]

Did the dude from doom even have a name?

The Rock? 

[Mikezilla]

Haha that WAS funny! 

[jipp]

yeah, i liked duke for the pure cheese.  will def be getting this.  even tho for some reason i thought it was released and just forgot about it. 

chris.

[Hoopz]

Slight delay in it's availability.  

The release date was changed from May 3 (May 6 for outside the U.S.) to June 14 for the States and June 10 (for the international release).

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

Slight delay in it's availability.  

The release date was changed from May 3 (May 6 for outside the U.S.) to June 14 for the States and June 10 (for the international release).

That's some epic douchebaggery right there. So not only is it slipped, but there will be a 100% piracy rate in the US for 4 days? What is this I don't even

[Mikezilla]

Slight delay in it's availability.  

The release date was changed from May 3 (May 6 for outside the U.S.) to June 14 for the States and June 10 (for the international release).

That's some epic douchebaggery right there. So not only is it slipped, but there will be a 100% piracy rate in the US for 4 days? What is this I don't even

---goshdarn--- it. Oh well, waited over a decade, I guess another month wont matter.

[NiN^_^NiN]

Whats interesting is now US gets it after the international release where US were the first to get it.

[Howard_Casto]

I would say that sounds like a customer title but the last time I said that, Saint showed his sense of humor.

You're a trouble maker (and an inspiration for birth control!)

srsly though, sooooo many great one liners in that game.

Personally I never found Duke to be funny or even clever.  If ripping-off on liners of far more personable and memorable characters several years after the fact and spewing them out at random is considered funny then I'm the frikkin funniest guy I know.  I always saw duke as a lame doom with strippers.  Because of the strippers and the fact that most doom fans were teenagers... duke sold well.   

Do you like anything that ISNT Nintendo related?! Jesus. Duke was great because it was TRYING to be cheesy and it pulled it off. The developers even said that he was a combo of John Wayne, Clist Eastwood, and Arnold. The jetpack was great, like hoopz mentioned, it made deathmatch not so boring or repetitive. I used to like setting traps with the pipebombs. The whole dynamic was great. I cant wait for this to come out, the trailer had me sold. Duke sold well because it was an awesome game. It had a bunch of pop culture references too. My favorite was when you had to crawl in the conveyor and you saw the terminator skeleton and duke was like "whoa terminated". Doom is so damn overrated anyway. Did the dude from doom even have a name?

I didn't even see this. 

50% of the games I own are on the 360 and not the wii.  I like the 360. I like many games on the 360.  I like many pc games as well.  I'm anti-sony if that's what you mean, simply because I can coun't the games that I like that were sony exclusives on my one hand.  Mind you I prefer the wii games, but that's just because nintendo's first party titles are superior to anything else.

See the problem here is a difference of opinion.  I am aware Duke was supposed to be cheesy.  It did NOT succeed though.  It's "humor" fell flat on the floor 90% of the time.  Doom is Duke's father, no Duke without doom.. no fps without doom and therefore doom can NEVER be overrated.  The Duke's multiplayer had it's moments, I'll give you that.  The problem is in those days if you played online you were on dialup.  Dialup sucks and therefore online multiplayer, at least at the time, was fairly irrelevant.

[Malenko]

See the problem here is a difference of opinion.  I am aware Duke was supposed to be cheesy.  It did NOT succeed though.  It's "humor" fell flat on the floor 90% of the time.  Doom is Duke's father, no Duke without doom.. no fps without doom and therefore doom can NEVER be overrated.

Yeah no one liked duke*, its not like they sold a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- ton of games, made expansion packs, some PSX sequels,etc. Glad you brought up doom, cause ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, there wouldnt be a Wolfenstein 3D without DooM. All joking aside, I think Quake is really started moving the FPS genre. 3D environments and 3D enemies, instead of flat 2D (cardboard standee) enemies



*It was named #37 overall among the "150 Best Games of All Time" by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996);
 It was voted #13 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue);
 The editors of PC Gamer ranked it #12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references;
 It was ranked #15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

[Hoopz]

Duke didn't fall flat on the humor.  Each episode was littered with a variety of humorous items.  Just because you didn't like it, doesn't mean that it failed 90% of the time. 

And dialup in the mid to late 90s was not terrible for gaming on-line.  It wasn't broadband but games were optimized for online play.  Hell, I remember getting the Quake Test and playing online.  Duke was fun online as was Quake.  Why even bring Doom into the equation?  If you want to compare apples to oranges, then you can also say that Duke's levels were much more interactive than Doom/Quake, the variety was much better, and the weapons absolutely put id's to shame. 

Then you can also say that the graphics in Quake were much better than in Duke and that id's dedicated servers were better than playing Duke online thru Heat. 

Each generation of games have the best ever.  Doom was revolutionary but so was Zork.  Half-Life was head and shoulders above _____ (Fill in the blank with whatever game).  COD is 150000% better than X game.  Whatever.

[Mikezilla]

I would say that sounds like a customer title but the last time I said that, Saint showed his sense of humor.

You're a trouble maker (and an inspiration for birth control!)

srsly though, sooooo many great one liners in that game.

Personally I never found Duke to be funny or even clever.  If ripping-off on liners of far more personable and memorable characters several years after the fact and spewing them out at random is considered funny then I'm the frikkin funniest guy I know.  I always saw duke as a lame doom with strippers.  Because of the strippers and the fact that most doom fans were teenagers... duke sold well.   

Do you like anything that ISNT Nintendo related?! Jesus. Duke was great because it was TRYING to be cheesy and it pulled it off. The developers even said that he was a combo of John Wayne, Clist Eastwood, and Arnold. The jetpack was great, like hoopz mentioned, it made deathmatch not so boring or repetitive. I used to like setting traps with the pipebombs. The whole dynamic was great. I cant wait for this to come out, the trailer had me sold. Duke sold well because it was an awesome game. It had a bunch of pop culture references too. My favorite was when you had to crawl in the conveyor and you saw the terminator skeleton and duke was like "whoa terminated". Doom is so damn overrated anyway. Did the dude from doom even have a name?

I didn't even see this. 

50% of the games I own are on the 360 and not the wii.  I like the 360. I like many games on the 360.  I like many pc games as well.  I'm anti-sony if that's what you mean, simply because I can coun't the games that I like that were sony exclusives on my one hand.  Mind you I prefer the wii games, but that's just because nintendo's first party titles are superior to anything else.

See the problem here is a difference of opinion.  I am aware Duke was supposed to be cheesy.  It did NOT succeed though.  It's "humor" fell flat on the floor 90% of the time.  Doom is Duke's father, no Duke without doom.. no fps without doom and therefore doom can NEVER be overrated.  The Duke's multiplayer had it's moments, I'll give you that.  The problem is in those days if you played online you were on dialup.  Dialup sucks and therefore online multiplayer, at least at the time, was fairly irrelevant.

I forgot about this.   

Youre right, it IS a difference of opinion, but you just THOUGHT it didnt succeed, when cleary, it did.  Maybe you just didnt get the humor, or maybe youre one of those weird computer people that dont think anything is funny because youre too smart. Or youre super dry, when obviously that type of humor doesnt work. Look at all the accolades Malenko posted in his post. Where is Doom now? Is it still relevant today? I only played as far as Doom 2 on the PC, but I remember when Doom 3 came out it was lackluster at best. Everyone whined that the graphics were too intensive, and that was about it. Just because dialup sucks doesnt mean the multiplayer sucks. You didnt even NEED high bandwidth for that game, thats the beauty of it. Besides, it was only deathmatch against 1 other person I believe, thats how my friend and I played anyway. Hell, the main reason that game had awesome replay value was because of the multiplayer. We are in an arcade forum, I dont believe the need for any kind of connectivity will count that much in sense of "multiplayer" anyway.  I agree with the notion that Quake was the game that truly ushered in the 3d FPS.

I totally agree with everything Hoopz just said as I was writing this post. Oh, and Duke could aim up and down. And Duke has a name, and its a helluva lot better than "The Rock".