3D Realms polishing up Duke Nukem Forever

9 September 2006

Posted by:Ferry

duke nukem forever boxart Duke Nukem Forever has been the subject of many jokes, but we’ll leave those for later. The still unreleased Duke Nukem game was first announced almost 10 years ago in April of 1997, and Shacknews speculated last month on the fate of the game after some key employee (who did physics, animation, rendering) departures from 3D Realms took place.

But that’s not the interesting part, this is, 3D Realms President George Broussard responded on the Shacknews message boards, insisting that development is going full steam ahead on Duke Nukem Forever: “Physics and animation systems are virtually finished and shippable. It’s simply maintenance and polish from here on out. We haven’t needed to make substantial changes to those systems in months. The changes we have made, were made without great effort. Things are never as bleak as they appear, as is often the case when you simply have one side of the story.” In the meantime, take a look at screenshots from back in 2000.

Duke Nukem Forever screenshot 1

So one could say the shooter is Duke Nukem Forever In Development. Hmm, let’s try that again… more like Duke Nukem ForNEVER! Haha ha ha…. Original post at Shacknews, via Gamedaily. Bigger pics at Firingsquad.

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http://aaag.2ya.com Y.V.Reetesh

its just for getting our hopes up and start talking about it again…. so that stock prices would rise:P I dont thing anything special is going to hapen, and the pics are WEAK, if the game is going to to look like that it better not be made at all.
supadupagama

Haha, Reetesh those pics are 7 years old!
http://aaag.2ya.com Y.V.Reetesh

what about the “we are working on Doom 3 engine………….wait … we are not” thing.. did they give fake pics on the doom 3 engine for the game too?
5thumbs

Even if it is everything that GB says it will/might be, after this much code-thrashing, it will be buggy. If they wrote it from scratch everytime they restarted, it will still likely suck.

If John Carmack (who was actively shipping games during the dev cycle of DNF) could scarcely make Doom 3 a hit in the eyes of gamers, how can an out-of-the-game bureaucrat like George Broussard hope to deliver something that is, at least current, and at best, a decent game (by current gaming standards?)

Let’s forever make the acronym for Duke Nukem Forever be remembered as “Did Not Finish”. (Sorry George…I believed in y’all for a lot of years, but even my naivety ran dry waiting.)

3D Realms is fat with cash, which is why they can take this long to release a game. Fat and happy is not a good state within which to be writing the next great PC/Xbox/etc game.

-5thumbs
Matt

The only reason 3D Realms is around these days is because of Duke Nukem 3D. Thats the only game they’ve developed and released in the last 10 years.

Plus, if you beleived they worked on DNF for the past 10 years, then you got some silliness in you (silliness isnt a word i know but neither is kronokenwartooth).

I just hope it comes out on the xbox 360 because playing games on the computer is more annoying than it should be.