Duke Nukem Forever: 2006?
 

::head explodes::

You know this is really not going to happen. This game is never going to be released. If it actually is, I bet you the graphics will be from like 10 years ago when they started making it.

What engine are they even using for it? Last I heard it was Source or Unreal 2, or Quake 3 or something.

That's the thing.
From what George Broussard is saying, he won't even bother showing it off so that him and his team can concentrate on finishing the game.

I'd guess that it's a rather modern engine though. Something along the lines of Unreal 3, Doom 3, Source, or even the Lithtech 'Jupiter EX' from FEAR.

It's time to remember. . the good times!

Duke Nukem 1998 E3 Trailer
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/3055

Duke Nukem 2991 E3 Trailer
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/3054

Yes, they're labelled wrong :X

The Duke Nukem Forever engine.

Oh, that game! Sheesh! Back in 1997 when I knew about it I was sooo happy to know a sequel to the great DN3D was to be made! But then, (around)nine years passed and it wasn't released yet. I kind of stopped waiting for it...

You know, a game that takes 9 years to be finished not only has to be good, it has to be a classic! It can't be released and turn out to be just another first person shooter.

I hope this game release it I'm wait since 1998,is look impossible but is still hopes.

I remember when it was even projected to be on the GC! Cause I had this preview magazine for when the Xbox and GC were coming out and Duke Nukem Forever was one of the GC games. That's why I primarily got a GC. Hoping for this game but damn. Nine years this game has been in development!:( Oh, well. We all can be hopeful, right?

There's always the chance that DN Forever is some sort of sociological experiment. How much time will the players wait for a game that will never be released.

I specially don't like the previous release date they had on 3DRealms' site: "when it's done" :/

I'm secretly hoping it's an utter trainwreck of a game. At this point, it has to either be spectacularly awesome, or spectacularly awful.

What publisher would let this drag on for nine years, though? There are fully completed games that have been axed for the sake of profit margins (or foolish preconceptions about profit margins). After five, they should have just pulled the plug.

Even though it's been a dreadfully long wait, I still have high hopes for the game. Duke Nukem 3D remains one of my favorite shooters ever and I just can't imagine 3D Realms screwing this up.

All it has to have is reasonably fun gameplay, unusual enemies/weapons/items, and great one liners and I'll be happy.

LOL, ain't that the truth...

Daikatana.

Now, now, don't be too harsh. Daikatana has half of that. I mean, it's a classic. In its own way.

Won't this game (and probably Daikatana) be ingrained in our memories forever, just for the sheer insanity of what has happened with it?

This could just be the best marketing strategy ever.

I'm looking forward to playing this when they port it to the Phantom console.

i'm not saying that Daikatana was bad... just that it didn't live up to the hype. i've actually got it installed on my machine...:biggrin:

any screens or scans from the magazine?

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

Yeah, that sounds more like the actual release date :p.

I don't know why you guys are speculating wether DN Forever will be a good game or not. Everyone knows it will win the "Game of the Year 2010" award.

The funny thing about this game is the fact that no versions of it have been leaked. Just watch, in 2010 it comes out and everyone is so blown away by the game, they'll think it'll take over a decade to make a decent game.
Of course Half-Life didn't take too long to develop, but it was a 20 hour game, DNF should clock in a 500 hours considering the time and energy put into it so far.

it's because there wasnt anything to leak :(.
There never was a game.

if this is really all a big hoax, i applaud them for pulling off one of the most awesome video game hoaxes in video game history...

unfortunately that doesnt make any sense :(

Phantom is probably a bigger hoax.

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. ;)

yeah, good point, gg :p

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 ->

http://home.tiscali.be/silvio/voodoo...s/V5-6000.jpeg
http://www.voodoo3dfx.com/Fotos/Prot...ntel%201x4.jpg

Quad core FTW :p

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.

I still like Daikatana. No matter what anyone says.

GTFO.

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.

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...

OSHITUPDATE
 

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

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.

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? :rolleyes: I guess the moral of this story is really that if you want to make a game for PS9, you'd better start now... :D

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...

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!

It was originally developed for the Sega Saturn. Honestly, if it really came out for that console, the graphics would've been so utterly next gen. They ended up canning it and bringing it to DC with a new design for the main character (in the previous one he was just a kid). You can see gameplay videos for it if you complete Shenmue II and wait till the end credits finish.

Shenanegans. The companies who would do something like this are all bankrupt now. Acclaim, 3D0, and their ilk are gone. Nobody still in the game would do something that stupid.

I bet for 2007
 

Otherwise, why not Duke Nukem on 2006? I think 3drealms should put a period on this story. I think the warning "When it be done" must be hung up on their website from 2004 or so on. They have enough money, enough time and enough players wanting to play a new duke's adventure. Why not to finish their work? After all, I think there are a lot of engines to give Duke a good place to move around.

http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/pc/game...sectionId=1006

If this game isn't out by the end of the year then we will never ever see it, this is proof

Who is offering it? Why would the company be desperate for THAT SMALL an amount of money?

No. It's not going to happen.

That would be Take-Two interactive, the publisher. Also, it's not $500,000, it's 4.75 MILLION. (Source). But I still don't see the game coming out this year.

Hmm, my first and last impression of gamesradar.com:

FAIL

If they haven't been able to finish one damn game in nine years, dangling money in front of the development staff isn't going to help.

I agree MK. This game is DOOMed.

What the hell did you just say?

But yeah, the article does make sense. People have waited for so long that they no longer care. It's like Twilight Princess but with no progress. It's a shame because I enjoyed the Duke Nuken (for about, 3 hours) on the PS1, but yeah I just don't see this happening. If they know the audience isn't going to care, I don't know why they would bother.

Saturn, actually. There's a video on youtube showing Shenmue in Saturn form. The same thing happened with ICO, which was developed during the PS1's life, and released for the PS2. Again, a video of that is on youtube.