DNF dev calls E3 'irrelevant,' kettle black

by Jason Dobson on Jun 30th 2008 10:00PM

Please ignore the noise coming from the kitchen, dear readers. That's just a little pot called 3D Realms calling next month's kettle of a conference, the E3 Media and Business Summit, black. Scott Miller, the head honcho at the Texas-based dev, recently spoke out against the annual event in hilarious fashion, calling the gathering "irrelevant" while confirming that 3D Realms' perpetually-delayed Duke Nukem Forever would not be shown. Shocking!

"In fact," he added. "I wasn't even aware it was coming up." On the one hand, we're left agape at the sheer irony of his words. On the other hand, however, this is coming from a company whose primary contribution to the industry is the poster child for inconsequential flotsam so – keeping that in mind – it seems reasonable that 3D Realms knows 'irrelevant' when it sees it.

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Tags: 3d-realms, 3drealms, dnf, duke-nukem, duke-nukem-forever, dukenukem, dukenukemforever, e3-2008, PC

Reader Comments (60)

This is coming from the people who take decades to make 1 game.

So we now assumed that Duke Nukem Forever have Devs?

'"In fact," he added. "I wasn't even aware it was coming up."'

I can believe that. I bet time stands still in their offices.

"This is coming from the people who take decades to make 1 game."

AND THAT'S THE JOKE, FOLKS.

DAMN! and I was hoping for another DNF E3 trailer, been 8 years since we had one.

Ehh... This is old news. I think even the source is a few days late. I could be wrong, but I know it's kind of old.

It is. Very old :/

Last Friday is "very old"? You've both just earned yourselves a ban.

Owned.

Grant is laying down the law!

Those guys are inspiration for birth control.
What are they? Some bottom-feeding, scum sucking algae eaters?

Banned Guy 1: “Who… the.. hell are you?”
Christopher Grant: “I’m Chris Grant and I’m coming to get the rest of you alien bastards!”

So by now you have guessed I can’t wait for Duke Nukem Forever, this is sad news indeed.

Can you smell what Christopher Grant is cooking?!

Is a popular internet dish called Ownag3 served with fresh ban.It is best served cold.

That's pretty childish of you for banning people because they point out your story is old. Yes something 3 days old is old when you're working in news, especially on the internet and about technology.

I don't really care if it's old or not. Although you should try to get stuff up as fast as possible. I just don't think those people should be banned.

lol ban hammer in full effect. old or not, i hadn't heard it yet. i usually just stick to the Stiq for my game news, so if they dont report it, then its usually new to me when it gets here.

I find their comments a bit swallow and pedantic.

Perhaps.

Yes, Shallow and pedantic... *put pipe back in mouth*

*Fixes tie.

"Ahem"

Gentlemen.

Now that we've established and agreed upon 3D Realms' pedanticalness, perhaps we can discuss Wittgenstein over a late game of backgammon?

o_q hmm...

Hrmm... yes.

Wittgenstein's philosophies bring a tantalizing though to mind: How can we meaningfully discuss Mr. Nukem' if a distinct lack of information exists?

What say you gentlemen?

*swills brandy

Hey, you kinda plagiarized me bub.

http://www.destructoid.com/when-the-pot-calls-the-kettle-black-3d-realms-and-duke-nukem-forever-92852.phtml

Please fix.

I don't think using a phrase that has been around for like a million years is really considered plagiarism.

Are you serious? I didn't realize you made up that phrase! Incredible.

Seriously though, please don't come back.

Fail.

Oh Gee Brad, you invented that phrase? I had always wondered it's origins for decades. I knew William Penn didn't say it, he's such a liar as is everyone from the 17th century.

Hey GIT OUTTA HERE! We don't TOLERATE *YER* kind 'round these parts!

THAT'S RIGHT! YOU *BETTER* RUN!
*shoots guns into air*

As night descends on the world-weary citizens of the Joystiq Nation they cringe and almost unconciously turn toward the fleeting light, wordlessly beseeching it to stay. Who will protect them from mindless trolls, dipshits shouting "old news" and the myriad blog terrors that go bump in the night? And then He is there, like a God of light clothed in all of His awful majesty, wielding His Ban Hammer with all of its terrible power. Chris Grant is there, and the Joystiq Nation no longer fears the dark.

Oooooh – I want to see a Chris Grant v. Bashcraft Banhammer Battle.

HAHA! Y'see that's funny 'cause first the guy from the Destructoid and then the Kotaku and...yeah.

You give the name "Brad"...well...a bad name.

This article is so true, and IMHO, not nearly harsh enough. More sarcasm, more irony, more more more.

And more puns.

People are going to be so let down when this game comes out. I agree Duke Nukem was awesome back in the day, but I mean, really, what did we have to compare it too?

I'll be let down if it ever actually comes out. What will we make fun of next?

The PS3?

Hey, did ya'll notice that "DNF" can also mean:

Did
Not
Finish

yes, but that's just me.

He works in the industry and didn't know it was coming up? Even my MOM knew it was coming soon and I haven't mentioned anything about it to her.

Wait, now I'm assuming he actually works.....Speaking of working, how does 3D Realms pay their employees when they're making no revenue?

Years of "consulting" developers like Human Head and Remedy (that is, consulting them in how to make their games more delayed).

That, and Duke 3D made a ton of money. Oh, and I think Take 2 threw some cash at them at some point a couple of years ago.

I'm sure George has a red phone on his desk in case of emergencies...

"DELAY!!! DELAY GODDAMMIT DELAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!"

They're probably all mules for drug cartels.

He's right, it is irrelevant, even more so for small companies like 3D Realms. Why would they waste their time showing off one game and spend thousands on booths and travel expenses and all the other intricacies involved (and lost of potential development time on top of that)? They're game would end up getting swallowed up by the corporations who have 10-20 games on board to be shown.

The internet is the main medium now, and magazines are a thing of the past. All 3D realms has to do is plan a media blitz during a slow new period, and everyone gets the same information instantly instead of trying to stand out amongst the heavy hitters, like EA, Activision & the big three.

Oh wow, the comments today in this particular post are all kinds of gold.

Chris, you better watch out on Mr. Destructoid's copyright on pots calling kettles black. Don't use 'close but no cigar' or 'jack of all trades' anytime soon. Kotaku or GamePolitics might stop by next.

Hm, I mistakenly said Chris instead of Jason. My bad.

who cares. rock man 9 or mega man 9 is more important then this shitty ass game. And, rock/mega man 9 looks 1000 times better then this game.

Ooh, maybe DNF will be in 16 color EGA graphics and can only be run on DosBox!

Uhh yeah...

Go home Fanboy

That's very nice Scott now go back to work.

Duke Nukem: "If I'm not back in 10 years....... keep waiting."

*explosions followed by the song Grabbag*

Note: For those who don't know Grabbag is the Duke Nukem theme song.

Now this is how you kill a brand: by never actually using it and doing a yearly render to promote it.

the office boss at 3DRealms must be exactly like David Brent.

The best part is the DNF forums, with all the backslapping and fawning posts whenever George or Scott emerge to make some lofty pronouncement such as "E3? *Yawn* I didn't even know that was coming up"

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