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Duke Nukem Trilogy trailer redefines awesome
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Unfortunately, the redefinition is "something that sucks." We give credit to Apogee and 3D Realms for releasing a Duke Nukem Trilogy trailer without pre-rendered footage. In fact, it doesn't have any footage. Instead, you get flashing logos, people in gas masks, rawking metal guitar and a close-up of Duke's crotch (which we've spoiled in the image above -- and no, not this one). Educate yourself in the video, tucked safely away after the break.
[Thanks, Patrick]
[Thanks, Patrick]
Reader Comments (91)
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 8:52AM Zombienutz said
Wow. I need to go preorder that right now...
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 9:17AM (Unverified) said
Can they fall lower than this?
Yes. And they probably will.
Yes. And they probably will.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 9:23AM (Unverified) said
Seriously guys, who cares about content when you have that awesome Duke Nukem theme version playing? The guys obviously know what they're doing.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 9:53AM Snowman said
Tell me this was fan made...please!!!
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 10:24AM Nadril said
This is the best god damn thing I have ever seen.
I'll be buying this game. Two copies of it.
I'll be buying this game. Two copies of it.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 10:34AM alex3305 said
This looks like something that could be aired on South Park. And when the video is over Cartman would say "Lame...." nothing more, nothing less.
Damn you Apogee (nice logo though)!
Damn you Apogee (nice logo though)!
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 10:37AM (Unverified) said
I'm buying the game just because of this trailer.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 10:38AM (Unverified) said
HOOOOOOOOOLLLLY SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH************************************************TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 10:38AM Zombie3k said
This can't be real... surely it's a very late april fools right?
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 10:48AM (Unverified) said
This shows the extremely low IQ of gamers these days when maybe a third of the people that watch this get it.
3d realms jumped the shark years ago, and rather than wallowing in self-pity and lies, they've become the Leslie Nielson of developers.
And what is so bad about that...
so, I repeat.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLYYY
SH*******************************************************************************TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
3d realms jumped the shark years ago, and rather than wallowing in self-pity and lies, they've become the Leslie Nielson of developers.
And what is so bad about that...
so, I repeat.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLYYY
SH*******************************************************************************TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 11:45AM (Unverified) said
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm pretty sure this is the greatest marketing strategy ever.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 12:03PM Markster said
I hope they licensed this cover of Duke Nukem Jam from Vertexguy...
There's a video of him playing it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-y0MdPXslo
There's a video of him playing it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-y0MdPXslo
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 11:18AM (Unverified) said
Animated Gif the game!!
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 11:19AM Misfit Toy said
LOL...Worst. Trailer. Ever.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 11:22AM JCDoe said
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
WTF was that?!?!
WTF was that?!?!
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 11:56AM (Unverified) said
Let me blow all of your minds, after watching the trailer like three times I'm asking you. What If:
-The reason you can see the black skybox during the nuke at the beginning is that this is an actual in-game effect with dynamic HDR lighting?
-The Duke 3D nuclear symbol and all the fonts are real time bump mapped rendering of metal with crumpled paint and so on
-The sick gun shooting the mask dudes is the standard sidearm
-The guys with the gas masks look like Combine from Half-Life² because the game will be on Steam
-The "hiring" post on the 3DRealms blog a month ago brought them a new XboX360 programmer and some more incentive to go gold somewhere around 2025.
Either some of that or my brain has melted from so much involuntary awesomeness. Don't you know how hard it is to make a lame ass shitty trailer if you are actually pretty good at what you are doing? (And Prey was pretty fucking sweet).
-The reason you can see the black skybox during the nuke at the beginning is that this is an actual in-game effect with dynamic HDR lighting?
-The Duke 3D nuclear symbol and all the fonts are real time bump mapped rendering of metal with crumpled paint and so on
-The sick gun shooting the mask dudes is the standard sidearm
-The guys with the gas masks look like Combine from Half-Life² because the game will be on Steam
-The "hiring" post on the 3DRealms blog a month ago brought them a new XboX360 programmer and some more incentive to go gold somewhere around 2025.
Either some of that or my brain has melted from so much involuntary awesomeness. Don't you know how hard it is to make a lame ass shitty trailer if you are actually pretty good at what you are doing? (And Prey was pretty fucking sweet).
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 11:57AM (Unverified) said
From that trailer I think there are 3 Duke Nukem games included in Trilogy but which ones?
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 12:07PM Mabans said
Silly, irreverent and awesome. ALL things Duke Nukem! Anyone who doesn't get this isn't and wasn't a fan of Duke Nukem, ever. This is what this game is about, DUH! God why do people need everything to be SPELLED out for them. Good Job Apogee!!
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 12:36PM Roto13 said
My favourite part was the slideshow of gas masks they found on Google.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 12:36PM warmonk said
WOW, that is the most useless video trailer ever! It's like they're trying to blind us with flashing logos and make us forget that there's nothing else in this video!
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 1:01PM (Unverified) said
I came back to this thread hoping the IQ level of Joystiq would magically increase an hour or two later...it didn't.
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Posted: Jul 17th 2008 12:40PM dv8withn8 said
. . .
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 1:21PM (Unverified) said
What the fuck?
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 1:26PM (Unverified) said
Is this a joke? The Game Trailers intro to the video was more intresting to watch than this trash.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 1:48PM brad77 said
That was fucking awesome.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 1:54PM The Fuzz 53 said
I'm convinced some sick fuck bought the Duke Nukem franchise and is doing this to screw with our emotions for his own personal enjoyment.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 1:54PM The Fuzz 53 said
I'm convinced some sick fuck bought the Duke Nukem franchise and is doing this to screw with our emotions for his own personal enjoyment.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 2:52PM (Unverified) said
Awesome. Awesome to the max.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 3:14PM (Unverified) said
The only things I can think of that take up and waste more of my time and have even LESS actual content than this are speeches by and adds for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 3:12PM (Unverified) said
ok that was ghey
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 3:17PM Wubbytoes said
WTF
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 3:38PM (Unverified) said
Why does this game keep reemerging?
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 4:11PM (Unverified) said
It's like the 90's came back from no wear and punched me in the nuts. I love the 90's.....
Posted: Jul 17th 2008 7:47PM (Unverified) said
Took me a moment to realise what they were doing, but... Awesome!
Posted: Jul 18th 2008 1:00AM Omega2k3 said
How many games have been developed and released since Forever's inception?
Posted: Jul 18th 2008 8:44PM (Unverified) said
Does anyone else hear that squeaking noise..? It sounds just like turds being polished. Over and over.
Duke was barely funny the first time round, now it's truly embarassing. I really hope this is a piss-take. Oh, no. actually, it IS a piss-take, no matter where it came from.
Duke was barely funny the first time round, now it's truly embarassing. I really hope this is a piss-take. Oh, no. actually, it IS a piss-take, no matter where it came from.
Posted: Jul 21st 2008 2:05PM (Unverified) said
You are missing the point. This was done in 16k.
Best 16k demo I have seen.
Best 16k demo I have seen.
Posted: Jul 23rd 2008 2:59AM (Unverified) said
I think I had an abortion that looked like that once, except the abortion didn't destroy a company.
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