3D Realms unwraps new Duke Nukem Forever image
by Randy Nelson 
{ Dec 18th 2008 at 9:30PM }
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Perhaps worse than not getting the gift you've asked for is getting a raincheck for it. Although we appreciate the sentiment behind 3D Realms releasing a new image containing in-game creatures from Duke Nukem Forever, the fact that another holiday season has come (and almost gone) without the game actually being released can't be ignored.Still, if you'd like to have a reminder of promises unfulfilled staring back at you every time you look at your monitor, the 3D Realms site has the image in all shapes and sizes. Us, we'll pass ... and celebrate the holidays the good old fashioned way.
Gallery: Duke Nukem Forever (yes, really)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Okane @ Dec 18th 2008 9:37PM
YES
Tiptup300 @ Dec 18th 2008 10:59PM
Splitscreen Co-op or GTFO
DemonGSides @ Dec 18th 2008 11:26PM
Agreed. Loved every game in the series, except Manhattan, since I never played it.
offday @ Dec 18th 2008 11:41PM
NO.
It's taken them over 10 years just to give us a few screenshots. Get to freaking work already.
whookid @ Dec 19th 2008 7:26AM
Not to mention that in those screenshots Duke Nukem has become a blonde haired version of Bruce Willis..
Travis @ Dec 18th 2008 9:38PM
I Can't Wait...
Oh Yeah. Nevermind.
Shagittarius @ Dec 19th 2008 2:10PM
Less Screen shots MOAR WORK!
The Dark Wayne @ Dec 18th 2008 9:38PM
Does anyone else feel like this is gonna be one of those forever development games that really sucks?
Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 18th 2008 9:39PM
Which others come to mind?
Turd Ferguson (formerly antsmarching) @ Dec 18th 2008 9:42PM
too human
Okane @ Dec 18th 2008 9:42PM
Haze
doc j @ Dec 18th 2008 9:51PM
Daikatana, obviously.
I'd be surprised if something out-disappointed that game.
Ihavepants @ Dec 18th 2008 9:53PM
Half-Life 2
:>
Ihavepants @ Dec 18th 2008 10:55PM
I didn't think my joke was *that* terrible =/.
I was expecting more indifference.
Poisoned Al @ Dec 18th 2008 11:47PM
Prey.
Poisoned Al @ Dec 18th 2008 11:52PM
(I would have said S.T.A.L.K.E.R, but while it was rough around the edges, it was by no means bad.)
Ihavepants @ Dec 19th 2008 12:20AM
I would say the exact same thing about Prey.
Vidikron @ Dec 19th 2008 12:39AM
I liked Prey, STALKER on the other hand sucked. Not only was it a buggy POS, it was a mediocre FPS crossed with a mediocre RPG. The end result was crap. I'll never understand why so many PC guys love that game.
DiL @ Dec 19th 2008 2:12AM
iunno the only way they could possibly redeem themselves is if this game happens to turn out to be the greatest game of all time. anything less than that and its a disappointment
ryan @ Dec 19th 2008 7:23AM
Kameo.
deadpool @ Dec 19th 2008 8:20AM
doom3?
xGeneral DEATHx @ Dec 19th 2008 10:10AM
I was gonna say Prey, but someone beat me to it.
Lord Negatron @ Dec 19th 2008 10:17AM
and the DAIKATANA award goes to...
Looks to me that the hype train is still parked in the station.
Antagonist @ Dec 19th 2008 10:57AM
As opposed to that forever development game that was awesome. Which one was that again?
yuhwhuteva. @ Dec 19th 2008 1:04PM
the forever dev game that was close to awesome? Heard of TF2? That was touted as vapour-ware for the best part of 8 years
Levi @ Dec 19th 2008 2:06PM
Battlecruiser 3000AD
Chris @ Dec 19th 2008 3:25PM
Huxley...
Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 18th 2008 9:39PM
Some savvy Texas oil tycoon should do the earth a favor, buy up all the assets, all the IP, all the staff, designers, temps, any PCs or CDs with any of the game in progress on it, and go all ET on it. Throw all of it (staff included) into a friggin' hole in the desert and bury it all.
I don't know why an oil tycoon would do that but it makes sense to me.
Superstar90 @ Dec 18th 2008 9:45PM
Anything makes sense to Oil Tycoons.
comtar @ Dec 18th 2008 9:57PM
Before the oil tycoon buries all of 3d Realms in a hole, they should release the 2001 version of this game as is. Looks like a far better game then anything they've showed so far...
3d Realms said they've delayed this so it could be "the end all be all of games". Bad thing thing they forgot is that it doesn't take graphics to do that. Takes a good game. The 2001 Duke Nukem Forever looks like a good game.
Mitsuo @ Dec 18th 2008 9:43PM
its it just me or do all of those "screenshots" just look like CG pictures that come from bad 3-d hentai? It's as if it's at the bottom of the uncanny valley or something.
Sora @ Dec 18th 2008 9:48PM
...What kind of hentai have YOU been looking at?!
Meta @ Dec 18th 2008 10:18PM
Apparently really bad ones.
Reader @ Dec 18th 2008 11:07PM
Reminds me of today's QC comic
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1298
Casper32 @ Dec 18th 2008 9:43PM
.......And?
captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Dec 18th 2008 9:45PM
Holy Unreal Engine 3 batman look at teh size of that lawsuit coming!
LordVesper007 @ Dec 18th 2008 9:49PM
Please Doom was the original gears of war.
But Gears put it on steroids and in fact almost reinvented the whole concept.
There's no lawsuit here.
The Dark Wayne @ Dec 18th 2008 10:38PM
yeah I can see it
captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Dec 18th 2008 11:06PM
well, 3d realms is neither.
Kaws1986 @ Dec 19th 2008 8:43AM
You guys need to stop with this Gears of War bullshit. There is absolutely nothing original about Gears so it's impossible for anybody to copy that game. Gears is just a combination of Resident Evil+Killswitch and the enemies from Gears look like updated versions of enemies from old PC shooters i've played.
Heyyou27 @ Dec 18th 2008 9:46PM
Looks kind of like Doom 3; this wouldn't be a bad thing if Doom 3 didn't come out in AUGUST 2004!
Mark @ Dec 18th 2008 9:48PM
Looks original. *cough* Gears of War *cough*
x0rn @ Dec 18th 2008 9:57PM
It's too bad most of you are too young to remember the original 2D and 3D versions of this game franchise. :)
These creatures are all updated versions of the characters in Duke Nukem 3D. Which came out 12 years ago. Which probably inspired a lot of current game developers.
Foetoid @ Dec 19th 2008 3:24AM
Well said!
ajprice @ Dec 19th 2008 4:22AM
They might be based on the original creatures, but it doesn't stop that image looking like Marcus Fenix is just off camera.
Snowblind @ Dec 19th 2008 6:29AM
Except the brain squid, and the big guy, they appear to be new enemies, and even then, they've been extremely re-designed, and it does look very Gears-esque.
The enemies were very cartoony in Duke Nukem 3D.
Odowan @ Dec 18th 2008 9:48PM
They look like a bunch of Gears of War reject creatures to me.
Darth Pedo @ Dec 18th 2008 9:52PM
I'm still playing Duke 3D (10+ years) and at this point I have lost all hope. If the new one is a bust I'll just ignore it like a red-headed step child and pretend it was all a dream.
damien @ Dec 18th 2008 9:58PM
Looks like Duke is going to have a lot of big bads to take on this time around. I can't wait. Hopefully it will come out some time next year.
Moffka @ Dec 18th 2008 10:01PM
Yea, definitely looks like Gears of War 2 and Resistance 2 had sex and made a demon spawn baby that not even a mother could love.