3D Realms reaches finite milestone (no, Duke isn't done)

I agree, almost all games that have exceedingly long development cycles totally blow. I'm looking at you Spore. Besides, it doesn't even seem relevant anymore. Duke Nukem was good back in the day because it had unparalleled levels of interactivity, but now that's commonplace. I really doubt that this game is going to radically change the way we think about FPS' or really do anything new at all. I feel like the whole macho man shtick will be just tired and worn out now as well, I am almost positive this game is gonna absolutely suck

Team Fortress 2
Prey
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Dark Sector
World of Warcraft
Half-Life 2

None of these games turned out shit(hell, TF2 was directly compared to DNF!) which is why, I'm still hoping DNF will actually turn out good to make up for the fact it's been the industry's joke for the last ten years.

I hope you're wrong, but chances are you're right.

warcraft only took around 4 years, Dark Sector sucked, Prey was mediocre, STALKER was good but nothing special, and HL2 and TF2 were valve, and I mean, come on, that's not fair

The Dark Wayne,

No, Dark Sector's story was sub-par as was its voice acting. However, the gameplay was incredibly solid and enjoyable; dismembering people with the glaive or the close combat kills were all incredibly rewarding. I still laugh my ass off when I split someone in half like an overly ripe piece of fruit with a power throw and watch their torso fall over a rail, when I pull off a decapitation, or when I'm able to lop someone's leg off before sinking the glaive into someone else's throat all in one shot. Aiming the glaive so that it decapitates someone on its return path is a beautiful thing to watch.

Visually, the game still holds its own with even AAA console titles and that's quite an impressive feat given that it's been the first game to run on Digital Extreme's own in-house engine; many people mistaken it with Unreal 3, but Dark Sector essentially has no texture pop-in (something present in every Unreal 3 game) and arguably better ambient lighting. The framerate's relatively smooth and there's a minimal level of aliasing. Just because the plot's mediocre doesn't mean the rest of the game is bad or that it sucks overall.

maybe they should just turn development over to valve... even though that would probably just take just as long (when the hell are they gonna release goddamn HL ep 3!)

The 2012 thing actually transends most anchient cultures, mystics, prophets and alchemist. The funny thing is those people weren't in cahoots but actually came to the conclusion on their own from studying celestial events, numerology and other anchient practices.

Just because someone believes something life alterting will happen on or begin on Dec 21st, 2012 doesn't make them a "crazy."

I suggest you go look up the following things if you haven't already:

Terrance McKenna Time Wave Zero iChing (see mayan video below this)

Mayan Doomsday prophecy, long count
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aPNcUJuiLY

2012 geomagnetic pole reversal (coast to coast AM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ahoPGzL50Q&feature=related

Nostradamus 2012

2012 wormwood comet cluster/ nibiru/ amunaki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyWP639T60

Nibiru projected orbital return 2012

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita computer simulations

Albert Einstein Pole shift theory 1959

All of that among many other things I won't even go into right now are worth looking into if you have at least a fascination in the 2012 prophecy. Bottom line is that there are a lot of events (celestial, solar, economic & with our own planet) heading to a creshindo in 2012. I hope that it's nothing and all these independent sources of information are mistaken but I just don't buy that nothing is going to happen. I'm hoping it's an elevation of our consciensnus instead of a cataclysm.

Wa-wa-waaaaah:

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/
Equally likely the calendar could end in 8000AD for all that would mean anyway.

You'll be allright thouhgh, you probably have lots of canned goods left over in your Y2K bunker.

i didnt watch all of those videos, but if it does end up being a pole shift, it wouldnt be December 21, 2012, it would happen gradually over hundreds if not thousands of years

i too think the 2012 theory is BS. at least i hope it is, because i graduate that year. and that article JonFitt posted is convincing. it really could just be the end of the cycle. i think a lot of those 2012 theories got started after hearing about the whole mayan calendar thing. oh well, if the world will end in 2012, i doubt we would be able to prevent it anyway.

Come 2012, no one will think you are crazy. You'll either be wrong and dismissed or right and no one will care.

Ummm... in that segment about the Mayan calender, they showed the Aztec calender.
Now, I'm not saying that implies a lack of research or anything, but Wikipedia says:

"The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about December 21, 2012, a forecast that mainstream Mayanist scholars consider a misinterpretation, yet is commonly referenced in pop-culture media as the 2012 problem.

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. "To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting", she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.""

Wikipedia is never wrong.

Jesus. I can understand someone misreading a press release, but misreading a tweet? Lay off the coffee Alex.

So at this rate, it will be just under a year. T minus ~365 days until the largest scale failure in video game history. If this game is anything short of great, it will have been a tremendous waste of time.

Nay!

Meant to reply to Ozyman666

F**k you Joystiq comment system!

The joke has gotten old. the problem isn't all of us making fun of it - its them for doing such lame things as saying they have only 71 things left to do. Its just stupid and really not very funny at this point.

Lets just hope this game doesnt sound like nickelbacks "animal".

Que?

I understand what you're saying here, but there is a big difference: DNF actually has a chance to be good, Chinese Democracy was doomed from the start. 3D Realms may have had many laughs at their expense, but they never left the stage after the first song because someone took a picture at a no cameras concert.

Still a funny comparison though ^_^

they have 71 left actually.

Yeah. How pathetic would that be if they came out and said "Well of the 850 things there are to do, we've completed 71 in the last 12 years."

Maybe they are just going for a Guinness World Record or something...like as part of their marketing...or something.

Rehashes of the Duke.

Watch

Duke Nukem 64
Duke Nukem Zero Hour
Duke Nukem Manhatan Project
Duke Nukem Advance (for the GBA)
Upcomming DN for PSP and DS
Duke Nukem Time to Kill
Duke Nukem for the GambeBoy color
Duke Nukem Land of babes
Duke Nukem for mobile phones

I believe they're funded by the sales of Prey and the first two Max Payne games, as well as selling Max Payne to Rockstar.

Three words...German tax loophole.

You got me good there stiq, my whole post is a waste of time due to your mistake. You have stolen a piece of my life.

ah what the hell I forgive you, but the whole post should be the exact opposite of how it is. Hilarious!!!

Yep. This is video game journalism at it's finest.

fact 1: smoking a cigar gets you huge guns and get you all the girls

Works for big boss. Works for Duke. I'm off to go roll some cubans.

*some guy at 3D Realms*: George, come quick. Look at this website I came across. Some guy named iFester pointed out something; MULTIPLAYER.

*Broussard*: Oh shit.. add another 1000 milestones then.

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