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@Raiki
BINGO! Finally. a commenter on a video game blog that actually understands how freaking software distribution and sales works! All the morons around here act like sales go directly to the "poor" devs like the games industry is some kind of not-for-profit charity.

GAMESTOP/Used Sales are GOOD for the consumer. That's YOU and ME. Don't bend over and grab your ankles for the software publishers who are making BILLIONS off this industry and jacking up prices and nickel and diming everyone with DLC for half finished products just because you mistakenly think you're helping to keep some "poor" software engineer or 3d artist (who actually pulls in a nice salary doing a job he really enjoys) from starving.

@PlasticRat You had me up until you said Brutal Legend 2. That BL1 SUCKED. It doesn't deserve a sequel.

@bshido +1. Valve fanboys are some of the worst studio fanboys in gaming.

@Esposch
I'm disappointed that Romero didn't have the good sense to die of a cocaine overdose in 1998, turning him into an undying symbol of wretched game developer excess, instead of languishing and exposing himself as some washed up knob who just happened to be lucky enough to know John Carmack when he was 20.

@Liquidfingers It's great for an iPhone game but terrible for PS3 game. They should have ported this to the PSP rather than the PS3, IMHO.

You guys might want to replay the original Duke as a refresher before getting too stoked... It was a big deal back in its day because it was a nice stop gap between Doom2 and Quake 1. But really, when you take of the rose colored glasses of reminiscence and replay it you realize it plays like an SVGA Doom 2 mod.. the only thing is brings to the table are the attitude/one-liners which really only goes so far... It really was not that original/unique, IMHO... there just were not any competent shooters from anyone other than iD, so the field wasn't anywhere near as competitive as it was today. Everything else just *SUCKED* so bad that a few Clint Eastwood quips plus a decent 3D engine yielded solid gold.

It spawned tons of crapware, too, like the sh*tty PS1 third person games.

So, really, I'm in wait and see mode. Duke's a cool character (I have his action figure right beside my desk as I type). But, I hope GB DOES something *spectacular* with the franchise or it'll just continue as an industry cautionary tale.

@slowjilli Every day is white boy day.

@Brodo
+1. I'm impressed at the effort their putting in to advance the COD series on this title. Makes it feel like less of an Activision money grab.

@BLunted
Nope. It pretty well 900,000 copies on VGCHARTZ right now and about 850K of those were in the first month. It just sucked in the long term for exactly the reasons you cited and sales fell off a cliff once BFBC2 dropped and people realized the player base was dying.

@(Unverified) It's a train wreck. Domination and acquisition are virtually unplayable: they can't regularly sustain 256/126 player matches without insane queue waits.You have to be REALLY dedicated to keep playing it at this point.

The DLC thusfar has just fragmented the player base further rather than attracting new customers so they're cannibalizing their own audience.

They're doing a beta to try to completely rework the game in a last ditch effort to save it.

I'll be taking my copy to Gamestop next week.