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[Raide]

Blood, Shadow Warrior and RotT were utter genius. Would kill 1000's of puppies to get new versions.

 

[snoopers]

Aside from the "old game looked a hundred times better visually" comment, I agree. The 2001 trailer still feels like it's preparing you for something truly exciting and relevant; a bona fide gaming event. The new trailer is bland and forgettable by comparison. As you said, "profanity, boobs and a pee joke" do nothing to satisfy. Show me some meaty combat, show me some impressive environments, show me some hint of the creativity, diversity and interactivity that Duke 3D had - then maybe I'll be excited.

If Duke 3D had been only about boobs and profanity as the new trailer leads you to believe, it would never have been the hit that it was. To say that that's primarily what made Duke 3D successful and memorable is selling that game incredibly short.

Regarding the "it looked better in 2001" statement, I'm not talking technology. Just saying I find the old build's art direction more appealling. The texture work, the lights, the color palette. All the little details. It looked and moved like a gorgeous, ambitious high profile game for its time, and it had character. Duke 2011 just screams cheap & bad art to me.

 

[Metalic Sand]

http://i.imgur.com/dNGsF.jpg

That boxart kicks so much ass.

 

[tiff]

I have no expectations of this game actually being good but for some reason I still find myself wanting to play it.

Regarding the "it looked better in 2001" statement, I'm not talking technology. Just saying I find the old build's art direction more appealling. The texture work, the lights, the color palette. All the little details. It looked and moved like a gorgeous, ambitious high profile game for its time, and it had character. Duke 2011 just screams cheap & bad art to me.

I think it's because the old trailer kinda has a cheesy action movie trailer feel to it, whereas much of the new one is just trotting out all the elements people expect from Duke in between tiny gameplay snippets.

 

[KareBear]

A fitting description.

And yes, I long for a proper sequel to Blood. I think Warner Brothers owns the IP now?

Actually Atari own the ip now.

More than Blood 3 i want the Blood source code one of the programmers that worked on it has the source code but hes afraid to release it.

 

[SapientWolf]

Bulletstorm is a poor mans Duke.

Bulletstorm looks more like a rich man's Painkiller, with the Doom comic guy doing the story and dialogue.

 

[Xater]

Actually Atari own the ip now.

More than Blood 3 i want the Blood source code one of the programmers that worked on it has the source code but hes afraid to release it.

Atari? Ewww. Dead IP confirmed.

 

[Shaheed79]

Duke had great level designs and gameplay too.

Time for Lo Wang to make his return!

This. But this time without the offensive Asian stereotypes. I'm one of the few people on the planet who liked Shadow Warrior a little more than Blood.

 

[jambo]

Bulletstorm looks more like a rich man's Painkiller, with the Doom comic guy doing the story and dialogue.

That's actually the best description I've heard for Bulletstorm

 

[EatChildren]

I think it's because the old trailer kinda has a cheesy action movie trailer feel to it, whereas much of the new one is just trotting out all the elements people expect from Duke in between tiny gameplay snippets.

It has a ton of shit in it too. Heaps of locations, gameplay ideas (bike, donkey, jet skii, pinball, etc), and huge set pieces.

As a trailer, it makes the game look a ton more appealling than what we've seen so far.

 

[twinturbo2]

This. But this time without the offensive Asian stereotypes. I'm one of the few people on the planet who liked Shadow Warrior a little more than Blood.

It's not the same without the offensive Asian stereotypes.

 

[Darth Kupi]

WOW. The No One Lives Forever games are classics.

And SHOGO M.A.D. And AvP2. And Tron 2.0.

Fear and Condemned were great too.

Monolith is one of the most underrated FPS dvelopers IMO.

It's not the same without the offensive Asian stereotypes.

This.

 

[Nakazato]

do we have a date of the demo yet ??

 

[Bending_Unit_22]

Sounds and looks good. Though my only real experience with Duke was playing one of his games on a LAN with my friends in high school (probably 3D) during class which made it extremely cool. Either way, Duke is the kind of guy that if I found out he banged my wife I'd have to fight off the urge to thank him, so can't wait for forever.

 

[Daigoro]

this is amazing.

i cant believe im actually going to be playing a NEW Duke game. its been a long time.

cover is awesome btw.

 

[Aaron]

Man, that's just a perfect cover for this game. Balls of steel for sure. Also loved the new trailer after feeling pretty ho-hum on all the other footage before it. Cool weapons, cool monsters to murder in fun ways, cheeky one-liners (unlike the verbal diarrhea of Bulletstorm)... give me split screen so I can shrink my friend and step on him, and it's day one for me.

 

[Arrowgigantic]

Edit thread title please.

 

[Ashodin]

Edit thread title please.

Yeah, they just delayed the game to June 10.

 

[Spwn]

The video from Gearbox is awesome. That's how you announce delays!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0ho-vvkXU

 

[BY2K]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0ho-vvkXU

Take notes, Valve. THIS is now you announce delays!

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Oh well, more time for me to get a little bit extra cash now.