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Fresh from George Broussard's twitter...
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Genesis Knight
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Well fuck that, JSJ.
A Black Falcon
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I never completely gave up... it did look bad after they had to let the team go in May '09, but I never completely gave up.
I think it's real, I really do. I mean, yes, maybe it isn't. It's certainly possible. But as a longtime Apogee/3D Realms fan, I think it is real. It's really sad how Take Two almost killed off the game when it was so close to completion, and because of the developer switch I don't know if this game will be quite as good as it would have been (I believe the stories that it was finally on track), but still... I'm sure it will be good, and it'll actually release, it seems!
I think it's real, I really do. I mean, yes, maybe it isn't. It's certainly possible. But as a longtime Apogee/3D Realms fan, I think it is real. It's really sad how Take Two almost killed off the game when it was so close to completion, and because of the developer switch I don't know if this game will be quite as good as it would have been (I believe the stories that it was finally on track), but still... I'm sure it will be good, and it'll actually release, it seems!
Genesis Knight
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atomsk said:
Wow, that's amazing. Could be worth money someday. :lol
speculawyer
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Really? It is not like they had the best track record on that.A Black Falcon said:I never completely gave up... it did look bad after they had to let the team go in May '09, but I never completely gave up.
I think it's real, I really do. I mean, yes, maybe it isn't. It's certainly possible. But as a longtime Apogee/3D Realms fan, I think it is real. It's really sad how Take Two almost killed off the game when it was so close to completion, and because of the developer switch I don't know if this game will be quite as good as it would have been (I believe the stories that it was finally on track), but still... I'm sure it will be good, and it'll actually release, it seems!
ConradCervantes
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Genesis Knight said:
Coincidentally, I was joking about this today with my store's Nintendo rep, using the exact same example you provided.
A Black Falcon
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speculawyer said:
True, but supposedly the ('07-'09 version of the game) team they had to fire when Take Two refused to give them enough to finish it actually was on track and was resisting Broussard's attempts to keep adding stuff, for the first time in the history of the project...
I'm wondering how complete DNF was when the studio closed. I've been poking around the net, there is a fair amount of geometry that was at PS360 standard. Gameplay wise it looks perfectly ready to ship. It needed some polish for sure, but I don't find it hard to believe they had a decent, brief single player campaign that could have shipped without years of work. They were clearly getting somewhere. It's difficult to see when (and I guess even if at this point) the project went to Gearbox. They took on some 3DR staff, and apparently Scott Miller claimed production of DNF never stopped, it just wasn't internal after the staff were let go. But considering the TT suit, it seems odd it would have moved to Gearbox any earlier than May of this year, but I (and I'm sure much of GAF) had heard Gearbox were on the project quite a while back.
If TTs rights to publish were in debate, I can't see who would have paid for DNFs production, unless Gearbox took the job on spec with TTs assurance of funding if/when they won the suit.
Someone really needs to write a book about this development.
If TTs rights to publish were in debate, I can't see who would have paid for DNFs production, unless Gearbox took the job on spec with TTs assurance of funding if/when they won the suit.
Someone really needs to write a book about this development.
FreedomFrisbee
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StuBurns said:
Raising the bar: The making of Duke Nukem Forever
Graphics Horse
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StuBurns said:
:lol Probably.
I'd just found this but it's going back a few months, is this what you've seen?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xctziz_duke-nukem-forever-nouvelle-video-l_videogames Spoilers(?!)
That's one of the vids, there is a fair amount.Graphics Horse said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnv_tFKStQ
Here's another one.
Graphics Horse
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Yeah I think I'd seen the rest, the one with the car and the fucking puzzles was new to me.
For those curious concerning DNF's tech:
It is a HIGHLY modified version of Unreal 2.X technology. The ripped out EVERYTHING but Unreal Ed and Unreal Script. That means the Physics, Renderer, Lighting Model... everything, has been replaced.
You may as well consider it an entirely custom engine, but if you wish to place it strictly with it's origins, it is at U2.X. Anyone who says otherwise is completely mistaken.
It is a HIGHLY modified version of Unreal 2.X technology. The ripped out EVERYTHING but Unreal Ed and Unreal Script. That means the Physics, Renderer, Lighting Model... everything, has been replaced.
You may as well consider it an entirely custom engine, but if you wish to place it strictly with it's origins, it is at U2.X. Anyone who says otherwise is completely mistaken.
ConradCervantes
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Never bet on Broussard.
jim-jam bongs
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charsace said:
smh
You had a perfectly good opportunity to invent the name Brou-tard
Night_Trekker
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I never stopped betting on Duke. Please be real, DNF
Monty Mole
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.Truespeed said:
disappeared
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StuBurns said:
Or an At the Drive-In reunion.
Dwight Schrute
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StuBurns said:
I would still buy it... :'(
Are there more games of "modern day" settings, where global destruction is the story? Not talking about futuristic shooters.
I dunno, I just get a really awesome vibe from DNF footage that no other game can replicates and no, not talking about lol DNForever and ever or whatever lame delay joke you can come up with. It's just.... Wow.
I dunno, I just get a really awesome vibe from DNF footage that no other game can replicates and no, not talking about lol DNForever and ever or whatever lame delay joke you can come up with. It's just.... Wow.
StealthGoblin
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Stallion Free said:
I like a sense of humour too, but if the single player is shit, and the multiplayer is shit. . . I won't like the game. I don't have any sort of nostalgia for Duke Dukem really, so I'm looking at this purely from an outsiders point of view.
Stallion Free
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Well a lot of us do. And the gameplay they showed certainly didn't look like shit.Galvanise_ said:
DN3D was considerably better than any shooter made at the time, massively superior to Doom, Dark Forces, Marathon etc. That doesn't mean this will be great of course, but considering how poor the standard of shooters are on consoles, I can't imagine it not at least being middling.
Next year has two announced shooters I think could be good, Crysis 2 and Rage, Rage could easily be lame, most of id's games are I think, and Crysis 2 on consoles looks a mess, could end up being crap. I gather HL2EP3 and whatever Bungie is doing won't ship next year. The gap between something like MW2 and Half-Life 2 is a gulf so large that it's an embarrassment.
I do think there's a chance DNF's comedy will completely fail. The parody is kind of dead, people don't make those movies anymore for the most part, they certainly aren't the big films. Maybe they could do something fresh, Duke is made governor of a state, gets pulled back into war when aliens invade or whatever, but if they play it like they did in DN3D, I think that aspect will suck.
Next year has two announced shooters I think could be good, Crysis 2 and Rage, Rage could easily be lame, most of id's games are I think, and Crysis 2 on consoles looks a mess, could end up being crap. I gather HL2EP3 and whatever Bungie is doing won't ship next year. The gap between something like MW2 and Half-Life 2 is a gulf so large that it's an embarrassment.
I do think there's a chance DNF's comedy will completely fail. The parody is kind of dead, people don't make those movies anymore for the most part, they certainly aren't the big films. Maybe they could do something fresh, Duke is made governor of a state, gets pulled back into war when aliens invade or whatever, but if they play it like they did in DN3D, I think that aspect will suck.
cuevas said:
No, they didn't. Their port was incredibly solid and entirely shits all over the port job MS gave Halo 2.
Most people I personally knew who said that Halo PC was a travesty had the FX series of cards while trying to run Halo PC with dx9 shaders. Instead of blaming their shitty card, they blamed Gearbox.
Frankly that game was buttery smooth for me and I was running an AMD 2100+ with 512 MB of RAM with a 256 MB 9700 pro.
I hope the DNF rumors are true as I think the second I start playing DNF, I'll feel 10 again.
Genesis Knight
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So what's the deal? When is news (if any) inbound from PAX?
Genesis Knight said:
We are all waiting for a Take-Two livestream extravaganza macho gar event, it will start in ~3 hrs.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=406161
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