Duke Nukem Forever on Steam

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Soundmanred

Lifer
Oct 26, 2006
10,784
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81
Uninstalled and sold on Craigslist.
Even my lowest expectations were not met.
FYI, you can play the .bik video files using RADTools (free).
I used it to watch the old Duke Nukem videos from the 90's, 2001 and 2007.
Not sure why they thought it was cool that it took over ten years to make a piece of crap, but whatever.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
82,854
17,365
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PC Gamer routinely rates things high, especially AAA titles. If they gave DNF an 80 then they were either mad they didnt get their bribe, or the game sucked so badly that a bribe could only do so much.
 

Zenoth

Diamond Member
Jan 29, 2005
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Ok I played it today on my cousin's 360 for a few hours, mostly seeing him play the single-player, I tried it myself as well for some time. I have to say that, generally speaking, the game is not bad, or rather than I myself usually don't have much "standards" when it comes to FPS games at least not ones in the veins of Duke Nukem. It's not a game that "fails" at trying to be serious, quite on the contrary, everything in it is stereotyped and cliché, it feels like a 1990's FPS and that's exactly what it managed to be. I'm not saying that the game is actually "good" either, I don't like it much really, but overall it seems solid enough to play it from time to time I presume, it could be "enjoyable" for some, I could see that being possible.

But now that I've played it I made up my mind about it and I won't buy it for the PC obviously since I don't own any of the current generation consoles, and even if I did I wouldn't have bought the console version anyway. Maybe, one day, perhaps in a year from now I'll buy it when it ends up being 5$ or so on Steam or something like that, just for the heck of adding a title to my gaming collection, I could do that yeah, but buying it now is current out of my mind, it's just not good enough. My cousin likes it enough though but I told him that he might be thinking that because he wants to excuse shelling out the money he did to buy it brand new, and that if he had received it for free as a gift the game would just accumulate dust on his desk, oh well.

Now that the dust is falling down and that the game is there on the store shelves and on the web to buy after all those years I guess that all we can do now is move on and start pointing at Half-Life 2: Episode Three for being the new vaporware of this decade, anyone else with me on that one?
 

finbarqs

Diamond Member
Feb 16, 2005
4,057
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I'm having a blast playing this game!!! not.... seriously, there's nothing different with this game and the demo...
 

gorcorps

aka Brandon
Jul 18, 2004
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Again, I think we need to wait and see how the multiplayer is. That's was the really enjoyable part of Duke 3D, and I didn't expect anything out of the single player for DNF. I'll probably never play it.

Now if the multiplayer sucks... well...

Regardless of how the MP is, it still wouldn't feel like Duke. Regenerating health and limited to 2 weapons is NOT how a Duke Nukem game should be done. It may very well be semi-entertaining in spite of itself, but I doubt it'll be entertaining enough for most people to bother playing for more than a couple weeks.
 

KaOTiK

Lifer
Feb 5, 2001
10,877
8
81
Uninstalled and sold on Craigslist.
Even my lowest expectations were not met.
FYI, you can play the .bik video files using RADTools (free).
I used it to watch the old Duke Nukem videos from the 90's, 2001 and 2007.
Not sure why they thought it was cool that it took over ten years to make a piece of crap, but whatever.

You can't resell it, it is a Steamworks game. So if you resold it you just ripped someone off on Craigslist.
 

Pantlegz

Diamond Member
Jun 6, 2007
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4
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So apparently release june 13th on steam means june 14th. My game still says pre-load and that it will unlock in about 11 hours. Not that I'm all that excited to play it after the awful stuff everyone's been saying about it, it would still be nice to have the game unlock when they say it's going to be.
 

mb

Lifer
Jun 27, 2004
10,234
2
71
So apparently release june 13th on steam means june 14th. My game still says pre-load and that it will unlock in about 11 hours. Not that I'm all that excited to play it after the awful stuff everyone's been saying about it, it would still be nice to have the game unlock when they say it's going to be.
Must be a typo. I thought it had been the 14th for a while now. It should give you some time to cancel your pre-order though. The game is horrible.
 

Crow550

Platinum Member
Oct 4, 2005
2,381
5
81
With Amazon discounts I got it for $25 on PC. So.....We shall see.

Really as long as it makes me laugh and is fun then it passes.

So well see.... Hopefully they get some patches to add some more stuff like a classic mode and co-op multiplayer.

At least Gearbox can work on a sequel.

Well see though. If it stinks then well life will go on....
 

apoppin

Lifer
Mar 9, 2000
34,890
1
0
alienbabeltech.com
So apparently release june 13th on steam means june 14th. My game still says pre-load and that it will unlock in about 11 hours. Not that I'm all that excited to play it after the awful stuff everyone's been saying about it, it would still be nice to have the game unlock when they say it's going to be.
So when does it unlock? i need to review the game for 3D Vision Surround (5760x1080) and i got a key for it. Preloading is complete. Kinda small of a D/L for a modern game - 6.44GB

Actually, i never played the original .. i have no expectations.
^_^
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
41,892
2,135
126
God, I'm so sick of the Internet: IT SUCKS THAT SUCKS EVERYTHING CAN'T BE GOOD BECAUSE IT SUCKS IT DIDN'T DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY PERFECTLY THEREFORE IT IS THE SUCKIEST SUCK THAT EVER SUCKED A SUCK!!!
 

motsm

Golden Member
Jan 20, 2010
1,822
2
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God, I'm so sick of the Internet: IT SUCKS THAT SUCKS EVERYTHING CAN'T BE GOOD BECAUSE IT SUCKS IT DIDN'T DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY PERFECTLY THEREFORE IT IS THE SUCKIEST SUCK THAT EVER SUCKED A SUCK!!!
K? It did suck though, almost everything about it is the complete embodiment of suck. Would you rather us be dishonest and say it's good for some reason?
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
41,892
2,135
126
K? It did suck though, almost everything about it is the complete embodiment of suck. Would you rather us be dishonest and say it's good for some reason?

Everything sucks on the Internet. All music sucks. All games suck. All movies suck. Everything.

I think part of the reason so many things in the 80's and 90's were loved is because people couldn't mass-communicate with each other, and things were therefore taken for what they were rather than putting it to a firing squad at the sign of a flaw.
 

motsm

Golden Member
Jan 20, 2010
1,822
2
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Everything sucks on the Internet. All music sucks. All games suck. All movies suck. Everything.
Everything is also head over heels, irrationally and unwaveringly loved on the internet. So big whoop, the internet gets all spectrum of opinion.
 

UberNeuman

Lifer
Nov 4, 1999
16,937
3,087
126
Without any good deals for the game, I've held off on picking this one up...

The two weapons limit is a deal breaker for me....
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
41,892
2,135
126
Everything is also head over heels, irrationally and unwaveringly loved on the internet. So big whoop, the internet gets all spectrum of opinion.

No, it's not. The minute a group loves something, a bigger group tells them it sucks, then memes and campaigns are created to make sure the suck crowd out-talks the love crowd.
 

QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
22,460
775
126
You can't resell it, it is a Steamworks game. So if you resold it you just ripped someone off on Craigslist.

I pre-ordered it myself, on Steam it's not even unlocked yet, so he's saying he's already played a locked game before it was unlocked. AND already's been able to sell it on Craigslist? That's pretty damn impressive

I don't want to call them a liar, but the only way the game would be playable is if they downloaded a pirated version. So basically they just admitted to selling a pirated game on Craigslist. There's no legal way to already be playing the game, or I would be playing it right now instead of posting this.
 
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Crow550

Platinum Member
Oct 4, 2005
2,381
5
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Tomorrow you can play it for 30 minutes on OnLive for free & or rent it for a few days.

Hmmm Maybe I should try that?
 
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