Leaked Duke Nukem gameplay

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Just thinking about all this Duke Nukem stuff which has basically exploded across the net, could it all be some big charade intended to drum up hype for the game which is actually, after all this time, finished?
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That would be a pretty big stunt to pull off. Some ways i think it could be, then i think its too far fetched to be true.
 
reflux said:
That looks pretty good to me.....who gets the IP now? They'd be mad not to release it, but then I guess it depends how much more work really needs to be done.
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Apparently 1 company was going to give them something like 40 million in funding if they got the Duke Nukem rights, which they declined, so i guess the 3d realms owner still has the rights.
 
epic fail.

this should serve as an example to all developers to get their **** together and start thinking of the games development business as any other business. Timeliness, is just as important as quality and price.

12 years for this? unbelievable.

Also I believe Take Two own the IP rights so they should have a choice whether to continue developing it themselves or sell it off to another developer
 
I still think the original game under unreal engine looked far superior for its day, despite it being unfinished. The new engine just looks like Prey. Seems to me they realised that the easiest thing for them to do was hop on the Prey engine and create new models and maps - which they still couldn't complete. Lazy.
 
sansnom said:
epic fail.


12 years for this? unbelievable.
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Yeah "epic fail" (™net gimmicks everyone has to overuse inc 2007, all rights reserved)

Why exactly do you expect an unfinished game to look amazing? How do you even know what the detail levels were set at? There could have been a ton of placeholder art and models in that video yet everyone just assumes this was the finished product.

Yes we know 12 years "bla etc etc etc", still doesn't prove anything in that video was the final version, for all we know those videos are years old and are only now seeing the light of day.
 
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Gerard said:
Yeah "epic fail" (™net gimmicks everyone has to overuse inc 2007, all rights reserved)

Why exactly do you expect an unfinished game to look amazing? How do you even know what the detail levels were set at? There could have been a ton of placeholder art and models in that video yet everyone just assumes this was the finished product.

Yes we know 12 years "bla etc etc etc", still doesn't prove anything in that video was the final version, for all we know those videos are years old and are only now seeing the light of day.
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Nail on head mate.

What the hell are people getting so worked up about? None of what 3D Realms has done (or not done as the case may be) will effect any of you in the slightest. Get over it.

Kick ass Megedeth soundtrack on the video as well :D
 
I don't know how old the build(s) in that footage is - but similiar stuff was leaked last April (2008) - supposedly from the then current build - but the footage was taken down almost immediatly after it was uploaded to youtube.
 
I hope they say they will continue work on DNF, such a waste if it doesn't get made and the IP doesn't carry on.

Edit: Thinking about this logically, for the company to throw 12 years of work down the drain, the company go under randomly in one week, and then have the whole internet talking about it (loads of interest in the game atm), then Apogee issuing a press release some time next week, theres got to be more behind it imo. Some kind of marketing ploy maybe?
 
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Secret_Window said:
I still think the original game under unreal engine looked far superior for its day, despite it being unfinished. The new engine just looks like Prey. Seems to me they realised that the easiest thing for them to do was hop on the Prey engine and create new models and maps - which they still couldn't complete. Lazy.
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yeah...only it's not the Prey engine :o

It's using the unreal engine. Nice try though :p
 
Here's some more information regarding the leaked footage from Duke4.net, from a comment made by a member on Shacknews (I have no idea how true it is, so as they said on Duke4.net, take it with a pinch of salt):

I can confirm that there was far more completed than what this video implies.

The guy obviously stripped away details in some of the video to highlight the motion and animations.

I've played a good bit of the game, my bro worked there. That scene with the big alien in the football field? That's the first level, it's Duke playing an arcade version of Duke 3D inside his huge Duke mansion. This was last summer and I saw four different levels and environments that were fully playable (some just needed some polish).

They basically started making the game again from scratch (as they've done a few times) about a year and a half ago.

They had a hard cut-off date for development (11/2009) and a ship date (4/2010). They were stupid close to actually finishing this thing.

Was it going to be worth 12 years wait? Of course not. But it looked like a solid offering from a studio that had spent 2.5 years working on a title.
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It's quite ingenious actually. So you start the game playing with this moderate level of tech and play for a few minutes and it's cool, then you zoom out of the arcade screen entirely and you're Duke and everything looks a little shinier and nicer, now you're in the actual game world and it's even more impressive. It's a really cool effect.
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Some of the people who are commenting here and elsewhere with their dismissive judgements on the graphics just show that they don't know jack about Duke Nukem to begin with.

Those of us who were able to play the different releases of Duke on the PC as they happened were fans not because the graphics of the 90's titles, (though they were sharp at the time) but for the atmosphere. Much like Ash from the Evil Dead, Duke became an icon for his one liners, the fact that he embraced every stereotype of a meathead jacked up on testosterone and a guy who wouldn't know "politically correct" if it bit him on his backside, and wouldn't care either way.

The graphics and physics shown are more than enough to carry the game to the top IF the gameplay and personality is there throughout. THAT is what made Duke Nukem and that is why the character is legendary, that is what seperates the property from all the other "gotta play this the best shooter ever" titles that are forgotten in a month.

If they did close, maybe something can be put together to get this to a release state, maybe someone will finance it. I am hoping rather that this really is a well crafted marketing scheme, it would be a stretch, but of all franchises, something of this magnitude would be fitting of the return of the King.
 
I've played a good bit of the game, my bro worked there. That scene with the big alien in the football field? That's the first level, it's Duke playing an arcade version of Duke 3D inside his huge Duke mansion. This was last summer and I saw four different levels and environments that were fully playable (some just needed some polish).
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That sounds awesome :(
 
Killerkebab said:
Am I the only one who watched that and thought 'that looks like it would have been a huge amount of fun to play'? Gutted they shut down :(
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Looks fun as hell, sure the graphics may not blow you away but DN games were always more fun then visually groundbreaking :(

Hope someone picks it up and gets it finished :)
 
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