Official Duke Nukem Forever Thread

Toxic Babyface · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:15

NeilFawcett said:
Bet within 24hrs you'll be able to do it

That would be good.
Still no delivery yet. I can be so impatient at times

Anyone ordered the BOS edition and recieved it yet? (from the dog with the gramophone)

I got this feeling it won't turn up today.

LeJosh · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:18

If they use Royal Fail it will arrive in the afternoon - usually.

Participant · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:19

*Chris said:
So basically DNF has mediocre graphics with reasonable gameplay and a ton of unoriginal, vulgar and immature Duke Nukem material to go with it...

Fantastic!!

Exactly, assuming you weren't being sarcastic.

Toxic Babyface · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:22

LeJosh said:
If they use Royal Fail it will arrive in the afternoon - usually.

Oh no, not Royal fail

Fingers crossed. I really want to install this tonight otherwise, I won't be playing this until next weekend

Pestilence · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:47

NeilFawcett said:
Everything? Even the non-square things? Everything?

Okay, hyperbole aside - apart from the character models... almost everything.

The environments are horrific.

I said it before, and I'll say it again: If it was released as a budget title, it'd be fine. It wasn't. It isn't.

Meanwhile those who want to lie to themselves will just keep screaming "IT'S DUKE, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!" to any naysayers regardless of valid criticism. I loved the original Duke Nukem as much as any PC gamer at the time, but this is a shoddy mess quite literally yanked from the fire at the last minute, polished up a little and shoved out to make a quick, cheeky buck at the expense of a ravenous fanbase.

mrk · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:49

I think the graphics look fine. At 1920x1200 they're perfectly acceptable and in fact look better than quite a few "modern" shooters.

And I'm usually hard to please where graphics are concerned...

Maybe you need a better quality monitor

Secret_Window · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:51

Mine has been ordered finally, well yesterday. I know it's not going to be amazing, but I did enjoy the demo and it will have served its purpose for me, if I end up having as much fun playing it as the demo.

Toxic Babyface said:
Oh no, not Royal fail
Fingers crossed. I really want to install this tonight otherwise, I won't be playing this until next weekend

The place I ordered mine from sometimes can get it to me on a Saturday using Royal Mail but more than likely next week I am guessing for me this time.

matt_fsr · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:52

I think the 'ravenous fanbase' are probably mostly just glad that Duke has finally been released.

I feel funny typing that ^. It almost makes no sense.

LeJosh · 10 Jun 2011 at 10:53

Pestilence said:
Okay, hyperbole aside - apart from the character models... almost everything.

The environments are horrific.

I said it before, and I'll say it again: If it was released as a budget title, it'd be fine. It wasn't. It isn't.

Meanwhile those who want to lie to themselves will just keep screaming "IT'S DUKE, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!" to any naysayers regardless of valid criticism. I loved the original Duke Nukem as much as any PC gamer at the time, but this is a shoddy mess quite literally yanked from the fire at the last minute, polished up a little and shoved out to make a quick, cheeky buck at the expense of a ravenous fanbase.

Basically you don't like the graphics? What did you expect from a small try on an xbox? Which probably had texture compression and zero AF/AA.

doodah · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:08

It's absolutely a triple A, modern, advanced game for this era - Randy Pitchford, executive producer

- made me chuckle. Can't wait to try it later today though.

spudbynight · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:16

LOL - already cracked and online

I think I will wait until this is £5 in a STEAM sale

Toxic Babyface · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:26

Jesus, it don't take long does it?

Phonesis · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:28

Anyone had a chance to try the online out yet? What's it like?

I'm tempted to hit that buy button on Steam but I'm hearing bad things about the game's SP. No-one has said much about the MP though.

doodah · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:31

spudbynight said:
LOL - already cracked and online

I think I will wait until this is £5 in a STEAM sale

Last week of Q2 2011

?

DiCe! · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:36

PC version looked fine to me......nice round shapes and all.

get off ya xbox and get it on a pc. the way any shooter is meant to be played (I am correct on that matter FYI)

RaMDOM · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:37

Guardian review:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/jun/10/duke-nukem-forever-game-review

And even the nostalgia – and bad taste humour – can't make up for the frustrating load times.

Review is on the 360 - not the case on the PC

The game sets its stall out early. Literally: it opens in a toilet, with Duke facing the bowl, and an instruction to press RT to ****.

Amazing game design imo

However you dress it up, Duke Nukem Forever is Doom with added political incorrectness, or "same old, same old" as far as the character is concerned. That's not necessarily a problem – the old adage about things not being broken is one many developers could pay more attention to – but what do you get for 15 years of patience?

Not much at all. Visuals are grainy (perhaps a deliberate throwback to older Nukem titles?),

Turn off the film grain!

aiming is clunky and there are occasional frame rate issues and buggy moments.

Review is on the 360 - not the case on the PC

And then there's the load time.

Review is on the 360 - not the case on the PC

The game is tough – a good thing – and you're regularly thrown into hard-fought battles with multiple enemies and rampaging bosses. You will die, frequently, and often after only 30 seconds or so of action ... And you then have to wait some 45 seconds or so to have another go. If you think the Duke's ****ed off, see how you feel after 20 minutes of that.

noob!

A mark for nostalgia then – it's the Duke, after all – and one for the game. If this was 15 years in the making, it makes you wonder what they did for the other 14 years and 10 months.

haha.............. my sides.

So we can conclude that it is better on the PC, actually not a bad game and I am less mature than my family think I am.

mrk · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:41

I flung **** around like nobodies business.

That's how I roll.

LeJosh · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:42

I love the one liners he comes out with using poo.

Pestilence · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:48

LeJosh said:
Basically you don't like the graphics? What did you expect from a small try on an xbox? Which probably had texture compression and zero AF/AA.

Oh, come on. You make it sound like the 360 version is running on an entirely different engine or, at worst, is a console that could barely power a calculator. I know this is the PC Games section, but surely anti-console arrogance hasn't made it THAT far yet?

There's an easy difference between lacking AA/AF and incorporating compression, and a crappy engine. For what it's worth, the PC demo also displayed the same horrendous, blocky environments and shoddy gameplay. It's also noteworthy at the time that many fans immediately started trying to convince themselves that the demo MUST have been a very early promo build and couldn't be representational of the final product.

Pity it is. Still, I see the apologists and self-delusional are out in full force as I suspected so I'll just leave my opinions there. I guess the actual critics will soon be chiming in with their opinions, which I doubt will stretch too far from mine. Here's looking forward to seeing said apologists then attempting to belittle the opinions of pro critics in order to convince themselves that this was a worthy £40 purchase.

Oh... wait, that's already begun.

Toxic Babyface · 10 Jun 2011 at 11:48

Anyone buy PCGamer? What do you think they will score this roughly?
I'll have a play through and then put my guess in

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