It would appear that play and hmv are both useless. Hmv claims "shipping now" yet despite me ordering before 1pm my order status still says "not yet processed". The order from play has been sitting on "packing" since about midday ...
**Official Duke Nukem Forever Thread**
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Compressed? Anyway, it's not the size that counts, it's....
I hope so they may have not even included all data on the DVD's (like other recent Steamworks titles) The Aussies are playing this right now it finally unlocked for them!
Ah, that sucks. Pc gamers shafted.
What's a couple days when you've been waiting 12 years already?
don't know what Duke is about either it seems!! it's never about the Gfx with Duke!! (although there not bad!)
Someone in Germany has examined the retail DVD & reports it only includes part of the game & is missing vital parts like the exe's & system files data so it would appear piracy has somehow got to Steamworks games as well even though it has 128bit AES encryption!!! This is not the first Steamworks game to only have a partial install on either.....
Only 2 hours to go for us anyway as long as 2K unlock it on time (dirt3 did so lets hope Duke does!!).
Only 2 hours to go for us anyway as long as 2K unlock it on time (dirt3 did so lets hope Duke does!!).
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Played the Xbox 360 version at a friend's earlier this evening (he nabbed it early as he works at a high street "game" retailer).
Well... it's... absolutely shocking. The fact that they've asked full price for this is an absolute insult, and I'm sorry to say that I do feel for those who have paid over £40 for the BOS edition. The normal editions should be labelled "POS Edition", because that's what it is.
The Duke attitude is still there, but snappy one-liners and the scatological humour can only take it so far. The gameplay is cack, and the graphics are ridiculously poor for today's standards. You can tell most of the levels were already completed and just re-skinned in the new engine. Everything is square. EVERYTHING. Imagine the original Deus Ex with a hi-res mod skinned in the UE 2.5 and there you go.
The textures are abysmal - some legitimately look like placeholders they just didn't get around to removing and putting the real thing in. For the full impact, just wait until you first step outside after the inital "Lady Killer" levels (I left my mate's house shortly after that). The shoddiness of it all hits you RIGHT then, as soon as you get a good look at the wrecked vehicles etc. outside.
Honestly... I could forgive it if they said "Hands up, we've finished the game but it's not to modern standards... here it is, Steam exclusive £9.99", but to hype this as a AAA title is just insulting.
Well... it's... absolutely shocking. The fact that they've asked full price for this is an absolute insult, and I'm sorry to say that I do feel for those who have paid over £40 for the BOS edition. The normal editions should be labelled "POS Edition", because that's what it is.
The Duke attitude is still there, but snappy one-liners and the scatological humour can only take it so far. The gameplay is cack, and the graphics are ridiculously poor for today's standards. You can tell most of the levels were already completed and just re-skinned in the new engine. Everything is square. EVERYTHING. Imagine the original Deus Ex with a hi-res mod skinned in the UE 2.5 and there you go.
The textures are abysmal - some legitimately look like placeholders they just didn't get around to removing and putting the real thing in. For the full impact, just wait until you first step outside after the inital "Lady Killer" levels (I left my mate's house shortly after that). The shoddiness of it all hits you RIGHT then, as soon as you get a good look at the wrecked vehicles etc. outside.
Honestly... I could forgive it if they said "Hands up, we've finished the game but it's not to modern standards... here it is, Steam exclusive £9.99", but to hype this as a AAA title is just insulting.
Everything? Even the non-square things? Everything?
Console versions of most games are shocking & have appalling texture work so this is nothing new until PC version it out & many have played it no-one knows the truth for PC Duke. Aussie PC gamers are not talking about it even though they got it an hour or so ago too busy playing/enjoying most likely!
Odd i saw the guns in the Vids and his hands there not Square so its clearly not everything
Phew! Maybe he was playing Tetris and got confused?
Nope, odd isnt it. Just had a look on metacritic and they won't get a review til the 14th from proper "critic" reviewers due to the american release date. Probably some daft court thing in place to stop the reviewers actually giving any major info on the game before its actually released so it doesnt harm preorders. Quite possibly a really bad sign though judging from the demo being crap... :S