It has tho - much slower paced & less action than Duke3D. Also wheres the ability to play the campaign coop like the old game? Not feeling the old skool vibe so far..
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It has tho - much slower paced & less action than Duke3D. Also wheres the ability to play the campaign coop like the old game? Not feeling the old skool vibe so far..
I think the word you're looking for is "Rectangular"..y'know, like real Buses.
They do look a bit angular but its just another asset that would need redone, if they started on that path the game would be in develiopment for another year.
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Right OK, I don't agree that this is 'true to Duke form'. This feels like a 13 year old kid trying to emulate why he thinks Duke is funny. It's not about it being PC. It's about putting a bit more effort in, and really crafting this stuff. The jokes in this are very, very lazy.
Anyway, I could go on about this all day but I don't think anyone would thank me for it
To each their own . .
Campaign co-op... Now that would be cool!
For some of it, yes, I agree! Some of the adult humour could have been far far better... Instead it came across as cheap.
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I think the word you're looking for is "Rectangular"..y'know, like real Buses.
They do look a bit angular but its just another asset that would need redone, if they started on that path the game would be in develiopment for another year.
Yep, whoops, that's of course what I meant to say. And yeah, they had to draw the line somewhere.
I was merely offering a counterpoint to anyone saying 'the game looks great, why are people complaining?'. If the last bit you played was that Vegas strip, that's at least a generation behind any of it's peers. TBH, the most interest I had in the game is trying to guess how old certain assets were
I agree... But I would be interested in what happened to all that stuff in the 2001 trailer!?
That version still eixsts in their archives apparently. According to 3dr it was in good shape at the point where they yet again done the engine swaparoo.
Yahtzee review is hilarious.
'If I didn't know the history of the game I would have said it seemed a bit rushed'
'So this is how the anticipation ends people, first show of the long-awaited comeback tour and the singer's hanged himself on the microphone cord'.
Brilliant
'If I didn't know the history of the game I would have said it seemed a bit rushed'
'So this is how the anticipation ends people, first show of the long-awaited comeback tour and the singer's hanged himself on the microphone cord'.
Brilliant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLqjm_njhk&feature=player_detailpage#t=2991s
Interesting vid starting from the 50 minute mark, apparently yahtzee sent in some stuff for the game and it was rejected by Broussard, also some info on what was going on from a person in the company.
Interesting vid starting from the 50 minute mark, apparently yahtzee sent in some stuff for the game and it was rejected by Broussard, also some info on what was going on from a person in the company.
Right, finished it last night. I'll give it a 7/10 and that's being generous as I've always been a fan of the Duke. The game feels incomplete, it is lacking something and just doesn't deliver on the big scale like Halo or COD did.
I played DN3D back in 96/97 and I remember in 99/2000 posting on the 3DR Forums.
I sent George Broussard an email telling him that no game is perfect and reaching for perfection wouldn't work and that if he didnt release the game soon it would fail.
Guess I and loads of others were right, the first half of the game is fun but then its just another 90s shooter: shoot, kill, rinse and repeat. MP is absolutely awful, Quake 3 a 10 year old game is a million times better.
The one liners just didn't work aswell, I dunno why but they felt very dry.
Some of the environments were oright but nowhere near as good as DN3D, I mean where's the spaceship level or some of the stuff we saw in the 2001 trailer?
Overall it looks like GB's incompetence as a manager has messed the game up.
A standard FPS shooter that if made within 2 years and retailed for £20 would have been welcomed warmly and got a good 8/10 from most reviewers.
But 14 years, loads of money, dozens of employees and we get this, just not good enough.
On the plus side it's not as bad as some people make it out, the 3/10 IGN gave it was just ridiculous. You give that score to a game that's barely playable or severely broken this is neither. The graphics aren't too bad either, some people made out they was like 2005 graphics they are actually quite well done in some parts not groundbreaking but good enough for a 2010/11 game.
Overall, if your a Duke fan its worth it for the nostalgia and some of the levels are quite fun actually. If you dont care about Duke but want a good shooter wait till its about £15 then it'll be worth it.
I played DN3D back in 96/97 and I remember in 99/2000 posting on the 3DR Forums.
I sent George Broussard an email telling him that no game is perfect and reaching for perfection wouldn't work and that if he didnt release the game soon it would fail.
Guess I and loads of others were right, the first half of the game is fun but then its just another 90s shooter: shoot, kill, rinse and repeat. MP is absolutely awful, Quake 3 a 10 year old game is a million times better.
The one liners just didn't work aswell, I dunno why but they felt very dry.
Some of the environments were oright but nowhere near as good as DN3D, I mean where's the spaceship level or some of the stuff we saw in the 2001 trailer?
Overall it looks like GB's incompetence as a manager has messed the game up.
A standard FPS shooter that if made within 2 years and retailed for £20 would have been welcomed warmly and got a good 8/10 from most reviewers.
But 14 years, loads of money, dozens of employees and we get this, just not good enough.
On the plus side it's not as bad as some people make it out, the 3/10 IGN gave it was just ridiculous. You give that score to a game that's barely playable or severely broken this is neither. The graphics aren't too bad either, some people made out they was like 2005 graphics they are actually quite well done in some parts not groundbreaking but good enough for a 2010/11 game.
Overall, if your a Duke fan its worth it for the nostalgia and some of the levels are quite fun actually. If you dont care about Duke but want a good shooter wait till its about £15 then it'll be worth it.
A few more noteworthy things. Peformance was for the most part v good on a e2180 at 3ghz. rad 4850 and 2gb ram on XP. 1280*1024 and everything put to the max.
However on a few places it bizarelly dropped into 4/5 fps like it was loading something after a minute or 2 it fixed itself. But this happened 2-3 times in the game and did get me quite angry, so do the loadtimes which on the whole weren't too bad but on two-three occassions really took the ****.
Some of the boss's were ridicolously hard and this was playing it at normal difficulty, the water level one in particular. You keep on dieing then have to wait 1 minute for the reload.
Also you can't alt and tab say for example you want to check a walkthrough it's just not possible you have to close DNF down and then do it.
Overall these issues dont make or break the game but sometimes they do make you want to smash the screen in rage or go out for a walk..
However on a few places it bizarelly dropped into 4/5 fps like it was loading something after a minute or 2 it fixed itself. But this happened 2-3 times in the game and did get me quite angry, so do the loadtimes which on the whole weren't too bad but on two-three occassions really took the ****.
Some of the boss's were ridicolously hard and this was playing it at normal difficulty, the water level one in particular. You keep on dieing then have to wait 1 minute for the reload.
Also you can't alt and tab say for example you want to check a walkthrough it's just not possible you have to close DNF down and then do it.
Overall these issues dont make or break the game but sometimes they do make you want to smash the screen in rage or go out for a walk..
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I had no problem Alt-Tabbing, but what did you need a walkthrough for?
Either way what's wrong with the in game browser?I had no problem Alt-Tabbing, but what did you need a walkthrough for?
A few times I had to use it and you cant see videos in the browser.
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