Some new Duke Forever Previews

Gerard · 9 Feb 2011 at 20:18

[Shacknews: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/67453

Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/hand-on-duke-nukem-forever.ars

Joystiq: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/09/duke-nukem-forever-preview/

Gameplanet: http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/xbox/games/163879/previews/136504.Duke-Nukem-Forever/

Videogamer.com: http://www.videogamer.com/ps3/duke_nuken_forever/preview-2893.html

Escapist: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...ews/previews/8634-Duke-Nukem-Forever-Hands-On

One of the articles mentions that the game supposodly doesn't look like the screenshots and had a sluggish framerate, though it must be noted it seems they were playing the actual 360 version this time around.

Bobmunkhouse · 9 Feb 2011 at 20:46

I just checked out 2 reviews at random and its not looking good......

B&W · 9 Feb 2011 at 21:52

george brussard and his "itll be done when its done", stupid overweight ****. looks like another daikatona. shame as duke is legend.

skullman · 9 Feb 2011 at 21:55

B&W said:
george brussard and his "itll be done when someone else does it for the lulz"

fixed!

olivier renault · 10 Feb 2011 at 00:58

I bet Jack Black will love it.

cub123 · 10 Feb 2011 at 07:56

Gerard said:
One of the articles mentions that the game supposodly doesn't look like the screenshots and had a sluggish framerate, though it must be noted it seems they were playing the actual 360 version this time around.

Shame because the pics look great imo.

ace-rimmer · 10 Feb 2011 at 08:46

it better not be short

AWPC · 10 Feb 2011 at 09:39

More they show the less interest I have. For me this has gone from being a blind pre-order to it all depends on other factors now.

So far it looks like a dated multiplatform console based FPS/3rd Person action game.

After so long in development you would think it would have a lot more to show................

AWPC · 10 Feb 2011 at 09:40

ace-rimmer said:
it better not be short

It's not short Randy Pitchford said its around 16 hours long SP which is pretty long nowadays!

mrk · 10 Feb 2011 at 09:50

Meh, I don't care about the console version.

SHOW ME THE PC VERSION!, where it belongs.

El_Watcher · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:30

Gerard said:
One of the articles mentions that the game supposodly doesn't look like the screenshots and had a sluggish framerate,

Maybe with a sense of irony, the developers have made the console versions a bad port of the PC game seeing as it always happens the other way, and we get the raw deal.

To me it sounds like the game will allow you to do everything you have wanted to do in previous FPS games, but were frustrated to not be able to. It also sounds a bit like Postal, as the graphics on that weren't great but I still enjoyed it because of the outrageousness.

mrk · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:35

If gearbox have done that (bad console port LOL) then I will lol my cacks

Lithon · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:37

DN games we're always in priority of humour>gameplay>graphics, if they keep to this I'm still happy

m0r94n · 10 Feb 2011 at 11:07

From what I've read the only reason people are getting all pee pants about it is due to the combat not following today's trend of HIDE BEHIND WALL SHOOT OVER WALL. Very fast paced and very similar to the style of combat found in FPS games such as 90's Duke, Doom and Quake. I can't wait.

mrk · 10 Feb 2011 at 11:10

Yeah you can't really pull that kind of gaming off on a console so sucks to be a console gamer when you can't use Halo dynamics lol

ThomasTheTankEngine · 10 Feb 2011 at 12:03

AWPC said:
More they show the less interest I have. For me this has gone from being a blind pre-order to it all depends on other factors now.

So far it looks like a dated multiplatform console based FPS/3rd Person action game.

After so long in development you would think it would have a lot more to show................

We'd only recently upgraded to windows 98 when the development started. I doubt much of the early stuff would be usable. IIRC they spent most of the time porting it between various versions of the quake and unreal engines.

simpletom · 10 Feb 2011 at 12:33

The result should be a solid, unspectacular game that may well snag heavy commercial success on the back of goodwill, and nostalgia or respect for the Duke name.

The idea of Duke is much stronger than the reality.

Not too convinved ast the moment. Will wait and see...

Deadbeat · 10 Feb 2011 at 12:41

I take pretty much all reviews with a pinch of salt these days. I found some time ago that what reviewers consider great games really don't measure up in my reckoning and I find myself drawn to games that either reviews were unfavourable towards or didn't acknowledge at all. If Morgan's (I'm not spelling your name in numbers

) guess is correct, that'll make me plenty happy.

Tute · 10 Feb 2011 at 12:52

m0r94n said:
From what I've read the only reason people are getting all pee pants about it is due to the combat not following today's trend of HIDE BEHIND WALL SHOOT OVER WALL. Very fast paced and very similar to the style of combat found in FPS games such as 90's Duke, Doom and Quake. I can't wait.

This, oh my god this.

Whilst I find the SP aspects of MW/MW2 fantastic and enjoyable (if a little short), give me a shooter in the Doom/Quake/HL mould any day.

Gideon Lorr · 10 Feb 2011 at 13:19

m0r94n said:
From what I've read the only reason people are getting all pee pants about it is due to the combat not following today's trend of HIDE BEHIND WALL SHOOT OVER WALL. Very fast paced and very similar to the style of combat found in FPS games such as 90's Duke, Doom and Quake. I can't wait.

Couldn't ask for more