Well no, it will be the publishers loss too if they can't sell their game in half the biggest retail outlets in the country
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Well no, it will be the publishers loss too if they can't sell their game in half the biggest retail outlets in the country
Digital distribution is the best chance this game has unless they have 2 versions.
If it appears in retail, it will be heavily edited if it is a true Duke game, noboday wants that
The fanbase will know about this anyway so I don't think a digital only release would be a major loss, especially if it means the game retains its integrity.
If it appears in retail, it will be heavily edited if it is a true Duke game, noboday wants that
The fanbase will know about this anyway so I don't think a digital only release would be a major loss, especially if it means the game retains its integrity.
For those who like zero punctuation:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1968-Viewers-Choice-Duke-Nukem-Forever
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I would highly recomend nostalgic users never play this game for fear of destroying said nostalgia and coming to terms with the truth that the old games you love are no good any more. I have been beaten by this bat many a time and have come to the terms taht they are always better in memory and should be left that way haha. With the exception of DK2 and theme hospital
There are still plenty of people playing Duke Nukem 3D, so I think DNF will not fall into the nostalgia problem you refer to. Besides, it is a new game, not the old one. Which I played again earlier. It was still fun, with the new renderer and graphics. People are still making maps for it, even some new episodes.
I've also been beaten by the nostalgia bat many times, especially when I got a Spectrum emulator, but I think a new Duke Nukem game won't have that problem.
Maybe not so much on PC, but it would batter console sales. Also, the USA is a different market. Remember the furore over the "hot coffee" in GTA? That was some cartoony sort of sex. Women in kinky schoolgirl outfits giving blowjobs in a game(*) would freak the USA media out and lawsuits would fly like a plague of locusts. Lots of publicity, but a big problem. AO is a sales problem in the USA unless you're selling porn. It would make financial sense to push DNF in at the limit of the M rating in the USA.
* That is in the intro to the playable demo, according to reviews of it.
Incidentally, does anyone know what happened to 3DR? It appears they lost the court case no-one will talk about and T2 has all the IP rights now - there's no mention of 3DR at all and all mention of Duke Nukem, even Duke Nukem 3D, is banned on 3DR forums.
Nice. The nostalgia factor is kicking in
I've just played Duke3D through on Xbox 360. Could still remember all the levels and hidden rooms
Who honestly cares about the stick up the arse of the Americans? Whether the major retailers stock it or not, it'll be a cold day in hell that it can't simply be rented or bought online. So really, its not a loss in the slightest.
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i must be getting old but that music gave me an headhache , think i will give this game a miss and wait for rage tbh
in the UsA AO means it can't be on display iirc, so even in the shops that will sell it it would have to be in a back room/on request.
basically it's a death blow for any major game, hopefully they'll just cut the stuff from the us game and release it normally for the civilized world (like the do with Germany and swastikas)
They basically completely and totally lost the case. It all boiled down to Take 2 stating their case that 3DRealms took an unreasonably long time to make the game. The judge, along with everyone else on the planet who isn't George Broussard, agreed.
The Half Life franchise has proven time and time again, doing something that's been done before but doing it WELL is more than enough. I don't expect anything new from this title, but i do hope it will deliver well known mechanics to a high standard. Here's hoping this game was worth the wait, i'm dubious.
Of course they took an unreasonably long time to make the game. The question was whether or not T2 are entitled to take the intellectual property from 3DR. That's a completely different question. Why should they be?
What proportion of PC, Xbox360 and PS3 games are bought online without any offline advertising? It's certainly not 100%, not even for PCs and especially not for consoles.
Anyone who is trying to sell a game worldwide must care about the USA market. It's the biggest market. To say that ruling out RL sales and advertising for a game in the biggest market would not reduce sales at all is silly.
Whats your point? Aside from cases of insane overhyping, who can really tell if the cost of advertising really is worth the effort. The announcement alone of DNF would probably get around by word of mouth. Just because its not being advertised doesn't mean 'ruling it out' in the slightest. Especially as 99.9% of people who would buy the game would have internet access.