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Duke Nukem Forever Due This Year?
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Zonk
on Sat Jun 10, 2006 06:21 AM
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from the an-end-in-sight dept.
nz17 writes "Under the original deal, 3D Realms was to receive some $6 million from Take-Two to develop the title. Now the Texas-based developer will receive only $4,250 for the oft-delayed game when it is completed. Just the same, 3D Realms has a fairly large incentive to get Duke Nukem Forever done by the end of the year; Take-Two has offered the studio $500,000 in the form of a promissory note if the game sees commercial release by December 31, 2006."
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Who saw that pig go by? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who saw that pig go by? (Score:5, Funny)
By now it's a flying Bill Gates as a super hero praising open source and destroying proprietary software companies with fricking lasers from his head.
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Windows Vista (Score:5, Funny)
quite the paycut (Score:5, Insightful)
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Basically (Score:5, Insightful)
1: It will never be released, in which case no, not this year.
2: It is honestly being worked on, in which case maybe.
3: It's about to be done, any day now, in which case yes.
Obviously these positions are rather broad, and one might even say baseless, but that is just the point. We don't have any way to distinguish between them, we can only guess. All we know is that they keep saying that they are working on it and making progress, but honestly that is compatible with all three positions. Personally I hope Duke Nukem will never come out, for if it does I will have to re-write all my vaporware jokes.
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I Believe It (Score:5, Insightful)
DNF will ship. Who knows how good it will be, or what condition it will be in. They can make money after the fact with expansions.
The only thing that surprises me is that 3DRealms is making any money at all after how they have handled this. If I was the publisher, I would have canceled the project and taken it to another development house long ago.
Re:I Believe It (Score:5, Funny)
DNF will ship. Who knows how good it will be, or what condition it will be in. They can make money after the fact with expansions.
But will you have the system to handle DNF? I have a pre-market copy of the DNF box right here ... let's see .... MS-DOS 6.22 (Windows 3.11 users will need to exit to DOS), 32MB XMS memory (HIMEM), 100MB free space on hard drive.
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$4250 ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:$4250 ? (Score:5, Informative)
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Good Idea? (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'll have my $500,000 now thankyou.
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Re:Good Idea? (Score:5, Informative)
The really nice thing is, the vast majority of them are developed on either of two system - TADS, the Text Adventure Development System [tads.org] or Inform [inform-fiction.org], Infocom's system. Both are free for anyone to develop their own games with, and there are interpreters for these systems (especially Inform) on just about any platform you care to use.
A good central 'hub' to start from is the IF archive [ifarchive.org] with some beginners guides on how to get started, and a massive collection of games to download and play. and googling for 'interactive fiction' will turn up lots more sites.
Have fun
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Re:Good Idea? (Score:5, Informative)
You're forgetting one of the main slashdot rules - never ascribe to malace what can be explained by bad editing.
(The new amount isn't $4,250, it's 4.25 million.)
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More than $4,250 (Score:5, Informative)
the truth is in the punctuation (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stop holding your breath, it won't be worth it (Score:5, Insightful)
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