Duke Nukem Forever Drifts To 2005?

Thanks to GameSpot for their story discussing remarks made during today's Take Two financial conference call regarding Duke Nukem Forever's release date. Take Two CEO Jeffrey Lapin indicated that he "...had a recent conversation with [Duke Nukem Forever's] developer, and they expect the game to be completed sometime at the end of '04 or the beginning of '05." Naturally, the epic history of the game is then discussed, and the author points out: "Though Take Two spent a reported $12 million for the rights to publish Duke Nukem Forever, the game's development is being completely self-funded by 3D Realms, which still owns the franchise. The developer has never officially announced a release date, keeping with 3D head George Broussard's famous mantra that the release date is 'when it's done'."

Holy Shit

[Apreche]

I read the headline and me and my roomate proceeded to laugh for 5 mintues nonstop. No joke.

You should seriously put warnings on these things, I could have spit milk all over my keyboard.

Hmm...

[tayjo]

They are really messing with my emotions

There's two words I'm thinking about...

[ivern76]

Ware, and vapor. There must be some way to put these words together to describe DNF...yes, there must be.

Does Anyone Remember

[Snowspinner]

The first Monty Python computer game? Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, I think it was. The object of the game was to get to the actual game, and you had to suffer through Pythonesque inconvenience to do so.

Yeah. It's less funny after 6 years of DNF.

Re:Holy Shit

[excesspwr]

You should seriously put warnings on these things, I could have spit milk all over my keyboard

Seriously,,,,,, I did spray my keyboard with coke when I read that. The part that got me laughing though was when I read it drifted to 2005. In my head I heard "Ah,,,,,,,, It's been moved up!". I crack myself up. No one else,,,,,, I know,,,,, but I kill me. Luckily the coke only made my comma key stick.

Yes, it could be worse...

[Stormwatch]

How long until we get a Macintosh version? :P

And the cleaning lady's a hologram...

[Andy Smith]

The developer has never officially announced a release date, keeping with 3D head George Broussard's famous mantra that the release date is 'when it's done'.

That must be the ultimate status symbol for a tech company, being run by a 3D head.

Another Use of the DNF Acronym....

[shadowcabbit]

Did Not Finish.

Hype Hype Hype

[fuzzybunny]

OK, so this explains the leaked company documents that use the project code name "It".

It's the Segway of computer games!

Re:Yes, it could be worse...

[Gleng]

I guess you'll get about 10 minutes to play it before the heat death of the universe.

At 3D realms HQ...

[Channard]

George Broussard: 'Hey, guys.. that Doom 3 engine is looking pretty cool. How about we... '

ALL: 'Noooooo!'

Gee I wonder why its called Forever

[mnmn]

It will probably be released after the next superman series, and after the last episode of Santa Barbera.

Big Dig

[ben_degonzague]

Even the big dig managed to be completed before Duke Nukem Forever.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1219/p02s0 1-ussc.htm l

Delay will be worth it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Rememeber the infinite delays for Daikatana, but how awesome that game was?

Maybe the delay is so they can work on the "Duke wants to make you his bitch" marketing campaign.