Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed - Again 222
Blacklaw writes "Duke Nukem Forever, the game that turned into the industry's longest running joke as it entered development hell, has encountered one last delay to its launch."
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Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed - Again
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i remember duke from childhood (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, memories from childhood. One day my friend told me he had found a kickass game from a BBS and asked if I wanted to go play it with him after school. He described it to me and I was already sold, but but... My mother Giovanna had told me to help my father at our family pizza place after school. Damn it!
School day became to end and I tried to consider my options, but there were none. I had to go help my papa make pizza. Frustraded, almost crying, I walked the streets of Naples back home. Every now and then I watched inside a window on the street and noticed someone playing on computer. I was thinking if that could be it, but I'd never know.
I decided to think for a moment. Like a good oven takes its time and peace to bake and finish a delicious pizza, my padre would wait for me. It was time to go see what the game was about.
And I was amazed. Great looking graphics, funny sounding man that I did not understand and girls with something on their chest that looked like doughnuts with a salami on top of it. It was truly marvelous.
While later serving customers at my fathers pizza place, I couldn't but think that I have to get a computer and this Duke Nukem 3D game. I mean, I loved baking pizza. But there is a time when a boy must choose between leisure and girls. But my father never got me a computer.
Like an overbaked pizza, my dreams were crushed when Duke Nukem Forever never came.
In other news, water is wet, Windows sucks... (Score:0, Funny)
... and it's harder to see where you're going at night than it is in the daytime.
Re:i remember duke from childhood (Score:4, Funny)
My first post (Score:5, Funny)
was delayed again
WOW, they almost had me (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks for the notice... I almost unpacked my P233 (Score:5, Funny)
When it was originally announced in 1997, I immediately went out and bought a state of the art Pentium 233 with 4MB RAM and a humongous 1GB hard drive.... it's sitting there waiting...waiting ....
Hopefully it still runs on MS Windows 3.11
old news (Score:5, Funny)
To give them the benefit of the doubt .... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe their CD printer is in Japan?
Indeed... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:i remember duke from childhood (Score:5, Funny)
Mod parent Sad.
Yeah, it's had a lot of "one last" delays (Score:4, Funny)
I'm telling you, this is whole "We're releasing Duke Nuke'Em Forever" thing is just a very elaborate April Fools Day joke from Gearbox.
It's good that they delayed it (Score:4, Funny)
I mean, a hasty release wouldn't be good for the quality, right?
Re:i remember duke from childhood (Score:5, Funny)
Of course. (Score:5, Funny)
You didn't realize that Slashdot was launched by Taco et al for the sole purpose of tracking Nukem's release cycle?
They started posting other stories as fillers.
People! (Score:5, Funny)
What part of FOREVER don't you understand?!
Re:Duke Nukem Forever Delayed - For the first time (Score:3, Funny)
At least (Score:2, Funny)
Re:i remember duke from childhood (Score:5, Funny)
Back when they first announced this game they hadn't even invented computers yet.
Yeah, it was somewhere in Leviticus, wasn't it? It had a big two-page spread and everything. That couldn't have been cheap, especially without any printing press.
obligatory... (Score:3, Funny)
fool me won't get fooled again?
Re:Of course. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i remember duke from childhood (Score:5, Funny)
So DNF is still among the remaining great "unsolved problems" of slashdot? Much like Hilbert and his famous list of math questions, this list echoes through the generations.
Solved
Releasing the code for slashdot (free slash!) DONE
Releasing Kevin Mitnick (free kevin!) DONE
Unresolved questions/problems
How to petrify Natalie Portman in an undressed state - UNSOLVED
Does it run Linux (default answer must be YES) - UNSOLVED
"Why were these stories rejected?" With a list of obscene article titles - UNSOLVED
The whereabouts of OOG THE CAVEMAN - UNSOLVED
The whereabouts of Jon Katz - UNSOLVED
The ultimate fate of the "slashdot cruiser" offered as a prize and never delivered - UNSOLVED
The assassination of "Signal 11" - NOT YET COMPLETED
Duke Nukem Forever is for girls... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:If you ever walked out of the bathroom... (Score:3, Funny)
Or if you ever went to the bathroom because you were thirsty, kicked the toilet until the porcelain shattered, and drank the water spraying out, you might have played too much Duke Nukem.