Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released

smithtuna33 writes "As of today there is a teaser up for Duke Nukem Forever at 3dRealms. It's up on Youtube as well, since the site is already slow. Not much actual game-play, but still ... might this game actually see the light of day after so much talk?" 1up, GameTrailers, and Voodoo Extreme have it too.

in a word...

[geedra]

LIES!

in 5

[Anonymous Coward]

The Duke is a lie...

Re:in a word...

[alex4u2nv]

It may not be a lie, however we need to be careful if this game is released.

For if it is, Hell will freeze over and usher in the end of the world.

Perhaps this is part of the Mayan prophecy?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=2012&btnG=Search [google.com]
If so, we already know that the release date is 2012!!

Who cares?

[despe666]

Does anybody still care about that game?

Re:Who cares?

[Divide By Zero]

Only as a punchline. "We'll see that when Duke Nukem Forever is released" will now imply a concrete date. Which would be disastrous for the type of person who reads and posts snarky comments on video game news posted to Slashdot. :-/

Re:Who cares?

[Chyeld]

That's ok, it hasn't gone gold yet. And as Bogart would say, "We'll always have the Phantom [wikipedia.org]."

HD Torrent link (comment joyriding)

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry about injecting this in the top:
DNF Teaser HD torrent [mininova.org].
720p FTW!

Re:Who cares?

[JohnnyGTO]

DNF = Did Not Finish ?

Re:Who cares?

[Chris Burke]

"We'll see that when Duke Nukem Forever is released" will now imply a concrete date.

Yeah I'm not jumping to that conclusion based on a cut-scene. There have been more complete trailers than that in years (many years) past. I'm sure not giving them the benefit of the doubt now. Still 100% vapor as far as I'm concerned.

Of course even if they did actually ship the game tomorrow, future comparisons to Duke Nukem would still imply a delay of over ten years, a lifetime in gaming.

Re:Who cares?

[hedwards]

I was disappointed that it seemed to be light on anything that looked like in game graphics, and the parts that did were on screen so briefly that it was hard to tell whether or not they were from the game.

I would have been much happier with some actual footage of somebody playing, or a tech demo movie.

I can't imagine that they're going to be able to turn a profit on it after all the years they've spent working on it. Daikatana was only in development for 3 years or so behind schedule, and suffered severely for it. 3DRealms could do better if they at least manage to release the first version in a mostly bug free package.

And of course I too label this one vaporware until I can actually download a demo.

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[mustpax]

Exactly, Spore immediately comes to mind for having a remarkably extensive trailer [ign.com] and a live demo [youtube.com]. It's still been plagued by delays.

Re:Who cares?

[ahem]

You know what, I'll believe that this game is actually shipping about the time that Duke Nukem Forever is rel....

Oops.

Re:Who cares?

[netsavior]

The truth for me is that I have still not played a FPS that was more FUN than Duke3D... Sure I have played games with better graphics, better engines, better stories, better mechanics, better multiplayer. But I have yet to find a, FPS game that was so consistantly "fun". It was just the right blend of cartooney, hard boiled, tongue'in'cheek, and psudo-realisim. And I don't believe anyone else has got it quite right yet.

I will still buy it on release day. Even if I have top buy it in...

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

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[rpillala]

Give Shogo: MAD a try if you can find it.

Re:Who cares?

[Not_Wiggins]

The truth for me is that I have still not played a FPS that was more FUN than Duke3D...

I second the sentiment!

All you need to do is enjoy the all-out fun of shooting an RPG into a teleporter or, and I so wish SOMEONE would reintroduce it, leave a bunch of pipe-bombs out in multi-player to appreciate just how much fun this game really was.

Running up to try and pick up a pipe-bomb before the other guy(s) detonated... what a great concept.

Re:Who cares?

[netsavior]

Don't forget steroids[r], holoduke[h], shrink ray, and laser trip mines. The beauty in the weapons/items in that game is that they had a small selection of very well implemented weapons/itmes that would work the way you expected them to work.

Did anyone else know the steroids would instantly grow you from a shrink... neither did most opponents on Heat.net the best is the second time they shrink you, you holoduke instead of steroids, and then get behind them and 'roid it up and shoot them dead. Beauty. It is just a far cry from the current state of FPSs which is: "Snipe, tank, or rocket"

I have yet to find something more satisfying than sending an elevator full of pipebombs at an unsuspecting player.

the good old days.

[bronney]

1. holoduke on a elevator, pipe bomb on elevator, you stay downstairs, press the elevator up to your opponent, he shoots holo, notice somethings wrong, step on elevator, you det the pipebomb while looking into the surveillance cams. Insta-fun!

2. leave pipebomb in front of force field, step behind forcefield, activate field. Stand still and look at your opponent. He shoots, came to deactivate forcefield, you det the pipebomb. Insta-lolcopters.

Sorry for the commas.

None of the games after Duke3D offer this kind of creative weapon usage.

Re:Who cares?

[Reality Master 101]

Does anybody still care about that game?

If it's a good game, people will care. If it's not, people won't. Really, what difference does it make how long it took to develop?

With all the rewrites, this is really Duke 7 anyway, with Duke 4-6 just not getting released.

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[empaler]

With all the rewrites, this is really Duke 7 anyway, with Duke 4-6 just not getting released.

Morelike the re-re-re-imagining of Duke 4...
Kinda like the Street Fighter 2 series, only without releases.

Wait a second...

[Moryath]

wasn't this supposed to beat Daikatana to market?

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[Loadmaster]

I believe G.B. did, at one time, say that if they don't beat Unreal 2 then there is something very wrong.

Re:Who cares?

[JavaLord]

Does anybody still care about that game?

Yes, I've already started a book about it, called "From Vaporware to Vistaware"

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[fm6]

Harlan Ellison [wikipedia.org] perhaps.

Re:Who cares?

[IdleTime]

Nuke Dukem Whatever...

Re:Who cares?

[Macgrrl]

It's still "Duke Nukem Forever" - it's just the meaning of forever has now changed to describe how long the development took...

Nice Teaser

[AbsoluteXyro]

Now if only there were an actual GAME to go along with it. Maybe they can cobble together a direct-to-DVD movie instead?

Re:Nice Teaser

[Rolgar]

According to an article on ars technica [arstechnica.com] over 18 months ago, a member of their game group managed to cobble together most of the game into playable fashion, and wrote a review of the game.

In Other News...

[FreeRadicalX]

...Four horse-like aircraft seen flying across night sky.

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[kryten_nl]

...President Bush will give in a press conference tonight. In which he will give a detailed explanation of the incident in Roswell, New Mexico, on July 7, 1947.

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[calebt3]

Here's a hint: Al Gore was born 9 months later.

And In Other News...

[Cajun Hell]

The next version of MSIE will be able to show web pages.

Red one?

[sznupi]

Hm, renifeers could actually be confused with that...

Santa?...

Re:In Other News...

[phobos13013]

OMG PONIES?!?!!!

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[mr_mischief]

I just have to ask... how long exactly have you been waiting to make that one even remotely on topic?

Re:In Other News...

[nschubach]

628 days? [slashdot.org]

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[Anubis350]

The linked site from that article is FUBARd, so you might say that linking to that was, uh, kinda like beating a dead horse /me ducks

the death of a metaphor?

[Joe the Lesser]

If they actually release the game how can I continue to classify certain projects at work as 'Duke Nukem Forever' priority!!

Re:the death of a metaphor?

[lgw]

if it does comes out and actually manages to be worse than Daikatana.

I think my head just exploded trying to figure out which of these two things could be less likely.

"Coming soon"

[damn_registrars]

... yep, that means a lot coming from 3d realms in this context...

Re:"Coming soon"

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Is that "soon" geologically, or "soon" cosmologically?

Re:"Coming soon"

[Kjella]

My money is on glaciologically, so I guess I'm an optimist.

Re:"Coming soon"

[Creepy]

First Teaser was in 2001
Second Teaser in late 2007

by extrapolation,
Alpha somewhere around 2013
Beta in 2020
Release in 2027 or 2028, give or take.

Re:"Coming soon"

[A beautiful mind]

It is "soon" DukeNukemically. Cosmologists started using it because they found "100 trillion years after the heatdeath of the universe" too long.

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[gstoddart]

It is "soon" DukeNukemically. Cosmologists started using it because they found "100 trillion years after the heatdeath of the universe" too long.

Too long to say, or too long of an interval? :-P

Cheers

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[spasm]

Australian lawyers used to use the boilerplate "100 years after the death of the last decedent of the Ming Emperors" for things like end dates for trust funds where the law required *something* and they really wanted to say 'never'. But I hear they switched to "When Duke Nukem is released" a couple of years ago. : )

Not nice.

[Anonymous Coward]

Seeing the words 'Duke Nukem Forever' and 'released' in the same sentence almost made me choke on my toast. Next time, try to break the news lightly or you may end up with a slightly reduced readership.

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[dreamchaser]

It's worse than that. Physicists have predicted that if DNF ever were actually released it could create a change in the vacuum state of the Universe. Everything goes POOF.

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[BiggerBoat]

This isn't a trailer at all. Just a teaser.

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[BiggerBoat]

Yep. And 3D Realms has said they'll be following this teaser up with a full trailer eventually. Of course, 3D Realms has said a lot of things.

But there is definitely a difference between a teaser and a trailer, and comparing one to the other is just silly.

Re:dont hold much hope regardless

[hansamurai]

Is this the one you're talking about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHU3sq8Wfjs [youtube.com]

And yeah, that one is better.

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[p0tat03]

Holy crap. That's a game I would like to play, regardless of graphical crappiness. That thing looks FUN.

This teaser... not so much, but... I have to admit it has my interest piqued again. If they can follow it up with a proper trailer, I'm pretty sure the buzz will go back up.

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[empaler]

!
How the hell did I miss that trailer? That looked like an awesome game! Why the hell didn't they release it?

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[flyingsquid]

How the hell did I miss that trailer? That looked like an awesome game! Why the hell didn't they release it?

What's interesting is that it also looked a lot closer to release than the trailer just put out. If they got that close- some fairly sophisticated level design, voice acting, lots of different aliens and weapons- and it didn't get done, then I don't think the most recent trailer changes anything. What's telling about the recent trailer is what isn't in it. No weapons. No levels. No voice acting. No m

Re:dont hold much hope regardless

[Pharmboy]

...and they spent all that time since 2001 just working on this teaser. Now they are gonna start working on the actual GAME.

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[antdude]

It's a teaser trailer, so not much would be shown. I agree the full trailer from 2001 was cool. It's good today!

My CMOS battery must be dead...

[dada21]

...because my clock says December 19, 2007. Is it April 1st already???

No wonder the malls are dead.

Return of the King

[mzs]

Where are the strippers? Why all the muscle shots? The pig cop was good though.

Repent Ye! Repent Ye!!

[El_Smack]

Delete thy Pr0n and believe, for the end cometh nigh!

It can't be!

[dlc3007]

I would consider my reality to be shattered if this game ever came out. Can anyone even imagine what a "Top 10 Vaporware" list would be like without it?
I'd feel the same way about Spore, except that I actually want to play that game.

Repent now

[steveo777]

I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in some prophecy or another, but if they ever actually finish this game, expect a few horsemen to come knocking at a lot of doors. Probably some plagues, too.

I see the future...

[__aaclcg7560]

Looks like Rocky, Rambo and Duke have a lot in common these days: Comeback kings of the steroids circuit!

You know what? Give it up.

[WarlockD]

Look at the games or the mega release just this year. All the innovation, the spectacular graphics. The new ideas in gameplay (Portal, Timeshift, etc). What the hell can Duke Nuke offer? Serious Sam has the crappy "Kill everything that moves" so what space will Duke Nuke offer with a one dimensional character and "wacky" characters?

Hell, even when Doom 3 came out, it had the novity factor of being to powerful for the systems of the day. What will Duke bring to the table?

Re:You know what? Give it up.

[zippthorne]

If it's anything like DN3D, it won't be about a particularly innovative engine

It'll be about details. Mostly humorous.

There will be strippers you can pay, and rob. There will be pool-tables with semi-realistic billiard ball physics. There will be sinks you can smash and urinals you can piss in (and you'll gain health for this for some reason).

You won't be stuck some place with a 2-inch curb you can't climb over to keep you in. Instead, the map boundaries will seem reasonable. Or at least, physical. You might still question why someone built a building across a four-lane street...

And there will be genre-jokes. Perhaps there will even be an arcade with a working version of Ms. Astro Chicken or something, to which Duke makes some comment about it taking so long to come out and not being worth the wait.

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[waffledoodle]

If this is nothing but Duke Nukem 3D with an upgraded engine, it is quite frankly going to be more interesting to me than most of today's FPS games. Last time around, we got laser trip mines, jet packs, freeze guns, shrink rays, holograms, interactive environments, humor, cool music, cool monsters, and fun levels. Shit. I'm going to reinstall it tonight.

Re:You know what? Give it up.

[Mishotaki]

Naked women?
I mean really naked... as in "we don't care about having an AO game, it's what we're aiming for" kind of naked women... in a videogame!

That would be the first of it's kind in American gaming! Everyone is scared shitless of doing it because they're scared no one will sell the game... Everyone knows Duke, demographics shows that most of the gamers can buy adult games without any problem, all they need is to release that legendary game and show the reality that we don't mind naked chicks, we like naked chicks, we want naked chicks, we're tired of almost-but-not-naked-enough-chicks from the "M" games! We want real Adult games, not the kiddie stuff!

Come on Duke, the future of gaming is in your hands! let us see some titties! Not yours, off course ^_^

Oopsie

[Greyfox]

Did the old venture capital dry up? Instead of releasing another teaser at this point they should be maneuvering to be acquired by another company which could then quietly bury the project. Or maybe they're maneuvering to be acquired by another company with this thing...

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[rabtech]

What are you talking about? Prey and Max Payne are both 3D Realms properties; combined with the boat-loads of cash they made on Duke3D and all its various ports and expansion packs (such as to the various GameBoy incarnations), they've been consistently profitable since before Duke3D was released.

I might add that I live in the Dallas area and everyone I know in the games industry here that has played the game says it is far and way the most fun game they've ever played and if it were immediately released th

Noooooooo!!!!!

[wandazulu]

I had so many hopes that we'd have solved so many of the world's problems by the time DNF was released! I was expecting to bring the game with me to my summer timeshare on Mars!

So many dreams shattered. Oh wait, it's just a trailer, not the real thing. Dream on, then!

I don't remember now...

[damn_registrars]

... Is Duke Nukem Forever considered to be the high or low water mark for vaporware?

Only

[Bananatree3]

I will refuse any release unless its Duke Nukem Forever on a Phantom Console running on an Atom Chip. Otherwise, you can forgettaboutit.

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[TomorrowPlusX]

Yeah, but with the TimeCube you can play it today. Yesterday, even.

might this game actually see the light of day?

[sm62704]

might this game actually see the light of day after so much talk?

Well if it does then we won't have to put a stake through this undead thing's heart, will we? The question in my mind, though, is "are they still planning on using the Quake II engine?"

How old is this guy?!?!

[multimediavt]

Ok, I remember being in college when this guy was in his late twenties, maybe early thirties. This was in the early to mid 1990s. Duke's gotta be pushing Stallone age in video game years! He'll be doing first person shooter from a walker for crying out loud. Didn't he die and get resurrected since then, too? Sheesh!

Running joke fatigue

[Random BedHead Ed]

You know, I'm actually all out of jokes for this topic.

the title is the schedule

[swschrad]

the finished code will be rushed to Production by unicorn messengers.

The best part...

[wjsteele]

"Stay Tuned" What the hell do they think we've been doing for the past [X number] of of years!

Bill

Suppose it comes out one day...

[scubamage]

Do you think that the ESRB would give Duke Nukem Forever a chance? I mean, a game where you kill pig cops and get strippers to flash you... has pornos as easter eggs... no way. I don't think so. On the upside, were they to give it the dreaded AO rating, unlike PS2, Wii and X360 they'd still be able to release it since no one does the licensing for PC.

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[Firethorn]

GTA still sells, so an AO rating is actually likely to increase sales. Consider this: If you played DN3D when you were 12, you are now at least 24.

AO? No problem.

Brrrr

[Sark666]

"Is it getting cold in here?" - Satan

I wonder...

[logicassasin]

I wonder if it'll run on my Indrema L600 console, modded with a Glaze3D video card.

In other news. . .

[Satanboy]

Pigs with wings were found in the Brazilian Rain Forest . . .

The real story

[SpacePunk]

Evidently there's a working Phantom prototype out there somewhere.

Amazing...

[Roger W Moore]

...even their April Fool tricks are 8.5 months late!

Re:Quote

[CestusGW]

Read the 3drealms website. It was an unfunded effort by a few employees to make something for the company Christmas party. Lighten up, Francis!

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[Esine]

The voice actor is the same, Jon St. John. That's Duke's voice alright.

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[Dmala]

Yeah, it's just ten years older than the last time you heard it.

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[p0tat03]

Er... As another poster brought up, this was a video for a company Christmas party. Give it a break. Secondly, it IS the same voice actor. Thirdly, it's not CGI, it clearly comes out of the engine (look at the horrible normal mapping on Duke's pants). Fourth, it's got gameplay, albeit not a lot of it, but you can see a fair bit of in-engine in-game shots.

I don't get why the Slashdot groupthink is trashing this. It's been vaporware for way too long, I for one look forward to the possibility that it will get taken off the vaporware list in the foreseeable future.

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[zippthorne]

Wasn't the "original duke" just a few audio cuts from Bruce Campbell's dialog in Army of Darkness?

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[phatvw]

• I'm looking for some alien toilet to park my bricks. Who's first?

Yes bricks=dookie and you're putting it in a toilet. Very clever. Thats not even funny. Who writes this crap? The old lines were way better:

• Its time to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm allllllllllllll out of gum

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[Tarison]

If only there were some movie, in which many of the classic lines could be heard. That'd do it for me...

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[gnuman99]

A lot of the duke nukem lines are from the movie They Live. It includes the "It's chew bubble gum and kick some ass. But I'm all out of gum."

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/ [imdb.com]

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[tilandal]

I agree. For FMV it was horribly dated. The voice acting was bad and they didn't show anything that isn't in generic shooter #657. It seems like a desperate "Hey look at us. We are still alive!" ploy.

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[flyingsquid]

No, no, they're not dead. They're just resting. Remarkable company, the 3D realms. Beautiful plumage!

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[Wicko]

I think they're staying true to the original Duke3D. Which, to be honest, I would prefer. Its like a trip back in the past, but prettier.

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[MarcoAtWork]

given the graphic quality of the teaser I thought that was kind of obvious, and not in a good way (cue crysis etc. comparisons)

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[BiggerBoat]

From 3D Realms' George Broussard (as seen on Shacknews): "All the footage apart from the start and end logos was captured via Fraps in game and real-time."

Re:In other news...

[BarneyL]

Extremely low temperatures have been reported in hell today. If the drop continues hell is actually in danger of freezing over...

I hear the first level will be set in a frozen hell fighting off flying pigs.

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[ed1park]

flying man boars with giant tusks actually...

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[corsec67]

As a single function call, which is why both are taking so long.