Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed 288
stupid_is writes with news that Duke Nukem Forever has now gotten a firm US release date: May 3rd. It will release worldwide three days later. The game was resurrected last fall by Gearbox Software and 2K Games after 3D Realms' 12-year attempt at development came to an end in 2009 when the company closed its doors.
Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Interesting)
Well done to Gearbox for finishing this off - it would have been a sin if it didn't see the light of day in the end. The previews look good and I'm looking forward to picking it up when it reaches Europe on 6 May (PC version, of course, the Duke doesn't need some stinking console). I'm hoping for a shooter which emphasises funky weapons, crazy situations and bad jokes over "balance" and other hardcore trappings. Back when I was a student, DN3D was always the game for a fun blast while Quakeworld was for whose who took things a bit more seriously.
Anyway, Gearbox, how about you get cracking on Aliens: Colonial Marines now - or will that be done "when it's ready"?
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Funny)
I predict that the moment before the game is to be "released," a wormhole will open, occupying half the sky over Los Angeles. From it, millions of Octabrains will come forth, wreaking havoc and destruction while Battlelords appear and L.A.P.D. pigs are turned into L.A.R.D. cops. No, we have only just seen the early prophecy. In this Hollywood Holocaust, only those yielding laser tripmines, pipebombs, and microwave guns will survive.
I, for one, welcome our new DN3D Overlords. (Someone desperately needed to upgrade the sprites to DNF models!)
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It's the end of the world as we know it ...
and I feel fine
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Personally, I can't wait for Duke Nukem Forever 2 to get released. By then, it will be available as a holonovel, and we will finally have flying cars.
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Funny)
Personally, I can't wait for Duke Nukem Forever 2 to get released. By then, it will be available as a holonovel, and we will finally have flying cars.
I'm not so sure there will be holonovels or flying cars here after the Sun swells to a red giant and engulfs us.
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I'm not so sure there will be holonovels or flying cars here after the Sun swells to a red giant and engulfs us.
Wasn’t Sun bought up by Oracle so that it wouldn’t happen?
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:4, Funny)
Larry just wanted to make sure that if there was anything bigger than his ego in this solar system, that he would at least own it.
ANY DAY NOW: (Score:3)
GNU Hurd.
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Interesting)
Starting with Doom back in late 94 early 95, I must have spent hours playing it and going over every square inch of the maps. By the time Duke and Quake arrived there was always those discussion among the older kids of which was better. I never understood why Quake was better, no one in the neighborhood was online back then nor could do multiplayer of any form. Between Quake and Duke, the Duke had attitude, character, some depth you felt like you were playing as someone awesome. Quake though was just a man who would grunt every so often, not much different from Doom 2. As for the graphics, sure Quake was 3D in both objects and map but this was early primitive 3D. A decent art team making sprites could outshine 3D graphics back then.
The Duke will always be King.
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Interesting)
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Yes, I remember in the docs for the Duke Nuke'em map editor it said something like: do not place a mirror opposite another mirror - bad things will happen! I never did try it, actually.
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I bought a commercial package of "Pwads" and "Iwads" known as D!ZONE that was the best of the Multiplayer and Singleplayer scene for offline clients, and mods were able to overlay eachother
IWAD is the primary WAD for the game, and there can be only one loaded at the moment - you cannot have multiple "overlaying" each other. That's precisely what PWADS ("patch WADs") are for. If you replace an IWAD, you're pretty much replacing all game resources. You could take the original game IWAD and several PWADs and merge them into a single modded IWAD - that's what D!ZONE tool did.
there was a utility even that converted a wad for Doom1 to run in Doom2 and vis versa
Making such a conversion was trivial, because Doom 2 was, in modern terms, more like an expansion pack for Doom 1. Same eng
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I never understood why Quake was better, no one in the neighborhood was online back then nor could do multiplayer of any form.
You explained it to yourself. Single player DN was far more fun than single player Quake (fans of my old Quake site will scream "heresy!" for this), but network and online play is where Quake shone. As funny as the Duke was, the people playing and modding Quake were even funnier and more fun.
Imagine playing your game and a nude woman comes around the corner -- and shoots you. Or Sant
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Quake was a better *game*, as in it had better level design, more interesting enemy AI, better weapon balance, etc. Duke 3D had more humor, unique or interesting (but often impractical or useless) weapons, and levels that were made to look like real places, and for some people this made it more fun. But if you took the two and turned all the levels, models, and monsters into the equivalent of untextured grids, Quake would still be fun while I don't think I could say the same for Duke. That's not to say that
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Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Funny)
Well it looks like Duke Nukem Forever WILL release before Half Life 2 Episode 3.
W
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Tomorrow Valve announces the release date for Half Life 2 Episode 3 as May 2nd.
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, but they won't say which YEAR...
END OF TIMES (Score:3)
It will never happen. If they say the game will come out on say, March 16th, this just means the end of the world will happen on March 15th. (Beware the Ides of March, Caesar...)
Gearbox is going to bring about the end of the world by releasing this game. The Universe just doesn't want it to happen.
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it would have been a sin if it didn't see the light of day in the end.
Yeah, but now we'll have to look for a new nerdy injoke that is the equivalent of "When hell freezes over". I'm personally hoping the release date is pushed back at least once, just for the heck of it.
Back when I was a student, DN3D was always the game for a fun blast while Quakeworld was for whose who took things a bit more seriously.
Tripmines used to cause quite the bit of nerdrage. I personally am hoping those things find their way back into the game.
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but now we'll have to look for a new nerdy injoke that is the equivalent of "When hell freezes over".
"When slashdotters all date hot girls." There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
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Done it. Got photos to prove it.
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He said all. I've got one too. That's two of us. Only...a couple million to go.
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Julia Roberts. Halle Berry.
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How about, "when we find the Higgs boson..." or "when the LHC reaches full capacity..."
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Yeah, but now we'll have to look for a new nerdy injoke that is the equivalent of "When hell freezes over"
When Richard Stallman shaves? Or buys a copy of MS Office?
Re:Well done, Gearbox (Score:5, Informative)
Gearbox didnt finish the game.. Triptych Games did(former 3D Realms employees). All that Gearbox did was port the finished PC game to the game consoles.
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That's pretty awesome to know, best comment so far :)
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I haven't bought a game in years, but I absolutely positively HAVE to get this one, even if it sucks. I knew the Duke when he was a squeaky little side scroller. Actually, I liked DN1 & 2 better than DN3D. I was very into Quake and Quake II, moreso than any of the DNs, but the DNs were great fun.
I hope they ressurect the Energizer Bunny and Doctor Proton.
Oh hell yeah (Score:2)
It must have been 10+ years ago since I last played a game on the PC, switching over to consoles. Damn right I'm gonna be picking this up. Think I'll break out my original copy of DN3D and give that a play-through as well. Hmm...wonder if it plays okay in DOSBox...
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Re:Oh hell yeah (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, it does work in DOSBox. Gog.com sell it [gog.com], so it must.
Hey, what do you know! Having a look at that page, I just spotted that I bought it from Gog. I don't remember doing that! Well, I'm off to play a game.
Re:Oh hell yeah (Score:5, Informative)
Like others here I can verify it works well in DOSBox. For multiplayer in windows xDuke + YANG seems to have online players whenever I check. For the single player experience I recommend eduke32 (which can be further extended with the High Resolution Pack and Polymer 3d engine)
YANG - http://yang-online.com/ [yang-online.com]
xDuke - http://vision.gel.ulaval.ca/~klein/duke3d/ [ulaval.ca]
eduke32 - http://www.eduke32.com/ [eduke32.com]
HRP - http://hrp.duke4.net/ [duke4.net]
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I played it yesterday on my iPhone. A new official app called iDOS has it and others like Wolfenstein3D.
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I have the DOSbox version, but I also picked up a copy from XBox Live Arcade. The play is nearly identical.
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DN3D was also ported to XBLA, adding achievements and XBL multiplayer and such. I've played it through and I must say it translated pretty well to the dual-analog stick control scheme, with less fuss than getting the PC version working (which I played to death, including the Plutonium Pack expansion). So I'd recommend that if you're looking for an easy, current gen DN3D fix - coming from a guy who built multiple levels for DN3D on PC back in the day
As I've said for 12 years... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Once you install the game on your computer it will then start a six month timer till the point you can actually play it.
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I too have taken the "Believe it when I see it" view of DNF. Frankly I think this latest round is just a big publicity stunt. Come April 1st, Gearbox will announce "April Fools!" and reveal it was all a big hoax.
TFA plays the duke theme song? (Score:3, Informative)
Scared the hell out of me. It's 2AM here, and I use that as my ring tone.
Old Times sake (Score:5, Funny)
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Mirage in the Distance (Score:5, Insightful)
Practical nuclear fusion is always 30 years away.
Fast non-volatile memory tech to replace RAM and HD is always 10 years away.
Duke Nukem Forever is forever 6 months away.
Kudos for Gearbox in keeping the myth alive.
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Fast non-volatile memory tech to replace RAM and HD is always 10 years away.
It's called FLASH memory and it exists now.
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Fast non-volatile memory tech to replace RAM and HD is always 10 years away.
It's called FLASH memory and it exists now.
Flash memory can't replace RAM and hard drives because it will die after a limited number of read/writes. [wikipedia.org] Semantically nitpicking, that's true of RAM and hard drives too, but the number is prohibitively small with flash memory.
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He is referring to racetrack memory or memristors which respectively exist in the lab and are a theoretical construct.
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So, in 3 more years the new release date will only be 2 months away.
I guess it is progress.
Well, it's like we've been waiting forever! (Score:2)
Hell, yeah!
My brain just divided by 0.
Has anyone seen Rod Serling around here?
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Release date (Score:4, Funny)
If only they'd managed to make the release date April 1. That'd have been awesome.
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Just take my money (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't care if it's terribad.
I don't care if it's Borderlands2 with a Duke skin.
It's Duke, it's 2011. I always bet on Duke and I'm letting it ride.
Better be playable at PAXeast, though, god damn.
Pre-Order (Score:5, Funny)
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No :)
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EB - Erection Booster?!? Elevator Bomb? Elephant Ballast? Erotic Blower? Could be anything.
P.S. Don't Whoosh, I know what you meant.
Re:Pre-Order (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2010/10/09/did-you-pre-order-duke-nukem-forever-gearbox-wants-to-reward-you.htm [videogamesblogger.com]
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I pre-ordered mine at Babbages...
This might be my last chance. (Score:5, Funny)
I refuse to miss what may be my last chance to make the same horrible joke I made 10 years ago.
Duke Nukem Forever? More like Duke Nukem Fornever!
There, I feel better now.
In completely unrelated news... (Score:3)
Shouldn't this be an April 1st post on Slashdot ? (Score:3)
Shouldn't this be an April 1st post on Slashdot ?
This just in (Score:2)
Is it chilly in here or is it just me... (Score:2)
Hell just dropped 10 degrees...
Shovelware ahoy! (Score:2)
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or as I like to call it, DINO (Duke in Name Only).
So... what would make it be "real" Duke to you? A fake-3D engine stuck in the 90s? IPX-only multiplayer? Big, chunky sprites and textures? Rewinding the last 15 years of game design just to recapture glory days of yours that may or may not have actually existed? The same abstract, easily replaceable plug-and-play concept of "feeling" that drives both Apple's profits and Fox News's viewership?
So... the attitude doesn't count? The over-the-top action? The weapons? The atmosphere? None of this counts?
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Given a lot of the fun of Duke is the wise cracks and strippers...seems like it's a good addition to the franchise.
Shouldn't this be in "idle"? (Score:2)
It's a joke, surely...
Re:Shouldn't this be in "idle"? (Score:5, Funny)
Fool me once shame on you, fool me 37.4 times.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Repeat after me.
Until it ships, it is still VAPORWARE!
In other unrelated Hell News (Score:2)
2011? (Score:4, Funny)
1997 is back (Score:2)
This is kind of far out when you think about it. We got GNR's Chinese Democracy, and we are getting DNF.
10 years ago I would never have believed it. The 90's still live!!!
But seriously, is there anything else left from 1997 that is still pending release? Can we get a trifecta?
Looking forward to the game though. I wonder if Duke will poke fun at his own lateness, in-game. :)
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Ghostbusters 3?
Lessons learned: None (Score:5, Insightful)
"US release date: May 3rd. It will release worldwide three days later"
Games companies are forever bleeting on about piracy, so why the hell do they release a game in one country and tell everyone else in the world that they have to wait THREE days? As if loads of those people aren't going to pirate the game, when they may well have gone and bought it if they'd had the chance.
Re:Lessons learned: None (Score:5, Interesting)
Why are gamers such dicks they can't wait 3 days before they come up with yet another justification to not pay for a game?
The only question worth asking: Will it be Duke? (Score:4, Interesting)
DN3D wasn't just a shooter. It was a shooter with a certain "attitude". It certainly set no hallmark for graphics or physics, but it sure was one for political incorrectness in games. Duke was a sexist, macho, bubblegum chewing (ok, ok, he was constantly out of gum, but he tried) pig. Not really the usual shining hero of shooters at this time.
What defined Duke was the wisecracking and the comments, the quite nonlinear levels and the blatant sexism. Let's be honest here, guys, that was part of the appeal. It was not the usual squeaky-clean world we usually got from shooters.
I hope that in our PC world there's still place for a sexist dinosaur like the Duke. It just wouldn't be Duke without tipping the strippers.
Missed a Perfect Opening Line (Score:2)
The timeline according to GU. (Score:2)
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20051005 [gucomics.com]Pigs Fly!
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20060602 [gucomics.com]Bleeding Employees
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20071220 [gucomics.com]Threatening Moves
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20080207 [gucomics.com]So close!
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20090507 [gucomics.com]Awwwwwww
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20090519 [gucomics.com]Dead Or Not?
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20100903 [gucomics.com]No one can stop The Duke!
In Other News (Score:3)
The marble tomb of Pope Julius II will be finished later this year. Sure, it won't be by Michaelangelo. It won't necessarily be his vision. It is being rushed to completion by people who had no previous connection to the early 16th century project. And no one knows or cares who Pope Julius II is anymore, but it will be finally finished.
Curse my office... (Score:2)
Just excited about being Slashdotted (Score:2)
April 1st already? (Score:2)
April fools on January 21st. Niiiiiice!
Re:While I applaud their efforts... (Score:4, Insightful)
Piss off*. Not everything needs to be like Apple.
*no offense
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Hah, no offense taken. Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Apple was the example because they're the most visible. Google sometimes does unannounced releases, but they tend to be quiet about it. Is there a generic term for that tactic? "Surprise release"? "Controlled leak"?
DNF has had so many failed and delayed releases that every announcement about it is justifiably treated like a joke. If some company is actually working on it and plans on releasing it, they should keep quiet about it.
When they come ou
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Which is arguably a good thing!
Let the rumour mill say what it wants, get DNF back in the public eye, get people talking about your company and watching it. You get gobs of free press and no pressure to make a release date.
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Actually there is a very large likelihood that a lot of the buzz around Apple products is from deliberately leaked information. That way Apple gets a ton of free press, and can keep their image squeaky clean.
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Oh, and one more thing... (pulls out BFG and mows down audience)
Wrong series, man. :-)
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pulls out BFG and mows down audience
Uhhh... you know the BFG is from DOOM, right?
Surely you mean a shrink ray! That was the most fun from Duke 3D. *squish!*
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heat was for noobs, KALI FOREVER!
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Maybe someone will start to work on the long abandoned Descent 4. How there isn't a similar game like that on the market baffles me.
Re:the fine print (Score:5, Funny)
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I am not convinced, it's certainly gonna be optimized for 3DFX.
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Do you think Duke Nukem Forever will require more than 640KB of conventional memory?
Yes, you will need to create a DR DOS boot floppy that will load all your drivers in the upper memory area between 640k and 1000. You should be able to get it to work as long as nothing else loads but DNF.
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Yeah... when I was watching trailers for this game I had never heard of Linux.
Since then, I went and got a computer science degree, and now run nothing but Linux at home.... on my laptop, workstation, SheevaPlug, Xbox, PS3, router, and phone.
Gentoo, Gentoo, Gentoo, Gentoo, Gentoo, OpenWrt, and Android respectively.
I stopped using Wine too... don't think there will be a Linux port.
At most I could hope for a PS3 version (maybe there is.... I didn't RTFA).
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Sure we can. Why not? It happened, and it can't be undone.
Heck, I still use Cheops Law when talking about project timelines and expense, and that one is > 3000 years old. :) So why not DNF?
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Ah, so what you'd have is QWOP: The FPS?
...okay, honestly, that would be hilarious.