As long as it has mindless shooting and minimal story I'm fine with it... if it starts resembling HL2 and won't let me skip the über long cutscenes/story sequences i'll be sad.
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As long as it has mindless shooting and minimal story I'm fine with it... if it starts resembling HL2 and won't let me skip the über long cutscenes/story sequences i'll be sad.
"Serious Sam" came out after HL. It was a mindless shooter, and it managed to sell pretty well.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
I don't think Duke would work with all the Bioshock/Fallout 3 "elements" stuff added in. Oddly enough, adding all that stuff in really would make the game seem very "me too".
Make it fun, make it control well, and make it raunchy.
Serious Sam was an epic game with epic scale. It was more fun than Half-Life for me IMO. HL tends to drag on with boredom. Serious Sam keeps you on your toes with hundreds of enemies to fight. That is always fun. Not to mention the super huge bosses, I love those. :D
If Duke Nukem 4ever has hundreds of enemies and bosses as tall as skyscrapers, then I'd be happy.
People would be let down by "yet another fps," but the reaction would be mostly disappointment and not really too much anger for the most part. An FO3-style game however... now THAT would really piss people off. Heads would be ripped off and necks shat down :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
I would just like it to be like the old games, where you explore a level, finding secrets and keys, and killing bad guys. To me it's like the genre was so far ahead that it's just gone backwards these last ten years.
I like my shooters with guns that can blow most average enemies away. I only care about campaign mode, I have no interest in fighting against crack addicts online. I also like to see at least as many enemies on screen as Doom had in most scenarios. I hate, hate, filling one baddie full of bullets/nails/rockets/grenades while running backwards.
There must be a way to drop them in a few shots or it is no fun for me. Well scripted boss fights with a virtually invisible enemy are another thing entirely, but I categorize that under cinematics not general gameplay.
The Duke formula has better potential to offer a fresh experience than the standard modern FPS formula. It's all military today; Same environments, same weapons, same type of pacing, same enemies etc.
One of the hallmarks of Duke Nukem 3D was the amount of interactivity with the world. This is something that is still largely untapped today, and they always promised to deliver in spades with DNF. Especially with realistic physics. I recall a bunch of years ago 3D Realms licensed a physics engine that was notably more sofisticated than Havok (which is used in HL2 and other games).
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Originally Posted by geralds
Actually, Triptych is the studio of ex-3DR staff that includes Blum, etc., that is working on the game along with Gearbox. Somehow this author didn't seem to realize that?Quote:
Pitchford described the current Duke Nukem Forever as "a Gearbox game," but one being made with a lot of talented help. A Vancouver studio called Piranha Games is on the project as well as a studio called Triptych. Duke co-creator Allen Blum works in Gearbox's Texas office, every day, Pitchford said, on the 10th floor, turning Duke Nukem Forever into a reality. Pitchford described Blum as the heart of the project. This is no Gearbox takeover. As Pitchford described it, there are people on Duke Nukem Forever who are deeply invested in it, who have a dream they want to make reality.
Also, they started working on the game just as soon as 3DR shut down in May '09. Gearbox was added in late '09 -- that author is very fuzzy on time frames, but that's when they joined the project, late 2009.
I have no idea what Piranha is doing, but I don't think there's any publicly available information about that right now.
Anyway, I've always loved Apogee and 3D Realms, and never gave up on DNF, so this is fantastic news... it is very sad that 3DR itself didn't make it, but at least the game will be released. It's amazing, after so long finally a release date... I remember first reading about the game in the November 1997 PC Gamer, and though it did look bad at times, I never completely gave up on it, and it's come through. Just awesome. :)
I'll believe it, when it comes out, I still think this is some kind of elaborate hoax, but if true, I'm gonna laugh my *** off if DNF hits the market before lazy Blizzard reases Diablo 3.
Funny, I've been thinking of getting a new pc lately. I've been using the same refurbished emachine for about ten years now, and I always said I would update for DNF. Come on Duke, give me a reason to get a new computer.