tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post8477217141977188046..comments2024-03-28T09:33:57.980+00:00Comments on Super Adventures in Gaming: Duke Nukem Forever (PC)Ray Hardgrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-17563020610357926762016-10-13T05:11:38.493+01:002016-10-13T05:11:38.493+01:00That's what I mean. Of course there were bad g...That's what I mean. Of course there were bad games before, as there have always been. But now everything even remotely old is actually bad and always was, you only thought it was good because you were a kid, and if you weren't a nostalgia-goggle-blinded fool you would realize how bad it truly is.<br /><br />It's 100% as ignorant and close-minded as regular nostalgia-goggle-blindness, and I'm sick of it.Ognimodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410385210180210696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-10059959484333304542016-10-07T04:44:27.577+01:002016-10-07T04:44:27.577+01:00No, I've never seen that before. I'm not r...No, I've never seen that before. I'm not really hyped to play it though as I'd rather see the trailer levels recreated in the engines they were originally made for. I want a DNF project that runs on the Quake II engine up to the half way point, then switches to Unreal.<br /><br />I don't think I've got an antinostalgia filter on though. I mean I played Duke Nukem 3D for my site in 2011 and I loved it, then I played it again recently and I still loved it. Though that second episode's a bit ass. I guess Duke 3D's a bad example to prove my innocence though as its gameplay still holds up in the harsh light of the present day.Ray Hardgrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-20419088295703200512016-10-02T07:25:04.913+01:002016-10-02T07:25:04.913+01:00Have you checked this out? http://www.moddb.com/mo...Have you checked this out? http://www.moddb.com/mods/duke-nukem-forever<br />It's a mod for Duke 3D which recreates the Duke Forever from the 2001 trailer, with some things from the 1998 trailer and the official game.<br /><br />I don't think you would like it, as it's full of "remember when this trailer was awesome?" moments and you have a permanent antinostalgia filter on (personally, I think antinostalgia has become the same close-minded non-argument as nostalgia, where now everything old sucks and everything new is good), but your final comments on the official game are almost a mirror image of the mod. If this one is a remake of an old game that couldn't exist, the mod is a demake of that game. It has a feel that is sort of classic and modern at the same time; you waste no time running around and killing things but it's also got kind of a storyline to play out. Also, Duke is less of an outright asshole and more of an ass-kicking hero like he should be.Ognimodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410385210180210696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-56765712353243084662015-03-03T07:44:24.792+00:002015-03-03T07:44:24.792+00:00I guess we share an experience then. A friend and ...I guess we share an experience then. A friend and I started playing it, prepared to laugh at it. I think about during the time where the Pigcops attack you in the container on the construction site, tipping it over, I exclaimed "What is everyone talking about - this game is awesome!" <br /><br />Maybe it's rooting for the underdog, or a fascination with game development, to be able to see a living relic come to live, but I genuinely, unironically liked Duke Nukem Forever :D<br /><br />By the way, the DLC is really good. I think it complements the main game really well, rounding off the rather aprupt ending with a complete other mini-campaign. Should you ever starve for more DNF, the DLC is well worth it. (Uh oh I hope I didn't oversell it now XD)<br /><br />-KaffeebohnsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-54306799321361025182015-03-01T12:26:35.839+00:002015-03-01T12:26:35.839+00:00This playthrough I stopped here, but I have finish...This playthrough I stopped here, but I have finished the game. Voluntarily.<br /><br />I was surprised by how much I liked it too, and I think I have reviewers to thank for that. If they hadn't torn the game apart in the way they did, I wouldn't have gone in with rock bottom expectations, and the game wouldn't have surpassed them so often. That sounds like I'm damning it with faint praise, but I really did find the game fun (except for all those times when it wasn't).Ray Hardgrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-8592997247897941672015-02-28T11:52:05.303+00:002015-02-28T11:52:05.303+00:00Really nice writeup! Did you stop after the Mighty...Really nice writeup! Did you stop after the Mighty Foot level?<br /><br />I was surprised how much I liked DNF when I finally played it a while ago. It's game design reminded me of HL2, in fact. The mix of shooting, physics puzzles and driving sections is really similar. <br /><br />Instead of the interactive "cutscenes" in HL2, DNF instead has its gimmicky minigames. Anyway, I was really pleasantly surprised by it, and if nothing else, it is a fascinating window into game development hell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-5986320395508172602014-12-07T05:45:24.571+00:002014-12-07T05:45:24.571+00:00That's pretty much how I feel about it too. Th...That's pretty much how I feel about it too. The way I heard it, 3D Realms realised at some point that they'd dragged out development so long that it wasn't financially sensible to release a purely PC shooter any more, but what they'd built so far hadn't been designed with consoles in mind, so they had to gut the levels to fit the game into the 360 and PS3's more limited memory. So they ended up with a game that was below par on consoles because of poor optimisation and dated visuals (amongst other reasons), and below par on PCs because it was now came across like a port of a crappy console port of itself.<br /><br />The PC version was eventually patched to reduce loading times, fix issues, and let players carry two extra guns, so that's probably a big factor in why I was able to find some joy in it.Ray Hardgrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-55729034101429135882014-12-06T00:53:15.047+00:002014-12-06T00:53:15.047+00:00Ironically enough I found the biggest thing this g...Ironically enough I found the biggest thing this game was lacking was more polish. The load times were atrocious and a lot of the refrences were kinda dated by the time the game came out, and 2 guns at a time is acceptable in more realistic games like COD but not for the duke. If this were polished up a bit to reduce the bugs and loading times and 30 bucks were taken off the price tag, this would have been totally worth it.Serulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02663460278741433881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-87114709160981022172014-04-29T14:33:16.705+01:002014-04-29T14:33:16.705+01:00I've never liked Duke Nukem's humour. Wher...I've never liked Duke Nukem's humour. Where others see tongue-in-cheek crass comedy, I only see crass comedy.<br />But maybe it's like Monty Python. I love Monty Python, but it becomes annoying after hearing the 500th idiot who quotes one of their sketches word for word.<br />I don't really know where I'm going with this.Narushimahttp://www.damienpoussier.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-23226728959586845792014-04-02T00:30:26.151+01:002014-04-02T00:30:26.151+01:00I wasn't expecting for a gold star in this one...I wasn't expecting for a gold star in this one.<br />But I kinda liked Duke Nukem 4ever. The problem was this long waiting, the expectation of the public only increased, and after 15 years the results were not that good. I think we all expected a Duke 3D - 2.<br />And Duke 3D was much better, no doubt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com