I can not tell you guys how excited I am for Duke Nukem: Forever. I love Duke Nukem 3D and still play it all the time with my friends on xbox live. So when i found out that by preordering the game I got an early access demo to play with Duke a little early I was like fuck yeah ,AMERICA!! But now that I've played through the demo a few times I have to say I am unimpressed and just underwhelmed.



The demo starts off and you are literally just take a piss. You can control the stream of piss and well this made me laugh. After I pissed for a minute or two ( Duke must have the largest fucking bladder know to man) I decided to pick up some poop and throw it around like a monkey. I got the idea from the trailer i saw on Dtoid and figured ill give it a shot. And again I laughed, some of the one liners duke said were funny as hell. The fifth time I picked up the poop Duke yelled something like "What is this? Shit finger painting?" One of the things this game really has going for it is the fact that its funny. Duke had about 10 different one liners for picking up the poop so I'm guessing there must be a lot of voice acting for Duke.



After i was done with the poop throwing I went into the next room where a bunch of swat looking guys were listening to their commander then running out to fight the big baddie seen in the demo (and above). I figured I would get a briefing on what I was supposed to do but instead the guy pointed me to a whiteboard and said do you have anything to add to the plan. So I just erased the the monster drawn on the white board and replaced it with a penis that had a mustache and looked angry as hell. The swat looking dude was like great plan but in the end the whiteboard was just there to fuck around with and had no real importance.

After running through a few corridors i came face to face with the big monster and the fight went nothing like the trailers showed. The trailer showed Duke punching the big dude in the balls repeatedly then kicking his ass some more. In the demo i was given what looked like dual rocket launchers and just had to shoot the thing over and over till it fell. Then kratos style jump on his back and rip out some tubing which turned off his guns. I wanted to punch the bad guy in the bean bag sooooo bad but i couldn't even switch to my fists for some reason. So i beat the boss then it transitioned to another portion of the game where i was driving a monster truck in some canyon. The driving mechanics were horribly clunky and Im glad the driving part only lasted around 3 minutes. When i got on foot is when the game started to show its shooting mechanics on just standard enemies.



This is where my biggest problem comes to play is when you are fighting standard enemies the enemies never really seem like they are getting shot. I shot this pig five times with my golden 45 and he barely even flinched. The guns are also lacking in weight. The game feels like you are shooting really inaccurate air soft guns at enemies that don't even feel the shots. And the game will give you references to other games which do shooting mechanics so much better. There was a tunnel i needed to go into and a few planks were in my way, obviously i need to smash them. I was hitting them when duke said, "A crowbar would really be useful right now." Reminding me of half life and how much better half life gameplay is during Duke Nukem really didn't strike me as well thought out.



In conclusion, this demo doesn't live up to the hype but did anyone really expect it to? It feels like Duke skipped a few generations and missed the lesson that came with them. If you want a game that feels like Duke Nukem 3D it certainly does that. You move fast, shoot big guns, and kill enemies left and right but the series really hasn't had the huge changes and overhauls that other first person shooters have gotten. Don't get me wrong though i had fun with this game, it made me laugh and the gameplay was decent. It wont be winning any awards but it will be fun for the game it is. I have the balls of steel edition preordered and I am not taking it back.

This opinion is based solely on demo and not the full game

7/10

I remember the the first time I was truly amazed with something in a game. That holy shit this is amazing moment is something that has shaped my loved for video games in whole new ways. I remember the old days when i had to beg my mom to buy me a copy of halo, my cousin had got the game first and I had played it at his house. I used to love just the simplicity of a shooter. Some of my favorite original xbox games were Halo, Area-51, and Time splitters. When the new xbox came out I played the shooters for it like Perfect Dark and Ghost Recon. But then I decided to try a new game, a game that has shaped my love for western rpgs ever since. That game is Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.



I had played rpg games before such as Final Fantasy X and Paper Mario. What made me fall in love with this game is not just the rpg elements but the moment I left the imperial sewers. A bright light came from my screen, a stark contrast from the sewers I had just escaped from. This huge world had unfolded before me. I did not know where to start from. I was completely lost and I loved it. I was used to mission being just laid out and saying go here, kill them, mission accomplished, AMERICA!!!!! But here I looked around I had no idea where to start. The quest arrow said go to this town called Cheydinhal but I was next to a huge fucking city. I decided ill go inside and sell some of the stuff collected in the sewers weapons, armor, heads of lettuce, etc. Then I entered this city which to me felt so full of life and so many people to interact with.



After I went to the local shops and stared at a cat person for about 10 minutes I was off on my adventure. Me, a high elf mage slinging fireballs like a mad man. This was before I ever knew there was a auto travel feature where i could teleport across the world and I'm glad I didnt know about it. I walked and explored this huge land filled with caves, forts, dungeons, ruins, and small towns. I stopped to look at everything along the way. I continued doing this for several main story quests and some side ones. By the time I had figured quick travel out I had already traveled a large part of the western side of the map. I was so immersed along the way and I had just enjoyed walking in the beautiful world.



This is that moment in gaming that i was just amazed. I was amazed with this beautiful open world filled with life. I had never experienced this before. there was so much to do in such a large land. I had killed 50 hours on Oblivion before I had even realized it. That immersion in such a large world is what I crave. That's why I now love games like Fallout, Red faction Armageddon, Grand Theft Auto, Saint's Row and Red Dead Redemption. I love an open world with so much to do and it all started with the amazing times i had in Oblivion.

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There is more on youtube just figured id spread the word that these guys are fucking funny.

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OK I know some people have accused me of bad blogging but that's probably because 1. I am on my blackberry and it makes it look like I posted something more substantial than I actually have written so be patient with me 2. I am new to blogging so give me a break guys. Ok today I want to talk about the games I have been renting lately. Last week I had the newish Wolfenstei game. Ok this game is a pretty basic first person shooter in my opinion. It controls a lot like call of duty like x to pick up weapons and click in analog to sprint. The game at first felt like a small open world shooter. You can travel to and from the areas of midtown and downtown and special doors in building lead to mission areas such as the farm or the mine. I thought the actual fps mechanics were pretty standard although they have no real faults. I liked wolfenstein just thought the game should have deserved a better "coming back" game. Also the story really doesn't shine here and there is nothing really memorable from this game. The other game I had rented was kane and lynch 2: dog days. Ok so pretty much what everyone was saying about it is pretty much true. It has really repetetive shooting mechanics and the pace never really changed from beginning to end. My biggest problem with this game is that unlike the first game the story really took a backseat. I liked the first one bacause the story was gritty and really interesting but in this game the plot is simple, You accidentally killed bad guys daughter he tries to kill you, you kill him, you get away. Nothing more and nothing less. Also the ending has no sense of resolution and there is no other emotion than pissed off you get from the protaginists. This sequel really dissapointed me. Ok so the games I got out now which ill talk about next week along with my dragon age 2 review are mirrors edge and chronicles of riddick assault on dark athena. Have a good week dtoid and my condolences for Japan.

Ok I am not sure whether this makes me a horrible person or not. I was in my history of motion pictures class and we were watching shindlers list. It was the part where they are burning all the bodies and in case you havbt seen its a very gruesome and brutal scene. I am not paying attention and I am watching the donkey lady red dead redemption glitch for the first time. I start laughing then everyone turn to me like I am evil or something. Does this make me a horrible person. If it does feel free to say so. Also I am working on my dragon age 2 review and will post it by next weekend!