Swelling with epic lulz, this screenshot pulled from teh
Duke Nukem Forever trailer is fairly indicative of where the Duke stands.
Things to note:
• Infinitely long rock star tour bus to the right, with large thick splats of 'blood' but lacking any other visible damage. Okay. Sure, that makes sense.
• Intimidating alien folk in the foreground, who's blobbish non-defined weaponry intimidates with its severe lack of texture or definition. In other words, it looks like he grabbed a weapon-like piece of sanded concrete to defend himself with. Alright, fine.
• Can we say "Distracting Motion blur" city? The location of said chaos looks like a Midgar + Las Vegas + Photoshop Blur Filter: Radius 10pt. Novel.
• Smaller alien folk launching over conveniently poised Police Car (Cuidado! The Police means DANGER). Clearly avoiding the scene so as to escape embarrassment.
Moral of the story: an underwhelming tease.
As Mr. Jared a la Gametap so eloquently put it, "It looks like something Nintendo would have shown off back in like 1995 as a tech demo for the ULTRA SIXTY FOUUUUUUUUUR"
[Thanks be to Tree Boss for the tip tipp-a, who stole the keys to my bimma]
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But I agree. They shouldn't have shown an unfinished product, if that's where you're getting at.
Second, take what you can get. After ten fucking years I just want the game. Would you really dare ask them to delay it longer to upgrade the graphics? They've already changed the engine behind the game multiple times. If the game is as fun as Duke Nukem 3D I really don't care too much.
Alright alright dudes. Am I hurting Duke's ego a little too much? You're right, I should give him a chance ... it's been so long since he's poked his head into the sunlight. But clearly if it's still 'unfinished' why bother with a trailer that makes the enemies look like burnt-out marshmallow demons?
This trailer is a joke! I can't wait to see what clevar texture mappings they include in the next decade! IM SO EXCITED. *laughing on-line*
Tiff: siiiiiiiigh
This is not the Duke Nukem I know.
Even Daikatana wasn't in development for 10 years. This is a yoke.
Anyways.. Orcist put it in perspective pretty well. I will agree with you on most accounts Tiff, but the only good that can come of judging such an early product is that they learn from the comments.
Sadly I don't think this should've been taken down.
NMALLA: Normal Maps Always Look Like Ass.
If you really feel compelled to crank your specular values until everything looks like it's been dipped in Vaseline, then buy yourself a copy of Poser
and leave the shader-wrangling to someone who can get results.
GRRR!! REGULUS SMASH!
Duke Nukem 3-D on the PSP = confirmed.
Excerpts
Things that have taken less time than Duke Nukem Forever's development:
* Led Zeppelin released 7 albums, 9 singles, and toured around the world, crossing international borders 27 times (not counting mainland Europe.)
* The theory of General Relativity.
* World War II and the entire Manhattan Project.
* The United State's involvement in the Vietnam War.
tee-hee!
Here is another thing that took less time:
Your relationships.
@JACK: OH SNAP! IT’S BEEN BROUGHTEN!! Oh, wait....not really...that was ridiculously lame, and it didn’t even really make sense.
Geez Jack, why'd you have to get my 7th grade boyfriend involved in all this?
Sorry for my half-retarded comment.
That was fully retarded.
Hey Tiff, just give them ten more years, or maybe you can show them the right way of doing things. Yeah, I brought the BBcode.
and all the bitchers, 3D realms is making this game for people that have been into it for a long time, not fuckin assholes who jump on a bandwagon and bash the hell out of it.
@Orcist
Fuck 3DR? Fuck DNF? Who the fuck made you king around here, what makes you so great huh? Do you make games? What good games have you put out latley, and do you mind showing me them? Your full of yourself and you are all very shallow if your going to judge this game just by its graphics.
PS: Dont even bring up daikatana, dont be a tard, duke nukem has history, daikatana didn't.
Dont like DNF? Then get the fuck off the internets, because your not going to stop the people that still look foward to this game from buying it.
Prey took a long time, good game.
TF2....Do I even have to say anything?
If you don't dig duke nukem, just go beat your "crysis" game again.
Crysis is cool, but it borrows from almost every shooter on the face of the earth.
k.
Jesus, I'm bleeding from the ears over here. Slow down and think a little before you tap the keys right off your keyboard.
Originality is not the all-encompassing measurement of quality. Remember, Custer's Revenge was probably the most original idea anyone in the game industry has ever had, and it turned out to be a metric fuck-ton of fail. TF2, when you look at the bullet points, is just more of the same class-based multiplayer shovelware we've had since the original, but is polished to such a mirror sheen that even I, a man who avoids multiplayer like a flesh-eating virus, kinda had fun with it.
I don't think DNF looks much uglier than any of the other games out there based on UE3. Any game that abuses normal maps to the degree of Gears or BioShock is going to look like a nightmare beast no matter how you slice it. And Crysis is not immune either.
At this point, everybody on the product development side is just phoning it in, driving their texture artists into the ground on the assumption that being able to see your characters steroidal veins popping out like cables is somehow going to make the product cool. To see more of this in every announcement trailer since the launch of Doom 3 is most definitely going to make me stop caring, even if this was only the first time the game had been announced.
Taking personal offense at criticism of something you like is a dangerous first step into fanboyism.
"I just don't see the point in bitching about a teaser trailer"
Yeah, but you sure do see the point of bitching about *other* people bitching.
WTF?
Sorry fellas but all of tiff's relationships are gonna be shorter than DNF because she's saving herself for me.
I just have to wait for hell to freeze over.
@itemforty: looks like duke had some time during his hiatus do get some work in gay porn. All that bukake work has given him a nice natural sheen.
"Hey guys, check this out. We take this guy, right? General Custer. Remember? From 11th grade history? So okay, he comes back from the dead, right? But he's got this HUGE boner!"
"Uhh, dude? You feeling okay?"
"Wait, wait, check this. So there's this Indian chick, right? And she's strapped to a cactus. And you have to dodge arrows so you can rape the f-"
"Okay, thanks for the idea, we'll call you later"
...
Alright, maybe not the most original, but it's up there...
I'm not getting any more pissed than anyone else, probably less. Why the hell are you singling me out? I'm just giving my opinion, relax.
As far as I'm concerned, that's the only chance DNF has to be released; if 3D Realms finally just stops pretending to be making it, and some other developer like Human Head finishes it and releases it with 3DR as a "producer".
Exactly! Generally...I'm saying GENERALLY, the polish on the graphics and the amount of effort put forth is pretty indicative of the effort put forth into the overall game itself. How many outstanding looking games have truly sucked? How many really, really shitty looking games (I'm not just talkling jaggies, but also lack of detail, bland, repetitive environments, etc.) have been awesome? Very few for both. I'm not talking about games like Puzzle Quest or other games that don't depend on graphics, mind you. Look at any great shooter, and at the time they all had graphics and environments/characters that looked at least good, if not great.
Exactly! Generally...I'm saying GENERALLY, the polish on the graphics and the amount of effort put forth is pretty indicative of the effort put forth into the overall game itself. How many outstanding looking games have truly sucked? How many really, really shitty looking games (I'm not just talkling jaggies, but also lack of detail, bland, repetitive environments, etc.) have been awesome? Very few for both. I'm not talking about games like Puzzle Quest or other games that don't depend on graphics, mind you. Look at any great shooter, and at the time they all had graphics and environments/characters that looked at least good, if not great.
But with a developer that has made great games before, we can have the confidence that they will likely deliver.