Duke Nukem Forever... Why'd they even bother?

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Duke Nukem Forever....finally released

In Europe today.

Impressions welcome as I may need a new exciting summer game once classes are done.

America next week.

how long did it take? 14 years? After 6 most universities will just kick you out
 
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Sega better not ever release Shenmue 3. I'm running out of overly delayed games to make fun of.
 
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The IGN early review is not very favorable.

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I generally don't put too much stock in IGN reviews though.
 
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I think the people who wanted duke nuken 3d more of the same will be happy. Anyone wanted a modern day fps will be let down.

They should of really just stuck to all old school and had health packs and let you carry all your weapons at once.
 
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the big issue of Duke is with the PC version. Top of the line machines are having issues simply RUNNING the game, which is a very, VERY bad thing. Gearbox shouldn't have tried to finish it..
 
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I saw the "extended trailer" before South Park this week and as someone who never played this game (my avid FPS days were Wolfenstein 3D to Doom 2) it looked kind of "meh". I realize the actual in-game experience may be superior to just watching a trailer, though. It's just whoever cut it didn't do a good job: they seemed to rely too much on what older fans would remember and wasted time showing in-game video that looked like it was from a game several years ago.
 
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SetaSouji said:
the big issue of Duke is with the PC version. Top of the line machines are having issues simply RUNNING the game, which is a very, VERY bad thing. Gearbox shouldn't have tried to finish it..
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Get fucking real. Im calling you out on your complete bullshit. My m11x plays this thing on max settings effortlessly and smoothy. 1.3ghz intel core 2 duo. If you're still using a dual core and gaming you need to stfu and gtfo. Game runs perfectly on anything with a pos 9600 GT and dual core cpu. If you're on i3 5 7 or a amd 2 4 or 6 core cpu with anything as old as 3750 or 8800 gt this is gonna run like butter.
 
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Clessy said:
Get fucking real. Im calling you out on your complete bullshit. My m11x plays this thing on max settings effortlessly and smoothy. 1.3ghz intel core 2 duo. If you're still using a dual core and gaming you need to stfu and gtfo. Game runs perfectly on anything with a pos 9600 GT and dual core cpu. If you're on i3 5 7 or a amd 2 4 or 6 core cpu with anything as old as 3750 or 8800 gt this is gonna run like butter.
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That. The demo ran on my 3,0 GHz Athlon 64 250, Geforce 9800GTX+ and 8 GB RAM on 1680x1050 full details without problems.
I mean, if Crysis 2 runs on this piece of shit without problems.... ;)
 
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Clessy said:
Get fucking real. Im calling you out on your complete bullshit. My m11x plays this thing on max settings effortlessly and smoothy. 1.3ghz intel core 2 duo. If you're still using a dual core and gaming you need to stfu and gtfo. Game runs perfectly on anything with a pos 9600 GT and dual core cpu. If you're on i3 5 7 or a amd 2 4 or 6 core cpu with anything as old as 3750 or 8800 gt this is gonna run like butter.
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:rolleyes:
 
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I have the game and have put about 2-3 hours into it.

My first impressions after playing the game I was a little disappointed, Its never going to live up to the hype but that does not mean its a bad game.

You can tell that if this were to have come out say 5 or so years ago it would be amazing but things have moved on from alot of the ideas that DNF brings. That said its a breath of fresh air compared to the A-B gameplay of titles such as COD.

The game looks pretty bad overall but some areas look great. But its all about the gameplay and it feels like a big game, its also pretty hard. From what I can make out so far there are no levels like Duke 3D per say where you would start and hit a button at the end, the game just keeps going location to location.

The humour is great as well as all the little objects that can be messed around with. We all new that this was never going to live upto the 14 or whatever year wait but it doesn't matter, its DNF and we can play it for what it is...

Its an old school shooter, that plays well, is crudely funny and enjoyable.

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I watched all the trailers on the official website and saw nothing extraordinary. Frame rate seemed low. Animation of human characters didn't seem that natural. Monsters really didn't look all that interesting. Textures and environments seemed far from the best of what's currently on consoles...maybe even slightly below what is common now. What it seems to have going for it are the name and the trademark humor.
 
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Clessy said:
Get fucking real. Im calling you out on your complete bullshit. My m11x plays this thing on max settings effortlessly and smoothy. 1.3ghz intel core 2 duo. If you're still using a dual core and gaming you need to stfu and gtfo. Game runs perfectly on anything with a pos 9600 GT and dual core cpu. If you're on i3 5 7 or a amd 2 4 or 6 core cpu with anything as old as 3750 or 8800 gt this is gonna run like butter.
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I have an Intel Core 2 Duo with 4gb of ram and a geforce 9800 gtx+ and this game runs like ass on it. It's not like the video that was shown, but it looks like shit and stutters randomly. I've run a lot more graphic-intensive games than this with no problems so I don't know what the problem is. I know my setup isn't top of the line, but it should be way more than enough to handle this game.
 
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SetaSouji said:
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Everyone who's having this issue is using the graphic card to force a set anti alasing instead of using the games built in ones. Its idiots who dont know what they're doing fucking up their settings. As always people make a big deal out of nothing. This game runs on a toaster.
 
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This is a pretty odd thing to get so angry about, and you're one of the people who aren't even having the problem.
 
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jamie666 said:
Its an old school shooter, that plays well, is crudely funny and enjoyable.
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This is really all I want out of the game, if I feel the same then I will be happy. Game design being out of date doesn't bother me, as the only modern FPS that I actually like is Halo: Reach. My 360 has probably logged more time playing Doom and Duke 3D than every other shooter combined.
 
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I really hope all the negative reviews it's getting doesn't hurt it too bad in the overall scheme of things. I really want to see this game succeed. I think too many people are trying to compare it to Halo or Call of Duty, which just isn't fair.

Yes, it's basically a 12 year old game that's "stuck in the past", but that's fine with me. As a fan of old school PC FPS games like Doom, Quake, Wolfenstien, Hexen, and of course, Duke, I'm very much looking forward to it. Even if it's a cheesy and simple nostolgia fest, I'll enjoy it for what it is.
 
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