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#60, 63 Smack the nail on the head any harder than that and this whole messageboard would blow up. I don\'t think it could be said better.

#29 I\'m sure ION believed that Dominion would do well also. Even after the game was released, ION tried to put up a front on how good the game was doing, when in fact it was doing extremely lousy. I can still remember the \"web pages are springing up everywhere quote\". What a joke. The imagination can come up with anything, but the key is making it match reality, something ION appears to have great difficulty with. So far, I have yet to see anything in reality that points toward DK doing very well. In fact, there is a lot of solid evidence that points to the game doing rather poorly.

#54, If I\'m not mistaken.. the Q2 engine is just graphical additions to the Q1 engine. Where as the Q3 engine is pretty much a from-scratch engine. Pretty much only based on Q2 because it\'s a 3D engine and maybe does some things the same way. Dunno, could be wrong. but I\'m pretty sure I\'m not.

--Loco3KGT

\"Why does everyone think that just cuz...\"

that\'s the key. \"think\" No one does. Or can.

#25 Why does everyone think that just cuz you are using a Q2 based engine that you can\'t advance the technology? There\'s as much new technology in SoF as there is in Q3A (this, you\'ll have to trust me on, as I\'ve seen both). Q3A is based on the Q2 engine, yet that is somehow \"not dated\", but the rest of us are?

Shit now I remember. Unreals engine doh, well whatever. Guess you know how much I actually care about the damn game now.

What I meant was: \"You gotta know at least something about games before making your opinion.\"

It\'s too early for me to be able to construct a sentence that makes sense. Coffee anyone?

#50 said: ...Its also cause Duke Nukem Forever is a whole new engine, not a game being built upon an existing engine...

Where the hell have you been for last couple of years? Dude, you gotta know at least about games before making your opinion.

#49 No one bitches about Duke Nukem for good reason; No ones even played so much as a test version or even seen more than a few screenshots. Theres no way to judge it. Its also cause Duke Nukem Forever is a whole new engine, not a game being built upon an existing engine. 2-3 years development time for DNF, big deal, youd expect that from a game being built from scratch. Quake 1 took a few years too.

No one bitches about Wheel of Time because; no demos, handful of screenshots, no one knows jack about it. Sure does look purrty though.

Personally I dont give a shit if DK makes or breaks ION. If a game is good it doesnt really matter to me who made it, ill get it. And I hope they arent even DREAMING of releasing the full thing without another demo though cause thats a sure way to lose sales. Based on that Mplayer BS, I wouldnt buy it for $20.

#39

Erm, I\'m not about to send companies broke because I stole an Ion Storm game.

I pay for all my games.. I just meant I wouldn\'t pay for Diakatana.

Hehehe..... YOU WANNA FIGHT!?!?! Let\'s go! ;>

Naw #32, I was just responding to an earlier post that Steve made where he said that ION wasn\'t responding to his request for an alternate visit, as he was out of town for the \"official\" press demo. He said he thought maybe it had to do with the negative posts on this site.

It\'s pretty pointless anyway, and I think the only reason I posted at all was because I drank too much coffee and I was bored :P

If Steve said it was good, I\'d download a warez copy.

That way, if its shit I just just delete it, no money wasted.

If its good.. well, I\'d keep it, and Ion still wouldn\'t get my money.

#31: Are you insinuating that everyone who visits the `Shack is just a Gibson fanboy, and that if he posts an article saying \"DK is cooler than my Elvis posterboy pics; buy it NOW!\", everyone here is gonna run to the nearest website and drop $30 on it? I think the coolest thing about the Shack is that everyone here is pretty polar in their own opinions, and that they don\'t always necessarily coincide with sCary\'s own opinions.

To summarize: if you\'re slap-happy enough that you\'ll buy a game simply cuz somebody says so, that\'s sad. Granted, I just opened myself to attack there: people can now say to me: \"Blah, you haven\'t seen what a cool game the final product is yet, and all you\'ve done is followed what other people say\". I played the demo, which was apparently meant to string me along until the release date, and it sucked. It sucked much harder than Q1 (*spooge*), which I even paid for back when I was a p0-ass college geek. Based on MY EXPERIENCES, I\'m opting not to spend $30 to find out what a great game DK is (or isn\'t). I\'ll warez it for a while, and if it sucks, off Mr. p00ter it goes. And hey, if it rocks, I\'ll spring for it. But I ain\'t buying the hype.

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Steve, someone needs to tell those ION dopes that if they have ANY chance at all of the hardcore gaming community accepting this game after all the negative shit that\'s been posted about it, they need to have you review it and give it the thumbs up. Planet Dakatana can rave all they want about it, but I\'m guessing a lot of dudes who visit this site everyday ain\'t biting till we hear it from someone we trust. Those morons need to get you in there to check it out. That\'s the only hope (and a slim one at that) of getting the tide of negative sentiment towards ION to stop.

I\'m not digging the sidekick thingie....seems like it would be a pain in the bootie

*You* would be doing fine in the game, but then Superfly would get punked while you were distracted by 483984 enemies flying at you....oops! game over!...damn, I didn\'t find one of those magic save-game gem thingies!!