Duke Nukem Forever Gameplay Footage Leaked

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  You need to be fucked in the ass with a pineapple : abjectblitz
  • I agree gree! : SerratedDrums
• I'm not sure where you were looking, but it has terrific model animation. Likely one of, if not the best,... : Meadows.TR
• How would you like a C-4 enema? : iPr0d

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  i see that demo as a animationdemo - not a gamedemo. do you see the difference here? animationdemo !=... : fw_rams
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    Which is what I just said it was? disjointed pre-alpha demos showing off tech facets. being able to re... : goddamnregistration
    • still, that video doesn't have to represent the current state of the game. you don't know it, i don't kno... : fw_rams
    • It's not like that's all that was completed for the game. : Shadsy
    • ugh you and your username are just a bunch of bad fucking vibes. : focusdaily
    • The point of the video is to show the work that one guy did. It isn't "hey this is the latest build of t... : OmegaRed59
    • no its one fucking persons demo reel. : italiano3d
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  I can confirm that there was far more completed than what this video implies. The guy obviously stri... : cubeblue
  • Maybe its salvageable then : et72
  • Really? So they were a year away from shipping? That is MORE than enough time to throw everything away an... : themaestro2657
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    If you arent full of shit... I find it hard to believe they could have been 6 months away from completing... : chilln
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      So did they, apparently. The story I got from my brother was long and drawn out, but my understandin... : cubeblue
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        the fact that Valve, Epic and ID turned them down should indicate to you that things really weren't as c... : cell9song
        • There's nothing George could possibly say. You'll see this pattern repeated whenever any developer goe... : qsylvr
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          ... or they didn't have the free capital sitting around to just hand over to someone else, a competitor n... : cubeblue
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            Seriously. This is why they're successful companies whereas 3DR (with all due respect) is now closed. Tho... : Schnapple
            • No doubt about that. : cubeblue
      • I got essentially the same breakdown from my brother (http://www.shacknews.com/profile.x?person=eskimo+sp : mn3m0n1c
    • 6 months is still millions of dollars worth of dev time, that money doesn't appear out of thin air : synapse19
  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : boomstickah
  • If this is true, then it's so mystifying why they didn't restart development somewhat earlier in 2006 and... : enyakk
  • Damnit, fuck this stupid economy, you TOOK MY DNF/JARBs! : Xevo
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    Wait so those screen shots and clips from 2007, was that before or after they restarted once again? : deathofrats
    • I'm pretty sure my bro came on mid-late 2007 and he helped make that xmas teaser trailer. So yeah, that ... : cubeblue
  • A year from shipping a game is about %20 of the work. : Porkasaurus
  • fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkk that wouldve been an awesome graduation present for me, WHY GOD WH... : Chandler55

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  look at these: http://www.dukereloaded.org/ : fw_rams
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    I downloaded every shot. The more I see images, the more I'm like "Yeah, looks okay... nothing revolut... : stelth
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      Some of those shots look great, some look just ok. But the varied environments, coupled with the gameplay... : ajvitaly
      • I agree. I hate how some people care just about graphics. It is suppose to be fun! : Mrc32
    • Dude, DUKE SLAPS AN ALIEN IN THE FACE (the one he climbs on top of). I dont care if the shaders look da... : meatnipples
    • There is nothing revolutionary about Duke games. Just Awesome. : Jiven

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• iawtp : r3dn3ck
• So say we all. : MrBig0
• Pretty much : DewFuel
• Add my opinion to the growing list of agreements. : Zyrusticae
• Fuckin' A. This is just as good as I had dreamed :( : silentw
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  You exaggerate... : excessus
  • fine, a pomegranate : RikiTiki2
• Yeah [fry] was being obnoxious - the footage isn't bad by any measure. Maybe bad considering how long we... : the city
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  Ya it's awesome for a game that's been in development for a few years .. not 15. That's just pathetic. : YummiGummi
  • WHY the hell should it matter to you how long the game is in development for? Oh wait, it doesn't. : ajvitaly
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    1. You don't know if that is the last build. 2. You don't know if that is a demo reel for the whole game... : [7]kami
    • 1. I don't care 2. I don't care 3. I don't care. 4. *hands you a cookie* Sitting on a pineapple wou... : YummiGummi
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    To be fair, this version of the game you're seeing has probably only been in development for 1.5-2 years.... : cubeblue
    • Beat me to it. But thank you. : freakynipples69
    • Restarting engines doesn't mean scraping animation. This animation should have been way more polished. co... : greh kleh
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    Do you not realize the game HASNT been in development for 13 years????? It's changed engines several time... : freakynipples69
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      changing engines does not reset all your concepts and pre-production work back to zero unless there were ... : synapse19
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        My understanding is that there were issues with the assets earlier on too. It wasn't just tech being way... : cubeblue
        • Every person who was of the old group are working with current companies on current technology and thrivi... : wieder
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          So the Great Exodus of 2006 (including Charlie Wiederhold) was due to a rift in the company regarding swi... : GreatGooglyMoogly
          • I believe the engine is still UE2, but so highly customized and modified at this point that it's indistin... : cubeblue
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        chaning engines depending on the tech turns your assetts to worthless trash. especially when your switchi... : italiano3d
        • that much is obvious... but when you've had so much time to work on your design concepts for everything, ... : synapse19
• Thermos. Rubber cement. Gravel. : Sylvanus
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  Sideways. : freakynipples69
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    Huh? : Sideways Bob
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      At first I thought he was trying to make a pun about wine (whiners?)... then I realized he meant the pine... : pharoah mike
      • And then you missed Sideways Bob's nickname. : [7]kami
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  Canned or fresh? : majinpsyduck
  • Both. At the same time. : grmreapr
• agreed : dancingpolkabear
• seriously: take2 needs to a DNCASHMAN : fw_rams
• It looks awesome to me. Sweet, sweet gameplay. I still work out to Megadeth's duke theme :-( : {Venger}

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• agree. some of the animations look good (e.g. the cops leaving their truck), but overall it looks pretty ... : matthaeus

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• how everything is leaking out now. : Mrc32

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• There is a press release pending from Apogee this week regarding Duke, but not about the Duke Trilogy the... : ajvitaly

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  3dr wanted 30millions :P : mirko1979
  • wrong. 5 millions. take2 offered them 30millions for the complete IP afaik : fw_rams
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    No, they wanted 5 million, Take2 counter offered 30 for the IP which they declined... 3D Realms = worst r... : goddamnregistration
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      Considering Take2 would exploit the IP, most likely out of 3dRealms hands, and make megabucks off the pop... : CaptCommie
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        More like Take2 would actually release a game and make 3dRealms look even more useless than they already ... : tyrelhill
        • They'd release a game. Not necessarily a good one. : Cihte
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        Did they? Now they have no money and have to close. I'm not sure how that is in anyone's best interest. : Vincent Grayson
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          GeorgeB still owns the IP and has the potential to make more than that. It is his best interest to hold ... : OmegaRed59
          • Make money off what? Duke is already on XboxLive, but I really doubt they are making gangbusters off tha... : deathofrats
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      considering a duke movie would bring in well over 30 million i beg to differ. anyone who would sell duke ... : italiano3d
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        a duke movie? really? perhaps if it cost nothing to make... but considering that any type of duke movie w... : synapse19
        • er your late to the ballgame a duke movie was and probably still is already in the works. heh : italiano3d
• I'm pretty sure Take2 is just the publisher in this case, I believe 3Drealms was a self funded studio and... : Garfferen
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  After this long, I'm sure Take2 was looking for some return on investment, and the way Duke was mishandle... : critch
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    Take 2 will get ZERO ROI if the game isn't funded further. : ajvitaly
    • Yes but remember they're looking at a game from a developer which year after year has proven they can't s... : Schnapple
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    wtf did Take 2 invest? The game was entirely self-funded. : Cihte
    • It is. Take2, given the history, probably wasn't impressed with what they saw, and didn't see it being re... : FirstPersonCooter
    • Yeah, 3DR was self funded up until the point they asked for money from Take2. I don't think they had a l... : kek
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    We know now that it wasn't mishandled. I just saw some high res screenshots from the actual game. It look... : theplease
    • ?????????? this looks like something that would take 12 years to make: http://blog.theavclub.tv/wp-con... : DewFuel
• Yeah Take2 needs to pull their head out! : stumpy84

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  Most of that is Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. : ajvitaly
  • Yeah, there is some DNF characters in the later half of it. : manlyman

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• No that was 1.5 years of work on the game, everything else before that was scrapped, so it was on par wit... : manlyman

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• Painkiller : qwplayer
• Earth defense force 2017 (third person though) : VaultThirteen
• resistance 2 : zverozyab
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  Daikatana : snot3353
  • And with that simple comment, you become my bitch. Thanks. : et72
• Doom 3 : r_picmip 5
• Gears of War 2 : OmegaRed59
• Halo 1, 2 and 3? : greh kleh
• Crysis : theplease
• -Blacksite: Area 51 -HL2 + Ep1 + Ep2 -Prince of Persia trilogy -Devil May Cry -X-Men Origins: Wolveri... : scary_monster
• Duke Nukem 3D cca. 1996 : Meadows.TR
• He said Giant Mutant Aliens, folks. There's none of that in Resident Evil. Half-Life 2's striders and ... : greasyjohn

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  Derek Smart is surprisingly frugal : Sailor of Fortune
  • Or just unrealistically stingy? After a decade of getting it sorely wrong, his games still look like som... : UMG

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• How about a ban-en? : Lightzout

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  that is totally scripted, so to answer your question, lots of games : Luminair
  • Best answer I've seen today, straight on the methodology and to the point o the conclusion. A+++ : zehh
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  While scripted, it's a nice detail from the animator in question, I agree. Did you see the totally awesom... : ZaldronGG
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    Sarcasm aside, it's a really nice touch now that most games are just letting Havok do all the heavy lifti... : Shadsy
    • Most other games get released. Possibly because the developers aren't bogged down scripting and anima... : Fuzzwah
• Yea, I thought the same thing. Looks pretty cool, even though it's scripted. They were striving for some ... : Don Soleone
• Doom 3 did something similar (in the tech demo at least. But yeah it was cool. : Schnapple

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  Riddick has some great, "too badass for my own shoes" one-liners in the games. : etherealrhythm
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    yea i just grabbed it for PC, didn't end up finishing butcher bay originally : MrBig0
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      In for a treat! I'm near the end of Dark Athena atm, which ain't so great. Still good, but BB is special. : etherealrhythm
      • Considering I didn't play BB before, i think it was well worth the purchase for both games even though Da... : SkeezPimp
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  Then play Prototype. : shurcool
  • I'm not sure the Prototype guy actually talks or drops cool one-liners... : Don Soleone
• yup : Mondo
• I too love games that don't have "Final Fantasy" in the title. : pleasedpig

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• i love everything i am seeing in the vid.... fuck that would have been an awesome game : Angry Max
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  Maybe the things you like about this demo are a direct result of George's management style. If he stuck t... : Cihte
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    then he was greatly miscast as a chief... should have been just a game designer. Point of my post is t... : Angry Max
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      truthfully george is a great designer. he makes awesome development decisions but money is never unlimite... : italiano3d
      • he makes awesome development decisions Obviously, he didn't, because budget management is part of deve... : Waverider
      • Is this the same George Broussard that just spend the last 13 years making ONE game and failed? : TickHeadDog

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• I do need to agree with some of this. Yeah it's a raw deal that their company tanked and people lost thei... : VictoriouSecret
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  What makes you think that is all there was? It is a demo reel, not footage showing everything completed ... : pyrogen
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    also, this video could have been made at any point... it's not like they were like "well, lets fucking sh... : MrBig0
    • In addition, this is a demo reel for an animator, all he is showing is animations. This isn't a gameplay ... : MrBig0
• it's just criminal how some people spend their own time and money, ain't it? just plain offensive. no! do... : robosextoid

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• or maybe the company is just shifting over to radar group or something and they're doing this to get a lo... : dancingpolkabear

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• Crap, should read "I DO NOT THINK THAT..." : IHATEDUST
• this is a individuals demo reel. one persons work explicity in a dev studio that had alot of employees. Y... : italiano3d

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  Good luck if you didn't already land a new job Mr. Hanson. It is sad, it looked good, and we all were loo... : Snipergen
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    Wait delete this, you left before this happened... :p Dammit shack, a simple edit/delete option....? : Snipergen
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      Yeah, I left just about 3 years ago. I've been at Retro Studios since. : Andy Hanson
      • Did the game change a lot since the last time you worked on it? : PnCia
      • When I was 14 years old and I play Spectrum computer games, you developers were my idols :) : excessus
      • This game would be PERFECT for the Wii. You guys should snap it up! : Cihte
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  DNF didn't die with 3DR, T2 now owns it, so anything is possible at this point. There's still a lot of mo... : freakynipples69
  • No they don't : notext
  • No. : melt_core
  • T2 just has the publishing rights. Which means that even if 3DR could finish it (which they can't since ... : IHATEDUST
  • lol what : zehh

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  I hope you are not serious... : cncpun
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    Losing DNF feels just like that time my dad died. : lechuck59
    • I feel sorry for your dad. : Xulu

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• Money. The funding for development came from that money. : Mad Jack McMad

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  I wonder if the ego meter increases as you 0wn more monsters. Guess we'll never find out. :[ : CrustaR
  • I bet mackin (sp?) with strippers increases the bar and gets you new one-liners. : ElArabDeMagnifico

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• *sniff* : nevlos

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  I get the feeling that we'll see a AAA Duke FPS one way or another. There's simply too much demand for th... : cell9song
  • I think T2 is waiting to see how the upcoming Apogee duke trilogy sells before making any decision regard... : freakynipples69