Duke Nukem Forever Once Scheduled to Go Gold on April Fools' Day (No Joke)

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• Where do these come from? That looks kinda fun.... :/ : TaintedSyringe
• Graphics look like shit : ShXIII

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  Well this quote is coming from Jason Bergmen who was on the 2K/Take2 side of things. : ratman
  • Indeed - though he's no longer at Take2/2K. 3DRealms may be incompetent but they're not stupid. Unfortuna... : gerbopel

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• d-list celebritydom is hot stuff these days : thebigbeefsandwich
• You mean you wish you could be a sequel to an incredibly popular game that many people are still looking ... : Lord Skellington
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  If you killed yourself in some spectacular fashion, then your wish and mine would come true! : rosewood
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    Hey it's not my fault 3DR is run by morons with absolutely no management skills. I just don't understand... : NotACommunist
    • Pretty sure I have to agree with you on everything you stated about 3DR. : ShXIII
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      Well besides the fact that a fair number of people on the Shack actually are fans of this franchise and w... : Schnapple
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        "It's Daikatana, TF2, Spore and Chinese Democracy all rolled into one." My math most be off then, sinc... : Kristian Joensen
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          Which is why you have to roll those others in. (what I meant was that DNF's long-in-development saga t... : Schnapple
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            Why? What about it trumps say Chinese Democracy? : Kristian Joensen
            • According to wikipedia, in terms of "development" time, it was thirteen years after they first started re... : photonzach
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      "Hey it's not my fault 3DR is run by morons with absolutely no management skills" People with no manag... : Kristian Joensen
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        You're not really proving anything there. The management of 3dRealms did not do much during the developm... : HisDivineOrder
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          ^^^^ yep, as much of a Duke fan as I am, there is simply no excuse for not cranking out a game in 12 year... : uebersoldat
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            "^^^^ yep, as much of a Duke fan as I am, there is simply no excuse for not cranking out a game in 12 yea... : Kristian Joensen
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              Yeah but let's be honest here...when a gamer thinks of 3DR, he/she thinks of Duke Nukem. While I agree wi... : uebersoldat
              • There are two distinct issues here. One is confusing 3DR and DNF, the other is confusing the Duke fran... : Kristian Joensen
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          "All I see in your referenced links are a series of old games made freeware for the last couple of years.... : Kristian Joensen
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            they didnt develop prey or MP :-/ : MamiyaOtaru
            • So what? They aren't exclusively a development studio. Batman Begins involved other companies, does that ... : Kristian Joensen
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      You could't be more wrong about half of your statements... Holding my breath that you take rosewoods sug... : jaxpunk
      • When these clowns release DNF then I'll take his suggestion into consideration. : NotACommunist
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  I disagree with you, so I too hope you kill yourself. That's not excessive, is it? : lonza
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    Hey it's ok. I understand that vaporware that was in development for 12+ years is Serious Internet Busin... : NotACommunist
    • hey 3dr had dnf in development forever, but HEY IT'S OK : valael
• Have to side with this guy, I really don't want to hear about 3DR and DNF again, ever! : abrasion

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  http://www.3drealms.com/history.html : Kristian Joensen
  • Seriously? Crystal F**king Caves? Do you know how old I was when I played Crystal Caves? And how mu... : progressor
• Maybe if they hadn't gotten sued by Take2. : dognose

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  3DR = much much more than DNF. Why should the media punish them more than any other company that has had... : Kristian Joensen
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    Well, TF2 was actually released, and didn't take up 11 years of development time. Basically 3DR have prov... : thesubtlesnake
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      "Well, TF2 was actually released, and didn't take up 11 years of development time." Well it took 10 ye... : Kristian Joensen
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        but they did release success story games in those 10 years? : Frush81
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          Are you talking about Valve or 3DR? In both cases the answer is yes, very much so. : Kristian Joensen
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            They obviously didn't release enough success story games, or they'd still be in business. : NotACommunist
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              They ARE still in business. : Kristian Joensen
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                Oh right, those shitty XBLA games and crap freeware. How could I forget. : NotACommunist
                • Like I excepted arbitrary dismissal of certain projects. They don't "count" for whatever bs reason. Who ... : Kristian Joensen
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        TF2 started as a mod, then was adapted to become its own game. In the interim, it took time to develop a... : HisDivineOrder
        • "See, while 3dRealms was developing no shipping titles, Valve was shipping titles and developing revoluti... : Kristian Joensen
        • "Valve adapted the Quake engine, had a hugely successful game, developed their own engine from scratch" ... : anal justice
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    The troubled development of TF2? Who is telling the bold faced lie now? Valve had a small team led by ... : Wisp!
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      "Valve had a small team led by Robin Walker working on a "realistic" TF2, and they didn't like their resu... : Kristian Joensen
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        Except 3DR wasted millions upon millions on a large, AAA project. TF2 was not this. Your comparison t... : Wisp!
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          I am not doubting Valve's accomplishments at all. I don't want people to have the same attitude towards V... : Kristian Joensen
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            TF2 was not on the same scale as Duke Nukem Forever. It's just a fact. Valve didn't destroy themselves tr... : Wisp!
            • "TF2 was not on the same scale as Duke Nukem Forever." Sure it was, it was a game with similar amount ... : Kristian Joensen
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  Fact is that 90 per cent of people who grew up in the era of Duke 3D and Quake still hold hope for this g... : Lord Skellington
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    It's more like a really vocal 9% that give a shit. : The Wilhelm Scream
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      No it is vocal minority that claims that it is a vocal minority that gives a shit. : Kristian Joensen
      • Please! Only a vocal minority believes a vocal minority claims only a vocal minority gives a shit. : Arceihn
    • I don't think so. Do you really think it would get so much press if that was true? Granted it's not good ... : Lord Skellington
  • its gonna 0wn : retardhumper
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  i remember hearing about tf2 like in 2001 give or take. It was supposed to me a somewhat realistic multil... : nicknick86
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    TF2 was originally announced back in 1997. : Kristian Joensen
    • Man I totally forgot about team fortress on the quake engine. Damn that was years ago. : nicknick86

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• /thread : three-d
• Duke Nukem doesn't go prone. He kicks ass. : the archvile

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• my life feels like a sham without duke forever : flasher 907
• All said and done... I'd probably buy it too. I honestly don't think I could fight the power of a 20 yea... : Gwyndion
• We'd all be there at Best Buy or Gamestop. Just a bunch of crazy old-school relics talking about the good... : Blackdawgg

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  3DR was meeting and EXCEEDING the deadlines that were part of the referred schedule. It always amazes my ... : Kristian Joensen
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    It's been in developement over 12 years. People expected it to be out various times over the past decade ... : jtthe2nd
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      "People expected it to be out various times over the past decade plus and 3DR has disappointed each time.... : Kristian Joensen
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        Yes, most of those expectations were based on the common sense that no game will continue development for... : HisDivineOrder
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          "Honestly, though, if I take your argument at face value and agree that GB was hitting all his deadlines"... : Kristian Joensen
          • I'm sorry you can defend 3DR all you want, poor management (I use the term poor LIGHTLY) caused this game... : ShXIII
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    Oh come on. No game was ever produced. You can say anything you want since you will never have to prove a... : baron calamity
    • You fuckers are funny. : eskimo spy

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• I don't see where being sued in an obvious IP grab attempt is all that funny. : dognose

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  http://ingresstech.com/~bernard/instantCSI/ : NeoChaosX
  • Hahaha, I was wondering if this ever got made. : Sailor of Fortune
  • http://ingresstech.com/~bernard/instantCSI/InstantCSI.swf : angelrubio
• LMAO! : jtthe2nd
• You dick, you just made me cough of a gnocchi. : Klebold
• yeeaaaahhhhhhhhh! : baron calamity

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• i would buy a saggy duke nukem game "get off my lawn, or i`ll shit down your throat!!" : angelrubio

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  That's what she said. : ajvitaly
  • Maybe even an Epic Faylor? : Caoster007

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  Ricardo Montalbán would be displeased with that spelling =( : pharom
  • Good thing he doesn't read Shack. Oh and he's also dead. : snot3353

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  I always loved the way that DNF was constantly "just a few months or a year" away from being finished. : pharom
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    That is not true , it was NOT constantly "just a few months or a year" away from being finished. I dare ... : Kristian Joensen
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      In fact, before they could get that close, GB would find a new engine, API, feature, or story idea to thr... : HisDivineOrder
      • "In fact, before they could get that close, GB would find a new engine, API, feature, or story idea to th... : Kristian Joensen
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22578960#itemanchor_22578960 : Kristian Joensen

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• So basically it would have been the ONLY April Fool's prank on the web that was actually a prank, as oppo... : three-d

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  dognose tag in this story ftw!!! : The Key
  • lol thats awesome : ninjase

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• It would have been pretty awesome, but those words sum up everything about DNF : pharom

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• It was just the way the schedule worked out. Nothing more than a (humorous) coincidence. : ratman
• Its supposed to fool you and it would have for sure. : rjklevels
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  way to suck out all the lols : Telnik
  • lol I suppose so. I guess the only reason I don't want to laugh about it because I really wanted this gam... : dookiebot
• It would have been good press actually. It would have stirred up a frenzy of oh it's fake cause of april... : matrixneo42