Duke4 In 2001?

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DNF is making fast and impressive and exciting progress due to having all the major code subsystems in place--allowing content creating to proceed unbounded.

Holy shit, thats question dodging PR worthy of congress

From George BroussardÂ’s .Plan File
6/8/97

I did a lot of work on Duke Forever's plot
line and level progression. We have it about
80% nailed down. After a few group meetings
to exchange design ideas for the levels, we'll
likely start working on "real" stuff, now that
we have direction. Allen continues to do some
amazing "tricks" with the Quake engine, that
reminds me of the early days when he and Todd
were playing with Build. "Wow, you can do
that? Wonder why nobody did?" ;) Expect
coolness. p.s. My "design doc" for Duke
Forever is like 12 pages and is overtaking
my life ;) ;) ;)

9/4/97
On Duke ForeverÂ’s Release:
* Release: "When it's done", but it should be in 1998.

6/15/98
On switching from Quake II to Unreal:

We don't feel there will be a significant development delay, but there
will be a slight one as we move over to the new engine. But this is
analogous to people moving from the Quake 1 to the Quake 2 engine. Our
game data will convert right over, without a hitch.

6/15/98
On switching from Quake II to Unreal:

3) Delay. Folks, DNF was likely a 1999 game in the first place. At
least early in the year. This decision is not going to cost us 6
months or more, and if it does it means we are adding cool stuff like
strippers and pool tables. The actual conversion to the Unreal engine
is nearly trivial. We have Unreal code. We have analyzed it and what
we need to do. We are not the least little bit concerned. What
concerns us is that we can make maps MUCH larger than we were and that
means more time to make them, but that's a good thing. For you.

If you go to www.gamedaily.com they have Duke4 scheduled to come out on Nov. 15 2000. Of course I can't say this is certain but they did get Vampire The Masquerade and Diablo II and a whole bunch of others right.

ok,

if this game comes out in q2 2001, it'll be already obsolete! i mean c'mon, i've been waiting for this game when there were rumors it was to be released in q1 1999!!

move it 3dr, get your butt in gear and release this vaporware!

frosty

3dRealms sucks. duke4 sucks even more, it will never come out. they earn the POOP award for the day

Why do people constantly bag Daikatana's GFX?

I dont see people giving SOF shit? I found the creative use of lighting, fog and textures to be very well done in Daikatana, besides POLYGONS it looks far better than Q3 to me, but then again so does Halflife - I guess I like realistic looking environments.

Oh, yeah, my friend and I are making games in our freetime. One is called "The Frag Zone" (working title). It's uses what we call "The Shetric Engine", which is totally portable, from ancient 286s with EGA graphics (for that one guy who thinks that'll be neat) to top of line PIIIs with 3d accelerators and everything in between. This engine is about 5% completed, and of coarse i'll let everyone know when a demo is ready. Then we'll be recruiting mappers, texture artists and modelers. Not too serious about it right now, though.

The project i'm doing in parrelel, code named ZT, well, it's totally gonna revolutionize everthing. I can only wish for more hours in the day.

Hopefully, they won't suck!

My two games have been in development since Oct '99 and they're delayed. Odds are one will be good, right?

Dunno, from the Duke screenshots I've seen this game will rucking fock. You guys remember that screen shot with the security guard, and the coffee maker behind him along with the coffee cup? The coffee cup had a cartoon on it. The newspaper on the desk had cartoons on it. The radio on his belt had knobs and buttons on it. You could see the creases in his shirt. The state flags over the doorway had creases in them. Shit, even the leather chair in front of the coffee maker had creases in them. The level of detail in that one screenshot alone spoke of insane levels of detail.

3DR is adding more realism into the game than I think any of us have previously EVER seen. I think Duke4 will up the bar on the FPS genre, much like Half-life did. I expect a storyline, interactivity with the characters (the General screenshot...) And I expect a whole lot more.

This game will flat out kick ass whenever it's released. And if 3DR needs alittle extra time to polish up right, even if it is 2001 Q2, I say let them have it.

This will also be my last post for at least a month and a half. Being active duty military has it's pitfalls, and being deprived access to the Shack for periods of time is one of them. You guys keep the faith!

If the UT engine was as slow and decrepit as some here attempt to portray... why have so many high calibur developers decided to license it for their games? Duke Nukem Forever, Deus Ex, X-Com Alliance, Rune.. to name a few of the high-profile unreal-engine titles... If the UT engine sucks so much, why are these AAA titles using it?

hmm?? hmm??

Anyone remember those pathetic insect models from the 1998 Duke 4 E3 video? I'm glad they switched to the Unreal engine.

I think Shadow Warrior was an out of house game. If all the time it's taken to implement new coding and such, and they can get it to run nicely on my k62 450-mhz 64mb of ram and voodoo2 card, i'll be cheerful like a tyke on christmas morning.

Sound to me like D4 will end up like Daikatana.
Heh, maybe they should do a Duke 3.5 to fill in time :)

FINN

Armchair commentators are usually as useful as smegma.

Is it too late to switch to the Serious engine??

Anyone remember Shadow Warrior? I had my best multiplayer moments in that game, playing aganist a friend...

and to contribute somethin' here, D4 may be very late, but it will be DAMN GOOD.

I think 3DRealms had a fluke hit with Duke. Duke was a fantastic game. Aside from Doom probably my favorite FPS made. But what have they done since? Remember how many years it took them to produce that shit game Shadow Warrior? It was pure crap. What about the ole...Prey....Prey they actually had a game. Years of working on it and reading plan files about how its gonna change everything....scrapped.... Do ya see a trend here? 3DRealms hasn't released a damn thing in 5years + Not unless ya wanna count those classic Duke console games.....wow Im gonna go get in line for those games.....

You guys (as well as Kid Rock & Joe C.) just fucking ROCK.

I got tha BOOGIE JAMBAAAAAAAAAAA!

I'm like John Lee Hooker girrrl...

Expect a post from George B. or that loudmouth Scott Miller soon.

Just a few more negative comments and that should do it.

So, here goes...

3DRealms are Ion Storm's bitches best friends.
Actually, that was just stupid.

Phil
(So groove baby, groove baby, call yo momma...)

I really want this Duke game but I don't like getting all psyched up for games that are at least a year away.

You might call it the Daikatana syndrome...

hehe

* S P A M M E D *

(but it r0x0rs th0)

http://www.fraglan.com/mods/index.htm
http://www.fraglan.com/mods/fraglan093.zip

/bind KEY +button5 (for grapple)
/bind KEY +button6 (for secondary fire)

/map q3dm17

Let the fun begin.

We play it every afternoon on our lan at wk and it totally kicks ass.

I trust 3dRealms. They can make me their bitch take as long as they like.

This is a pretty familiar pattern.

1) Start game in id engine
2) Switch mid-stream to Unreal engine
3) diss id's engine
4) take 3 more years to finish game

Meanwhile the number of games actually shipped with the quake engine is huge. Of the top 4 played multiplayer games, Half-life, Quake 3, UT and Quake 2, 3 are based on id engines.

I ask you, just what the hell is wrong with the Unreal engine? From the tech pages, it looks good enough to work with...

...... 2nd quarter 2001......

Wow! That soon? I better start saving some money. {sarcasm}

3drealms hasn't done shit since duke3d and i doubt they ever will.

george trashes id for making anothedoom and what is he doing? making another duke.

the guys a lamer.

i won't call him fat anymore becuz I know steve doesn't want me scaring away his game biz buds.

he's just big boned and husky...