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    Now that DNF is no more, what software/hardware/etc is the inheritor to DNF's vaporware championship belt?
    May 15, 2009 5:50pm PDT
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    Now that DNF is no more, what software/hardware/etc is the inheritor to DNF's vaporware championship belt... : smaxThis person is cool!

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      Alan Wake or Gran Turismo for the PSP, I think. : BlackCat9This person is cool!
      • Please Alan Wake... noooo :( : sKetchflow
      • Gah thanks for reminding me that I was pining for GT for the PSP :( : LilCrypto
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        Alan Wake pales in comparison to DNF -- it was announced in 2005. : KentorThis person is cool!
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          That is still 5 years in development with very very very few updates (although obviously much more than D... : sKetchflow
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            their initial announcement showed more gameplay/in-engine stuff than DNF ever did : derelict515This person is cool!
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              Not if you count the 2 prior trailers for DNF. : spazzium
              • DNF was never showcased as a tech demo, which I remember being the case of Alan Wake for Intel back when ... : dedgecko
      • Nah, I disagree on Alan Wake. Remedy has proven itself with Max Payne. It was in development for a long t... : Helios150This person is cool!
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      It's got a long way to go, but I vote for Alan Wake. : zipper76
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        Yup. We still don't even know what type of game it will be. : gimpx32
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          That will change very soon. : notd665This person is cool!
          • oh alex, you tease : braaains
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          3rd person tetris. : j0nchanThis person is cool!
          • I have it on good authority that it's 5th person Tetris... it's gonna blow your mind. : delataurThis person is cool!
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      Serious Sam 3 : Dave-A
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        SS2 sure was terrible. they forgot what made the first one great and went for LOL ZANY instead. : retarded talking dinosaur
        • I thought it worked well. We finished it in co-op last week. Wouldn't mind a blend of both styles, though... : Marrbe
        • I enjoyed SS2 co-op for awhile. But once you go through the whole game in Co-Op a couple of times it gets... : thrallie200
        • It seriously felt like Serious Sam 0.5. Everything was worse, even the controls. : GreatGooglyMooglyThis person is cool!
      • New Serious Sam game announced. http://www.croteam.com/ : ShekkyBoyThis person is cool!
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      Wouldn't it be StarCraft II. They said it was in development since they finished Frozen Throne which woul... : K1Bond007This person is cool!
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        No. Blizzard has always said that they wanted to revisit the SC universe, but didn't officially acknowled... : zipper76
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          http://www.gamespot.com/news/6171172.html?sid=6171172&action=convert The panel answered questions on n : K1Bond007This person is cool!
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            Posted May 19, 2007 Lots of games and game engines are in development for years and years. What made D... : zipper76
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              It is semantics and mostly retroactive vaporware. Wired agreed with me though. They placed it like #3 on ... : K1Bond007This person is cool!
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                Wow - that's some BS there (not you, the Wired Article - http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/news... : zipper76
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                  Well its been 6 years now since Blizzard, a company that used to be known for real-time strategy, release... : smaxThis person is cool!
                  • It's Blizzard what do you expect : YanksThis person is cool!
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                    when you're releasing a sequel to an enormously popular game noted for its near perfect balance, you're g... : derelict515This person is cool!
                    • Everyone wants Blizzard-quality (or Valve-quality) games and noone wants to wait the amount of time it ta... : deveus1This person is cool!
                  • Shut up and sign up > http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58508 : [7]kamiThis person is cool!
                • I think they were reaching to fill up the list. : deveus1This person is cool!
      • They're doing opt-in signups for beta right now. I think that's pretty far from vaporware. : slax0rThis person is cool!
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      http://www.serioussamforever.com/ : boring gegtik
      • I have forgotten about Duke already! Bring it on Sam Stone! : SigENeaT
      • Duke, Freeman, Quake... Guy hah : DinKThis person is cool!
    • Looks like Elite IV is next up to lead the Vaporware charts. : roushimsxThis person is cool!
    • I asked something like this a couple of years ago, of the responses i think Dragon Age and Huxley are the... : boredguyThis person is cool!
    • my idea for a transformers tribes1 mod :[ : Chandler55This person is cool!
    • Nothing, how can any other company do nothing for so long without running out of money? : quazarThis person is cool!
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      I wouldn't call DNF vaporware, because it actually existed... The Phantom game system on the other hand, ... : davidc02
      • You seem to have a narrower definition of vaporware. By your definition, Starcraft Ghost and Warcraft Adv... : shyguy74This person is cool!
      • The phantom game system existed in the same way that DNF did, though. They had a few phantom demo units ... : batkiwiThis person is cool!
    • My vote will go out on a limb and say the new KOTOR MMO. My sources said so! : icon_of_syn
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      Rage is getting there. It wasn't announced til a few years ago but Doom 3 has been done a while and we kn... : sockstaThis person is cool!
      • Rage is nothing like vaporware. : pimpiumThis person is cool!
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        They were working on some game called Darkness or something, and scrapped it for RAGE. : Cihte
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          Whatever happened to "Trinity?" : ADSliv
          • Trinity was just the codename for the quake 3 engine tech. It was named after the Trinity River to parody... : jet-poopThis person is cool!
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        They worked on another game for at least a year after Doom 3 so work on Rage probably started in late 200... : freshykThis person is cool!
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          Plus a lot of that was developing ID Tech 5 too. : pancake humper
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            people seem to forget that part. They criticize id for taking so long to produce a game, but forget to re... : Cihte
            • I'm not criticizing it, I'm just saying its up there slightly behind Alan Wake time wise. Rage is going t... : sockstaThis person is cool!
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      Sin Episodes 2 >:( you fucking pirate dipshits! : abrasionThis person is cool!
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        I really enjoyed Ep 1. What a shame. : ADSliv
        • It was an incredibly solid game. All three of the weapons (:() had a great feel to them in the game. : freshykThis person is cool!
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        Please... let it go... Even if I could get the IP to continue it from Mumbo Jumbo, I don't have the re... : RomSteady
        • >:( I can be sad if I want to, I wanted to see Elixis's cans! : abrasionThis person is cool!
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          I'll make live action video cut scenes for it...I can't code or make levels though :( : sockstaThis person is cool!
          • Bianca Beauchamp in the house! : abrasionThis person is cool!
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          I'll code :( : moshmanThis person is cool!
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            No, you'll create the soundtrack and you'll like it. : sockstaThis person is cool!
            • ok, I don't mind doing that either :) been working on some stuff today actually, but with all the update... : moshmanThis person is cool!
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      Some people in this thread don't know what the fuck vaporware is! : SockMonkehThis person is cool!
      • they never do, just like all the 'top 10 vaporware' lists, it's stupid : derelict515This person is cool!
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        Starcraft: Ghost :( : slax0rThis person is cool!
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          It's not vaporware whan development has officially been halted. : master_disaster_17
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            Not halted, just delayed indefinitely. : slax0rThis person is cool!
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              pretty sure it was cancelled : dantasticThis person is cool!
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                It wasn't cancelled, just suspended. : ruddsThis person is cool!
                • Which you're free to interpret as an implicit cancellation, of course. Blizzard never used the word "canc... : ruddsThis person is cool!
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      True Fantasy on the xbox : RuffasBluetain
      • It wasn't vaporware for that long though, it was outright canceled a year or two after it was announced. : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
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      Ultima Worlds Online : Link.
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        That game would have been so horrible! : SockMonkehThis person is cool!
        • Probably not, but okay. That was back when OSI existed and rocked hard. : Link.
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      Of things in development, Alan Wake comes to mind first. However for some reason, the PS3 seems to be thi... : baron calamityThis person is cool!
      • FF13 is scheduled to be released this Winter in Japan, though. And I'm used to Final Fantasy games takin... : slax0rThis person is cool!
      • Home did get released in the end, we just wish it didn't and that the time & money wasted on creating a h... : nudelThis person is cool!
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      Alan Wake or Heavy Rain : Perturbation
      • Heavy Rain is for E3 : zverozyab
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        You don't know wtf. : vx2o
        • okay I change my vote to Gray Matter : Perturbation
      • Alan Wake : matthaeusThis person is cool!
      • definitely heavy rain... : deathofratsThis person is cool!
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      what kind of world do we live in where Diakatana gets to go gold and DNF doesnt >:( : ninjase
      • Wow. Sad indeed. : Cygnus X-1This person is cool!
      • That put things depressingly in perspective :(. : quadeh
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        As much as I want(ed) DNF, there was (is?) always a chance that it could be worse than daikatana. : valaelThis person is cool!
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          "A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever." -Shigeru Miyamoto : slax0rThis person is cool!
          • But there's also been plenty of bad games that were delayed at some point. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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      The laptop external adapter to plug in PCI Express cards and get more 3D Graphics power. : VGET
      • I watched a video about the new Direct2D API in Win7 and they mentioned how it handles the GPU in a lapto... : nudelThis person is cool!
    • dungeon keeper 3 : yautjaThis person is cool!
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      L.A. Noire? Is that still in production? I've seen no in-game work for it at all and i was excited years ... : Snuffles-
      • Delayed until this fiscal year. I don't trust them. : michaelleung
    • That amazing video card made by Bitboys : stukaThis person is cool!
    • Next Elite game by David Braben. /topic : watcherxpThis person is cool!
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      Project Offset What the fuck is going on with this game. The trailer was amazing. http://www.youtub... : razlebol
      • Yeah, was wondering the same, still in development apparently. : lightly inclined
      • intel bought them. : GloriousCowThis person is cool!
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        God yes, I remember seeing a preview about how advantaged the animation/models were in this game. Is it s... : Big Luke
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          http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/27/gdc09-project-offset-reemerges-with-new-media/ : GloriousCowThis person is cool!
          • Yea, that looks impressive but so did the CryEngine before Crysis was released. I'm hoping for the best t... : Big Luke
      • I expect Project Offset to be talked about more around the time Larrabee comes out. : freshykThis person is cool!
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        Intel bought the company, probably for the engine. I don't think that game exists anymore. : stukaThis person is cool!
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          What the fuck would Intel do with a game engine? : Big Luke
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            Intel is making a video card, they want a game engine to show it off. : GloriousCowThis person is cool!
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              Wait, is this true? Will we have an Nvidia, ATI and Intel video card battle in the future? : Big Luke
              • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU) : GloriousCowThis person is cool!
              • Yep :) Price drops, here you come! :) : melt_coreThis person is cool!
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            What does God need with a starship? : drazzThis person is cool!
            • Evidently He really likes "We Built This City." : RomSteady
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            Rumor is that they will totally Larrabee it and release the engine for free for people to use in their ga... : stukaThis person is cool!
            • PS4 was also rumored to use a intel graphic chip instead of ati or nvidia. : razlebol
    • The Phantom : NFXFSXThis person is cool!