Duke Nukem Forever to officially get a release date

[grinvader]

but then you get games like Other M, which has a show-stopping, save-losing bug. and wii users are SOL.

huh ?

sure is news to me

[Gil_Hamilton]

but then you get games like Other M, which has a show-stopping, save-losing bug.

That's just divine punishment for playing Other M.

[sweener2001]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... alling-Bug

i suppose wii users aren't completely SOL. they can transfer their save to an SD card, and then mail it to Nintendo, and then they'll fix your save.

it's sad that you can't even email them the file, and have some automated process take care of it in a minute.

[franpa]

True, bugs that do make there way into Wii games can be much more devastating because you can't really patch them, but the likely hood of there being such a crippling bug in the first place is significantly less then on the other systems. You are much more likely to have a good experience right when the game is first released unlike on the other systems. (this is regarding good game titles, not shovelware!)

Also hacking the Wii is not done through usual/normal gameplay. It requires either specially crafted software, save games or hardware to trigger the bugs.

[sweener2001]

i was agreeing with you, for the most part.

[SquareHead]

So anyone else play the demo yet? Impressions?

[sweener2001]

i recently moved, and am still waiting on an internet connection before i can grab it.

[franpa]

Retarded health system, linear gameplay.

[I.S.T.]

The game was gonna be linear in this day and age.

Really, there is one word to sum up almost everything(Except for the graphics) of this game: awkward.

There is no further explanation needed.

[snkcube]

It's a Duke Nukem game. What more are you really expecting? This won't be the greatest game ever, but it's enjoyable. The health system is like every other game, so that's nothing surprising.

[paulguy]

Duke nukem 3D was pretty linear overall. It had you going around each individual map but overall, it's linear, so you can't really compare it like that, and that's not really the problem, I think. Seems more like it tries too hard, in that they have a kind of "checklist" of things that it should be, and they just try to fill it to the brim with that sort of stuff, where duke nukem 3d just took a more natural approach.

[I.S.T.]

It's a Duke Nukem game. What more are you really expecting? This won't be the greatest game ever, but it's enjoyable. The health system is like every other game, so that's nothing surprising.

It's too awkward to be enjoyable.

[franpa]

They took what wasn't broke, and broke it. I think I summarized what I hate about it fairly well over here.

[SquareHead]

I actually liked it. I even pre-ordered/pre-loaded after playing the demo. The way I see it is, if someone wanted to play an upgraded version of the build engine with 3d models, then theres EDuke32. I don't think many people are going to be happy with DNF regardless. I'm not saying the game is without fault, and I have a bitch or two, but larger scale, I feel it delivers what I have been waiting for.

[I.S.T.]

Funny thing: I haven't played Duke Nukem 3D since 1999, and I wasn't much of a fan in the first place. I just wanted to see how a game that had been restarted three times in development(Yes, it was restarted from scratch not just once, but thrice) fared.

I was unimpressed.

[sweener2001]

it shows its age, but the potential for fun is there. just not at full price.

[alyxx]

I loved the game. Played it from beginning to end and had a ton of fun with it. I'm definitely not regretting I bought it.