Duke Nukem Forever … still in the early stages of development
I loved Duke Nukem.
I don’t mean just in his 3D version, hard on the heels of Doom and bringing new interactivity to the nascent first person shooter genre. I loved him before that.
I loved Duke when he was the star of two side scrolling platform games, like Super Mario Brothers with a gun.
And yeah, I loved the 3D game. Played it into the ground, knew every inch of every level by heart. I even got add-on packs and played every inch of them into the ground, too.
And most of all, I was excited that Duke Nukem Forever, the fourth game in the series, was going to take it all to the next level.
Oh, if I only knew.
I upgraded computers twice, planning around the future specs of Duke4.
I combed the major game sites for information, eager for news of its impending release.
And now, nine years after the game was first announced, the game is still in the early stages of development:
the update describes the current state of the title, which was viewed at 3D Realms’ Texas studios: “mainly just pieces of the game in progress and tech demos”, including “an early level, a vehicle sequence, a few test rooms”, among others.
Duke, it’s over between us.
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Duke Nukem 3D is what got me back into video games. I had stopped after getting burnt out on Mike Tyson Punchout and Solid Snake on the 8 bit NES. Then years later I downloaded the first level of Duke. I smoked some herb and played. I’ll never forget the part where you come up to the strip club. You could hear the muffled bass pumping behind the closed door and I had no idea what to expect. I open the door and the music, is blasting, strobe lights going off, naked chicks dancing, and a bunch of pig guys shooting me. It scared the crap out of me and I just started blasting away with my shotgun. My heart was pounding. That was awesome and I will never forget that moment. You should play Gun for the PS2. That game is great. I don’t smoke the herb anymore so it’s not quite as good.
Comment by Henry Hesperia — April 14, 2006 @ 9:47