Duke Nukem Forever

[WrenchClock]

Rob weren't you like 3 when DNF was announced? :P

[NintendrCkolc]

Duke Nukem is back and he needs to take a piss.

The Duke Nukem Forever playable demo here at PAX 2010 makes the seemingly impossible a reality. People, including your Kotaku reporter, are playing Duke Nukem Forever, maybe a dozen years after we expected to. Duke, from what I can tell, hasn't changed.

He's still cracking jokes, chewing bubblegum, and getting oral sex from two ladies at a time when he's not using his guns ââ,¬â€ or his buggy ââ,¬â€ to obliterate his enemies.

Duke Nukem Forever is, of course, a first person shooter. The controls are standard, mapped as you'd expect on the Xbox 360 controller on which I played the game. Zoom on the left trigger. Shoot on the right. Click the right stick to crouch. But, before all that, at the start of the demo, pull the right trigger to piss.

The demo starts with a first person view of the urinal. You can make Duke urinate as much as you want. The wait is over!

Well, no that's not what this game is about. You're in a football locker room. There are a couple of hot tubs and, in the main area, some soldiers gearing up for a fight. On the whiteboard they plan their move against the beast on the field. Their strategy: cockblock. You can draw on the whiteboard. I drew straight lines. But on another TV playing the game here at PAX I saw someone drawing a penis.

The game is 100% in the spirit of classic Duke. By this point in the demo you've been hit with "Hail to the King, Baby," and sooner or later he's whistling, laughing at the bad guys he kills and lamenting that "Those alien bastards are going to pay for shooting up my ride."

When you leave the locker room, you race down some halls where aliens are fighting soldiers. These scripted sequences show some of the destructibility (mostly of your allies' limbs) and the smoke and explosion effects in the game. The effects look modern, though not beyond what we see in other games.


Out in the field, things became more impressive. A massive monster ââ,¬â€ the big aliens seen in leaked Duke artwork ââ,¬â€ is stomping across the grass. You've gone from just having your fists up to being armed with The Devastator, a big gun in each hand. Health is regenerative and the big bad guy wasn't that tough in the demo. I unloaded my ammo into him, waited for the next ammo drop, and then fired some more. Duke finished him with a button-prompted melee move.

The finale: press a button to do a "field goal," which is a punt of the monster's eye down the field.

Cue the Duke Nukem Forever logo and a camera pulls back to show that Duke, in first-person, was playing a video game. He's got a gold Xbox 360 controller with the face buttons re-named as D, U, K and E. There's a busty lady in a schoolgirl outfit near the bottom of your first-person view. And there's a second one. One stands up and wipes her mouth.

"What about the game, was it any good?" one of them asks.

"Yeah, but after 12 fucking years it should be," he answers.

After that the demo jumped forward to level 15, which began as a driving level. Duke was in a dune buggy, racing down a canyon as an alien shuttle streamed forward overhead. The buggy can boost for big jumps and, since aliens do run in its way, run over bad guys with a splat. Quickly, though, I was out of the buggy and running Duke toward an enemy turret, his laser-sighted pistol in hand. I was also able to get a railgun which had a scope and was good for headshots.

One of the most prominent tech elements of the game is a depth-of-field aspect which blurs enemies who aren't in Duke's focus. Of the obvious tech demonstrations happening in the demo ââ,¬â€ the destruction shown as cacti splintered from gunfire, the shattered mirror back in the locker room ââ,¬â€ this blurring effect was the only one that was distracting.

People wondered how Duke Nukem would make his return. Would a parody video game character steeped in 80s absurdity play in 2010? Or would he have to be a parody of a parody? It seems from the demo that Duke is strictly himself and that the kind of profane, naughty, steroid-injected humor of the Duke of old is indeed what will play in 2010 ââ,¬â€ or in 2011, to be more specific. The game is set for a 2011 release on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Gearbox Software is working on the game with other studios and, we believe, creators who used to be on the project at 3D Realms.

To those who don't know the Duke Nukem Forever story, the game might seem like a standard first-person shooter with a few technological gimmicks and a more absurd, played-for-laughs attitude than today's more straight-faced but equally gruff shooter games. For those who know the DNF tale, this is the king returned as if through a time machine, a playable time capsule of one of gaming's wrongest icons.

P.S. The trailer being shown behind closed doors for the game includes strippers and a three breasted giant monster. Of the latter, Duke says, "Hell, I'd still hit it."

After reading this I'm sold. (as if I wasn't already)

Source: http://kotaku.com/5629782/duke-nukem-forever-impressions-two-girls-one-duke

[RobClock]

At PAX there was/is a 15 minute playable demo which, while described in the article blob just linked to, you can get the general gist of here:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/pax-10-duke-nukem/704001
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/pax-10-duke-nukem/704013

[Thor]

I downloaded Duke Nukem 3D to play as a sort of celebration. I suggest others do the same.

[RobClock]

Fun Fact! "Duke Nukem" was released July 1, 1991and thus a 2011 release of Duke Nukem Forever will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the series.

I downloaded Duke Nukem 3D to play as a sort of celebration. I suggest others do the same.

I played throught the whole game again last night!

[WrenchClock]

Be Duke Nukem Clock again

[RobClock]

Be Duke Nukem Clock again

[WrenchClock]

Duke's far cooler than Rob, no offense

[TruncheonClock]

Wicked news, roll on 2032

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

You know whats hilarious? Duke Nukem Forever is coming out before half life episode 3.

[NintendrCkolc]

You know whats hilarious? Duke Nukem Forever is coming out before half life episode 3.

At this point i'd say Episode 3 is the new king of Vaporware.

[AnkhClock]

At this point i'd say Episode 3 is the new king of Vaporware.

Give it some time, the wait since Episode 2 has been way less than the wait from Duke Nukem 3D

[Topcatyo]

By this point Valve is probably just making Half-Life 3.

If they aren't and Episode 3 turns out to be 2 hours long I'll be pretty pissed.

[Fireman]

Ehh I think Valve would have their hands a bit full. Between the release of Half Life 2 and Episode 1 they released Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2: Deathmatch and Lost Coast. Those weren't exactly the biggest projects. Around a year later they released the Orange Box and since then have done Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Alien Swarm and are working on Portal 2. They've been actively creating content for Team Fortress 2 and the Left 4 Dead's and also updated their older multiplayer games to more modern versions of the source engine.
Personally I reckon Half Life 2: Episode 3 would come out in 2011, I don't expect it to be too short. I mean Episode 2 was a reasonable length and they've probably had to change the initial storyline a bit due to the Portal series having some relation to the story.

BUT YEAH I CANT WAIT TO PLAY DUKE NUKE FOREVER AND PISS AND SHOOT AND BLOW SHIT UP

[EtchASketchClock]

After reading this I'm sold. (as if I wasn't already)

Source: http://kotaku.com/5629782/duke-nukem-forever-impressions-two-girls-one-duke

If DNF doesn't come with a schoolgirl to blow me while playing this game I'll be disappointed.

[RobClock]

If DNF doesn't come with a schoolgirl to blow me while playing this game I'll be disappointed.

Twin sluts dressed as schoolgirls giving you head will run you a little more than the $60 for a new video game.

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

Twin sluts dressed as schoolgirls giving you head will run you a little more than the $60 for a new video game.

Yeah, that's in the deluxe box set. At the bottom of a box is an empty container of bubble gum with a note inside of it reading "well, would you look at that"

[Nightmare Clock]

I would just like to say


i came.

..and saw.

[GearBoxClock]

First day purchase, regardless of ANYTHING

[SockpuppetClock]

By this point Valve is probably just making Half-Life 3.

If they aren't and Episode 3 turns out to be 2 hours long I'll be pretty pissed.

...why would it be 2 hours?? Not even Episode 1 was that short.

If anything, it will be called Episode 3, but have the length of what basically would make the game Half-Life 3.