DUKE NUKEM FOREVER

[Snapple]

Preorder now and receive a beta for Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Part 2 on release

really a beta? Because everyone played that game in 2007.

[VuBawlsClock]

really a beta? Because everyone played that game in 2007.

Episode 2 Part 2. The second part of Episode 2. Its a joke on Valve cant count to 3

[RobClock]

Ouch......

If this doesn't sell well, I don't see another Duke Nukem game coming any time soon...

I knew ahead of time IGN would give it a poor review, because they've been giving it poor reviews since it appeared at PAX.

They've whined about it being misogynistic, not having ironsight aiming, and, read/watching their preview from a few days ago; it's not hard to imagine them going in with a negative bias.

With a little bit of a keen eye, it's not hard to tell IGN was waiting to hate on this game. I, on the other hand, am a fanboy- but I will accept the negative opinions of everyone except the IGN review team. Those guys are pricks.

[Snapple]

Also, I played it on my friend's computer. It rules. Thanks for reading.

[AmberArachnidClock]

IGN is shitty and owned by fox news

edit: also it's selling pretty well http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/duke-nukem-forever/news/duke-nukem-forever-is-in-the-uk-all-format-chart-as-if-there-could-be-any-other-end-to-the-story/a-2011061310335423069/g-20100903112053378011

[LimewireClock]

Lmfao, I just read IGN's review of Forever, some of the comments they made are hilarious.
I lol'd at Duke still has the maturity of a 12 year old. Dear lord what will they think of next?

[Flounderpa]

IGN is shitty and owned by fox news

pretty much this

[RobClock]

Got an email from Gamestop earlier. My BoSe has been shipped!

[SoBe Clock]

BoSe

Is that like my bizarro twin?

[RobClock]

Is that like my bizarro twin?

'Balls of Steel Edition'. Sorry.

[OvenmittClock]

Pretty sure he got that and was just making a joke.

[SoBe Clock]

Pretty sure he got that and was just making a joke.

Yep.

[VuBawlsClock]

Steel of Bawls edition

[RobClock]

THIS JUST IN:

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  Please respond to this e-mail with your mailing address and we'll get your prize pack off to you as soon as possible.
   
  Always bet on Duke!

[Thor]

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-duke-nukem-forever/17-4385/


this game looks like a festering pile of shit. Everything I've seen about this game so far has just shown that it's terrible. While I'm not insane enough to put my self through the torture of actually playing this thing, I hope you guys have enough time to cancel your preorders or just not buy it now that it's released.

[WrenchClock]

I've kinda lost faith in this game now :/

[NintendrCkolc]

I'm glad I didn't bother getting the balls of steel edition. I was damn tempted too..

I don't think i'm even going to buy it now. I was hoping for at least a solid 7.0 but this thing isn't even getting above 50% on most websites...

I dont know, I guess i'll just rent it. I loved duke 3D back in the day but this just sounds awful..

[TequilaClock]

From Destructoid's review.

One level in particular takes place in an alien nest where Earth's women are being inseminated by giant penises. The women writhe and moan in a fairly humiliating fashion, and they regularly sob with no small amount of implied misery. In essence, the women look like they're getting raped. In fact, they are. That's the big joke of the level. The aliens are raping the women to create babies. Now, I'm a fan of offensive humor, but the "joke" in this level is so morbidly presented, so dark and downright unsettling, that I simply do not know if Gearbox intends for us to laugh or to throw up. I certainly found I was in danger of doing the latter over the former.

By the time Duke Nukem finally makes a "You're fucked," joke, which he makes in front of two girls who are about to die in the process of getting sexually assaulted, Duke does not come across as cool, witty or likable in the least. He comes across as a vile, callous, thoroughly detestable psychopath.

It's not impossible to make an alien rape joke amusing if you're clever enough, but the fact that nobody making this game actually bothered to try is what really concerns me. According to Gearbox, seeing women tortured was funny enough. According to common sense, it really, really wasn't.

This is the real core problem with Duke Nukem Forever. It's not a funny game. It's a disgusting one, and this is coming from someone who has laughed at jokes concerning every social taboo and tragedy imaginable. The issue stems from the fact that there's no irony or punchline. There's no attempt to make the "jokes" ridiculous -- in fact, there are barely any appreciable jokes at all. We simply have Duke Nukem, with his disembodied and dispassionate voice, regurgitating out-of-place movie quotes and sounding bored to be there. Such a flat and humorless performance just doesn't work when set against the grisly concepts DNF attempts to make fun of.

Wow.
Holy fucking shit.

[RobClock]

Whoa, dude.

[WrenchClock]

Pitchford has to go and take it too fucking far.