Duke Nukem Forever is awful. I played it when it first came out and followed the whole shit show that was around it.
I used to have a friend from where I grew up who was a HUGE Duke fan and I remember him being so excited for DNF back in the early 2000s. He wanted to pre-order it when it was first talked about and I often wonder if he ever got the game later on. It was stuck in development hell for so long.
A few years ago, some of the old developers released a code that was 97% done to a DNF build from 2003. It was one of the versions they were close to finishing that Randy Pitchford put a stop to. Because it was early 2000s, it had more in line with shooters from that era.
The DLC for Forever was arguably better than the finished game, and many fans believe the levels of the DLC came out of an old build for the game cause it fit more in line with the older games and the levels were far more polished and had some serious effort put into them. I don't know if that's true or not, but I did like the DLC more than the original game (with the exception of having to deal with Dillon some more. Ugh. Worst side kick ever in an FPS game)
On another note; seriously fuck Randy Pitchford. That guy is one of the absolute worst in video games. He is the reason we can't even get a re-release of old 2D Duke games that were made at Apogee Software long before the FPS game that Duke is known for. Duke Nukem 2 is a really good side scrolling PC game, similar to the Commander Keen games. Randy has copyrighted everything with Duke and moved it to Gearbox, and when 3D Realms attempted to release a Duke anniversary set with the old 2D games, Randy basically pulled the rug out from under their feet and put a stop to it with the copyright claims. There was a huge shitshow over the release of the World Tour Anniversary edition of Duke 3D and how it resulted in puling the Megaton edition from Steam/Gog. Randy had the Megaton edition pulled and replaced with the newer remaster that had a new campaign but is missing all the old expansion packs that the Megaton edition came with.
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Duke Nukem Forever is awful. I played it when it first came out and followed the whole shit show that was around it.
I used to have a friend from where I grew up who was a HUGE Duke fan and I remember him being so excited for DNF back in the early 2000s. He wanted to pre-order it when it was first talked about and I often wonder if he ever got the game later on. It was stuck in development hell for so long.
A few years ago, some of the old developers released a code that was 97% done to a DNF build from 2003. It was one of the versions they were close to finishing that Randy Pitchford put a stop to. Because it was early 2000s, it had more in line with shooters from that era.
The DLC for Forever was arguably better than the finished game, and many fans believe the levels of the DLC came out of an old build for the game cause it fit more in line with the older games and the levels were far more polished and had some serious effort put into them. I don't know if that's true or not, but I did like the DLC more than the original game (with the exception of having to deal with Dillon some more. Ugh. Worst side kick ever in an FPS game)
On another note; seriously fuck Randy Pitchford. That guy is one of the absolute worst in video games. He is the reason we can't even get a re-release of old 2D Duke games that were made at Apogee Software long before the FPS game that Duke is known for. Duke Nukem 2 is a really good side scrolling PC game, similar to the Commander Keen games. Randy has copyrighted everything with Duke and moved it to Gearbox, and when 3D Realms attempted to release a Duke anniversary set with the old 2D games, Randy basically pulled the rug out from under their feet and put a stop to it with the copyright claims. There was a huge shitshow over the release of the World Tour Anniversary edition of Duke 3D and how it resulted in puling the Megaton edition from Steam/Gog. Randy had the Megaton edition pulled and replaced with the newer remaster that had a new campaign but is missing all the old expansion packs that the Megaton edition came with.
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