The Xbox version's pretty poor tbh.  The graphical popups and the fact that some characters DO look live they've been living in Black Mesa for a while.

The Jip about "Power Armour is for Pussies*" is a bit weak, as what exactly is the Ego system?

And since when does Duke Nukem only carry TWO GUNS???






*That's one dead space marine!

I keep getting Queen's health in the red then she 1 shot kills me

It's not a bad game.  It's just an old game.

It's not that bad.
I'm enjoying it.  It's a "Leave your brain behind and just shoot everything" kinda game that throws achievements at you like it's training a puppy.

I hate achievements, it is everything that is wrong with gaming today. Even Minecraft has them now ffs.

"Battle with your friends to become the biggest trophy knob! Explore tedious aspects of the game created solely for the purpose of adding further achievements!"

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on June 14, 2011, 13:28:53 PM
I hate achievements, it is everything that is wrong with gaming today. Even Minecraft has them now ffs.

"Battle with your friends to become the biggest trophy knob! Explore tedious aspects of the game created solely for the purpose of adding further achievements!"

Ars really hated it: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-review-barely-playable-unfunny-and-rampantly-offensive.ars

QFT, spot on with what I was saying.

QuoteThe opening of Duke Nukem 3D was iconic. Within seconds of launching the game, you found yourself in exciting combat within an impressively interactive world. You could show a film on the screen inside a movie theater and find hidden rooms and weapons. The game rewarded you for exploring, and the shooting itself was satisfying. The whole experience had little padding to it, and the "mature" elements of the game added flavor to what was already a wonderful game. If impressive level design was the cake, paying strippers was the icing.

But in the Duke Nukem Forever universe, the situation is reversed. The game seems only to exist in order to do things like show a pair of twins performing fellatio on the main character.

And while Duke Nukem 3D threw us into the action within seconds, the new game spends an interminable amount of time asking us to run through the bland environment, learning how to use "Duke Vision" to see in the dark and do everything but fire a gun at a bad guy. What happened to the action-packed game with the ribald humor? This is a title that thinks you're going to be so impressed by seeing the hint of a breast, you'll forget that nothing else is happening.

The first 30 minutes of the game consist of moments where people idolize you—oh, and you can turn the lights on and off. You walk through a museum where relics from the first game are stored, which gives you a hint at how this title was put together. While Gearbox obviously remembered all the neat little details that made Duke such a classic, they didn't remember to put those details in a good game. The game is hollow.

I think they would have done better simply revamping Duke Nukem into real 3D and adding a couple more campaigns onto it, I'd have paid for that.

I think Ars need to stop being whiny little girls.

Of course it's offensive.  Did they not realise what the game was about?
It's not unplayable, It is offensive and makes no apologies for that, and it's not funny if you don't get the quotes and references.

It's not a great game, it's not a terrible game.  It's OK.
Look at what it's doing for Gearbox though.  Everyone's talking about it.  When the next Duke Nukem comes out, is it going to to be more PC?  Blow it out your ass.

It's entertaining.  Ars feel they doing the stereotypical NIMBY thing of "Omg there's tits in it. Someone must be offended somewhere, Seriously...I wasn't expecting tits, OMG I'm so concerned that someone will be offended"

Grow up.

Looking at the language they generally use to review games, wouldn't they be better suited to a game of solitaire??

It's not perfect.  It's the end of the Joke.  The game that finally came.  Who actually though it was going to be a great game.
Sure, it has frame rate issues, the regenerating health and two guns only is not what Duke is about.
So bit's are a bit Halo-ish, and it's not the straight out and out blaster the previous one was, but the aliens have evolved, the game has evolved with it.  Just not as well


If you don't know Evil Dead, you have no place reviewing this game.
Duke Nukem is a B-Movie in game form.  No matter how you rose tint the originals, it was the same back then too.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on June 14, 2011, 16:54:28 PM
QFT, spot on with what I was saying.

QuoteThe opening of Duke Nukem 3D was iconic. Within seconds of launching the game, you found yourself in exciting combat within an impressively interactive world. You could show a film on the screen inside a movie theater and find hidden rooms and weapons. The game rewarded you for exploring, and the shooting itself was satisfying. The whole experience had little padding to it, and the "mature" elements of the game added flavor to what was already a wonderful game. If impressive level design was the cake, paying strippers was the icing.

But in the Duke Nukem Forever universe, the situation is reversed. The game seems only to exist in order to do things like show a pair of twins performing fellatio on the main character.

And while Duke Nukem 3D threw us into the action within seconds, the new game spends an interminable amount of time asking us to run through the bland environment, learning how to use "Duke Vision" to see in the dark and do everything but fire a gun at a bad guy. What happened to the action-packed game with the ribald humor? This is a title that thinks you're going to be so impressed by seeing the hint of a breast, you'll forget that nothing else is happening.

The first 30 minutes of the game consist of moments where people idolize you—oh, and you can turn the lights on and off. You walk through a museum where relics from the first game are stored, which gives you a hint at how this title was put together. While Gearbox obviously remembered all the neat little details that made Duke such a classic, they didn't remember to put those details in a good game. The game is hollow.

I think they would have done better simply revamping Duke Nukem into real 3D and adding a couple more campaigns onto it, I'd have paid for that.

I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday, i'd happily play the old one again.

It is everything FPS moved away from.
Yes we have TO MUCH scripted quick time based events now, games that do it to much are bad but they learnt from the old FPS. All the "platformy" stuff is gone because they are tedious. I have not really laughed at anything really. Just Dukes Hi pitch voice.

Graphics are ok but multiplayer looks SHOCKING! but I do have to say I like the attention to interaction. More games full stop could afford more things you would expect to do something with to actually be able too.

Any game I play that has a toilet in, I have to go up to it and see if anything happens, the answer is always no

This ain't no pissing game.

Quote from: Bacon on June 15, 2011, 03:05:32 AM

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on June 14, 2011, 16:54:28 PM
QFT, spot on with what I was saying.

QuoteThe opening of Duke Nukem 3D was iconic. Within seconds of launching the game, you found yourself in exciting combat within an impressively interactive world. You could show a film on the screen inside a movie theater and find hidden rooms and weapons. The game rewarded you for exploring, and the shooting itself was satisfying. The whole experience had little padding to it, and the "mature" elements of the game added flavor to what was already a wonderful game. If impressive level design was the cake, paying strippers was the icing.

I think they would have done better simply revamping Duke Nukem into real 3D and adding a couple more campaigns onto it, I'd have paid for that.

I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday, i'd happily play the old one again.

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