Did someone say Duke Nukem: Forever?

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^ go away

[Gwunty]

let me reach 1000 posts and I will

[English Mobster]

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Love you too.

[Kornman00]

Q&A: How Randy Pitchford Saved Duke Nukem Forever

Think you’re excited about the return of cigar-chomping space marine Duke Nukem? You’ve got nothing on Randy Pitchford.

A year ago, it looked like Duke Nukem Forever was finally dead. The perennial Wired.com Vaporware Awards winner, in the works since April 1997, couldn’t be completed since Dallas-based developer 3D Realms shut its doors and laid off its entire staff. Publisher Take-Two Interactive responded by suing 3D Realms parent company, Apogee Software.

Enter Pitchford, co-founder and president of Gearbox Software, another Dallas videogame company. As an alumnus of 3D Realms, he wanted nothing more than to see the over-the-top shooter starring the misogynist Duke finally come to fruition. And his studio’s slick hybrid game Borderlands was a feather in Take-Two’s cap.

Read more. Gearbox didn't just buy Forever, but the franchise's entire rights. Goatdamn.

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The original creator of Duke is also working at GBX...

Is there alot of hype on the forums?

[SiriusTexra]

Before any of you get on your "omg gearbox is teh best" high horse....

http://talkinrealatyou.blogspot.com/...continues.html

PC version has been done for some time now. Gearbox, are doing the port to the console, and some polish. For Randy to turn up and spurt how fucking much of a Jesus he is is bullshit. 3DR got cut right before the dam thing was finished, and not a coincidence of timing either.
Take Two were planning on dumping them when the development cycle was over, the thought and theory is that Randy's little wet dream has been talked about for years.

They couldn't cut 3DR loose too early, when the majority was done, but there was still hard work to do and that is more of an investment on an unsure title, but they couldn't cut them off too late otherwise, there'd have been no issue to complain about as the game, would be done.

The real thing was, they want to stick a more "reliable" or "respected" developer label on it, in hopes it will sell more and lift spirits, because they're afraid of the 3DREALMS/AFOGEE label that might seem uncertain to the new generation of gamers in the year 2010.

That, and 3DR probably didn't agree or even want to do console as much as the PC (hence why pc was the main focus and done before), and Take Two got all up in their shit about how PC is dying and consoles are win and you should be designing for consoles and your wasting our money fu etc.

Sorry, but Randy aint no saviour. This is like the equivalent of Strider stealing masterz tags as masterz goes on vacation, so he can release Coagulation 5 and look like serious business or something.

I expect a shitty PC version, that will be stripped to match gearboxes console port, for consistency sake. Maybe not so much story, but definitely in usability and gameplay.

[Kornman00]

So let me get this straight, they went from lying about supporting a game after it getting 1,000 players to lying about their contributions to a game which isn't even theirs?

Actually, I shouldn't even say "they" I guess because Randy has been the one to say both lies each time. It would be nice to hear this from other ex-3dr members. Not that I'm calling the guy in that blog a liar, just I would like to see the original team come together and say "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF you 'Box!"

They should have just stuck with porting Reach to PC, not DNF to consoles