[H] review of DNF

[steelcity_ballin]

http://hardocp.com/news/2011/06/20/duke ... nkey_balls

" Thanks for boning my pooper for $50 Gearbox. If I had known you were going to butt bang me this bad, I would have shot myself up with AIDs first and put us all out of Duke's laughable legacy misery."

Stay Classy, Kyle.

[Hoser]

Stay Classy, Kyle.

[OT]That bus left years ago for Kyle.[/OT]

DNF isn't getting good reviews from anyone really. I'm probably gonna wait on this one.

[derFunkenstein]

Kyle is awesome for values of awesome ranging from insufferable to completely moronic.

[axeman]

You'd think they'd like it, since it seems to be aimed at the same juvenile idiots their site is.

[steelcity_ballin]

You'd think they'd like it, since it seems to be aimed at the same juvenile idiots their site is.

Being juvenile is one thing, but when you're the owner of a fairly well traveled website, Injecting yourself with aids probably shouldn't be front-page material.

[derFunkenstein]

Just for kicks I pulled up a random review and found it to be so riddled with spelling errors that auto-correct wouldn't catch (integrate instead of integrated, for example) that I wonder if they're not more like AOL than AOL itself in that it doesn't matter WHAT gets written, just as long as it's SOMETHING that gets written. If they can't even get their peers to proofread, then you can be sure they don't care what goes into them.

[LaChupacabra]

I'm grateful for his wing-nuttedness. If it wasn't for his line-in-the-sand attitude about graphics card reviews I might not have ever found TR = )

[LaChupacabra]

EDIT: Deleted for rockin' double post

[bittermann]

They should port it to MAC and make the FAIL complete...

[derFunkenstein]

what, making the same bizarre, unfunny joke on the front page wasn't enough for you? You didn't expose your wit to enough potential fans? Maybe you should put it up on Facebook and Twitter, too, and hope someone laughs.

[bittermann]

what, making the same bizarre, unfunny joke on the front page wasn't enough for you? You didn't expose your wit to enough potential fans? Maybe you should put it up on Facebook and Twitter, too, and hope someone laughs.

WTF are you talking about? same comment?

Apple charges outrageous prices and so did Gearbox for DNF (the steaming pile of poo)...seems like a match made in heaven!

[Grape Flavor]

http://hardocp.com/news/2011/06/20/duke_nukem_forever_sucks_donkey_balls

" Thanks for boning my pooper for $50 Gearbox. If I had known you were going to butt bang me this bad, I would have shot myself up with AIDs first and put us all out of Duke's laughable legacy misery."

Stay Classy, Kyle.

hahaha oh man. Then again it is Duke Nukem so maybe he's just keeping with the whole juvenile nature of the thing.

Or not.

[Madman]

I'm waiting for the zero punctuation review. I bet it will be epic.

Although watching the gameplay videos on youtube, the game is somewhat Duke'ish. Maybe it has a chance.

[Krogoth]

Duke Nukem IP is finished.

Take 2 is just doing damage control on their investment. FYI, they made a multi-dollar deal back in 2004 with 3DRelams to finish DNF. 3Drelams failed to deliver, so Take-2 took legal action and acquired the IP. They threw it haphazardly to Gearbox to see if they can finished it. What we got in the end was a Borderlands TC mod.

[Skrying]

DNF likely pushed a lot of copies. The pre-orders for it were pretty significant and it generated a lot of hype. It wouldn't be the first poor game to sell well. If the IP were finished Take Two wouldn't be using it for vehicles they likely already had in place.

[derFunkenstein]

what, making the same bizarre, unfunny joke on the front page wasn't enough for you? You didn't expose your wit to enough potential fans? Maybe you should put it up on Facebook and Twitter, too, and hope someone laughs.

WTF are you talking about? same comment?

Apple charges outrageous prices and so did Gearbox for DNF (the steaming pile of poo)...seems like a match made in heaven!

You made the same stupid joke here. It's so contrived and forced as to not be remotely humorous. If you don't know what you wrote where, is it possible someone else is using your account?

[flip-mode]

They should port it to MAC and make the FAIL complete...

Made me laugh!

[Captain Ned]

It wouldn't be the first poor game to sell well.

Daikatana.

[/cough, cough]

[flip-mode]

FYI, they made a multi-dollar deal back in 2004 with 3DRelams to finish DNF.

A multi-dollar deal, yeah? Had to skip lunch that day? I have new respect for DNF now that I know it only took multi-dollars to do it.

[flip-mode]

what, making the same bizarre, unfunny joke on the front page wasn't enough for you? You didn't expose your wit to enough potential fans? Maybe you should put it up on Facebook and Twitter, too, and hope someone laughs.

WTF are you talking about? same comment?

Apple charges outrageous prices and so did Gearbox for DNF (the steaming pile of poo)...seems like a match made in heaven!

You made the same stupid joke here. It's so contrived and forced as to not be remotely humorous. If you don't know what you wrote where, is it possible someone else is using your account?

It didn't sound like a swipe at Apple to me. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Apple seems to be doing just fine at what they do This reminds me of the "from my basement I stab at thee" comic.

[YeuEmMaiMai]

Gonna pass on this until it reaches $5.. I was so looking forward to this game as well but the flaws are too hard to overcome.

[Vrock]

Strange. I would have thought throwing poop at people would have been right up Kyle's alley.

[derFunkenstein]

It didn't sound like a swipe at Apple to me. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Apple seems to be doing just fine at what they do This reminds me of the "from my basement I stab at thee" comic.

I'm not defending Apple (nor did I call it a swipe, insult, etc. I no longer own any Apple hardware outside of an Airport Extreme, and the only other Apple hardware in my home is my wife's iPod Touch. There's nothing left worth defending) - I'm only saying that the comment itself was non-sequitur in nature and not remotely amusing as a result.

[Ryu Connor]

All the cool kids are hating on DNF these days. It's the hip thing to do.

My inner teenage response to Kyle is: "LOL Kyle". About the only response and emotion I can evoke over this.

Brent's video reviews and Paul's power supply reviews are about the only reason I wander over there. Paul's methodology is brutal and Brent is willing to accept he's wrong.

[WalkCMD]

All the cool kids are hating on DNF these days. It's the hip thing to do.

My inner teenage response to Kyle is: "LOL Kyle". About the only response and emotion I can evoke over this.

Brent's video reviews and Paul's power supply reviews are about the only reason I wander over there. Paul's methodology is brutal and Brent is willing to accept he's wrong.

Haters be hating.

[ChangWang]

When I played the demo, I couldn't help but think...

<shrug> "This probably would have been fun to play, oh.... 5-6 years ago?" </shrug>

[morphine]

All the cool kids are hating on DNF these days. It's the hip thing to do.

In this case I honestly think they're right. The original Duke was a fun, mindless, over-the-top shooter with original weapons (for the time) and great level design, crowned with some raucous humor. DNF is a piss-poor attempt at a bland, generic shooter which tries to to rely on "humor" to be in any way interesting... and isn't even good at that. Being offensive can have meaning in the proper context, but DNF is downright embarrassing.

[Starfalcon]

Well the big issue with DNF is that it never could have lived up to the 12 years of hype no matter how good it might have been. I am sure gearbox got handed a sack of crap and had to make the best of what they had, and they did what they could to get it running and out. It may not be the best, but at least it finally saw the light of day. Now people can say yeah DNF came out, it may have been a terrible game but it did come out.

[flip-mode]

Well the big issue with DNF is that it never could have lived up to the 12 years of hype no matter how good it might have been.

See, I kinda think that's not the "big issue". It would be one thing if the game had been released for $25 with the sales pitch of "we launching what we've got rather than launch nothing at all". But this game is on sale for $50 - the price of a premium game. DNF is not a premium game - that is the big issue.

Another part of the problem is that 2k or whomever actually hyped the game up even more with their raucous trailers and such. They perhaps might have done better to play the thing down.

DNF did not get 12 years of hype. DNF got maybe 8 or 9 years of hype and by then people had accepted that it wasn't coming. So I think it was a bad move to resuscitate a corpse that had basically been rotting on the ground for 3-4 years. That's what really happened. 2k got this corpse of a game and instead instead of burying it and birthing a new DNF and raising it right, they put the paddles to the corpse and then marketed the thing like it was something sexy. They basically put a battery in a junk-yarded, rusted out, pissed in, broken down chop-shopped 68 Camaro and pushed it down the road to the car show. Sure, it's still got some semblance to a 68 Camaro but everyone knows it's junk yard material.

I haven't played the game, but that's my take on the drama that has unfolded. I won't be purchasing the game. First, I'm not going to spend money on a game that is technologically a half-decade or more behind! Apparently this game is weak by even DX9 standards. Second, the game sounds like it has basic enjoy-ability issues in terms of game play. Honestly, it doesn't sound to be worth $5. There are reviewers that struggled to finish the game at all! That sounds more like an unpleasant experience. Why in the world would I pay any money at all for an unpleasant experience?

[axeman]

I'm waiting for the zero punctuation review. I bet it will be epic.

Although watching the gameplay videos on youtube, the game is somewhat Duke'ish. Maybe it has a chance.

and, it's out
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... his-time?2