http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktLRiWXf
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No more duke nukem, forever?
Posted: 3 years ago
ya ive been following this for the past day or so, it really sucks. I loved pretty much every duke nukem game from the first one to the playstation and n64 versions. I dont think this is the last we'll hear of duke though.
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Posted: 3 years ago
yeah we'll see the jury is definatley still out & i would def. want to know what actually happened.
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Posted: 3 years ago
I like the post from the 2nd guy in that thread:
"I don't know how to respond..."
and then his sig is like 3 Duke Nukem fansites.
Jesus Christ, no one loved Duke Nukem 3D more than me, but there are actually people who have been holding out all these years, running FAN SITES, and actually expecting that this game would be published? It's been in production for OVER A DECADE. I just feel bad for that guy, his WHOLE WORLD IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BY THIS NEWS.
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Posted: 3 years ago
it would have been way funnier if this revelation was like passed over by everybody, then one day 2 years later the fan community finds out. "oh yeah we dismantled that company YEARS ago."
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Posted: 3 years ago
Wait was duke nukem forever actually supposed to come out? I thought they gave up on that game like 5 years ago...
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DangerousDan
"Tastes like hooker spit"
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http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35533
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wow, 3drealms shutting down? i didn't see that coming.
boo urns
edit:Wow, check this out:
In my best interest, I'm going to be somewhat candid for now. I will, however, elaborate a bit on some things:
The 2001 trailer was 100% scripted cinematic, and not actual gameplay. They built specific demo maps just to record video from to make a trailer. Everything you see in that trailer was phony.
The typical work flow there went something like this:
Designer would be assigned a task (build a new map, rebuild an old map, polish a bit of a map, etc.). Designer would work on said task for two, three weeks, a month, all the while lower management would be looking over it and making sure it was going in a "good general direction." Designer would move on to another task. A month or two later upper management would finally look at the work and say, "It's all wrong, do it again." Rinse, repeat.
Entire maps would be done from the ground up, almost to beta quality, and then thrown out simply because no one would make decisions early on in the process. (Read up on Valve's 'orange box' method of design -- that's how you make games)
Another example of WTF is the fact that there was one part of one map that was being worked on before I started working there. Nineteen months later and the same designer was still working on the same part of that same map... I'm not blaming the designer, it wasn't his fault.
I think the biggest problem that the company had in general is being self-funded. When you're a developer working directly with a publisher and you have milestones to meet it's a whole different ballgame. If you don't meet those milestones, you don't get any money. That right there will keep your project on schedule. If, however, you're funding it yourself, you don't really have anyone to answer to except yourself and you can quickly lose sight of just how much money is going out the door.