The Duke Nukem Forever "Is it a flopzilla?" Thread

[Jay]

Now I'm by no means a very religious person. But if I'm wrong, and Randy Pitchford goes to heaven, this is what I imagine he'd see upon entering the pearly gates.

Spoiler

 

[Tarvis]

no polish here guys! Gearbox pretty much just took what 3d realms had done, finished it up, and is now selling it to all of ya.

Why the framerate drops and such long load times?! This game looks pretty dated, and the truck driving scene reminded me a lot of N64 era graphics. Maybe it was just the boxy truck.

Also two weapon limit is shit. What is this call of duty? No, even that game let you have at least 3.

 

[Jay]

As long as the game is fun I can overlook technical issues like long load times and frame rate drops.

And it IS fun. Shooting a charging pig cop at point blank range with a shotgun and watching his arms and legs fall off is awesome. but the level design was pretty atrocious and the demo was way, wayyyyyyyyyy too short. It's slowly growing on me though, each time I play it I'm able to forgive it a little more. But the demo was such a disappointment for me I'm very strongly considering changing my preorder to the standard version.

I still think the full game will be fun to play, but I officially label the demo as DOO DOO

You suck Gearbox.

 

[Jay]

After careful consideration and seeing user comments on the Gbx forums I'm canceling my 360 preorder and buying it on Steam. Apparently the PC version doesn't have framerate drops and it loads levels in 5 seconds versus half a goddamn minute.

 

[Chris]

After careful consideration and seeing user comments on the Gbx forums I'm canceling my 360 preorder and buying it on Steam. Apparently the PC version doesn't have framerate drops and it loads levels in 5 seconds versus half a goddamn minute.

Pretty sure a computer from 2004 with integrated graphics could run it.

 

[Jay]

Pretty sure a computer from 2004 with integrated graphics could run it.

Yeah. It certainly isn't gonna win a beauty pageant.

 

[Jay]

Through mysterious means I was able to obtain another access code. I'm downloading the PC demo now. I'll tell you guys how it runs on my moderate machine.

And by mysterious means I mean I PM'd AdamF and he gave me a steam code. I lied and told him my X360 code wasn't working. I'm evil.

 

[Logan]

Optimization shouldn't be an issue for something this dated and clunky. This is just lazy.

Uncharted 1 loads the first level faster than the DNF demo. That's also reading the data off the worst medium for gaming EVER.

 

[Jay]

That's what they get for outsourcing the Xbox 360 and PS3 ports to a company that HASN'T MADE A SINGLE SUCCESSFUL GAME YET.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Games

They also developed the multiplayer, which I am now very worried about.

 

[Logan]

I don't care who we're calling incompetent, the bottom line is incompetent developers make incompetent games.

 

[Logan]

Booted up the demo again.

Thought process = "WHY AM I DOING THIS!?"

 

[Jay]

TIME FOR A REBOOT

 

[Logan]

This game seems fun, but wouldn't the demo be your most polished segment? I think this game is gonna be mired with problems but still be ok to play.

Still one of the worst demos ever.

 

[Tarvis]

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Brought to you by yours truly.

 

[Dave]

GRATE!

 

[Logan]

HOLY SHIT!

 

[Jay]

I probably should have set up a raptr. After last night I was convinced I wouldn't play the demo again.

I've played it 6 times. On my 7th now.

 

[Logan]

To answer the thread title, yes.

 

[Jay]

Don't F*** the next one up Gearbox, or I'm stealing Randy's Grandm....I mean...room mate's cat

 

[Logan]

Really Travis? We're still censoring fuck?

C'mon now.