Coming to you from 1997... Duke Nukem Forever

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Speaking of preorders, they've revealed the items for the preorder whatnots.

http://www.dukenukemforever.com/preorder/

• Walmart Preorder: Duke Nukem Forever Trucker Hat

• Gamestop Preorder: Duke's Big Package DLC: In-game EGO Boost, Big Head Mode, T-Shirt Pack.

However, due to lazyness, it looks like it ALSO had a Code for the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club. (I'm assuming that's for the folks who got Borderlands GOTY Edition that comes with the early demo).


That being said, I kinda wish that Gamestop didn't constantly feel the need to add "help you out" DLC that boosts health/damage/etc. I'll still be glad to get that, especially since I don't wear hats. I feel sorry for the Amazon folks, because for the time being, it looks like they're not getting anything extra.


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[ForceStealer]

Duke Nukem Forever delayed a month.

Although I suspect they're doing so to be funny.

 

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You know, I don't even mind. It seems like a TON of games are getting pushed back from releases, and this PSA means that it doesn't really bug me. Plus: what's a month longer? I already waited that for Castlevania's DLC, and Dues Ex was pushed back even farther. No big deal. Although they're now releasing it internationally BEFORE they're releasing it in NA.

May 3 & May 6 International
vs.
June 14 & Jun 10 International


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[Hisako]

They've waited 13 years for this.


I'm sure another month isn't anything to them anymore.

 

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THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY NSWF
(Warning, boobs)

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[Madame Mayor]

lol I was going to say they've got some nice boobs in the new trailer.

 

[Interslicery]

I <3 boobies.

That songs pretty cool too.

 

[Max Payne]

Why is it every stripper in every game ever looks terrible?

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

oh my christ the monsters look better than the women

they look like dead-eyed zombies who'd either eat your brains or bite your dick off

not that i can actually say i am surprised or anything.

 

[Cthulhu]

I guess they had different taste in 1997, .

 

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[Alessa Gillespie]

whoa who gave duke gay porn star lips

 

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Another message...

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[X-SOLDIER]

It seemed that the rapture didn't even end the world this weekend, so despite all sorts of crazy shit, it looks like this game might finally make it to the light of day.


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[Max Payne]

I hope this game fails and the Duke Nukem IP gets buried.

Too much money has been wasted on this damn game.

 

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Spoiler: Launch Trailer (NSFW)

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[Interslicery]

The Kramer at 1:26!!

 

[Madame Mayor]

Looking forward to the demo tomorrow.

 

[Madame Mayor]

Demo makes me think this'll be a rent at most. Then again I have a lot of games right now so only a rent when I'm really bored or something.

 

[Cookie Monster]

14 years in the making, Duke Nukem Forever is &#8220;garbage&#8221;

Duke Nukem Forever&#8217;s reviews make depressing reading. Currently running around 50%, the game&#8217;s average score is bogged down by a string of absolutely disastrous reviews from major outlets like Joystiq, Destructoid, and Eurogamer, which don&#8217;t pull any punches in their evisceration of its tired gameplay, crude attempts at humor, technical flaws, and outdated visuals.

Sauce

ROFL.

 

[Max Payne]

gee what a surprise

 

[Celes Chere]

I saw some of this game earlier today... it was disturbing, to say the least. I saw the three-boobed alien queen and watched my friend's brother bring a stripper popcorn, a condom, and a dildo... the reward was a strip tease where she...

Yeah, the game is absolute trash. There's nothing good about it. I even tried to ignore the crummy plot line (?) and focus on just having fun blowing shit up but... it's hopeless

also I agree with this

One level in particular takes place in an alien nest where Earth's women are being inseminated by giant penises. The women writhe and moan in a fairly humiliating fashion, and they regularly sob with no small amount of implied misery. In essence, the women look like they're getting raped. In fact, they are. That's the big joke of the level. The aliens are raping the women to create babies. Now, I'm a fan of offensive humor, but the "joke" in this level is so morbidly presented, so dark and downright unsettling, that I simply do not know if Gearbox intends for us to laugh or to throw up. I certainly found I was in danger of doing the latter over the former.

I was WTFing the entire time. I don't get how any of that was humorous.

 

[Interslicery]

Yeah, that part was... confusing/disturbing

 

[Russell]

I'd heard that shit game is shit...

Bottom Line: Duke Nukem Forever is a deeply flawed game that I would have stopped playing after five minutes were it not a requirement of my job to play longer. Although no amount of money could have convinced me to press on all the way to the end.

Recommendation: If you are stuck on a deserted island with only this game to play, go fishing instead. Worth playing so that you may be able to say that you did, but otherwise imminently forgettable and not worth your time.

2 out of 5 stars.

I was hoping for something good. Is Duke dead then?

 

[Interslicery]

While playing I got the feeling of a b-movie. If you look at it in that way, it's entertaining. Flawed as fuck, but I'm enjoying it.