DNF 10th anniversary

Sa74n · Apr 2007

"Duke Nukem Forever was officially announced on April 27, 1997 along with the purchase of a license to use the Quake II engine."

10 years of developement.. wowza! thats a long long time in a busy industry like video games. i wonder how many more years it will take them.

MoP · Apr 2007

It will take... forever!

AstroZombie · Apr 2007

Wow, any game that is 10 years in development just has to be awesome when it ships, right? I have a feeling that the install screen alone will cause a lot of people's heads to explode.

The3DGuy · Apr 2007

they are skipping DNF and moving straight to another Duke sequel.

retleks · Apr 2007

Fantastic, thanks for the reminder.

Joshua Stubbles · Apr 2007

Stalker was in dev for over 5 years. If they can do it, so can t3h duk3!

CheapAlert · Apr 2007

Prey was in 'development' for 10 too (more like 11), yet no one whined about that

Luxury · Apr 2007

Team Fortress 2? Paging Team Fortress 2. Please come to the stage.

EarthQuake · Apr 2007

Prey isnt an established franchise that had a large user base when it was announced, noobsauce.

ebagg · Apr 2007

Gotta love the perpetual motion machine that is the DNF development cycle. Anyone know if they switched to the new Crytech engine yet?

Ryno · Apr 2007

Woot! Half way there!

Joshua Stubbles · Apr 2007

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noobsauce.

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You know you want a dip, EQ
:P

skankerzero · Apr 2007

plus, didn't Prey get put on the backburner until it was picked up by Human Head? DNF on the other hand, has been in constant development.

STALKER has been panned on it's dated visuals.

HonkyPunch · Apr 2007

Constant Development? Sweet jesus. Engine swapping aside, that's a shit load of work. It better be pretty damn good.

PixelRambo · Apr 2007

I think DNF has dug its own grave already. Considering the hype(and re-hype and re-hype over the years) they've created an insurmountable wall of expectations. Plus, people are more or less burnt out waiting for it so when it comes out people might not want to buy it.

But that's just my guess based on the events revolving around Daikatana when that was released.

Marine · Apr 2007

what hype? they've said nothing regarding it in the past five or six years, aside from reaffirming that they're still working on it. any hype about it is coming from the fans.

Jesse Moody · Apr 2007

Whats great about this is that they can upgrade to the Quake 3 Engine and do it for free. I'd buy it. haha

retleks · Apr 2007

Actually, Prey was officially canceled I believe and then just announced again within a year of its release. Half-life 2 came out 6 years(?) after the original. We all know about Stalker.

Jesse Moody · Apr 2007

what about doom 2 and doom 3? those were spaced a ways apart weren't they. But I think the other games mentioned are on a much different catagory than say D.N.F. or how about Starcraft Ghost.

Entity · Apr 2007

source and the doom3 engine had to be built ground up though, so extra dev time is understandable

ebagg · Apr 2007

Wha..? iD made quake 1,2 and 3, and made a new engine each before they made doom 3 and it's own engine.

Once DNF is released, they need to have a special edition that includes all versions from previous engines, I still would love to play the version I saw a trailer for on the Unreal Tournament engine from over 5 years ago...

Emil Mujanovic · Apr 2007

Still hanging for this game, if it ever gets released!

-caseyjones

Thegodzero · Apr 2007

I'm sticking with i want the game to have every version as it was made for the game so every few levels it changes engine.

spacemonkey · Apr 2007

no one posted a link to this

http://duke.a-13.net/

Its a list of a few things that have happened during the time that 'Forever' has been going.

Looking forward to it,been about 10 years since I played a good Duke game.

neolith · Apr 2007

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no one posted a link to this

http://duke.a-13.net/

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Hehehe, that site is awesome!

Hito · Apr 2007

DNF = Did Not Finish

Asmuel · Apr 2007

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DNF = Did Not Finish

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Lol

exactly. And it was announced in April, APRIL FOOLS!! Mwaaaaahaaaahaaa

J/K

Scott Ruggels · May 2007

I don't think there is a version of the Old Duke that will run on modern machines. Sad really I had fun with the multiplayer on the old game.

Scott

rooster · May 2007

scott there definately is because I played through it a while ago

unfortunately I've uninstalled it now so I cant remember the name of the engine I used

by the way it was still really good fun! great level design

Sa74n · May 2007

there you go, scott

http://www.rancidmeat.com/project.php3?id=1

Scott Ruggels · May 2007

Oh! Wow!! thanks!! Yay!!

Scott

Ninjas · May 2007

Edit: Wrong thread... oops. Comment was for the Fracture thread.

mikebart · May 2007

The duke3d build editor was great, so easy to use, I wish I'd kept all my old maps, hope they make the new one user freindly too.

tpe · May 2007

From that nice link.

Things that took less time than DNF...

The United States' entire program to put a man on the moon, from Kennedy's challenge to the landing.

Does anyone really beleive they have been making it all that time? they were hiring at one point about 3 years ago, but even then it sounded like it was actually for another project...

tim

AstroZombie · May 2007

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Does anyone really beleive they have been making it all that time? they were hiring at one point about 3 years ago, but even then it sounded like it was actually for another project...

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Yes, from what I gather from talking to ex 3DR employees it has actually been in a constant state of production for the past 10 years. From what I hear, they could have shipped it in the state it was in from that 2001 gameplay video.

retleks · May 2007

You heard wrong.
We're still hiring btw. Looking for an environment artist and an animator. It's a really enjoyable place to work.

AstroZombie · May 2007

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Well, the guy I heard it from was there for the majority of the past 10 years. Just how long have you been there, exactly?

How about a friendly little bet: If DNF ships within the next 5 years while you are still employed at 3DR, I will take you out and buy you a nice steak dinner at the restaraunt of your choice (within the greater DFW area). If you leave 3DR or it does not ship within the next five years you do the same for me. Are we on?

spacemonkey · May 2007

now things are getting interesting

Daz · May 2007

hey retleks, tell redchurch and john schuch that I said hi!

retleks · May 2007

I think we both know that I can't take that bet without a beating. I can say that the general mood here is very positive.
How long I've been working there doesn't matter. All that matters is that I work there, I know what's up, and I know the people that have been there since its inception, and still are there. I've heard all of the stories from multiple people, and have no doubt in my mind that whoever told you that is lying, probably because they are bitter for whatever reason based on whatever "went down." Ultimately you're going to believe your source, and I'm going to believe THE source... I guess we'll find out "when it's done."(tm)

edit: Daz: Will do!

AstroZombie · May 2007

Fair enough and best of luck, retleks. Hopefully we will get to see a finished game sometime in the not-so-distant future

Irritant · May 2007

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Prey isnt an established franchise that had a large user base when it was announced, noobsauce.

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Hehe, pwnt!

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