Duke Nukem Forever - Gold!

[Kit]

LOL. Well I'd have played it, but it does look horribly dated! Which is to be expected really.

I thought it looked fine, but then I’m still happy with Doom 3 level graphics.

The game was also suppose to be a 360 release, which might explain why some of the assets were low res - at least, I hope that's the reason.

The whole thing looks heavily scripted,

Well, it is an animation showcase, what do you expect?

but the animation did look pretty good on Duke

Yeah some of the FBA looked really good.





Edit:

Had another watch looking for details.

*Armour gets blown off the pig cops
*dismemberment was in
*Ego meter - regenerative health ala CoD
*environmental damage - check out the shotgun scene
*Some of the effects in the boss fights look incomplete.

[cutmymilk]

I'm not an expert but couldnt they have sold the game to another developer instead of going bust?!

[Guts]

In my understanding Take Two owns the game, so no they couldn't.

[dvdmike]

The animation is pretty damn sweet

[Spatial]

I liked the bit where the roller shutter door came down on the pig cop.

The fact that it crumpled was a little thing, but it's the details that count for so much when playing stuff.

[Dezm0nd]

Looks good for a non finished game. I WANT IT

[MonkeyWrench]

In my understanding Take Two owns the game, so no they couldn't.

No they don't, they were just going to publish it.

[DryRice]

So more than 10 years in the making and still no demo? Man that sucks...

[Kit]

Few more pieces of media.

http://madmanmarkskelton.blogspot.com/

http://www.randyforsyth.blogspot.com/

Duke model looks really nice, as does the octobrain and the 'milf.? lol

[sj33]

It's finally beginning to sink in that we'll never get to play it, and that leaked footage it rubbing salt in the wounds cause it looks really good.

I know it was doubtful that it would get released anyway, but there was always that little bit of hope we've been clinging on to, and that video shows it wasn't futile, things were moving forward.

[Kit]

Few comments from the animators brother:

‘I've played a good bit of the game, my bro worked there. That scene with the big alien in the football field? That's the first level, it's Duke playing an arcade version of Duke 3D inside his huge Duke mansion. This was last summer and I saw four different levels and environments that were fully playable (some just needed some polish). They basically started making the game again from scratch (as they've done a few times) about a year and a half ago. They had a hard cut-off date for development (11/2009) and a ship date (4/2010). They were stupid close to actually finishing this thing. Was it going to be worth 12 years wait? Of course not. But it looked like a solid offering from a studio that had spent 2.5 years working on a title.’

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19881328

Another restart… good grief. What on earth were they doing for the other 10 and a half years?

I don't know all of the details, but I know the 3DR folks were just as shocked that they came this close only to have the rug pulled out. I heard they even shopped this to Valve, id, and other studios begging out of respect for the IP for loans to keep this thing going just long enough to tie it up. But of course everyone else has their money tied up into their own current projects. The money for this sort of thing has been drying up and people aren't willing to toss it to someone with such a poor track record, even if they see the game is nearly done. It's just too risky.’

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19882357

Sigh.

It's finally beginning to sink in that we'll never get to play it, and that leaked footage it rubbing salt in the wounds cause it looks really good.

I know it was doubtful that it would get released anyway, but there was always that little bit of hope we've been clinging on to, and that video shows it wasn't futile, things were moving forward.

If what that bloke says is true it looks like none of the big companies are interested. I understand why Valve wouldn’t invest (invest being the key word) but no interest in the engine or IP? I find that hard to believe.

[Matt]

The engine doesn't look anything special from the small bits we've seen, and the ip is, well.... it's not what it used to be! At best it's now a curiosity.

It is a shame, but I can't blame id and Valve for not putting money in to it. They'll look at the devs track record and it would be hard to believe they know how to finish a game. They always say the last 10% takes 90% of the time. Which may be 90 more years in this case!

[Flabio]

no interest in the engine or IP? I find that hard to believe.

Really?

In terms of engine, if you're in the market for needing to buy one in rather than do your own then you're going to go Unreal. You're certainly not going to take a risk on an unproven codebase off the back of a few nice videos.

And the IP, I think it's less marketable than a lot of people who're only thinking of the heritage angle realise.

The market is in an odd place at the moment as regards working out what actually sells, and it's probably the most risk averse I've known it to be for years.

Noone, not even someone in a pretty solid place like Valve, is going to take a punt on this one. There's too much baggage and too much risk.

Yeah, it'd be nice to get to play it, but for now it's joining a long and illustrious list of titles that didn't make it to the shelves. Just a poke around a site like Unseen64 is enough to depress me.

[Dogg Thang]

What on earth were they doing for the other 10 and a half years?

This question is baffling me. How could this have gone so wrong?

The footage, yeah, it looks dated. I think it looks like really good fun though. But the result of twelve years? No. It looked like a plain ol' game. How bad were the versions dumped before each restart?

[Spatial]

Just a poke around a site like Unseen64 is enough to depress me.

Wow that site is a treasure trove of stuff. Including my favourite, much thought about title that never made it, Dead Rush.

Why a dev hasn't picked up this idea and run with it I'll never know. If I was to make a game, it's what I'd be working on.