Duke Nukem Forever Is Gold

[A Black Falcon]

However that seems like a controls issue, while the main complaints don't seem to have to do with controls at all. Unless the PC game is notably different in much bigger ways than controls, that wouldn't account for it.

It's not just controls, the PC version has better graphics, no framerate issues, shorter load times, etc. Better all around.

All that said, the reviews aren't good, but I lost a lot of faith after finding out that Splatterhouse was actually very good (at least I had a great time) after all the reviewers skewered it. Maybe this will turn out to be good as well. However, I've heard of some of the humor... It doesn't sound very funny... instead it just sounds aweful.

Yeah, some does sound stupid... just like some of the humor in Duke 3D and Shadow Warrior, so 3D Realms is doing the humor just like they always have.

Anyway, I really think that the biggest factor in the low review scores is reviewers prejudging the game because of how long it was in development. It just wasn't going to get a fair chance. Scores for DNF are lower than scores for many other much worse games, and there's no good reason for that. Sure, it was in development for 14 years, but still its total budget was well below that of some other recent games (this was not a $50 million game like Homefront, for instance, I'd guess it was half that). I think that it is fair to have somewhat high expectations for it, given that it was in development for so long, but overall it should be judged on its own merits... reviewers clearly aren't doing that.