Duke Nukem Forever Is Gold

[A Black Falcon]

I agree about the two gun limit thing, those limits are always so stupid... that was one of the bad things Halo did to the FPS genre. :(

The only reason the game was even finished and released was because of its notoriety regarding the interminable development cycle (which was not, in my opinion, a compelling reason for the game to be finished). The more recent generation of gamers probably only know about the Duke Nukem franchise in the context of this title and its infamous backstory. Given what I know about it, it seems as though the acquisition, development, and release of this game focuses at least as much on that infamy as it does all the other factors which make for a game anybody would want to play. That doesn't sound like a particularly well-informed decision to me.

I just don't believe that. Actually I think that it'd have quite possibly have been released last year had 3DR not imploded. It was on track, the PC version was nearing the end of development... had 3DR just had a few million dollars more, the PC version easily would have been out last year.

The console ports probably would have taken longer, 3DR wasn't working on those (those have just been made within the past year), but the PC version is better anyway so oh well.

Of course Broussard could have sabotaged that by blowing up the game again and starting over yet again, but they finally had a team lead willing to push back against him and say "no, we need to just finish this", and the money was running out, so I really do think that they'd have released it.