Duke Nukem Forever Is Gold

[A Black Falcon]

Duke Nukem Forever was almost certainly going to be a kinda busted, really janky game whether or not 3D Realms was able to finish it.

Likely so, but it probably would have been more polished and complete with the whole team finishing it for that last year instead of a tiny group of them just trying to use what they had to get it done enough to ship, once someone helped them out with the costs of that as Gearbox eventually did.

Also yeah, 3D Realms spent over $20 million of their own money on this game, not money they were getting from others.