was it really THAT bad?

Yeah

Yes.

>>387960485
balls

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>>387960485
>Only 2 weapons (until it was patched)
>Blase maps
>Dated jokes

'fraid so

>>387960485
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6MjzgTZriw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Yngipvz6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86vWgaLuwE

>>387960485
it was a solid 6/10

Get out of vent, or I'll have you bent.

Lots of good idea mixed with lots of terrible ideas
It just didn't feel like a duke nukem game

Even without 12-14 years of hype, yes

>every gun that isn't the shotgun is shit
>melee combat is laughably bad
>vehicle controls are a joke
>levels are brutally linear compared to Duke3D
>enemy variety is weak
>tries to be funny but rarely hits
>2 weapon limit until blowback forced them to up it to 3

Supposedly the multiplayer was okay, but otherwise it was profoundly shit. Also George Broussard can fellate a shotgun.

>>387960746
pretty much this.

>>387960709
>Unironically posting the cucked brit
Die

>>387960937
This was pre-cancer, pre-cuck.

>>387960485
I don't think it was bad per say but definitely not a good game. I do remember load times being atrocious on ps3 but it might have been patched later on but my main experience with the game was that copy that leaked early and loading directly from the ps3 hdd should not have taken anywhere near as long as it did.

>>387960485
I'm not a fan of shooters so I don't think my opinion really counts but anyway, I think it's just a mediocre 6/10 shooter, that's it. It's one of those games where most of the hate comes from non-gameplay related things (in this case, failing to deliver after years and years of hype, waiting and unrealistic expectations). If it was a standalone title unrelated to the Duke Nukem series, nobody would have really cared and the game would have gotten only a fraction of the hate it received.

>>387960485
I can forgive the weapon limit, the bad graphics, the AWFUL humor, the ego meter, the shit vehicle sections, and even the fact that this game took 12 years to get released.
I cannot forgive the insulting linear level design.
Went and played Duke it out in DC after Forever, the Smithsonian Terror map outshines every level in forever.

Nah. 6 or 7/10. The Dr Proton DLC adds a point.

>>387961182
Backstory? I thought feminists hate TB, what do you mean?

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>>387960485
No but devs need an excuse to hand out 3's and 4's when at best this game is a 6/10

I blame gearbox for this fuckery though since the budget for this game most likely went to Borderlands 2

>>387963840
*Reviewers not devs

Also I got the game for $5 meaning I wasn't expecting much anyways

>>387963840

The real blame lies with Broussard. Thanks to him, the whole project got scrapped multiple times because his indecisive ass kept demanding that the latest and greatest tech be put into the foundation. If they'd just fucking stuck to a plan and finished the game back in 2001 or whenever the fuck they had a working build, the series would probably still be alive. Gearbox's siphoning of funds to Borderlands didn't help, but Broussard is far more to blame than them.

>>387963840

The game was pretty much done when Gearbox got it. All they had to do was some major bug testing and finishing touches.

>>387960683
>Dated jokes
Just like DN3D, then?

aint gonna lie

the section with the captured women gave me a sustained boner

>>387963840
Shit on Gearbox all you want but 3DRealms is to blame for DNF.

>>387960485
It's an okay FPS.

But you can't deliver something that's merely okay after a decade.

>>387960485
It was worse.
>2 Weapon limit
>All weapons suck, except the shotgun
>Linear as fuck
>70% of the game is physics puzzles and driving sections
>Awful writing, even Anthony Burch helped write this unfunny piece of shit
>The guys at Gearbox though it was hilarious though, thats why there are so many unskipable scripted sequences, especially at the beggining
>Short as fuck
>Water level
>Regenerating health "Power armor is for pussies"
>Bosses can only be damaged by 2 weapons in the game
>Turret sections
>Gearbox owns the franchise and removed all Duke games for sale

>>387964508
No they are not, they obviously had levels and stuff laying around but they didn't put a fucking 60 dollar tag on it because they knew it wasn't ready, Gearbox did.

>>387960485
Not at but it was a little awkward I mean most of Duke comments are out of place.

>>387960485
It was. And I like it anyway. No regrets on my Balls of Steel edition.

>>387964979
>because they knew it wasn't ready
And that's a huge fucking problem in and of itself. Gearbox just bought the shit and pieced it together. Everything is 3DRealms' fault.

>>387964979
nothing was ready. That garbage shouldve been scrapped altogether

>>387960485
Duke is 10/10, and anyone is thinks otherwise hates America.

>>387965264
3DRealms was a horribly mismanaged company but they didn't release the piece of shit that was DNF into the world, it was Gearbox, they saw that uncompleted mess of a game, put a price tag on it and sued their way to own the franchise.

>>387966240
They received an uncompleted mess of a game and actually assembled it into something resembling a game. They fact that you're being harder on Gearbox than 3DRealms just goes to show /v/ only cares about shitting on specific groups or devs over complaining about the actual problems.

>>387966385
Fuck, I have a bunch of uncompleted games in my HDD. I'm literally worse than Hitler!

>>387961676
>per say

>>387960920
Nearly all the points you listed apply to Duke 3d too to be honest

The worst thing about this game is that it ruined Duke Nukem as a character forever.

I still have the 3D poster hanging up on my wall. Oh god...

It feels like some dev saw HL2 and thought "dude we should do that stuff" as evidenced by the long as fuck truck segment. The limited ammo is shitty too, the RPG only holds 5 shots, and you have to keep running to a shitty ammo crate. Generally just feels like a game that came out a decade late, which is pretty fitting

>>387966385
Gearbox got the product on to shelves, and funded some promotions, but Gearbox is still a one trick pony.

>>387966534
Did you promise to get those games out 14 years prior to their actual release?

>>387960485
MY NAME... DOUK NOUK KEM

>>387960485
No, but it did not live up to expectations at all.
It was honestly a ps2 game that came out in a ps3 era.

>>387964414
Memes moved at a slower pace before the internet 2.0, action movies and other media made a bigger impression on the youth back then than they do now. People who grew up in this age of the internet where memes come and go faster than mainstream media can make a quick buck out of them cant probably fully understand it.

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>>387960485
I was a god at Duke Nukem Forever multiplayer. My best game was like 72-0.
>Be me
> MLG at Duke Nukem Forever
> suckass at literally every other game
>mfw I realize I was an autistic savant at DNF

>>387968434
most of the game reeked of HL2
The same driving segments that overstay their welcome, the same seesaw and "put shit in here" physics puzzles, the same "oh wow it's Duke Nukem/Gordon Freeman!" NPCs everywhere, the same sparingly use of music, the same bosses you can only damage with explosives that are conveniently right next to them including a crate with infinite ammo, etc.

>>387969074
Was HL2 REALLY that good? Because i play it nowadays and can't stand it, it's boring.

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>>387968434
>>387968807
That would have made it a better game.
It's the modernization that made it such shit.

>>387960485
It would've been less bad if it came with modding tools like DN3D, the game was great but DNBuilder was what made it a legend.

>>387969154
No. In fact it's worse than its predecessor in every way that actually matters.

>>387960683
>Dated jokes
Not only dated but also out of place.
>random Christian Bale parody
>random "my anus is bleeding" quote from Don Hertzfeld's "Rejected" with no buildup or purpose - just some character yelling that
>Duke randomly singing "America, Fuck Yeah" for no reason

>>387960485
Nah, but it could have been much better.
It's worth 5$ if you liked 3d and can find it

>>387960485
The meme had more value than the game. It shouldn't have been made.

>>387960485
The only good thing that came out of this was the action figure.

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>>387964414
You realize appropriate topical references from the era the game was released doesn't make them dated. Satirizing 80s action stars was all the rage in the 90s, not in 2012.

>>387969992
Yet people still do this shit nowadays and call them ironic/post ironic

>>387969230
There was endless opportunity to satirize video games and their trends, instead they fell for them all. In hindsight I don't know how you fuck up something so simple.

>>387970118
Yep and it's awful low hanging fruit. The whole new wave of 'ironic' humour that's been slowly seeping in since 2011ish is just one big sign of how uncultured and worthless this generation is, devoid of all things original. 4chan taking full effect of it too.

>>387969992
Yep, if you're agreeing to play an old game, you're usually agreeing to inhabit the world it was released in.

>>387960485
As a video game...
No
As a Duke Nukem video game...
Yes