Duke Nukem Forever, the game, actually exists!

[Noja87]

Duke Nukem Forever, the game, actually exists. By Steve Gibson.

I have seen it. Maarten has seen it. We watched actual interactive gameplay being interacted with.

Of course, we are far from the first to make such a claim. During 3D Realms' lengthy development cycle of Duke Nukem Forever here in the Dallas area, I have run in to my fair share of publishers and developers who boast they have gotten a glimpse of the game.

To be honest, I thought the game's supposed existence was a vast conspiracy. More than a couple of times over the last decade I have gotten vague invitations to come see the game "someday," with it never happening. I figured this was probably the same invitation other developers in the area had gotten, and were claiming that vague invitation as having actually seen the game.

Nothing of the game has been made public for years until that Duke Nukem Forever teaser was released last December.

However, that all changed recently. For a good half hour Shacknews witnessed several different DNF gameplay scenarios, mechanics, and environments being demonstrated.

We actually got to see the truth of Duke curator George Broussard's many past claims, including environmental puzzles and interactivity, a host of finished weapons, the existence of an in-game forklift, and plenty of heads and arms being blown off.

We both confidently agree that after seeing this demonstration, Duke Nukem Forever is looking great, and will easily stand apart from the crowd in both visual and gameplay styles.

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What do you guys think? is it true? is DNF really coming out after a whole decade? i really don't know. But im a bit shocked this game have been in development for so long. I mean Duke was never a big seller in the first place and to see this game survive all this time and jump from devs to devs is quite surprising. I thought this game was canceled 3 years ago =|

[jonc2006]

look how long prey was delayed.

[Xtreme2damax]

Originally Posted by jonc2006

look how long prey was delayed.

And look how awesome Prey is (At least to me it is).

I hope DNF turns out to be as good as Prey is and was worth waiting for.

[Hard core Rikki]

Shocking spoiler picture: Duke Nukem Forever was already released, under a different franchise name

[Samor]

heh


...seriously though, why shouldn't it exist in some form?

[NightwolfAA2k5]

Nice find! Is there a link to the original article?

[Thanakil]

DNF actually existing isn't really a surprise... They've shown pictures and even videos of the development of the game over the years, the problem wasn't "does the game exist?".
The problem was "will they stop scrapping the game and starting again from the start?".

They've shown pictures/video of at least (that I remember) 3 different versions of the game by now, and I'm pretty sure they made more than that.

(and a game being delayed a freakin lot doesn't really mean anything, as said : Look at prey, or STALKER)
(or hell, even Team Fortress2 ! The game started back around 99 and underwent different styles before becoming what we now know)

[Hard core Rikki]

All we've been seeing keeps getting reduced to a glimpse...
This year all we had was a fatso sitting on his ass, when in 1999 there was gameplay footage!!!

What will remain next year for them to show us? Concept art ?? Fanart ??

[Dynamo]

I've been waiting for this game a long time. I even kind of forgot about it for a year or so until I saw a clip in December. From what I've read on the 3drealms site; they think it's a good idea to only release gameplay footage and screenshots days before the release. go figure.

[Densetsu]

What?

No "IT LIVES!!!" jokes?

I'm dissapointed. With that said, Duke will hopefully be released in this century.

[Dynamo]

Hey; it's Duke Nukem Forever isn't it. :P

[Dennemark]

Did Not Finish will release when the fat lady sings...

Densetsu.....you asked for it

ITS ALIVE !!!!!! IT LIVES YES !@!!!!%#&! IT LIVES !!!!!!!! now lets pull the plug out of Halo.

[snickothemule]

If the game ever does come out, it better have some absolute kickass swag. Like having the game featured in 1999 as a bonus or something like that.

[Xtreme2damax]

I think the earth will end before Duke Nukem forever is released and everyone will be sitting in heaven twiddling their spirit thumbs and anticipating it will hopefully be released someday while the DNF team are busy coding away in hell and continue scrapping the game over and over again......Forever!

[Dennemark]

as the name states

[Hard core Rikki]

Important announcement! Alert the internets!




List of everything that happened in the world and gaming industry since DNF development was started
The Duke Nukem Forever List

[Dynamo]

now that's pretty funny actually.

World Events:

* 4 nations have acquired nuclear weapons technology.
* 19 wars have begun.
* 5 wars have ended.
* Approximately 509,373,306 people have died and 661,373,082 have been born.
* There have been 7 total solar eclipses and 8 total lunar eclipses.
* The United Kingdom handed sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
* There have been 22 "major" school shootings worldwide.
* The population of the world has crossed six billion

[Dennemark]

Originally Posted by Dynamo

World Events:

* 4 nations have acquired nuclear weapons technology.
* 19 wars have begun.
* 5 wars have ended.
* Approximately 509,373,306 people have died and 661,373,082 have been born.
* There have been 7 total solar eclipses and 8 total lunar eclipses.
* The United Kingdom handed sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
* There have been 22 "major" school shootings worldwide.
* The population of the world has crossed six billion
* Duke Nukem Forever get released at a reasonable price of $1.099,99.

fixed ^^