3d Realms
<div class="IPBDescription">They annoy me!</div> I'm not going to start a huge rant about DNF but why do they have to be such a-holes about it? And quite frankly I'm sick of the whole DNF idea. I was a huge fan of duke 3d when it came out and was really excited about DNF but I am now to be quite honest bored of waiting. They should have done what Valve did and kept their mouths shut untill the closing stages of it's development. I don't care if it comes out tommorrow I probably will be the last person in the shop buying it.
Roll on HL-2 and DOOM 3!!
Roll on HL-2 and DOOM 3!!
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Oooh, harsh. Seriously, once you become an entire game company and can create and publish your own games from nothing and set a timeline months in advance on when you're gonna be done and stick to it, then you can complain. Until then, they're doing their best to make the greatest game they can, and if YOU want to do all the work neccessary to get it done by tommorrow, then by all means, go ahead. But they need to take their time, and do it right, so other people don't whine about how buggy it is when it comes out, because people like you forced them to bring it into the market half cooked.
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I personally don't understand why Duke Nukem Forever has taken so long, and why they continue to work on it when it has been such a long time. Eventually one has to realize that a game engine that is years old needs to be put to rest, rather than be continually publicized.
Well you would now wouldn't ya!
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no, I know nothing about it.....
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Blizzard, for example, is famous for its delays. Fortunately, they rarely push a release date past 6 months or so. People don't seem to mind waiting because they know the extra 6 months of balancing and tweaking make it worth every minute of the wait.
I haven't been following the DNF thing (absolutely no interest), but how many months has it been pushed back? I'm guessing you'll need all your fingers and toes (plus the fingers and toes of a few neighbors) in order to tabulate it. Worse yet, does anyone even truly believe the wait will be worth it? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
Heaven forbid that they, you know, might be updating the graphics? Remember all the complaints about how TF2 graphics were going to suck **** because no one could comprehend the idea that there were no screenshots of the current version on the new engine? If/when you do see something new, don't expect it to look anything like it did before.
Duke Nukem Forever = DNF = Did Not Finish
coincidence? I'll let you decide that for yourself
I think the main problem is that we feel somewhat cheated. I do, at least. I would rather have a company never release any information about a game until it's ready (Half Life 2) or keep an update on everything that's happening, including new screenshots. I don't like it when a company makes a big deal about a game that won't be out for another 3 years, building a website filled with screenshots of the game, and then dropping any news information until its release. What's the point?
Seriously they probably have just **** marketing.
*scuttles off*
Brook's law: "Adding staff to a late software project only makes it later"
Perhaps they haven't figured this out?
Speaking of EA, for all of you out there who beat themsleves sensless everytime you heard about the Sims, get ready to pick up the nearest blunt object...
The Sims 2 has been announced.
And now, back to our opic.
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nuf said (yes I think DNF will be another Dikatana)
At the time, they had it running on the Unreal (1) engine. You can probably imagine, it isnt running on that any more. The unexpected delays started when they decided the Unreal engine was too dated for their projected release, and decided not to use it. This will have been somewhere around Q3 era, and of course, no one wants to release a first person shooter using the previous generations technology.
What exactly happened after they decided to drop the Unreal engine i'm not sure, certainly alot of code and work on DNF will have been scrapped when that decision was made. It is quite possible that work on the game went into hibernation during a period where they were unsure what engine they wanted to use. After that, they may have considered, or even worked on DNF for other engines. The last rumour i heard suggested they had decided to make their own engine, and run DNF off that. Creating an engine is alot of work.
Now of course, you have Doom3 and HL2 on the horizon. We can safely assume that these will be released before DNF. If DNF is not up to their standard graphically you can probably guess what will happen to it - They either go back to the drawing board and find/create a new engine, or they scrap the project. It may have been scrapped already for all we know.
3D Realms wont release anything unless they can get out of the cycle of finding/creating an engine - working on the content for the game - and then taking so long on content that their engine becomes too dated.
Oh, and EA / EA Sports is the manifestation of everything that is wrong with todays gaming industry.