Duke Nukem Forever

[VaeVictis]

i didnt think hl2 was bad o.O more story driven really... kinda an easy screw around game find funny ways to kill people... the first one had good gameplay cause it was on quake engine, but i still think both are good games and worth playing

[peewee_RotA]

i didnt think hl2 was bad o.O more story driven really... kinda an easy screw around game find funny ways to kill people... the first one had good gameplay cause it was on quake engine, but i still think both are good games and worth playing

The first game was 100% about level design, and partially about weapons. The plot was interesting, but the game did not even attempt to let the plot carry the game. It was entirely about clever map design. Had the maps sucked, the game would have tanked.

One thing I know, based on the player base and the promotional media, is that the second game is based on 3 concepts. #1 Plot, #2 making a new engine for Counter-Strike (in other words, directly competing with id for engines), and #3 physics.

Only problem is that the H-L plot can't carry the game, counter strike SUCKS! (and doom3 looked better IMO), and the gravity gun was a pretty old concept thrown at the crowd of gamers as if it was new and innovative. (In fact the only innovative thing about the gravity gun is the way that HL2 popularized it enough so that Force Unleashed reused it for their own purposes )

A very dull list of accomplishments as far as I'm concerned.

[VaeVictis]

a game doesnt need to ACCOMPLISH anything to be entertaining

i find it fun to break out the revolver and kill some hunters or use the crossbow to pin some combine to a wall at some good distance lol... and grav gunning saw blades at head crab zombies never gets old

[peewee_RotA]

a game doesnt need to ACCOMPLISH anything to be entertaining

That statement is silly and ignorant. Being entertaining is the goal that needs to be accomplished. There are many ways to accomplish that goal. I've listed a few that I'm not satisfied with and a few that I am. I could make a formal list, but that'd be pretty boring and pointless.

[VaeVictis]

a game doesnt need to ACCOMPLISH anything to be entertaining

That statement is silly and ignorant. Being entertaining is the goal that needs to be accomplished. There are many ways to accomplish that goal. I've listed a few that I'm not satisfied with and a few that I am. I could make a formal list, but that'd be pretty boring and pointless.

well ok... as far as accomplishments i was talking innovations id software has accomplished a TON of stuff, inventing the fps genre, insane next gen graphics when doom3 came out, impressive modding support... the list goes on even if you dont think the half life series has really contributed like that, its still a fairly entertaining game, i didnt think the story was too bad, although a bit skewed due to tons of missing information, the gameplay while not solid and fast like quake is still very entertaining for a number of reasons, and the engine itself isnt bad at all, just no where near an idtech engine

[BIG DICK RICK]

a game doesnt need to ACCOMPLISH anything to be entertaining

lol, just when I don't think you can get any dumber, you prove me otherwise.  So if a game fails at everything: level design, plot, graphics, playability, it can still be entertaining?  failharder.

[The Happy Friar]

and grav gunning saw blades at head crab zombies never gets old

until the millionth zombie spawns right behind you in the open & you're wondering who the heck thought that would be a good idea!

[Er!c@]

feels like i been waiting  'forever' for this.

[Th0m@s29]

Duke Nukem is awesome and amazing I can't wait to play this new one when it comes out.

[Acer]

Duke Nukem is awesome and amazing I can't wait to play this new one when it comes out.

Very unlikely. You are probably going to wait till that game is a couple of years old and then you dig it up and start playing.

[fdrjk]

 

[Th0m@s29]

Duke Nukem is awesome and amazing I can't wait to play this new one when it comes out.

Very unlikely. You are probably going to wait till that game is a couple of years old and then you dig it up and start playing.

That is a pretty retarded statement to make. What makes you think that? I promise you when it FINALLY COMES OUT I will be playing it lol unless unfortunate unforeseen events occur.

[BIG DICK RICK]

Whoa, wholly shitballs batman, he ACTUALLY responded to someone.....you must be a special case Acer 

[fdrjk]

Duke Nukem is awesome and amazing I can't wait to play this new one when it comes out.

Very unlikely. You are probably going to wait till that game is a couple of years old and then you dig it up and start playing.

[[BTF]Sigma]

Duke Nukem is awesome and amazing I can't wait to play this new one when it comes out.

Very unlikely. You are probably going to wait till that game is a couple of years old and then you dig it up and start playing.

  I spat out my beer at that. Where's the paper towel