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Duke Nukem Forever Hits "Milestone"
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 12:27pm 16/04/09 | 33 Comments
Man, I hate twitter - personal forums make no sense because it's harder for it to be counteracted, and at the moment, in the games industry, it seems like devs are utilising them for intense hyperbole, and the hardcore gaming community is eating it up like nothing else.

According to his latest twitter update, 3D Realms' George Boussard has said "Closing out a milestone this week. 71 more tasks to do and we started with probably 800-900", I'd be more inclined to suggest the milestone is the game is the longest developed game in history by now.

Still, this statement has had the correct affect; who knows, maybe Duke Nukem Forever will actually arrive in by its projected 2010 release date.






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Hogfather
Posted 12:29pm 16/4/09
I wonder sometimes if DNF is a real game or a hoax that just got out of hand.
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DM
Posted 12:32pm 16/4/09
I'm not expecting much out of this game. I'm only expecting it to be around 6 - 8 hours long too. 10 years wait for 1 day of entertainment.
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thermite
Posted 12:35pm 16/4/09
I'm also not fond of twitter, encourages people to write a lot of pointless stuff on the Internet. That's why I come to QGL, nobody just types something at a whim, everything is thought through very carefully.
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d^
Posted 12:37pm 16/4/09
It could end up being an awesome game pushing the bar far higher than anything before........... hahahahahahahah
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TiT
Posted 12:46pm 16/4/09
how said would it be as they had to remake the game like 10 times because the quality of platforms are chaing all the time.. when duke nukem forever was planned Geforces werent even heard of....
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casa
Posted 12:51pm 16/4/09
I wonder sometimes if DNF is a real game or a hoax that just got out of hand.

How ironic the games acronym is also that of the racing term "Did Not Finish".
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Opec
Posted 01:02pm 16/4/09
And the world rejoice
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infi
Posted 01:08pm 16/4/09
I'm also not fond of twitter, encourages people to write a lot of pointless stuff on the Internet. That's why I come to QGL, nobody just types something at a whim, everything is thought through very carefully.


hahah i liked that.
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Jim
Posted 01:10pm 16/4/09
oh great infi, way to break tradition with your whimsical reply
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Khel
Posted 01:32pm 16/4/09
If their milestones are 800 - 900 tasks apart, then that probably explains why the game is taking so long to make, because their project management is shithouse.
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TiT
Posted 01:56pm 16/4/09
something tells me its going to be doom 3
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euphoria
Posted 03:18pm 16/4/09
something tells me its going to be doom 3
but with less black and with more "damn, I'm looking good!"

CAN'T WAIT!
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thermite
Posted 03:58pm 16/4/09
so they have 71 more tasks to do in 2-3 days before the end of the week, is that what it meant? If so then the 800-900 tasks would only be a few weeks, no indication that it's Duke :/
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nF
Posted 06:31pm 16/4/09
What he didn't specify was that one of the tasks was "Return to task 1."
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Nailbomb
Posted 08:57pm 16/4/09
I'd be more inclined to suggest the milestone is the game is the longest developed game in history by now.


If DNF ever does come out, I hope their follow up title doesn't try to outdo this milestone.
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Khel
Posted 09:24pm 16/4/09
I'm sure it already hit and passed the "longest developed game" milestone a while ago.
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Dazhel
Posted 09:40pm 16/4/09
^^ Amen to that Khel

Team Fortress 2 - 9 years
Announced: 1998
Released: 2007

Prey - 11 years
Announced: 1995
Released: 2006

Duke Nukem Forever - ?
Announced: 1996
Released: still waiting...

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Dazhel
Posted 09:49pm 16/4/09

As individual development team members (both past and present) it must be a really shitty situation to be in.

First you've got stupidly optimistic marketing droids spouting "we'll release next year honest!" for over a decade.

Second you've got your potential fan base ready to crucify the game when it finally comes out and fails to live up to the hype and wait - Daikatana style!

Finally if you're thinking of jumping ship you've got prospective employers that are going to look at your resume and see DNF on it. That surely can't look good within the game dev industry.
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ravn0s
Posted 10:03pm 16/4/09
this better be the holy fucking grail of games.
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ViscoS
Posted 11:49pm 16/4/09
Hopefully it winds up more on the TF2 long wait standard than the Prey one.
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Pinky
Posted 11:54pm 16/4/09
Someone said to me "I wouldn't hold your breath" about waiting for DNF.

Damn my stupidity in taking that bet.

Short. Sentences.

Running out.

Air.
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thermite
Posted 12:01am 17/4/09
You on drugs sauce man?
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DM
Posted 12:30am 17/4/09
this better be the holy fucking grail of games

And as Yahtzee says, cure 2 types of cancer
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Bonez
Posted 06:39am 17/4/09
I'll believe it when I see it, but I ain't gonna hold my breath.
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Tollaz0r!
Posted 10:23am 17/4/09
You know, it'll finally be finished. Be one of the best games ever made, then banned in Australia. HA!
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Bonez
Posted 12:05pm 17/4/09
"... then banned in Australia. HA!"

LOL, like that really stops anyone.
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Taipan
Posted 12:14pm 17/4/09
Yeah casa thats the first thing I thought aswell.
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Crakaveli
Posted 01:11pm 17/4/09
i dont get the excitement over this. All i can see is they set a milestone of tasks to complete for one week, and they did it. Now they are setting another one.
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CHUB
Posted 01:20pm 17/4/09
I'm not expecting much out of this game. I'm only expecting it to be around 6 - 8 hours long too. 10 years wait for 1 day of entertainment.
It might be like Conkers Bad Fur Day for the N64.

Redeveloped it a BUNCH of times, took years, eventually came out.

10 hours long, but probably the best 10 hours of gameplay you can get.
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Resonate
Posted 02:51pm 17/4/09
You mean they actually decided on which game engine they are going to stick with now?
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Obes
Posted 03:32pm 17/4/09
Someone said to me "I wouldn't hold your breath" about waiting for DNF.

Damn my stupidity in taking that bet.

Short. Sentences.

Running out.

Air.

That's not how this game works. You are only supposed to hold down the o key
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MILKO
Posted 06:27pm 18/4/09
Nuke Dukem thats about as up to date as it gets with these guys. There still sittin around deciding if they should change the name. (Obes) BREATHE MATE!!!!!!
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