No way this game was going to live up to the hype of 14 years, and always seemed destined to mediocrity at best. For me personally the gameplay was the biggest issue, I wasn't expecting something revolutionary here, but I didn't expect a step backwards to a more console feel (rails, two weapons, health, etc). However some of the criticism levied against Duke's character is a bit asinine considering the franchise history.

Unfortunately it did! I just played for little over an hour and it's horrible!

played dn3d when i was a kid. enjoyed it.

played dnf as an adult, left a bad taste.

could be a mix of high expectations [nostalgia factor, being an atypical shooter compared to today, etc.]

even when i tried to detach those notions, i just couldn't bear to play any more.

i feel it's too old school for its own good, maybe it's a hit with kids of today as dn3d was to me then. maybe not. actually, most likely not considering other fps games.

maybe i'm, sad to say, over and too old for it.

don't get me wrong, i love crude jokes, but it's just plain crude without the jokes part.

the platforming was clunky, i could care less about the game engine, it was neither good or bad, it just was.

the title animation was pretty neat though, i enjoyed that a lot.

i'd say wait for the price to go down, i can't justify the $60 on this.

and yes, i torrented it and i'm glad i did.

now i can spend my money on something else.

p.s. don't give into delusion because you're holding onto and too focused on its legacy, see it for what it is.

How is he "being self-righteous"?

I agree with him;dukenukem is just sexist,arrogant,vulgar and plain stupid. Just like 90%of the sh!t that is churned out of hollywood and thrown on the movies and tv.

So if you don't like things that are insulting or derogatory,that makes you "self-righteous"?

Look at it this way:
Theres going to be a generation of retards that thinks Sponge Bob and un-funny Family Guy are the BEST cartoons.
Let time pass by and see what that geration thinks if someone remakes those cartoons or Mcfarlane(just threw up in my mouth) decides to make live action movie.

Not at all.

But when you pick up a game that prides itself on being crude, derogatory, over-sexualized and violent and then feel the need to go online and tell everyone how you hate it because it's crude, derogatory, over-sexualized and violent, then yes, you are being self-righteous.

I don't like Harry Potter, but I don't feel any particular need to go watch a Harry Potter movie then roll around the Harry Potter fansites complaining about how terrible Harry Potter is. Doing so would be childish and self-righteous.

I have to agree on how much this game sucks compared to the older ones.

I still remember picking up the duke nukem 3d disc at a garage sale for a quarter in 1998 and i played that game for months, anything sexual or involving alcohol was rather tame in my opinion and it took effort to find them so it wasn't being slapped in your face from the get go.

Unlike this padded, fluffed up, oversexed, steroided, drunk and turd grabbed out of a toilet bowl game duke nukem 3d is by far the better game.

I would just either borrow the disc from a friend stupid enough to dish out the sixty bucks or(I am sure you know other ways to get the game) don't even bother to play it and just look on amazon for the duke nukem 3d special edition or some crap, i forget the name.

THe weapon choices suck big time, the regenerating health is a major joke(Like they stole it from halo due to lack of imagination or education on what dn is all about), Frame rates suck azz, Areas load poorly, tons of stupid and annoying puzzles.... shall i go on or have i said enough.

this is what i am calling the bast**d child of duke nukem, the one he tried to have buried but someone came along and dug the little guy out and now duke and his ever cool image have to pay the price.

Thanks for dissing at America critics.

I've been a Duke fan since the original screen scrollers came out, so Duke 1, Duke 2, Duke Nukem 3d and Duke Nukem Forever to me are great.

I just bought Duke Nukem Forever for $9.99 as because of negative press, stores are trying to dump it. It's a shame, because I've played the game for about 2-3 hours and it's not THAT bad of a game. I don't know what people are really wanting it to be? It compares very closely to Doom 3 and although ID software didn't plan/announce for Doom 3 as a successor to Doom 2 for a while, there was a 10 year gap between Doom 2 and Doom 3 (1994 to 2004), and I personally didn't think the gameplay was that amazing in Doom 3.

I took a liking to Serious Sam when Duke couldn't be developed, and I think Serious Sam is just what a die hard shoot-em-up video game player needed to get their thrills. Since Duke Nukem Forever is in the picture, I hope there is a future sequel that might lead to more positive reviews...