Duke Nukem Forever reviews are in: the game sucks

[Guest]

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...

 

[LNCPapa]

I think people were looking for a game that could stand up to current FPS games and, though I haven't played it, it sounds like it fell quite short. Doom 3 got pretty mediocre to bad reviews as well, but really broke ground on the graphics side during the time of release. DNF didn't do anything on any front that hadn't been done already. I also agree with what yous aid about Serious Sam... my coworkers and I played through the first two within the first week of release. A couple days of work time wasted.

For what it's worth, I am a huge id/Carmack fan, but I never took the time to finish Doom 3 or Quake 4 and I'm going to force myself to finish Rage.