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Duke Nukem Forever gone gold [updated]
Honestly, Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold. It's probably genuinely actually sort of being released, maybe, we think. Oh, how we jest!
[Update: 05:50] Publisher 2K has now sent out an official press release on the subject, as if that proves anything. However it does have a nice quote from 3D Realms veteran George Broussard, who wasn't exaggerating in saying, "Duke Nukem Forever and its journey to store shelves is legendary."
It's an epic tale of four game development studios that banded together and did the unthinkable and shipped the unshippable. When you play this game you will be reminded of that epic journey at every turn and in every small detail of the game. The character, attitude, interactivity, gameplay and political incorrectness combine to make a Duke Nukem game a unique gaming experience. In the timeless words of Duke Nukem it's finally time to 'Come Get Some'. Come be a part of gaming history.
[Original] Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold. No, seriously. Or so developer Gearbox Software says, at least. In theory, this means that Gearbox has discs containing the actual final version of the game and is sending them off to the manufacturers.
Yet you're still a little sceptical, aren't you?
The DNF demo is due to be released for First Access Club members on June 3, across all three platforms. Still, that'll only prove that the demo section exists, won't it?
The only way to be truly sure is to wait a few weeks for the full game, as Duke Nukem Forever is supposedly launching for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on June 14. Europe will get to find out for certain a little earlier, on June 10, but would you trust the word of a European on such an important matter? We'd happily all say we're definitely playing it for real, to yank your Yankee chain.
I'm playing Duke Nukem Forever at this very moment, in fact. Consider that a little test for you.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Duke Nukem Forever gone gold.
Honestly, Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold. It's probably genuinely actually sort of being released, maybe, we think. Oh, how we jest!-
This proves nothing!
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LIES!
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it's gold
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I'll believe it when I see it
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cause he's awes0me.
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You question the CrustaR??!??!
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If someone at Gearbox wants to set up an appointment for me the week before release, I can fly down to Dallas and personally confirm it. I'll take a yellow 5th-gen Camaro SS for a rental, please.
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To echo the words of former DNF producer Jason Bergman, "Well now I don't want to."
But seriously, I have a prior engagement on June 11. :-(
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impossible is nothing, my friends.
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nah he wants DNF too.
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er, god does, so he delayed it.
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Ok guys, this is what I was asking for. So thanks to 3DR/Gearbox/2K for listening to the fans
So Shack we have two goals for the day:
1. An unprecedented number of posts on this topic (more than QUAKE 3 GONE GOLD)
2. Bring the Shack down from the traffic at least once.
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Yeah but the thread was made in 2002. I'm curious which of those predictions were the closest
Antilles_Prime guessed Febtober 31, 2008 but that's not a real date. Still, if you gave him February or October he was still three years to early with his way-the-fuck-out-there prediction at the time.
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=5973921
Normality made a facetious prediction of 6-6-2006 (666) but even that was five years too early.
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=5973976
But I haven't gone through all of the replies.
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It's hard to fathom that this day has come. My mind rebels at the concept.
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We don't know exactly when development started, but counting from the announcement of the game and assuming it went gold today and not earlier and it is just being announced now then we are talking about 14 years and 26 days.
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A new era has dawned. The era of Duke. Come give me some!
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Hail to the king, baby!
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SUPER YES!
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We truly live in the future.
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Strippers and chitlins, here I come!
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More like: B-O
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that looks more like a monkey nose! Try this one: B3O
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http://chattypics.com/files/obamadnf2_d4em929xztrfim8i96cb.png
someone with better photoshop skills please do a better one, thanks
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ahahahaha
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its almost like finding A Bridge To Far showing on TV so you can finish your thesis on the Caine-Hackman theory.
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I'd say it's more that it's just the side effect of the industry becoming a big business.
And really the "when it's done" mentality will still live on, just not in the hands of any developer published by a corporation. Indie games and smaller developers, basically. All those games you've never heard of until Steam puts it in a daily sale.-
Valve is still very much a champion of the "when it's done" philosophy.
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Guild. Wars. 2
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And Blizzard.
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More like "When it's crafted" amirite?
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It's trending on Twitter like a star. I really have no idea what that means other than tonnes of people are posting about it. I don't use Twitter.
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I was 15 when the game was first announced. Its a return to my adolescence.
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It's like a dream come to life.
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well i'll be dipped in shit
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I still remember my issue of PC Accelerator with a single screenshot of the "farmer guy" in the new Unreal engine they were using. I thought it was the coolest shit.
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Omg!!!
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Repent NOW, ye SINNERS! The end of times is UPON us!
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Worth a repeat: http://duke.a-13.net/
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In my opinion - if you're on the fence about the game (as in, you would consider buying it, have the funds, etc.) you should just go ahead and buy the thing. Preorder on Steam if you're so inclined to save a few bucks.
If the game sucks or you hate it then at least you'll have something to talk about in the days/weeks following it.
Of course, there's a demo coming so you could just check that out first (although, I'm not sure when non-FAC members get it)
You could do the following:
1. Pre-order the game with $10 cash at a GameStop
2. Get FAC access code
3. Download demo
4. If you like it, purchase the game when it's released (retail copies still work through Steam since it uses Steamworks)
5. If you hate it, go cancel your preorder and get your $10 back (I assume this still works)-
If the game was still coming out from 3D Realms it'd be a done deal for me. And that's sort of why I'm on the the fence, since the core game was still done by them and the final polishing by 2k/Gearbox. Their post-launch game support has been pretty lackluster imo (on PC at least), and it's not something I really want to continue supporting. But on the other hand.....it's the Duke!!!!!
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The headline is supposed to be GONE GOLD! :( References: http://www.shacknews.com/search?q=gone+gold
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Are you suggesting that I allow Gearbox Software head of marketing Steve Gibson to dictate our approach to Duke Nukem Forever coverage?
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I'm surprised you didn't let Steve guest post the article, for old times' sake.
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Are you genuinely surprised?
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Well, not surprised, just a little disappointed, but I can understand why. He can still post in the thread if he gets a chance.
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We didn't have advance notice of the announcement. I found out about the same time as everyone else.
Hypothetically speaking, I don't have a good enough hotline to Steve to get hold of him at a moment's notice and make him instantly post something I know needs to go up on Shacknews very soon. Steve probably doesn't have a fast enough route to 2K marketing and legal to get permission to do something like that, either.-
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I wake up for worse stuff at 2:30 AM, and it's never good news.
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What about security expert Steve Gibson?
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LOL : D :D :D
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and it's split between 2 threads
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Once upon a time, game marketing was even worse than it is now, and games sometimes got all the way to the supposed release dates before it was acknowledged that it was not ready and it was going to be delayed for a few months (which sometimes got repeated for a year or more). GONE GOLD was meaningful because it meant that the game really really was going to be on store shelves in a few weeks.
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I hope there's something about winning three lifetime achievement awards for vaporware somewhere on the box.
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Waaahoooooooo! Epic!
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MODS NUKE THIS POST BEFORE MURPHY FINDS IT!!!!!!!!!
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Somebody find GeorgeB3DR's "it's done" post about his pizza. Or was that lost in the crash?
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I've been waiting for this day for a long time, and now that it's here I'm totally underwhelmed.
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marketing is a powerful thing.
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http://www.amazon.com/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Pc/dp/B002I0JAJ2/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1306255296&sr=1-2
$50! For a game that was supposed to come out nearly a decade ago? Screw that! I was all excited to play DNF, figuring Gearbox and Co. wouldn't try to pass it off as being at the same level as current games. Then they go and act like it's just another shooter (price-wise)?
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What did you want? I'm confused..
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WAIT FOR 5 DOLALR STEAM SALE KTHXBYE
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Uh, what price would you have expected? What does it matter when it was supposed to arrive?
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Even at that price the game will not be profitable thanks to its development time. I can't believe anyone would be surprised that it costs 50$.
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I am surprised there are no comments from GeorgeB yet!
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I'd love to hear from Scott Miller of Radar Group. I'll bet the next iteration of Duke is under way.
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Not sure about Radar Group but Apogee just published Duke Nukem: Critical Mass for the Nintendo DS apparently (although GameStop lists it as 6/14)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Trilogy
http://www.shacknews.com/article/68524/video-game-release-list-523?id=25938364
http://www.gamestop.com/ds/games/duke-nukem-critical-mass/75267
So if I'm reading this right, a Duke Nukem game was published this week and no one cares. :(-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_Group
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Well it has only existed since 2007 and since then Prey 2 was sold to ZeniMax and Earth No More was put on hold(although they recently applied for a new "Earth No More" trademark). AAA games often take 4 - 6 years to make in this day and age, so it is not that weird that they haven't released anything yet.
But yeah they are still around and they are still working on several projects:
"Q4) How are Radar Group's projects progressing?
In fact, a huge one was recently announced but we are not suppose to
say we're attached to it. Although, when it's released you'll see
Radar's name in the credits. Plus, we're making progress on other
key, but unannounced projects."
Source: http://www.duke4.net/news.php?extend.449
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Well games that are put on hold don't exactly have an excellent track record of being released, so that might well be true, but Radar Group is a continuation of the work that 3DR did with external devs and their track record in that area is significantly better than their track record with regard to DNF. It is completely unwarranted to extrapolate from DNF to any of Radar Group's projects.
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gearbox has duke5, duke6, duke7.com all registered up already
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Yes, but does that mean the own the Duke Nukem IP?
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Matt Chat not me did a series of 3 video interviews with Scott Miller in April"
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/user/blacklily8#p/u/4/9LWm7CBsRQQ
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There were times I wondered if I'd ever see this thread. Fuck. Yeah!
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I'm getting in on this historic gaming moment. Again.
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I might not buy the game at full price, but I would buy these brass knuckles http://www.gearboxity.com/images/web/dnf_gold.jpg
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caught in a land slide..
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ignored in realityyyy....
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here's what you're gonna do: you're gonna fucking buy duke nukem. why? because it's duke nukem and it's been in development for fourteen years and it's the (formerly) biggest piece of vaporware in gaming history. you don't want to be part of that? you don't want to experience it, however it turned out? a measly $50 to be a part of gaming history (for better or worse).
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I'm so jealous of your 56k man I'm still on 28.8
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Ep 3
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This.
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Diablo 3 won't end up as vaporware, but it's been in development since 2001.
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Mechwarrior 5 :(
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OH LOOK ONE OF THESE GUYS
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thread threads, the week or three after this game comes out will be a good time for a shackation
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i am so buying this game. hell to the yes.
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^^^ Death character account ban plz : maulla
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Total protonic reversal.
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Cant wait, but if I boot up to find a gay console FOV 60 experience and no dedicated server there will be rage, there will be fury and I'm going to hunt that Pitchford bastard and hang him by the balls.
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just hop on kali's stl server!
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hard to feel excited about a game i know so little about. hopefully the demo is fun
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I just cancelled my pre-order of the Balls of Steel edition. Sorry Duke. I'm still looking forward to the game, but I'll have to wait a while before purchasing.
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no just happened to decide today that now is not a good time financially.
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Forgive me GeorgeB3DR for I have sinned. I had lapses in faith. I used Duke's name in vain. I made jokes at Duke's expense. I humbly ask for Duke's forgiveness.
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You are forgiven, my son, now go forth and pre-order.
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Daddy needs new shoes a new big-screen TV.
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Hail to the King, full of ace, blessed art thou amongst women.
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OK you want to know what's sick? I'm tempted to also buy the limited edition hardcover strategy guide
http://www.gamestop.com/strategy-guides/duke-nukem-forever-limited-edition-official-strategy-guide/90562
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Duke Nukem just got chumped by the MW3 trailer
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Nice. Try.
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BURN THIS MADMAN
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Problem is threads expire now.
I mean I guess if we all bookmarked it we could keep going but really the issue is that unlike, say, Quake 3, we no longer have a community focused and obsessed with a single game like we used to. Everybody wanted Quake 3. We have posters with over 10K posts who might not even buy DNF.
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Threads have always expired. It was called "ER" and "MD". :-P
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Yeah, in many ways.. the days up to and around the release of Quake 3 were a special time. Back then there were only so many great online shooters. It seemed like the majority of the community would be focused on that one huge game... then anticipate the next one... then hop onto the next one when it came out. Now there are so many shooters coming out on multiple systems, everything is a bit more diluted.
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posting in this epic thread.
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Heh, I listened to Idle Thumbs 28 again (May 20, 2009)
Chris: "So how about that Duke Nukem?"
Jake: "OOOOOH, sunuvabitch!"
Nick: "Oooooh, WHAAAAT?!"
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You guys will dig the game. Thanks for the support over the years and congrats to all involved with getting it out the door! Been an epic journey, akin to Frodo and that little fucking ring. GOLD BABY!!!
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Almost done, but then they decided to switch to a different kind of paper and now they have to re-do most of it.
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Congratulations to you and all the people who worked on it!
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I think Duke4 will be one of the last games made with so much love, so much respect for its audience...
It will be a milestone hated by the young COD brats, but loved by the old generation of gamers wo will crack up with all the references of their pop culture...
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There will always be "fanservice" games, but they're few and far between.
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Glad you get to see it go gold George! Congrats, can't wait to play it!
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Grats, George! Take a vacation!
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/raises glass
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Congratulations!
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haven't posted to shack in 3 years but i had to come by and say grats georgeb!
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Hey George, are you and Scott at Radar Group working together?
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The reason I ask, if you still own the Duke Nukem IP I hope you are using RG on your next.
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:D Congrats! Looking forward to playing it.
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Thank you George for giving us this game. It was a long wait, but finally it's been delivered. Can't wait to play it.
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I would have loved to have seen a Final Hours Of DNF article. :)
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If George tweets about going to iceland, I'm gonna be pissed.
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The game corrupted him and gearbox had to help him carry it the rest of the way.
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I'm glad your opus is finally ready to be released upon us all. It's unfortunate that it didn't work out as you had originally planned, but at least it's finally going to get out the door! I'm glad you didn't let it die when the development and studio faltered.
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George, you've redefined perseverance. Congratulations!
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Congrats
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Congrats, pour yourself a drink good sir
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Hey George, on Matt Chat ep #99 Scott Miller said that the PC version of the game was essentially done and GB took it, polished it, and what players will experience is "is really a 3DRealms game".
Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_i3-aoHnww#t=16m08s timestamp 21:08.
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GB ... can u actually confirm who's funding the game after gearbox revival , ... scott miller said that T2 woudln't give you guys help , but they gave gearbox , so isn't gearbox self-funding the project or what ... because all of the marketing was done by 2K of course ... who makes those photoshops , 3DR marketing was , especially because JohnStJon wasn't involved directly IMO ... (he helped to make the 2007 trailer ... which kind of still look better than anything from 2K .. but okay this is not important for PC players, as long as the ingame model is original)
just a btw, nothing to bother at this very moment ...
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Rapture has gone gold.
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Holy fucking shit. As a Quake 3 Gone Gold veteran let me just say GOOOOOOLD!
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won't beat the quake 3 thread b/c too many people are jaded now
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Way more games to demand your attention these days. A few orders of magnitude vs the Quake 3 days.
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Time to get some some woooooooooo!
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I wonder if this thread will out-do Quake 3 Gone Gold?
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Always bet on Duke!
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That's really the question. DNF is going to pay GB bills for some time. Next!
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I miss the 3DR forums. If there was ever a time for Ted to rain down dollar signs, it's right now.
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piss and bumblebees! The shack has gotten weird and Duke has gone gold!
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Yes, where have all the people gone...?
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There are 1-2 hundred more in this thread:
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=25960227
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GONE GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!
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History in the making ... Shacknews must save some "hall of fame threads" seriously...
you don't see the fans, and developers all talking in virtually "real time" in here ... this is just relaxed and nothing "official" - it feels like a family :P
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Woot! Golden Duke!
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Fly pigs, fly!!!
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I hope to see them literally fly in dnf
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So we've got TWO epic threads going on this? Well, I guess it's no surprise. :)
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