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  • GSMGSM Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Pitchford said that everyone that worked on it at 3D Realms is at Gearbox now.

    I'm pretty sure everyone is still going to be credited for their work either way.

    Borderlands 2 in 2040.

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    We'll get back there someday.
  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Apparently there isnt regenerating health in the normal sense, you have an ego bar that you can fill back up by doing awesome things. (Killing a big boss, lifting weights, probably strippers.)

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  • reddeathreddeath Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I like the idea of an ego + health bar, I thought the ego bar in MGS4 worked very well. Especially for gags.

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    How is looking like Borderlands a bad thing?


    because if it "looks like borderlands" then it's clearly not revolutionary enough to blow all of our fucking minds like a game with a decade plus dev time ought to!

    Plus people just see a desert and a vehicle and gearbox in an FPS and they're like OMG BORDERLANDS

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  • HenryVapeHenryVape Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    3/9-2010. The day i bet on duke. I still cant believe it, this is a historic event, someone need to mark this day on wikipedias year summary or something.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    donhonk wrote: »
    Apparently there isnt regenerating health in the normal sense, you have an ego bar that you can fill back up by doing awesome things. (Killing a big boss, lifting weights, probably strippers.)

    I think Shadow Warrior did something to that effect.

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  • ManofiornManofiorn Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    probably best thing to happen to gaming since the release of the NES?

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  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    DanHibiki wrote: »
    donhonk wrote: »
    Apparently there isnt regenerating health in the normal sense, you have an ego bar that you can fill back up by doing awesome things. (Killing a big boss, lifting weights, probably strippers.)

    I think Shadow Warrior did something to that effect.

    Ah yes, hopefully Shadow Warrior comes back in some way eventually.

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  • GSMGSM Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    donhonk wrote: »
    DanHibiki wrote: »
    donhonk wrote: »
    Apparently there isnt regenerating health in the normal sense, you have an ego bar that you can fill back up by doing awesome things. (Killing a big boss, lifting weights, probably strippers.)

    I think Shadow Warrior did something to that effect.

    Ah yes, hopefully Shadow Warrior comes back in some way eventually.

    So the fun interactive elements serve a purpose to gameplay?

    That's genius.

    GSM on
    We'll get back there someday.
  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    donhonk wrote: »
    DanHibiki wrote: »
    donhonk wrote: »
    Apparently there isnt regenerating health in the normal sense, you have an ego bar that you can fill back up by doing awesome things. (Killing a big boss, lifting weights, probably strippers.)

    I think Shadow Warrior did something to that effect.

    Ah yes, hopefully Shadow Warrior comes back in some way eventually.

    mmm.... I'd kill for a Shadow Warrior that played like Jedi Knights 3. Bonus if Chuck Norris is a playable character.

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    donhonk wrote: »
    Apparently there isnt regenerating health in the normal sense, you have an ego bar that you can fill back up by doing awesome things. (Killing a big boss, lifting weights, probably strippers.)

    I thought some of the previous Duke games had done the same thing?

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  • FalkenFalken Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    davincie wrote: »
    still waiting for that one ballsy developer to release a new game in an acclaimed franchise by going to a convention

    "and yes here's the first footage of mario exxtreme"

    *trailer plays*

    "on shelves tomorrow"

    This already happened with some console ages ago. No idea which though.


    Skull2185 wrote: »

    Sega... Saturn maybe?

    Footage shown at E3, then the guy says "available now!" but nobody knew, and retailers were caught off guard.

    I own a saturn and these posts make me sad. where is your respect?

    Falken on
  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    IGN wrote:
    Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

    Hahaha Randy Pitchford is the coolest guy on the face of the planet.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I am buying this

    I'm not even interested in the game

    But I have to

    It's like a rule

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I am literally seething with rage right now. I was supposed to be at PAX and got screwed out of it at the last moment. I could have been playing with Duke's Balls of Steel as we speak.

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  • SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    IGN wrote:
    Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

    Hahaha Randy Pitchford is the coolest guy on the face of the planet.

    ...wow.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Pfffhahahahaha

    I always liked Randy Pitchford

    More so now

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I wonder how slash000 reacted when he first heard the news.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    still waiting for that one ballsy developer to release a new game in an acclaimed franchise by going to a convention

    "and yes here's the first footage of mario exxtreme"

    *trailer plays*

    "on shelves tomorrow"

    This already happened with some console ages ago. No idea which though.

    Sega... Saturn maybe?

    Footage shown at E3, then the guy says "available now!" but nobody knew, and retailers were caught off guard.
    Yep!

    Quote from Wikipedia:
    *snip*
    Ouch!

    A surprise release like that would work for a singular game. Console -- not so much as evident.

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  • SloSlo Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    SteevL wrote: »
    IGN wrote:
    Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

    Hahaha Randy Pitchford is the coolest guy on the face of the planet.

    ...wow.

    I wish I was a large video game developer ceo. =*(

    Slo on
  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    Ha ha, Randy married an awesome woman there.

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  • AlejandroDaJAlejandroDaJ Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    IGN wrote:
    Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

    Hahaha Randy Pitchford is the coolest guy on the face of the planet.

    I think you mean to say that his wife is the coolest person on the face of the planet.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    IGN wrote:
    Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

    Hahaha Randy Pitchford is the coolest guy on the face of the planet.

    I think you mean to say that his wife is the coolest person on the face of the planet.

    I'm glad someone said it.

    Rizzi on
  • MongerMonger I got the ham stink. Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    IGN wrote:
    Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

    Hahaha Randy Pitchford is the coolest guy on the face of the planet.
    Pitchford definitely has his moments, but that's the best thing I've read in a long, long time.
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    still waiting for that one ballsy developer to release a new game in an acclaimed franchise by going to a convention

    "and yes here's the first footage of mario exxtreme"

    *trailer plays*

    "on shelves tomorrow"

    This already happened with some console ages ago. No idea which though.

    Sega... Saturn maybe?

    Footage shown at E3, then the guy says "available now!" but nobody knew, and retailers were caught off guard.
    Yep!

    Quote from Wikipedia:
    *snip*
    Ouch!

    A surprise release like that would work for a singular game. Console -- not so much as evident.
    True story: I didn't know the Saturn existed until several years after release. Even then I was skeptical, because I never actually saw one and all mention of it was attached to "my friend's cousin" or "my brother's girlfriend in Canada."

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    "Chilean Miner"

    Well, at least there's no fear of Gearbox being unable to preserve the tone of a Duke Nukem game...

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, pretty sure Gearbox has both the talent and the tone for Duke.

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  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Slo wrote: »
    SteevL wrote: »
    IGN wrote:
    Before getting hands-on time with Duke Nukem Forever, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford talked to us about how Gearbox became a part of the Duke saga. After some persuasion, Gearbox was offered the keys to the beleaguered game (it has existed in the ether in one form or another for over a decade) and Pitchford jumped at the chance. "To us, it felt like Duke can't die," said Pitchford. The Gearbox boss also related his wife's insistence that he take up Duke's cause and that if he succeeded in making it happen, she'd give him – and this a direct quote – a "Chilean Miner." She would "go down the shaft and stay 'til Christmas."

    Hahaha Randy Pitchford is the coolest guy on the face of the planet.

    ...wow.

    I wish I was a large video game developer ceo. =*(

    That.... is fuckin hilarious. And awesome.

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  • MgcwMgcw Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    His wife didn't really say that, it's a joke someone made on reddit over 10 hours ago.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    If his wife did say that then she is one hell of a psychic to say it back in 2009.

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  • El GuacoEl Guaco Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    That rather funny joke has been making the rounds. I doubt his wife actually said it, since he picked up the project before anyone knew what a Chilean miner was.

    Edit: Beaten like a tired internet meme.

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  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Darn. If only. Haha. :lol:

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    Well, she probably said the original intent, and he probably added on the Chilean Miner joke to it.
    Oh god that isn't going to catch on now is it

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wow. Just, wow.

    I still say "Shake it, Baby!" at reasonably appropriate times.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I think I'm going to install Duke 3D later. Just because I can.

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  • FalkenFalken Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Monger wrote: »
    True story: I didn't know the Saturn existed until several years after release. Even then I was skeptical, because I never actually saw one and all mention of it was attached to "my friend's cousin" or "my brother's girlfriend in Canada."

    I don't even know how this is possible.

    But yeah, firing up duke nukem 3D later to celebrate. But first: work.

    Falken on
  • MongerMonger I got the ham stink. Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Mgcw wrote: »
    His wife didn't really say that, it's a joke someone made on reddit over 10 hours ago.
    Yeah, but who made the joke on reddit?

    I'm just sayin.

    Think about it.

    edit:
    Falken wrote: »
    Monger wrote: »
    True story: I didn't know the Saturn existed until several years after release. Even then I was skeptical, because I never actually saw one and all mention of it was attached to "my friend's cousin" or "my brother's girlfriend in Canada."

    I don't even know how this is possible.

    But yeah, firing up duke nukem 3D later to celebrate. But first: work.
    Granted, most of my gaming news came out of Nintendo Power.

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  • mere_immortalmere_immortal So tasty!Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Holy shit so this is actually a real thing.

    Wonder is slashs' pre order will be honoured.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ah_Pook wrote: »
    i am interested in this, more out of morbid curiosity than anything else i guess. does anyone actually think this game has a prayer of being good at this point? we'll see i guess.

    It's Gearbox, so I expect it'll at least be pretty good, and almost definitely playable and fun.

    There is pretty much no way even remotely possible it will be "thirteen year development period" good however, and I still stand by that the franchise is pretty well past its expiration date to begin with. Duke Nukem is a parody of a film genre and characters that pretty much haven't even existed for the past decade.

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  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Ah_Pook wrote: »
    i am interested in this, more out of morbid curiosity than anything else i guess. does anyone actually think this game has a prayer of being good at this point? we'll see i guess.

    It's Gearbox, so I expect it'll at least be pretty good, and almost definitely playable and fun.

    There is pretty much no way even remotely possible it will be "thirteen year development period" good however, and I still stand by that the franchise is pretty well past its expiration date to begin with. Duke Nukem is a parody of a film genre and characters that pretty much haven't even existed for the past decade.

    They are banking on that nostalgia of that era, I dont think its a big deal.

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  • reddeathreddeath Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    First person shooter games have recently become so rote that I fully expect a game that has been in development for 13 years to seem fresh compared to them.

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