Comments on: How Awful Is The Duke Nukem Forever Demo? Pretty Awful.

By: Kelly K

Kelly K — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:09:00 +0000

Yeah, it sucks. I really wanted to buy it and play it but after playing the demo and seeing the gameplay online I won’t.

By: Dutch

Dutch — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:30:00 +0000

So, Duke Nukem Forever ended up bellyflopping, stacking up only to the likes of such legendary craptacularness as Daikatana. Metacritic has it ranked between 47-58 out of a 100 across all platforms. I guess that’s what happens when a video game gets John Romero’d out the ass over a development cycle of 14 years.

By: Balls O'Steel

Balls O'Steel — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:39:00 +0000

“Creating demos is expensive, that’s why devs like Valve are smart in not even releasing any.”

Am I the only one who remembers all those games which became smash hits because of their demos??? Like, oh I dunno, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, or DUKE NUKEM 3D?

I nearly did a spit-take when you described DNF as a “throwback to old school FPS games.” If anything, this game embraces qualities which are the very antithesis of old-school FPS games. Duke Nukem Forever may very well be a game in which the player character’s name is Duke Nukem, but it is not a Duke Nukem game as far as I’m concerned. On a gameplay level it is a complete betrayal of what made Duke Nukem great.

By: Duke nukemz

Duke nukemz — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:37:00 +0000

i have been a duke nukem fan since i was about 6 i loved the previous games and i know the demo was a bit rough but it is duke nukem and he is back !!!

By: Dragonboykev

Dragonboykev — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:54:00 +0000

Gears of war 3 had gameplay from one year after it was being created an it was already excellent. It also had a beta which was also excellent and continuously releases in-game footage only increasing my positive verdict on it. Usually when a demo is released and the demo is bad it’s not going to be a good game. Though there are some exceptions.

By: Narafed

Narafed — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:40:00 +0000

So wussy? No maybe we just don’t like bad games. The demo has too many glitches, I actually ran into one where a mine cart was suspended in mid air (one of the ones you are supposed to push to the end of the track in order for it to work) and another where the “pigcops” would jump off of a small cliff-side into the exact same area to try and get to me as I sniped them from a distance making it overly easy. I truly hope the game doesn’t have these issues and until I read otherwise I’m staying the hell away from the full version.

By: A_actual_gamer

A_actual_gamer — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:17:00 +0000

Are video game fans these days so wussy ( yes I mean the other word but we will go with that ) that people cant find glowing gold ammo boxes that people need a arrow indicator? Maybe you should go back to casual gaming….

By: Danb

Danb — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:52:00 +0000

bad graphics,slow dated gameplay.I loved previous duke nukem games but this is bad.Real shame.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:00:00 +0000

If simple, silly interactivity were the only problem, that might be okay. Even Deus Ex, which released in 2000, had similar stuff, but it was actually conducive to what you were doing, the skills you were building, etc. This is just window-dressing. I know games can have bad demos, it happens, but I’ve never had a really bad demo like this on a genuinely great game, maybe on an average game, sure. On the flip side, I’ve played good demos for truly bad games, too. (Too Human springs to mind). If Gearbox wanted to put their best foot forward on one of the most hyped games of all time, this shouldn’t have been it, there’s just no excuse.

And yeah, Gamestop said they’d be awarding holds for those who have old school pre-order receipts.

Thanks for stopping by :)

By: Nickisdumb

Nickisdumb — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Are you one of those people who pre-ordered this game way back in 1997? I wonder if anybody still has their receipts…

I would agree about the “good demo” part, but there ARE good games that have bad demos. This game may not be one of those games but I’m still not willing to piss all over a franchise like the author did because of a demo. Duke’s OTHER games since Duke3d haven’t exactly endeared many to the franchise, either, though….

If the game even has a fraction of what it seems like we can do (for interactivity), it’s still not going to be matched by many games. Very few games have the level of interactivity the way this came might. Silly stuff, sure, but just messin around havin fun.