Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour - yet another Duke Nukem 3D rerelease

[sullynathan]

is the mouse look as good as the DOOM releases?

 

[Garrettt]

"So help me Duke" guys we can hear from the end of the trailer that Duke is in trouble... we need to save him!

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Jon St. John doesn't give a single fuck in that trailer, obviously not in a good way.

I don't think there's a single new line in the trailer (at best they nick one or two from other Duke games) so he didn't care 20 years ago either.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Morgoth]

:mrpresident:

 

[tormund]

And of course, entire trailer was a ironic riff on US elections.


New end credits song?

 

[Kingston]

And of course, entire trailer was a ironic riff on US elections.


New end credits song?

Haha that video was uploaded by Rex. I wonder what he's up to nowadays.

 

[shihonage]

New John St. John clips are probably gonna stand out like a sore thumb against the old ones.

 

[tormund]

eDuke dev actually had a chance to hear most of them and yeah, they apparently sound p much like he was phoning it in with zero effort.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Duke Nukem is too busy shilling for other franchises.

 

[Taxnomore]

I buy a lot of bullshit and I didn't even wishlist that.

 

[skacky]

Jon St. John doesn't give a single fuck in that trailer, obviously not in a good way.

I don't think there's a single new line in the trailer (at best they nick one or two from other Duke games) so he didn't care 20 years ago either.

Quality sounds a lot better in the trailer, so either they re-recorded them (possible, since he recorded new lines) or they changed the audio so much he now sounds utterly bored.

 

[Astral Rag]

Groovy! Duke Nukem 3D: World Tour Announced

Duke Nukem very nearly said, “It’s time to announce a video game and prematurely leak the announcement of the aforementioned video game, and I’m all out of leaks.” Very nearly. As rumoured, Gearbox Software last night announced Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour [official site]. It’s an expanded and revamped re-release of 3D Realms’ 1996 proto-Gone Home FPS, including a new episode and an (optional) 3D graphical makeover. What’s neat is that Gearbox have reunited some of the old gang, including level designers, a musicman, and of course the voice of Duke.

So! The base is Duke Nukem 3D (plus its first expansion), an FPS from 1996 with a wisecracking ’80s action-movie hero who’s mighty teed off that aliens have come to Earth to cause mischief and abduct our busty babes. Gearbox and Nerve Software are expanding that with a new eight-level episode visiting Amsterdam, Egypt, Hollywood, London, Moscow, Paris, Rome’s Colosseum, and San Francisco.

Original level designers Allen Blum III and Richard Gray (LEVELORD!) are returning for that new episode, which is a really nice idea. Also returning is Lee Jackson, who composed Duke’s iconic theme song Grabbag and will bring new music to World Tour. And yep, Jon St. John will be speaking new lines for Duke. Also fancy in this edition is developer commentary. Plus a 3D makeover which I don’t really dig because the lighting really jars with the game’s original style – but hey, it’ll have an option to toggle between that and the original look as we please.

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour is due out on October 11th, priced at £14.99/19,99€/$19.99. Duke Nukem 3D’s Atomic Edition, which contains the original game plus its first expansion, cost $5.99 on digital stores until it was pulled from sale. The Megaton Edition, which included more expansions plus a 3D makeover, was $9.99 before it too was pulled. The World Tour’s new content cost money to make, absolutely, but it’d be a shame if Gearbox didn’t eventually return Regular Plain Old Duke 3D to stores too. Recontextualising and expanding are fine but preservation’s important too.

For folks who’ve been out of the loop and are wondering why I’m talking so much about Gearbox: they bought Duke Nukem after creators 3D Realms collapsed, remember? Then it only took five years before that ownership was fully settled.

The big question is: will Duke keep borrowing lines from ’80s and ’90s action movies, or will he update his retro references to the noughties? You know, lines from films like 300, Planet Terror, Live Free or Die Hard, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Avatar.

“I see you” -Duke Nukem, 2016?

"Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour is due out on October 11th, priced at £14.99/19,99€/$19.99."

 

[Taxnomore]

"We really do not want to make another Duke Nukem AAA game again and hope we can use this to pretend the audience isn't there anymore."

 

[Deakul]

jesus christ just make the 2001 Duke Forever into a playable game and release it is that so fucking hard

 

[grudgebringer]

Oh shit

Created by the original episode designers, Allen Blum III and Richard “Levelord” Gray!

New musical score for Episode 5 created by Duke’s theme song author and original game composer, Lee Jackson!

I can't believe they pulled Levelord out of his never-ending retirement to make some maps for this, wow.

On second thought, fuck everyone, I'm buying this, no matter what.

 

[octavius]

I'm really surprised at no mention of "remake for a modern audience", ie no "sexism" or bad language.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Oh shit

Created by the original episode designers, Allen Blum III and Richard “Levelord” Gray!

New musical score for Episode 5 created by Duke’s theme song author and original game composer, Lee Jackson!

I can't believe they pulled Levelord out of his never-ending retirement to make some maps for this, wow.

I can't believe it at all. Knowing the average douchebaggery of Gearbox and Pitchford, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they're just digging up old and discarded Levelord levels to use in this new episode, and then got his approval to use them while some in-house intern polishes up the map for release.

 

[Grim Monk]

I'm really surprised at no mention of "remake for a modern audience", ie no "sexism" or bad language.

My first thought on them pulling the game was that they might "Current Year" it.

We will have to see if this is simply a cash grabbing hack job or something worse...

How much was the Megaton Edition going for before it got taken down?

Archive Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150901000000/http://steamcommunity.com/app/225140

 

[sexbad?]

jesus christ just make the 2001 Duke Forever into a playable game and release it is that so fucking hard

Actually, I think it would be. As I recall hearing, by that point, they just made a bunch of random shit for the trailer and nothing else.

 

[Maggot]

You're thinking of the 1998 trailer. Also it's already sort of a thing

 

[skacky]

DNF2013 is a thing of beauty.

 

[Taxnomore]

DNF2013 is a thing of beauty.

A lot of games could actually use similar treatment.

 

[tormund]

Oh shit

Created by the original episode designers, Allen Blum III and Richard “Levelord” Gray!

New musical score for Episode 5 created by Duke’s theme song author and original game composer, Lee Jackson!

I can't believe they pulled Levelord out of his never-ending retirement to make some maps for this, wow.

I can't believe it at all. Knowing the average douchebaggery of Gearbox and Pitchford, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they're just digging up old and discarded Levelord levels to use in this new episode, and then got his approval to use them while some in-house intern polishes up the map for release.

Or they just paid them so they can use their names for that sweet "made by original devs" cred.
This is Gearbox we're talking about after all.

 

[Harpsichord]

BTW, you can bet that their new maps will contain :current year: political and meme culture references...

I'm sorry, what was that you were saying?