The end of an Era - Duke Nukem Forever Went Gold!

[Lyric Suite]

[Pet cemetery] Some times dead is better. [/Pet cemetery]

God damn it, beaten to it.

 

[CrimHead]

AWW HELL NO

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Who the hell plays a shooter with a controller?

A massive shitload of people. It's not that hard unless you have two left hands.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Who the hell plays a shooter with a controller?

A massive shitload of people. It's not that hard unless you have two left hands.

Yeah, but mouse and keyboard still shits all over it. I've played through Halo 1 and 2 and the early splinter cell games on the on the original xbox, so I definitely know how to use a controller. Despite being proficient with the gamepad, it still felt like I was playing the game upside down and with one hand tied behind my back. I especially hated the lack of situational awareness, because turning and adjusting your viewpoint quickly is very difficult. You can't just flick your wrist to the right and half second later flick back to get a quick idea of what's going on to your side. You can crank up the analog stick sensitivity of course, which I do, but they are no where near as precise as a mouse, so elegant aiming and rapidly shifting your viewpoint are a no-go.

I HATE HATE HATE playing shooters with gamepads. The success of Halo really is the worst thing to happen to gaming.

 

[lightbane]

Remember, ID (and thus Duke Nukem) was bought by Bethesduh, casualization and dumbing down was bound to happen...

 

[Turisas]

Remember, ID (and thus Duke Nukem)

Eh?

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Remember, ID (and thus Duke Nukem) was bought by Bethesduh, casualization and dumbing down was bound to happen...

 

[Twinkle]

 

[lightbane]

Remember, ID (and thus Duke Nukem)

Eh?

EDIT: Nevermind, I messed up, it's Gearbox who's doing it.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Duke Nukem was not a game by ID...

 

[RatFink]

...It's going to be BIG...

 

[Kosmonaut]

Remember, ID (and thus Duke Nukem) was bought by Bethesduh, casualization and dumbing down was bound to happen...

Dumbass.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

YOU ARE RETARDED FOR NOT KNOWING AS MUCH ABOUT VIDEOGAME IP RIGHTS AS ME

Also, the demo was played on a PC but they used a 360 controller because it was "easier". Choo choo, here comes the doomtrain.

 

[Furious Flaming Faggot]

DUKE WAS A BRO AND THEY KILLED HIM IN COLD BOLD

 

[Exmit]

A game for manly men

 

[Turisas]

Also, the demo was played on a PC but they used a 360 controller because it was "easier". Choo choo, here comes the doomtrain.

Easier for the people who have to setup them, no doubt. If you had keyboards, people would just alt+f4 or something for the lulz.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Health regen...

 

[Black]

The best of it all is that thanks to that AoD will really be released after DNF

"Yeah, blame us for it if you want. It may change in the future and I don't know what will happen with it, but it was us. I stand by it too, as you cannot discount designing games for a modern world and part of that world is consoles where the bulk of the sales can be. And on those consoles you have a controller. We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs. We gave it enough time and decided to stop swimming against the current and adopt what was basically the "standard".
It's not 1996 anymore."

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65442
Consolefags destroy yet another game.

 

[ghostdog]

"Yeah, blame us for it if you want. It may change in the future and I don't know what will happen with it, but it was us. I stand by it too, as you cannot discount designing games for a modern world and part of that world is consoles where the bulk of the sales can be. And on those consoles you have a controller. We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs. We gave it enough time and decided to stop swimming against the current and adopt what was basically the "standard".
It's not 1996 anymore."

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65442
Consolefags destroy yet another game.

Don't blame the consoles entirely for this one. The developers are obviously incompetent fools.

 

[Achilles]

Well you're all free to tell me "we told you so". This game is going to suck

 

[Darth Roxor]

"Yeah, blame us for it if you want. It may change in the future and I don't know what will happen with it, but it was us. I stand by it too, as you cannot discount designing games for a modern world and part of that world is consoles where the bulk of the sales can be. And on those consoles you have a controller. We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs. We gave it enough time and decided to stop swimming against the current and adopt what was basically the "standard".
It's not 1996 anymore.".

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[yaster]

"Yeah, blame us for it if you want. It may change in the future and I don't know what will happen with it, but it was us. I stand by it too, as you cannot discount designing games for a modern world and part of that world is consoles where the bulk of the sales can be. And on those consoles you have a controller. We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs. We gave it enough time and decided to stop swimming against the current and adopt what was basically the "standard".
It's not 1996 anymore."

LOL

phail!

And sniper rifles? ZOOMING!? Seriously? Where are balls of steel?

 

[Tails]

Gaming is truly dead. Thanks 3D Realms, for taking part in killing it. Wh not make just for a PC version full arsenal?

 

[racofer]

"Yeah, blame us for it if you want. It may change in the future and I don't know what will happen with it, but it was us. I stand by it too, as you cannot discount designing games for a modern world and part of that world is consoles where the bulk of the sales can be. And on those consoles you have a controller. We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs. We gave it enough time and decided to stop swimming against the current and adopt what was basically the "standard".
It's not 1996 anymore."

 

[zeitgeist]

"Yeah, blame us for it if you want. It may change in the future and I don't know what will happen with it, but it was us. I stand by it too, as you cannot discount designing games for a modern world and part of that world is consoles where the bulk of the sales can be. And on those consoles you have a controller. We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs. We gave it enough time and decided to stop swimming against the current and adopt what was basically the "standard".
It's not 1996 anymore."

This is a very dishonest excuse that tries to blame their decisions on pretty much everything - the market, the players, the consoles, the controllers, the technology - except the game designers themselves. They say "blame us" but then throw a bunch of "we were forced to do it" statements right in the next sentence. And most people will believe them, since it is already the popular opinion that an invisible hand guides everyone into making reskins of one console shooter with only slight variations over and over again, and that no one really has any choice in the matter.