DNF Campaign Is "Huge," 3x The Size Of Last CoD

[Bateluer]

I've never played the CoD games, but wasn't the last CoD SP campaign like five hours long, or am I thinking of something else? Nevermind, just saw it in the OP. Yeah, so a 15 hour SP campaign? Big fucking deal.

This. FPS these days are incredibly short. Of course, this infects other genres as well. Its okay to have a 3-5 hour experience and a $65+ price tag so long as the game looks pretty.

 

[minmaster]

tell me a game that has 15 hrs of solo campaign.
most fps games that do have campaign have all been around 5 hrs these days.

 

[gorcorps]

This. FPS these days are incredibly short. Of course, this infects other genres as well. Its okay to have a 3-5 hour experience and a $65+ price tag so long as the game looks pretty.

Nobody says that's okay... Most games with short campaigns have substantial mulitplayer. I've put in well over 50 hrs to CoD4.

 

[busydude]

tell me a game that has 15 hrs of solo campaign. most fps games that do have campaign have all been around 5 hrs these days.

Borderlands. It has about a 20 hour long campaign not including DLC's.

 

[nitromullet]

I have regular Borderlands + 4 DLC on Steam and I got a DNF demo key and the GOTY map from Steam for free All people who have Borderlands and DLC on Steam and bough the base game before October 12th, got a free DNF demo key and a map of Pandora.

Can't wait for this game No matter how much it will suck, it won't. Cause it's Duke!

I have Borderlands + Dr. Ned/Zombie and General Knoxx DLC from Direct2Drive, and they sent me a key as well. I actually just bought the Robot Revolution yesterday, but I got the key from them before that.

I've never played the CoD games, but wasn't the last CoD SP campaign like five hours long, or am I thinking of something else? Nevermind, just saw it in the OP. Yeah, so a 15 hour SP campaign? Big fucking deal.

As a predominantly SP campaign shooter player, I kind of do think it's a big deal. There really aren't many straight up FPS games these days with a campaign 3x the length of MW2. Sure, you have your sandbox games, but they just tend to fill their time by wasting yours.

Borderlands. It has about a 20 hour long campaign not including DLC's.

It's also not really just a straight up shooter. The open world nature of the game requires you to fight the same bad guys over and over in some places just to get to the next quest area or dungeon. 20 hours of solid, linear game play, like HL1 is something we haven't seen in a long time. Granted, it needs to be fun too, or linear gets really boring.

 

[TecHNooB]

Game devs make so many false promises.

 

[Molondo]

How long was CoD in comparison to halflife1 or 2.

 

[0roo0roo]

have to admit the youtube video of the game looked better than i thought it would.

 

[BFG10K]

tell me a game that has 15 hrs of solo campaign.

It’s quite rare outside of non-sandbox FPSes. The most recent would probably be Wolfenstein, Bioshock, and the two Riddick games if you play them back-to-back (they come on one DVD).

Also the Stalker games, though you could class those as sandbox.

 

[fleshconsumed]

I wonder what engine it's running on and if my GTX260c216 will be good enough to run it at 1920x1200... Oh well, it looks like the game won't be out until 2011 and I'll probably wait 6 months before it hits bargain bins, so I'll probably be running new card by then.

 

[nitromullet]

It’s quite rare outside of non-sandbox FPSes. The most recent would probably be Wolfenstein, Bioshock, and the two Riddick games if you play them back-to-back (they come on one DVD).

Also the Stalker games, though you could class those as sandbox.

Even Wolfenstein had that hub city that required you to fight the same guys over and over again, which was a whole lot of filler.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

I think the most important thing learned from this article is that the CoD4:2 campaign is so pathetically short that even if it were tripled in length it would still be short.

 

[minmaster]

i want this too:
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/31843

 

[Zenoth]

The lengthiest first-person-shooter I've ever played was (and still is) Borderlands (even without including DLCs, but include them and it gets eve bigger). I've yet to finish the 3rd DLC, in fact Borderlands is so big for a FPS game that at some point I managed to get tired of it and stopped playing at some point in the 3rd DLC, not to mention that Borderlands should technically be played two times at least, and that the second play through do offer a different and quite interesting challenge.

I highly doubt that DNF can last longer than Borderlands, but still, I'm interested, I haven't played a good "mindless" on-rail shooters à-la Duke Nukem 3D since... well, since a long time, the last one I can think of is Painkiller (that I've played that is).

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

i want this too:
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/31843

A rooftop? Really?

 

[BFG10K]

The lengthiest first-person-shooter I've ever played was (and still is) Borderlands (even without including DLCs, but include them and it gets eve bigger).

The longest FPS I’ve ever played is Fallout 3, which took 140 hours without the DLCs. I explored everywhere.

I also just finished Far Cry 2 for the second time, and it took me 60 hours. I explored everywhere there too, and I also found 213 out of 221 diamond briefcases.

 

[SonicIce]

too bad it doesnt have coop like duke3d. thats one way to add replayability to a campaign

 

[techforums]

I am not shocked by this. Game was announced in 1997 so it better be.

 

[The Sauce]

I bought Borderlands on Steam a few months ago. How do I get the Demo? I opened steam but can't seem to find anything when I search for DNF...

 

[htwingnut]

I bought Borderlands on Steam a few months ago. How do I get the Demo? I opened steam but can't seem to find anything when I search for DNF...

The game has to be installed. Or at least start to install it and pause it. Then you can right click on Borderlands in your game library and choose "view game cd key" and it will show up underneath your borderlands cd key.

I am not surprised the single player campaign is 15 hours, which is still fairly short, but better than the crap 5-8 hours these days. And Duke Nuke'm was about the single player game anyhow.