Duke Nukem Forever beats Bulldozer

[bryanW1995]

I am literally stunned by this. I really thought that Duke Nukem's ability to dither, delay, drag-on, etc etc would trump AMD's (or GF's) ability to trip over their own feet on a new product release. Looks like US gets it on June 14, but everyone else got it today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever

 

[notty22]

LOL,
Though I keep reading BD is not delayed !

It seems Evga and Nvidia are helping promote game/gpu packages.
http://www.evga.com/articles/00633/

Maybe there should be a good fun Razzies award for video games, it seems perfect for the most delayed game ever !

 

[nyker96]

amd should have a BD Forever Edition ;]

 

[bryanW1995]

Interesting to see that the PC reviews are significantly better than for xbox.

 

[stahlhart]

I can't think of a better company than EVGA for promoting a delayed product.

/P67 SLI Forever

 

[dorion]

Interesting to see that the PC reviews are significantly better than for xbox.

The 360 didn't exist for the majority of Nukem's development time, its probably a rushed console port(what a novel idea!)

 

[bryanW1995]

Did they even have internet back when this game was started?

 

[notty22]

Did they even have internet back when this game was started?

Good question, I had to refresh my dates. Apparently AOL DOS was out then. I got on through Windows/Prodigy in 93'.
Duke Nukem launched in 91' .
There was a internet, but not many were on it.

 

[Idontcare]

Duke Nukem Forever beats Bulldozer

I am literally stunned by this. I really thought that Duke Nukem's ability to dither, delay, drag-on, etc etc would trump AMD's (or GF's) ability to trip over their own feet on a new product release. Looks like US gets it on June 14, but everyone else got it today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever

Well, to be fair it also beat SB-E and IB and Larrabee and Haswell and Rockwell to market as well.

There's no shortage of yet-to-be-released products out there that are going to be released after DNF.

And nothing against the hard-working game developers out there, but you don't see games requiring multi-billion dollar fabs and multi-billion dollar R&D budgets for their development...the degree of difficulty in developing a video game versus developing a 32nm process node and the IC to be produced on it are a little bit different in scale/scope/magnitude.

 

[tweakboy]

We waited 20 years,, its out WOW ,, what is this bs ,, othre countries get 3 day sooner. I dont like dat,,

 

[StinkyPinky]

We waited 20 years,, its out WOW ,, what is this bs ,, othre countries get 3 day sooner. I dont like dat,,

Man an entire three days. Holy shit, what will you do??

 

[busydude]

We waited 20 years,, its out WOW ,, what is this bs ,, othre countries get 3 day sooner. I dont like dat,,

You waited for 20 years man.. 3 days is not a big deal. Reviews are just trickling down now.. looks like a major disappointment.

 

[Soundmanred]

Waited 20 years for what? DNF has only been in development for 12-13 years.
Of course this is from the guy who says "4 cores, 64 threads, wow lol kthx!"

 

[Sniper82]

DNF was supposedly in development for 10+ years but IMO thats not the case(more like past 2-3). Thats the half a$$ game we see today.

 

[Voo]

Well, to be fair it also beat SB-E and IB and Larrabee and Haswell and Rockwell to market as well.

Yeah thought that myself. Not a really useful comparison except for a catchy headline.

And nothing against the hard-working game developers out there, but you don't see games requiring multi-billion dollar fabs and multi-billion dollar R&D budgets for their development...the degree of difficulty in developing a video game versus developing a 32nm process node and the IC to be produced on it are a little bit different in scale/scope/magnitude.

Well we're talking about a game that was in production for what? 12 years? And used 2?4? different engines, was released for a console whose predecessor didn't even exist when it was first planned, changed several development teams/producers in its life cycle.
One could say DNF is the closest thing game devs can come to developing their own CPU

PS: Not that I'm especially interested in DNF - personally I think losing such a perfectly fine source of jokes for an average infantile shooter is a bad exchange, but oh well. Seems like ep3 is already working on establishing its own fame (and that's a much harder loss imho~)

 

[tweakboy]

You waited for 20 years man.. 3 days is not a big deal. Reviews are just trickling down now.. looks like a major disappointment.

Oh really,, I had a feeling it would be a bust up game,,

 

[tweakboy]

Did they even have internet back when this game was started?

The net started for consumer use when Windows 95 came out. I remember installing it with 22 disks LOL

 

[Gillbot]

The net started for consumer use when Windows 95 came out. I remember installing it with 22 disks LOL

I still have a set of those discs!!

 

[smartpatrol]

The 360 didn't exist for the majority of Nukem's development time, its probably a rushed console port(what a novel idea!)

By "rushed" do you mean "they only had 5 years"?

 

[tweakboy]

I still have a set of those discs!!

nice hahah !

 

[slag]

The net started for consumer use when Windows 95 came out. I remember installing it with 22 disks LOL

I was using "the net" with Netscape back with windows 3.1. I vaguely having to install trumpet winsock the university gave me on a floppy disk so I could establish a net connection. That was probably a year or two before Windows 95 came out.

 

[Schmide]

At least BD has a chance of being not lambasted.

line, cutscene, angle, line, cutscene, angle, loadtime repeat.

 

[Voo]

At least BD has a chance of being not lambasted.

Yep, I'd hope it's completely impossible for BD to get such bad reviews as DNF is getting.. although that's not saying much

 

[bridito]

Yep, I'd hope it's completely impossible for BD to get such bad reviews as DNF is getting.. although that's not saying much

I care not one whit about what Bulldozer does or does not do as I'm committed to SB-E as soon as it launches. I've tried to stay out of the Bulldozer yay or nay firing line as it seems to me that until fully independent tests are released it's fairly pointless to argue about something that remains unknown. If Bulldozer does turn out to be the DNF CPU it would be a very sad day for AMD as well as for anyone who believes in a competitive microprocessor market.

 

[tweakboy]

People say the game rotts in hell. I differ .... wat did you all think soo far.

Is it worth getting, is the mulitplayer good , how many servers ? ty