Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down (??)

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Thus far it sounds like nobody screwed up, just Take 2 screwing them on funding.

Are you for real? How can you say that after 10+ years of development "nobody screwed up" and that it was just the publishers fault for not giving them more money (so that they can do jack shit with it for an other 5-10 years). Unfortunately you survive in this industry by releasing titles, not by not releasing titles. It's sad that the people that worked there are out of a job now but surely if they are good artists/programmers/designers then it shouldn't take them long to find new jobs.

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":nmuaow4u]This looked pretty good... Damn, I still can't believe we wont see a duke from 3rd...

This looks damn uninspired and cliche to me. Thank god it won't come out.

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This looks damn uninspired and cliche to me. Thank god it won't come out.

Yeah, you would almost think they were making a sequel to a shooter made in the 90's or something.

I'm sorry , but this is seriously ugly as fuck.. This picture doesn't make sense, where was the art direction ?

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I'm sorry , but this is seriously ugly as fuck.. This picture doesn't make sense, where was the art direction ?

Same

doesnt look like it would have reached anyones high expectations anyway

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I'm sorry , but this is seriously ugly as fuck.. This picture doesn't make sense, where was the art direction ?

Thats PAEC version of my content haha.

I think this image shows a huge room under a toiletseat, you can see the turd coming from pipe in the very top if you look closely.

WHERE ARE THE STRIPPERS?

I'd be happy with just a proper remake of DN3D

some more leaked screenshots:

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I really hope they didn't abandon all the cool-looking city, sea, and desert areas in favour of these generic industrial environments.

Those shots are nice but could be so much better

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Those shots are nice but could be so much better

well duke was never about good graphics anyway... i think playing these maps would have been fun (if the game had actually been released lol)

Whats all this? Jetpack titty's and some face stomping goodness is all they needed!

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cool-looking city, sea, and desert areas

I have to agree.

Seriously, now it's 100% confirmed that 3dr have gone down the shitter I have to say im incredibly dissapointed in George and Scott. I mean 12 years, 7 fucking years since the engine swap, and all they have to show for it is a bunch of out dated, generic looking corridors and bland uninsipred artwork?! It's a beyond a joke tbh.

I've seem more inspiring stuff from amature mod projects and graduate portfolios, I mean I could have created a fucking game on my own in half that time. I think the whole thing is a case of serious incompetence and a careless attitude.

What grates me most is how George and Scott have the nerve to pose for photos after all of this with all bigs smiles after their 12 years of fuck-ups lost them a company and made a whole bunch of people unemployed i'll never know! ('photo in question: [Blocked Image: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/3d_realms_goodbye.jpg])

Absolutely unacceptable in my opinion and the only positive thing to come out of all this is that Scott and George are finished in the industry. They'll go down as the laughing stock of game development.

This is probably the best thing that happened to to the Duke Nukem franciase since 1997 imo

What an awesome office floor. Really sad.

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Seriously, now it's 100% confirmed that 3dr have gone down the shitter I have to say im incredibly dissapointed in George and Scott. I mean 12 years, 7 fucking years since the engine swap, and all they have to show for it is a bunch of out dated, generic looking corridors and bland uninsipred artwork?! It's a beyond a joke tbh.I've seem more inspiring stuff from amature mod projects and graduate portfolios, I mean I could have created a fucking game on my own in half that time. I think the whole thing is a case of serious incompetence and a careless attitude.

What grates me most is how George and Scott have the nerve to pose for photos after all of this with all bigs smiles after their 12 years of fuck-ups lost them a company and made a whole bunch of people unemployed i'll never know! ('photo in question: [Blocked Image: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/3d_realms_goodbye.jpg])

Absolutely unacceptable in my opinion and the only positive thing to come out of all this is that Scott and George are finished in the industry. They'll go down as the laughing stock of game development.

This is probably the best thing that happened to to the Duke Nukem franciase since 1997 imo

They went out drinking right before that pic, also George is the cow sitting front and center lol

I think the happy looking guys are happy to be free from this project and moving on to something real. I imagine having George as a boss would totally suck. "We're not gonna clamp down on you and rush you or anything man, total artistic freedom, design is law etc, oh but all that stuff you made is shit, I'm deleting it, redo it redo it redo it"

I think the reason for it not being finished was George kept eating people.

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Siegler tells us that the photo, taken today, preceded a team visit to the local cinema for a showing of Star Trek

*facepalm*

Seriously though - that was it? I'm waiting for an announcement, article, post from George B. at least explaining what went wrong. I mean...he wants to, they want to explain themselves don't they? George B. wasn't exactly coy before. Or do they just accept their fate as bosses of the studio that was driven into the ground by blatant incompetence and loss of reality. This is sad