I always thought someone should take a modern engine and just do a mod that replicates the original game exactly - same levels, creatures and guns, but with vastly improved graphics.

You can't use the name, so you'd have to rename it Baron Bomb'em or something,but it could be a big hit. Seriously, who wouldn't want to replay the original but not suffer through early 90s display tech?

But, but, if they release it, how will we say FAIL in this particular way? It has become a valuable idiom for a certain kind of fail, especially in the start up world.

Plus, how many running jokes are a decade old? I'm gonna miss it!

No one said anything about releasing it! By now they've probably gone through what, five different engines and rewrites? Just because they have something playable doesn't mean they won't keep rewriting it...

I also can't see ANY way the final product can possibly live up to the expectations. I know I can't judge from 20 seconds of random gameplay, but it didn't really look like anything special...

Once this decade-long circus is over (assuming it won't take another decade to get the game to its audience), 3D Reams can probably live perpetually on money from the sales of the unfinished versions of Duke Nukem Forever.

I actually heard an interview where a 3D Realms employee joked that since Prey turned out to be such a hit, they were now in an economic position secure enough to maintain development on DNF for another decade.

That gave me strong strong memories of Half Life 2. Even the cross hairs and aliens are somewhat similar.

There is tiny blip of video at 4:15, ff to save yourself time.

When I landed on that page there was a popup asking to press OK if I wanted to tell them what I think about the site. I'd say I think having a lame javascript popup appear like that to nag me into submitting my opinion on a random site I just landed on is pointless and rude.

Of course by the time they get close to release their graphics engine will be outdated and they'll have to start again and so it continues.

hehe i never thought id see the day.

I know! It's a bit surprising that this has only gotten a few votes. I think it's been so long that nobody in this forum knows why this is monumental....I feel old.

(update: okay, it has more votes now, but I still feel old.)

A link to http://duke.a-13.net/ seems appropriate.

"Things that have taken less time than Duke Nukem Forever's Development: [...] World War II and the entire Manhattan Project. Yes, even the complete development of the atomic bomb took less time."

"Forever" referring in this case to the length of the development cycle.

The world is ending...