| Ky-Guy wrote: |
Hey, what's wrong with Dr. Pepper? It's my second favorite soda next to Pepsi.
Anyway, how long has that game been "in development"? |
Courtesy of ED, here's a list of things that have happened since the game was announced to give you perspective.
"Popular" Culture
In 1997, the fastest consumer internets connection was a 33.6 kbps modem. On average, tubes are 300 times faster today and clogged with 99% more useful information.
When Duke Nukem Forever was announced, the fastest processor available to consumers was a 233Mhz Pentium.
In October of 2001, the elitists at Apple announced the izzlePod and Slashdot in all their infinite fayel, dismissed it as an immediate failure. Not that anyone cares.
Steve Jobs was still running NeXT when Duke Nukem Forever was announced.
Geeks invented every single known method of stealing from the RIAA, including Napster.
Some jackhole invented MySpace and gave /b/ about a hundred billion new targets and inflicted uncounted pedos and furries on the internets.
Valve releases Steam and pwns Vivendi.
Britney Spears has starred in numerous scat films and some music videos, too.
Theater box office totals since the announcement are over $2.62 billion.
Colin Farrell's entire movie career has also taken place during development.
The concept of Bullet Time has been developed, pioneered, and completely run in to the ground.
Cell phones ownership has become commonplace, whereas in 1997 they were viewed as luxurious expenditures and drug dealing tools.
The entire cult following of Family Guy! Family Guy has debuted on FOX, been cancelled, entered syndication, been released on DVD, redebuted on FOX, and seen the release of a feature film.
The entire Harry Potter series as well as five movies.
Stephen King has written 16 novels.
After over 200 episodes, The Simpsons have not gotten any funnier.
The birth, death, and rebirth (via feature film, direct to DVD) of Futurama, a show more worthy of lulz than The Simpsons.
Twelve seasons of Survivor. The thirteenth comes this fall.
The ending of Star Trek shows Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and the beginning and ending of Enterprise, plus the films First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis.
Joss Whedon showed us that he truly is our master with every Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly episode. (Oh, and the movie Serenity.)
South Park has had 12 seasons.
Guns and Rose's album, ChineseDemocracy, wich was started in 1993, before DNF was even started, was released in 2008.Xplay2 21:17, 1 December 2008 (CST)
Games
Over 75 games based in the Megaman universe, and 12 games featuring Megaman universe character cameos.
Over 50 games based in the Star Wars universe.
Mario has appeared in 58 different video games.
Every Massive Multiplayer Online game and expansion with the exception of Meridian 59.
Every Dance Dance Revolution and Bemani rhythm game
Every Pokemon game released outside of Japan.
Every Unreal, every Unreal Tournament, and every game that has used any of the Unreal engines.
Quake 2, 3, 4, and countless games that have used their engines.
Every Tony Hawk and extreme sport spin-off game.
Daikatana began development 10 days before Duke Nukem Forever - Unfortunately no one was made John Romero's bitch when it hit retail shelves on May 23rd, 2000.
3DRealms and Remedy bring Max Payne and its sequel from concepts to finished games, porting both to Xbox and PS2.
Valve released both Half-Life 1 and 2, with several expansion packs and countless mods for each.
Every version of Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source were developed.
Every Thief game and System Shock 2.
Grand Theft Auto I, II, III, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, and IV, plus any crappy spin-offs I can't remember
Black Isle was formed, released seven titles and was shut down.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and IV: Oblivion, and the entire Baldur's Gate series.
Wizards of the Coast has printed six Core Sets, 30 Expansion Sets of Magic: The Gathering. If someone bought one of every single card printed since DNF was announced, they would have a collection of approximately 101,742 cards.
Every installment of Metal Gear Solid released to date, as well as Ghost Babel (MGS for the Gameboy) and the Metal Gear Acid series for PSP. And it is likely that the apparent conclusion of Solid Snake's legacy, "Guns of the Patriots", will come out before DNF. Even Guns of the Patriots made it out before DNF.
A garage full of programmers in Croatia (Croteam) developed the engine and created the game Serious Sam. Since then, there have been multiple sequels and console ports- all off a fraction of the money 3D Realms has blown on DNF's development.
Every 3D Prince of Persia game.
Aside from Wolfenstein 3D, every single First Person Shooter based during World War II, including the entire Medal of Honor series.
While DNF has been in production, Blizzard Entertainment, another studio famous for delays, has released four full games (Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, and World of Warcraft), with expansions for all of them.
The EverQuest series, and about 300 different expansions for each game.
Bioware released Neverwinter Nights with two expansions, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Jade Empire. All games are deep, lengthy RPGs that demand multiple playthroughs.
The entire Halo trilogy was inflicted on an unsuspecting public.
Every Gran Turismo game.
Team Fortress 2
The Ultima-series came to a conclusion, Origin was dismantled emasculated beyond recognition and Richard Garriot has released the MMORPG Tabula Rasa, which is now being shut down.
PSP and GB DS in all their various incarnations...
The releases and discontinuations of Gamecube and Xbox.
Various retrogames made encores for the umpteenth time with the joysticks you just plug in to your tv. (Bye-bye buggy emulators!)
