I've only played the full version of Duke Forever in the past few days (I was waiting for a promo and decided to pick it up in this "summer camp sales" steam promoted). So here is what bothered me the most:
- Duke can only carry two guns, and most of the "different" or "cool" weapons are not effective against all enemies, and to make the situation worst, the ammo capacity is too low and ammo crates are very rare to find. I simply can't enjoy my awesome Devastator because I always run out of ammo very quickly, except in some boss fights;
- The levels are extremely linear. There's simple no exploration possible. The levels sometimes give the
impression that they are not linear, like in the road levels, but if you try to go through another way either you'll find nothing (e.g the open desert levels) or will be forced to go back, or will die out of air becouse you have no fu**ing scuba gear (underwater levels);
- Aparently duke have a much younger appearance but an older physical condition. Why duke get breathless so easy? After a short run I have to slow down again, and he's only caring two guns and much less ammo now;
- The gameplay is unbalanced. I like puzzles and puzzle games like Portal, World of Goo, etc... but when I play a shooter I expect to play most part of the game shooting something (specially if the developer says bullshits like "we are bringing old scool back" in other words). DNF have remote controled car, lame physic-based puzzles, driver levels and plataform levels with a shrunken Duke, witch some of them are fun, but they forgot to addicionate more... much more action;
- Speaking about puzzles, with all his past adventures (Duke Nukem 1, Duke Nukem, 2, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, and so on) they could've improved duke's abilities in his FPS games to make the platform puzzles more fun to play.
- Instead of improving the migth boot they
removed it, only using it in scripted scenes and to kill a enemy after shrink him.
- No Jetpack in Single-Player. My favorite item in Duke 3D.
- Regenerative health. Bad but acceptable.
I have few choices today.
Those are the things I remember now.
Good things:
+ Some moments of fun with duke and his old enemies and guns;
+ The game is not too short like some shooters nowadays;
+ uh... at least they released it?