[Tea Monster]

Bernard Sumner of New Order managed to make that hair cool, but that was back in 1984. Even for Duke fans, 1984 was a long time ago.

Good luck with the game anyway.

[necroslut]

I hope this turns out well, and that they can then get back to Duke 3D Reloaded.
I'm looking forward to the game in itself as well, but as much as I would D3D Reloaded.

[Lunick]

They are not getting back into Duke 3D Reloaded though...

[Spirrwell]

Lunick, on 25 August 2012 - 04:29 PM, said:

They are not getting back into Duke 3D Reloaded though...

The projects been put on hold, not stopped, there's a difference. Although with Gearbox there could quite possibly be no difference.

[Jimmy]

Anybody who thinks that project is gonna come around is trippin'.

[Night Wolf]

Why would they go back to (DN3DR) a free project, when they have tasted the green.

[OpenMaw]

I'd put money on other 3DRealms/Apogee titles. Shadow Warrior, RAPTOR, Blake Stone, Bio Menace.

My bet is that Apogee will lean on Interceptor for many of it's future titles.

[necroslut]

They might not be going back to it as a free project; if RoTT does well Gearbox/T2 might be interested in it.
But hey, I'm a Duke Nukem fan, you expect me to stop hoping?

[Fox Mulder]

"Today we have a special treat for you guys. Our first dev blog, devoted to the world building and set dressing of one the most iconic ROTT levels - reborn! Watch as Fred Schreiber gives you a glimpse of E2L2, "The Room""

http://interceptor-e...ment.com/?p=277

[ReaperMan]

necroslut, on 26 August 2012 - 01:41 AM, said:

But hey, I'm a Duke Nukem fan, you expect me to stop hoping?

After DNF.... Yes.

[necroslut]

 ReaperMan, on 26 August 2012 - 10:04 PM, said:

After DNF.... Yes.

I loved DNF. So, no.

[Micky C]

I'm glad you like it, but to the majority of hard core Duke fans, and for the majority of the wider gaming community, DNF was a huge disappointment and a fail. Note carefully what I'm actually saying here. Was the game necessarily bad? Not really. Was it a huge disappointment? (insert huge promises and hype, and the 3 decade-spanning waiting time). Yes it was.

By all means hope, but expect any dreams to come true in the near future for the Duke franchise.

[Tetsuo]

Duke Reloaded may not come out any time soon but the situation on it is distinctly different than with DNF. If and when Gearbox gets around to working on Duke5 they probably wont replicate the conditions that produced DNF so unless they purposely make a game modeled on DNF the same thing wont happen with it.... and even then I think simply not being mismanaged for ~12 years would count a lot towards making it different anyway. Different people in charge, different company. I know some of you have an irrational hatred of Gearbox but they are not 3D Realms and don't have guys like George Broussard in charge. But we'll just have to wait and see if and when they make Duke 5 and or if they ever give Interceptor the go ahead to finish up Duke Nukem 3D Reloaded.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

I've come to the conclusion that Forever's failure was not directly as a result of Gearbox, but rather due to a snowball effect of years of hype and expectations. With all of the hype generated by Duke Nukem Forever, no game could conceivably have been released to simultaneously satisfy the fans, professional reviewers, and casual gamers all at once. Tetsuo is correct; Gearbox has had a solid reputation with other games such as Opposing Force and Borderlands. I'm not as excited about Duke Reloaded simply because the custom content community for Duke Nukem 3D is absolutely hopping as it is; Reloaded has to complete against DukePlus, WG Realms, Naferia's Reign, the HRP, etc. Our standards really are quite high and it goes to show that great graphics does not always a great game make.

I will say that this project has made me start playing through Rise Of The Triad again. The game has its little nuisances, but it's otherwise quite fun, and I can't wait to see what Interceptor does with this if indeed they do succeed.

[Lunick]

[Night Wolf]

Gearbox were responsible for the overall change in not only Dukes appearance but overall attitude.
They did more damage to Duke Nukem than people realise.

[LkMax]

 ozz, on 27 August 2012 - 11:03 PM, said:

Gearbox were responsible for the overall change in not only Dukes appearance but overall attitude.
They did more damage to Duke Nukem than people realise.

Don't forget the gangsta-wannabe cover art and the literally shitty advertisement.

[Micky C]

Yeah that cover art was awful, it practically screams "lowest common denominator". The feces ad and the way you can throw it around and how duke reacts to being forced to throw it around is still funny, however I'm painfully aware that in a highly interactive game, it would be perfectly fine, but in a game like DNF with a few specialized pieces of interactivity here and there, it feels a lot more cheap and childish, and stands out much more as crude humor.

[Mr.Deviance]

If you thought Fresch's hair and non prescription glasses were lolz, then check his new pic out.
I can say this might just possibly be the epitome of lame.

Aww and here's another one I found...


Photoshop is Fresch's biggest friend it seems...

[Kathy]

Let me guess... are you in love?

[Inspector Lagomorf]

It's no secret to anyone that Mr.Deviance has a deep, throbbing man-crush for Fresch.

[Mr.Deviance]

 Achenar, on 28 August 2012 - 08:07 AM, said:

It's no secret to anyone that Mr.Deviance has a deep, throbbing man-crush for Fresch.

No, I just can't help myself from laughing at lame arrogant posers. I love making fun of them with every occasion that I have.
I don't like lamers that are arrogant posers.
But I guess that should have been painfully obvious by now for those who know my style of posting and general attitude around here, especially when it comes to my opinions on Fresch and his "achievements"

[Sangman]

Yeah we get it you don't like fresch - I don't particularly like him either - but this constant ad hominem shit is just getting really stupid now. Perhaps he might be a poser but you're being a giant cunt yourself.

[Mr.Deviance]

 Sangman, on 28 August 2012 - 09:44 AM, said:

Yeah we get it you don't like fresch - I don't particularly like him either - but this constant ad hominem shit is just getting really stupid now. Perhaps he might be a poser but you're being a giant cunt yourself.

I'm a dick not a cunt.

[----]

At least people don't moan about the 15 new screenshots that go linked to on last page (forum default), because they are busy talking about other things.

[TerminX]

 Mr.Deviance, on 28 August 2012 - 10:49 AM, said:

I'm a dick not a cunt.

Let's just meet half-way and call you Cunt Dickula.

[rasmus thorup]

 Mr.Deviance, on 28 August 2012 - 08:39 AM, said:

No, I just can't help myself from laughing at lame arrogant posers. I love making fun of them with every occasion that I have.
I don't like lamers that are arrogant posers.
But I guess that should have been painfully obvious by now for those who know my style of posting and general attitude around here, especially when it comes to my opinions on Fresch and his "achievements"

To me you sound like a person who has nothing else do to in life than criticize people. The internet must be heaven for you so we can't see what kind of a person you really are. At least he has the balls to show who he is instead of looking down at other people.
There is always something negative to comment on someone. I don't like posers who think they are awesome, but really, you don't know what he is thinking, he is probably a really nice guy with no greater expectations to himself than anyone else.

[Fox]

Mr.Deviance, on 28 August 2012 - 08:39 AM, said:

No, I just can't help myself from laughing at lame arrogant posers. I love making fun of them with every occasion that I have.
I don't like lamers that are arrogant posers.
But I guess that should have been painfully obvious by now for those who know my style of posting and general attitude around here, especially when it comes to my opinions on Fresch and his "achievements"

Of course Fresch deserves it to some point, since he screwed up with DNR and has some very strange obsession with his own image in a homoerotic tone. But I guess you are already being too repetitive about Fresch flaws.

[necroslut]

Micky C, on 27 August 2012 - 04:03 AM, said:

I'm glad you like it, but to the majority of hard core Duke fans, and for the majority of the wider gaming community, DNF was a huge disappointment and a fail. Note carefully what I'm actually saying here. Was the game necessarily bad? Not really. Was it a huge disappointment? (insert huge promises and hype, and the 3 decade-spanning waiting time). Yes it was.

By all means hope, but expect any dreams to come true in the near future for the Duke franchise.

I'm not saying I wasn't disappointed, still I enjoyed it and it could have turned out much, much worse. And as Achenar said no game could have lived up to that hype, especially not one as flawed and dated as DNF. BTW I'm not so sure the majority of Duke fans feel exactly like you, I know quite a lot of them liked the game, but as always the haters are the most vocal.
But this whole situation is very different from DNF, so we're really going a bit off topic here. What I meant was basically that Interceptor will be in a much better bargaining position after they've released a game, and GBX/T2 might be much more interested in what they can produce by then.

[Green]

Fox, on 28 August 2012 - 04:08 PM, said:

Of course Fresch deserves it to some point, since he screwed up with DNR and has some very strange obsession with his own image in a homoerotic tone. But I guess you are already being too repetitive about Fresch flaws.

Interceptor was basically forced to suspend development of Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded because Gearbox wouldn't tell them if they could release it or not.

To put it as simple as possible Gearbox granted Interceptor a non-commercial licence to develop Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded, several months down the track they say 'oh, by the way we never said you could release the game just that you could develop it and it's upto us to say if you're allowed to release it or not but we won't tell you if you can or not' and with Gearbox having said that it didn't make much sense to continue developing a game that may never see the light of day. A few months later they were approached by Apogee Software, LLC. and asked to do a Rise of the Triad reboot and here we are.

It's unlikely that the development of Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded will ever continue now that Interceptor is working on commercial projects with Apogee Software, LLC. although once they finish Rise of the Triad and depending of the success of the game maybe they'll work on the other games in the Duke Nukem Trilogy if Apogee Software, LLC. still has the licence to those games which I'm assuming they do, citing this.