[Danukem]

Is it wrong that I don't really care about this game, even though modding Duke 3D has been my main hobby for the last 10 years of my life?

[Tea Monster]

Even Randy thinks that it should be out today.

https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic

Why can't this company get anything right? How are they still functioning?
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Oh, wait...

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Trooper Dan, on 11 October 2016 - 10:50 AM, said:

Is it wrong that I don't really care about this game, even though modding Duke 3D has been my main hobby for the last 10 years of my life?

If it turns out decent and then an 3Duke32-port maybe with HRP- and DukePlus-mod will be planned, it is wrong.

[TerminX]

I read something about the actual release time being around 5 PM GMT-7.

[Sledgehammer]

There is perhaps only one reason why I care which is Egypt map, perhaps new music might be a reason too. Can't say I'm very excited for it though, and I was excited for Megaton Edition (especially for Duke it out in D.C. and Life's a Beach). However, I would care more if it was on the level of Hail to the King Collection.

[NightFright]

TerminX, on 11 October 2016 - 11:00 AM, said:

I read something about the actual release time being around 5 PM GMT-7.

That would mean (almost) another five hours counting from the time of my post now. In Germany, that's not on Oct 11 any more (Oct 12, 2 AM)...

[Tea Monster]

[NightFright]

[Tea Monster]

What a complete pile of steaming crap. First they can't get the countdown right, then this. Send me a PM when the IP changes hands.

[TerminX]

The new episode is still totally worth being excited about.

[Tea Monster]

That's true, but this garbage has taken all the shine off the event.

[Robert Stever]

Randy's involvement makes nothing exciting. It does however elicit a "what are they gonna fuck up now?" response.

[spessu_sb]

Not buying the game at 20€ because I'm tight atm and it haven't really amazed me sofar. Soundtrack seems to be pretty good and possibly level design but I dunno yet. Gonna wait to hear what the responce will be like.

[NightFright]

I was planning to buy the game eventually, but not for 20 bucks. Then someone came and just gifted it to me. Totally f***ed up my boycott plans.

Anyway, looks like for today, there's nothing left for me to do. Out of frustration and boredom, I played a few levels of this excellent Doom 2 mod and decided to call it a day for today.

[oasiz]

I'm probably going to take a dive in rep points but I seriously have to say this..

I might be missing something about the launch being fucked, but what I can see, it was communicated even with individual time zones and was made clear that it is NOT individual country specific launch times.
Honestly, waiting 8-12hrs more potentially due to misunderstanding?

To the game..
In my opinion, the game might sure has it's issues but those are mostly related to new renderer or new art assets/code.

Personally I would have been super excited 10 years ago if even a single new level was done by either LL or AHB, I really have a hard time understanding the hate.
I guess the bashing is understandable because people have been doing duke stuff too much (including me) over the years and learned to spot every mistake, rendering issues, bugs and a lot of us have this vision of a well engineered new episode and a dream team.

But It's not really a fair comparison in my opinion when considering that what GBX pulled here is probably something that would have been shot down last year as a stupid fairytale if someone suggested it casually on a thread, which is pulling AHB/LL/Lee together to make one more chapter like the old days. I definitely didn't see this coming myself.

I really want to play this new episode and see it working under eduke32.
Good thing with this is that the community is more than capable of replacing any jarring code/art issues, and probably will at some point.

But whatever.. I consider buying this as a motivational thumb to keep making more content, I can't really say that I'm a huge fan of all the stuff that GBX has done but I'm really happy to get this.
I think the current situation is still very good compared to that EP5 could have been done quick&dirty by some $studio and ending up somewhere around nuclear winter in terms of quality.

[NightFright]

I can actually live with the delay. What may lure me to the dark side would be if they decided to use some super exotic, maybe even unique format for the groupfile so it cannot be opened with any editor available to common users. Then shit's getting real.

[Doom64hunter]

NightFright, on 11 October 2016 - 12:45 PM, said:

I can actually live with the delay. What may lure me to the dark side would be if they decided to use some super exotic, maybe even unique format for the groupfile so it cannot be opened with any editor available to common users. Then shit's getting real.

That is what I am most curious to find out myself.
If it's still in GRP format then at least we can do some digging and see what changed. If not.. well then we have another thing to complain about.

[LkMax]

No offense to TX but a few good things that Randy might have done to him doesn't compensate for the amount of douchebaggery Gearbox did thorughout the years, from allegedly diverting money from Colonial Marines to Borderlands, to shamelessly lying about a lot of stuff about DNF (secrets, mod support, etc), lying about his company origins to the media (really?), pulling Duke 3D from all stores just so he could cash in more money on the 10th re-re-re-release of the game, and so on and so forth.
Doesn't help that the last good game they released was a Half-Life expansion almost 20 years ago.

Trooper Dan, on 11 October 2016 - 10:50 AM, said:

Is it wrong that I don't really care about this game, even though modding Duke 3D has been my main hobby for the last 10 years of my life?

Considering their amounts of fuck ups and the last boss having no ranged attack and the stupidest AI in the whole game, no, it's not wrong.
I'm surprised they even bothered programming a new renderer and making new maps for what seems to be a rushed cash in.

[Tea Monster]

Except that they couldn't even get the rushed part right.

[supergoofy]

To me it says This game will unlock in approximately 2 hours

I'm not going to buy it at 20€ . I will wait for a discount offer.

I can pay 20€ or even 30€ but for a retail BOX release. Is there such a possibility?

Also, I'm waiting for opinions/reviews about the game.

[AdrenalinDragon]

I pretty much purchased World Tour straight away after hearing Blum/LevelLord returning. I basically paid £15 just for the new levels, so if those are decent, I'll be satisfied with it despite the crappy changes to the original game.

[nukemania]

I'm only looking forward to the new episode and its associated content (new music, gun, enemies, etc) out of this whole release, so if it can somehow be made playable through EDuke32, that would be great.

[brullov]

I have just watched Egypt level. Shit, I like it! Really great design and gameplay. May be I do not like that they boost the new light effect so level designer put lamp texture everywhere.

[Daedolon]

European PSN is now advertising the game in the "New releases" section header image, except the game is not to be found anywhere.

[randir14]

Daedolon, on 11 October 2016 - 02:44 PM, said:

European PSN is now advertising the game in the "New releases" section header image, except the game is not to be found anywhere.

It's supposed to unlock an hour from now.

[Tea Monster]

I was excited that I'd get to play it today. Even with the zero-effort packaging, release and artwork, it's still the old crew together and it's going to be fun playing it and we had no reason to expect to be in the position of playing a new set of levels by the original designers 20 years after the fact. That part is great.

This whole debacle with the release has just killed the buzz though. There was no announcement. If they had said at the beginning that there were problems, then fine. Stuff happens. Hey, maybe they were trying to fix some problems before release. I'd be happy with that. But just nothing and the countdown problems (Gabe can't count to three and Gearbox can't count down), it's just taken all the fizz out of the champagne. Sigh.

With all the crap and mistakes with the reveal and the release (how do you fuck up both of those on one title?), I don't want to be told about any Gearbox Duke stuff till I walk into a shop and see it on the shelf. It's not worth the disappointment.

[xMobilemux]

[LeoD]

Trooper Dan, on 11 October 2016 - 10:50 AM, said:

Is it wrong that I don't really care about this game, even though modding Duke 3D has been my main hobby for the last 10 years of my life?

Not at all. Even if it's just one thread I don't quite get the amount of discussion.

NightFright, on 11 October 2016 - 12:26 PM, said:

I was planning to buy the game eventually, but not for 20 bucks. Then someone came and just gifted it to me. Totally f***ed up my boycott plans.

This matches my plan to get the game.

[Loke]

It's unlocked now on Steam.

[Doom64hunter]

Huh.. I didn't expect this.

All the content is there, old sounds as well as new ones. It's even unpacked and in their own folders.