Forever

[davidn]

I just genuinely had to check whether I'd fallen asleep for half a year and woken up on the first of April. But I haven't, and it looks like something unthinkable has happened. They might just be... close to... well, finishing it.

The thought is genuinely beyond my comprehension. I have an issue of PC Gamer from 1998 with a "near-finished" preview of that. Tune in tomorrow at noon where we'll discover just how far and wide 3DRealms' server has exploded from the entire world hitting it at once.

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[kjorteo]

Oh, I'm sure it will still be the game industry's single largest joke even after it gets released. The unending jokes on one side and hype on the other have set the bar so high that it will be almost literally impossible to release any kind of game that lives up to it. Even the second coming of Christ would be a major letdown after being in development for that long with that much buzz.

Some article on Something Awful (several years ago, which just goes to show you, I suppose) said that what 3DRealms needs to do to even salvage the reputation of the company is just crap out a screen saver or something, call it "Duke Nukem Forever," eat and apologize for the inevitable fallout, then go deep into blackout mode and start making new quality games with absolutely no pre-development discussion at all. "So we have this amazing new game." "Oh? When does it come out?" "It shipped yesterday. So there." At the time, I thought it was just another cruel (but funny) joke, but now I think that really could be their last remaining hope.