Gaming The Duke Nukem Forever Interview

We talk to Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford about finishing Forever, and retaining 3D Realms' vision.

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2011/03/01/duke-nukem-forever-pitchford-interview/1

 

I'm glad that they're respecting the work done by the original development team, he sounds like a really decent guy.

It's still tough to imagine the game actually coming out..

 

Putting a company at risk by picking up this game from 3D Realms takes alot of nerve, so Kudos to him!

 

I guess we wont be seeing anything really new in terms of interactivity if they are using a lot of the code from 2005 however I wonder how much they have changed it to make it more up-to-date? Anyway still looking forward to it, all I really want is to hear duke say some amazing one-liners!

 

(just finishes pre-ordering copy through amazon)

Come get some!!!!!

 

There's ALWAYS room for sexist gung-ho action!... Shake it baby!!

 

Randy always strikes me as one of the few people in gaming that I can agree with on everything. I'm a little gutted he wouldn't go in to technical detail (even just a little), since that suggests there is something to hide, but he does come across as very down to earth, and like he cares about the games first, and the business later.

Kotick et al could learn a thing or two. Just watch the latest DNF interview on GT and you will see how much he cares about the game, and seems to truly enjoy talking about it. It's very rare to see such passion nowadays. And such genuine passion at that.

 

Good interview. Sounds like a great guy.

Crysis 2 killer

 

That first pic on page 3 was around earlier than 2002, its in the Feb 2000 edition of PC Gamer

 

Until it's installed on my machine I won't believe it.

 

Duke Nukem Forever, Thief 4 and Diablo III JUST NEED TO FREAKING COME OUT! I'm sick and tired of waiting for these games. Do I need to start threatening lives here?

 

One thing I liked about buying Duke Nuken 3D in the 90's was that you got Duke 1 & 2 on the CD as well.

They should tweak Duke Nuken 3D to fit modern screen resolutions and put that on the DN Forever DVD as a freebie.

 

I just registered to say this:

ACTIVISION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS GAME!!! IT'S BEING PUBLISHED BY 2K GAMES!!

My GOD, don't you people do some actual research before writting of this kind of uninformed crap?

3DREALMS sold the IP to Gearbox, no one took it from 3DR and handed it to anyone.

 

kinda wondering what happened to mech warrior, i would guess that Duke took everyone away from it.

 

DNF = The new Daikatana.

 

Cheers BT, good interview.

Can you grab a day with Valve soon? Would love to know all about their hardware/Steam ideas etc rather than any of their games. Seems they have much more in store for PC than we had imagined.

 

such a weird event to be part of. i used to play duke 3d on kalis ladder back on my 28k modem with my buddy justin in like 7th grade (i am now 25). the ironic thing is, that justin ordered a copy of DNF back in like 1999 or whenever he heard about it being announced and saved up the money to preorder it. unfortunatly he died in a car accident a few years ago and will never get to play it. RIP racerx (it was his alias).

 

=E sorry to hear r

sexist? he was duke stuffing dollars down strippers panties..

 

lol sounds like he put enough wording into to cover his ass in case the game fails he can fall back on well all we did was finish what 3d realms did so its not our fault lol.


Also I really hope PhysX isnt in this and they took a different approach most of the other offerings out there are far better then PhysX.