3D Realms main man George Broussard has dropped word that a trailer for the elusive Duke Nukem Forever will be released tomorrow, no joke.

Last Saturday we had our annual company Christmas party. It was a lot of fun as usual but it featured one special surprise," explained Broussard. "It turns out that several people had been secretly working late nights and into the wee hours of the morning preparing a special video for those at the party. They created a short teaser for Duke Nukem Forever. After seeing the teaser we thought it was something we should share with all of you and while it's just a teaser, rest assured more is coming.

Accompanying this massive announcement was a single in-engine screenshot. We've left the old shots in our gallery there for a bit of a laugh. Previous trailers can be found here in the AusGamers archive.

Although referred to as a teaser, the trailer will supposedly run a minute long and contain some actual in-game footage. We'll of course have an AusGamers download mirror up as soon as possible.

New Duke looks alot like Bruce Willis.

Also, those old videos look like ass. Like it should be on a PS1 or 2.

IIRC, the first video was done on a modified Quake 2 engine, and the second on a modified Unreal engine. They were kicking it OLD SCHOOL back then.

Previous trailers can be found here in the AusGamers archive

That sentence sums it up pretty well :)

Was there any other way for them to kick it? It wasn't old school back then.

To most kids in school now days, Duke3d/Forever wouldn't mean anything to them. Just some thing those old guys yap on about.

i was so noob with computers back then i thoughbt duke3d had better graphics than quake

First time I ever played Duke3d mulitplayer was via a serial cable much like I did with Doom. The upgrade to BNC was awsome. Ahh the memories. If DNF ever makes it out, I really hope the level editor is as leet as Duke3d's. Easiest FPS level editor I've ever used.

OP was too brief or I would have promoted, soz.

S'all good homie, to be honest I didn't make that much effort because I didn't think people would be that interested. Most other forums, anything DNF related gets bitched about.

i was so noob with computers back then i thoughbt duke3d had better graphics than quake

I dont think thats noob, I think thats identifying the importance of art direction over technology. Carmack could STILL learn from that lesson :P Valve have it down though...

the screenshots look like f***ing s***.

Does it have a release date again?

the screenshots look like f***ing s***.

They're from 2001. The one of duke is the only new image.

lol I've got the original DNF trailer from when I worked in a game shop... on VHS.

i remember that trailer. the game looked awsome back then

I dont think thats noob, I think thats identifying the importance of art direction over technology. Carmack could STILL learn from that lesson :P Valve have it down though...

:( I loved the artwork in quake, the dank dreariness, the festy mouldiness, through to the cleaner castley structures and all topped off with really well-matched sound effects and sound track

jim that sounds more like you are describing the interior of my pajero

I don't think that model of duke looks as good as the models in Crysis. Gameplay better be something special.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

Meh, it means nothing until it is Gold. So many times Duke Whenever has been 'almost ready'.

DNF = Did Not Finish

i was so noob with computers back then i thoughbt duke3d had better graphics than quake

It does.

I dont think thats noob, I think thats identifying the importance of art direction over technology.

nope. it is noob. i thought duke3d looked better than quake too until i found the gamma console command. duke3d had the s***tiest 8bit textures evah. nice pipebombs though :D

i got teh boner paying the ladies.

you still do yeah?

if that screenshot was supposed to hype me up for DNF then it failed horribly. what a crappy looking pic to release. if your going to work on a game for 10 years or something insane, then at least have some drool worthy promo pics every now and then. not something that looks like its 6 years old

gee people expect to much these days, also do your research, they havent just been working on dnf for 10 years, they have done a whole heap of other s***, including max payne and prey.

research nothin it's the fact they hyped up DNF all those years ago and then kept pushing back the release date. They should have just finished it instead of starting all that "other s***" or if they couldn't finish DNF then they shouldn't have hyped it up.

gee people expect to much these days, also do your research, they havent just been working on dnf for 10 years, they have done a whole heap of other s***, including max payne and prey.

Producing external games would not keep their whole team busy though.

How many people still work at 3DR anyway? I would love to be a fly on the wall there. Imagine all the s*** that would have hit the fan over the last 10 years.

last edited by ccl at 22:09:18 19/Dec/07

Remedy made Max Payne, Human Head made Prey. 3drealms might have been involved, sure, but probably just in a cursory way, explaining the engine or helping out with engine related problems maybe. Same way that Raven made Quake 4 but its billed as an id software game, and how RTCW was made by Gray Matter and Nerve but id software took most of the credit.

i thought the language broussard used was amusing... acting like its a massive accomplishment for some of the team to have put together a freakin trailer. wow way to go.. i bet they hand out employee of the month over there for half-finishing a texture..

http://iigh.iinet.net.au/movie/DNF_Teaser_720p_HD.zip

i wasnt too impressed by the in game stuff. i reckon it looks just like a doom3 or quake4 expansion or mod, with different models (seeing the old pig dudes was good though)



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http://kotaku.com/335793/duke-nukem-forever-teaser-trailer?autoplay=true

Is a streaming version..

bahaha it took em ten yrs to come up with that. of the two gameplay scenes its looks ok.

i think it looks great, sure its not crysis, but who wants to make a game that nobody can run on there computer :S lots of familar enemies and duke still looking like a bad ass.
also it hasnt taken 10 years to make, its been 10 years since they announced they are making another duke.

That trailer doesn't show much at all. I'll believe it when it's safely installed on my HDD.

haha nf I snorted coffee out of my nose

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well it's obvious
with all that stuff going on in the world, no wonder they didn't have time to make DNF

theres a Q&A at shacknews

http://blog.shacknews.com/blogarticle.x/50481

maxe could take that guy in an arm wrestle

I'm never arm wrestling ever again after I saw that vid of the dude dislocate his elbow:/

"As for game length we should be similar to competitive games in our genre"

translation - expect to finish it in 6 - 8 hours