Report – Gearbox to reboot Duke Nukem after Colonial Marines wraps

To be honest, i was expecting this. Sad since i don’t think you can’t make The Duke relevant without changing him completely.

FFS, Gearbox, least let the poor guy rest in peace man.
He doesnt want to party anymore.. the last game was proof of that, just leave him be.

R.I.P Duke.

That was the plan from the beginning, though. I don’t think you can change Duke Nukem.

I don’t think the problem with Duke Nukem Forever was the character or the setting. It was just a case of the writing not being sharp enough, the game being ancient, and not being able to pull off the crazy setpieces with what they had.

They have to make a shooter that’ll make Call of Duty blush by virtue of its explosions and tacky setpieces. They need to turn it up to 11. Given that they’re going to finish Colonial Marines first, it sounds like they’re bringing in the big guns on the next one.

@3
I also think that the whole chaning the engine several times, or studio had a very negative effect on DNF. I expect this one that Gearbox is going to make to be a lot better! (i’m prepared for a disappointment xD )

@4 That’s pretty obvious. It’s George Broussards epic mess. It makes Daikatana look like a well managed project. And that’s saying A LOT.

It does seem like a lot of people have trouble realizing that, so it’ll be interesting to see how that affects the new game. I reckon Gearbox are counting on the anti-hype to have died down once they start showing the proper game.

note to people.
don’t worry Duke will still be Duke.

they are just rebooting the story.

As if the story was the problem.

in b4 the Duke receives “the DMC treatment”.

A Gearbox developed Duke game from the ground up with a decent engine could be pretty awesome.

Why not just make Duke one of the Colonial Marines? Last time I checked, he excelled at killing aliens?

They just are going to make it from ground up using UE3 engine,make better gun feel better and lot of Micheal Bay/CoD style cinematic moments.
cheesy dialog are there by default

btw…talked with someone on the gc…and this someone told me something about nfs: hot pursiut next year…

If they go to the extremes of the DmC remake, then that will be the final nail in the coffin as far as I’m concerned.

But They already working on Borderlands 2,Colonial Marines and Furious 4 so….

One question………… why?

@15 Because even crap called Forever which was made for 1999 or what ever year, sold pretty good.

@10 LoL

To be honest,i’d even buy the shit of duke himself so i don’t know how objective i can be but the problem of dnf was not the story or the dialog or duke.I mean not AT ALL.The problem was ancient graphics,physics,animations,gameplay elements and like some of you said,not enough setpieces.I have played thru the whole game and even i,as a duke nukem fan,felt like vomitting because of how the whole game handled.But i did not vomit because the duke was still the same dude he was.So let’s hope gearbox changes everything except duke himself.Fucking siked to hear this.

I actually enjoyed DNF. Sure, I expect better performance and grpahics next time and no health regen or 2 weapon limit. But other than that – I bloody love how offensive Duke is.
Also, Hive level. Loved it. Reminds me of Moon levels in DN3D.