3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever

WeAz writes "GameSpot has news that 3D Realms has no plans on rushing Duke Nukem Forever. Despite the $500,000 bounty that Take-Two Interactive was found to be offering for the game after a filing with the SEC last week, George Broussard, President of 3D Realms, has given his official response: 'We're certainly not motivated by that amount of money, after all this time, and getting the game right is what matters. I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.'"

Comment removed

[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Oh good!

[TheSpoom]

I was so worried that they'd release it too soon.

Ha!

[Bogtha]

I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.

Don't wory George, I don't think anybody could accuse you of doing that!

So...

[revlayle]

...when it IS done, this game is gonna use that totally awesome Quake 3 engine! AM I RITE???

DNF v. Vista

[happyemoticon]

I wonder what's weirder: That DNF has taken longer to develop than Windows Vista, or that Windows Vista has taken almost as much time to make as DNF?

It has to be said

[Rob Nance]

"3D Realms has no plans on rushing Duke Nukem Forever" This has to be said, but did anyone really think Duke Nukem Forever was being rushed?

Thank God.

[stlhawkeye]

I know we were all worried about this.

Let me be the first to say

[dcapel]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAH....

Duke Nukem Forever... Ship Early...

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Good headline

[MrTester]

Boy. Theres a shocker headline.
Right up there with "A new study shows that Men like to have sex" and "The sun is expected to rise in the morning"

Wait. Im being handed a piece of paper. Holy Cow! Breaking news! "Companys like free publicity!"

Re:What???

[martinultima]

“3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever”... you mean they've been rushing it this whole time? I'd have never guessed! What are they, sealed in a Slo-Time envelope or something?

Rushing it could...

[mfh]

... cause major problems with the globally accepted definition of vapourware [wikipedia.org]. My god, what if the damn game actually gets released?

What would the kittens do?

Re:What???

[Surt]

You have to understand. It has been about a year from being done, for oh, the last 6 years. If they rushed, they could be 9 months from being done for the next 3 or 4 years.

Re:DNF v. Vista

[Bogtha]

Weirder still is the fact that Duke Nukem Forever has taken more time to create than NASA took to design & build a pair of robots, fly them to Mars, and drive them around for a year.

Re:Ha!

[Southpaw018]

The immediate mental picture I got was Nelson going "Ha ha!"

Comment removed

[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Comment removed

[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Re:Let me be the first to say

[jimibee]

You definitely were not the first person to say that.

Re:Oh good!

[From A Far Away Land]

As with a fine tea that needs to be steeped just the right length of time, Duke Nukem Forever shall not be hurried!

I'm concerned that if it's released too soon, it might not be certified to work on Windows Vista.

Re:Seriously, which engine?

[Nova77]

I think they *did* consider a re-write 10 re-writes ago.

Re:In other news

[Anonymous Coward]

...okay, that's two gratuitous references to Vista on an unrelated topic by you so far.

One more and you'll have made your fucktard hat trick.

Ha!

[east coast]

3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever

1998 called. They want their story back.

Re:Oh good!

[dgatwood]

More like a fine wine that has to age for decades. :-D

Besides, they've already missed the end of one century. Why not go for two?

Re:What???

[Rob the Bold]

You mean it's possible to rush Duke Nukem Forever at this point????

They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

Re:What???

[WilliamSChips]

They were in the Time Dilation envelope with the Replicators.

Nah

[WedgeTalon]

At this point I hope they *don't* ever finish DNF. It's a great running joke and the name just fits oh-so-perfectly! It would be a tragedy to lose that. :'(

Early?

[Aim Here]

"I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.'"

This must be some new usage of the word 'early' that until now I have been unaware of.

Re:What???

[Anonymous Coward]

[Non sequitur abort! -- invalid parse of "rush" in same sentence as "Duke Nukem Forever". Abort, retry, fail? *Retry* ... Attempting recovery ...]

Yeah. If they get Rush to do the soundtrack for DNF, it might take even longer, though the guitar and drum instrumentals might be cool.

*oik*

[Shaman]

I -honestly- had diet coke fly out my nose after seeing that headline. Thanks a lot for the burning proboscis!

Re:DNF v. Vista v. NASA

[Rob the Bold]

And even weirder still, I was working on this really funny response, but then this new humor engine was available and I started using it and went back to square one. Then I thought, crap, I can adapt a humor engine better suited to my style than any off-the-shelf models, so I started work on that. But the whole concept of what constitutes high quality jokes changed in the meantime, so I started over again. There will be a really funny rejoinder here real soon now.

What DNF Can Teach NASA

[patio11]

A game is only late until its released, but a space probe which smashes into the body it is orbiting because it doesn't know the difference between feet and meters is gone forever.

Re:What???

[Funger]

Inconceivable!

Re:Oh good!

[tomjen]

Hey they could take advantage of the y2k bug - and be the first game to be published several decades too early.

Misquoted

[Hoi Polloi]

He was misquoted...
"I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.'"

What he really said was:
"I would never ship a game"

Re:What???

[Foobar of Borg]

Yeah. If they get Rush to do the soundtrack for DNF, it might take even longer, though the guitar and drum instrumentals might be cool.

Actually, I could see the beginning of "Red Sector A" being in DNF

"Are we the last ones left alive?
Are we the only human beings to survive?"

Of course, if Quark were in the background intoning "hu-man" everytime that word came up in the song, it would be even cooler.

The man has a point.

[aywwts4]

Normaly slashdoters are paranoid delusional, but your making sense.

...Spooky

Re:Something doesn't add up

[Anonymous Coward]

1) There are 17 members on the 3DRDNF team. Including programers.
2) 70% of our time is spent on DNF. The other 25% is spent playing golf and laughing at forum posts.
1&2b) The rest of our time is spent polishing up math skills.
3) There are some good reasons. But you couldn't handle the truth. Actually, we're still looking for a good excuse. Do you have one?
4) Sorry...

DNF is not late untill its released.

JF.

The true meaning explained...

[Mister Whirly]

Doesn't DNF stand for "Did Not Finish" in NASCAR??? Eerily appropriate in this case too...

Re:What???

[Tolkien]

You mean it's possible to rush Duke Nukem Forever at this point????

It's possible to rush Duke Nukem Forever .

Re:Rushing it could...

[fbjon]

That's the point they're bringing forward. 3D Realms won't want to rush Duke Nukem forever, instead they'd like to slow down development once in a while since they don't want to disrupt the very fabric of the universe by a too rapid development pace.

Typo spotted:

[ray9x]

3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem, Forever

Re:Something doesn't add up

[randyest]

There is no game. No one is working on the game. The investors got fleeced.

That's all I needed to read to know you're full of shit.

There are no investors. 3Drealms has been in business sincde 1991, has never taken out a loan, and has never had a layoff.

In short, there was no post. You did not make a post. The readers who thought they were reading a post were fleeced. You're a moron.

Everything is relative

[Aceticon]

I think what everybody is missing is the right context to interpret the word "rush" here, so i'll give it a try at sketching it:

Imagine you have a snail. The snail has been moving from one city to another distant city. This has been going on for the last 5 years.

Thus "rush" in this context means making the snail go faster, but still within it's capabilities.

Now, just fill in the blanks by considering that the Duke Nukem Forever development team departed one year before the snail and the snail already overtook them and you'll get the picture...