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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 18 2015, @11:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the let-sleeping-dogs-lie dept.

Gearbox Software ruined one of the best running jokes in software when they brought Duke Nukem Forever to market. At a recent developer conference in Brighton, they talked about working with independent developers to revive the character.

From Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford:

"I did not acquire the franchise merely to make sure we could all experience Duke Nukem Forever," Pitchford said. "That was sort of the toll we had to pay." He then explained that while Gearbox has carried out some concept development for the franchise, they'd need to work with the "correct developer" to make a new game.

One of the pitches:

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Duke Nukem goes into a Vegas strip club at 4am, and it's kind of empty, and there's only two strippers working. He throws some money at them. Then, because there's no one else around, they sit down and they talk to him, and Duke sits there and he listens to this stripper talk about her life, why she's stripping, her family back home and how they live a state away but she flies into Vegas for two weeks of the month to earn money, then she goes go back and looks after her kids.

Then after an hour of this conversation, of him just listening to the woman talk, she asks Duke about his life, and then it flips. It's the first time anyone's actually asked about him, and he's forced to look inside himself and understand why he does these things, why he feels the need to kick ass, and it's just a lovely moment that they share. He walks away from it feeling like he understands himself a little bit better, but the ending is kind of ambiguous. We see Duke leave the strip club and we don't know what happens next.

What's your pitch, Soylent?


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by richtopia on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:24PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:24PM (#210845) Homepage Journal

    Large levels
    Lots of destructible environments
    Lots of aliens to kill (hundreds)
    Fast gameplay
    Dodging rockets
    A few humorous one liners from the main character
    16 player co-op
    Change main character name to Sam
    Game takes place in Egypt

    If only this game [wikipedia.org] exists...

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday July 19 2015, @10:48PM

    by Marand (1081) on Sunday July 19 2015, @10:48PM (#211195) Journal

    My pitch:

    1. Give Duke Nukem license to Croteam
    2. Give Duke Nukem (Jon St. John) to Croteam
    3. Make Croteam hire someone new to make the human models.
    4. Profit

    The Serious Sam games show that Croteam has experience making the sort of game that suits the franchise, so why not just give it to them and get something awesome out of it? Hell, I'd play a "Duke Nukem vs. Serious Sam" type game with both characters in it. It's ludicrous enough that it'd be entertaining. Their biggest weakness is that, unlike their monster designs (which are usually good), their human models look like crap and aren't animated well. That can be solved with a new hire.