Duke Nukem: Next Gen
Looks like as well as the next Duke Nukem game, some fans are remaking the original Duke Nukem 3D using current day engines, and the plan is for a Multiplayer demo to come out “sooner than you think”… Now I’ll believe it when I see it, but still. Team IPX as it is in 2010, playing a good looking Duke Nukem game ONLINE – it wouldn’t get any better than that if you ask me.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/fan-made-duke-nukem-next-gen-gets-go-a...
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Too young...
To have ever played Duke Nukem… Looks exciting. Is this a free game, or a real production game?
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Oh man… you’ve lived a sheltered life. There’s a reason why people are still wanting a new Duke game, even though it’s been a good 10 years with little sign of it ever being released until recently. It really was that much fun. Fun being the key word. It was before real aiming as we know it today was involved. You could aim, but it really didn’t do much. I could shoot dead straight at ground level, and if there was a guy in a jetpack 400m above where I was shooting, it would shoot him down as it didn’t really get height with some weapons.
It was one of the first games where you could jump.
I’m not sure. Free multiplayer demo sounds good though. Just hope it’s on hollywood holocaust (first level). That was a fun multiplayer level.
Some memories: – Meeting in the porno theatre – jet pack wars – running out of gas in the jetpack and plummeting to your death… – MP4 weapon patch in the stadium level. 400 kills racked up within about 10 minutes… Nuts but fun. – the satisfying feeling you get when you connect with an RPG (CG n00b for all you younguns).
And having said that… Shadow Warrior (released about the same time, built on the same engine) was even better. The day we found out the RPG in that had a button you could press to turn it into a nuke…. OMG I’ll never forget the explosion.
Fuzz.
Ah memories
Duke was the first game I played on the “net”. Actually it was a point-to-point modem dial with me and a school friend (parents got pissed for us hogging the phone line for hours at a time).
Before that I had played Doom (2?) via a null modem cable and Warcraft 2 between two Macs with a Mac printer cable :)
Back to the video: looks impressive, but what is missing might be difficult to finish off. Weapon models are notoriously hard to do, and you can see that there was no destructive scenery when he shot the oil barrel.
It was great times
s0 many mem0ries,
Arrive at LAN yep it was IPX prt0c0l “s0 Duke it is then?” yep that’s all we played all night thru and yes Shad0w Warri0r was played as well…..
Call my mate up, tell every0ne in the h0use U need the ph0ne line I’ll call U back 0n the Duke Game, yep we played it 0n a 24.4k m0dem I think it was…
I remember Multiplayer in a big level we called the Washing Machine with a spinning 0uter that we w0uld wait until the d00rs to the inner r00m 0pened with a different weap0n in there each time…
I als0 remember playing the dinner level 1000000000 times 0ver and 0ver and the level never g0t b0ring…..
Yep duke Stadium level r0cked we always had the mad run t0 the Jet Pack……
R the mem0ries………..
n0mad
Then came PADMAN :P
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And it wasn’t just deathmatch… co-op was played occasionally too. I remember a level that had a very big jump in it. Shad, Fuzz, Kazashi, Kazozza, and Axe-man are on one side ready to jump. Kazashi makes the big run up, jump… makes it! Kazozza soon follows. Shad and axeman no problems either. Then Fuzz…. run… jump…. just short. arrrrrgggghh.
Back to the begining of the level, have to run through on my own just to catch up to them to take the jump again… only to fail again.
Ah those were the days. All IPX networks for us. 4 players was easy. For some reason adding the 5th (Shad) was quite difficult. Terminators were a bitch…
Fuzz.
0ne w0rd
Bitchin’
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