Duke Never Forever - 15 Years For THIS?

Duke Nukem Forever was initially announced over a decade ago to be the follow up to the popular first person shooter Duke Nukem 3D. The game was crass, rude, and just plain fun. Duke Nukem Forever is the exact same thing with a graphics update (and I use the term update loosely). Ignoring the cover-shooter style that make up the majority of the first person genre these days (Call of Duty and Battlefield are the best examples), it goes for straight up run-and-gunning like the old school Quake and Doom games, and I think that that's great, it's good to have a change of pace in a largely similar genre, but when it's as sloppy as Duke Nukem Forever, there's just no excuse.

The game was released June 14th, 2011. It started development in 1996. See the gap there? Duke Nukem Forever has gone down in history as the king of vaporware (a term used to describe products that were announced and never officially cancelled), and it probably should've stayed that way, as it's 5 hours long, completely linear, with ridiculous load times and full of jokes that connect mostly with a 12 year old audience. It had the potential to be a fantastic sequel to a great shooter, but due to constant development delays and the switching of hands it just turned out to be a garbled mess.

Since it's release earlier this week, the game has gotten mostly negative reviews and lackluster sales. Hopefully this won't be the end of Duke though, as although the game has many faults it does have the potential to be a fun shooter if it wasn't so dated.