Somebody already said this but Gearbox WILL NOT be working on DNF. in order to stay afloat and continue working on DNF 3Drealms sold the rights to making a second Duke Nukem videogame to Gearbox. Gearbox will be making their entirely own Duke Nukem game while 3Drealms will continue to not finish DNF.
I couldn’t find the article I read it from, or I’d link it.
If that is true, that is good to know and definitely makes a difference. I was curious to know if gearbox was going to finish DNF or start from scratch. Regardless, even if gearbox does not finish DNF as started by 3DRealms, no matter what Duke Nukem game is released it will be the proverbial “Duke Nukem Forever” that everyone has been waiting for, aka, a FPS “sequal” to Duke3D, whatever the new title happens to be. Gearbox should start from scratch though and not simply finish something from 3DRealms.
Not to be annoying, but I would love some reasoning behind your opinion (people love to state opinions without their reasoning, thats probably why I “don’t see it”)…what makes the original duke graphics cartoony? Explain. You have to keep in mind the technology available back in 96, I personally think it is due to the relatively shit graphics that make it appear cartoony to you.
Now that I think about, you dont have to answer. We can just let this topic die, its like beating a dead horse. I am excited for Duke no matter what, I just hope Im not too disappointed. 
Doom didn’t look cartoony to me. Duke did. why? Because it does. I still don’t get how you can not acknowledge that. It looks like a cartoon because it is drawn and modeled like a cartoon. It has bright colors, exaggerated characters, childish voiceovers (come get some, who wants some, oh yeah, groovy baby), with childish jokes, and plays out like a cartoon.
That isn’t a bad thing, but it is true. You are so in a nostalgic denial it is scary.
Now your being insulting. Nostalgic denial? Sorry, but go fuck yourself, im not in denial.
Your explanation and description of cartoony is shitty and half assed:
Please, explain to me how its modeled and drawn like a cartoon?
What does “exaggerated characters” mean?
How is Duke’s voice “childish?”
How does it “play out like a cartoon?”
Once again, you are incapable of explaining yourself and your opinion. In my eyes, Duke is dark and girtty, while being humorous but not cartoony. I suppose as soon as humor is injected, its automatically cartoony to you. I believe the term you are looking for to describe Duke3D is COMICAL…not cartoony, two completely different things.
Duke Nukem’s character is comical, Duke Nukem 3D is NOT cartoony.
Besides, the point of this discussion is the GRAPHICS and the look I would prefer for the newest Duke game, its that simple. I think your the one who doesn’t know what hes talking about. Its not really even that big of a deal honestly, Im sure I will enjoy the newest iteration of Duke regardless.
Wow, that is a lot of rage over nothing.
And I never said Dukes voice was childish. I said his lines were.
i wouldnt have said duke 3d was cartoony. with the exception of the epic nipples:
like doom it was low quality images which i spose gave the appearance of a cartoony graphics but compared to games like full throttle and day of the tentacle which were intentionally cartoony and released around the same date you can see the difference.
I do agree with the childish jokes but thats part of the fun. we all say those lines when we pwn newbs online now. childish jokes - yes, but now common language amongst internet-folk
Come on, you HAVE to love the nipple tassles. lol
Sorry, didnt mean to sound so angry lol, but I do interpret being in denial as an insult (represents a lack of common sense and reality, which I hold as sacred). Ill take it you didn’t mean it as such…no hard feelings.
IMO his lines are comical, not childish.
For the record, cartoony != cell shaded (or whatever the equivalent ink n paint material was called before accelerated shaders existed). I believe that’s where the confusions may come from.
My two cents on the cartoony debate: DNF may not be gritty, but I wouldn’t call it Cartoony. I’d say it’s texture style would be similar to that of Halo 3’s.
yes. it doesn’t have to be like Team Fortress 2 to look like a cartoon.
Have you guys ever read comic books? they have vastly different art styles. Donald Duck doesn’t look like anything Marvel comics but they are both comic books.
seems like a misunderstanding here…
have a read:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cartoon
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comic
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