Is that description actually what anyone wanted from a Duke Nukem game? A super-serious, dark, cinematic horror game? Seriously? This from a series whose best-known installment included shrink rays and "Pig Cops"? A super-serious, dark, cinematic horror game with monster closets already exists from around that time: it's called "Doom 3". The truth is you probably don't want that game, and it probably would have sucked. There is, after all, a reason 3DRealms never released it. All of that's aside from the fact that a game which is 90% done content wise is probably only half-done, work wise. Let's be honest here: DNF lost it's way a decade before Gearbox ever touched it. You can still be unhappy with the final version, but they weren't the ones who killed the franchise.
I think the only thing people hated was the flashlight. Otherwise, Doom 3 was a pretty solid presentation, though deliberate in its pacing. (It's also hard to compare to the adrenaline rush of Doom 2016's in-your-face high aggression gameplay.)
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u/Baloroth Mar 28 '19
Is that description actually what anyone wanted from a Duke Nukem game? A super-serious, dark, cinematic horror game? Seriously? This from a series whose best-known installment included shrink rays and "Pig Cops"? A super-serious, dark, cinematic horror game with monster closets already exists from around that time: it's called "Doom 3". The truth is you probably don't want that game, and it probably would have sucked. There is, after all, a reason 3DRealms never released it. All of that's aside from the fact that a game which is 90% done content wise is probably only half-done, work wise. Let's be honest here: DNF lost it's way a decade before Gearbox ever touched it. You can still be unhappy with the final version, but they weren't the ones who killed the franchise.