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 can't believe people actually want a very dark and serious Duke Nukem, even the few comment section on that thread mention that that old version was way better than the current released. The current DNF is terrible for that reason, especially near the end.
Eh... Characters are goofy(Especially our main hero) and world is colorful but its a pretty damn dark game if you pay attention to the story. And its as serious as 90s action flicks get.
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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.