3d Realms No More!

[bozodos]

Don't know about the rest of you, but I've been patiently waiting for DNF ever since I read about it in PcPowerplay magazine 11 or so years ago, and now 3d Realms has gone bust without warning, apparently they needed another(!) $5 million to finish DNF. Seems like "when it's done" wasn't such a successful marketing strategy in the end.

The publisher, Take 2 Interactive has declined to kick in the $5million needed, but maintains that they still have exclusive publishing rights. From what I've read, the game was also getting close to completion, to make matters worse.

I'd been a regular visitor to the forums in the anticipation of any new news only to find this out, I feel really ripped off about this, especially due to the amount of fans who stuck by the company who became the joke of the games industry.

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35533 <- confirmation of the company closure on the 3DR forums.

[R31Nismoid]

yeah was reading about this last week...

Duke Nukem Forever would have been - forever, one of those iconic games no questions... But you get that.

[bozodos]

Yeah I only just found this out then on the 3DR Forum, bitterly disappointed, I remember seeing the very first screenshots using the Quake engine, and always hoping deep down that they would one day offer a release date. I can also remember quite a few games shops taking pre orders back in 1999 hahaha.

Guess I'll have to go back to playing Resistance and COD:WaW for my FPS hit for a while longer.

[DRD-00F]

The irony that it's called DNF is not lost on me...

[bozodos]

I liked this quote from the DNF forum the best;

"John Romero > GeorgeB

Diakatana came out and scored higher than DNF will. " lol.

[mickey]

I'll give valve a clap for releasing TF2 almost 10 years after it was supposed to as well

[bozodos]

http://duke.a-13.net/ <- bet he's kicking himself.

It's a shame that they kept restarting the game and treating their fans with such contempt by never releasing anything new between ~2003 and 2007, by which time most people had stopped caring about DNF other than the die hard fans. Realistically they could've released a seperate game for each engine change had they not been so pedantic about it.

[zebra]

Damn...I've been hearing Rumblings about this for a while....oh well

*downloads Duke Nukem 3d Atomic Edition*

[bozodos]

Yeah I remember the first screenshots for TF2 around the time that Half Life came out, totally different looking game these days!

I think that this shutdown could probably have been avoided if there was someone business minded at the helm of 3DRealms, the official arrogance of the managment there in their dealings with Take 2, and the fans (ie not telling them f**king anything for years at a time about the game), has resulted in this sudden closure, I mean who's going to lend money to a company which is releasing a product "when it's done"?! I have seen a number of the leaked screenshots though, and from the looks of it, it was going to be everything we'd been hanging out for over the last 12 years!

[Pattygtst]

i am sure it will get picked up and finished by someone else.

[kralster]

shit company is shit, they didn't develop a single game since Shadowarrior which came out in 1997 or so, so f**k them.

[BloodyBandage]

Never a good thing when a monster name and big budget game such as this one fail, but there are talks of it being finished by another company...we'll have to wait and see

[bozodos]

I think it was more about george and scott being arrogant faggotrons and deciding to remake the game every time a new bit of tech came along, from the leaked gameplay vid and screenshots it looked pretty good, the demise of the company is lol in the fact that 12 years of telling everyone nothing it has bitten them on the arse during the home stretch of development, but I really really really wanted to play this game.

Latest news is that the publisher Take 2 is suing the remains of 3DR for not finishing the game lol.

[s13_Skyline_inside]

ouch, kick em when their down