Originally Posted by Defcon
Spot on DD.
QFT!The only hype I've seen surrounding DNF is the amazement factor that it's actually coming/came out...
The only hype that was placed around this game was the fact that it was being released at all and that compared to Duke3D it was streaks ahead.
It was never marketed or totted to be a Current Gen Graphics Masterpiece nor a Gameplay Revolution and if you thought it was, then you've completely missed the point.
The release of this game was purely to give those fans who had been waiting since '97 the game they should've received 10 years ago, at no point was it ever to cater to the ridiculous expectations of today's gaming public.
The humour may not be to everyone's taste, I can accept that as it's perfectly fair.Maybe they are hating for a legitimate reason. All the hype around this game made it out to be the best thing since sliced bread and from what I've seen (I don't listen to others reviews but I watched any vids on it I could) it is so far from it. Also I'm not really a fan of the low humour. Why do you need to get excrement from a toilet and throw it around? Shooting pregnant (albeit with aliens) women and cracking jokes about abortion -I haven't seen that part, a friend told me about it. I hope he is lying because that is just tasteless. But even if you can tolerate that "humour" from what I've seen of the gameplay it looks almost suitable for playstation1 not 3. If thats what they were going for then fine but don't hype the game up to be super fantastic and then release this mediocre FPS... and then the PR company had a dummy spit at the bad reviews. What do you expect
It's funny though that 90% of those having a winge about the game are playing it on consoles, lol, which is where most of the negative reviews are coming from where as those playing and reviewing it on PC are majoritively rating this game quite highly but within the context it should be - so evidently these people are far better informed.
Seriously though man, go back and look at all the promotional material, trailers and interviews and find me where it says "Will Revolutionise Gaming Today!" and/or "Graphics That'll Make Crisis Seem Like Pacman!".
Truly dude, all they did was dust this old game off, port it to 360 and PS3 and release it - The Graphics and Gameplay are obviously dated: It's a 10 year old game!, but it was never suggested that it'd be anything different either.
I wouldn't call it Mediocre either, It's Duke friggin' Nukem!
Have you seen FPS's these days? - You've got the utterly plain and boring Halo that people seem to eat up but has nothing that Doom didn't have or the dime-a-dozen Modern Warfare shooters but as soon as something comes out that isn't either of these 2 and dares to be different, it's derided to all hell.
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At the end of the day, there was no more hype around this game than any other game, it was actually rather basic compared to games these days, the context of this game's hype though was that: it was being released at all - but it seems a great number of people have completely misinterpreted that context which is thoroughly sad because the game is now being judged on merits it never sought to compete on.
I hope that Gearbox looks beyond the ill-informed and ridiculous opinions to see that the actual fans of the game are enjoying the hell out of it, especially those on PC who in time wont have the 2 Gun limit, and are very-very thankful that they took the risk of releasing the game purely to do us the fans a favour.
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