On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 18:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:18:56AM -0600, Ray wrote: > > if you heard there was a movie/game/tech that had marketing running > > for 3 years before release, wouldn't that be a sign of major suckage > > to you too? > > History is repeating itself. See also: Daikatana. I would have said > Duke Nukem Forever, but it *still* hasn't come out (originally was > slated to compete against Quake II), but at the rate it's going, it's > more like Duke Nukem Whenever. Oh, you never got the memo about that? The official naming for the Duke Nukem series has been revised to: Duke Nukem <projected devel time> So you should obviously not EVER expect it to come out. :) I actually remember seeing SCREENSHOTS for that game back in I think '99. Yeah, they're right on schedule... :) And it actually wasn't originally intended to compete with Quake II. Originally, it was intended to be a sequel to Duke Nukem 3D, to be released shortly after Quake came out, and well before Quake 2 was even verified as a real project. Yes, it's really been THAT long. :) And WRT Daikatana, hype was really what killed that game. I actually rather enjoyed it as a regular old shoot'em up. But if you were expecting the be-all end-all rebirth of perfect gaming, well then you were rather disappointed. (Then again, being that part of the corporate office was a built in movie theater, are you really surprised? :) ) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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