Duke Nukem Forever: The wait is over!
… Because 3D Realms has gone out of business, completing the final act in the comedy of errors that was the game’s development. Apparently the company was suffering from a "lack of funding," which is the sort of thing that happens when your flagship title’s been in development for twelve years and appears to be a complete boondoggle. There’s some verbalisation going on over here about the development environment at 3D Realms, which apparently was pretty rough. There’s also a tremendous and totally worthless list of things that took less time than Duke Nukem Forever, which we’ve been seeing since about 1999 and which haven’t gotten any funnier since then.
I’ll come right out and say it: I’m a bit sad that it’s come to this, but I’m not at all surprised. If anything, I’m surprised that 3D Realms survived as long as it did without releasing any games that it didn’t pay somebody else to make. Still, I’d have liked if something came out after that twelve years of development time. Maybe just like a mission pack for Duke 3D disingenuously labeled as a whole new game. But at least it’s good to see that that list of signs of the end of the world has been stopped at six. So I guess it’s a victory for the forces of good after all!
