"It sucks back then and it sucks forever!" ~AVGN

Fun fact: That opening is the final sequence of Duke Nukem 3D

Ironic how people keep praising this game for being the "anti-Call of Duty" even though DNF has followed the same trends as many modern military shooters. And Half-Life 2, given the amount of platforming, physics puzzles, and valve puzzles there are.

Also I just want you guys to think about this: The person that voices Duke also voices Big the Cat (Sonic Games).

Honestly, I just don't see how anybody would praise this. There is very little in terms of actual shooting, as the first few levels are based around cheap gimmicks or pointless minigames and the later levels are a tedious slog due to the monster truck using up gasoline like a fat guy chugging down Mountain Dew. I also like to point out how pointless the Hive level is in the game. As a joke, it's not funny (even for tasteless dark comedy) and as for shock value, it fails because Duke keeps spouting lousy one-liners that feel out-of-place and clashes with the overall tone of the game.

Not gonna lie, probably the best review for DNF out there.

Fun fact: Duke Nukem is voiced by Big the Cat.

"Shotgun takes *forever* to fire a second shot, takes *forever* to reload." I mean, that was the point of the game right? :P

Gearbox thought players would be confused if they could hold more than two guns at one time? Uhhh, Borderlands? The game where halfway through a story you can hold 4 guns a one time! Hello!?

"What kind of shit ending is that?" LMFAO

I actually enjoyed using the pistol. Getting headshots was the easiest and most satisfying way to kill the most common enemies. More effective than the shotgun at close range if you did it right and still very useful at long range because ammo was plentiful. I actually got the achievement for keeping the golden pistol throughout the whole game. It was almost always useful. Though it WAS a pain to manage only two weapon slots when the game kept requiring you to use a specific weapon, especially on the 360. Granted, my aim was probably unreasonably good because the unhealthy amount of time I'd spent on other shooters was still somewhat fresh. Once upon a time I could carry an entire team alone on foot on Bad Company 2 and win a 4v1 match on Hardcore mode on Modern Warfare 2, so this was an actual challenge. That's probably the only reason I didn't hate this game as much. I don't play shooters at all anymore.

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thing that makes this game worse is that serious sam 3 came out months later, and it was a much better game that satisfied that urge for old fashioned shooters. then there was shadow warrior, wolfenstein doom and now shadow warrior 2. duke nukem forever is easily the worst out of the neo retro shooters that cropped up after it's release. if serious sam 3 came out first, the reception might have been even more laughable.

Jesus Christ this guy is so ANGRY!!! I love it!

Graphics shouldn't matter at all. Old-school first person shooters were never about the story.

Fling shit everywhere that my friend DarklordJadow1, is a metaphor for how Gearbox treats licensing agreements for making games.

13 year in development? more like 9 months

Let's hope Cyberpunk 2077 will not be a failure like this so I hope CDPR will learn from the 3D Realm mistake on what were they did on DNF

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I'm playing doom 2016 while watching this video.

Hey Jadow for your Halloween special, you should review Manhunt it's a old but game by Rockstar

Question: Since WHEN did realism in video games become popular? That's what I loved about games: They were their own worlds! An escape from reality! And why take away the colors? Not even real life looks like that! >.

What do you think of the new Wolfenstein games?

Please review skyrim remastered. also what are your thoughts on the Nintendo switch

hi darklord can you review bionicle heros and Jurassic the hunted Wii a.k.a top shot dinosaur hunter

Could you review Necrovision Lost Company?It's one of my favorite video games.The game is a weird mix of Doom 2, Half Life 2 and COD 2.

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I'm really glad and quite relieved that you enjoy Doom as much as I do, when I told you to pick it up and try it I actually thought "I hope he does not hate it or he will be mega pissed at me for telling him to go and buy it". That was their excuse for having only two guns? I officially hate Gearbox now. What a bunch of assclowns. As a veteran of Duke games I can say that the original game is nothing like this. It's amazing to me with how much development hell this game went through, only to come out as mediocre at best. I wholeheartedly agree they should have scraped Forever and tried for a fresh new game from scratch with new controls and gameplay. I'm sure that would have been much better than what we got. But that would have required actual work and from what you said in the video, Gearbox are just lazy. Thank you for pointing out the platforming sucking, that was one of my main issues with the game. Oh my god Darklord, I hated the Octoking fight so friggen much!! That fight was stupid as shit, the fact that the Octobrains catch your rockets and throw them back with no cover only made it worse. That was the only boss battle that really gave me trouble. The Dam boss was quite annoying as well but not as bad as the damn Octoking.

Can you do a review on rascal for ps1

Gearbox made Half Life Opposing Force dude

Good thing you can enable a 4 weapon limit in the campaign. Still not useful enough, but it's better than 2 at least.

Here's a little story that I like telling about this game: This game was hyped as hell; I saw some big ass cardboard promotions for it at my local Gamestop very soon before it released! And as far as I can remember, it went down to bargain bin price about a month later. Yeah, this game fell that flat. And keep in mind, older games like Star Wars Jedi Outcast cost about 20 dollars at my local used game shop. I think I saw Duke Nukem Forever priced about 3 to 6 dollars. I saw the older builds for the game, and I honestly think this would have been a better product if they kept the PS2 era version that got scrapped. As it stands, this game is so boring. It's like the Final Fantasy 13 of first person shooters, you know? I know some of y'all like 13, but in my opinion, it's so... meh. And that pretty much sums up how I feel about Duke Nukem Forever; so damn disinterested. Duke's found more success as a cameo in other games since then. Hell, he even had to infiltrate Grayson Hunt's game to stay relevant, if you know what I mean.

Can you review "Freedom Fighters"?

So in the time since you've played this game, have you researched, looked up or played any of the other Duke Nukem Games? If you have what do you think of them?

I wish he brought up the director guy yelling at the light technician the same way Bale did

Hey Jadow, the Nintendo Switch has just been revealed. Plan on getting it?

Have you tried the sprint button?

Since you said Toy Story when are you going to review both games?

So is the unabridged version of what I heard Yahtzee say about the game, it tries to a modern and a retro shooter and fails at both, showing all the tropes in retro shooters we'd prefer not to have like platforming. I personally never got the popularity behind modern military shooters. Yeah not ever game avoids grounding itself reality has an original plot but almost every modern military shooter is about America getting invaded because reasons. And how is gameplay fun when every single enemy has hitscan weapons and your character is made of paper?

Speaking of old school shooters, you should do a review of Serious Sam the first encounter.

How is this different from COD exactly?

Gearbox said they don’t want to give players more than 2 weapons because of confusion…..the same gearbox that makes the borderlands games, where you most often carry…..4 weapons…..at…..a……….time 😐😐😐😐

Neat

No one complains about sprinting and the use of checkpoints? Lack of secrets? By the way, graphics shouldn't matter.

Man looking back on this game.. Its a shame what happened to it. It could have been great.... if only they had competent people in the development cycle. Seriously, there's a mod out there of Sonic 06 to fix its problems.. has nobody thought about trying to fix this game?

To be fair, shotguns were not designed to hit targets at point blank range. That is what bayonets are for. Or pistols. Shotguns are for hitting targets at medium range where the spread of the pellets makes it a lot easier to hit the target. Video games have this bad habit of making them super short ranged. I seem to recall Duke 3D actually got it right because they were OK at long range in that.

Nice review, I think the N64 third person shooter version is superior to this piece of garbage.

Gearbox also screwed up Aliens, can you review that?

"Doom Has Shown SHooters Can Be Awesome Again!" Then came Battlefield 1, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, Homefront the Revolution, Tom Clancy's The Division, Gears of War 4, Umbrella Corps, and Metroid Prime: Federation Force...... The people did not listen... At all.

How much did you pay for this game??

wait gear box made borderlands? the only thing I know them for are the Half-Life 1 spin offs...

Ha-meat suit I love it. >D 22:35

I like Duke Nukem Forever

I like this game

If you have played Duke Nukem 3D before which is a great game btw, the hate for DNF is just even more staggering than it already is.

You should play the Wolfenstein games. Actually you're better off skipping most of them but New Order and Old Blood are really good.

I think the hive stuff actually might have worked, had it not been such a cartoony game, and it handled it with respect, this however, doesn't.

theres actually another game with duke in it that is more Duke Nukem then this game is, Bulletstorm Full Clip Edition, im not kidding, you can play duke in that game, though i havnt figured out how yet

sad because this game was epic on N64 and actually scared me to play or as a kid

This game could've been much better if it had they rebuilt it from scratch. Even if it took longer, it still could've been decent. Just because something goes through development hell doesn't mean it has to be bad. Look at Pikmin 3 and Mother 3.

To be fair, Gearbox has done some good stuff besides Borderlands. Their port of Half-Life for PS2 was pretty good, and the Brothers In Arms games were fantastic (as long as you stick to the Xbox versions).

The hive level would have been better if you could rescue the women. Like, you can choose to mercy-kill them, or rescue them by blasting around the alien goo holding them down, get them back up, then give them a handgun and make it an escort mission where you try to get them out. They can even add an achievement for someone who gets all the girls home in normal or harder difficulties. Heck, even if they got raped by the aliens, this is one time the morning after pill can actually do some good instead of just being a tool of infanticide.

Great review! I don't know why but when I see this game it reminds me other bad FPS game Soldier of Fortune: Payback. To be honest graphics looks very similar and even in 2007 Soldier of Fortune: Payback looked much worse than other games. About Duke Nukem Forever, this game looks really bad, most games from 2007 looks much better. And fact that game worked bad on consoles was caused because programmers were lazy and they bungled their work (most typical hack and slash games for PS3 and even PS2 works and looks much better than DNF for PC), I've seen that other games with better graphics worked much better, even infamous Crysis port for consoles.

Jesus christ, that hive section is legitimately fucked up. Even GTA doesn't go that far. Like seriously, what the actual fuck where the devs thinking!?

Fuckin' Nuke Fukem Dornever. while this game have funny things here and there; most of the game is shit. I remember that trailer from 2001, when I saw it; I was hyped, I thought this game could have thrown major shit at what most shooters went to be (generic cinematographic shooters with not very good gameplay; shitty trends from level structure; boring enemy and weapon design all together). The more I learned about the game in around 2005 or something, the more I started to think, they threw things out again and make the game becoming shitty just like the other shooters I don't really enjoy or even dislike. Every time they threw some new info, they showed things that the game was just a sort of bad FPS museum and even the whole copying about game features went into something not very good and not well put together. In the end I ended up to get it for cheap, and I saw it from my own eyes. Even if I liked the fact they kept a few of the interactive environments that the original had, the rest is just the bad modern shooter it tried to be with a duke skin. Even the duke jokes aren't that funny because I was having a bad time. The stupid two weapon limit as stupid, even if we have ammo crates with infinite deposits here and there; the fact that the weapons were situational or just total shit made the game forcing the player to keep one of the very useful weapons that never lacks of ammo in one slot while the "fun and trivial" weapons such as the shrink ray were made with little ammo carry capacity and they aren't that useful overall. If people plays the original 3d or even one of its console ports, they will see a different game and a lot more awesome game. Personally I think duke nukem needs a new game that isn't plagued with the modern shooter crap. And saying this some modern shooter features aren't bad to me, but it just needs to have the right ones. Doom 2016, shadow warrior and the wolfenstein reboot were excellent and they have modern features within them. I also hate the idea that game publishers and developers thinks that console gamers are stupid, they are people just like any others, they can handle maze levels, key cards and many weapons at once. If people wants to play games with more realism, fine there is games for you, but if people wants their games to be over the top, just let that happen instead of forcing the genre to a sort of standardization...

If you like doom try shadow warrior by flying wild hog

they started making it in 2007 and finished it in 2009.so 2 years it took

FIRST! lol Seriously tho, let's hope that Star Citizen doesn't take as long as Duke Nukem Forever did. :P

entertaining, but watching it at max 480p kind of took away some of the experience. will sub though.

Remember when you went to the Hoover Dam in Fallout New Vegas, a much better game?

No lie, Duke Nukem 3d has better texture work then Forever. Hell, the first couple of trailers of Forever has FAR better texture and modeling work.

Duke Nukem (Should have been vaporware) Forever.

1:00 ..and then Battlefield One came out, proved to be a massive success with everyone with it's WW1 setting and the fad renewed yet again

I know you don't like Halo for screwing up the first person shooter genre (I think so too), but could you review Halo CE and give full details on how it ruined the genre and why you don't like it?

The ending is a play on Call of Duty's MW ending. Well not ending but the middle part of the game..... Yah what were they thinking?

You've never played a Duke Nukem game, why would you start with one of the worst? (IMO there are a couple of worse ones then this) I think the worst part of this game is the two weapon limit. Four I could deal with, three maybe but two is just not enough for this kind of shooter. Edit: Was the four weapon mode ever added to the console version? Edit 2: And the second worse thing they did was the mutilation they inflicted on Duke's poor Pistol. The Duke Nukem 3D Pistol was a thing of beauty and wonder. Sure if I had the choice I would whip out the Ripper Cannon or the Shotgun instead in most cased but the Pistol in Duke 3D was my favorite 90s FPS starting Pistol and among my top 3 favorite FPS starting guns of that period. The Pistol in Forever is nothing but a ruined shell of what was. (For anyone wondering the Duke 3D Pistol holds 12 rounds per magazine and fires at full-auto so its a Machine Pistol for all intents and purposes.)

"Gearbox should have just started the entire game over and built one dedicated experience from the ground up..." That's easy for you to say, but put yourself in Gearbox's shoes. 3D Realms just got sued out the ass, and in the fire you picked up a mostly finished game that has a ton of hype behind it for what was likely dirt cheap compared to the development costs. Gearbox wasn't making a bright-eyed attempt to preserve a legacy, it perceived DN:F as a tool to be used to make a profit off of someone else's work. I'm not defending that practice, but when a big company gets a golden opportunity like that they'd be fucking insane not to take it.

16:18 God Gawful?

Honestly, I feel like this game had the same fate as The Thief and The Cobbler, both of them were in development hell because their creators wanted to create the greatest thing in the world and were trying to make it THE MASTERPIECE, but went over their heads and sabotaged the project overall, but at least Richard Williams cared about the film, whereas 3D Realms only cared about money and trying literally ruining their own IP, and really, Duke Nukem is the king of development hell, and really, it's sad that a game that could've been good, ended up being absolute garbage, but I never played it, so I don't know how bad it is, but I have seen some reviews of this travesty enough to know how bad it is.

gearbox cant into bosses as much as I love borderlands the bosses in the series are mostly just bullet sponge loot pinatas whos idea of a fight is occasionally going into invincible mode

This game is unforgiving and unfair isn't it

I cant play first person shooters anymore.I get dizzy.

Uh.. Gearbox made the Half-Life expansions, Brothers in Arms, Halo: CE, the shitshow that was Aliens: Colonial Marines... dunno what rock you've lived under, maybe because some of these weren't on consoles? They did make the one console exclusive Half-Life game.

If you want a good game by 3D Realms and Remedy Entertainment, try Max Payne. You might like it. (Although I hear the Steam version is quite buggy.)

I never loved that "military" FPS games i can agree on that... Considering everything we are lucky to get to play DNF at all... Doom 2016? nice game ,yes... but it was "Trial and error" it could failed also as DNF.... Remember Doom 3? it wasn´t that good id software made RAGE...also not so bad game that "nobody" played i´m just sorry because we will never get to play this duke kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqqcdZWBltLJgoE.html and yes Considering all the "haters" & game Market today we will probably have a real hard time getting our hands on Half Life 3 any time soon

13 years to develop? No wonder it looks like an Xbox title.

I'm pretty sure only you and Yahtzee from Zero Punctuating thought the modern military shooter genre was over because of Doom.

Personally, I find the game as a whole pretty boring. Setting aside the shock "humor" and two-weapon limit, the game itself has some really lousy pacing. I've played both the 360 and PC versions, so I can try approaching it with an open mind. And I still didn't like it all that much. I mean, you can only go so far with fetch quests and dirty jokes before it gets boring. And before you @ me, the RC car, platforming, and valve puzzles suck because they don't mesh well with the FPS gameplay and are clunky to a fault. It also doesn't help that the shotgun and chaingun are weak and inaccurate, despite having tons of ammo for those weapons. And as for the Hive level, to put it bluntly, it's an unnecessary level that doesn't fit with the overall tone. I'd say that The Doctor That Cloned Me DLC is a slight improvement but that's pretty hollow praise given that DNF is still a crappy game.

here's an idea for developers, a remaster of the original duke nukem 3D, no updates to ANYTHING except the graphics, just make the exact game, but with new graphics, it may sound kinda lazy, but at least it'd be better then this whatever the hell it is

good vid do bionicle please your steam game reviews arnt my cup of tea but their ok

they will never stop making military fps. battlefield 1 sold a lot of copies as does cod or any other fps. not to say i don't think doom is the best game of 2016 its just these two types of games can co-exist.i think that is what was proven with doom.

19:51 that's actually 2 jokes: power armor is fallout while the design is halo. Power armor makes you pretty much god in the games. The gears of war joke is actually gears of war 2. the first game had nothing to do with Dom's wife. I don't get the reference that was before the pinball machine. Where was that from?

You think Duke Nukem Forever was bad then you haven't seen the horrors that is Aliens: Colonial Marines.

"Famous for borderlands, and nothign else" Well they did make alien colonial marines and battleborn...

The weirdest part of this game is Duke being able to pick up a piece of shit and carry it around.

Wow super pissed off Angry Darklord review. Better rant than AJ show

Do Bubsy 3D, please

And then Jadow didn't make a review on doom despite it being a perfect game...

review doom 2016!