I don't see how you can replicate the importance of the original ten years later simply by upping the graphics.
People will buy it because it's Duke Nukem.
People will buy it because it's Duke Nukem.
I'm willing to put up $50 that no more than five people in a hundred remember, or have even heard of Duke Nukem.
I'll take that bet!
(Captain Planet is still the most popular cartoon character in the world, right?)
(Hehe, still.)
Actually, the day before the teaser was announced my brother was just asking me if Duke Nukem Forever was still coming out; he's not a gamer but loved DN3D... and has apparently been waiting all this time. I tried to explain that George Broussard is just a crazy person...
Duke Nukem just isn't the brand name that it was for a brief period in the 1990s... and I don't think the folks at 3D Realms realize this.
I disagree. Its been, what, 10 years since DN3D (though there were some good and some awful Duke Nukem games after DN3D) and they need to resell the idea all over again to a new generation of gamers who've probably never heard of him.
Hehe, I can't imagine that being too hard though... Duke Nukem is who all the kids wanna be when they grow up. And the game will probably be fast pased, uncomplicated and cool, that kind of thing sells.
A good game sells.
A bad game does not.