Gearbox wants Duke Nukem feedback

By Robert Purchese Published 20 September, 2011

What did you think of it?

Gearbox wants to know what you thought about Duke Nukem Forever.

A limited-time survey aims to collect feedback about various areas of the game.

What score would you give Duke Nukem Forever? Would you recommend DNF to a friend? How do you rate the graphics, humour and gameplay? How much did you like Duke's humour, the puzzles, world interaction, two-weapon inventory, regenerating health and linear level design?

The survey then asks what features you like in shooter games. And that's it.

Go have your say.

Eurogamer's Duke Nukem Forever Review awarded 3/10. "The appeal of Duke Nukem lives on. But your time and money would be better spent reliving his iconic past than bearing witness to this gruesomely mangled resurrection."

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (37) Latest comment 8 months ago

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  • Biker_Bob_1971 #1 8 months ago

    Post deleted at 16:59:10 06-02-2012

  • DrunkenKillfish #2 8 months ago

    Ooh, this could get ugly! (=

  • The-Jack-Burton #3 8 months ago

    I rented it, it was pretty bad, a 3/10 is perfectly justifiable.

  • gm914 #4 8 months ago

    You think the postal service will get mad if you send feces in the mail?

  • Puriel #5 8 months ago

    it was shite randy, proper shite

  • killuminati2911 #6 8 months ago

    Didn't even bothered to download it let's say.. "free of charge".. no need of DRM for sure!

  • StolenGlory #7 8 months ago

    "Gearbox wants to know what you thought about Duke Nukem Forever."

    Randy Pitchford: I WANT THE TRUTH!

    Everyone Else: YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

  • DoctorFouad #8 8 months ago

    I tried the demo, it was horrible, very very annoying...

  • Shakey_Jake33 #9 8 months ago

    In fairness, the ingredients were there for a cracking game. Indeed, I enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever for what it did well, but others are clearly not as forgiving.

    The humour will always be love-hate, but is part of the Duke character. The gameplay is definately the right direction - we don't need yet another CoD clone, the 90s approach to FPS gameplay is the key point of differenciation for Duke. The difference is that the game should feel like a nod towards the shooters of old, rather than the game actually being dated. No 2/4 weapon limits, no regerating health, no duck-and-cover, maybe even retain keycards if you can find a way to introduce them in a good manner.

  • handsonhips101 #10 8 months ago

    Dated

  • HyperTails #11 8 months ago

    Done it. If it helps Gearbox start from scratch and make a game that THEY want to make, then that's good. I don't know who was personally reponsible for Duke Nukem Forever, but I think its unfair to heap all the blame onto Gearbox.

  • the_dudefather #12 8 months ago

    Don't let creepy sex offenders design levels like 'the hive' again

  • Dave52 #13 8 months ago

    Out of date, and uninspiring. Almost as if the Cary On team were asked to make a video game.

  • Markitron #14 8 months ago

    Do they seriously not know what was wrong with it? They made Borderlands FFS, they know what makes a good game!!!
    Edited by Markitron at 20/09/11 @ 09:42

  • Donaldthescotishtwin #15 8 months ago

    It was a damn dissapointing after waiting 10 years

  • Ryze #16 8 months ago

    Shit.

  • Thunderbolt #17 8 months ago

    Honestly? The demo was horrible. Woud struggle to play through it if it was free

  • MaxFN #18 8 months ago

    I completed this game. And this was torture. God awful game, oh god. And I thought Borderlands was shit, Duke Nukem Forever takes shit to the hole new level. Where do gearbox gets money to make all this horrible games?

  • Lemming81 #19 8 months ago

    I thought 'stop making Duke games' tbh. And that goes for any developer, I've got nothing against Gearbox.

  • Freek #20 8 months ago

    Diden't everybody already tell Gearbox what they thought of it? Pitchford's reaction to that was "nananananana I'm not listening the game is awsome".

    edit; and after having taken that survey it seems they are once again on the wrong path. Since non of it dealt with quality, it only asked about content.
    Duke's humor works, the ideas would work, but only if it is done wel.
    Shadows of the Damned shows this. it's just as juvenile and simpel as Duke, the difference is it is well written and fun to play, Duke wasn't.

    Merely asking feedback on wether or not you like Duke's humor and/or linear level design is missing the point. That's not what was wrong with DNF. The fact that these things were underproduced and badely done was the issue.
    Edited by Freek at 20/09/11 @ 11:47

  • schnide #21 8 months ago

    I can't think of a worse way to improve the game than to design it by committee of public feedback.

    Gearbox - throw out everything you had to start with that you picked up from 3D Realms, take the character of Duke as he's always been regarded, and build a game around him. Everything else that should be in the game will follow from that.

    3D Realms' efforts to make the ultimate game incorporating the best of everything are what led DNF to collapse under its own weight.

  • schnide #22 8 months ago

    @Freek

    I'm genuinely not taking the p*ss here mate, but is English your first language?

  • Freek #23 8 months ago

    No, but my spelling is bad regardless of language. :p

  • schnide #24 8 months ago

    @Freek

    Okay, well that makes sense. Because regardless, I'm sorry to inform you that I have to make a citizen's arrest for multiple offences against placement of the letter 'e'. Come quietly and don't make a scene.

    Edit: Congratulations - by noticing my deliberate mistake, you have passed the basic literacy test to allow you back on the streets. Let this be a warning to you.
    Edited by schnide at 20/09/11 @ 13:32

  • Architect_z #25 8 months ago

    It was as if my poop, did a poop

  • IronCladChicken #26 8 months ago

    @vamos
    You are after a fan forum, not a comments board.

  • Freek #27 8 months ago

    You just misspelled the first sentence of that arrest....
    Edited by Freek at 20/09/11 @ 13:12

  • SHNUFF #28 8 months ago

    Gave it a 10. Someone has to. Great humour, humour people, I hope you remember what that was all about. Games were not always dead serious space marines whose own stupidity was the only laughable thing about them. I loved every second of DNF, laughed hard many many times and couldnt recommend it more. Cheers 3dRealms!

  • George-Roper #29 8 months ago

    I loved it. Haters be damned. It was a fun and challenging game and to this day I still don't really get what the world's problem with it was, and I've read the Eurogamer review, and everyone's summaries of the EG review under the guise of their own opinions.

    Agree completely, although I picked it up for a tenner on the PC. If I'd spent 30 quid I may have felt differently.

  • Biker_Bob_1971 #30 8 months ago

    Post deleted at 16:59:10 06-02-2012

  • Freek #31 8 months ago

    Relax, he was just joking and I don't mind that.

  • Toothball #32 8 months ago

    I've not played any of the Duke games, but I'm just glad that they put Forever to rest so everyone could move on.

  • Biker_Bob_1971 #33 8 months ago

    Post deleted at 16:59:10 06-02-2012

  • schnide #34 8 months ago

    @Biker_Bob_1971

    Indeed. You may notice that my first post directing my attention at his spelling wasn't critical, and my second was only jovial. I have nothing but respect for those who can speak a second language (of which I am currently learning a third) and I bear that in mind when communicating over the internet.

    My concern was that there are people in the UK who DO spell like that when English is their first language, or indeed, far worse. Freek has an excuse. Those others do not.

    And to address your last comment (in Dutch), that doesn't make me a nationalist - quite the opposite.

  • Biker_Bob_1971 #35 8 months ago

    Post deleted at 16:59:10 06-02-2012

  • DrStrangelove #36 8 months ago

    Not sure if you want to hear my opinion, cause that would involve throwing poo.

  • borkedconsole #37 8 months ago

    Compulsory steamworks, boring design, ill-made graphics, idiotic non-funniness, terminal consoliting infection by ways of health regen and two-weapons only, IQ-challenged AI, developer Randy Pitchfork acting like a whining douchebag when called out on these flaws, the list goes on. I'm skipping the next duke unless it's made by someone else besides Gearbox.