Duke Nukem 3D confirmed for XBLA Comments by Robert Purchese
Hopefully this year, says Scott Miller.
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Shake it baby!
Ace, 3D Realms wont need to release anything else ever again, every new generation of consoles re-release this, I have had it on PC, N64 and I am sure others over the years, my brains a little addled right now. Hence the secret project of Forever, they will be re-selling the same game over and over, muhahaha.
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"This year", what tosh.
This is exactly why XBLA isn't working the way it's supposed to. People say to look to it for the PS2/Wii alternative of Xbox platforms in terms of low cost, short dev cycles, but if things that are already essentially finished take this long to come out then it's pretty obvious someone somewhere isn't giving it much priority. If THEY don't care, then I find it difficult to care myself. Will still pick it up though. |
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NthSimulachum
07/02/08 @ 13:21
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Commander Keen is annoying. Is there anyway to kill those sentient rocks?
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@ miiiguel
XBLA theoretically allow small games, low cost (in itself a laughable suggestion as they're not even remotely low) to come out faster as an alternative to the full on next gen extravaganzas. This is not the case in practice. The truth is that even something tiny takes forever, and you'll be more likely to get a bigger number of high profile million dollar productions in a certain time span than XBLA ones. Even this, even a finished game is talked about in terms of 12 month windows, and I find that depressing. |
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kangarootoo
07/02/08 @ 13:27
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I'm going to have to don my "cynical, hope its good, but just not sure" hat on this one.
I loved DN3D to bits when it was current, but it will have aged shedloads by now. I really hope it still kicks ass (no pun intended) but almost every retro title that I've played in recent times has just tarnished a favourable memory. I don't know if I ever quite recovered when I discovered that, by modern standards, Double Dragon is a bit shit. Fingers crossed.
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kangarootoo
07/02/08 @ 13:31
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@SimonM7
The thing with software dev is that the more people you throw at it, the quicker it gets done, but the more it costs. XBLA games are comparatively low return and so they don't get anything near the resources of a front line title. Hence it takes way longer. If DN3D on XBLA had the same priority and resources as something like Gears of War, it would be ported and into format QA in under 3 weeks (made up figures, but almost certainly in about the right place). Don't know how long XBLA format QA takes mind, the queue could be quite long.
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@kangarootoo: "The thing with software dev is that the more people you throw at it, the quicker it gets done"
Ummm, which parallel universe do you live in? The more people you throw at a project, once you get beyond the "peak" number, the quicker it falls apart because of the additional management required to get everyone synchronized. yours, MSc Management of IT. ;) |
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Simon, I wasn't comenting on the time window for some XBLA development, I was on the XBLA reaching its goals thingy. And USers love that shit, I mean I have loadsa of those on my FL who buy every single one, and 360 Arcade SKU sold big numbers during Xmas in the states. So my guess is XBLA is doing very good - although I never got into that. I have 5 LA games, and the last one I bought but haven't even played it yet - Rez HD.
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@MGG
With all due respect... not arsed about the student manager's perspective - have you seen this in practice? I expect though that you're absolutely right. Boast about your real world experience! As far as the game's concerned... launch day purchase! I can finally give back the Saturn version that I borrowed from my friend last summer! Excellent conversion by Lobotomy. |
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Antwandemarco
07/02/08 @ 22:19
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I'm suprised at the amount of people that only have a couple of games, i think i have somewhere around the thirty figure. I bloody love xbla, think its on of the systems big plusses.
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@SimonM7: In theory one could make a game at no cost at all for XBLA. If you're a bedroom dev with talent and motivation, it's pretty much possible to make something in the evenings and have a small game done in a year or so. I don't know if you're familiar with XNA but it's about the simplest thing I've ever seen for making professional games. One could make basic side scrollers, rts, rpg's, etc. in as little time as one day (I did).
Of course it's not the development that is the problem. It's QA and getting planned in that's time consuming. @saying that they don't need this as it's on the pc: I have it installed atm. Can't play it because the graphics are jut big blocks of pixels. Has glitches all over because even with dosbox, it still doesn't run properly. Does your pc version have HD support (mandatory)? Does it have updated graphics and audio? Does it have achievements? Live integration? Even your pc version isn't free (and if it was, you're a pirate). If they can port it over just as well as D2, it will be well worth 800 points.
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