Duke Nukem Forever

[Frogacuda]

If you're talking about the difference between a 45 aggregate and a 65, you're still talking about something that sucks really bad.

Right. And yet still fair for someone to point out that some of what's being said is hyperbolic.

Personally, I kind of just find the game interesting to play. Like playing a leaked beta or something. It's half baked, but there's ideas in there.

[Kbu Chan]

Umm, this game's actually pretty good. I'm surprised at how low the scores are.

[AaronChance]

Eh, go play Wanted: Weapons of Fate, then. Which scored like 20 points higher than this on average. Then tell me about terrible.

Wanted is better than DNF because it's shorter, and so the pain is over sooner.

Someone on GAF compared DNF and Rogue Warrior scores, and pretty much every time RW got the lower score.

[Tain]

It's half baked, but there's ideas in there.

Yeah. If the whole campaign was as good as Duke Burger, it would be a great game by modern FPS standards.

[bVork]

I liked Wanted, dammit!

[Frogacuda]

Someone on GAF compared DNF and Rogue Warrior scores, and pretty much every time RW got the lower score.

Rogue Warrior is pretty extraordinarily awful.

I liked Wanted, dammit!

No you didn't.

[elfneedsfood]

I like this game a lot actually, and I've never played the older Duke games. I've definitely played games WAY worse than this that received higher scores.

[Cheebs]

Maybe one day all games will either get a 0 or a 100.

In all honesty, I'd love to see that. On a scale of 0 to 1, Game X is a 1. Read the words to learn more. Simply, is the game worth it or not? That is the only question that a review score can answer. The score can't say a thing about how it looks, how it plays, what it's specific problems are, what it does right, etc. So if numbers are only good for answering a single yes/no question, only use enough numbers to answer that question.

[Doc Holliday]

Is it worth the wait? Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. How could any game possibly be worth waiting 14 years for, especially one that only ever aspired to be a low-brow comedy first-person shooter? There’s no reinvention of the genre here, no real attempt at grandeur. More than anything, Duke just wants to party like it’s 1997.

Check unrealistic expectations at the door and forget the ancient, hyperbolic promises of self-deluded developers before you even consider buying this suddenly corporeal ghost of PC gaming history. The development-time-to-awesomeness ratio isn’t impressive. If you can do that, Duke Nukem Forever can at least mostly succeed in its aspiration. After all of its tumultuous history, it’s ended up as an entertaining FPS wrapped in juvenile, smut-laced humor. Its gameplay is a hybrid of old-school and new, and it won’t wow players with stunning visuals—its window of opportunity for that passed years ago—but it does put on a good show of alien ass-kicking by working what it’s got.

I can buy it.

[Diff-chan]

In all honesty, I'd love to see that. On a scale of 0 to 1, Game X is a 1. Read the words to learn more. Simply, is the game worth it or not? That is the only question that a review score can answer. The score can't say a thing about how it looks, how it plays, what it's specific problems are, what it does right, etc. So if numbers are only good for answering a single yes/no question, only use enough numbers to answer that question.

Worth it to who, though?

Every game out there has a fan. When I worked at EB, I talked to many people who had a great time with Superman 64, no joke.