Half Life 2: Episode 3.
How can it be done when it’s forever?
I don’t recall seeing much on the gaming sites I keep an eye on. Not that I’m saying it wasn’t there, just that they didn’t seem to be making a huge deal about it if it was.
As LOUNE rightly points out, the SDMB isn’t exactly the go-to standard for measuring Gaming “Buzz”.
There’s nothing at any of my regular gaming stores about it, and most of my serious Gamer friends either heard the news from me or saw the same news stories I did and went “Meh”. Theoretically this should be the Gaming equivalent of the Beatles releasing a new album, but… well, no-one really seems to care, basically.
Even if you count this thread as “buzz” (which some of us obviously don’t), the Dope is just not that influential. If there were a thriving thread about it at slashdot, I’d say there was buzz. Here? Meh.
Is 280 comments enough to count as “thriving”?
It’s also the #1 game on GameSpot’s Most Popular Games list and #25 on IGN’s Top Upcoming Games list.
actually, if it’s even mentioned here at all, it probably is sizeable precisely because we don’t have that mainstream a games forum.
JADE, but only among those of us who are rogue-like fans. Thomas Biskup announced JADE in, what, 1997?
I don’t think the point was that talking about it on the Dope puts it on the map and counts as “buzz” literally. I think it was more that the amount of interest here is representative of the gaming community, and so a popular thread indicates a higher level of interest. That said, I don’t find the point to be very compelling, considering the community here skews older than the overall gaming community and I’m guessing that most of us played the original near when it came out and remember it fondly. That’s not true about the late teens / early 20s typical gamer these days.
Buzz or marketing?
I haven’t seen any ads for it yet. And until there are loads of Ads, no one (read mainstream gaming) will care.
I have to say that I have not seen one mention of multiplayer for DNF. In this day and age an average game with great multiplayer will sell well. Games without multiplayer are pretty much doomed to also ran status.
I am mainly looking forward to purchasing DNF for installation on our corporate network so that the two oldest dorks in the company (and one young turk who remembers his dad playing it) can Duke it out after hours.
Deathmatch was the best thing about D3D, and the mod that allowed you to squat down and take a dump was the best taunt ever – good times.
You don’t pay attention to video games on the Dope much, do you?
Not true, Unreal Tournament 3 didn’t sell well 
UT3 isn’t any improvement significant over 2k4 and it’s consolized, so it got rejected by the community that would’ve supported it. Super twitch FPS games don’t sell on consoles.
UT3 didn’t have good multiplayer. It was borked up by Gamespy, a terrible server browser, console ui, and bad net code. Epic managed to fix all of it in their patch (and Black edition), but by then it was too late. The game worked very well, but that just let you find hundreds of empty servers.
And that’s why cliffyb rage quit’d the PC industry.
Ok guys. Now, that it has been pushed back a month can you see why people were skeptical? Now comes the fun part - will it really appear in June?
(Heh. Had to bump this thread to point out what happens when you believe in Duke Nukem.)
I DO believe in Duke Nukem! I DO believe in Duke Nukem! I DO believe in Duke Nukem!
Or is it more appropriate to clap? I can’t decide which is the prevailing meme.
Stuff one dollar bills into a stripper’s g-string.
You’ve been to very different productions of Peter Pan than I have…
Yeah, once you see Duke Nukem as peter pan, you never look at Disneyfied shit the same way ever again.