TehBorken wrote:
Natasha wrote:
[img border=0 src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/2.gif"] Okay.... (sigh)
YAY!!
"Duke Nukem Forever" is shoot-em-up video game that was in a perpetual state of "just about to be released real-soon-now"....[SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"]for almost 15 years[/SPAN].
People have graduated high school, gone to college and become heart transplant spetgwpdts in less time than that. And that includes doing a 5-year residency. We fought WWII in less time than it's taken to release Duke Nukem Forever.
Put it this way: If you walked 50 miles per day, you could (theoretically) walk all the way around the Earth in about 1.5 years. So you could have walked around the Earth [SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]10 times[/SPAN] since the first development team got to work. Or, in only 8 to 10 years you could have earned a PhD in almost any subject imaginable, including quantum-state particle physics. But you couldn't have released Duke Nukem Forever.
LMAO.. good joke, now that I get it 
From Wikipedia:
The next installment in the video game series,
[A title="Duke Nukem Forever" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever"]Duke Nukem Forever[/A], has been in [A title="Development hell" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_hell"]development hell[/A] for over a decade after being announced in early 1997. DNF was announced in April 1997, and promotional information for the game was released in one form or another in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Due to this, the game had been subject to intense speculation and has won several [A style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" title=Vaporware href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware"]vaporware[/A] awards.
The development team was terminated in May 2009, but according to 3d Realms, the project has not officially been cancelled and the game is still in development. Although [A title="Take-Two Interactive" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive"]Take-Two Interactive[/A] still owns the publishing rights to the game, they do not have an agreement with 3D Realms to provide funding for the game's continued development.[SUP id=cite_ref-shacknewscancelled_12-0 class=reference][A href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_%28character%29#cite_note-shacknewscancelled-12"][SPAN][[/SPAN]13[SPAN]][/SPAN][/A][/SUP] A lawsuit has been filed by Take-Two Interactive against 3D Realms over their failure to finish development of the game. The lawsuit has reached a "settlement" as of May 2010.[SUP id=cite_ref-Take-Two_Sues_Duke_Nukem_Forever_Devs_Over_Failure_To_Deliver_13-0 class=reference][A href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_%28character%29#cite_note-Take-Two_Sues_Duke_Nukem_Forever_Devs_Over_Failure_To_Deliver-13"][SPAN][[/SPAN]14[SPAN]][/SPAN][/A][/SUP]
[A title="Gearbox Software" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gearbox_Software"]Gearbox Software[/A] finally bought the rights and intellectual property of the franchise[SUP id=cite_ref-ripten.com_1-1 class=reference][A href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_%28character%29#cite_note-ripten.com-1"][SPAN][/SPAN][SPAN][/SPAN][/A][/SUP] and worked on the project since 2009. It was finally released in late May or early June, 2011.
