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Retro Game of the Week, Week 6
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01-02-2016 4:12pm#1Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭Join Date:Posts: 33764
So, this weeks game, as requested, is
Duke Nukem 3D!
Links to the Past!
Week 1 SoR2
Week 2 Myth
Week 3 SF2
Week 4 Doom
Week 5 Sonic 21
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Many, many hours wasted in college on this immature 'mature' title, think it was slightly before we got our greasy paws on Quake... Quake was a whole different ball game, but Duke was where the easy single player fun was. Quake was more our multiplayer fix, across the lan in the computer labs!
Duke became a bit of a badge of honour with us, who'd discover the most hilarious or seedy areas in it, and who'd get through it first, especially as games often had to be speedily exited so that we'd not get caught playing it in the labs!
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I'd spent many fun hours playing the original Duke games (the 2D platformers) so was already well familiar with Duke Nukem when this came along, but Duke 3D was on a whole other level!0 -
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I remember when I got this game on my PC. My parents wouldn't allow it so my friend installed a pirate version in my windows directory in a folder called NCC-1701. Guess what he was a fan of.
I thought it was hilarious at the time but playing it now it's painfully immature but kind of charming in a way, unlike the pretty disgusting duke nukem forever.
I really loved the build engine. It wasn't until half life that a true 3D world matched the level of detail as Duke and it's only recently that games can match its interactivity. It's still a blast to go back to since it's refreshing to play something with gods honest level design and not a cinema tube. The shareware levels are superb but think the major flaw of the game is the other episodes are no where near as good.
I still think Blood and Shadow Warrior were the better a Build engine games and would take Jedi engine games Dark Forces and Outlaws over it but it's still a.classic.
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In before the lock!
Definitely my favourite FPS of all time, put more hours into it than anything other game especially with the awesome mods that came out and are still coming.
The imagination in the game was amazing, even from the first moment of falling from your ride onto a building top and watching it going down in flames and explode.
It was extremely immersive for the time.
Theres was just so many cool game mechanics that previous games and even games after it lacked. The ability to blow a hole in walls, earthquakes, the ability to swim, jetpack, crawl through vents, and of course the insane amount of interactivity with your environment, that even let you stick your fingers in electric sockets and get a shock! Lol
It took you on an epic adventure, and even had platforming and puzzle elements with great secret areas and lots of cultural references. And the voice acting was totally new and funny.
The weapons were excellent too, especially the pipe bomb which could be detonated from anywhere in the level which is great fun in multiplayer,the shrinker and devastator.
As for the other Build Games I'd take the high tech world of Duke over them anyday.
Blood suffers graphically from the same problem Resistance fall of man does, far too many Brown's and greys. I also find the environment too dull, but its the point of the game I suppose.
I preferred Shadow Warrior but it suffers from pacing issues, the levels tend to be much longer and theres bigger gaps between enemies.
I think they got the flow of Duke 3D spot on.
People on here dislike the level design in Lunar Apocalyose, but in its defense I think there's only so much you can do with space ships and bases. I would have preferred it to another episode where you stay on earth.
As for the Megatron version on Steam I found the mouse support is way off. You're much better off installing the eduke32 exe and launching the game with that.
If anyone ever wants to play online let me know.not just the strippers n porn movies mind you but the unsaveable naked 'chickzzz' who all you can do is stare at then shoot..Basically theres more lady-hatin there than a fedora full of gamergate gob****es who've just been turned down getting a debs date...(and dont get me started on DNF).
But you didn't have to shoot them and if you did you were usually punished by enemies spawning close to them.
It was mysoginistic for sure but in a fun way, I think you over react when you say it was lady hating!
Duke nukem forever on the other hand takes the piss altogether with mysoginy. The less said about that game the better!
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