What exactly is so wrong with Duke Nukem Forever?

The GS review sites such things as boring missions, dull visuals and awful humor/dialogue. But I'd like to know, what do all of you personally find wrong with the game that make(s) it so bad, and what score would you personally give it?

I was just watching the trailer and despite the reviews, it seems like a rather interesing game with some pretty awesome-looking enemies and even some guilty fun. I know it's just a trailer, and as most game trailers go, the game looks better than it really is. But I'm not entirely sure about how bad this one really is, and would really like to know what is so wrong with it.

I was also quite a fan of Duke Nukem 3D so that may be a reason for my curious interest.

its not perfect but its still fun i think it was rated so badly because it didnt have as a big of an impact as the first game

Reviews in general seem to be getting bizarre lately. I'm playing Hunted The Demon's Forge, which got lousy review yet I had a really good time with it. Duke Nukem got crappy scores, apparently because reviewers were offended by the humor? Who knows. I see now they're giving the new Transformers game a 5.5/10.

As far as I'm concerned, reviews have reached the point where they're not worth looking at any more. Pretty much anybody can predict what score the next big AAA title will get, even before it's started development, within +/- .5 points. And these scores for the lesser known games are really off-the-wall. There's something odd going on here.

As far as I'm concerned, reviews have reached the point where they're not worth looking at any more. Pretty much anybody can predict what score the next big AAA title will get, even before it's started development, within +/- .5 points. And these scores for the lesser known games are really off-the-wall. There's something odd going on here.

I was a fan of the original and I'd give it around a 5 out of 10.

Its nice to see Duke again but the game sure isn't worth 60 bucks.

There are so many better games you can get for 60 bucks - Infamous 2 comes to mind.

Its not that the game is horrible (well the online is) but it feels old and unless you want to take a trip down memory lane, there's nothing here (from what I've played so far) that'll make you go wow.

If you're curious and can't get it on the cheap, I'd just wait for the price to drop.

It just looks bad to me. I didn't see anything that would make me want to even rent this game. It doesn't at all look like the developers took their time on it. Compared to modern shooters, Duke Nukem doesn't look like its worth it. I've seen it and will leave it alone.

I was a fan of DN3D and was tempted by this but since i still have a few titles to finish first im gonna wait til it goes down in price. if they did an HD revamp of DN3D id be all over it!!McProley

I think they might be, something called Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded. I'm not sure if it's still active or if it will be on consoles.

. Duke makes fun of himself. It's not a game that takes itself seriously. Some reviewers were talking about the sense of humour and how you can pick up poop out of the toilet.. what did they expect? They had a whole trailer based upon that very thing before the game came out. The game is a lot of fun and thats what counts. Rattlesnake_8

Lets address your points sentence by sentence.

Barely. The game glorifies itself to an intense degree rather than making legitimate fun of itself or being a good parody. It's dumbly crude, yet has no real moments where it calls itself out on it.

What you expect has nothing to do with how you rate anything. Many knew the game would be ****, especially after playing with **** in the game was revealed in a trailer.

Once again, a trailer presets reviews and ratings? So I guess terrible trailers should have the game recieve a 10/10 if it ended up being decent.

The game is not a lot of fun. It's boring as ****.

Hype is a dangerous thing. Can ruin a game.

I haven't played it yet, but after 15 years in the making, I think people were waiting for a lot more of it as a game.

What I'm trying to say is, maybe the game is not as bad as critics say it is to score like 3.0 to 5.0 range, but if it is 15 years in the making you just would have to make the game near perfect to be well received.

Look at the example of StarCraft II.

It should have been offered as a digital download for $19.99 or so. At that price it would be totally average and much of its shortcomings would be forgivable. At $60 though it is inexcusably bad and overpriced.

This game would have been perfect as a budget PSN/XBLA Title.

The fact is, that gearbox threw the game out as quickly as posible with little to no polish over what 3D Realms had originally done.

The game tries to play homage to itself but fails in almost every aspect,

The humour just isn't working anymore. Maybe it's an issue with me growing up since i Played Duke Nukem 3D on Pc, but after the nostalgia pased I just didn't find it funny anymore. Throwing crap like a chimp simply isn't funny to me. I am more than happy to switch off and just enjoy crude humour for the sake of it, and Duke has a tradition of being interactive with almost everything in the environment and being fun in the process. Bu the fact that after taking a leak, throwing s*** is the first thing you can do seems like they have taking the hilarity of the feces trailer and wasted it all in the first 5 minutes of the game.

Game graphics are never an issue for me really, but the fact it is running unreal 2.5 shows just how little effort was put into production.

Personally, I would take bulletstorm over this DNF anyday. I have been a fan of duke since the early 90's and this game is just an abomination.

Duke flinging s*** just feels like the perfect Gearbox/2k/3D Realms/duke Nukem Forever metaphor as far as I am concerned

Gameplay is dull, levels are linear small narrow corridor like crap, enemies are interestingly animated, but thats not enough. Weapons were pretty good, but i could only carry 2 of them! The game also showed absolute discust to women and the humor was something out of a perverts mouth. Gameplay was narrowed and downgraded and there was absolutely no fun of exploration. I remember Duke Nukem used to be a fast paced shooter where you constantly have to outmanouver your opponents, circle strafe and it had so many cool secrets.I barely used any circle strafe in campaign and my character got tired after about 5 sec on running! I regret buying it, should have spent my money on something more original and loyal to its fans, such as Killzone 3.

i really enjoyed the game, it reminds me of when shooters were good

yah its a mess technical wise but who gives a flying f*ck in the end when its fun, only thing i disliked was the FB was litterly the first boss....and still a final bos sin anothe rgame an- MINDF*CKED AGGHHHHH

thoguh its also just enjoyable form how over the top it was, i remember me and my freaind were laughing so hard when a enemie litterly shoots sperm at you as a weapon

I haven't played it and despite how awesome it looks(imo anyway) it isn't worth $60. If i dropped $60 on this game it would probably be a bad choice.