Today I was still annoyed because it wasn't working. After school I headed over to the local T-Mobile store to see what the fuck was wrong. I go in and tell the guy my situation. He loads up my details and asks if I called customer service when I changed the plans. I told him yes and then he said that they screwed up (go figure). So the guy goes and calls them up and takes care of business. He corrects the error and does a hard restart to my Pearl. When it booted up all the web stuff loaded instantly. 24-48 hours my ass. Just a few hours ago I bought and put in (with some trouble) a 2GB microSD card so I can put stuff on it. Now I am a happy camper.

Also, big news. I got the job at Walgreens (found out on Saturday) and start tomorrow for training and such. Should be an interesting day. I'll have to make sure I set my phone to vibrate though. I don't think they want to hear the Megadeth version of the Duke Nukem theme.

It's called Mirror's Edge, and it's a first person fighting game, apparently. Well, not quite–it's sort of an adventure game too. It also involves Parkour or Street Running or something like that and looks totally sweet. The guys developing it are DICE; they're the same crew behind Battlefield Heroes or whatever that WWII-Themed Free TF2 Clone is. By the way, Free TF2 Clone is enough to sell me on something, and being WWII-Themed is enough to hook me on it.

See where I'm going with this?

I've decided to compile a list of games that I am heavily anticipating, no matter how much they might suck or how much ass they might kick. In no particular order, here's a list of announced games I can't wait to see:

• STALKER: Clear Sky. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl was a great game, but was also the only game that didn't particularly enjoy running on my Vista-based PC. It was pretty buggy and crashed a lot; so much so that I never actually completed the game with its "actual" ending. Occasionally I'll turn it on and hope it'll work, but it never does. Clear Sky is a prequel which will hopefully be less buggy, especially given that it's programmed with DX10, which means that Vista will just have to get along nicely with it.
• Deus Ex 3. Need I say more? I've never played Deus Ex, although I did find myself a copy and am going to install it just as soon as I finish System Shock 2, but I hear good things about both it and its sequel. Of course, I've heard bad things about the sequel too, but I'll just have to judge that for myself.
• Half Life 2: Episode 3. I absolutely hate the level design in Half Life 2 and its subsequent episodes, but the game manages to be entertaining anyways. The pistol is annoying as hell, unless you play the game with all the sound turned off, and then you'll find yourself actually favoring it as it's a fun weapon to use. I really wish they'd give it a new sound effect. Frankly, I've done a lot of googling (and read the book) on Half Life 2, and most of what they cut, given what I've seen, looks like it could have made the game better. After playing it, I honestly felt cheated. Then again, it was fun and better than most games I'd played.
• Fallout 3. It goes without saying that first person adventure-shooter games are some of the best I've ever played. STALKER and System Shock were fantastic, and right now I have this tremendous urge to go reinstall Bioshock and beat it a third time. Is this some sort of weird bi-monthly Bioshock thingy? I don't know. Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic game (+10 awesome points), has FPS elements (+10 awesome points), and... hell, it's Fallout (+9001 awesome points). It's going to be worth playing, especially with a company like Bethesda doing the production. Apparently Oblivion IV was one of the best PC games ever made (at least IGN seemed to think so), which means that I'll have high hopes for this game.
• Mirror's Edge: I really said all I wanted to about this game.
• The Crossing: Single Player and Multiplayer combined? Count me in! Now if only games like Half Life 2, Bioshock, and Call of Duty could have co-op play... Did I mention the Knights Templar? It has Knights Templar. Also, it looks gorgeous. I have never seen such a good looking Source game except perhaps...
• Left 4 Dead. Co-op. Zombies. I can play as a girl. I'm sold.
• Aliens: Colonial Marines. Gearbox Software has made a ton of great games. I absolutely loved beating Opposing Force and Blue Shift and still go back to them occasionally. Their port of Halo was great, especially in light of the Halo 2 port, since they put the kind of care into their port that turned a genuinely great console game into a genuinely nice PC shooter. Let's face it, Halo isn't a great shooter; it's just one of the best you can get on a console. I love the Alien film franchise and am watching Aliens for the first time (remember what I said about parents not liking video games? That went for films as well). So far Alien3's quadrilogy cut is the best Alien film I've seen (it was the only one they had available to rent at the time I got it), and Aliens Vs. Predator 2 was a genuinely scary game, so I have high hopes for Aliens: Colonial Marines.
• Max Payne 3. The first two games were a blast, and while I liked the graphics and bullet time of Max Payne 2 better than the original, there was something about the first game's feel that kicked more ass. Besides that, it had a Pancor Jackhammer. Any game with a Pancor Jackhammer is alright by me. Probably. To this day, Max Payne is one of the only Third Person Shooters I truly enjoy.
• Earth No More. Yes, I know, I know, it's a game by 3D Realms, and Prey was absolutely terrible, but still, it sounds cool.
• Alan Wake. I'm not sure what to say about it. It looks gorgeous and scary, and if it manages to do what it's trying to do, well, I'll be a huge fan.
• Bioshock 2. No one, as far as I am aware, denies that Bioshock was a great game. I felt that it was far more simplistic than System Shock 2, and while I have been playing the aforementioned game, I have seen numerous similarities, including levels (Garden and Hydroponics levels where you have to put something into the air; Medical level, Mall level with a casino and so forth, etc.), cameras and turrets, and so forth. Like Yahtzee said on Zero Punctuation, Bioshock isn't just a successor to System Shock 2, it is System Shock 2. I'd say that it's actually a retarded clone of System Shock 2. Bioshock is like the good looking, cool, attractive person that you like to hang out with, but System Shock 2 is its better proportioned, more intelligent older sibling. Bioshock 2 will no doubt be Bioshock's twin, in which case we can have us a threesome, which will be pretty fun.
• They. It reminds me of a mediocre anime I saw once called Yukikaze (or Battle Fairy Yukikaze if you want to translate it exactly) and that sounds cool enough. Weird alien things in machines sounds awesome. I want to play this. Plus, it's a mystery game.
• Far Cry 2. Yeah, um... it's not Far Cry, guys. It isn't. No matter what you do or how you do it, it won't be Far Cry. That said, what Far Cry 2 claims to be looks like a fascinating game with an incredibly high replay factor. Count me in.
• Brütal Legend. It just looks awesome. Plus, it's from the guy who did Psychonauts and Grim Fandango, Tim Schafer!
• The Hunt. It's basically where everyone is hunting you for a reality TV show. Reminds me a little bit of Battle Royale. The company's website doesn't have the best English on it, but still... I'll be interested in seeing how it turns out. Then again, I said the same thing about Conflict: Denied Ops and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, both of which were terrible games that I only played a few levels of. They both has enormous potential and ended up sucking. Conflict's main problem was crappy/downright weird controls.
• Tiberium. It takes place in the Command & Conquer Universe; need I say more? I will: The trailer looks totally badass and it looks like we'll get to use a railgun! I am a little worried, though, as I hated Conflict: Denied Ops and both Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter games, both of which used squad control, and Tiberium uses it as well...
• Resistance 2 and Killzone 2. FPSes in very unique universes; originality in video games is always a plus. A lot of people liked the first two games in their respective franchises. Too bad they're for PS3 only; I don't have the cash to purchase one right now. They both have killer graphics too! Besides that, Haze is coming out shortly, and I'd love to give that a whirl.
• Mercenaries 2 looks totally sweet. I want it. I want it more than I want Grand Theft Auto IV.
• Velvet Assassin looks great as well, but I can't really tell you that much about it.
• Duke Nukem Forever. Yes. That's all I need to say.

I'll be interested in seeing where Crysis 2 and Call of Duty 5 go, but I can't say I'll play them with much enthusiasm. Call of Duty 5 should focus on the Pacific War, with Australian and American forces; I'd love to see that and very few video games have even touched on that theatre, which in my mind was always more interesting. Jungle combat was great in Far Cry, after all. Crysis 2, again, jungle combat, but the game seemed bored with itself, with dialog from a 90s B action movie and uninspiring weapons. I loved the ability to modify my guns, but the maps were a tad more linear then Far Cry and there just wasn't that much variation overall. We shall see what we shall see, eh? Project Origin is the same way: Eh. Its predecessor, FEAR, was just another run and gun shooter with some weird horror elements and terrible lighting. I just beat Perseus Mandate the other day and honestly have no desire to play any of the games in the series again. They were just boring. Not only that, but it sucks when I see it on a list of "scariest games," because FEAR wasn't that scary, really, especially when you compare it with a game like Penumbra, which I refuse to play because it terrified me so much. I keep telling myself I'll get back to it and I never do.

Next I'll be taking a look at games I wish would come out, but probably won't, and upcoming mods I'm anticipating.

EDIT: Since then, I have completed System Shock 2. More games should be like this. No game tells a story this well. None.

This game will totally own!!! They have the original voice guy confirmed, and now confirmed gameplay...come out with it already!!!

Duke Nukem High Resolution Pack...

http://hrp.duke4.net/

and my Duke maps from Looong ago...;)

http://www.lux3d.com/dukenukem3d/aqua.zip
http://www.lux3d.com/dukenukem3d/aqua2.zip
http://www.lux3d.com/dukenukem3d/aqua3.zip

Por muito pouco, mas muito pouco mesmo, Ryu não passa para a final. O lutador abriu 4 a 1 e parecia ter a partida dominada, até que os 4 votos seguintes foram pra Crono, que virou o jogo e ficou com a vaga. O duelo de Goku e Duke foi mais tranquilo, o sayian ficou o tempo todo em vantagem e vai jogar a finalíssima.

Hoje temos um único jogo, a disputa de terceiro lugar entre Ryu e Duke Nukem.

Vamulá!

Quem apostava em Mario na final, viu o encanador ser derrotado pelo street fighter Ryu. Crono mais uma vez destrói seu adversário e avança para a semi. Alex Kidd até que tentou, mas ficou longe de conseguir. Na sequência, tivemos os jogos mais emocionantes até agora. Primeiro vimos Sonic ser derrotado por Goku, num jogo disputado de empate a empate até o último voto. Decidido no último voto também foi o jogo do Nukem contra DK, no final deu Duke... "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum".

A Semi-final ficou assim.

Agora o negócio está ainda mais complicado. Ryu já dispensou dois fortes competidores, Link e Mario, e vem empolgado para enfrentar o dono da melhor campanha e maior goleador da Copa, Crono. Na sequência, Goku encara mais um gigante, Duke Nukem. Dois jogos onde tudo pode acontecer.

E vamos à votação!

Contrariando a muitos, Alex Kidd venceu confortavelmente o wrestler Haggar, Crono por sua vez, nem tomou conhecimento do melequento Booger e o despachou sem cerimônia. Nos jogos seguintes, dois favoritos caíram; Tommy Vercetti sucumbiu perante Donkey Kong, o gorila é o azarão da competição, saíndo de uma situação de quase desclassificação na primeira fase para as quartas de final. O seu adversário será Duke, que venceu Billy 'Voadora na Boca' Lee no jogo mais emocionante do dia, resolvido nos últimos minutos.

Agora, vamos às Quartas de Final, os oito melhores já estão definidos, agora resta saber quem avança para a tão esperada Semi-final e consequente Final.

O negócio tá ficando interessante... Mario enfrenta Ryu em uma partida complicada, Alex Kidd tem uma tarefa dificílima contra Crono, que até aqui não tem mostrado muita pena dos adversários. Na sequência, Sonic versus Goku e o azarão DK contra Duke Nukem.

Agora é com vocês.

Mario desbancou o Prince, abriu boa vantagem desde o início e venceu sem maiores problemas, o mesmo com Ryu, que contrariou os apostadores e mandou o 'hylian' pra casa mais cedo, seu desafio agora é contra o assassino Mario. No jogo mais emocionante do dia, deu Sonic, que com um último golpe na prorrogação venceu o reploid Zero, para enfrentar Goku nas quartas de final, que não viu dificuldades para tostar o ninja Shinobi.

E agora, os jogos finais das oitavas:

Um verdadeiro duelo de "Davi e Golias" no primeiro jogo do dia, Alex Kidd contra Haggar. Na sequencia teremos Crono e Boogerman e Vercetti contra DK. Fechando a rodada, Billy "Voadora na Boca" Lee encarando o explosivo Duke Nukem.

Let the carnage begin!

Minhoca Jim poderia até perder, se o DK vacilasse contra Crash, mas o gorilão não deu chances para o bandicoot e levou de goleada, deixando Jim fora da competição. A maior surpresa da rodada foi o Grupo F, o grupo da morte, onde até esses últimos jogos nada estava definido. Com a vitória sobre o gato, Vercetti garante a liderança do grupo, e Haggar surpreendeu o arrogante Sephiroth e ficou com a última vaga.

E hoje, os últimos classificados serão conhecidos.

Grupo G temos Crono e Duke Nukem já classificados, lutando pela liderança. Crono é dono da melhor campanha até agora. O jogo seguinte entre Liu e Haohmaru é só pra cumprir tabela, ambos estão fora. NA sequencia, o lider Billy duela com Cecil, ainda com chances, Captain Commando encara o asqueroso Booger, também com chances de classificação.

Game on peeps!

 Finalmente, depois de muito tempo, as coisas se estabilizaram. Decidi dar uma mudada nas coisas por aqui. Pra não ver conflitos e etc, vou começar a fazer big fuckin posts semanais, com o mesmo conteúdo idiota inutil cultural que o putz seeempre teve. Além disso, terão também mais duas pessoas atuando no blog: Tidus e Aylash. Enfim, eles se viram explicam direitinho o que vão fazer quando resolverem postar õ/

 Ja que estamos migrando pra esse endereço, resolvi, no meu primeiro post, pegar os posts que mais fizeram sucesso no antigo PUTZ!, e aproveitar pra mostrar as pequenas mudanças que o negócio terá =]

Espero que gostem! ^^

-Sparta Gear X

 Algumas coisas não tem motivo. Outras simplismente acontecem porque THIS IS SPAARTAAA!

-Conflito de gerações

 Essa screenshot seria mais do mal se não fosse algo do tipo “só não matei você naquela época porque era um jogo infantil, n00b”.

-As 6 situações mais bizarras em jogos online.

1. Lengend of Mir 3 - Jogador matou o outro a Facadas

Em 2005, Qiu Chengwei, um residente de Shangai de 41 anos matou a facadas seu companheiro de jogo Zhu Caoyuan. O motivo?? Zhu vendeu o “Sabre do Dragão”, uma arma que eles ganharam juntos em uma campanha.

O pior de tudo, é que Qiu ainda foi na polícia dar queixa da venda, mas a polícia disse que objetos virtuais não são protegidos por lei. Daí ele foi lá e resolveu tudo sozinho.

Por acaso, Qiu Chengwei recebeu a pena de morte.

2. Gangue Brasileira que sequestrou jogador do Gunbound

No início de 2007, 4 homens entre 19 e 28 anos bolaram um plano para roubar a senha do melhor jogador de Gunbound (jogo multiplayer), por acaso um outro brasileiro. O objetivo era vender a conta pela internet pela bagatela de 8 mil dólares!

Primeiro, armaram para a namorada dele. Não sei direito o que aconteceu, mas aparentemente ela marcou por Orkut para se encontrar com o jogador em um shopping, mas ao invés dela, estava Igor, que fazia parte da quadrilha, armado! Eles levaram o garoto para um canto, e o mais incrível é que depois de 5 horas de pressão ele não cedeu a senha por nada.

Então a gangue libertou o garoto que foi pra polícia deu queixa e prendeu todo os quatro.

3. Menina morre jogando World of Worcraft

Em 2005, uma chinesa (lá vem os orientais de novo), morreu de exaustão, após jogar o MMORPG Word of Warcraft por três dias seguidos.

Ela estava, pasmem, se preparando para matar o Black Dragon Prince. O curioso é que os seus companheiros de jogo fizeram um funeral dentro do jogo.

4. Adolescente é preso por roubar mobília virtual no Habbo Hotel

Em Novembro de 2007 um garoto de 17 anos roubou o equivalente a 6 mil dólares em mobília virtual na “comunidade online” Habbo Hotel. O Habbo é um mundo virtual onde podem ser criadas casas e cenários, porém a mobília precisa ser comprada com dinheiro real.

O Zé Goiaba criou um site falso que enganava os usuários qe inseriam as senhas. Ele então as roubava e transferia toda a mobília dos trouxas pra sua conta. A polícia (de verdade) foi chamada e o garoto preso.

5. Polícia Belga patrulha o Second Life, depois de um caso de estupro virtual

Os detalhes do caso não foram revelados, mas dois jornais belgas noticiaram, também no início de 2007, que a polícia Belga iria patrulhar o “jogo” para investigar estupros virtuais.

(ok… quem é mais idiota aqui?? um cara que programa seu personagem para estuprar, ou alguém que dá queixa, porque seu personagem teve a rosca queimada??)

Pode parecer absurdo (e de fato é), mas isso provocou uma onde de discussões na web de sexólogos afirmando que um estupro virtual pode ser uma experiência traumática para gamers. (é só desligar o computador seus idiotas!!!)

6. A praga do World of Warcraft

Em 2005 a Blizzard lançou uma nova área dentro do jogo online World of Warcraft. A “Boss Area” ou Área do chefe permitia ao “chefe” de lançar uma magia chamada “corrupted Blood” que supostamente infectava outros e causava dano em todos os jogadores por perto.

Ao contrário do que foi planjeado, os jogadores nunca se curavam e quando retornavam às suas cidades, contaminavam quase toda a população. A praga se espalhou por todos os servidores e milhares de personagens “morreram”.

A Blizzard criou uma zona de quarentena dentro do jogo e mais adiante a cura para a infecção.

Em uma palavra: Bizarro!

Traduzido daqui por chongas

 -This is pr0n

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAACHO pra caralho!

-DA SÉRIE: QUE COISA MAIS GAAAY!

 -Entrada Estratégica. Ta, nem tanto.

 Certas coisas não precisam de explicação =D

E a insanidade policial nem sempre tem limite

-Duke Nuken Forever (and ever)

 Ja notaram como o jogo Duke Nukem Forever demora pra sair? Foram trocentas mudanças na engine, que ja rolam desde 1998, quando o jogo devia ter sido lançado. Enfim, em dezembro de 2007 (quando eu tava na praia…bitchs!) a 3D Realms tomou vergonha na cara lançou um quase teaser trailer de DNF. Aproveitando a situação, alguns espertões fizeram um site onde reuniram muitos fatos importantes que aconteceram nos games e no mundo durante esse tempo de espera, e até que ficou bem legal =D

Só pra ter idéia, alguns jogos famosos que foram lançados nesse tempo:

- 6 jogos de Final Fantasy

- Todos os GTA

- 9 Zeldas, junto com mais 6 remakes

- Quake 2, 3 e 4, e inumeros jogos que usaram suas engines

- Todos os Gran Turismo

- Todas as versões de Counter-Strike e CS Source

-E mais um monte XD

Vale a pena dar uma conferida. Pra entrar no site, é só clicar aqui

A vitória do Kidd o coloca praticamente na próxima fase, já o Jim perdeu e ficou em situação complicada. DK, por sua vez, renasce na competição, empata em segundo com o Minhoca e zerou o saldo, pra completar vai enfrentar o Crash no último jogo.

Vercetti, 4 pontos; Sephiroth, 3 pontos; Haggar, 2 pontos; Bubsy, 1 ponto. Dá pra ver que o Grupo F não tem absolutamente nada definido, os próximos jogos dirão.

E hoje temos mais jogos importantes.

Os jogos do Grupo G podem definir os classificados nessa rodada, enquanto pelo Grupo H teremos o jogo dos perdedores, definindo quem continua com chances.

Agora é com vocês, comentem quem vence cada partida e amanhã teremos o resultado.

Pra começar, assim como o Sonic em seu jogo de estréia, o mascote Alex Kidd venceu por 5 a 3, andou o tempo todo na frente e só no final sofreu alguma pressão do gorila. Já o jogo do outro mascote, o bandicoot/raposa/fuinha/suricate Crash foi surpreendido pela minhoca bombada que levou fácil o jogo e a liderança do Grupo E com excelente saldo.

No outro grupo, jogos bem interessantes. No primeiro jogo, Vercetti abre 4 pontos contra Haggar só pra ver o wrestler ir buscar o resultado e empatar no final. Na sequencia, uma das estréias mais aguardadas, José Phiroth Santos Silva, o Zé Phiroth, que em toda sua arrogância quase foi surpreendido pelo gato Bubsy, mas no último voto arrancou a vitória.

Vamos então aos últimos grupos para finalizar a rodada das estréias.

"Come get some". Pelo Grupo G, o machão Duke encara o mestre dos gritinhos agudos Liu Kang, enquanto no outro jogo temos um duelo de espadas com Haohmaru (Samurai Shodown) e Crono. Pelo Grupo H, Cecil (Final Fantasy IV) tem um grande desafio pela frente, vai enfrentar Captain Commando na estréia, enquanto o mestre dos arrotos - Boogerman - encara com desdém o mestre Billy Lee (Double Dragon).

Votação on!

Nonsense é pouco!

UPDATE:

Dmitry, do blog Pipoca de Bits, nos esclareceu que essa animação se trata de uma montagem do comercial da Budweiser. Se quiser ver o original, clique aqui. Valeu Dmitry!

por Justiceiro

Скажу сразу, список не будет представлять из себя что-то особо оригинальное. Но, возможно, напомнит кому-нибудь о старых, добрых временах, когда звук в компьютере был исключительно от PC Speaker'a, а такая вещь как "SoundBlaster" вызывала благородное замирание сердца ;-)

В случайном порядке...

1. Golden Axe, самый первый.

Полез искать к ней скриншоты, и оказалась что игра эта - Легендарная. Спорить не буду, времени я на неё в детстве потратил не мало.

2. Civilization 1

Именно первая захватила меня, и не отпускала довольно долго. Наверное, я в неё тогда переиграл. Проходилась с нуля до космической эры с утра до ужина (это было лет 12 назад, могу путаться ;) ). Пробовал играть в более новые версии - так и не приелось ничего.

3.  Mig 29 Fulcrum

До неё были другие леталки, ещё конца 80х \ начала 90х. К сожалению, их названия я уже и не вспомню. Но вот эта было очень приятной :-)

4. Operation Flashpoint

Одна из любимейших игр. Потрясающие компании, сценарии, озвучка, редактор карт. Мне в ней нравилось всё, и даже угловатая графика :-) Эта игра открыла мне глаза, показав чем же на самом деле является стратегия в реальном времени ;-)

5.  Counter Strike

Пускай для кого-то CS - моветон, но черт возьми, эта играла украла у меня слишком много времени чтобы о ней ничего не написать :-) Когда-то давно играл в неё на полу-профессиональном уровне, весело было.

Вот и весь список из 5 игр :-) Был бы он длиннее, добавил бы HL, первую и вторую. Конечно же Blood (ох-хо!), Duke Nukem, Doom, Quake (особенно 2-ю). Третью и пятую Need For Speed. Именно эти, остальные оказались попсой :-) Так же Colin McRae Rally, которую я понял только после покупки руля.

Originally Aired: March 18th 2008 at 8:00p.m.

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Topics Discussed:

- March Madness Preview and Predictions

- MLB Season Predictions

- Stanley Cup Predictions

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Fun Facts:

• The costume Jordan wore, "Ariel 2", was originally put together for Chabad's Purim Carnival (an event sponsored by Box Seat Central).

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ESPN College Gameday's Digger Phelps gets in the March Madness mood with a KU cheerleader: ----------

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 Duke Nukem oder  auch  Capitain  Planet gennat, ist ein
 Aktion Held der es dick  hinter den Ohren hat. Hat man
 einmal  angefangen  mit   dieser  Figur  zu  spielen, dann
 kommt man fast nicht mehr los von Ihm. Seine Sprüche
 sind  cool u nd  seine Gegner fast schon schweinisch ver-
 anlagt  (Warzenschweine)  oder sie haben das Aussehen
 von Reptilien von einer anderen Welt.
 Duke Nukem käpft mit  Schrotflinte, Raketenwerfer und
 Rohrbomben gegen seine Gegner und schiesst sich einen
Weg zu seinen weiblichen Geiseln (Babes) durch. Alle seine  Abenteuer sind schon fast
Klassiker und haben schon längst einen Kultstatus erreicht.

Dieser  Ego-Shooter  ist nur  zum  weiterempfehlen,  am  besten  man spielt  das Game
Duke Nukem 3D - Manhatten Project. Ein einfaches  Spiel aber cool gemacht. Vielleicht
aber nur vielleicht kommt bald ein neues Game von Duke in den laden. Dann heisste es
Duke Nukem Forever.  Dieses Spiel ist das am  längsten verschobene game aller Zeiten
Jetzt wird es sicherlich langsam Zeit, das es auf den Markt kommt. - smr

In un’intervista pubblicata sul Dallas Business Journal, il presidente di 3D Realms George Brussard dichiara che la nuova versione di Duke Nukem dovrebbe essere pronta entro il 2008.

Fonte

Trailer in HD

• Earlier today on GTA-Division, we reported on how Take-Two Interactive might be bought out by Viacom. Read more on GTA-Division.com.
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• Legendary is coming. The first-person-shooter from Atari and Gamecock will be coming to PCs, Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s in North America sometime this summer.
• According to 1up.com, David Ortiz, the lead producer on the Madden football series, has left EA Tiburon. Family reasons were cited for the sudden leave from the company, but rumors say he was frustrated with the studio. Read more.
• Well, we just went with the flow...and the flow turned out to be wrong. Duke Nukem Forever is not coming out in 2008, sorry. Yesterday, we reported that Duke Nukem Forever is coming out in 2008; but it turns out this was proven incorrect.

  “Quite simply, they are lying bastards and they know it,” Miller wrote.

  The release date remains "When it's done."

• The Lost Planet: Extreme Condition multiplayer demo will be released on the next Playstation Network update.
• A "Major League Eating" game has been announced. I can't believe it either. Read more on IGN, I don't have the stomach to explain it further.
• Activision is saying they are going to 'take it up a notch' with their next installment in the Tony Hawk series. "We need to step up innovation," stated one Activision executive. We'll find out what they mean sooner or later. 

But with this idea comes a dilemma. How do you decide what you cut, or what is the least important aspect? How can you, as a developer, make a conscious decision about your product and what should or should not be a part of it?

It's had to answer, but is something that every developer will and do face at one point in their project. And without the very best decision here, a game could be made or broken to some degree.

For me, personally, I've played a few dozen games, and I think that at points it becomes rather obvious when a developer has made compromises. Whether it is some little graphic glitches in Mass Effect, an invisible wall here or there in any game, or the severe lack of ending in Halo 2, these trade-offs are made, and are usually apparent. In many cases, these developers could probably have made a different trade-off that would have made things a little better for the user in the long run.

Instead of having loads, games these days are having pop-in textures. This tends to look bad, and can at many points lessen a player's respect for otherwise pristine visuals. A load screen, no matter how short could have been put in for the sake of preserving the visuals, and have had the same kind of impact for the player.  In the case of invisible walls, a developer could have sacrificed a visual aspect and traded it for another in the interest of preserving a clear cut border between gameplay area and beyond. When story ideas are cut, extensions are usually hashed together to make previously unconnected areas connect.

These trade-offs are not always good, but in the long run are what the developer felt was valuable. To keep a player in the experience for as long as possible, a developer was willing to have pop-in textures. To keep the level looking natural, the developer was willing to keep their invisible wall. To ensure that things would remain coherent despite the cut, the writers slapped on a quick fix.

But as we progress to a new future of games, where do we place our values when it comes to making games?  I've pondered on this idea for awhile, and eventually made a hierarchy of importance in these aspects. This is my personal list, so it may not be yours, and that's fine. The differences show the very same thing that is true about any market. Tastes will be the same, you have to find your niche.

1.  Gameplay - Self explanatory. The game better play as good as it can. If you don't nail gameplay, you won't and don't have a good game.
2. Story -  This aspect doesn't simply mean the progression of the in-game story. How well does the player get immersed? Canonical things like setting and in-game realism factor into this aspect, which will be the key to drawing a player in and keeping them there.
3. Graphics - A game must look pretty. But if it doesn't have a good story/immersion it isn't going to be worthy of selling. The aesthetics of art/music influence the immersive qualities of games to a great degree, so it is not easy to say that these are entirely separate.
4. Release Time - The time that a game releases is not entirely important. A good game will sell no matter when it is released. A quality I have taken from Nintendo, you should feel free to delay a game until it is ready. However, under no circumstances should these delays add anymore than half a year to a release date. Duke Nukem Forever is a good example of how NOT to take this principle being last.

So there you go. If you have any comments, suggestions, or complaints, I'm more than willing to receive them. Just make a post below.

Pues bien, para llegar hasta el día de hoy primero hemos de viajar hasta el 1 de Julio de 1991, donde Apogee Software (ahora 3D Realms) mostró al público la que sería la primera parte de una saga interminable, el juego de plataformas:

DUKE NUKUM

Algunos de vosotros habréis entrado directamente a los comentarios de este artículo para criticar mi poca cultura y analfabetismo videojueguil al escribir NUKUM en vez de NUKEM. Pero siento defraudaros, ya que el primer nombre de nuestro mal hablado protagonista fue ese mismo: Duke Nukum.

El porque de este nombre lo encontramos en el siguiente personaje:

Quizás sea difícil, pero si hacéis un esfuerzo recordareis que nos encontramos ante el Supervillano Duke Nukem de la serie El Capitan Planeta y los Planetarios.

Para ahorrarse problemas legales con la compañía productora de la serie de dibujos, Apogee mantuvo el nombre de Duke Nukum hasta que este fue registrado por ellos mismos y posteriormente fue implantado en la versión 2.0 del juego.

Historia

Tras un accidente nuclear el Dr. Proton se vuelve un loco paranoico con ansias de poder. Su afán por conquistar el universo le lleva a crear un ejercito de robots llamado los techbots. Tras controlar algunas de las grandes ciudades de los Estados Unidos la CIA se da cuenta de que su ejercito no es suficiente y deciden llamar a nuestro héroe, Duke Nukem.

Durante el juego viajaremos del pasado al futuro por distintos niveles buscando al Dr. Proton para acabar con el y su ejercito. En realidad a Duke no le importa lo que le pase a su país pero la posibilidad de patear culos metálicos durante tres episodios le hace cambiar de idea.

Diseño

El diseño del personaje estaba muy cuidado y contenía animaciones que suponían una revolución en la época. Pero por otro lado con los escenarios parece ser que se les acabaron las ideas o las ganas de esforzarse como podemos comprobar en las siguientes imágenes:

Tras el éxito del primer juego apareció su segunda parte en 1993, con más armas, más enemigos pero desgraciadamente con la misma falta de creatividad:

¡¡¡Pero si hasta copiaron los enemigos!!!

Hay que tener muy en cuenta que, a pesar de sus "curiosidades", los plataformas de Duke Nukem I como su segunda parte son unos juegazos. Y no hay mejor manera para esperar a Duke Nukem Forever, que disfrutando y conociendo los comienzos de esta famosa saga.

¿O conocéis algún otro pasatiempo...?

Fuente: Wikipedia

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