$5 at Gamestop. is even that too much for this train wreck?

Game » consists of 14 releases. First released on Jun 14, 2011

After approximately fourteen years of development, the heavily infamous sequel to Duke Nukem 3D was finally released, in which the macho Duke must damper yet another alien invasion. Always bet on Duke?

$5 at Gamestop. is even that too much for this train wreck?

#1 Posted by JCrichton (55 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

I was browsing the under $20 games on gamestops website and came across DNF. Is it worth it just to see how bad this is, or go for like condemned or go buy lunch somewhere?

#2 Posted by familyphotoshoot (626 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

You could go buy lunch and stuff whatever food you get into your console and have a better gaming experience.

#3 Posted by JordanaRama (106 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

I think $5 is worth the morbid curiosity. Yes, it's trash, but there's something to be said for finding out where 15 years of development went.

#4 Posted by Pink_o_mat (190 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

Just to have the package and the disc. It's a conversation piece, but please don't play it!

#5 Posted by Illuminosopher (153 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

Depends on how much your time is worth.

#6 Posted by kindx (2241 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

@JCrichton said:

I was browsing the under $20 games on gamestops website and came across DNF. Is it worth it just to see how bad this is, or go for like condemned or go buy lunch somewhere?

I think $5 will do it. It has it's moments, especially if you shell out a little more for the DLC.

#7 Posted by The_Laughing_Man (12134 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

This game is somthing that everyone needs to play. Anything who played Duke nukem 3D needs closure *even if its bad closure*

#8 Posted by AndrewB (6873 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

I long ago came to the realization that any amount of money is too much for a game that isn't to your liking; even worse if it's a game that you should be actively discouraging to exist by giving it a thought.

#9 Edited by ShaggE (4462 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

It's a bad game, but it's not unplayably awful. I had some fun with it, and I don't regret spending ten bucks on the game+DLC package on Steam. Besides, it's a piece of game history.

And as a fan of Duke 3D, the opening fanwank video is worth five bucks alone, never mind the quality of the game itself.

Edit: But fuck the multiplayer. It is truly terrible.

#10 Edited by Jeust (9620 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

I've played the game on the PC and liked it. I don't think it's so bad as to be trashed everywhere. If you want something really horrible go play Big Rigs, Super Man 64 or Rogue Warrior.

#11 Posted by McGhee (5353 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

If you gave me $5 I might play that game, but I can't guarantee that I would finish it.

#12 Posted by triviaman09 (511 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

At that price, I'd buy pretty much anything I had the slightest bit of interest or curiosity in.

#13 Posted by fox01313 (4741 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

After playing some of it through gamefly & getting stuck at some point where I just decided the game wasn't interesting enough to make me want to continue, you could get the Darkness or a wide variety of other games for $5 & be much happier than getting DNF.

#14 Posted by Napalm (9020 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

Duke Nukem Forever still has pretty fun combat. It's lacking in a lot of things, but five dollars is definitely worth it.

#15 Posted by Zaccheus (1375 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

It's not so much the 5$ but the time playing that could be spent elsewhere.

#16 Posted by Grillbar (1625 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

i can proudly say that i have completed the game, and i have played worse games then this, not many but some

#17 Posted by Scheds (434 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

I rented this game out of morbid curiosity for more than $5 when it first came out. If you're interested in the game and want to give it a try or maybe analyze the many, many missteps of its design, I'd say go for it. But the real question is: will you display it next to all of your other (hopefully much better) games?

#18 Posted by Rappelsiini (651 posts) - 10 months, 21 days ago

I think everyone should own this train wreck.

#19 Posted by HiCZoK (153 posts) - 10 months, 19 days ago

No matter what train wreck is that, it deserves to be played by older gamers. it is history

#20 Posted by Danteveli (798 posts) - 10 months, 19 days ago

Its also for 5$ one Greenmangamin so maybe this will be retail for it. Bought it for under that last Christmas and allowing you to rock 4 weapons makes the game better.

#21 Posted by BrockNRolla (1698 posts) - 10 months, 19 days ago

@Illuminosopher said:

Depends on how much your time is worth.

Precisely. It isn't the five dollars, but rather the time you will be wasting that you should be worrying about.

#22 Posted by C0V3RT (1156 posts) - 10 months, 19 days ago

It's fine at $5. It's easy to shit on the game, but if you go in with the appropriate level of expectation and an understanding of the games development history, it's tolerable and interesting to just observe the totally different directions this game clearly had gone over the years.

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