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- GoKings, on 05/08/2009, -3/+555How the hell does Gamestop get away with charging $10 to reserve a game that hasn't even had a release date, or even in development?
- nerdherder, on 05/07/2009, -3/+250I think I'll go cry for a bit now...
- sockpuppets, on 05/08/2009, -5/+242I can't even find my keys, this guy can find an 8 year old receipt?
Wait, I see a Michael Jackson joke in there somewhere... - Scrappy1850, on 05/07/2009, -2/+209that makes me sad
- tigerpixel, on 05/08/2009, -1/+192Duke Nukem Forever, forever, ever, forever, ever?
- DJJensaarai, on 05/08/2009, -1/+188FTA:
"Things that have taken less time than Duke Nukem Forever's Development:
World War II and the entire Manhattan Project. Yes, even the complete development of the atomic bomb took less time."
Fail. - StickWST, on 05/08/2009, -1/+180I'm sorry Ms.Jackson, oooooh.
- sockpuppets, on 05/08/2009, -4/+127That guy has balls of steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3KdcTgrno - wontstoptalking, on 05/07/2009, -2/+110That could probably make some money on ebay.
RIP :(
One day, one day. That's what I've been saying about a Halo movie...it might take forever (look at Spiderman) but it will happen. And when it finally comes out, all the previous hype behind it will come back 500x. - inactive, on 05/08/2009, -0/+106i thought the thumbnail was the constitution
- inactive, on 05/08/2009, -1/+88It's almost worth losing $10 just to have proof that at one time the game was being worked on.
- Smokeydabear, on 05/08/2009, -0/+74A man's wallet is like a time capsule.
- TheCollective00, on 05/08/2009, -1/+758 year olds, dude
- eatporktoo, on 05/08/2009, -4/+75too soon man... not cool...
- inactive, on 05/08/2009, -37/+106Halo sucks.
- wontstoptalking, on 05/07/2009, -4/+64Yeah! And did you hear about Susan Boyle???
- victorc26, on 05/08/2009, -0/+55Slash is a forum member at the Penny Arcade Forums. Great guy, and yes, he is amazingly patient.
We're all suggesting he frame the receipt.
The receipt is now a part of video game history. - handheldchimp, on 05/08/2009, -2/+55Any true hearted digger already gets it...you shouldn't have to post this...
- aizayke, on 05/08/2009, -1/+54Never meant to make your daughter
cry - etherreal, on 05/08/2009, -15/+67No, it just sucks.
- kanojo1969, on 05/08/2009, -1/+52Honestly I can't say enough bad things about these ***** retards at 3DRealms.They had a huge hit with Duke 1 and all the other platform-specific versions since, and yet they've blown it all on this hideous fiasco. Do Broussard and Miller have any money left at all?
I certainly hope not, they deserve to be living in under a bridge for the incompetence they've shown here. They've probably blown all the money from the Max Payne stuff as well. LMAO.
Remember Daikatana? Remember the joke that was, with Romero talking himself up like a total dick and then failing to release anything for like 3 years? Ion Storm was synonymous with everything that was wrong with rich kids acting like rock stars.
Well, compared to the 3DRealms guys, John Romero is probably the most productive game designer on the planet, a model of fiscal and management responsibility.
What this whole thing comes down to (if you read the article at the link) is a total failure to run a company.
I might sound like I'm taking this a bit too personally, but there was a period back around 1998/99 where Scott Miller was posting regularly on a forum I used. Hell, it's been so long I can't even remember what it was called, but a lot of game devs posted there, just talking *****.
Well along comes Miller, and for several months he insulted and put down every single person on the forum, lording it over anyone in game development like some kind of marketing God. He kept going on and on about what was wrong with *their* games and strategies, and blathering about the genius moves he had made to squeeze extra dollars out of Duke, and how they would make Max Payne into the biggest action star on the planet.
He was such a dick, just so ***** arrogant, I just can't help but let go of a stream of abuse now that he's finally been shown up as the incompetent loser he really is.
I hope you're reading this, Scott, and let me tell you: You were successful because of luck. You had then, and still have now, not a single clue as to why Duke was so popular, and not a shred of marketing or management ability. This is Karma, and I hope you ***** choke on it. - MCA2142, on 05/08/2009, -2/+53Did he also pre-order Alan Wake?
- flyingsquirle, on 05/08/2009, -1/+51There's nukes in Duke Nukem, gotta take that into account
- badtiki, on 05/08/2009, -0/+45I sold quite a few of those about 12 years ago....
- centran, on 05/08/2009, -0/+39He gave the cashier $10 and got a $10 store credit.
- CapeKid, on 05/08/2009, -13/+52That is exactly why people hate it "unoriginalityftw." It is a pretty standard, run-of-the-mill but solid FPS, but everyone treats it as some revolutionary piece of gaming ambrosia. It sells almost purely on its own hype. If "resistance" or "fallout" had the name "halo" and the marketing to go with it, people would love those mediocre shooters just as much.
- MEGACAMZ, on 05/08/2009, -5/+42Q.What did Michael Jackson say was the best thing about 28 -year-olds?
A.There`s 20 of them. - dn90, on 05/08/2009, -1/+38^^^I am for reeeeaaal...
- Halokhan, on 05/08/2009, -1/+37I apologize a trillion times
- fragmit, on 05/08/2009, -0/+36..at least you ordered it from Gamestop. I pre-ordered from Babbages in 1998. Babbages no longer exists.
- LoopyChew, on 05/08/2009, -1/+33You know what Michael Jackson loves most about ***** twenty eight year olds?
There's twenty of them. - omar199, on 05/08/2009, -0/+31I don't know why, but seeing his face on the video editing makes this even more hilarious
- futebollounge, on 05/08/2009, -4/+34i am for reaaaaal!
- mandraque, on 05/08/2009, -1/+29I'm sorry Ms. Jackson, but its never coming out.
- ZombieSociety, on 05/08/2009, -1/+29The point is they took a deposit on a game that is never coming out. And something tells me they're not going to just give it back, either.
- BIOHazard87, on 05/08/2009, -2/+28for never never.
- chewycheese, on 05/08/2009, -1/+27:(
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU - SigFemSeks, on 05/08/2009, -0/+26Bite your tongue, good sir.
- mynameistux, on 05/08/2009, -0/+25I like my women like I like my wine
6 years old and locked in the basement.
hehe. - FullMetalNIN, on 05/08/2009, -1/+26I hear Chocolate Rain is approaching a million views!
- EarthernJar, on 05/08/2009, -1/+25He reserved an advanced copy of Duke Nukem Forever back in 2001 and is still hanging onto the receipt
- AGHatecraft, on 05/08/2009, -0/+23Babbages is Gamestop is Software Etc is Barnes & Noble and now EB and a couple of other stores.
If you still have your babbages receipt, there is an outside chance you might be able to get your $10 back... I highly doubt it, but there is an outside chance. - Treshnell, on 05/08/2009, -8/+31That's why there's Halo hate. It's not innovative, it doesn't do anything particularly any better than another similar game, and yet it's hugely popular. Some people just like to hate it because it's popular.
I don't hate it, but I didn't find it to be a great game. Probably about average. - Jeepy, on 05/08/2009, -1/+23I like my women like I like my scotch
aged 13 years and mixed up with coke. - handheldchimp, on 05/08/2009, -1/+23You must be new to Digg...Welcome!
- Tyfud, on 05/08/2009, -4/+23Internet bullying is almost always hilarious, especially when it's someone's mom.
She could have muted the person on Vent (right click user -> mute), she could have switched channels to a PW protected channel, she could have *logged off the server* and taken a break for the night.
This video is not the behavior of a stalker, this is the behavior of someone who thinks that someone else is a major douchebag and wants to ***** with them. Judging by the "moms" reaction throughout the whole process, I'd have to use my powers of internet awareness and say she deserved it.
Hypothetically, should someone commit suicide as a result of something like this, I would sleep even more soundly tonight, secure in the knowledge that one more, idiotic, self absorbed, self righteous, conceited, waste of space had offed themselves and given their oxygen supply back to the people. That's really what democracy's all about. - mediaphile, on 05/08/2009, -5/+24You people must not be talking about the multiplayer game, which is basically entirely separate from the single player game. The single player game blows. The multi-player game is why people keep playing the game.
Innovative? No. Highly tuned? Yes. Halo has incredibly tight multiplayer gameplay.
falstaff: "I imagine better players don't appreciate the utter lack of skill needed to be a decent Halo player, when that same player would get destroyed in most other games."
It's completely different. It's not like Halo players only play Halo or are only good at Halo. Auto-heal doesn't make the game easier, it makes it different. All your opponents have auto-heal too. And in multi-player against good people, auto-heal is meaningless.
I don't think counting how many times or how quickly a player dies in a match is telling of the skill required to win. In Call of Duty, for example, you get hit with one or two bullets and you're dead, and so you die much more frequently and quickly than in Halo. In other words, it's harder to stay alive. So where a 5-on-5 match in Halo might go to 25 kills, the same match in CoD would end after a higher number of kills. It's just different.
I don't know, I'm probably not going to convince anyone who hates Halo to like it. All I'm saying is that I've been good at other games that people might consider more difficult or innovative, and yet Halo 3 is still my number one most played game, and I don't find it any less difficult to really be good at. - samespbn, on 05/08/2009, -1/+20I am amazed someone kept a receipt that long. I lose mine in the first month usually.
- FunFactor100, on 05/08/2009, -1/+19Apparently 3DRealms has been shady for a long time http://digg.com/gaming_news/Who_Knew_the_Gaming_In ...
- Taikomochi, on 05/08/2009, -0/+17Perspective from former Gamestop employee --
1. They will most definitely give him his store credit back, since the store credit isn't firmly attached to Duke Nukem Forever -- he can use it on another game or just have it turned back into cash when he un-reserves DNF, if he should choose to.
2. Sadly, that's not his store credit, that's the receipt showing he reserved the game. The store credit was held at the store along with his reserve slip. This was back in 2001, when all that was done on a paper system, it's now all done in a database and store credit is all handled through the Edge card. Hopefully, they have his reservation on file still one way or another. -
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