Duke Nukem 3D is out on Xbox Live!

[Princess-Isabela]

just bought it,
it looks really good for a 12 year old doom alike and controls well.
$10 download, game has 40 levels, online play and such.
and when you die you can choose spot at which point you'd like to respawn(kind of casual approach I guess), but it works and you don't have to get back to your last save point every time(and it's pretty easy to die on medium difficulty).
excellent game, just as I remembered it.

definitely worth buying ^^

[skaar]

Come get some.

He gets my dollars tonight.

[DKTheArcadeRat]

I downloaded it, I had trouble in a few select spots and I keep dying but I want to play more!

[gepeto]

Man I loved this game. Duke had the oneliners. LOL And I am all out of gum.Ha ha

[Hitman Tyler]

damn it.... why does Xbox get duke nukem. I hope PS3 gets the PS1 games of Duke Nukem..

[geneshifter]

damn it.... why does Xbox get duke nukem.

Because Xbox is better and people actually buy it. Go get one, duh!

[roushimsx]

Doomalike my ass. Duke Nukem 3D was light years ahead of Doom and, as far as gameplay is concerned at least, far ahead of even Quake. The technology was advanced enough that the designers were able to build some incredibly elaborate maps with a surprising amount of interactivity (that people still praise to this day). The security cameras, the evolving maps (oh you know you shit a brick the first time that building blew up in E1M2), the room above rooms (you know you thought that movie theater was the shit in E1M1 when you first played it), the mirrors (who doesn't remember the first time they peeked in the theater bathroom and saw the aliens behind the wall by way of the mirror?), the toilets (genius!), the trip wires (protip: laser trip wires can keep you from ever dying of fall damage), scriptable vehicles, etc.

Oh sure, it wasn't the technological marvel that Terminator: Future Shock or Ultima Underworld may have been (holy fuck!), but Terminator: Future Shock and Ultima Underworld weren't fast paced run and guns like Duke3D and Doom were.

Duke 3D was a true evolution of the Doom gameplay and I don't think that anything else really evolved it to a similar magnitude until Far Cry in 2004. Everything else between there was either a minor evolution (the other Build engine games) or just shot off into different directions as developers tried to spend more time focusing on multiplayer, detailed storylines, or increased realism.

Anyway, that rewind capability of the XBLA port is fucking awesome. Please lord, let this game succeed so that Atari, through some fucking miracle from god, decides to unearth the Blood source code and do something with it. Also, I wouldn't complain in the slightest if somehow the Sunstorm Interactive expansions that rocked (Duke Caribbean and Duke it Out in DC) were added as optional DLC. Charge the same price as the base game, I don't give a damn. Both of those were so. Damn. Good.

[gepeto]

Don't forget to shoot the fire hydrate then hit x to drink the water to replenish your health.

[roushimsx]

Don't forget to shoot the fire hydrate then hit x to drink the water to replenish your health.

Thank god for fire hydrants. Fire hydrants and toilets are the reason I was able to make it through the game.

...and sector warping glitches were how I was able to make it through Nuclear Winter. What a fucking buggy expansion. :(

[Hitman Tyler]

Because Xbox is better and people actually buy it. Go get one, duh!

hell no!, you just did not say that.... LOL

I would buy an X-box but... I like free online play plus ps3 hs so many nice features... lets not start a war over this now.

[roushimsx]

I would buy an X-box but... I like free online play plus ps3 hs so many nice features... lets not start a war over this now.

Yes, but Xbox360 has Duke Nukem 3D with an instant rewind function the likes of which makes Blinx and Sands of Time look like fucking Pong. Until the PS3 gets a port of the game, it'll always be one step behind regardless of whatever else may come out.

Now if only a PC port of this game would come out....


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[diskoboy]

hell no!, you just did not say that.... LOL

I would buy an X-box but... I like free online play plus ps3 hs so many nice features... lets not start a war over this now.

Do what I did.... Buy 'em both. :)

I'll probably get killed for saying this, but I think the 360 and the PS3 actually, compliment one another.

[heybtbm]

lets not start a war over this now.

I agree.

Anyway, I might pick this up for pure nostalgia's sake. I haven't played my copy since 1996 or so (it's long gone by now). Like I said in the previous thread, my main hesitation is the perfectly good copy of Duke Nukem I have for Saturn sitting in a box in my basement. Anyway, the 360 controller is perfect for FPS's though.

A question for those that played it already...does the game make anyone nauseous (like the XBLA version of Marathon)? Old FPS's don't have that strong a track record when played on a large (TV) screen. I'm wondering if this game suffers the same problem.

[roushimsx]

Like I said in the previous thread, my main hesitation is the perfectly good copy of Duke Nukem I have for Saturn sitting in a box in my basement.

The Saturn and PC version had enough differences throughout the level designs to warrant playthroughs of both. For me, the main strength of the Saturn version was the true 3D from the SlaveDriver engine rather than the 2.5d Build engine. Very noticeable difference between the two, though playing JonoF's latest version (or Duke3Dw or EDuke32) with the polymost engine is even better.

Ohh, I forgot that I need to hook the Saturn back up to the ol' capture card. Gonna be a busy little gaming nerd this weekend!

[Half Japanese]

Man I loved this game. Duke had the oneliners. LOL And I am all out of gum.Ha ha

Actually you can thank John Carpenter's They Live and Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series (Army of Darkness in particular) for most of "Duke's" one-liners. But still, if you're gonna rip something off, you might as well make it something damn good in the first place, and the inspirations definitely qualify.


Please lord, let this game succeed so that Atari, through some fucking miracle from god, decides to unearth the Blood source code and do something with it. Also, I wouldn't complain in the slightest if somehow the Sunstorm Interactive expansions that rocked (Duke Caribbean and Duke it Out in DC) were added as optional DLC. Charge the same price as the base game, I don't give a damn. Both of those were so. Damn. Good.

I always had a shit computer in the late 90's, and therefore missed out on a lot of the great FPS games that are now mostly forgotten. I still want to play through Shadow Warrior sometime, mediocre as many consider it.

[Nesmaster]

I'll probably download this on the weekend and try to get through as much as I can. I loved the N64 port back in the day, but unfortuntaely couldn't ever finish it without cheats/gameshark. :P

[roushimsx]

Actually you can thank John Carpenter's They Live and Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series (Army of Darkness in particular) for most of "Duke's" one-liners. But still, if you're gonna rip something off, you might as well make it something damn good in the first place, and the inspirations definitely qualify.
Now now, very few of the one liners actually came from the Evil Dead movies, it's just that the quote from the beginning of E3M1 and the few Evil Dead/Army of Darkness quotes are what everyone remembers him saying.

Blood had more references, including bits and pieces of levels directly taken from the movies. Hell, one of the enemies in the Plasma Pak was a bunch of mini Calebs that charged at you from broken mirrors.


I always had a shit computer in the late 90's, and therefore missed out on a lot of the great FPS games that are now mostly forgotten. I still want to play through Shadow Warrior sometime, mediocre as many consider it.

Oh lord, Shadow Warrior is absolutely not worth your time. That said, I'd be more than happy to pitch in to the cause and slide a copy your way so that you can experience the disappointment first hand. You really only need to play the shareware episode to see how poorly it came out, though. If you want to play it through DOSbox, I can help you get that configured, or if you want to play it through either JonoF's or ProAsm's ports (I'd recommend ProAsm's since it a more updated and stable version) I can help with that, too.

Blood, though. Fucking Blood. You want the One Unit Whole Blood compilation that has Blood, Plasma Pak (not super great but still good) and Cryptic Passage (on par with, and at times, better than Blood).

That I can help with as well, actually! Say the word, good sir!


I'll probably download this on the weekend and try to get through as much as I can. I loved the N64 port back in the day, but unfortuntaely couldn't ever finish it without cheats/gameshark. :P

I wish the N64 version didn't have forced lookspring on it. Makes it a bitch to try to play it through an emulator with a mouse and keyboard :(

...unless someone knows of a way to properly nullify that? I'd love you with mouth if you told me how to accomplish such a feat!

[gepeto]

Blood
man I haven't played that game in a minute me and my friends were always playing that game online. That game also had some funny lines. I hope that alot of the old school games get rereleased. Alot of my friends like shadow warrior. I hope they release jedi knights. This is a trip down memory lane.

My xbox live wishlist.

Systemshock 3
I'll take Blood
Jedi knights
A hi def half life
Total annilalation/starcraft

[slip81]

now this is why I bought a 360, grand theft what? I remember going to comp usa with my dad after my cousin gave us our first decent computer. He bought me Duke 3D cause he thought the box art was cool looking. That game blew my 15 year old mind.

And HJ, shadow warrior was awesome, hope that one comes to xbla next.

[roushimsx]

And HJ, shadow warrior was awesome, hope that one comes to xbla next.

Have you played Shadow Warrior's completely fucked single player at any point in time since 1997?

[Kitsune Sniper]

I actually OWN a copy of Blood for DOS. It's sitting right here on my desk, I got it two weeks ago. I've been curious to play it, but I heard it's really bitchy to get working on DOSBox...

Anyway, anyone know if there's any differences between Duke Nukem 3D on XBLA and the Atomic Edition? I have a copy of that somewhere.

[slip81]

Have you played Shadow Warrior's completely fucked single player at any point in time since 1997?

well, I haven't played it since it was new, but i remember it being awesome. DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME!

[roushimsx]

I actually OWN a copy of Blood for DOS. It's sitting right here on my desk, I got it two weeks ago. I've been curious to play it, but I heard it's really bitchy to get working on DOSBox...

It's actually really easy to get working. For the most part, you just have to run the setup to configure your sound and video and you should be good to go. I'd recommend swapping out the DOS4GW with DOS32A for a bit of stability and speed, but other than that I didn't have any noticeable problems with it (well ok, other than the autoaim cone that the Build games tend to have with regard to rocket type weapons).

On my C2D 2.4ghz, the highest I was able to go comfortably before I started dropping too many frames was 800x600 ingame (didn't stop me from configuring fullresolution to 1400x1050 and normal3x for gloriously wonderful pixel action), but it's not like 640x480 isn't sexy anyway with that sucker. Shame the textures aren't as high res and the maps aren't as obsessively detailed as Redneck Rampage, but it more than makes up for it in downright awesome level design (particularly in episode 2 and 3).

If you haven't got Plasma Pak or Cryptic Passage, let me know. You really gotta play 'em (Plasma Pak has a better final battle, Cryptic Passage is otherwise totally win). Also, if you have any problems with getting the game to run, I can feed you my dosbox.conf. Watch out for the CD music; it plays loud as hell. I believe you can control it in the windows volume control. Don't disable the CD audio! It's oh so very tight.


well, I haven't played it since it was new, but i remember it being awesome. DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME!

I know exactly what you're going through because I recently went through the exact same thing. It hurt. It cut me deep. I needed love and reassurance that everything was going to be ok. Thankfully, Blood was there for me.

[Emuaust]

Well gave it a bash and id have to say "yeah peice of cake"

[icbrkr]

I'll be picking this up later today. Duke is what made me build a second computer for the wife so we could play head to head... over modem! Didn't have a network at the time, but I had a second phone line!

[skaar]

Do what I did.... Buy 'em both. :)

I'll probably get killed for saying this, but I think the 360 and the PS3 actually, compliment one another.

I'll fight on your side for that one. The PS3 is the creamy filling to the tasty 360 donut. Sure both are ok on their own, but with their power combined - they are Captain Planet.

[Hitman Tyler]

That game blew my 15 year old mind.

15 years old and play duke nukem.... hmmmm this reminds me of a story...

One day I told my Dad I was tried on playing the same computer game over and over.... So he suggested playing Dukem 3D, I said is it good? He said I played along time ago, I don't play it anymore now. So I started playing I was like HOLY SHIT! this game is DAMN good.

I still play the game to this day.

The BEST part was I was only like 10 or 12 when I played it.

[c0ldb33r]

I'm pretty excited about this. :)

I've been playing the n64 version lately... which unfortunately is shit. The graphics, the control on the n64 controller, the censoring of the levels - "babe saved" - wtf is that? And if you look up at a building, the walls get incredibly jaggy looking (i.e. you can't see shit).

I should check and see if I have the Saturn version - I've always loved that version. It kills the playstation version.

[Nature Boy]

I downloaded the demo last night and I'll be buying the full version soon I think.

I just *loved* playing that game again. The enemies look very Paper Mario ish to me (in that they're flat, not that they're cartoony :) ) which I thought just added to the overall charm of the game.

Played through LA Meltdown as if I had played it just yesterday on the PC. :)

[c0ldb33r]

I beat LA meltdown tonight. Episode 1, Level 5 always takes me forever and it did again tonight.

Did anyone else ever play the Penthouse Magazine Duke 3D level? I didn't get to try it until earlier this year, and my GOD it sucks.

[diskoboy]

Has anyone gotten all 200 achievement points, yet?

There's a little surprise, if you do.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/27/duke-nukem-forever-screens-hidden-in-xbla-duke-nukem-3d/

[roushimsx]

Did anyone else ever play the Penthouse Magazine Duke 3D level? I didn't get to try it until earlier this year, and my GOD it sucks.

Thanks for reminding me about this. I fired it up today for the first time in forever and mowed through it. It's not terribly bad, but it does feel pretty uninspired.

There's a few neat touches here and there, and it's hard to knock some of the more interesting placements of hot nekked babes; the chick masturbating at the reception desk of the Penthouse offices was handled really tastefully and it's nice going into a porno theater and seeing some real porn. Shame so much of it felt terribly generic and half finished. E1M1's movie theater absolutely puts the Penthouse Paradise movie theater to shame in the same way that Duke it Out in D.C.'s submarine did to Duke Nukem 3D's.

One thing I'm honestly thankful for is that they didn't intentionally tweak the difficulty through the roof for the sake of being absolute asshats. Even the placement of the Mini Battlelord at the end of the stage was thoughtfully executed so as not to place the player in a cheap position (a practice I wish the designers of The Gate had exercised).

Not a bad way to kill 20 minutes, but if you've got Duke Caribbean or Duke it Out in D.C. handy and haven't played them, I'd obviously recommend going for them first.

[Ponyone]

How's the multiplayer?

I used to love playing this on the saturn netlink. cost a quarter each time, but it was worth it.

[DKTheArcadeRat]

Wow. I'm amazed at how hard this is. I'm literally doing everything I'm supposed to, going the right way and such. I can't make it past 1-4. The shrinkgun part is killing me, literally. I barely made it past the first part of that, and it looks like there is literally no way to get past the 2nd, there just isn't enough time that you are tiny.

[VACRMH]

Wow. I'm amazed at how hard this is. I'm literally doing everything I'm supposed to, going the right way and such. I can't make it past 1-4. The shrinkgun part is killing me, literally. I barely made it past the first part of that, and it looks like there is literally no way to get past the 2nd, there just isn't enough time that you are tiny.

Try using the map feature, it helped me out on that level.