Ex-3D Realms Member: "We Almost Pulled It Off"
See Full ImageBy now, you're probably educated on the Duke Nukem Forever saga, which has been the talk of the town this past week. More interesting tidbits of information continue to show up around the Internet; many of which from ex-3D Realms members.
One of them, Mark Skelton, has already posted up a bunch of high-resolution 3D renders, and in addition, he spoke a bit about his two years at 3D Realms. Perhaps the most interesting part about this mini-revelation is that while we've all known about DNF for well over a decade, Skelton says it was basically a "mess" until maybe three years ago. He writes at ZBrushCentral:
I was at 3drealm almost exactly 2 years. a lot of the staff were under 3 years. I took the job because if any company on the planet needed help finishing a game, 3d realms did, and we ALMOST pulled it off. In 2 years of being there, we were able to take this convoluted mess and make it into a badass game. I wish the world would have seen it to realize how cool and fun it was. The team we had was fantastic. But, no one will ever know..."
He goes on to say he wishes 3D Realms had released more content over the past few years, but they were "just a very private cautious company" and that meant the gaming public and journalists were continually in the dark. Apparently, the team came close to pulling this off - the game may have been ready in another year - but now, there's no way of knowing. Guess we'll have to wait and see what Take-Two plans to do...
5/11/2009 Ben Dutka
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sticklife
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:00:39 PM
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Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:05:50 PM
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HeXeN
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:10:31 PM
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LegendaryWolfeh
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 3:11:41 PM
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LegendaryWolfeh
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 5:32:43 PM
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robinhood2010
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:12:19 PM
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I mean, 12 years? They must have been doing something to create the scans...
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N a S a H
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:12:26 PM
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Highlander
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:25:05 PM
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Totalz
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:27:58 PM
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Oyashiro
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:36:22 PM
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Game companies go under for reasons. One of those reasons apparently is not making and/or releasing games.
To my knowledge the last game they actually developed was in the late 90s (97 or 98). Then they acted as a publisher for other peoples games.
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Geobaldi
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 7:28:48 PM
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Sir Shak
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:41:08 PM
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CH1N00K
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 1:56:23 PM
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They did pull something off. They managed to make Duke Nukem into the biggest joke of video game history. Which is too bad. Even though the game was cheezy, it was still fun, and the "leaked" video looked cool though unfinished.
When he was climbing on the back of one of the creatures, it kind of reminded me of a FPS version of Prince of Persia or Uncharted. Something tells me that this "joke" isn't over with yet either. Someone else just bought the rights to keep it going. If we're lucky, maybe our grandchildren will be actually get to play the game..lol
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coldbore
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 2:31:36 PM
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Jian2069
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 3:28:31 PM
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This loop never ends
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Alienange
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 4:57:14 PM
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Geobaldi
Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 7:33:58 PM
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OriginalSin
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 @ 7:22:51 AM
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I'll believe this when I see the game on the shelves. only then will I believe a single word they say. And even then I might not even buy it...
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cheng
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Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 12:34:06 PM