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I love Duke Nukem 3D Ep2 so much, /vr/os. People always say how Duke is about real life locations and strippers but Lunar Apocalypse is just a great take on Doom Ep1 tech base with it's own share of creepy sci fi stuff, like protozoid infested lunar bases and the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I love the atmosphere. I wish this sci fi side of Duke was explored more, instead of going full blown macho parody.

>> No.10568680

>not a duke
>doesn't nuke anyone

>> No.10568681

>>10568673
I’ve played episode 1+2 about a million times. I’m always too burnt out after those two to go farther. I wish people still played Dukematch

>> No.10568693
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And an observation, Duke 3D was supposed to have a more dystopic future look during the development. One liners and strippers were added very late, so I guess this is why the final game doesn't go too overboard in this regard and still has traces of serious Duke. Later games like Time to Kill and Forever are already very different thematically. Hell, even The Birth episode from Atomic edition and addons like Life's a Beach are less serious than base game.

>> No.10568730

>>10568673

I loved the gorgeous Earth skybox in Episode 2. Especially in Warp Factor.

>> No.10568732

>>10568693
Fuck them for denying us the Duke 3D prototypes we were supposed to get.

>> No.10568769
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>>10568732
Fuck Randy specifically. Love this beta footage
https://youtu.be/MLaQeDEt7k0
By the way, does anyone know what music starts at 2:50? I know other beta tracks from the video but not this one.

>> No.10568779

>>10568673
Why there's no DN3D on GoG?

>> No.10568783

Yes E2 is the best and has the best music, e.g Dark Side, Lunatic Fringe and wtf first map is called

>> No.10569373

>>10568673
>>10568693
>>10568769
As much as I like Duke Nukem 3D the arrival of Quake just a few months later really rendered the build engine obsolete. Sure, DN3D was fun, looked good, played well and it was lighter than Quake at the time but Quake and full 3D games like Tomb Raider and others that came in 1996 were the future.

>> No.10569415

>>10569373
Duke 3D has aged better than Quake and TR though.

>> No.10569429

>>10569373
quake is shit
go fuck yourself

>> No.10569443

>>10569429
Based. Quake got old quick. Duke is still more fun. Nothing obsolete about a perfectly functioning jet pack in an fps. Nothing even felt close until Pharah in Overwatch and I played everything in between.

>> No.10569473
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10569473

I ain't afraid of no Quake.

>> No.10569538

>>10568673
Remember when Duke Nukem Forever was considered vaporware? Now the development schedule of Duke Nukem Forever is considered a fast development cycle with good results.

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OG shotgun animation assets

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>>10569538
it can't get any worse right?
at least I don't play that shit anyways
I still can't get over the fact that 2014 felt like yesterday and almost nothing has changed except for the worse

>> No.10569685

>DNF released over 12 years ago
>it's been out for as long as it had been in development
>there's still no sequel
Thanks George, Scott, Randy, Gearfux.

>> No.10569695

>>10568673
There's contrarian and there's pretending to like space levels in DN3D

>> No.10569703

>>10568673
Specifically Episode 2 huh? Not the whole game....just Episode 2?

>> No.10569710

>>10569373
DN3D was arguably more advanced. It had a higher degree of environmental interaction and more advanced scripting capabilities. Quake 1 Engine was flashier, but it was very bare-bones feature wise. It's why you had more hit games that used the Build engine than the Quake engine, like Shadow Warrior, BLOOD, Redneck Rampage, and Powerslave.

Quake had....Qauke....And Hexen 2....That was about it.

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>>10569553

>> No.10569718

>>10568769
That beta plasma blaster thing is cool as fuck. They should've kept it.

>> No.10569750

Allen H. Blum III. is the only level designer whose talent is comparable to John Romero's.

>> No.10569764

Anyone have that webm of the dude playing in DOSbox from his couch

>> No.10569768

>>10568779
they want you to buy the 20th Anniversary World Tour edition on steam

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>>10568779
GOG used to have Atomic Edition but it was removed because Gearbox is scum.
They also removed Megaton Edition from Steam so that people would be forced to buy the inferior World Tour version. That's why you can't buy the Duke It Out In D.C., Nuclear Winter, and Life's a Beach expansions anymore.

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>> No.10570668

>>10569768
I hate World Tour so much.
Fucking ingame cutscenes in Duke3D now.

>> No.10571149

>>10569718
Is that what's in DN64?

>> No.10571286

I have always been looking for this one multiplayer map we used toplay like mad on a Macintosh network in 1999. It was about 6 buildings with a street down the middle and almost endless little tunnels, air ducts and secret passages, so that from any of the 6 buildings you could sneak into any of the others. Big rectangle bit of a city, really. I can't explain it much more than that. The buildings were 2 and 3 stories....

>> No.10571406

>>10569780
There's Atomic edition here.
https://www.zoom-platform.com/product/duke-nukem-3d-atomic-edition

>> No.10571691

So much cool stuff was cut. Apocalyptic L.A. backgrounds, alternative ammo
https://youtu.be/kUhpKjbWNnc
(around 7:00)

>> No.10571703

>>10569473
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STEEL


BALLS OF STEEL

>> No.10571726

>>10569695
You'd have to be a contrarian to not like Dark Side at least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz3_c8lXTns

>> No.10571796

>>10571726
>the cooler Plasma
https://youtu.be/719EV6Jx2ic

>> No.10572439

>>10570668
The G9lden Gate map is S tier, reminds me of episode 1 and 2 in style.

>> No.10573050

What's your preferred way to play Duke3D? For a while I've been playing with EDuke32, then I decided to give BelgianChocolateDuke a try.
Dunno about you but I like source ports that are as close to vanilla as possible.

>> No.10573058

>>10571703
G-Get off vent or I'll have you bent.

>> No.10573062

I can't play most Build Engine games anymore. The do weird stuff to my PC. Internal speaker starts going off from key presses and the entire PC slows down - even after closing the game. I think one time it even lasted past the a reboot. Never had a problem before. Just started out of the blue. Didn't get to play Ion Fury bc of this

>> No.10574076

>>10568673
I grew up with the PS1 port (Total Meltdown), which had a new soundtrack made for it. It really took the atmosphere for E2 to a new level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdXiGnHql_I&t=720s
Absolutely love it.

>> No.10574203

>>10568769
>they use spaceships and explosion sprites from Terminal Velocity
lazy

>> No.10574227

>>10573062

Your're probably mining someone's bitcoins rn.

>> No.10574234

>>10568673
>I love Duke Nukem 3D Ep2 so much
That's a first.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLphA-MZvXg

>> No.10574371

>>10573050

I just use Dosbox. It does the job good enough.

>> No.10574408

>>10568769
Some parts look rough, but I'll be damned if some of those areas don't look great. The space station in particular was pretty well done. Also it's surreal to see an actual intersection, most of Duke's roads are weird one lane street nonsense which seemingly go nowhere

>> No.10574421
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10574421

A higher resolution of the PlayStation version's key art was found in a prototype dumped a few years back.

>> No.10574610

>>10574227
About time this thing was put to good use.

>> No.10574612

>>10574236
this image makes me laugh every fucking time without fail

>> No.10574632

Just feels so much better on a real DOS machine than it does emulated or ported

>> No.10574635
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I played the absolute shit ton out of Duke 3D as a kid. Just such a fucking fun shooter and Duke's lines always made me crack up or made me wanna try imitating him. Still one of my favorite shotguns in FPSes as well.
Shame it's in Gearbox hell currently. Here's hoping it gets out in the next decade.

>> No.10574639

>toxic masculinity: the game

>> No.10574651

>>10569538
>the game sucked
>the franchise is buried
>no one praised it
Yeah okay

>> No.10574676

>>10568673
>and the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey

where the fuck is that????? played it so many times but I do not remember this.

>> No.10574716

>>10574676
Dark Side level, near the end

>> No.10574731

>>10574076
holy shit, never heard this before. sounds amazing. It's full blown PS1 groove, you could've fooled me that this was from JetMoto 3.

>> No.10574741

>>10568673
I still need to try these games. Only ever got into Wolfenstein 3D

>> No.10574923

>>10568769
The rotating sector stairs are cool as hell.
Also, the expander used to be just a single shot to expand like the shrinker. Why the FUCK did they change this? It just makes so much more sense. Make it one shot but give less ammo.