/vr/ - Retro Games

[Digger No.582073]

Alright, this bad boy is now out. Anyone else played it?

I didn't think they'd put a motorcycle in, but they fucking did. I'm liking it so far.

[Anonymous No.582083]

It's out, hell yeah.

Downloading now OP.

[Anonymous No.582092]

>>582083
BTW, for those interested:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/duke-nukem-forever

[Digger No.582113]

>>582083
Enjoy dude, it's pretty good and I only played the first level.

Hopping back in now.

[Anonymous No.582125]

>>582113
Cool, now I just need a download link the Duke 3D to play this on and I'll be set.

[Digger No.582234]

>>582125
pirate it

[Anonymous No.582261]

>>582234

[Digger No.582659]

I wonder why they put this in, It fits well, but it's funny how they took it from a Gearbox game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ySP66pEFY

[Anonymous No.582678]

>Beat the first level.
>Get to the desert going to the EDF.
>Vectorman music plays
GOD BLESS AMERICA.

[Anonymous No.582883]

>>582659
Uhh... i see we have a young person here.
Son DNF was in developement probably before you were born. Gearbox simply were given the unfinished product...they cut humongus portions from it so they can "finish" it in the given time and gave us a polished turd.

[Digger No.582945]

>>582883
...I'll be nice.

Firstly, that music is from a non-duke game called Borderlands. The makers of the mod put that music into one of the levels, and I found that interesting. Second, I've been playing duke since 2000. Think what you will with that statement. Thirdly, that game is garbage, and I know pretty much everything there is to know about its development. I remember seeing the trailers for it back on tech tv. So, playing this mod really hits the nostalgia button, and it's something new.

[Anonymous No.582998]

How long is this campaign?

[Anonymous No.583014]

>>582945
>namefag acting like he isnt a kid
go back to your doom thread

[Anonymous No.583028]

>>582659
I'm surprised you can recognize it. Borderlands hardly had a memorable soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.583040]

I am enjoying it, but will take a break for today. Got to the mine carts with lava.

[Anonymous No.583046]

>>583028
Not for those of us who enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.583061]

>>583046
You poor sod.

[Anonymous No.583064]

>>583046
>borderlands
>anything more than the dictionary definition of "mediocre"

What planet are you from?

[Anonymous No.583079]

>>583064
>unable to enjoy things that aren't top-shelf and unavailable to anyone but the most elite
Planet FUN

[Anonymous No.583091]

>Get your tentacles back to Japan.

[Anonymous No.583096]

>>583091
That's the Duke I know.

[Anonymous No.583153]

I don't recall the 2001 trailer having these graphics; or even the 98 trailer.

[Anonymous No.583178]

>Get to the under parts of the EDF
>All of those Terminator like robots.
Hell, are their death sounds the same as Arachnotrons from Doom 2?

[Anonymous No.583197]

>>583153
Ehh. Still looks fun.
I'd have preferred a Quake 2 mod, honestly.

[Anonymous No.583208]

very high quality.
all its missing is some polish like less locked doors, and more duke flavor.

anyone else find ammo a bit scarce than normal?

[Anonymous No.583221]

>>583208
The locked doors bother me a bit because I try to interact with as many things as I can. One of the things you could do in Duke3D is interact with a lot of objects.

Though still very fun and they managed to make the motorcycle segment fun (even though I couldn't just drive it into the EDF base which is a shame).

[Anonymous No.583309]

This thing is better than all the official addons put together. I probably would've believed this was real if it circulated as rumor back in the day when such things were possible.

[Anonymous No.583358]

I extracted the mod to a folder and copy pasted a copy of DUKE3D.GRP into the folder. It starts but when I try to start a new game/choose the difficulty I get booted back to the main menu. It's like the map can't load so it takes me back to the menu. I've used both a pirated copy of DUKE3D.GRP and the copy from legit Megaton edition.

Anyone have any suggestions? I really wanna play this.

[Anonymous No.583362]

>>583358

Haha, I'm an idiot, ignore me. I was running it via the eduke exe and not the batch file.

[Digger No.583768]

>>583309
No kidding. Although, Life's a beach wasn't that bad at all. The only lackluster one was the Nuclear Winter one.

[Anonymous No.584404]

I'm seeing a lot of missing textures which gives me that hall of mirrors effect. I don't know what to do to fix that.

[Anonymous No.584410]

>>584404
Only thing I ran into is a bunch of the lighting during the boss fight which clipped into him.

It was fairly short, but they could only do so much based on both trailers. Though it was fairly fun even if I wished I could open more doors.

[NESfag No.584464]

I betatested the mod and I am AMAZED by its success. 1600 downloads on moddb already in less than one day, this is the most successfull recent Duke3D mod EVER, more than WGRealms or the AMC TC; maybe even more successfull than Starship Troopers TC.

>>582998
It's 5 levels, 2 hours long.

>>584404
Did you install the mod in a clean directory or an already existing Duke3D directory of yours? If it's the latter there might be conflict with tiles0XX.art files in your folder, check if there are some and if there are, delete them.

[NESfag No.584468]

If you guys beat the mod and are looking for more Duke3D action, check this one out: it's a 1h30 long episode made in the classic style of the original city maps. One of the guys who worked on the DNF mod worked on this one too.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/metropolitan-mayhem/downloads/metropolitan-mayhem

[Anonymous No.584470]

>>584464
Hey, we just wanted the old Duke Nukem Forever. I really like Duke, though then again Duke3D was my first FPS.

[Anonymous No.584482]

rip in peace ;_;

great mod. needs more secret areas. also that last level was fucking huge

[Anonymous No.584485]

>>584482
Could you say it was dam huge?

[Anonymous No.584486]

>>584485
ULTROS!

[Anonymous No.584493]

>>584485
that hurt physically

[Anonymous No.584508]

also did anyone get in here? you find the shrink ray later in the level, but i was too lazy head back and find a mirror

[Anonymous No.584513]

>>584493
>>584486
At least I didn't make an ass out of myself by the end of the game.

>>584508
I never found the shrink ray, but I knew one was around to get into there. There is a South Park room on the last level.

[NESfag No.584520]

>>584508
I don't recall this (nor the southpark reference) in the beta version I got; but I believe that even while shrunk youd still be too big to enter that

[Anonymous No.584519]

>>584485
You might even say it went on for a long time

[Anonymous No.584523]

I have the Megaton edition. Is it possible to extract duke3d.grp from it?

[Anonymous No.584526]

>>584520
When you get to the dam and there is that vast body of water go near the walls and sink all the way down. Kick down some seaweed that is in your way and enter the small hole. One of them has a big South Park picture and another has a bunch of fire with atomic health.

[NESfag No.584535]

>>584523
Yes. It's located in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Duke Nukem 3D\gameroot (at least for me; well it should be the same for you starting at "Steam")

>>584526
Oh yeah I remember that now

[Anonymous No.584539]

>>582073

To tell you the truth OP, I was really disappointed. I was expecting more, especially since they had been making it for six months almost non-stop.

There were a lot of glitches in the maps, and the game also crashed a few times for me. Clipping errors everywhere. Not only that, but to me it felt like a de-make of the actual trainwreck that was DNF, instead of a "restored" version in the Build engine. A lot of the levels were uncharacteristically linear for a Duke game, and even the larger ones had a surprising lack of secrets and hidden interactions.

Also, ripped music from Borderlands? Really? Why not fucking use music from the actual series, like something from Time To Kill western levels.

I can't say I had null enjoyment from it, since I played it through entirely. And I know it got it for FREE so I shouldn't be entitled.

[NESfag No.584557]

>>584539
A lot of people will be/are disappointed like you because they were expecting too much just because it's based of a 2001 DNF trailer. It's still just a Duke3D mod made by 2 people during their spare time.

Too much expectations because of the name DNF just like the original game.

[DoctorAmazing !!DCngmDqLwuj No.585386]

[NESfag No.585523]

>>585386
Yeah the bike is glitchly they know that, but the person who coded it coded it a long time ago and wasn't avalaible anymore. It might be fixed someday if that guy ever shows up again.

Still even with the glitches the bike is damn fun, I just started replaying it and I just rode it into the bar in the first level killing every alien by riding on them. Really fun.

[NESfag No.585536]

looks so fucking good

[Anonymous No.585551]

>>584539
Hey, there's always updates. Unlike the main games, mod updates can be rather large and fix all your problems.

[Anonymous No.585558]

>>584523
Yes, Megaton has all the grp files. For those not in the know, Megaton basically uses an extremely old version of EDuke32 so everything will be there for [insert mod here]. You just need to move some files.

[Anonymous No.585564]

>>582073
I'm apparently on the last level and I'm liking it. The mine carts seemed a bit glitchy though. Really like the assault rifle and the feel of it.

[Anonymous No.585581]

>>585558
Why did they decide to make it that way anyway? That's just weird.

[NESfag No.585582]

My ride stops here :(

[NESfag No.585589]

>>585581
Because the old version of another port (which is Jonof, not eduke32) was "more stable" according to them and allowed them to do the small things they wanted to do more easily, again, according to them. eduke32 keeps getting updated all the time.

You can still play a lot of maps and mods using the megaton edition though, but not all. This one not for example.

[Anonymous No.585586]

>>585581
That version of the source port runs on XBOX, that's why. It's a port of that version.

Not that it's a terrible thing. It runs fine, and has better multiplayer thanks to Steamworks. It just doesn't jive with most of today's mods at all.

[DoctorAmazing !!DCngmDqLwuj No.585889]

What kind of shit ending was that?
Great mod

[Anonymous No.586497]

>>585536
Well shit, I never noticed that it said Fellatio.

[Anonymous No.586808]

The file you have selected (DNF.rar) is not available via any mirrors. Please check back shortly as our servers update every 5 minutes. To access more download mirrors we encourage you to join the community, otherwise please be patient and keep trying.

Well, fuck you

[NESfag No.586828]

>>586808
Here, from one of the maker's site :
http://msdn.duke4.net/DNF.zip

[Anonymous No.586843]

Holy shit!

Downloading now.

[Anonymous No.586852]

>>586828
>http://msdn.duke4.net/DNF.zip

Thanks

[Anonymous No.586943]

You know, I still consider the 2001 DNF trailer to be the best videogame trailer ever made. Even disregarding the fact that I was excited enough about the game to wait for it ten years, that trailer is just darned good.

[Anonymous No.587014]

>>586943
I really wish they had finalized that version and released it (probably would have been done by 2003-2004) cause that is really an amazing looking game.

[Anonymous No.587040]

>>587014
I think it's safe to say everyone wishes we got that version.

[Anonymous No.587048]

>kill a civilian
>Groovy!

[Anonymous No.587056]

>>586943
>"We're all gonna die!"

That line was so clichéd, yet somehow it stuck with me. Just something about the delivery of it that was so frightened and desperate.

[Anonymous No.587067]

wat

[Anonymous No.587076]

>>587067

It's a virus

[NESfag No.587095]

>>587067
You need to the DNF.Bat

[Anonymous No.587107]

Ok so I need to install a "normal" version of DN3D to make it work or I need eduke3d?

[NESfag No.587119]

>>587107
the right version of eduke32 is provided in the .rar

you need to
1) extract all files from the rar to a new folder
2) copy your copy of duke3D.grp to that folder
3) launch dnf.bat

[Anonymous No.587125]

>>587067
It's called a source port. The Hi-Res mod for DN3D contains the same thing if you get the full package.

[Anonymous No.587134]

>>587107
Actually any version of Duke 3D does it, as they all use the GRP file. You don't even need to run an installer to get it.

[Anonymous No.587157]

Playing this makes me sad.

Why they had to release a shitty version of DNF?

Why they had to expend that much time in this just to see how horrible the end game was?

FUCKING WHY?

I'm talking about the oficial version of DNF btw.

[Anonymous No.587242]

>>587157
>Why they had to release a shitty version of DNF?
It was Duke Nukem freaking Forever. The game was going to make money regardless of its overall quality. I'm still surprised by how Gearbox didn't expect the enormous backlash from long time fans and reviewers that weren't bribed.

[Anonymous No.587239]

>>587125
>>587095
Look at the icon in the lower left.

[Anonymous No.587250]

>>587242
Because Pitchford is delusional as fuck. He doesn't understand the difference between Duke Nukem fans and Cawadoody or Halo fans. Neither did George Broussard, since he was the one who decided on pants-on-head retarded systems like "2 guns at a time." And forgot all the conventions that made Duke 3D great.

[Anonymous No.587252]

>>587239
>mfw I'm too used to that being the icon for my WADs to notice
That's one doomed space marine.

[Anonymous No.587273]

I find it humorous that a Duke 3D mod has better driving physics than the real Duke Forever.

[Anonymous No.587285]

>>587252
So, I have bought about 300 copies of Duke3d, but, well, CDs, no idea where the fuck they are.

Am I really gonna have to buy this shit again?

at least I'm pretty unlikely to lose my steam/GoG account

[Anonymous No.587291]

>>587285
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27048651/DUKE3D.GRP
Have mine.

[Anonymous No.587295]

>>587291
I love you.

[Anonymous No.587302]

>>582073
so wait, i dont understand this

is this a mod that re-makes the gearbox dnf in the old engine

or

is this a mod that tried to recreate what they thought dnf would have been if it had been made back in the day

or

is this a mod that just puts together all the unfinished stuff from dnf and makes a game

or what?

[DoctorAmazing !!DCngmDqLwuj No.587317]

>>587302
number 2

[Anonymous No.587318]

>>587302
The first 2.
It's a remake of the 2001 version of duke forever in the EDuke32 engine.

[Digger No.587319]

>>587302
The second one.

[Anonymous No.587327]

>>587302
In the read me file it is just recreating the game based upon the 1998 and 2001 trailers of Duke Nukem Forever, or at least more so with 2001 trailers. With that said they could only squeeze so much out of what was shown in the trailers.

[Anonymous No.587371]

>>587318
You could call it a "demake" if you really wanted to, considering it's an older engine than even the 2001 build.

[Anonymous No.587430]

>>587371
Yeah somewhat, except that we never got to play the actual 2001 version. It seemed like there was even more and more emphasis with interacting with the environment with it, especially showing off the vending machine, even if it a lot of it could have been trivial they wanted that sort of touch.

[Anonymous No.587461]

>>587430
That's a piece of software history I'd really love to get my hands on.

You KNOW it's on a harddrive somewhere at Gearbox or some of the ol' 3dRealms guys' PCs.

Has anyone tweeted (or whatever shit everyone's using now) Pitchford about how a free mod for a decades old engine outdid their rendition of DNF?

[Anonymous No.587654]

Help please.

[DoctorAmazing !!DCngmDqLwuj No.587747]

>>587654
try software mode?

[Anonymous No.587842]

>>587747
He's already in Software mode. You see the void when textures are missing, maybe you didn't run DNF.bat, or have the embedded GRP or ART files in the same directory, if any (I'm yet to download it).

[Anonymous No.587857]

>>587842
By "you", I'm obviously talking at >>587654

[Anonymous No.587860]

>>587157
Sounds like how I feel when I play Doom 64 or Classic Doom 3 or various Doom wads. It's like I'm seeing what Doom 3 could have, nay, should have been, and it hurts.

[Anonymous No.587891]

>>587461
What for? He probably couldn't give a shit. It's like telling Capcom how poorly they've handled Mega Man in the last few years.

[Anonymous No.588146]

>>587654
What's the problem? Never been to Vegas before

[Anonymous No.589671]

>>587891
stop being right, faggot.

[Anonymous No.589782]

>>584464
I know this was like eighteen hours ago, but yeah it's in its own directory.

[Anonymous No.589848]

>>587860
I could probably google it and find it, but what's Classic Doom 3? Sounds like some shit I'd like.

>>587891
Welllllllllllll....

Turning a fan-favorite into a withered husk that smells of shit and burnt flesh is a disservice to a company's revenue stream long term, which is what they're really after.

[Digger No.589868]

>>589848
It's a mod for Doom 3 which remakes the first episode of Doom. Plays very well and it's pretty fucking fun. Worth a go if you have doom 3.

[Anonymous No.589878]

>>589868
Hi digger (Doom thread regular, amazed I havent' heard of/seen this shit).

I do, and I found some clips of it on youtube... Looks purty kewl.

WHY THE FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK DO VANILLA D3 MODS NOT WORK WITH BFG EDITION, FUCK

[Digger No.590105]

>>589878
Hello! I'm amazed too, it's one of the biggest mods for that game.

Believe it or not, the BFG edition is a very different game internally. It's an updated version of id Tech 4 with code added in from id Tech 5, thus, no prior mod will work. Just another reason why the BFG edition is an insult.

I really wanted that BFG edition to be good...I really did.

[Anonymous No.590128]

>>590105
That's both fascinating and fucking irritating.

I know D3 engine is a genuine example of wonderful code, and that (engine coding) is one of very few things I still have total faith in Id about.

Now if only we could get the same level of quality on level/story/weapon/enemy/challenge design as we have on engines/gfx/atmosphere...

[script writer kibe No.590376]

I don't know about you guys but this thing is making me motion sick somethin' fierce. I tried adjusting the mouse settings but it didn't help all that much

Oh well, shame that I have to miss out on something this huge

[Digger No.590468]

>>590128
No kidding, Carmack used to have Romero and Hall, as well as another Carmack, to help with that.

[Anonymous No.591231]

>>590468
The Good Old Days(tm)... *sigh*.

If I were a bazillionaire, I'd literally approach the Carmacks, Romero, Id, and all involved from a licensing standpoint, and have a very serious talk about buying and taking over the Doom IP/what they want for Doom 4.

I care that much.

>shame I'm not in a position to do anything even remotely close to that

[Anonymous No.591239]

>>591231
>meaning I'd offer them jobs for me, not saying I'd buy the IP and then ask them stupid questions. In case that wasn't clear.

>sage for double-post in an old thread

[NESfag No.591283]

>>589782
make sure there is no TILES0XX.art file in the directory

make sure the DUKE3D.GRP file is in the directory and is a valid one (you probably need the one from version 1.4 or 1.5 and not 1.3; you might want to download another one)

make sure you're launching the mod through the DNF.bat file

otherwise i'm clueless

[Anonymous No.592220]

>>582073
played it and finished it, it's a nice enjoyable mod. Better than gearbox's dnf but this doesn't say much. It would be cool if this project would be expanded and made it into a full fledged game

[Anonymous No.592225]

>>584470
the music in that part was way too shitty though.

[Anonymous No.592236]

>>586943
as impressive as that was, you could already tell it was a game overly focused on cutscenes\scripted sequences, the gameplay in the trailer was mostly duke fighting up to ONE enemy at a time. I have the feeling that 2001 dnf would have been as shitty and the one gearbox released. It was an already doomed project I think

[Anonymous No.592249]

>>587860
the problem to me is that the developers don't even realize that doom is still a great game, let alone what makes it so great. If you ask me they probably felt doom was inferior gameplay wise to everything because it was old and shit like no-fun based gameplay was a straight up improvement.

Croteam can make fun fps, I wouldn't call them retrostyle because they feel fresher than any modern fps, anyway serious sam 3 is great and in my opinion even better than the classics

[Anonymous No.592264]

>>592225
>/vr/
>hasn't even played vectorman
but yeah that track was a miss in that section. the bike theme fit well

[Anonymous No.592290]

>>587654
>>587291

[Anonymous No.594539]

>>583208
What difficulty are you playing on? Ammo has always been scarce as fuck on 'come get some'.

[script writer kibe No.594676]

Boy, getting gang rapped by all those pig cops in tanks and the fire and ice Assualt Enforcers sure was fun

Other than that great mod! Was a bit disappointed that it had to end so abruptly after the damn exploded though

[Anonymous No.594713]

>>594676
Never had trouble with the tanks. It's not like you ever encounter them without sufficient cover.

Also RPG ammo wasn't exactly lacking.

[Anonymous No.594840]

Mhh, I jumped over the truck and now I'm stuck in the strip club. Lots of health packs lying around, the orchestral music is unfitting and getting on my nerves.

Well, I never really liked Duke Nukem that much in the first place. I always preferred Doom and Shadow Warrior.

[Anonymous No.594954]

>>594840
Stuck? There's only one thing to do in the strip club. Didn't you grab the red keycard?

[Anonymous No.595127]

I have the GoG version from when it was free last year. How do I use this mod with that version?

[script writer kibe No.595281]

>>595127
Make a copy of the Duke3D.grp file, place it in the mod folder, and run the .bat file

couldn't be more simple

[Anonymous No.595296]

>>594954
Yes and I used it too but I don't know which door opened. The one next to the card reader didn't open. I went back and there were a few enemies but no open door. There's too many closed doors in this mod.

[Anonymous No.595472]

Now they just need to make new mods using the Quake II Engine and then the Unreal Engine Then the circle would be complete.

[Anonymous No.595769]

>>595296
Didn't you notice the security camera next to the card reader?

[Anonymous No.595837]

holy shit guys, seriously how is it?
im downloading it right now

[Anonymous No.595853]

>>595837
It's good. Short, but good.

Easy to understand why it's so short, it's based on a very brief trailer. Only so much they could do.

[Anonymous No.596586]

Okay, I'm gonna feel really dumb asking this, but how do you exit the elevator in the first level, there's no door or anything

[Anonymous No.596617]

>>596586

Press E or just use it when you're inside and you'll go up to the room with the key.

[Anonymous No.596641]

>>596617
I hit E on the wall switch for the elevator, and it will take me down some distance and stop. Then I hit it again and I go back to the same room as where I came from (the security room with the shotgun)

[Anonymous No.596652]

>>596641

I'm not sure if I mistook it for the last part with the switch you need to put an access card on to, which opens up the last gate when you turn left from the truck jump, but I'm sure all you have to do is

>go up
>get card and other stuff
>go back down to where the keycard point is
>swipe your keycard there
>ride straight into the huge open gate on the left side of that part of the stage.

[Anonymous No.596678]

>>596652
I don't think so, I haven't seen a truck. I'm at:

>warp to EDF
>fight enemy
>get shotgun
>briefing in security room
>exit secure room and go to elevator
>enter elevator, it starts moving
>goes nowhere
>no exits
>hit button, it goes back to security room
>hit button again, goes back down to nowhere

I can't figure out what I'm missing. I've tried shooting all the walls and floors and ceilings, and jetpacking around inside. Nothing seems to do anything.

[Anonymous No.596683]

>>596678

Look for a small ventilation shaft somewhere and boot/shoot it open. Crawl from there and you should end up to the kitchen on the way to the main Casino.

[Anonymous No.596803]

>>596683
oh, I found one of those but it seemed you couldn't crawl through. I'll have to try again. Thanks for the tip.