Vestal said:Im using a 7200rpm HDD for the duke install and my load times are no longer than 10 seconds at the most..
Core2Duo 8400 OCed
4gb Corsair Dominator 8500 ram
XFX5770 Crossfire
Windows 7 64-Bit
Raptor WD 74.8gb Hard drive for OS and Swap
Seagate 1TB 7200 16meg cache for non MMO installs or hard drive intensive game installs.
richisawesome said:So far, I've found it no different to Half Life 2. And I love HL2.
Yeah the music (what little there was of it) is pretty damn good. Lots of throwbacks to classic DNF tunes too. I especially liked the couple of tracks that played during Ghost Town.Mister_Bubbles said:There is definitely a heavy HL vibe to a lot of the sections; just finished it and had an absolute blast (pun not intended). It's not consistently polished and it's not highbrow, but it is a fucktonne of fun.
With a surprisingly good (i.e. even the orchestral pieces) soundtrack! Hope we see a release of it in some form or other.
Zefah said:I was playing it last night on my friend's i7 2600k and GTX 580 system, and he the load times definitely felt a little long. It wasn't anything like the 30 seconds to a minute reports I am hearing from the console crowd, but it was definitely longer than 10 seconds. I'm pretty sure my friend is just using a standard 7200rpm 32mb cache hard drive, though.
fully agreed. it plays REALLY like that SiN episode they put out. mentioned that in here the other day.dark10x said:Who has said that?
Personally, I think it plays like a sequel to SiN more than anything (which I already felt was an unofficial sequel to Duke).
Has everyone watched completely different trailers to me? Much of the original game made it in judging from what I've seen. Nearly all the environments match up to those in the trailers, although most of the NPCs seem to have gotten turfed along the way.alr1ghtstart said:Watching the old trailers, basically nothing made it into the final game (that I noticed), which was pretty odd.
FGMPR said:DNF is GAF's new Alpha Protocol.
saunderez said:Has everyone watched completely different trailers to me? Much of the original game made it in judging from what I've seen. Nearly all the environments match up to those in the trailers, although most of the NPCs seem to have gotten turfed along the way.
I see more stuff that isn't in the game than is in that trailer. And the stuff that did make the transition looks way cooler in the 2001 version.Zefah said:Yeah, just take a look at the trailer from 2001.
I only played the game for a little over an hour last night and saw plenty of that stuff in the game.
Zenith said:Seriously? Even Yahtzee made fun of it. Like when the psychotic ex-agent helps you out and later brags on your TV link how cool it was to gun down all those security guards, I picked "angry" thinking whatshisface'd tell him to fuck off. Instead he goes off on a completely different tangent about the mission objectives. Or any time you picked the "dossier" option. Or any time involving the spymaster and his mute bodyguard.
Talk about rose-tinted glasses. Don't be such a fanboy.
Zefah said:I played through it three times and don't remember feeling that my decisions weren't accurately reflected. It appears I may have forgotten some things, though.
Either way, it's hardly a case of "None of the choices ever matched up with the responses."
ColonialRaptor said:I can't believe they ruined duke so badly by restricting him to TWO weapons. WORST IDEA EVER!!
Is there anyway to mod this out? I'm going to return the game if I can't hold all the weapons at once...
All I see is a bunch of vehicle segments I'm glad didn't make it into the game.Dance In My Blood said:I see more stuff that isn't in the game than is in that trailer. And the stuff that did make the transition looks way cooler in the 2001 version.
Combichristoffersen said:Not at the moment, no.
They haven't tried to make the game "cool". Duke is a parody of 90s action heroes. Always has been, always will be. If you take him as a serious character then thats only part of your problem.ColonialRaptor said:This decision by the developers just epitomises everything that is bad about this game. They've tried SO HARD to make this game "cool" and tried to do everything they can to do EVERYTHING the "cool" way and by doing that they've made everything so crap.
saunderez said:All I see is a bunch of vehicle segments I'm glad didn't make it into the game.
saunderez said:They haven't tried to make the game "cool". Duke is a parody of 90s action heroes. Always has been, always will be. If you take him as a serious character then thats only part of your problem.
just, no. it isn't remotely clear that the levels were made recently. you think the ruins of vegas bit after you get out of the first area was made recently?GrayFoxPL said:The levels are short, simplistic and linear. It is clear they were rushed and made very recently. Game is so dumbed down compared to dn3d and what was seen in the old trailers it's not funny.
plagiarize said:just, no. it isn't remotely clear that the levels were made recently. you think the ruins of vegas bit after you get out of the first area was made recently?
Things I see in the trailer that aren't in the game:saunderez said:All I see is a bunch of vehicle segments I'm glad didn't make it into the game.
They had this in dn3d as wellNeuromancer said:Just got to the alien hive level. Some pretty fucked up shit.
Dance In My Blood said:Things I see in the trailer that aren't in the game:
Zombie Things
Fighting the EDF
Enemies with Riot Shields
Donkey Riding
Motorcyles
Speed Boats
Dodging Traffic
Terminator
Wieldable Lobsters
Minecart Section that actually goes somewhere
Crazy Old Miner
And some sand worm that looks like it got repurposed into the underwater section.
Other videos show vast amounts of content that isn't in the game. Like a female version of Duke, rolling boulders, etc.
Yeah... They didn't go as far thoughQisTopTier said:They had this in dn3d as well
You're right. I've already forgotten the campaign.Campster said:Enemies with riot shields are actually in the game; they're just ROBO SPACE SHIELDS now instead of traditional military counter-terrorism riot shields.
I don't know, seems like pretty much the same shit but with upgraded visuals and audio quality to me. Maybe they left a little more to the imagination in D3D, but the idea was always there.Neuromancer said:Yeah... They didn't go as far though
I am almost level 20 after about 2 days so maybe try a different gametype.bluedeviltron said:Holy shit. The multiplayer progression speed needs to be upped by about 800%.
I just spent 30 minutes running around a shitty, laggy box map punching guys and I'm only a quarter of the way to level 2.
I got to level 4 in one match. There are challenges that give you huge boost of experience. Stuff like blowing yourself up with RPG etc.bluedeviltron said:Holy shit. The multiplayer progression speed needs to be upped by about 800%.
I just spent 30 minutes running around a shitty, laggy box map punching guys and I'm only a quarter of the way to level 2.
Tanolen said:I'm suprised how short the game is, beat it in a little over 6 hours. I wasn't rushing through it and goofed off some. Was on normal mode.
i lol'd, but i agree.ColonialRaptor said:WHO'S STUPID IDEA WAS THIS?
ColonialRaptor said:I STILL CANNOT GET OVER THE FACT THAT THEY RESTRICTED DUKE TO TWO WEAPONS, WHO'S STUPID IDEA WAS THIS? HE'S KING DICK DUKE WITH ALL THOSE MUSCLES AND HE CAN ONLY CARRY TWO WEAPONS AT ONCE?? WTF!!!
alr1ghtstart said:i lol'd, but i agree.
Same voice actor. Of all the things to pick on Jon St John's voice acting is not one of them.quinntendopower said:as duke would say in his horribly weird new voice, "what a mess".