{"id":3348,"date":"2009-05-11T12:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2009-05-11T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:32:56","slug":"duke-nukem-never-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"Duke Nukem Never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been waiting for this announcement for years.  We&#8217;ve known the project was doomed since the second or third time they announced they were throwing everything away and starting over.   What&#8217;s amazing is how long it took them to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2009\/05\/duke-nukem-forever-was-the-glue-that-kept-us-together.ars\">announce that they were giving up<\/a>. 3D Realms is going out of business.  Since they haven&#8217;t actually produced anything but screenshots and laughable promises I don&#8217;t think the gaming world has lost anything besides a long-running joke.  <\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years in the &#8220;making&#8221;, Duke Nukem Forever is the king of vaporware and will likely hold that title for many years to come. (Duke is so awesome, he even wins awards for not existing!) Note that the American moon race, from the day of Kennedy&#8217;s challenge to the point where Neil Armstrong climbed out of Eagle and went frolicking around Mare Tranquillitatis, took less time than it took to not make Duke Nukem Forever.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Dear 3D Realms,<\/p>\n<p>As you guys slide into bankruptcy court, allow me to make you an offer: I&#8217;ll give you the $60 I would have paid for the game, and all you have to do is <strong>tell me what you were doing for the last 13 years.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pretty please?  The mystery is driving me crazy.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been waiting for this announcement for years. We&#8217;ve known the project was doomed since the second or third time they announced they were throwing everything away and starting over. What&#8217;s amazing is how long it took them to announce that they were giving up. 3D Realms is going out of business. Since they haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}