This got me to thinking: As an archetype, Duke himself strikes me as something of a major anachronism: The physical modeling of pre-flabby Schwarzenegger or Willis; the apparently dozens of equipment pouches on his person like he stepped out of a Rob Liefeld comic; a calculated substitution of credible personality in favor of an empty-something which marketing departments call “attitude”. In short, he embodies a good number of the things I hated the most about the 1990s.

I can’t see how this game can be released as anything but a self-deprecating parody and yet still be expected to make money.

After that whole mess they kind of shut off the outside world and I’m sure they probably changed engines again too, given how long it has been since the first switch.

I think the biggest contributed to the while thing was they had the clout back in the “good days” to say they would release it “when it’s done”. Now some people can work with no deadline (like id software) but others fall prey to human nature and keep going and going (Chinese democracy). 3d realms falls into the latter rather than the former.

There are still hardcore gamers like myself that care about it, and perhaps they can capture a whole new generation of gamers now that we have old gamers kids playing now.