The Next Red-Letter Date: DNF Teaser Trailer 2007
The Shacknews headline reads: “Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Releasing Tomorrow; This is Real and We Are Not Shitting You.”
So says George Broussard, longtime president of 3D Realms, who today announced that a Very Special Teaser Trailer of the now-joketacular Duke Nukem Forever will be released tomorrow around noon, Central Time. This is the first time any actual piece of DNF material has been shown since the E3 2001 trailer, which, despite going down as a classic, hasn’t accurately represented the game’s appearance in years.
The 3D Realms message forums are now practically unusable due to all the traffic. Various gaming websites have exploded upon hearing the news. After all, since Duke Nukem Forever was first announced in 1997, it has gone on to become the stuff of legend. With one of the longest development cycles in gaming history, the arrival of any piece of DNF media — to say nothing of the game itself — may as well signify the end of days.
It is, in a word, biblical.
I stopped following the DNF news a long time ago, but the previous game in the franchise — Duke Nukem 3D — remains one of my all-time gaming favorites. And while most of the Internet has spent the better part of the last ten years laughing and mocking the apparent vaporware status of DNF, it looks like 3D Realms is about to snap us all back to attention.
I know what I’ll be watching on my lunch break tomorrow. In the meantime, check out this humorous list of facts about DNF’s development cycle — and the world events that have occurred since it was announced. You may be surprised!
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Now how much could they squeeze into a 1 minute long trailer? I’m assuming not much.
I predict the trailer will be footage of a Dukematch, with one player hiding in a cabinet, followed by another player shooting the fire extinguisher next to said cabinet. Hilarity ensues.
“He’s going in the damn cabinet again!”
Pooch, your prediction would have been a hell of a lot funnier. The actual teaser was pretty much nothing, I was at least hoping for some gameplay footage, but no dice. Just some quick flashes to some ingame (engine-rendered) cinematics, that was mostly it. At least what we saw looked good. But then, it looked only about as good as I would expect any modern-day game to look.
Speaking of going in that damn closet again…since I have a digitized audio tape of that Big John Dukematch, as well as Megadeth’s remix of “Grabbag” (the Duke Nukem 3D theme), I seriously am thinking about whipping together an audio trailer of exactly what you predicted.
It may not be “Wesley…Woody…Felix!” but it’d be something!
Yeah, that was a whole lot of nothing. It does look nice, but honestly… will it ever come out?