Duke Nukem - A Game Series Retrospective
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- History, overview and opinion on each of the major Duke Nukem video games (and many of the minor ones!)
Balls of Steel and Death Rally were not included as they are not Duke Nukem games, per se. They are games that feature Duke Nukem-related content.
Urea 51 footage from PencilPusher93
LGR you sound so young in this video!
Different microphone, less experience :)
oh! just saw the date of the video ^_^ silly me
+oopus4 It was 2011, it was a different time. It was simpler back then ;-)
+daishi5571 Yes I remember the hardships of that time
sistaledaren Has anyone told you that you look like Morgan Freeman!
Duke Nukem Forever came out 8 years ago.
Man I feel old.
9 years and counting.
Are people getting nostalgic over forever?
Remember when Duke Nukem 4 was a synonym for "stuck in development hell" and the joke was that "forever" was how long it would take them to complete the writing of the game ? Seems another era now.
I don't think forever really came out. More like it was pulled out of the trash.....and they tried to sell it....
@@tomcruiiseship9461 I remember playing Duke Nukem forever, it definitely felt short and just not great, not saying it was totally bad, I finished and beat the game & played worse games "cough" "sonic 06" "cough"... but I kinda hope one day The Duke will be resurrected like Doom was by id
I didn't even notice this was 11 years old until you started talking about duke nukem forever coming out soon. Threw me way off lmao
I've noticed 3 things ALL Duke Nukem games have in common.
1. None of them are particurarily technically impressive for their time. Duke Nukem 3D was kind of a more advanced Doom but overall Quake came out shortly after it and blew it out of the water in terms of technology. And Duke Nukem Forever looks and feels like a game from the early 2000's.
2. None of them are particurarily original, but put their own twist on something.
3. None of them take themselves seriously and neither should you.
Alexandria Thorne 3: forever seems to take itself to seriously
Actually, "I was there", and both DN1 and DN3D were 'technically impressive' for their time (DN2 not so much). Quake was also impressive but in different ways. DN1 ran on old slow early PCs (e.g. 1MHz 286) in 640KB RAM on EGA 16-color systems ... EGA is quite complex to program in and of itself, and DN1 required extensive optimizations in assembler (which John Carmack himself helped with). DN1 has a complex rich environment with a lot going on ... I started handcoding a sort of a basic 'clone' at that stage, in assembler, and even my relatively well optimized assembler at the time couldn't match the performance of DN1. (I had some ideas for fixing/improving it, but by the time I got round to working on it again, computers had started getting fast enough that it didn't make sense to go that route anymore.)
I think the next Duke Nukem game should be less like DNF and more like Doom 2016. Duke 3D didn't feel the need to fluff itself with all this crap, it got straight into the action, a sentiment that Doom 2016 more or less shared and that's why it's great. Don't relegate most of the interactive stuff to boring fetch quests. I feel like Duke Nukem Forever was too much tell, not enough show. Duke is more of a showoff in Forever, whereas I feel like previous games, he was more of a beginning to end action hero just getting crap done, DNF starts out strong with the Cyclops but then the mansion is just so slow. I don't want a Duke that has to remind us that he's great, because we should get that feeling as we're mowing down aliens.
You were probably 5 when it was released and like all younger generation now they no shit about good games
It came out a good half year after Commander Keen which was the first scrolling platformer on pc.
You have to be really desperate to play the Tiger LCD version of Duke Nukem 3d.
You have to be really desperate to play the Tiger handheld version of just about any game...
@@RyuTora2808 They're not all bad. Some, dare I say, are actually good.
As the lead designer of Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes... Your words wound me good sir! Great Video! Keep up the great work!!!
i still to this day say "ahh much better" like duke.
Loren Scott Yes recommend
The first Duke game seriously resembles the Commander Keen series.
Similar software at the time , sidescrollers like keen , you would be amazed just how many were actually released around that era
One of the Duke Nukem games has Dr. Proton tell Duke that Commander Keen couldn't escape from the prison mine he put him in
@@infinityhand6569 That's right, Duke Nukem 1 and the mines level.
All those awesome apogee games, including id software...
Reminds me more of Crystal Caves than CK, especially the dropping signs and item pickup animations.
My room mate almost flunked out of school due to the first one - I ended up putting a password menu system on my PC to keep the peace.
Haha crazy
@@NinjaSushi2 Lol. Doom was doing that too!
I am still amazed at home many innovation Duke Nukem 3D made at once. Many games make 1-2 "innovations" out of the whole same typical FPS, to say "look, the game is innovative, we have physics puzzle or hacking consoles, haha we are the best" but it's small steps. But Duke 3D if you think about it, it was like they wanted to make all cool ideas never tried after Doom. Realife environment, character talking and saying jokes, breakable environments, jump/couch freelook, underwater mechanics, crazy interactive (even the friggin wall socket electrifies you, such detail!), unique weapons (most fps before or after are like "generic pistol, generic shotgun, etc", but duke 3d in general were shrink, freeze gun, pipe bomb, laser, all in one game, then in Blood and Shadow Warrirors unique weapons and second fire mode). They could have said "Let's do all generic weapons, and at slot 7 let's do a gimmicky weapon to be original and stop there. No! They did more than 4 truly unique weapons, and each of them need unique code (shrink sprites, freeze, lasers needed laser line rendering, shit!). They have inventory, friggin jetpacks, easter eggs. Just think. If a modern FPS trying to differentiate itself from the genre does 1-2 innovations (like bulletstrorm adding just attractor and kill styles, and some crazy dialogues) and thinks it's cool, Duke 3D did 6-8 MegaInnovations from Doom. No really, I think it all the time. You know why? Because I played Duke Nukem Forever which everybody considers awful but I think it's average, and I discover the interactivity things that it just copied and kind expanded from original, and at first I am like "Wow, this game has really cool ideas" and then I am "But Duke Nukem 3D (original) did it first?". And then I am to the whole FPS genre "What are you guys doing? Why modern ID games still don't have enough interactivity? Why weapons and enemies are so generic in most FPS?"
Duke Nukem 3D was light years ahead.
Duke Nukem 3D was pretty outstanding, but it was technically not all that impressive. The game that changed FPS games forever was, oddly enough, built on a heavily modified id software engine. That being Valve's Half-Life. A game which introduced actual scripted story events, ignored cutscenes entirely for scripted events in game, it was one of the first FPSes to actually tell a story with those sort of tools.
Half-Life also introduced the GoldSRC engine, which was a heavily retooled and reworked id tech 1/Quake engine. In fact it was rebuilt so well that it was far more capable than even the later id tech 3 engine, which allowed it to easily put the id tech 2 engine to shame. It allowed for things like breakable glass, and complicated model interactions. Plus Half-Life was the game that introduced skeletal animation into video games. This allowed for characters to perform very realistic movement animations and have mouths that moved to match their speech.
Half-Life had also a much more truly interactive environment than Duke Nukem 3D could've ever hoped for. Complicated environmental puzzles, interactive buttons and sequences that allowed other actions. Half-Life even had working vending machines, to the limited extend they were possible. So while Duke had gimmicky toys, Gordon had a realistic and believable world that seemed alive.
Then there's also the very neat weapons system Half-Life had. They broke the 4-12 weapon limit in a very creative manner. That is by putting various weapons into categories assigned to each number key, for a total of 13. Also Half-Life had some of the most unique weapons in a video game to that point. The RPG was laser guided and used for taking out hard targets, so it got little ammo, forcing the player to rely on other weapons. The Tau Cannon could shoot lasers through walls, while the Gluon Gun is the first continuous beam weapon I can recall in a game. The Grunt's weapon shoots freaking homing hornets and has regenerating ammo. Then there are Snarks which can easily turn on their own user. Also, unlike so many other FPS games, all of the non-exotic weapons are based on existing real world weapons. The only FPS games that did this prior were games like Wolfenstein 3D which was a WWII game. Rise of the Triad had real world weapons in the PPK, MP40, and Bazooka as well, but those were there because ROTT was supposed to be a Wolfenstein 3D sequel. The rest of the weapons were pretty much just modern fantasy fare though, as were all of the power ups. Also Half-Life had a requirement for reloading weapons, which was unheard of in an FPS up until that point.
Yeah Duke Nukem 3D was great, but it wasn't all that ahead of it's time. A lot of what it did were gimmicks that really haven't stuck around. It did amazing things with it's limited engine, but nothing that hadn't been done similarly. Duke Nukem 3D shook up the genre, but didn't really change much. Half-Life on the other hand completely changed the genre of first person shooters and set the bar really high. Duke Nukem might have redefined the FPS Genre, but Gordon Freeman changed it forever and evolved it beyond what any other game did at the time.
To be fair, breakable environments had been done in an FPS in Ghen War a year prior (to a larger extent too), jumping and freelook (not sure about crouching) had been in Ultima Underworld (a first person RPG from 1992 which was notable for using true 3D instead of 2.5D like Doom etc.) and System Shock from 1994 included those plus going prone, as well as highly interactive environments, included various novel weapons like contact sensitive and timed explosives and landmines, various types of grenades (emp, gas, concussion), a stun-gun, etc.
Duke 3D was an awesome package, a really well implemented and fun game, but most of the things you bring up had been done before. Duke did them better, more fluently though.
@@natsume-hime2473 you might be right but I think duke nuken has aged better. Half life to me at least, is just irritating to play now thanks to it's awful platforming.
I'm you, genius. Only back in time.
It should be forward in time IMO. If it was him BACK in time, he should remember the encounter no? From the other dukes perspective of course.
IMO zero hour was absolutely amazing with so much hidden stuff in it. I know it got flak for its multiplayer. But it u use cheats for debug mode you can play all single player levels with 2 people.
Zero Hour is easily the best Duke
@@pitbullent naw fam. Duke Nukem megaton edition is where it's at.
I actually really enjoyed Manhatten Project. Was a fun 2.5d Sidescroller.
Second only to duke 3D I agree
A successor to the Duke Nukem 1&2 sidescrollers
Yeah, same here. I really thought that was a good game and a great idea.
Love that game!
Wish I got to play the registered version back in the day, only had the shareware version. Demo version, anyway
These Duke Nukem reviews make me feel old. Just kidding, I love the shit out of Duke Nukem. TY, this was a blast to watch.
For the first 30 seconds I didn't even recognize Clint's voice o_0 I thought it was someone else.
His balls didn't drop yet
Same just happened to me, after the first few seconds I went back up just to make sure it was an LGR video 😂
Hey, I noticed you used my Sega Saturn gameplay footage in the video, that's cool, cheers for the credit in the description also.
Love your videos, keep it up, man!
Wow its like you think you own the copyright to the game itself.
@@HQA0 Megadeth didn't invent the electric guitar, maybe they shouldn't have the rights to their own music.
I had no idea there were this many Duke Nukem games.
He totally forgot about the gameboy color Duke Nukem game
@@MyFanMadeFilms
He mentioned it in the video.
@@thisismyname5657 not sure how I missed it, but it was so short tbh
There are even more Duke Nukem games, most of them being spin-offs. Kinda sad Pitchford locked down Duke IP so hard... I only wish someone would do something about this :(
The first time I played Duke Nukem 3D was on my ipad. Very hard, I would not recommend it. It's rewarding when you beat it but it was a pain in the ass! Much more fun on the ps3!
I have Duke Nukem Advance, and its pretty sweet in my opinion. Probably my Second favourite GBA fps.
What is your favorite then?
Doom, i haven't played the second doom for the gba, but i'm pretty sure it uses the engine used in Duke Nukem Advance instead of the engine used in the first gba doom.
VETRIS84
The Doom II port for GBA is superb, and I too thoroughly enjoyed Duke Nukem Advance, minus the lack of music.
I really need to get Doom II for GBA, i haven't played Doom II at all and i feel like a bit of a hypocrite saying i'm a doom fan without playing Doom II or Doom 3.
Oh man, the port for GBA is great, but if you have never played it at all, I definitely recommend grabbing up Doom 3: BFG Edition for PC/PS3/360.. it comes with pc perfect ports of Doom & Doom II, plus Doom 3 and an extra mission pack. You can get it pretty cheaply too. .. or if you can manage to get your hands on the PS1 Doom, has both games with all new ambient music and sounds.
hmmm, I guess this predates the days of LGR doing his John Saint john voice
DNF had some flaws, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Only real problem I had with it was the fact that you could only carry two weapons at a time... That kinda sucked... But the gameplay was pretty solid in my opinion. I had fun. :)
In agreement there , that was the biggest downfall of that game
so many of the games are just versions of duke 3d or similar fps games using the same assets. they really need to make more original games.
I remember when I bought Manhattan Project, much fun :)
Yep. I got Duke Nukem Manhattan Project when I was 14 or so. I can remember how cool it was and it didn't bother me at all that it was a side scroller. It can be deceptively difficult however, so don't take it lightly...
Should have waited forever it was a dumpster fire of hot garbage. It’s a shame
You are wrong about Duke Nukem 64's gore: the gore remain intact, the game featured the expander and its huge gibs explosions, and you could even shoot into the dead bodies!
About the levels, none were cut either. Some got revamped, with extra or improved parts, sometimes inspired by The Birth (since The Birth is not featured, except for the Duke Burger secret level) Like having a secret grocery area in the first map, or the small Duke Burger in the second.
Duke 64 is not only a great port but also had unique features like those "altered" maps and different weapons. Having the grenade launcher instead of the missile launcher was an interesting difference.
(edit: just realized the video's date... but i keep it here if maybe someone reads it lol)
Two years later, someone read it lmao
@@juanjoseph T_T
Note that Duke II graphics are 256 color VGA, but if you look closely or analyze the image, it becomes apparent what is already known about the development of early Duke, it was all done on Amiga. The Duke II palette was clearly optimized for 32/64 colors out of 12-bit of OCS/ECS Amiga chipset (instead of 256 out of 18-bit for VGA).
Yeah, that derivative soundtrack is classic Bobby Prince.
What's funny is that many of Duke 3D's innovations were actually done first by Bungie's Marathon trilogy in 1994 and 1995, with the third game Marathon Infinity coming out the same year as Duke 3D.
As early as Marathon 1:
you could look up and down using the mouse as a requirement in that game
you could grenade jump with the assault rifle grenade launcher
use the flamethrower as a jetpack in low gravity
levels supported rooms over rooms by merely overlapping polygons in the engine and restricting access to them from certain angles, which could also produce interesting 5D architecture
Record films of your games to share online
More interactivity than Doom, albeit not as much as Duke Nukem 3D, chief among them being the text terminals, used to tell the trilogy's rich, deep and complicated story.
Marathon 2 onward nerfed the grenade jumping, especially the grenade climb feature in favour of allowing you to swim in 4 different types of liquid; water, sewage/swamp water, lava and Pfhor ship coolant, pre dating Duke 3D by 1 year.
Back in the day, they were for Macintosh only, which is why hardly anyone has ever heard of them but now you can get all three games and their mods as freeware on all modern operating systems via the Marathon equivalent to GZ Doom, Aleph One. There are several map making tools for them too. I am currently learning how to use Weland, which emulates the official Forge editor for the original Power Mac versions.
Lion O Cyborg yeah, but they don't get credit for one simple reason:
Bungie knew the developers of duke 3d were working on all those features, and copied them before they were released.
You can see this exact same pattern with DNF and Halo: why do you think Bungie put regenerating health and a two weapon limit in their "revolutionary" shooter? Duh, because Duke Nukem Forever was being developed, and it had those features.
(Disclaimer that this is a joke so you don't lose total faith in humanity.)
Thank you for clarifying it was just a joke. I still didn't find it funny.
Lion O Cyborg I played the Marathon II demo back in tha day on pc. It blew my socks off!
I played the shit outta duke nukem 2 as a kid, and it was only the first couple levels because it came on one of those trial bundle disks for win 95, good times
I played the hell out of Duke when I was a kid. DN1 is one of the best PC sidescrollers, period. Countless hours playing D3D over the modem with my friend (with a floppy disk of incredible user deathmatch maps). Duke Nukem Forever is one of the saddest stories in video game history.
Shame you didn't mention the awful Duke Nukem: Critical Mass
for the DS
I am surprised the Music Mafia didn't come after you due to Duke Nukem II! :)
Douglas R. Reno Yes recommend absolutely yes!
It should be noted that Duke 64 actually doesn't censor gore. It censored nudity, sex, drugs, and swearing but gore was not only intact but you could giblet enemies with any of your weapon like Quake 2. All in all, I'd say it's the most solid port at the time, despite the censoring.
Was gonna say I remember kicking dead enemies until they gibbed haha. Duke 64 was my first Duke game so I was kinda disappointed you couldnt do that in the original game.
according to Masters of Doom John Carmack didn't like Duke Nukem 3D and called it's engine cobbled together.
John Romero on the other hand loved it, and later on it was listed in his "top 5 favorite games" list
manhattan project always been my favourite together with dn3d, when i was about 8y/o i actually was looking in the files and found the prism3d map editor and actually spent alot of time making custom maps for it other than just playing the game
You should do more retrospectives!
You forgot Duke Nukem Critical Mass for the Nintendo DS, which has a time traveling story, some humor, and plays like the Manhattan Project kinda, but it's overall kinda lame.
Multiplayer was awesome...using steroids, holograms, Jetpack...shrinking and freezing other players...L.A. Ramble best map ...good times :)
So wait there’s actually a game development company called Lobotomy Software? Who would give their company that name?
Anyway, I got the 20th Anniversary World Tour Edition On Steam and I understand that none of the Duke 3d expansion packs were released with it such as, Duke It Out In DC, Nuclear Winter, Life’s a Beach, and so on. So is there any way I can get these expansions on my pc for my game? And I mean legally.
Kid LGR
I just wanted to point out that, the Glock in the DOS version is replaced by a M1911 in the Duke Nukem 64 version.
Also, the Duke uses a Desert Eagle in "Land of the Babes", Manhattan Project and Duke Nukem Advance.
Josue Alfaro Yeah?
So?
You gonna do something about it?
Josue Alfaro Sorry, but I have to inform you that I am not into that stuff.
+MadMetalheadMark The Desert Eagle's in TIme to Kill as well.
I played land of the babes! I even beat it because it was so damn stupid..
Wish I had run into time to kill instead, back then!
Duke Nukem is just one of my favorite video game franchise of all time.
I'm seriously the only person I know who liked Duke Forever, and I REALLY liked it, I thought it was awesome :D
Yella Dart Me too
The jokes in it seem really funny, and the level where yer shrunk looks cute. Being able to decorate his house and change his clothes looks fun too! I think the character of Duke works well (though it may just be LGR's version of Duke that I like haha), so I don't see how the game could be bad if it has Duke in it.
It has some good moments, especially when you're in the thick of the action. It has some moments where it truly feels like a successor to Duke 3D. I just wish it didn't have so many boring moments slapped into it. The next game should be more like Doom 2016, straight up action. Duke can obviously still say his one-liners, that's what makes him Duke, but he shouldn't keep stroking his own shlong the entire game. Duke 3D's Duke was cheesy action, not douchebag trying to showoff. Also, the next one shouldn't try to be modern and, like Doom 2016, just opt for 90's FPS action. Ditch the weapon limit and the limited movement speed.
I think Duke Nukem Forever killed the series
nah, I would still play a new Duke Nukem game, if it was any good. Duke still rocks.
It's a shame they ruined the franchise with Forever.
That game just should have been dumped back in the early 00's after so many delays.
Releasing such a dated and poorly designed game when they did was a joke.
I doubt we'll ever see a proper Duke game again after that mess.
Steve Perrin I liked Forever. :p
Forever was not that bad as people claim it to be. Compared to shitpieces like call of duty, Forever was actually a fun shooter
Vaibhav Shah It wasn't TERRIBLE, but boy was it disappointing. After years and years of developmental hell, they give out something that looked rushed out.
MetroidJunkie2007 well nothing is worth 15 years of hype. I doubt that even half life 3 would be worth the hype if it came out and valve I think knows that. However, your point stands true if you compare this game with duke 3d. But still better than kill zone, resistance, gears, cod, battlefield, etc. Shooters have gone through some really crappy transformations. From games with great level designs and cool guns, to t square linear 2 interchangeable gun set piece bullshit.
Vaibhav Shah Considering the Duke Nukem Forever 2013 mod is worlds better than the real Forever, it says a lot and THAT was stitched together with game trailers.
I was young in the 90s and early 2000s. My older brother was the curator of computer games at the time; and we some how missed out on the Duke Nukem franchise. We were into the dooms, quakes, unreals etc but we sure missed out on some good ones (Duke nukem 3D, Blood, Heretic, Triad). I'm currently playing Nukem 3D world tour on my switch and am happy that I get to experience it for the first time. It's like a new but nostalgic experience for me, coming from other shooters of the Era.
I grew up with Duke more than the other FPSes.
Very compact retrospective and fairly informative too. This is a pretty good format that I wish other reviewers could take note of.
Holy crap your voice has changed over the years
Can't wait to get my hands on DNF. Very cool vid, I hadn't even seen half of these games before. Just saw the old Clint Nukem sound board, that was so awesome, laughed my ass off. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on DNF!
" I REALLY HOPE DUKE NUKEM FOREVER IS GOING TO BE GOOD" Saddest words every written ... esp when at this point in time.. u realise poor little LGR has no clue how monumentally BAD the game is going be :(
In regard to Duke Nukem II's first level using a song that sounds similar to Megadeth's "Angry Again", it's nice to know that Megadeth returned the favor years later by recording their own version of Grabbag, aka the Duke Nukem theme song.
Poor LGR,I was reaaly hoping that Duke Nukem Forever will be good
Duke Nukem even appears in Mother 2: Giyiyg Strikes Back as a shopkeep and an enemy: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=854892262
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295336450
Bear in mind that this game predates Duke Nukem 3D but Duke 1 and 2 were out by then.
It seems Duke games are all about the funny character of Duke, so 3rd person perspective would work best. That way you get to experience all of Duke (and they can add even more funny animations for him), instead of seeing only a boring disembodied floating hand. Somebody should make a version of Duke Nukem 3D that allows the Player to toggle on a 3rd person view with vanity camera control, like in Morrowind (the camera can lock to his back when he's at the loo though lol).
Duke3D had a third person view (of sorts) with the Chase Cam. It wasn't very good. It was like they pulled the camera backwards (behind Duke but not above him) then placed a sprite of 'Duke from behind' where the camera used to be. The crosshair is in the same spot, so the effect you end up with is a sprite made to look semi-transparent that obstructs your view but the crosshair at least lets you know how to aim. The only time I used it (which is the reason I HATE third person view in general) was for cheating by looking around corners when I would get desperate in the later levels in my first ever playthrough.
Morrowind definitely had the best chase cam. Oblivion's and Skyrim's weren't as good. Skyrim's is especially bad.
You just HAD to bring up Morrowind though... now all I can think about is third person vanity view on Duke, mixing and matching armor sets (or combat fatigues in his case) to make him look as rad as possible.. XD
Oh wow so Duke did have a 3rd person view! That stinks that it wasn't any good :(. I like the kind that let you rotate the camera by holding Left Click, rotate your character by holding Right Click, snapping to your character's back by pressing both, zooming with the Mouse Wheel, and changing from 3rd to 1st person by zooming the Mouse Wheel all the way in so that it looks like you're going right into yer character's head. No no when it comes to saving the Earth from aliens, there's no such thing as cheating! Duke would approve of your corner technique.
Oh I would absolutely LOVE to be able to mix and match Duke's clothes! That would be so much fun! And then have him examine a mirror and hear him say "I'm lookin good!" Heeheehaha!
Heehee, Just received the original DOS version of Duke3D in the mail. I was pleasantly surprised it comes with Duke 1 and 2 as well.
I DO recommend Land of the Babes. When it released, it was only ten bucks. I had a blast with that game. Time to Kill was better, but Land of the Babes was still a good game.
I just got the PS Vita Dn3D version for free on Playstation plus and I'm really excited to play it.
wait, Duke Nukem 3D is the first to come to CD
But i have a official game called Duke Nukem II on a CD :p
Well, it was the first to _require_ a CD. The Duke Nukem II CD release was a later one by Formgen, but it originally came on floppy disk.
+Lazy Game Reviews Oh thanks for the response, Mine is published by Wizard Works
now that was a good gem of a video right there loved learning about all the duke nukem games thanks!
I really wish that someone could get their hands on the version of Duke Nukem Forever featured in the trailer on the Time To Kill disk. That game looked awesome.
Fucken had to check the date when you said DN: Forever was coming out next week.
Edit: I gotta lay off the weed
Hey LGR, I know you're a huge fan of Duke Nukem. Do you think you are crazy enough to actually try to write the "Why I'm so great" book? :D
Chapter 1: "Because, you guyssssuck!"
Megadeth!!!!! \m/
I love Megadeth!
fuck yea, you must LOVE megadeth's cover of the duke theme
Manhattan Project is the best Duke game after DN3D, in my opinion. The fact that it was a full 3D side-scroller with an adjusting camera with all the Duke quips, action and actually decent level design made it a real treat. I found the graphics pretty great, even up to a few years after it came out.
Duke Nukem Advance was my first Duke Nukem game and I thought it was a good FPS for the gameboy advance, even if Duke 3D is better. Advance is more like Doom with Duke Nukem 3D inspired locations like a movie theatre, gas station, the Sydney Opera house, Area 51, Duke Burger and an alien ship, as well as Duke Nukem 3D enemies with a couple of new ones replacing some of those from Duke 3D, such as the alien chickens known simply as "eggs" in game that cluck and shoot acid at you, the mini spider crabs that shoot the same acid and are basically weaker versions of Advance's first boss, and the grey which is basically the arch vile from Doom 2 except it doesn't suck and it uses a weaker version of the octabrain's Psi blast. (The latter of whom's I mistook for fireballs as a kid)
The PS1 soundtrack is superior to the PC, in my opinion.
The Powerslave engine has Quake running on Saturn, I wonder if it limitations or half-baked porting.
Yep, it sucks. Still DN3D is the best one, even 2022. Still the best one.
Time to Kill is underrated, that was my favorite as a kid.
I must admit, I love the N64 version. I guess I really love the grenade launcher replacing the RPG. I loved bouncing the grenade shots for strategic kills.
Zero Hour? That one's my favorite, I've been playing it since I was so young.
@@Lexilove2016 They meant DN 64.
You could have just said that Duke Nukem 3d is a 10/10 game and the rest is kinda crap.
most of them are good
u havent even played any of them except duke nukem 3d
Well, Duke Nukem Forever Wasn’t THAT Bad.
It Does Have Its Problems But Its Still a Ok Game
I liked it.
Only LGR can make the Duke dance to his own soundtrack
2:42 That's funny because Megadeth performed the Duke Nukem theme
How did you play Zero Hour on an emulator with a mouse?
480p ? LGR are u ki.....oh its 9 years old.
Damn shame how Gearbox has been treating Duke Nukem.
Check out that whole Gearbox vs Gobeille (Duke4's TerminX) debacle. The original forum posts over at Duke4.net are gone, but there are still snippets floating around.
I actually liked Land Of The Babes.
Duke Nukem 3D was the first game in the series that I played (using a source port). I later tried playing the first two DN games, but couldn't get into them. The first game just has strange, maze-like levels that don't really look like anything in particular and I don't really like the graphics on the second game. I was never really a fan of violent games with cutesy graphics.
Time to Kill was a significant game in my childhood!
Me too! Along with 3d
Manhattan Project is so good.
Duke Nukem (or Duke Nukum ;D) and Duke Nukem II are the best Duke's ever made in my oppinion. Not a fan of the other ones, although Duke 3D wasn't that bad, DNF was.
did u hear that duke nukem megaton edition is coming to vita
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I only ever scored the shareware versions of the first three Duke Nukem games. Shareware was awesome for a poor gamer. Very few games got me to pay up. (Doom and Epic Pinball being two off the top of my head.) The side scroller games weren't really my cup of tea, but I played the shareware elements to the end. Visually, I liked Duke Nukem 3D more than Doom/Doom II. But after playing Doom/Doom II so much, I was burned out on FPS games.
N64 with 4 players splitscreen was amazing
N64 was the bomb for MP back in the day!
@@wallaceshawn-zk8iw i never had more fun with any console. Goldeneye, Mario Party/Kart, Bomberman, Starfox. Won't say "good times" as I had a pretty pathetic life back then but battling the few friends I had were highlights.
The world deserves another good duke nukem game
Awesome retrospective. Shame that not many know about the first 2 Duke Nukems. Quick question: I have a DOS computer that's currently not working, and I think the power supply is to blame. It runs on 230 watts, and I have another power supply that is 250 watts. So if I put in the 250 watt power supply in the non working DOS computer, would it be compatible with it? Or would it fry it? Thanks.
i just came from your Duke II play.
this video has inspired me to make a fake trailer for a Duke movie. man, a movie would be a huge hit and restart the franchise which had better street cred when it was dead. would you be willing to lend some duke voiceover if i need? i'm just going to use footage from existing movies obviously
16:54 man that didn't age well and now im sad
I played Duke Nukem 3D back in the day and the Atomic Edition. Loved the game and played it off and on until about 2000 on an older PC. Played the N64 version back in the day and enjoyed it. In 2013 i downloaded Duke 3D on GOG and have been playing it off and on since and beat the game about three times. While on the topic of classic PC games being ported to mobile devices. Back in 2010 i saw a mobile version of Doom show up in Google Play Store and strangely enough it was pulled from the site a few months later for unknown reasons.
have you covered the pinball game balls of steel? if you have i haven't found it yet. Sadly the duke table might be my least favorite, but the game is still awesome.
Not yet! I only recently got a complete copy of it, so it's on the agenda now :)
Awesome News! LGR with the win!
+Lazy Game Reviews 8 days until the 20th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D!
The thing I like Duke Nukem 64 is in the PC version whenever the babes that were captured in the cacoons were around you could just leave them to suffer or kill them, but in the 64 version you could save em.
Duke's character is supposed to be all about saving girls and stuff, I always thought it was weird you could only kill them. So it's a good case of censorship imo.
Wow you sounded different 9 years ago.
I liked Duke Nukem 3d way more than Doom or Quake, because it played in a real environment and not in some abstact holes.
The problem is now solved. All I had to do was switch the 230 Watt power supply for a 250 watt one. It works fine now, and I fixed it more than a month ago.
Holy shit, we're in 2018, and this was in 2011, 7 years ago!
Ikr, mind blowing
Recently I went through both the PSX and Saturn ports myself. To this day I have no clue why people favor the Saturn port at all. Sure it has a few nice lighting effects, but everything else is pretty much butchered to hell and no coming back. of the three main ports, that thing is trash.
Sadly Duke was removed from GOG due to Gearbox getting the Duke Nukem license, and for some reason i missed the Balls of Steel on GOG and i have no idea where to buy that.
Duke nukem zero hour was my childhood. I didn’t play 3D until later when it was ported to Xbox 360. Love both!
TOO MUCH... NOSTALGIA.. MUST.. RESIST.. THE.. SHARE BUTTON!!!
Many game developers desperately tried to recapture the atmosphere of DN3D several times to no avail. The games now are badly lit, because for some fucking reason "good lighting" means no lighting what so ever. Every game goes dark, & therefore looks gloomy, dull, sepulchral & claustrophobic. Where as lighting was an issue & therefore they avoided straying away from daylight too much. The controls were swift & the gore ott also which helped it, & being able to interact with the surroundings was fun & it just felt like a great experience. lol @ the Clockwork Orange poster on the N64 version!