During development of this game, they put up a website asking anyone who had previously worked on the game to send in a message, as they figured that there were too many people to count. I put my name in for a joke, along with two other unrelated people that I said I worked alongside. All three names made it to the final credits.
Games should establish their own lore, and then make fun of itself in its own way. It makes it timeless. Instead of making fun of "current events", that age like milk to people in 5+ years from then.
@@howaboutsomesoyfood You don't have to know them to really understand the game, and to be fair most, if not all, games have references to "current stuff"
@@trabuco9 i was playing it and diagonal strafing like Perfect Dark, makes you move faster than the enemy bullets and it has execute kills that needed much more work
@@nickm5419 Both this and Aliens Colonial Marines were outsourced to other developers by Gearbox while they focused solely on Borderlands. Duke Nukem Forever never had a chance unlike Aliens Colonial Marines though, Gearbox and the outsourced devs simply polished up the latest build that they had from 3D Realms.
@@AFGuidesHD I rented it and drew my girl Sydney, Joel made an entire bob ross painting on it, and my first intro to it was robbaz doing operation ho mo moose lol. It’s a blank canvas for your memes
Borderlands is kind of accidentally good in places! And where it was written by Anthony Burch, Tiny Tina's voice actress's brother. Not so much when it's all Randy...
I remember my dad getting me this because duke nukem 3d was hiss favorite game in the past and wanted me to experience modern duke nukem, He hasn't touched a video game since from the dissapointment
i waited 15 years for this game, pre-ordered it, paid $120 cdn for it and finished it the day i got it. it was a miserable, depressing experience that broke my brain so much that now i'm working on duke nukem forever. go play the duke nukem forever 2001 restoration project
Fun story: this game and the Balls of Steel boxed set became so worthless that during a Gamestop sale, I was able to buy the BoS box, and then return the game inside for more credit than the box had cost. Still have the Carpe Nukem bust on my shelf.
The saddest story I had seen was someone full price preordered 2001, and by the time "game" finally came out that gamestore had been bankrupt for several years.
I genuinely enjoyed this game, especially once I realized you can see various video game mechanics from over the years due to its prolonged development.
Gameplay wise it’s really not bad it can even be really fun. it’s just the horrendously outdated humor put into a story that’s seemingly meant to be taken seriously. Duke 3d was a parody of old action movies it worked for that. Duke forever tried to hard to make it work today and it fell flat on its face.
My dream version of Duke Nukem Forever takes place in the aftermath of Duke saving the world, so we're all super grateful and give him whatever he wants, but also he's this weirdo who speaks ENTIRELY IN QUOTES OF 80'S MOVIES DELIVERED IN ALL CAPS Also, Duke would occasionally have an AI controlled soldier who's very normal and competent to act as the straight man, but the twist is he's gay, which Duke has never heard of before. Duke would be like "AFTER WE KICK SOME ALIEN ASS LET'S GO TO THE BAR AND SMASH SOME GASH" "Ha, thanks for the invite man, but I'm gay." "TELL ME WHAT GAY IS" "Are...are you serious?" "WHAT IS GAY" "...it means I'm not attracted to women." "I KNOW ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS" "It doesn't matter how good-looking they are, I still...okay, seriously, you're just now learning about this?" (*five hours later, totally unprompted*) "I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN WAS ABOUT"
also probably one of the laziest DLCs i have ever seen, since other characters don't call him Duke, and it's basically a cheap skin over the original protag.
You have so many esoteric references in your videos and I somehow understand all of them, even though I shouldn't. Truly a oratory master of philosophy and law Oboe
wish he'd gotten further in to the 'tonal whiplash' level, where you go into the alien ship and duke has all these weirdly melancholy lines about how the babes are all alien baby pods now, like "They're not even human anymore..." -- keep in mind that within this same level there were also tits fused to the walls, which you could slap around for literally no reason.
There's probably some old-ass point and click adventure game nobody remembers where you can use a microwave. That's my guess for the first functional microwave in gaming.
This probably isn't the sort of game you would play on this channel because it's actually good but I feel like you'd have a blast with ion fury. There's a secret where if you shoot the water cooler the water leaks into an electrical outlet and causes a huge explosion
Duke Nukem Forever had the record for longest development cycle, but I think it recently got dethroned by the yet-unreleased "Beyond Good and Evil 2". So it doesn't even have that "honor" going for it anymore.
Ngl. I honestly had a lot of fun with this game. The combat was alright but at times it sucked. But the game kept bringing new ideas every time it was about to get boring. The game is bad but it is not boring, except for maybe the beginning.
they should've called it "identity crisis forever", or "terrible things come to those who wait". i remember bringing it back to gamestop the next day lol.
During development of this game, they put up a website asking anyone who had previously worked on the game to send in a message, as they figured that there were too many people to count.
I put my name in for a joke, along with two other unrelated people that I said I worked alongside.
All three names made it to the final credits.
awesome, you should have inserted some good pun names bart simpson style - they propably would have put those in too.
Gee, talk about how unorganized the Duke Nukem development was! Best prank ever! 😂
You know this game is dated when they did a reference to Christen Bale’s meltdown on the set of Terminator Salvation
Games should establish their own lore, and then make fun of itself in its own way. It makes it timeless. Instead of making fun of "current events", that age like milk to people in 5+ years from then.
Fallout 2 is full of pop culture references from the 90s that aged like milk.
@@howaboutsomesoyfood I wanna play fallout 2 but I’m a 2000s kid, so I feel like I’m not gonna understand any of it
@@AlexNV75 I'm a 2000s kid too and I didn't understand most of them. Still enjoyed it a lot
@@howaboutsomesoyfood You don't have to know them to really understand the game, and to be fair most, if not all, games have references to "current stuff"
I love how you play every game I saw in videogame magazines when I was growing up but I never had the money or system to play them. Thank you.
Considering most had low to middling sales since everyone who wanted a good FPS was playing CoD, Halo or Battlefield, you are not alone.
Exactly. These are all the titles I couldn’t afford with pocket money that I saw in magazines and stores.
@@cattysplat I've never played any of them, except Halo 1.
Playing this game when it came out felt like I was playing a time capsule.
A shame the same couldn't be said about the gameplay.
@@trabuco9the gameplay felt like from a 5 years old game by then, DNF was dated at release.
@@LordofSadFac Yeah, but I meant, if it played like Duke 3D it would have been great.
@@trabuco9 i was playing it and diagonal strafing like Perfect Dark, makes you move faster than the enemy bullets and it has execute kills that needed much more work
@@nickm5419 Both this and Aliens Colonial Marines were outsourced to other developers by Gearbox while they focused solely on Borderlands.
Duke Nukem Forever never had a chance unlike Aliens Colonial Marines though, Gearbox and the outsourced devs simply polished up the latest build that they had from 3D Realms.
The whiteboard is genuinely the best thing about this game. Like really it’s so fun
Fuck yeah
Which _really_ does not speak well for the rest of the game considering the thing has the smoothness of an Etch A Sketch
I wonder what the stats are for the drawings.
30% swastikas 65% penises and 5% something original.
@@AFGuidesHD I rented it and drew my girl Sydney, Joel made an entire bob ross painting on it, and my first intro to it was robbaz doing operation ho mo moose lol. It’s a blank canvas for your memes
Half Life Alyx moment.
This is Randy Pitchford's greatest contribution to gaming.
That's not Alien Colonial Marines.
As much as I hate Randy's awful decision making. Gearbox's Brothers in Arms are actually good games.
Borderlands is kind of accidentally good in places!
And where it was written by Anthony Burch, Tiny Tina's voice actress's brother.
Not so much when it's all Randy...
Everytime I think about this game I just hear the faint scream of civvie going "RAAAAANNNDDDYYY"
Greasy bastard Randy bo--bandy
Greasiest man in the world.
Man's gotta eat
Where's the USB, Randy
Randy… What happened to the usb?
I love how your Duke Nukem is just the CinemaSins guy
is this still a thing?
Though he and Nostalgia Critic (and similar channels) lost its appeal?
“I’m here to kick gum and chew ass. and I’m all out of ass!” -Steroid user
DICK KICKEM
I remember my dad getting me this because duke nukem 3d was hiss favorite game in the past and wanted me to experience modern duke nukem,
He hasn't touched a video game since from the dissapointment
Talk about a dad making an unintended prank on his son. It’s like getting turds for a Christmas present.
The fact he drew trogdor made me so happy
ooooh, that's what it was. I'm not super familiar with it, so I thought about that weird S people drew as kids.
BURNS THROUGH COTTAGES!
A Juggalo told me this was his favorite game of all time. I have been confused for 12 years to this day.
He probably just trolled you. Or was high as a kite.
@@quint3ssent1a I think some people just didn’t want accept the disappointment, also.
@@cathybannister1311 I think it has more to do with low standards
the fact that oboe references so many things that I like makes me really glad I found this channel
i waited 15 years for this game, pre-ordered it, paid $120 cdn for it and finished it the day i got it. it was a miserable, depressing experience that broke my brain so much that now i'm working on duke nukem forever. go play the duke nukem forever 2001 restoration project
God bless you
I know how it feels. I preordered it too.
I never wanted to love a game so much in my life.
All hope we have now is in the restoration project.
Lol
Fun story: this game and the Balls of Steel boxed set became so worthless that during a Gamestop sale, I was able to buy the BoS box, and then return the game inside for more credit than the box had cost. Still have the Carpe Nukem bust on my shelf.
The saddest story I had seen was someone full price preordered 2001, and by the time "game" finally came out that gamestore had been bankrupt for several years.
I'm amazed you hadn't played this sooner.
He needs to play Hunt Down The Freeman and Ride to Hell: Retribution as well tbh
@@deadruinsI thought he played ride to hell...
He probably just bought a car or something so he wanted a big paycheck this month, so he broke the glass on the first horn of jericho
like your pfp btw
I genuinely enjoyed this game, especially once I realized you can see various video game mechanics from over the years due to its prolonged development.
You’re genuinely insane
Gameplay wise it’s really not bad it can even be really fun. it’s just the horrendously outdated humor put into a story that’s seemingly meant to be taken seriously. Duke 3d was a parody of old action movies it worked for that. Duke forever tried to hard to make it work today and it fell flat on its face.
Cry@@remyrichardson8614
"Final boss of 7th gen gaming" is quite an apt description for this game
Ngl the Cake bit had me grinning like an idiot, 10/10 way to take the piss out of that line.
I'm glad to live in the same timeline of someone saying "This game has parking lot gameplay"
Why does Randy sound so much like Clu from Tron Legacy at 4:58? Is he going to create the perfect system?
The Penny Arcade comic bit got me.
I've never played this but I'm pretty sure this video is 10 times funnier than any joke in the game.
Well of course, oboeshoes is hilarious
It's so dirt cheap nowadays you may aswell play it. It's a decently enjoyable one time playthrough
I don't know why people were bashing the game. I liked it.
@@Gameprojordan There are so many good games out there that playing DNF is a waste of time even if you got it for free.
@@Mateumt Going from Halo Reach to Duke Nukem Forever is a drastic shift in tone but Halo Reach aged far better and it was released the previous year
This should be the last 7th gen game video you make so it’s the actual final boss of 7th gen games
At least the last video about bad 7th gen games
A project started up to finish out development on the 2001 version of Duke Nukem Forever, we've got a playable build of the first chapter on ModDb.
My dream version of Duke Nukem Forever takes place in the aftermath of Duke saving the world, so we're all super grateful and give him whatever he wants, but also he's this weirdo who speaks ENTIRELY IN QUOTES OF 80'S MOVIES DELIVERED IN ALL CAPS
Also, Duke would occasionally have an AI controlled soldier who's very normal and competent to act as the straight man, but the twist is he's gay, which Duke has never heard of before.
Duke would be like "AFTER WE KICK SOME ALIEN ASS LET'S GO TO THE BAR AND SMASH SOME GASH"
"Ha, thanks for the invite man, but I'm gay."
"TELL ME WHAT GAY IS"
"Are...are you serious?"
"WHAT IS GAY"
"...it means I'm not attracted to women."
"I KNOW ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS"
"It doesn't matter how good-looking they are, I still...okay, seriously, you're just now learning about this?"
(*five hours later, totally unprompted*)
"I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN WAS ABOUT"
Have you played the Duke Nukem DLC for Bulletstorm? It's the best Duke Nukem game since Duke 3D
also probably one of the laziest DLCs i have ever seen, since other characters don't call him Duke, and it's basically a cheap skin over the original protag.
@@Hugsloth And Duke keeps asking who they're talking about when they refer to the original MC, which makes it even better IMO
I LOVE the CAKE reference.
7:13 im pretty sure you can pilot a scissor lift in all watchdogs games, atleast in watchdogs 2
That was the saddest Trogdor I think I've ever seen. Not a single consummate V.
You can pilot a scissor lift in Watch Dogs.
No, you can activate it. Not drive.
@@CatNigga well you can definitely drive it in Watch Dogs 2
@@kurtchristel4035 well your original comment doesn't have a 2
@@CatNigga 🤓🤓🤓🤓
You continue to be the main source for the most obscure references I know like trogdor
Doleman is the finally boss of every gen.
Nobody shows Las Vegas in the daytime because you realize you're just in Nevada and there's nothing in Nevada besides sand, heat, and disappointment.
how dare you trick me into Randy Pitchford performing card tricks
You have so many esoteric references in your videos and I somehow understand all of them, even though I shouldn't. Truly a oratory master of philosophy and law Oboe
I heard 'photobucket' and travelled 12 years back in time. Haven't heard that name in forever, Christ.
I pre-ordered the "balls of steel" edition of this when it came out.
Metal arms: a glitch in the system
and Armed and Dangerous would be great games to play.
Honestly Oboeshoes should've written the jokes for Duke Nukem would have been a solid 7 just for the jokes
That was a surprisingly really good Duke impersonation oboe😂 really caught me off guard. I actually lolled out loud.
Thank you for playing the games that I've always wanted to play, which I've also never wanted to play all at the same time lol 😆
a jerma reference in oboeshoe video? now I've seen everything
You tell me to do things... I done runnin!
RIP Photobucket. All my saved pictures... gone FOREVER
It comes as no surprise that one with the moniker oboeshoes would draw the burninator
Dude. Look up the upcoming game Phantom Fury. It's literally the reincarnation of the DNF 2001 we never got.
well the DNF we never got was also leaked entirely in its unfinished form
I'm mad you missed the post credits where he talks about running for president lmaoo
I loved the cake joke 😂 that song is brilliant
We can only hope sin and punishment can live up to the high bar this game set for very long awaited games.
This is one of your best videos. Love it.
'Let's taste it out!'
Why was THAT like a nostalgia bomb to my brain?
And then you mentioned The Legend of Neil O_O
Now you must play the expansion pack: "Doctor who cloned me" lol
wish he'd gotten further in to the 'tonal whiplash' level, where you go into the alien ship and duke has all these weirdly melancholy lines about how the babes are all alien baby pods now, like "They're not even human anymore..." -- keep in mind that within this same level there were also tits fused to the walls, which you could slap around for literally no reason.
you know the game is good when dolman is referenced.
Randy Pitchford was giving major Michael Scott vibes during that press conference.
7:27 smooth editing there master chief.
I'm 5 seconds in and sooo FUCKING HAPPY you're playing this game
I'm happy he's the one playing it, and not me. :P
Truly one of the games of all time.
3:01 I'm pretty sure half-life 1 had the first functional microwave in gaming...
There's probably some old-ass point and click adventure game nobody remembers where you can use a microwave. That's my guess for the first functional microwave in gaming.
@@MateumtYes you can put some guy’s hamster in the microwave in Maniac Mansion from 1987!
It's so funny how Oboeshoes does most of the video doing a Duke Nukem impression. It's funny!
Also kinda sounds like the myth busters announcer ngl
@@FayezButts haha, yeah. haha, yeah. 👍
You should play the DLC it’s actually pretty good. And it reveals the true ending in the true final boss.
This is really one of the games of all time
Cant wait to see the scissor jack gameplay review in watch dogs 2
Randy must have missed the memo about the water dispensers. Nobody likes a spigot, unless it's flyin'
It's time to kick ass and kick ass and kick ass
And I'm all out of kickass
The original was basically the only game my mum played, then we bought this for it to be the second but then it was this.
Lol.
6:25 The worst year of my life is the year i was born.
This probably isn't the sort of game you would play on this channel because it's actually good but I feel like you'd have a blast with ion fury. There's a secret where if you shoot the water cooler the water leaks into an electrical outlet and causes a huge explosion
Duke Nukem Forever had the record for longest development cycle, but I think it recently got dethroned by the yet-unreleased "Beyond Good and Evil 2".
So it doesn't even have that "honor" going for it anymore.
How dare you draw 0:19 in Duke Nukem when you already made a verbal agreement to play Marc Ecko's Getting up: Contents under pressure!
Omg The Legend of Neil, I still regret not getting it on dvd.
I think I requested this, and he actually played it.
Oh God I forgot this game happened
the worst year of my life was probably 2016, becoming an adult with how i was raised was not easy.
I hope you're doing alright now, friend
At least you didnt make this game
That cake joke got me
He goes the distance
He's going for speed
OboeShoeGames knows of the Legend of Neil!?
You are indeed a Man of Culture!
7:11, you can actually pilot a scissor lift and go up and down in Watch_Dogs 2
I got the platinum trophy... it was kind of fun but painful to play in 30 fps
Lol I love the trogdor reference
i cant believe he missed the part where you can pick up an actual piece of shit and throw it around like a monkey
That mayo joke was an extreme stretch. I give you a solid 8/10 for the Attempt being more fluid then I imagined it would be
“First we draw an s, then a smaller s” TROGDOOOOOORRR lol. A real deep cut
The worst year of my life was last year when i nearly died 3 times at the hospital lol still trying to get better from this
I hope things will start to get better for you soon! Cheers
I love that u started drawing trogdor
I remembered having fun with it years ago but looking at some gameplay makes it look so goofy lmao.
I think I've improved on your methods a bit too, I employed some chiaroscuro shading...
My worst year was 2019, a close second being 2020 and then third worst has to be 2021!
Well done as always!
You should play some of those Spiders RPGs.
Every year is the worst year of my life
Ngl. I honestly had a lot of fun with this game. The combat was alright but at times it sucked. But the game kept bringing new ideas every time it was about to get boring. The game is bad but it is not boring, except for maybe the beginning.
Bro, that CAKE joke caught me so offguard. Would love CAKE and lapdances tho
I remember how hyped this game was, and then people were absolutely devastated when it came out.
everything randy pitchford has ever done in his life is coated in grease and panic sweat.
Yeah, the amalgamation of everything wrong with both fps fads of that time, AND Gearbox itself
I think you can pilot a scissor lift in Watch Dogs 2.
they should've called it "identity crisis forever", or "terrible things come to those who wait".
i remember bringing it back to gamestop the next day lol.
You forget the second masterpiece right behind duke nukem is watchdogs legion you can also drive a scissor lift
Again, you got me with the Cake joke😂
Totally did not expect it lmao
What cake joke?
4:57 she looked at him like “you’re fake af” 😂
A legend of Neil reference. Goddamn oboe did we have the same awkward childhood
babe wake up new oboeshoesgames video