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Just as numerous game developers [[Third Is 3D|named the third installment of a popular series "3D"]] back in [[The Nineties]], 3DRealms decided to extend the trope to Duke Nukem's fourth game by titling it ''Duke Nukem Forever'' ("4-Ever"). Little did they know at the time the other potential meaning -- because when they said ''Forever'', '''''[[Development Hell|they]] [[Vaporware|weren't kidding]]'''''.
''DNF'' was ''the'' prime example of [[Vaporware]] by way of [[Development Hell]], and widely considered the videogame equivalent of ''[[Guns N' Roses|Chinese Democracy]]'' (the sessions for the album started in 1994 and it was ''finally'' released in November 2008; ''actual'' Chinese democracy is, sadly, [[
The game was given the [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66195,00.html Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award] by ''Wired News'' for its continued delays, an award created specifically for ''DNF'' (as it was winning the Vaporware Awards too often). When readers complained against its removal, the game returned the following year to win some more awards.
To grasp the scale of ''DNF's'' development cycle, take a look at [http://duke.a-13.net The Duke Nukem Forever list]; this page (last updated in 2009) lists off major events which happened between the announcement of the game and the page's last update; perhaps the only thing that ''didn't'' happen since the game's announcement is [[
3D Realms released numerous trailers and teasers throughout development, including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDlB2P1leRM this 2001 trailer] featuring footage tailored together from non-interactive cutscenes (according to a former 3D Realms developer) as a "proof of life" for the game. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWuteFLUPSY Another teaser trailer released in 2007], combined with the surprise release of ''[[Prey]]'' (3D Realms' ''other'' vaporware title), suggested ''Forever's'' development might have finally gotten somewhere.
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Another video of [http://kotaku.com/5013638/first-duke-nukem-forever-gameplay gameplay footage] was shown in George Broussard's late-May/early-June 2009 appearance on ''The Jace Hall Show''. Gamers remained jaded after seeing this, since the game's development history never seemed to break out of alpha stages (as there would be a chance 3D Realms would restart from scratch because they weren't totally satisfied with the results). Several from-scratch restarts ''did'' happen during 3D Realms' development of the game; [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/ this Wired article] details the history of the people who designed, developed, and ultimately failed the project. To make a long story short ([[Clue (film)|too late]]): [[Protection From Editors]] ended up being the game's downfall.<ref>George Broussard's notable [[Protection From Editors]] led to the opposite problem of most instances of the trope; rather than blocking out all criticism, Broussard's perfectionism led to endless revision of ''DNF'' to avoid flaws in the final product, regardless of the budget or any lingering deadlines.</ref>
A few months after the 2009 trailer premiered, Take Two pulled the plug on 3D Realms' funding and [[Author Existence Failure|released the development team]] -- and since the company retained the rights to the ''Duke Nukem'' name, it sued 3D Realms for damages (the lawsuit ended in a settlement). A [http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1154 countersuit filed by 3D Realms] suggests ''Forever'' was slated for a 2010 release on PC and [[Xbox 360]] (and later announced for [[
This would normally be the end of the story -- there's no development team, the game's easily the biggest joke in the gaming world, and no gamer alive expects the game to ever be released in any way, shape, or form -- but we all should have remembered one simple fact: ''[[Memetic Mutation|always]]'' [[Memetic Mutation|bet on Duke.]]
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