Duke Nukem Forever/Trivia: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8.5
m (revise quote template spacing) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8.5) |
||
| (5 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 10:
** Jon St. John reprises his role as Duke in English.
** [[Fumihiko Tachiki]] provides Duke's Japanese voice for the first time ever in the story of the franchise. This is also considered as [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], since his most famous role was voicing '''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Gendo Ikari]]''', and unlike Duke, not only he wants his girl back, {{spoiler|'''he will bring the end of the world along with her!'''}}
** The Holsom twins are voiced by [[Eri Kitamura]] and [[
* [[Network to the Rescue|Gearbox To The Rescue]]: Randy Pitchford (and Gearbox as a whole) deserves a Nobel for going to the rescue of a game which was destined to die.
{{quote|'''Randy:''' ''[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"Duke can never die, man."]]''}}
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: [http://www.gearboxity.com/images/web/dnf_balls_of_steel.jpg BEHOLD!]{{Dead link}} The Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel Edition! Comes with a bust of Duke himself, an artbook with art through the ages, a limited edition comic book, and other such novelties! All for the heart attack causingly low price of $99.99! If you [[No Export for You|live in the US]] and are near a Gamestop or have access to Amazon, that is. No actual Balls of Steel included, though.
* [[No Export for You]]: [[Zig-Zagging Trope]], the Russian version of the game is a separate Steam entity. Meaning: it is locked out of Steam's usual language-selection options, as well as ANY patches and DLC, both Existing and future, because the localization company and 2K Games cannot settle about whose responsibility it is to adapt them for the locked-down Russian-only release. All the appropriate access and unlock codes are provided, they are simply not compatible with the Russian version.
* [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor]]: Jon St. John is reprising, once again, his long-standing role as The Duke himself.
Line 19:
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Near the beginning of the game Duke gets into a brief argument with an obnoxious tourist sitting on his throne. The obnoxious tourist is also played by Jon St. John, apparently. It seems the guy has a pretty impressive vocal range.
* [[Troubled Production]]: 12 years in which the engine was changed, money was spent, insults were thrown, and eventually [[Creator Killer|3D Realms got bankrupt (George Broussard's reputation too)]]. The game still managed to come out as Gearbox took over.
* [[
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** ''Forever'' started as a sidescrolling platform game based on the engine of [[Alien Rampage]] and the sprites of [[Duke Nukem 3D]]. Said project was scrapped, and the title was used to the sequel to [[Duke Nukem 3D]]. An unrelated sidescrolling shooter titled ''[[Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project]]'', based on the [[Prism 3 D]] engine, was released in 2002.
** Start with the fact that the game we got only ever got finished because many of the levels were shortened, merged, or just cut out and work from there.
** Many of the characters, weapons and setpieces seen in the early trailers were not used for the final version. An [[Action Girl]] [[Distaff Counterpart]] of Duke (Bombshell) and a character named "The Prospector" were both absent from the final game (and were likely cut long before Gearbox got their hands on the game).
** There were also plans to introduce a [[Alternate Universe|mirror universe]] "[[Evil Counterpart|NegaDuke]]".
** [[Ben Croshaw|Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] of [[Zero Punctuation]] was [https://web.archive.org/web/20111101154550/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/9002-Extra-Punctuation-Yahtzee-Could-Have-Written-Duke-Nukem-Forever asked to write the script at one point]. The dev team absolutely loved his outcast, but George kept going "Would Duke really do/say this?" and it got scrapped. According to Yahtzee it portrayed Duke as an ironic character and made fun of everyone around him, as he believed it be the best way to reintroduce Duke Nukem to a modern audience. It got scrapped in favor of "Duke played straight in a silly world" that we see now. Yahtzee was given a chance to revise the script to go with this tone, but he didn't because that didn't make any sense to him.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Duke Nukem Forever]]▼
[[Category:Trivia]]
| |||