darthspudius: Why would Duke be laughing? Duke Nukem Forever was patch work of a game from previous versions. Gearbox simply made it playable. The original content they made for it (the DLC) was rather good in fact. Hell, the game itself wasn't bad at all.
You lot are being bigger assholes than me. That's a switch.
Cyanosis: Excuse me? Lol. The DLC is the same damn thing, they didn't innovate, same tired slog of stupid mini-games and mediocre shooting does not equal fun, especially for a Duke Nukem game. I will never understand anyone who defends DNF, so I chalk it up to just having really poor taste.
Ah, the power of delusion.
The game would likely have been viewed as innovative had it shipped much closer to when it was planned for. It's not really appropriate to claim that a game isn't innovative because it effectively sat on a shelf for the better part of a decade before being released and then compared with games that came out in the meantime. That's extremely silly.
As far as the game goes, I liked it, it was a hell of a lot better than the crappy FPS games that had been released in the intervening years, Halo? What a fucking joke, terrible gameplay mechanics that everybody has had to steal because nobody seems to know how to play.
People are going to have their opinions, but it's rather disingenuous to say that it was a mediocre game when the other FPS games of the last decade or so aspire to being mediocre.