Nex, you know I love you... but...

Isn't writing about DNF what video game writers do when they've lost their last tiny little shred of credibility?

Correction: It's also what we do when we didn't start with any credibility to begin with.

Since we have a black president now, I predict that the next generation of alternate reality films and TV shows will feature scenes of people happily playing DNF as the "shit be crazy here" indicator. Just sayin.

From http://duke.a-13.net/, how the world has changed from when DNF was announced to its demise. Quite funny and sad. Every Final Fantasy Game. Every Grand Theft Auto game. Every Zelda. Every Sims. Every version of Halo. Nearly every Sony Playstation. The entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Every Marvel Comics movie ever released. Britney Spears entire music career.

And in this timespan length, the entirety of World War 2 began and ended, including the development of the atom bomb. Etc Etc.

Randall, read that fucking list you posted. Zelda? Final Fantasy? Sims? O RLY?

It's not dead. This is viral marketing.

Check it out, yo:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/8j…

You don't go bankrupt then "leak" 28 hi-res screenshots and your plot of a 98% complete game:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/8j…

It'll come out, just you wait.

Sounds similar to what's happening with Gran Turismo 5 now. "Prologue" was released over a year ago and we were supposed to get the full version by now. That got pushed up to this fall, and now it's March of 2010...maybe.

I would love to think it was some kind of prank. If 3D Realms pulled that off, it would be one of the greatest ever. But, it's probably not. They only way I see it coming out is if they sell the name and the work they have so far to another developer. But who's gonna buy it?

Also, when there's stuff out there like Dwarf Fortress, for free. I can deal with not having DNF. : D