Duke Nukem 3D is 30 Years Old Today

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Hail to the king baby!

God damn we’re getting old.

 

[Zer]

I just finished a full playthrough last week and it still holds up, it's a fun time.

I remember when it first came out when I was a little kid and it blew me away. Back then the level design was so impressive, with semi-realistic city levels, the space station levels with things like the shuttles moving you between sectors, submarines, seeing yourself in mirrors, shit like that. It had so much personality and detail, of course enhanced by Duke himself being a memorable character.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

I had it for the Sega Saturn.

It was a little dated graphically when I bought it, but the balls out approach to combat, dual welding rocket launchers etc, was a lot of fun.

Duke was hilarious, I don't care what anyone says.

 

[MrBean]

Can't believe it. Used to run this on a "maxed out" 486 back in the day. Most of the time it would crash but was worth every choppy level. What a game.

 

[Zazen]

Bulletstorm Duke Nukem edition is 80 percent off right now until 2/5. 8.99 and you get the full game with the duke nukem skin and fully voiced by the original actor. It’s a fun game too. Incentivizes killing people in really unique ways.

 

[My Spot]

I had it for the Sega Saturn.

It was a little dated graphically when I bought it, but the balls out approach to combat, dual welding rocket launchers etc, was a lot of fun.

Duke was hilarious, I don't care what anyone says.

Saturn version actually had online play too.
PS1 version sucked.
N64 port was good and had 4 player deathmatch but was also heavily censored.

 

[Natural Order]

You young whippersnappers these days.....

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I just finished a full playthrough last week and it still holds up, it's a fun time.

I remember when it first came out when I was a little kid and it blew me away. Back then the level design was so impressive, with semi-realistic city levels, the space station levels with things like the shuttles moving you between sectors, submarines, seeing yourself in mirrors, shit like that. It had so much personality and detail, of course enhanced by Duke himself being a memorable character.

I fired it up for about 20ish minutes last night to play through the first two levels. Got to see them pixelated titties as the strip club, lol.

It’s a great game. I remember when I was in grades 5 and 6 it was easily the most popular video game among my friends at school.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Apogee posted this tribute video. Most if not all of the interview footage comes from that documentary “FPS” that came out a few years ago but still worth a quick watch for anyone with 10 minutes to spare.

 

[HHJ]

What's the best way to play it?

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

What's the best way to play it?

N64

 

[HHJ]

N64

Really? The N64 Version is better than the PC one??

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Really? The N64 Version is better than the PC one??

I don't know. I played it on the N64 , so that is the best one.

 

[HHJ]

I don't know. I played it on the N64 , so that is the best one.

 

[Bob Gray]

Man....fuck you for making this thread.

Goddammit. I still remember playing it for the first time. Didn't even have a PC, but my older brother worked with a guy in tech who had multiple ridiculously powred PCs back then (probably like 32 megs of RAM or something lol) and hed let us come over and game away. Hard to believe hot utterly mind blowing it was at the time.

 

[GtehMVP]

Man....fuck you for making this thread.

Goddammit. I still remember playing it for the first time. Didn't even have a PC, but my older brother worked with a guy in tech who had multiple ridiculously powred PCs back then (probably like 32 megs of RAM or something lol) and hed let us come over and game away. Hard to believe hot utterly mind blowing it was at the time.

This game is always special to me as it was the first 3D PC game I played. It was my dad's computer, and he hated video games, so I'd have to sneak into his office at night, and play all hours. I always remember a buddy of mine with a stack of floppy's installing this, must have been a dozen or more.

It really was mind blowing.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

What's the best way to play it?

On PC with the Megaton edition, but that was delisted like ten years ago when they released the 20th anniversary World Tour edition. I have the World Tour edition on PS4/5 and it’s fine, but purists always say the Megaton edition was better. Or as long as you have the game file you can just play on a sourceport like eDuke32.

 

[Prefect]

I just finished a full playthrough last week and it still holds up, it's a fun time.

I remember when it first came out when I was a little kid and it blew me away. Back then the level design was so impressive, with semi-realistic city levels, the space station levels with things like the shuttles moving you between sectors, submarines, seeing yourself in mirrors, shit like that. It had so much personality and detail, of course enhanced by Duke himself being a memorable character.

Duke Nukem 3D at the time when it came out to me felt like a more stylized version pre-version of something like Rise of the Triad.

 

[Ibm]

I grabbed a copy from steam for 2 dollars, best 2 dollars I've spent lol. You guys can grab the anniversary edition, not sure if its still on discount. PLayed this game for hours, my PC was too weak when it came out. lol.

 

[fendertach]

More games need to utilize nipple tassles imo.