Gearbox: We'll talk about the next Duke Nukem soon
Fun DLC coming in the meantime
Randy Pitchford, boss of Gearbox Software, has promised their community at this year's PAX Prime that they will be talking about the next Duke Nukem game really soon.
Pitchford spoke about the polarised review scores that Duke Nukem Forever received and dropped some hints about forthcoming DLC as well as promising more about the next game soon.
He said: "It's such a polarizing thing There was this one guy that mapped out the different review scores. Heres the number of people who gave it a zero to 10. And heres the number of people who gave it 11-20, 21-30, and so on and so forth. And most games have a perfect bell curve, you know, where the center of the curve is the average score. Duke had two curves. There were people who panned it and there were people who kind of liked it. And Allen [Blum] pointed out: 'It looks like a pair of boobs.' That was our plan from the beginning! That actually happened. Thats a true story."
The Gearbox boss continued: "I hope some people kind of enjoyed it. When I dug through all the stuff that 3D Realms had done, I expected a trainwreck and I was actually quite pleased. I had a lot of fun with it. It was fun for me, and I'm really glad that we not only rescued the franchise but took the time to make sure the world could see what those guys had been doing for all of those years. And I'm also proud of the things we added to it. I think we did some things to make it a little better. I liked it. And we're no giving up. We've updated the game. I know the load times weren't very good on the 360 and so some of the patches improve that. I dont know if you guys noticed."
"And then, we also have some DLC coming," Pitchford concluded. "It's pretty cool. Its pretty fun. So if you like Duke I think you're really going to like the DLC coming out thats being developed by the guys that actually made Duke Nukem Foreverthe guys at Piranha, the guys at Triptych. The Triptych guys are the ex-3D Realms developers. And they're still working at our studio on the 10th floor, and they're committed. Theyre going to go all the way. And then soon I know that you guys figured out that, when Gearbox acquired the franchise, we didnt do it just to make sure we could all play Duke Forever, but because we wanted to make our own Duke game. Soon, we'll talk about that, but not today."
Thanks Kotaku.
