The next Duke Nukem will be Gearbox through and through
Gearbox promises the series can only get better
Co-founder of Gearbox Software, Brian Martel has promised that the next Duke Nukem game will be everything we've come to expect from a Gearbox game.
With furore surrounding Duke Nukem Forever behind them Martel explained that the next game will not take another fifteen years although he did express disappointment at the way many critics approached reviewing DNF.
Martel explained Duke Nukem Forever: "Is it a Gearbox game? No. When and if another Duke comes out it's going to be more consistent with what I think people would expect out of a Gearbox product. But this is the vision that 3D Realms had and that's awesome. It's just great that the world gets to see it. I can guarantee it won't take 15 years to see another. We love the IP and I think there are a lot of people that really love it. You just have to make sure the character is something that people can love as well."
He explained that the felt that the reviews of DNF were "caustic" and many reviewers had not really understood that it really was a very old school gaming experience using current technology.
Martel continued: "We wish the reviews were a little less caustic. We're not quite sure where some of the anger came from. There were things towards the high and things towards the low, but the middle just didn't get any traction. It's pretty obvious that people were using it in some ways to kind of use it as a soapbox or whatever."
"It was what it was meant to be, which is a more old-school style game in what is today's technology," Martel elaborated. "I think there was no way that anybody could manage expectations. Name another game that's in a similar situation. It is a caustic game in some ways, so maybe in some of that respect it could've been softened. But, it's [3D Realms'] vision and people should understand that in a world where we embrace the creator's vision for something, we let that go. We let that be what it was supposed to be. And that is the team's vision. Gearbox made sure the world got to see what they made and I think everybody should really be thankful that it existed to some degree at all. Because it really would've just gone away."
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