Duke Nukem Forever PC Uses Steamworks

First I saw Steam in Steamworks, so I was happy, then I saw Steamworks, and I was disappointed, then I clicked the article and found out it was coming to Steam, so I was once again happy.

lol is this for real or Duke Nukem is really coming again after so many years?

FTA "ensuring that you'll always be able to install a copy of the game even if you lose your disc."

No, it ensures that you can not loan game to a friend or sell it. If they just worry about re-downloading the game, they could have give you ability to run the game without STEAM, and a STEAM code for your copy, so that you could register it with STEAM if you want to.

OH! The twisting of truth!

Yup, if Steam didn't "have" to install a program on MY computer to work - I might think more of it.

But since it does - it won't ever get used by me.

I never thought I'd say this, but I almost exclusively buy my games on Steam. I've repurchased things on Steam so I can get rid of the box... I don't know what's wrong with me

I was actually thinking about skipping Duke Nukem Forever in favor of my already reserved copy of Bulletstorm, but now that I see the goodies in the Balls of Steel edition, I'm tempted to pre-order it.

I would take a platform where Publishers feel comfortable releasing their games on over have the option to share my games with others.

I can't share a game if it's never released [on PC].

WHY GOD WHHHYYYYY

No, that's just one way of reading it ;D

And you can let your friends play your games over Steam ;D

Cheers!

You're installing a program on YOUR precious computer every time you get a new game anyway! Logic fail! Steam is no different. Why do you own a computer if you are too high and mighty to install programs on it?

No shill, that's exactly the point of linking the physical media to Steamworks. It's DRM, which is fine, but it also prevents resell, which is not.

Steam is great for their sales, I have lots of new games and not one over $20. The convenience is not having to drive to the store and likely pay double. It loses that convenience when you've already decided to buy a physical copy. Name any other property you have other than software, that you can't resell, or give away.

But what if you already pre-ordered Duke Nukem forever, like 12 years ago? Might as well pre-order again right?

if you don't liek steam don't buy it... this is one fo the few titles comign out that i'll pay full price for on release

i'm loving the demo from when borderlands was 15 on steam (and 3 bucks for each of the 3 expantions)

That's perfectly fine with me. I would be happy to just buy all of my games via Steam. I don't need brick and morter stores with thier rip off prices and cashier jerks. (Yeah, in my experience most of them are jerks. The women tend to be friendly though.)
Aside from all that don't see any need for a physical medium. Perhaps someday even the new console games will be on a sales platform similar to steam. Thus getting rid of gamestop and crappy game stores that charge excessive prices.

I have the same problems. I love Steam. But I do feel bad for those with a slow internet connection. My old DSL was like 0.75MB connection so it took forever d/l install a steam game. My cable connection is now 15MB so about an hour for the average game.

Already got the Balls of Steal off Amazon, and now it'll link to my Steam account, things just keep getting better!

I only buy Digital copies now. D2D, Steam, Impulse, and GOG.com
I have come across so many good deals. And I only purchase the deals. My only exception is pre-ordering Biowares games and The Witcher 2

Everyone needs to Pre-order The Witcher 2 from GOG.com. So we can show them all, that we are willing to fork out our hard earned middle class money for games that are DRM FREE. Yes The Witcher 2 is DRM Free if you pre-order from GOG.com

FRANK THE TANK SAYS F*** STEAM !


seriously though, pretty cool. I like being able to reinstall my games without hunting down the disc. Although... it would be faster to find the disc and install it and not waste bandwidth hmm..

I hate having to wait an hour + for the game to install, but beyond that I love Steam.

Beat me to it, exactly, Steam is nothing but DRM dressed up as Digital Distribution Software, i have no choice but to use it..

Screw the retailers. They've been fucking over PC gamers since at least the mid-90's with increasingly smaller and smaller displays and selection for PC games. Doesn't everyone just use Amazon these days for purchases like that anyway (those that insist on having a physical copy, that is)? The future of PC gaming is undoubtedly online distribution.

Pre-order goodies are only for GameStop and Walmart, but not Amazon unfortunately. I sure hope there isn't any DLC for this game for purchase after the fact. I think waiting 12 years is enough for free updates. I hope the remake of DN 3D is free, and I've read reports it is.

With luck? Chapter 11!



Pre release DLC... Awesome... How about a 10$ DLC to add guns in a shooter while we are at it. The game could ship with kick attacks only!

Steam is the exact reason I gave up on PC gaming a couple years ago and went 360 exclusively. The last game I bought for PC was Crysis. Where I live there is no such thing as DSL, or any high speed internet besides satellite or wireless solutions with 5gb limit. If I cant go to a brick and mortar store and buy the game and THEN install and run the game without an internet connection then the devs don't get my hard earned cash. DRM = FTMFL.

I'm sure getting screwed on game prices, paying for multiplayer, and having shoddy hardware is much better. Fun fact: You can set Steam up so that you can play your games offline.

Another fun fact: 250ms+ ping time wireless higher speed than dial-up but still only 1-1.5 Mbps wireless and no land based solution makes for no multiplayer fun. Therefore I don't buy games for the multiplayer aspect, it's just not feasible where I live. I will admit steam is a great place to buy games and such and they have some deals, but with a monthly bandwidth cap along with a still not so fast connection makes steam my enemy.

I hate to say it, I really do, but PC gaming is almost a thing of the past. Heck that's why I even got into high performance computing was because I started out playing Mechwarrior on an old HP 700mhz celeron and it could barely play it and I wanted alot more powerful hardware but now with fewer and fewer titles being released for PC, I have no want or need for anything other than my little Asus netbook anymore and my I5-750 - GTX260 desktop that I built awhile back does little more than simple internet duty, which is just as easily handled by my netbook so its off more than its on.

If I want to play a game - of COURSE I'm going to install it, idiot.

Why should I have to install ANOTHER Program that's not the game? (That, by the way, has ACCESS to my computer or I can't play the games.)

Easy game library management, no need to ever remember CD keys, streamlined updating process, huge discounts on PC games, ease of access for independent developers to publish games, Steam friends list and community, forums, O/S Agnostic titles (Valve specific, but still awesome), soon to be platform agnostic (PS3 gamers playing with PC gamers), cloud based single player progress saving.

You say that as if it's a bad thing. What is terrible about Steam? And the bullshit reason people keep giving about "you have to be online" doesn't fly. And if being online with a decent internet connection isn't the problem, then what is?

This is also something else I do not like about steam. I don't mind installing games on my PC but if I have to install other software to even play the game then no thanks ill pass.

In my previous post I stated that Crysis was the last PC game I bought but I was wrong I just looked at my software storage rack and saw that I did indeed purchase Aliens VS Predator for PC. I remember installing it and wondering why the hell it kept asking me to install steam and when I said no I couldn't play the game so I gave in and installed steam and then went through the whole internet DRM thing. Once I beat the game I uninstalled it along with steam and threw it back on the shelf and haven't touched it since. Installing two seperate programs just to use one is a no-go in my book.