Yesterday we took a look at Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Capcom, Dark Souls and Portal 2. Today, we have a whole second set of awards to be given out for the best (and worst) of 2011.
Game That Shouldn’t Have Taken Nearly As Long to Come Out: Duke Nukem Forever
What happened in the time span since Duke Nukem Forever began development?
The entire Presidential run of George W. Bush.
This writer’s entire high school and college career.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, and The Clone Wars were all released in theaters.
The XBox was released and ended its lifecycle.
Activision released 7 proper Call of Duty titles.
Lost.
A child born when development started would have grown to be a teenager.
The list goes on and on…
And the worst part is, after all that wait… Duke Nukem Forever wasn’t very good when it did finally come out. What was considered controversial when the game began production is pretty tame by comparison to what people are enjoying in gaming now and the humor comes off as sophomoric instead of clever.
While we can understand the desire to release a passion project to finally let it see the light of day, sometimes it is better to let it enjoy a quiet death with some dignity instead of coming out guns blazing as a failure.
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