Duke Nukem Games for VC?

[gardawg62]

Does anybody know if the Duke Nukem games for the N64 will be relaesed on the Virtual console.

[Spore]

Not announced yet. Keep your fingers crossed.

[Maxx the Slash]

The non-PC Duke Nukem games sucked though. Language and gore were hugely restricted, and strippers wouldn't flash you in the strip club level.

[KeeperBvK]

...but in the end it should come down to gameplay and that was still more than intact in Duke Nukem 64. ;)

[Maxx the Slash]

...but in the end it should come down to gameplay and that was still more than intact in Duke Nukem 64. ;)

When the N64 Duke Nukem games were censored, a lot of key factors that seperated Duke Nukem from other FPS games were taken away. I'd say gameplay was far from intact.

[KeeperBvK]

I'd rather say that some eye candy was gone, but gameplay remained totally the same. Anyway: I really enjoyed Duke Nukem 64 for what it was: A nice ego-shooter with a neat setting, great weapons, lengthy singleplayer and a kick-ass hero.

[Maxx the Slash]

The removal of strip club nudity, Duke's swearing, and the steroids being renamed really butchered his character. Duke Nukem 64 was a mockery. And the 3rd person shooter Duke games sucked.

[ICEknight]

The removal of strip club nudity, Duke's swearing, and the steroids being renamed really butchered his character.
That kinda sounds like making Sonic slow, or Simon Belmont a chef.

[SKTTR]

That's the reason I never bought Duke Nukem 64 or the other N64 Duke-game Duke Nukem: Zero Hour.

I was a real FPS fan at that time, and I still own many N64-FPS:

GoldenEye
Perfect Dark
Doom 64
Hexen
Quake
Quake II
Turok - Dinosaur Hunter
Turok - Rage Wars
Turok 2 - Seeds of Evil
Turok 3 - Shadow of Oblivion

but even back in the day when I was around 15, I only bought uncut games.
Duke Nukem 64 might still be a good FPS...
but it's not like Quake I & Quake II on N64 - these are rather 1:1 ports.
Hexen was 1:1 too, but has a great 4-Player-Splitscreen-co-op-mode as a BIG plus.
Doom 64 was even better than all the other Doom versions.

Well, there was some crappy Daikatana I wouldn't spend any time with...

and there were FPS multiplayer modes in games like Banjo-Tooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day but that's just minigames.

Anyway, many people liked Duke Nukem 64 but for me it's a cutted game.

[Atlantis1982]

Quake 2 was different from the N64 version; I rented the N64 version and it did NOT match the PC version in any ways (Levels wise).

And Duke Nukem 64, one of my favorite FPS games (Turok being the best for me, Goldeneye can suck it. :P), but I think it'll be down the road till we see it, or if Nintendo even going to bother.

[SKTTR]

Yeah youre right, Quake II on N64 was really different in some ways.
The world there was split up into stages.
I think the PC version had a big world.
And the music was these eerie sound effects,
not the metal tunes from the PC-CD version, so it's not quite 1:1, sorry.
And you only could save if you've beaten a stage (N64), not always (PC).
AND the N64 version has 4Player-Splitscreen Deathmatch.
But apart from that it's very close to the PC version.

[zeypherlink]

I actually liked Duke Nuekem 64...don't remember it too much since I played it when I was around 7-8 years old...but it was pretty fun :D

[Neil Koch]

Probably not any time soon, since even with the censoring, it's a M-rated game.

The single player on DN64 was okay, but I liked the multiplayer. Some of the weapons, like the laser tripmines and holodukes, were pretty unique for the time.

[theUndead_feature]

I can agree with those who say that it's a censored, incomplete game. Nintendo should've lightened up in those days, far after Mortal Kombat crossed those lines and got away with it.

But, for the hardcore Duke fan in me, it's the only playable way I'll get it on Wii. I recal there was a Sega Genesis 32X port of Duke Nukem 3D, but it was broken and literally unplayable.