What do you hate most about Duke Nukem?

[Procrastinator3000]

It can be any Duke Nukem and just telll me what you hate if you hate anything at all about it

[Racuch Zawodowiec]

After countless beating 4 episodes and at least two expansions on the almost highest difficulty for dosens of times...now I just like to find some map from workshop and give it a try to just sightseeing...I think that's because I always found shooting demons from hell in doom much more satysfying even before brutal mod. Sure' duke has some highly innovative weapons and gadgets but I didn't felt like a warrior or sth when using them.. maybe because it's not so many enemies in duke ? And they aren't even memorable...pig cops ? Well, if they have been human before, I pity them more than find them funny. And in doom any kind of monster is like some good friend, even If you killed him thousands of times and he tried to do the same to you xd So, in terms of satysfying fights and raw going all out -doom. But duke is close to my heart too, I just don't find gun blazing in it funny anymore.

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

引用自 DooMNukeM：

:evafacepalm: I'm 22.

You think that's not young? You've barely have learned how to read when it was first announced.

[Dr_Proton]

Well that's just the typical DooMNukeM fanboy attitude :)

[Dennis Stamp]

The thing I like least about Duke Nukem 3D is the game's sound. I am of the opinion that, aside from the main theme, most of the game's music is filler and forgetable. I also don't like the sound effects produced by weapons such as Duke's pistol and the chaingun. One thing I can say in favour of the game's audio is that Duketalk is very amusing (Interesting how it was one of the last things incorporated into the game).

Some of the enemies in Duke Nukem 3D are annoying. The suicidal drones irritate me the most because they absorb a ton of shots from your pistol or shotgun before finally blowing up, and because those enemies are hard to target when they elevate way above you, beyond the reaches of how high you can aim upward. The slime monsters are also annoying because they are difficult to target, but at least they don't do much damage and are easy to deal with in the event that one sucks itself to your face.

[丂ｱ乇丂丂ひ_丂乃]

引用自 Dennis Stamp：

The thing I like least about Duke Nukem 3D is the game's sound. I am of the opinion that, aside from the main theme, most of the game's music is filler and forgetable. I also don't like the sound effects produced by weapons such as Duke's pistol and the chaingun. One thing I can say in favour of the game's audio is that Duketalk is very amusing (Interesting how it was one of the last things incorporated into the game).

Some of the enemies in Duke Nukem 3D are annoying. The suicidal drones irritate me the most because they absorb a ton of shots from your pistol or shotgun before finally blowing up, and because those enemies are hard to target when they elevate way above you, beyond the reaches of how high you can aim upward. The slime monsters are also annoying because they are difficult to target, but at least they don't do much damage and are easy to deal with in the event that one sucks itself to your face.

You sound like someone who got introduced to Duke 3D after being introduced to games in general first, through some bad modern casual crap.

Duke Nukem 3D's Chaingun Cannon sounds awesome, Pistol sounds awesome and the suicide drones are there so that you have to think what you do. It's not just mindless run&gun, you also actually have to think wisely. And the music.. i already talked about it. Want to get the best experience musically from Duke 3D? Then play Duke 3D with the original PSX version music. PC version has mostly ambient midi stuff that can't hold a candle to PSX version. PSX version is newer and thus also has non-midi music.

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

引用自 spessu_sb：

You sound like someone who got introduced to Duke 3D after being introduced to games in general first, through some bad modern casual crap.

What? Duke3D's sound was scratchy for its time (lots of sounds in the 5998hz/8000hz range with nearest resampling, during a time when 11025hz was standard and some are just starting to use 22050hz even earlier) also along with the unmemorable music. There were many games before it that sounded better.

[Major Ahole]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. PROTOZOID. SLIMERS.

I have Duke's mighty boot mapped to right mouse button just to deal with em.

[Salla]

引用自 Earth：

Duke 3D has one of the best soundtracks ever.

This

[Dennis Stamp]

引用自 Racuch Zawodowiec：

I hate being unable to save chicks, especially those in cocoons..and it makes me angry if some level designer makes them appear next to some scripted explosions or final boss battles.Duke acts sometimes like he doesn't care about them as much..For example, in the end of carribean beach , he escapes from explosion but what with those chicks what were in this location ? And in bank roll level you can't make entrance to level ending without killing them (what I said about scripted explosions ? )

Great point! I always make an effort to prevent the deaths of innocent NPCs when I play video games, and usually feel bad when they die. I can totally relate to your comment and I think it sucks that Duke can't do anything to help the chicks/babes (Even though having the game programmed to give players that ability would no doubt add to criticisms about the game being sexist because the women need Duke to save them, and cannot stand up for themselves).

[Dennis Stamp]

引用自 spessu_sb：

引用自 Dennis Stamp：

The thing I like least about Duke Nukem 3D is the game's sound. I am of the opinion that, aside from the main theme, most of the game's music is filler and forgetable. I also don't like the sound effects produced by weapons such as Duke's pistol and the chaingun. One thing I can say in favour of the game's audio is that Duketalk is very amusing (Interesting how it was one of the last things incorporated into the game).

Some of the enemies in Duke Nukem 3D are annoying. The suicidal drones irritate me the most because they absorb a ton of shots from your pistol or shotgun before finally blowing up, and because those enemies are hard to target when they elevate way above you, beyond the reaches of how high you can aim upward. The slime monsters are also annoying because they are difficult to target, but at least they don't do much damage and are easy to deal with in the event that one sucks itself to your face.

You sound like someone who got introduced to Duke 3D after being introduced to games in general first, through some bad modern casual crap.

I don't understand what you mean by that comment. Could you please phrase it differently?

Anyway, I played Duke 3D about two years after I played Doom and its 'clones' (Rise of The Triad, Heretic, and Descent). I started playing video games years sooner, starting with the Atari 2600 and the NES, and then moving on the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo.

As far as old school FPS sound goes, I love all of the sound effects that id Software designed for weapons in Doom. A couple of the weapons in Duke 3D just sound... annoying to me.

Looking over the responses to this thread, someone pointed out how uninspired the boss battles are. Having played Duke 3D a lot since acquiring the Megaton Edition, I can agree that the boss battles don't feel like very unique experiences. As difficult as she is to beat, I think the Alien Queen from Duke Nukem Forever is a key example of how Duke Forever improved upon Duke 3D's mediocre boss fight dynamics.

[Tresher]

Hard to say what I dont like about it cause it was one of my first FPS games. I see a lot of people dont like the music. Yes some themes are a bit boring. So if I would have to mention one thing than its the fact that they didnt add the PSX soundtrack to the Megaton Edition. But I guess thats a problem with license. PSX Soundtrack was much more atmospheric. Especially the Space themes. You should listen to it , I think you can download it on Mark Wright´s Website and download it for free.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

引用自 Cupcake Sugarcup：

引用自 RC***Sgt.D_Nukem***：

you do know, that the Shrinker works just as well on them [providing the shots don't clip right through them]??

Yeah, discovered that recently. I remember first time playing, I would scramble for the rocket launcher. Personally, I save the shrinker for the mini battlelord. That thing shows no mercy.

I also find it interesting, how smart it is. If you're close to it, it won't fire rockets. it'll spin around and use its blades. Which is nice for chaingun or shotgun.

I never mentioned this, but there's a room that you go through in the Impossible Mission chapter for "The Birth" episode, where there's part of a room that has a forcefield with an Assault Commander and a few other enemies behind it. I found out, that if you get near enough (without touching the forcefield itself) to make the Assault Commander spin and quickly back away, he'll sometimes become stationary and fire rockets at the forcefield, killing the enemies and then himself.

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

引用自 Dennis Stamp：

As far as old school FPS sound goes, I love all of the sound effects that id Software designed for weapons in Doom.

Thanks should be given more to Sound Ideas for their work on that. It's because of them that theres's so many know-it-all allegations of 'they stole this sound from doom' in other media and games.

[Entity Killer]

The things I hate the most are empty lobbies and dukematches

[aXe]

The out of date style of play. Duke hurrying you up the moment you take your hands off the keyboard.