Do we know who is writing the story?

[Malgon]

I haven't heard anything about this really, the only name I remember hearing is Gary Whitta, but I'm probably confusing this with something else. I was curious to know as well if 3DRealms is happy with the direction that the story is heading in, or if it is fairly close to their original premise for a DNF script. Any official word on this would be great. :)

P.s. Waiting for Joe to tell me off or :widjoe: ! :D

[hell-angel]

There are some rumours, but nothing is confirmed. :)

[ADM]

As far as we know Gary Whitta worked on it.. but that was quite awhile ago and he hasn't said anything about that since.

[Malgon]

Did he also work on the Prey story?

[Micki!]

How much do we know about Gary's "old" story..? Content wise..?
Did he also work on the Prey story?

The credits (i reckon) in Prey said it's made by Scott Miller...

[Malgon]

I didn't know for sure as I haven't played Prey/demo yet.

[ADM]

How much do we know about Gary's "old" story..? Content wise..?

Nothing, as far as I know all we know is that he did it.

He also did Prey's story. He spoke about that a couple of weeks ago in an interview.

[Micki!]

He also made Prey's story..?
That's wierd, becasue i'm sure i didn't see his anme in the credits...

I must have missed it then, or maybe it's not even there (in which case, it should be added)

[Malgon]

Got any links for that? ;)

[Micki!]

Cool... Nice we have Google.com :cool:
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Found this
As mentioned in my little introductory thinger, these days I mostly write movies and comic-books for a living. And also games, sometimes. I wrote the comic-book adaptation of Death, Jr. and also wrote script, story and dialog for games like Prey, Duke Nukem Forever and Gears of War.

Link here http://whitta.1up.com/

[Malgon]

Cheers, Micki! I'll have to check the link tomorrow night. Time for bed for methinks. See you dude. :)

[the true duke]

hoping the story isnt just aliens attack and duke stops them somehow. but we are talking about duke.

[elsenator]

hoping the story isnt just aliens attack and duke stops them somehow. but we are talking about duke.
I think that is exactly what the story is :D And with some twists here and there, that will do just fine. As you say so yourself, we are talking about Duke. ;)

[hell-angel]

Cool... Nice we have Google.com :cool:
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Found this


Link here http://whitta.1up.com/
Google rules. ;)

Good find Micki!. :D

[StainedCheeks]

nice link, gears of war has been on my list and iam glad gary did that story as well. its bout monster type locust that come from the bowels of earth to ruin the day. you play a disgrunted "grunt". grafics look good so we got more sci fi shooters....yeah

[Micki!]

Google rules. ;)

Good find Micki!. :D

Thanks...

I think that's great... If he was playing part of Prey's Story, which i doubt is medicore in any way, i believe he's making a good job with DNF as well...:cool:

[ReadOnly]

The credits (i reckon) in Prey said it's made by Scott Miller...

The story itself may be Scott's but the dialogs or some kind of screenplay could be others. I have no doubts that DNF story is 3dr's. The other story-related stuff could be by hired writer.

[the true duke]

guess gary loves the idea of alien invasions.

[Commando Nukem]

hoping the story isnt just aliens attack and duke stops them somehow. but we are talking about duke.

What else could a Duke game be in its basic form.

Duke + badguys = Duke kicking some ass.

I smell what smells like fuel or gasoline.. hmm, thats a bad sign.:p

[SomeDude]

Gary writes good columns for PC Gamer :)

[hell-angel]

guess gary loves the idea of alien invasions.
I think he just likes invasions because Gears of War has demons. :)

but then again, they are not human so that might be considered as aliens. ;)

[Malgon]

As long as the feeling of the story of DNF is epic, and big in scope, with some memorable characters and awesome one-liners, I'll be one happy gamer indeed. :cool:

[ADM]

He also made Prey's story..?
That's wierd, becasue i'm sure i didn't see his anme in the credits...

I must have missed it then, or maybe it's not even there (in which case, it should be added)
He shows up (in the full version at least) as writing the Screenplay with another dude who's name I forget I this moment.

[Micki!]

Yes, Kristian told me that...
I missd it, because i was only really paying attention on the "original story" part in the credits... I didn't catch him in the screenplay part of the credits... :o

[ADM]

It was the next line or 2 after the Original Story creditation.

[Malgon]

If only George could give us an answer. :(

[AdamCommando]

I'm kind of on the fence about whether I like the writer of Prey's story working on DNF.

On one hand, I guess he would sort of know how to do one liners ("Worst Indian casino ever!"), but on the other hand, we might hear Duke constantly spelling out the plot: "I'm a white, biking, gun-owning loner, and all my girlfriends have been kidnapped by aliens. I'm going to have to rise above my inner anguish and rescue them!"

[Commando Nukem]

I'm kind of on the fence about whether I like the writer of Prey's story working on DNF.

On one hand, I guess he would sort of know how to do one liners ("Worst Indian casino ever!"), but on the other hand, we might hear Duke constantly spelling out the plot: "I'm a white, biking, gun-owning loner, and all my girlfriends have been kidnapped by aliens. I'm going to have to rise above my inner anguish and rescue them!"

I think its been a long time established fract that 3DR has a very good shit filter, and that Duke has been a long time established character.

Those two elements, are *forever*.

:D

[AdamCommando]

I think its been a long time established fract that 3DR has a very good shit filter, and that Duke has been a long time established character.

Those two elements, are *forever*.


Yeah, you're probably right.

It would probably be kind of hard to mess it up anyway. As long as they keep the attitude of Duke the way it's always been.

[Amakou]

The only way to screw up DNF would be to have Uwe Boll write the story. :censored:

~Amakou~

[Commando Nukem]

The only way to screw up DNF would be to have Uwe Boll write the story. :censored:

~Amakou~

Please.... God...... Don't ever say that again... please please please!!!! :(

[the true duke]

uwe boll doesnt write.

but they usually do something to make the game dumb. i havent played a game in a while that made me feel happy to win (metal gear solid: the twin snakes was awesom) but most games today suck. 2/10 games on every shelf of every game store are good. honestly who finds thrill in playing fishing game or deer hunter game.

[Monkey Butler]

Clearly a lot of people, otherwise they wouldn't be successful enough to warrant sequels.

[Joe Siegler]

I haven't heard anything about this really

Right. You're asking questions about stuff we're just not ready to talk about. That's why you can't find anything. What part of "information blackout" aren't you understanding? :)

[Amakou]

What part of "information blackout" aren't you understanding? :)

The part where it ends. ;)

~Amakou~

[Monkey Butler]

Information Blackout + Official Messageboard = what the hell else are we supposed to talk about?

[Commando Nukem]

Information Blackout + Official Messageboard = what the hell else are we supposed to talk about?

You're supposed to drink a nice tall glass of.... OH! SNAP!

Seriously, theres plenty to SPECULATE about. We aren't here to drag info out of George and Joe, they give us plenty of tid bits every now and again, but they aren't going to open their damn mouths just to have some(or several) punk ass(es) come down on them when things happen to change.

How would you feel to have every word out of your moth disected on a daily basis? Not a very appealing thought. So they do what any sane person would, they drink there nice tall glass of.... OH! SNAP!

:D

*Scratches the rest of his post from his brain*

George, Joe, How about some DNF related News eh? =)

[hell-angel]

Right. You're asking questions about stuff we're just not ready to talk about. That's why you can't find anything. What part of "information blackout" aren't you understanding? :)
And that's why we are speculating about it on these boards. ;)

[Echo Black]

And that's why we are speculating about it on these boards. ;)

Yes, what else should we do? George should release actual media for DNF so we can talk about something more concrete ;)

[Monkey Butler]

It seems like any time we speculate about things (eg: the manual) we get told that it's stupid to speculate because...well, just because.

[Commando Nukem]

It seems like any time we speculate about things (eg: the manual) we get told that it's stupid to speculate because...well, just because.

speculation means guessing, Joe is beefing over us asking questions when we all are smart enough(I think) to know that they aren't gonna answer a lot of the questions, come media release or not, they'll end up holding things back for us to see for ourselves (If they tell us everything its kinda hard to be suprised by it in the game. Cool or not. Lol)

[Malgon]

What part of "information blackout" aren't you understanding? :)

I understand it, but it doesn't mean George can't slip a hint that the story is actually a priority and being worked on. ;)

[hell-angel]

I understand it, but it doesn't mean George can't slip a hint that the story is actually a priority and being worked on. ;)
He allready did that a long time ago. ;)

[Joe Siegler]

speculation means guessing, Joe is beefing over us asking questions when we all are smart enough(I think) to know that they aren't gonna answer a lot of the questions, come media release or not, they'll end up holding things back for us to see for ourselves (If they tell us everything its kinda hard to be suprised by it in the game. Cool or not. Lol)

Thank you. Someone gets it.

[Arc-Demon]

Thank you. Someone gets it.

So should we all just leave the Duke Nukem Forever forums until the game comes out or what? I mean, we are really just throwing ideas up in the air in these forums for DNF. Are we wasting our time Joe, or do you guys really pay more attention to us than we think...? :o

[Micki!]

So should we all just leave the Duke Nukem Forever forums until the game comes out or what? I mean, we are really just throwing ideas up in the air in these forums for DNF. Are we wasting our time Joe, or do you guys really pay more attention to us than we think...? :o

I don't know about you, but the DNF boards are only one part of this whole forum... i have other reasons to be here as well...
But that's off topic to talk about here...:censored:

[hell-angel]

Thank you. Someone gets it.
I think most regular people are getting it. But we simply like being here and speculating about things and fishing for some info in the hope that you guys are releasing some info when you are not looking. ;)

[StainedCheeks]

dude, its allways the games that sneak up on us the kick the most ass..i am glad there is a blackout..all we need to know is that they are in full production..:)

[Malgon]

We all get it Joe, it's just sometimes George surprises us. I wasn't expecting any real answers besides `don't ask', but hey you can't blame any of us for trying though. :)

[hell-angel]

dude, its allways the games that sneak up on us the kick the most ass..i am glad there is a blackout..all we need to know is that they are in full production..:)
I agree although some small bits here and there (which we are getting) are nice. ;)

[the true duke]

ok think for a moment, strenght in numbers. i beleive george can out punch me, but actually hurting me is a definate no. all we forumers need to do is to just take 3dr by the balls and MAKE them tell us.

people are to afraid to do anything nowa days and need somebody to INSPIRE them enough to do anything. i say lets go, come on.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H.

you guys gave up,

did we give up when the germans bombed pearl harbor? NO.

i say, lets go and get the information we want instead asking....nay begging for it. i dont know about you guys but i got a thing called pride, and dignity and begging and roling over for info really hurts you, SO LETS GO AHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

[StainedCheeks]

:D
germans? pearl harbor?:D
LOL..think i pissed myself

[Commando Nukem]

:D
germans? pearl harbor?:D
LOL..think i pissed myself
Good lord I hope hes not that stupid.

Everyone knows it was the damn sweds who bomb pearl harbor! :ted:

I think the writers job is almost moot considering that George is just gonna come around and say "Duke would not say something like that... Hes gonna say THIS instead... Who do you think Duke is? A forumer?"

[Lemonfield]

I do believe the "Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" thing was a reference to Animal House that just went over everybody's head, and not stupidity on true duke's part.

[Commando Nukem]

I do believe the "Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" thing was a reference to Animal House that just went over everybody's head, and not stupidity on true duke's part.

I think it was obvious I was giving sarcastic retaliation. Considering the freaking TED picture. OH NOES TED IS GONNA EAT YOU.

[ReadOnly]

So should we all just leave the Duke Nukem Forever forums until the game comes out or what? I mean, we are really just throwing ideas up in the air in these forums for DNF. Are we wasting our time Joe, or do you guys really pay more attention to us than we think...?

Why not close whole DNF subforum? It'll be cool. News and speculations for several days on the web. :D

If I remember correctly, Joe once said that because of possible impact this closing might generate, DNF-forum still functional. (or smth like that)

[Commando Nukem]

Why not close whole DNF subforum? It'll be cool. News and speculations for several days on the web. :D

If I remember correctly, Joe once said that because of possible impact this closing might generate, DNF-forum still functional. (or smth like that)


Why close what you have to reopen in the not-so distance future anyway?

[hell-angel]

Why not close whole DNF subforum? It'll be cool. News and speculations for several days on the web. :D

If I remember correctly, Joe once said that because of possible impact this closing might generate, DNF-forum still functional. (or smth like that)
Well, it's a smart decision IMO. ;)