Duke on HD-DVD

Joe Siegler · 02-21-2008, 03:37 PM

If you're reading this website, then you're aware that we released a teaser video for Duke Nukem Forever back in December. At the time we told you that it was originally done as an internal gag for the company Christmas party. That part of the story is true, but what we didn't tell you at the time is that the video was only half of it. There was a second half of the video which we didn't announce, nor release.

As part of the "present to the company", we got Jon St. John to participate as well by recording an audio track as Duke which runs about 4 minutes or so where he "talks" to the development team about Duke Nukem Forever. This was audio only, there was no "video" with it. For the majority of the team, it was the first time they had heard the clip; it was quite funny. At the time we didn't consider releasing it, since we wanted the teaser video to stand on its own. Furthermore, it was made up of an awful lot of inside jokes and remarks about the staff; things we never expected most people to “get”.

So why are we telling you about this now? Well, when Toshiba announced earlier this week that they were dropping support for the HD-DVD format, we remembered that Duke was prophetic about this in the unreleased clip. In it Duke Nukem says that Blu-Ray was the future of high definition, before everyone else except maybe Sony realized it. This was a joke about one of our programmers here who was a seriously hard core internal advocate of HD-DVD, but Duke predicted Blu-Ray would win. "The King is never wrong."

So as Duke’s little going away present to the HD-DVD format, we decided to toss the small audio clip out there. You can download it here.

No, we’re not prepared at this time to release the entire audio clip, but as we said back in December, "Stay tuned" - one never knows what the future might bring,.

Firstperson · 02-21-2008, 03:42 PM

LOL.....still saawweeeeet!

jimbob · 02-21-2008, 03:42 PM

cool, i`m certainly gonna give that a listen to

and to the rest, when (if) it gets released

thanks a lot

ryche · 02-21-2008, 03:44 PM

Hahaha, thta's awesome

RAW · 02-21-2008, 03:46 PM

Well it is awesome to here Dukes (Jons) Voice again hehe
It would be nice to hear the whole thing but i understand (in due time)

Danule · 02-21-2008, 03:47 PM

haha, i had a feeling blu ray would win in the end.

Betelgeuse · 02-21-2008, 03:51 PM

haha, yeah, you tell em duke.

Sweden · 02-21-2008, 03:54 PM

cool

By first reading Duke on HD-DVD on the front page i was shocked! Thought to my self. wtf is going on. haha.. oh well ill stay tuned for more stuff like this ^^ i just love how 3drealms tease with us

8IronBob · 02-21-2008, 04:10 PM

Heh... Yeah, see if Wal-Mart will carry that audio clip!

Almost sounds like something that should be on a store's PA system.

RedSplat · 02-21-2008, 04:17 PM

Blu-Ray won because it just sounds cooler than HD-DVD, proven now by Duke.

Kalki · 02-21-2008, 04:18 PM

Funny.

Duke must have a stake in Sony.

Impending platform-related DNF theory in 3-2-1...

Joe Siegler · 02-21-2008, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kalki

Funny.

Duke must have a stake in Sony.

Impending platform-related DNF theory in 3-2-1...

If you heard the full clip, you wouldn't say that. We're just having fun.

peoplessi · 02-21-2008, 04:22 PM

Thank you for sharing

Gamebrain · 02-21-2008, 04:22 PM

If Duke says so, its gotta be true!

Kalki · 02-21-2008, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

If you heard the full clip, you wouldn't say that. We're just having fun.

I'm also guessing Jon gave you guys a good talking to about how long he's had to wait! That would have been really funny.

TheHobo · 02-21-2008, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

the video was only half of it. There was a second half of the video which we didn't announce, nor release.

Why tease us by telling us this, and then saying nothing more on that subject? It's just plain mean!

Tixus · 02-21-2008, 04:45 PM

Great to hear Duke's voice again. I know it's out of context, but this sounds like the kinda thing you'd hear at the end of a commercial. "Duke Nukem supports BLU-RAY!"

kj_57701 · 02-21-2008, 04:45 PM

Great clip. Thanks for sharing! Look forward to hearing more of Jon's voice in the (near) future

oak man · 02-21-2008, 04:47 PM

man all this DNF stuff makes me fuzzy inside

Kalki · 02-21-2008, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tixus

Great to hear Duke's voice again. I know it's out of context, but this sounds like the kinda thing you'd hear at the end of a commercial. "Duke Nukem supports BLU-RAY!"

I thought it was a cross between Jon St. John's regular commercial style(see his demos) and perhaps the KTIT radio line from DN3D. He needles it home with that last "...you know it" part.

fast-1 · 02-21-2008, 05:10 PM

Next on the Jon St John web page, joke number 2.

KaiserSoze · 02-21-2008, 05:24 PM

Most excellent.

I posted a thread over on the http://blu-ray.com website right here:

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=38717

I think they'll get a big kick out of it.

8IronBob · 02-21-2008, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kalki

I thought it was a cross between Jon St. John's regular commercial style(see his demos) and perhaps the KTIT radio line from DN3D. He needles it home with that last "...you know it" part.

LOL, well, maybe when the Duke Nukem movie's complete and ran its course in the theaters and set to be released on optical media for home use, then he can probably use that then, just a thought.

Micki! · 02-21-2008, 05:57 PM

Hahaha, that was pretty funny

Superczar · 02-21-2008, 05:59 PM

If you play it backwards it has the DNF release date...

SpinX · 02-21-2008, 06:44 PM

ow baby! Duke is still the king

next thing : Duke returns to oprah to council people with problems...

Waiter · 02-21-2008, 07:12 PM

Haha! This thread turned out to be the exact opposite to what I thought. I thought "Duke on HD-DVD" meant that you'd decided to release the game on that format.

Water12356 · 02-21-2008, 07:25 PM

Haha, nice.

Commando Nukem · 02-21-2008, 07:32 PM

hahaha, Dukes the man. Hope we do indeed get to hear the rest sometime.

The Cool One · 02-21-2008, 07:38 PM

well I didn't start playing manhattan project until about a week ago, so I get to hear all kinds of duke voice I haven't heard before.... for some reason I have a bundled version of it.. not sure what it was bundled with though.

EDIT:
oh yeah.. how much does Jon St. John charge anyways?

Joe Siegler · 02-21-2008, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waiter

Haha! This thread turned out to be the exact opposite to what I thought. I thought "Duke on HD-DVD" meant that you'd decided to release the game on that format.

That's EXACTLY the reason I named it that. To see who I could nab.

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Cool One

oh yeah.. how much does Jon St. John charge anyways?

Not every piece of development is information meant for the public, you know.

Commando Nukem · 02-21-2008, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

Not every piece of development is information meant for the public, you know.

Okay im sorry. That just made me burst out laughing. I can't stop either. Bahaha.

Its nice to see that 3DR doesn't take themselves too seriously. Did you guys write the script for Jon or did he do it himself on this 4 minute clip?

Joe Siegler · 02-21-2008, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Its nice to see that 3DR doesn't take themselves too seriously. Did you guys write the script for Jon or did he do it himself on this 4 minute clip?

I don't know the answer to that - I was not involved in making the thing. I saw it at the Christmas Party for the first time like most everyone else.

vcatkiller · 02-21-2008, 08:24 PM

Cunning as ever I see.

Now I'm just waiting for thread titles like "Release Date" which is really about one of the staff members being released from hospital after a hernia operation, or "It's Done!" which is really about how he finished a thread titled "Release Date", or "New screenshots", which is really about how they took all the busted monitors down to the local firing range.

Hudson · 02-21-2008, 08:34 PM

Man, I thought I was the resident cynic around here and even i'm not that bad

Personally, I thought it was pretty funny.

Superczar · 02-21-2008, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Now I'm just waiting for thread titles like "It's Done!"

Already done, i.e. George and his pizza...

Hudson · 02-21-2008, 08:41 PM

Yeah really, that one almost gave me a stroke

I'd rather have 50 more pretty pink pages

Mr. Pink · 02-21-2008, 10:01 PM

Great stuff! Good to hear JSJ in higher quality audio.

Sharpie · 02-21-2008, 10:31 PM

It is great to see that we can trust duke as he can predict the future so when he says that he is going to "Kick your ass!' you know hes going to

hell-angel · 02-22-2008, 12:29 AM

It's great to hear his voice again.

Be careful though, maybe Sony might want to use Duke for their advertisement

02-21-2008, 03:37 PM	#1
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Duke on HD-DVD If you're reading this website, then you're aware that we released a teaser video for Duke Nukem Forever back in December. At the time we told you that it was originally done as an internal gag for the company Christmas party. That part of the story is true, but what we didn't tell you at the time is that the video was only half of it. There was a second half of the video which we didn't announce, nor release. As part of the "present to the company", we got Jon St. John to participate as well by recording an audio track as Duke which runs about 4 minutes or so where he "talks" to the development team about Duke Nukem Forever. This was audio only, there was no "video" with it. For the majority of the team, it was the first time they had heard the clip; it was quite funny. At the time we didn't consider releasing it, since we wanted the teaser video to stand on its own. Furthermore, it was made up of an awful lot of inside jokes and remarks about the staff; things we never expected most people to “get”. So why are we telling you about this now? Well, when Toshiba announced earlier this week that they were dropping support for the HD-DVD format, we remembered that Duke was prophetic about this in the unreleased clip. In it Duke Nukem says that Blu-Ray was the future of high definition, before everyone else except maybe Sony realized it. This was a joke about one of our programmers here who was a seriously hard core internal advocate of HD-DVD, but Duke predicted Blu-Ray would win. "The King is never wrong." So as Duke’s little going away present to the HD-DVD format, we decided to toss the small audio clip out there. You can download it here. No, we’re not prepared at this time to release the entire audio clip, but as we said back in December, "Stay tuned" - one never knows what the future might bring,. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

02-21-2008, 03:42 PM	#2
Firstperson	Re: Duke on HD-DVD LOL.....still saawweeeeet! __________________ "Whatdaya waitin for? Christmas?" -Duke Nukem

02-21-2008, 03:42 PM	#3
jimbob	Re: Duke on HD-DVD cool, i`m certainly gonna give that a listen to and to the rest, when (if) it gets released thanks a lot __________________ "Check out the polygons on jimbob's girlfriend!" killerbyte "Jimbob, you're a god-damned genius" rollingbrass "You are a god among men" Water12356

02-21-2008, 03:44 PM	#4
ryche	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Hahaha, thta's awesome __________________ {<- machines have no conscience ->} {<- “Shoot him!” They say, Who will be the killer? Who will be the winner? ->}

02-21-2008, 03:46 PM	#5
RAW	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Well it is awesome to here Dukes (Jons) Voice again hehe It would be nice to hear the whole thing but i understand (in due time) __________________ http://www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org/ Last edited by RAW; 02-21-2008 at 03:49 PM.

02-21-2008, 03:47 PM	#6
Danule	Re: Duke on HD-DVD haha, i had a feeling blu ray would win in the end. __________________ is it weird when a psychonaut plays psychonauts?

02-21-2008, 03:51 PM	#7
Betelgeuse	Re: Duke on HD-DVD haha, yeah, you tell em duke. __________________ #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << " my mum says im cool... "; return 13; }

02-21-2008, 03:54 PM	#8
Sweden	Re: Duke on HD-DVD cool By first reading Duke on HD-DVD on the front page i was shocked! Thought to my self. wtf is going on. haha.. oh well ill stay tuned for more stuff like this ^^ i just love how 3drealms tease with us __________________ Poof, done. Last edited by Sweden; 02-21-2008 at 03:58 PM.

02-21-2008, 04:10 PM	#9
8IronBob	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Heh... Yeah, see if Wal-Mart will carry that audio clip! Almost sounds like something that should be on a store's PA system. __________________ PC Specs (a.k.a. "Galacticus Prime"): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7Vk7FT

02-21-2008, 04:17 PM	#10
RedSplat	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Blu-Ray won because it just sounds cooler than HD-DVD, proven now by Duke. __________________ ∙∙∙4∙∙∙8∙∙∙15∙∙∙16∙∙∙23∙∙∙42∙∙∙*

02-21-2008, 04:18 PM	#11
Kalki	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Funny. Duke must have a stake in Sony. Impending platform-related DNF theory in 3-2-1... __________________ "Gentlemen, generations to follow will see us as the first pioneers of the internet. They will look upon our days as those of brave spirits and free ideals - where men were men, women were men and children were the FBI." Free Speech

02-21-2008, 04:22 PM	#13
peoplessi	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Thank you for sharing __________________ Duke Nukem Forever Who am I to judge?

02-21-2008, 04:22 PM	#14
Gamebrain	Re: Duke on HD-DVD If Duke says so, its gotta be true! __________________ "I believe that music is God's voice." - Brian Wilson

02-21-2008, 04:45 PM	#17
Tixus	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Great to hear Duke's voice again. I know it's out of context, but this sounds like the kinda thing you'd hear at the end of a commercial. "Duke Nukem supports BLU-RAY!" __________________ Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back. -Mal Reynolds, Firefly

02-21-2008, 04:45 PM	#18
kj_57701	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Great clip. Thanks for sharing! Look forward to hearing more of Jon's voice in the (near) future

02-21-2008, 04:47 PM	#19
oak man	Re: Duke on HD-DVD man all this DNF stuff makes me fuzzy inside __________________ "I hereby nominate 'DUDE!! Huge bag of cheetos!' for 'Best Topic Title of the Year, 2006.'"-ZzTX "I vote oak man for supreme leader of the 3DR boards."-Tang Lung >>My flickr page<<

02-21-2008, 05:10 PM	#21
fast-1	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Next on the Jon St John web page, joke number 2. __________________ Ha what a day.:D

02-21-2008, 05:24 PM	#22
KaiserSoze	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Most excellent. I posted a thread over on the http://blu-ray.com website right here: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=38717 I think they'll get a big kick out of it. __________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JjimMO2SdE

02-21-2008, 05:57 PM	#24
Micki!	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Hahaha, that was pretty funny __________________ A true genius does not need boundaries such as 'common sense'

02-21-2008, 05:59 PM	#25
Superczar	Re: Duke on HD-DVD If you play it backwards it has the DNF release date... __________________ 'F*** Fresch!!!'.

02-21-2008, 06:44 PM	#26
SpinX	Re: Duke on HD-DVD ow baby! Duke is still the king next thing : Duke returns to oprah to council people with problems... __________________ waiting for: Elite sequel, Half life 3, Diablo3, DNF Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherxxxxxx delays on this motherxxxxxx game :) http://www.youtube.com/user/ftbfelix

02-21-2008, 07:12 PM	#27
Waiter	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Haha! This thread turned out to be the exact opposite to what I thought. I thought "Duke on HD-DVD" meant that you'd decided to release the game on that format. __________________ "As you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say." - George W. Bush "Adding "PERIOD" behind a sentence doesn't make you right. BASTA!" - Klaus Kinski "There are some things that just aren't meant to be eaten." - Homer Simpson

02-21-2008, 07:25 PM	#28
Water12356	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Haha, nice. __________________ "Psycho Mantis locking your doors, your fridge, shutting off your air conditioner, and clogging your toilet sure beats reading some crap off a memory card." - Mr. Blud "Men trade whatever they have for sex and women trade sex for whatever they want. That may be unromantic but theres truth to it." - Nessus

02-21-2008, 07:32 PM	#29
Commando Nukem	Re: Duke on HD-DVD hahaha, Dukes the man. Hope we do indeed get to hear the rest sometime. __________________ Open Maw Productions

02-21-2008, 07:38 PM	#30
The Cool One	Re: Duke on HD-DVD well I didn't start playing manhattan project until about a week ago, so I get to hear all kinds of duke voice I haven't heard before.... for some reason I have a bundled version of it.. not sure what it was bundled with though. EDIT: oh yeah.. how much does Jon St. John charge anyways? __________________ It's time to kick ass and compile KDE and I'm all out of swap

02-21-2008, 08:24 PM	#34
vcatkiller	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Cunning as ever I see. Now I'm just waiting for thread titles like "Release Date" which is really about one of the staff members being released from hospital after a hernia operation, or "It's Done!" which is really about how he finished a thread titled "Release Date", or "New screenshots", which is really about how they took all the busted monitors down to the local firing range.

02-21-2008, 08:34 PM	#35
Hudson	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Man, I thought I was the resident cynic around here and even i'm not that bad Personally, I thought it was pretty funny. __________________ Staying Frosty Since 09/06/07 - I love you Katie <3 “Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.” - Linus Torvalds “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin & Hobbes [INSERT SYSTEM SPECS THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT HERE]

02-21-2008, 08:41 PM	#37
Hudson	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Yeah really, that one almost gave me a stroke I'd rather have 50 more pretty pink pages __________________ Staying Frosty Since 09/06/07 - I love you Katie <3 “Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.” - Linus Torvalds “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin & Hobbes [INSERT SYSTEM SPECS THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT HERE]

02-21-2008, 10:01 PM	#38
Mr. Pink	Re: Duke on HD-DVD Great stuff! Good to hear JSJ in higher quality audio.

02-21-2008, 10:31 PM	#39
Sharpie	Re: Duke on HD-DVD It is great to see that we can trust duke as he can predict the future so when he says that he is going to "Kick your ass!' you know hes going to __________________ 360 gamertag: sharpie92 DNF on 360 please http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFct6lg0Vmo <<<< Watch for a laugh

02-22-2008, 12:29 AM	#40
hell-angel	Re: Duke on HD-DVD It's great to hear his voice again. Be careful though, maybe Sony might want to use Duke for their advertisement