🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jun 14, 9:58 am, Rin Stowleigh <rstowle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:05:02 -0400, "Jim" <j...@wtf.invalid> wrote:
> >http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64233
> >"With the legal drama out of the way, the road to the long-awaited release
> >of Duke Nukem Forever is apparently clear of legal hurdles--the game just
> >needs to be finished".
>
> I recently loaded up DN3D for a trip down memory lane, first time in I
> think 14 or 15 years.  It was kind of like a painful, cathartic
> session with a hypnotist.  Man, how far we've come from having to drop
> out to an editor to change our keybindings in a .CFG file! :)
>
> Actually playing the game was underwhelming.  It was clearly optimized
> for 14" monitors, so I needed to put it in a window for the graphics
> to resemble anything the original creators intended.
>
> No doubt it was a great game in its heyday.  Part of the addictive
> appeal was being able to play over the net (via TEN at the time),
> which was a first for me.  I had played Doom over the modem with
> friends, but did not have get my introduction to a server-lobby type
> of scenario until TEN came along.  That service also let me play
> Warcraft I online, which was another groundbreaking game IMO.

I try not to do that for fear of ruining my memories.  I remember
watching an episode of You Can't Do That On TV like about years ago
cos I thought it would be a nice trip down memory lane.  Instead of I
wondered how I could have actually watched that shit as a kid.  It
completely ruined it for me.