Talk:Duke Nukem (character)

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You're totally missing "Duke it out in DC"


Also, the link to Blood is linking the article to blood as in blood in our body, not the game.

[edit] Visually Stunning for 1993?

Why does it state that the graphics of Duke Nukem 2 were visually stunning for 1993? I played the shareware version in 1995 and I thought it looked like an 80s game, which surprised me because it said that the prequel had only come out in 1991. Really, the graphics were utterly, utterly, utterly crap even by 1993 standards. I mean, come on, compare this to games like Commanche, Doom, Strike Commander, Day of the Tentacle, etc, etc, all of which were available on the PC in 1993. I definitely think that the person who wrote that comment is either under the age of 20 or didn't play video games in the mid-nineties.

If you compare it to arcade games (they used expensive hardware, I know) Mortal Kombat II, Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing came out the same year. Final Fight and Street Fighter II were two years old, and the Ninja Turtles arcade game was already four years old. All these games had much better graphics.

In same genre, Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis and Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo came out in 1991, two years before Duke Nukem 2. So I think I've stated enough evidence to prove that the graphics were crap by 1993 standards, for those who don't remember what videogames were like in 1993. Platformers have never been abundant on the PC, so it's probably lack of competition that allowed the game to get away with being so poor in comparison to its console counterparts of the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Holymolytree2 (talk • contribs) 04:12, 29 October 2007 (UTC)