That's Gotta Hurt: Duke Nukem Forever Developer Calls E3 "Irrelevant"

Those guys should just call it quits on Duke Nukem Forever because there are so many better FPS out there. Halo, Call of Duty, Bioshock, etc.

E3 is irrelevant? Ironic coming from someone who is irrelevant, whose company is irrelevant and whose game is irrelevant.

Have you people seen some of the footage from DNF? It looks like Doom 3. I don't think DNF will be worth the wait.

The last thing they did was act as useless middlemen for the production of Max Payne 2 for the Xbox. In 2003. They have been "working" on a game for over a decade, they have never shown it to anybody, and pretend that they're actually releasing it. They are the LAST people who should call anything "irrelevant".

On one hand, I can see why Miller said that.  E3 was gutted years ago and I don't keep track of it anymore either.  For me, the biggest gaming expo is now the Penny Arcade Expo in late August.  Sure it's unofficial, but it's larger and probably the most honest expo out there since it's run by the fans, the consumers.

On the OTHER hand, and the more important hand though, this is a comment coming from a person with minimal credibility who works at a hackjob company that's failed to deliver for over a decade.  It doesn't matter if your claims may be valid; you gotta pay attention to where you stand and at least admit your own faults before you shoot your mouth off.

And one more thing: there's a new Duke Nukem in town anyway.  He is Sam "Serious" Stone, the only thing standing in the way of the invading forces of Mental.

Things that have happened since the initial Duke Nukem 3d announcement.

Computers & Internet:

• In 1997, the fastest consumer internet connection was a 33.6 kbps modem. On average, consumer internet connections are 300 times faster today.
• When Duke Nukem Forever was announced, the fastest processor available to consumers was a 233Mhz Pentium. Since then the clock speed of consumer processors has increased over 16 times (32 times counting dual cores), and the fabrication process has decreased from 250nm to 65nm.
• In October of 2001, Apple announced the iPod and Slashdot dismissed it as an immediate failure. Since then there have been 5 generations of iPods, as well as the iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Nano with 42 million iPods sold worldwide as of 1/06.
• Steve Jobs was still running NeXT when Duke Nukem Forever was announced.
• Every peer to peer file sharing program including Napster was developed.
• In April of 1997, Google, eBay, and the term "weblog" didn't exist.
• Linux gained at least 10 times the popularity it had while its kernel tripled in size.
• Mac OS switched to UNIX and became the most highly regarded general purpose operating system on the market among the computing press.
• Microsoft released 5 consumer-oriented versions of Windows and might release a Vista service pack or two before Duke Nukem Forever hits shelves.
• Netscape Navigator 4 was released, Microsoft Internet Explorer destroyed it. Netscape 6 released on an entirely different rendering platform, Netscape dies, Mozilla foundation rises. Open-source Mozilla browsers become popular and force Microsoft to start working on new version of Internet Explorer.
• Valve releases Steam and sets a new standard in digital software distribution.
• MySpace has gone from beta to the largest social-networking site in the world (and the fourth most popular English language website).
• Every GeForce and Radeon graphics card.

Disasters:

• Two Boeing 767 airplanes crashed in to both World Trade Center towers, killing 2750 and spawning countless conspiracy theories.
• There have been 125 tropical cyclones. 73 hurricans in the Atlantic, 52 typhoons in the Pacific.
• There have been over 20 death-toll producing tornado outbreaks in the United States.
• Over 50 major earthquakes have shaken the world, which have shortened the Earth day by 2.68 microseconds.
• Hurricane Katrina wiped New Orleans off the map and killed 1,836 in the process.
• The fourth most powerful earthquake recorded since 1900 triggered a massive tsunami killing over 200,000 people in various countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

Economy:

• Adjusted for inflation, the average price of gas in the United States has doubled.
• The Euro was introduced as a new European currency.
• Enron has filed for bankruptcy and folded. Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling have been arrested on fraud charges and subsequently indicted and convicted. Ken Lay is now dead and Jeff Skilling is rotting away in prison.
• Apple's market cap exceeded Dell's.
• Nintendo became the second largest company in Japan.

Movies that were filmed, released in theatres, and have made it to DVD:

• All three Star Wars prequels.
• The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, with extended editions.
• Every Pixar movie aside from Toy Story.
• Three (possibly four) James Bond films.
• Every movie, animation, and video game from The Matrix series.
• Every Marvel comics movie released.
• Each predictable twist ending of every movie by M. Night Shyamalan.
• In the same vein, the DVD format was finalzed and the DVD forum agreed on the HD-DVD format.