2003 Vaporware Awards 502
7x7 writes "Wired News has the 2003 Vaporware Awards available for your perusal. Winning the Lifetime Achievement Award, if you hadn't guessed already: Duke Nukem Forever!"
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
The List (Score:5, Informative)
10. RadioShark (Griffin Technology)
9. Amiga OS 4.0 (Amiga)
8. Wrist PDA (Fossil)
7. HDTV TiVo (TiVo)
6. RealPC (FWB)
5. Wi-Fi SD Card for Palm (SanDisk)
4. Team Fortress 2 (Valve)
3. Phantom Gaming System (Infinium Labs)
2. Fallout 3 (Black Isle Studios)
1. Half-Life 2 (Valve)
Re:WMDs (Score:5, Informative)
Straight From the duke's mouth... (Score:3, Informative)
Once we begin taking pre-orders, believe us, you'll know about it. :)
The release date of this game is "When it's done". Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have "inside info", or there's some game news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.
Phantom Game Console (Score:3, Informative)
Harpoon 4 ? (Score:3, Informative)
very important missing game (Score:4, Informative)
A long time ago, the EQ2 FAQ said that EQ2 would be out Q32003. Then, it said Q42003. Then it said Q12004.
Now, it simply says:
n will EverQuest II be released?
EverQuest II will launch in 2004.
I know that EQ2 will arrive eventually, but it definately fits in the group of "all those eagerly anticipated gizmos in 2003 that were put off, put away or quietly put down."
Isn't EQ a big game, relative to anyone that would be playing Duke Nukem, even if it had come out?
Re:Radio Shark (Score:3, Informative)
Sigh.
No, they're not. They're adding the ability to use an XM receiver via HMO -- that's it. Nothing more. No, you can't timeshift it. It's essentially taking an XM receiver and making it networkable to HMO-enabled TiVos. It's really deeply underwhelming.
7. HDTV TiVo (TiVo) ... (Score:5, Informative)
is actually coming out it looks like: models to be available [tivocommunity.com]
From the article (Score:2, Informative)
Do you folks even know what VAPORware is? (Score:4, Informative)
Or the fact that you can download [gnu.org] it might disqualify it from being "vapor"-ware, at least to anyone who understands what the term means. Or are the usual anti-GNU shills more unaware than usual of common dictionary definitions of the terms they bandy about?
Re:The List (Score:3, Informative)
Heh. they might regret picking on the AmigaOS this time. Hints from the producers show it'll be out at the beginning of february, and sent to existing AmigaOne owners by the end of January
Re:The List (Score:3, Informative)
1. SCO for the as-yet-unseen Unix code that the company alleges was ripped off in Linux
2. Microsoft for its "secure computing initiative" and the ever-slipping ship date for Longhorn, which is shaping up to be a very promising candidate for the Vaporware awards in 2006, 2007 and maybe even 2008.
Re:port mozilla to amiga (Score:1, Informative)
Are we forgetting what Vaporware is? (Score:2, Informative)
Perhaps most of the companies on the list should get a 'Ultra-Behind-Schedule' award instead, as it is pretty aparent that Valve does have HL2.
Re:Duke Nukem Forever (Score:5, Informative)
They forgot Bitboys Oy! (Score:4, Informative)
Ahhh, the fond memories of my Intergraph Rendition Verite' 1000 card. You could play 3D accellerated vquake at 640x480 with all the prettiness of openGL at full speed on a Pentium 166; those were the days.
Re:Story of Duke Nukem Forever? (Score:5, Informative)
There's really not much mentioning of the delay except that they changed engines during the development, which set them back quite a bit. But there is some interesting information regarding other apsects of the game.
Re:My vote... (Score:3, Informative)
And it still hasn't.
Stand up Silicon Film Technologies [siliconfilm.com] ...
Re:probably best left on the drawing board... (Score:2, Informative)
I'm a HUGE Deus Ex fanboy, but this sequel just doesn't feel a thing like the original. Has a serious case of "consolitis", due to the dev's designing for both X-Box and PC without considering the PC's strengths/weaknesses.
They took out most of what made the first so good and replaced them with dumbed-down versions or nothing at all.
Not to mention the complete rush job they did to get it out the door before christmas - there's a minimal patch out now, but I'm still waiting for a major one that improves playability to the point where I'd actually give it another shot.
And I seriously think they paid off most of the review sites - the game they're describing certainly isn't the one I bought. Anyone out there who actually liked DX:IW?
Re:probably best left on the drawing board... (Score:1, Informative)