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Duke Nukem Forever is a comepletely different subject, it was in a period of "development hell", were, unlike Portal 2 and Half Life(I hope), no real work was being done on it, sure, screenshots and the like were released, but was it ever really being designed? This is different than a game like Skyrim where they knew what to do and what to make and were ACTIVELY designing and building it, DNF was in a sort of development limbo, on and off development, and then it's suddenly and swiftly hammered out with only a meager year and a half of development time. That's almost less than what's spent on CoD games!

p.s. My knoledge on the matter is limited and I haven't played DNF nor its predecessors. So feel free to correct me if I'm incorrect, in case of TL:Dr, or it was too repetitive, Duke is a special case, a very special case, when it comes to delayed games.