2. Pay More Attention To Online Multiplayer
Of course I played DNF, I had to. I knew going in it wasn't going to be good, but still whatever the bad I was willing to suffer through it because I am just that big of a fan (while writing this I'm wearing a belt buckle with the nuclear waste symbol on it if that tells you anything). When the game was won I remember just for the heck of it checking out the multiplayer portion. My Duke Nukem player patiently wandered around a map for half an hour before he and I realized no one else was joining. It was a sad, weird, and lonely experience. Doing some online research I found out why. It seemed that no one had liked DNF's multiplayer to begin with and had soured quickly to it, which is sad because the original game's Duke Matches had been quite popular. In today's market where so many games are made and broken on how successful their online platforms perform a game sporting its own as a half-baked after thought is doomed. The history has been set with DNF; I hope the next game doesn't repeat it.