Comments on: Spraying Links About The Place

By: James R

James R — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:37:07 +0000

StephenB: Yeah, when Jim Sterling calls out your game for being unfunny and offensive, you have made some bad, BAD choices.

By: Rob Mulligan

Rob Mulligan — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:27:52 +0000

The lesson here is that when you spend a million years making an FPS, it only ends badly. See also: Daikatana.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:37:44 +0000

In reply to Russell.

I think it was always going to get huge attention simply because it was so long in the making, but people used to *like* the series.

It was as un-feminist as having Arnie shoot things while making wisecracks, or quoting “They Live” endlessly, but it wasn’t grossly offensive. This one really is – not humourously crude, not ironic, not a pastiche of outdated macho-ness, just really disturbing and horrible. And it’s nice to see that’s not being tolerated (alongside the fact that the gameplay is also rubbish).

By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:00:20 +0000

As near as I can tell, Duke Nukem Forever is essentially receiving the attention it has because it’s a disastrous example of how not to make a game. 14 years plus “development” time, outdated gameplay, outdated graphics, humour that was outdated when they started making the damn game, etc. All of which leads me to conclude it’s simply not worth worry about – they dropped the ball years ago.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:22:45 +0000

Every single review of Duke Nukem has been that scathing. My favourite is here. It’s just relentless.

http://www.destructoid.com/review-duke-nukem-forever-203658.phtml

“Duke does not come across as cool, witty or likable in the least. He comes across as a vile, callous, thoroughly detestable psychopath.” “Duke Nukem Forever is a festering irrelevance with nothing to offer the world. It’s a game with an odious personality, one that could only endear itself to the sociopathic and mentally maladjusted.”

They’re not holding back :) I think it’s especially great that major reviewers are calling 2KGames out on the misogynistic aspect of it.