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I found the review persuasive. The points about misogyny resonated with me, but everything he criticized about the gameplay resonated as well. Linear gameplay

by dkarl 15y ago

I found the review persuasive. The points about misogyny resonated with me, but everything he criticized about the gameplay resonated as well. Linear gameplay with cutscenes, bleah. Regenerating health, meh, not in this kind of game. You can only carry two guns and they aren't fun to shoot -- what are they THINKING? This is DUKE. I don't know what era they grew up in, but my action heroes can carry at least six guns, maybe eight, and at least half a ton of ammo. Nothing as fresh and silly as the shrink gun was? It was little novelties like that made Duke fun to play. If you want to make penis jokes, make a penis gun. If you want to make a joke about homophobia, make a leather gun that decks a bad guy out in a leather outfit with assless chaps, temporarily incapacitating his friends as they laugh at him. Blammo -- joke's on them! It wouldn't have any point against the big bosses since they work alone, but it would be fun to use anyway -- what is this big blob of alien going to look like in leather? It would also add some sexual interest without being too misogynistic, since you could shoot women to give them a bad-ass leather and sunglasses look, which would give them a lot more class and dignity and real sex appeal than they usually have in Duke games. Maybe they'd grab a gun and fight on your side for a while. How did I just think up a major improvement to the game while writing an HN comment, and they couldn't do it in... how many years?

megamark16 15y ago
Please, create this game, I will buy it. You had me at the assless chaps gun.
- mdaniel 15y ago
  Was it only Quake that had such extensive modding capabilities, or was it Duke also? In short, if they stick to the spirit of games from that time, then user content will show up and you'll both get your wish.
  - antihero 15y ago
    Games don't seem to stick around long enough for modders so much nowadays :\
    - Roritharr 15y ago
      Thats only half the reason for the lack of mods, the other is that the orignal game creation sdks are now free or freemium atleast so it wouldn't make sense to try to mod something if you can get supreme tools for original creation nearly for free.
artmageddon 15y ago
I just bought this game thinking I'd give it a chance, knowing not to expect a polished title like the Modern Warfare iterations of Call of Duty... but after reading the review and your comment, how could they get that so so wrong? Exploring the maps was half the fun, but if they just made them all be linear successions of duck and cover / shoot from chest-high walls... no thanks. Duke was all about taking bullets to the face till you were almost a bloody pulp and then drinking your health back to 100% from a fire hydrant that you busted open with a rocket launcher. Thankfully, I still have my receipt and will probably return it this afternoon. I'll get the PC demo or borrow it from a friend in the future.
- gcr 15y ago
  You just bought it and you aren't even going to play it? But why?
  - artmageddon 15y ago
    I was on the fence about it for awhile before reading the review, but this morning I decided to pick it up due to a tight schedule during the day(had to get there just as the store opened before work) and fear of the game being sold out if I wanted to play it. It's not the most sound logic, I will admit :)
sbochins 15y ago
Not sure I agree with the rampantly offensive part. If I remember in Duke Nukem 3D there is a strip club level. I wouldn't call that the best way to represent the empowerment of women. Of course, that was never the intention of the series. The game is very conservative through and through. Duke even sounds kind of like Ronald Reagan. On the issue of the gameplay, this game is really bad. It plays like a cheaper version of Doom 3(another poorly delivered, over hyped game). They really should have taken a look at Serious Sam if they want to know how to make an old school shooter nowadays. By the way Serious Sam 3 is going to kick some serious ass, unlike this game.

by dkarl 15y ago

megamark16 15y ago

Please, create this game, I will buy it. You had me at the assless chaps gun.

mdaniel 15y ago
Was it only Quake that had such extensive modding capabilities, or was it Duke also? In short, if they stick to the spirit of games from that time, then user content will show up and you'll both get your wish.
- antihero 15y ago
  Games don't seem to stick around long enough for modders so much nowadays :\
  - Roritharr 15y ago
    Thats only half the reason for the lack of mods, the other is that the orignal game creation sdks are now free or freemium atleast so it wouldn't make sense to try to mod something if you can get supreme tools for original creation nearly for free.

artmageddon 15y ago

I just bought this game thinking I'd give it a chance, knowing not to expect a polished title like the Modern Warfare iterations of Call of Duty... but after reading the review and your comment, how could they get that so so wrong? Exploring the maps was half the fun, but if they just made them all be linear successions of duck and cover / shoot from chest-high walls... no thanks. Duke was all about taking bullets to the face till you were almost a bloody pulp and then drinking your health back to 100% from a fire hydrant that you busted open with a rocket launcher. Thankfully, I still have my receipt and will probably return it this afternoon. I'll get the PC demo or borrow it from a friend in the future.

gcr 15y ago
You just bought it and you aren't even going to play it? But why?
- artmageddon 15y ago
  I was on the fence about it for awhile before reading the review, but this morning I decided to pick it up due to a tight schedule during the day(had to get there just as the store opened before work) and fear of the game being sold out if I wanted to play it. It's not the most sound logic, I will admit :)

sbochins 15y ago

Not sure I agree with the rampantly offensive part. If I remember in Duke Nukem 3D there is a strip club level. I wouldn't call that the best way to represent the empowerment of women. Of course, that was never the intention of the series. The game is very conservative through and through. Duke even sounds kind of like Ronald Reagan. On the issue of the gameplay, this game is really bad. It plays like a cheaper version of Doom 3(another poorly delivered, over hyped game). They really should have taken a look at Serious Sam if they want to know how to make an old school shooter nowadays. By the way Serious Sam 3 is going to kick some serious ass, unlike this game.