Duke Nukem Forever?!?

[tgr]

+) In 'Capture the Babe' when you grab the other teams babe sometimes she'll start to freak out as you take her back to your base, so you have to give her a gentle smack to quiet her down

 

[UnSub]

+) In 'Capture the Babe' when you grab the other teams babe sometimes she'll start to freak out as you take her back to your base, so you have to give her a gentle smack to quiet her down

 

 

[Ironwood]

Oh dear.

[tgr]

Yeah. There's not going to be tons of crying in the media over that feature. Nope. None at all.

[Special J]

They really are aiming for the FoxNews coverage aren't they?

[NiX]

+) In 'Capture the Babe' when you grab the other teams babe sometimes she'll start to freak out as you take her back to your base, so you have to give her a gentle smack to quiet her down

 

But WHERE do you smack her? Given it's Duke, I'm going to say it's on the ass.

[Malakili]

I really can't see myself ever playing this multiplayer, but the comedy should be good in the media.

[Ironwood]

Duke 3D was alllllll about the multiplayer.

Good times.

[UnSub]

+) In 'Capture the Babe' when you grab the other teams babe sometimes she'll start to freak out as you take her back to your base, so you have to give her a gentle smack to quiet her down

 

But WHERE do you smack her? Given it's Duke, I'm going to say it's on the ass.

Randy Pitchfork - who isn't a porn star but Gearbox's CEO tweeted to say, "Of course you just slap her on the butt - where else could you possibly slap a woman who needs a good slapping?"

I'm paraphrasing, of course.

[NiX]

See, that makes sense from a Duke perspective.

[HaemishM]

Duke 3D was alllllll about the multiplayer.

Good times.

Unfortunately, the multiplayer on this appears to be 4 on 4 and naught else.

[K9]

Well, you wouldn't want to have a bad sausage to taco ratio

[Minvaren]

In other nostalgia news, another delay.

That said, at least the video is  .

[cironian]

Beat me by a few seconds, Min. DAMN YOU!!!1

[tgr]

That was an awesome way of saying "we're delaying by a month."

[NiX]

Yeah, video didn't make me feel bad about the delay. Also coincides well with my tight summer budget. Fuck yeah!

[Chimpy]

One of the comments on the Ars Technica article about this cracked me up:

It can be hard to determine the exact date for hell freezing over.

[LK]

Unfortunately, the multiplayer on this appears to be 4 on 4 and naught else.

Gotta start somewhere. "Launching the unlaunchable game" would be a good one.

[jakonovski]

Eurogamer is caught in Duke's trawler net, localized shitstorm ensues: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-26-slapped-down-article

[Azazel]

 

[Trouble]

I can't claim to have experienced sexism so maybe I'm just stupidly overlooking some deeper thing here. But Duke Nukem is fucking Duke Nukem and if anything Forever should be seen as both a self-satire and a celebration of one the biggest so fsr unfulfilled mythos in the living video game world.

Moreover, this isn't about censorship - to which I remain implacably opposed (although not to age ratings, which are an entirely different issue). Rather, it's about game companies, particularly those with excellent reputations and those entrusted with well-known franchises and brands, simply having the maturity to remember that they're part of an ecosystem, part of a wider entertainment medium that's still finding its way in the world - and part of a wider society in which women, and many minority groups, are still discriminated against (sometimes violently) every day.

This argument has never left the station. BEING a sexist and BEING a racist in how you deal with other people is a bad thing. But a game like this isn't going to make people see women any differently. Like "wow I didn't know I could beat them and then they'll just have sex with me!". Over the top satire or near-satire level shit like this isn't what causes people to actually form  and hold those insidious views of their fellow humans.

[tgr]

This argument has never left the station. BEING a sexist and BEING a racist in how you deal with other people is a bad thing. But a game like this isn't going to make people see women any differently. Like "wow I didn't know I could beat them and then they'll just have sex with me!". Over the top satire or near-satire level shit like this isn't what causes people to actually form  and hold those insidious views of their fellow humans.

Tell that to the crazies who think it's fine to see someone's head explode in slow motion, but if there's even a hint of a nipple, STOP THE PRESSES CALL THE MORALITY POLICE STOP THIS SHIT BEFORE IT CORRUPTS OUR CHILDREN.

Or something. I dunno. I don't really get the whole "must protect our children from everything" generation.

[Ironwood]

This argument has never left the station. BEING a sexist and BEING a racist in how you deal with other people is a bad thing. But a game like this isn't going to make people see women any differently. Like "wow I didn't know I could beat them and then they'll just have sex with me!". Over the top satire or near-satire level shit like this isn't what causes people to actually form  and hold those insidious views of their fellow humans.

You're not entirely correct.  Formation and reinforcement are two entirely different things. 

I really, really don't want to get into a massive debate over this :  It's something that's actually terribly stupid without much excuse.  But, hey ho.

[Azazel]

I wish I cared enough to be part of that argument. But it's so, so unimportant in the scheme of things I just don't give enough of a fuck to post anything besides this pointless message. Use your energy to worry about something important in the world. Or even in games.

[Khaldun]

Look, when you go to see a bad kid's film and it's got a zillion fart and poop jokes, that's like a cinematic confession that the people making it know it's a shitty, cynical cash grab. And so that's usually a self-fulfilling path to failure. It would be dumb to get mad at a film like that.

Just like it's pointless to get mad because a crap game tries to get past its crappiness with idiotic, repulsive sexist imagery. It's like they took out an ad saying, "This long-delayed piece of shit is still a piece of shit!!!"

Now, gaming does in fact harbor a nasty bunch of misogynists. It's not the games that make them so. That's an issue I can get behind, but I'd rather it not get tangled up in protests aimed at a particular cheap piece of shit.

[NiX]

This place has become soul-suckingly depressing.

[Minvaren]

10% off preorder on Steam as of now...

[Vision]

Tell that to the crazies who think it's fine to see someone's head explode in slow motion, but if there's even a hint of a nipple, STOP THE PRESSES CALL THE MORALITY POLICE STOP THIS SHIT BEFORE IT CORRUPTS OUR CHILDREN.
Or something. I dunno. I don't really get the whole "must protect our children from everything" generation.

One of the things about having fundamental parents is that in a lot cases, they are so afraid Johnny will grow up gay they promote overt sexuality and violence.

[ghost]

10% off preorder on Steam as of now...

I guess that means it is really going to happen.  I think I'll wait for the real sale.

[Malakili]

Just for the lulz, the day we never thought would come:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/24/the-impossible-day-duke-forever-is-gold/

Yes, you’re asleep. Yes, this is a dream. There can’t be any other explanation for this: the game that shouldn’t be, couldn’t be, is. After over a decade in development, multiple project reboots, all the crazy promises in the world, the closure of its original developer, a shock resurrection at the hands of the Borderlands/Brothers In Arms devs and another, final delay for luck, Duke Nukem Forever is finished, Gearbox Software have announced. It’s gone gold. It’s actually gone gold. It’s coming to a PC near you next month.

Or at least it would be, were this not a dream. (It’s not a dream). (Or is it?) (It isn’t). (Or is it?)

Still seems like steam sale material.  I was sort of excited about this when I learned it was actually going to be finished up by gearbox, but honestly speaking now that I've seen some gameplay videos, it just looks really ho-hum, and I guess I'm just an old fart now because the trailers that are supposed to be funny just turn me off from the game.   Probably worth it just for the sake of finally playing what amounts to a piece of gaming history, but not for more than 15-20 bucks.

[Modern Angel]

Baby food only tastes good when you're a baby.

[Sparky]

Duke is Gold: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/duke-nukem-forever-has-gone-gold.ars

That end of the world guy was only off by a couple of days.

[K9]

That end of the world guy was only off by a couple of days.

 

[Sky]

Nostradamus predicted the retail date of DNF! He's so awesome.

[rattran]

The demo is not as terrible as I expected, but it's not good. Checkpoint pauses? A driving bit that makes the Borderlands driving controls seem good? narrow seeming fov, film grain, motion blur and 'postprocessing' distance blur effects all make the game seem washed out. Lost interest in the second section of the demo.