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Jon St. John reprises Duke Nukem for some COVID-19 inspired pickup lines
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Bless Jon St. John, this made my day.
I need more Duke games. Whatever dark gods I will have to sacrifice Cawadoody, Halo and Battlefield to for Duke to return, I will do it.
They'd have to make it a whole lot less sexist etc, kind of like what they did with Shadow Warrior
I was actually just thinking of that. I don't think they'd necessarily have to tone down the hypermacho testosterone-laden 80s action star sexism as long as they kept it at Duke 3D levels (Duke Forever took it a little too far), but they'd have to give his personality a little context to make people understand what Duke is meant to parody. Old farts like me who've seen Evil Dead, They Live, Rambo, Predator, Commando etc. will get the schtick about Duke being an over the top parody of 80s action heroes. But for younger gamers who might not see Duke based on that cultural context, they'd have to give some context of who and what he's meant to be a parody of.
I think there is a way to bring Duke back and have him work with today's better sensibilities under a different kind of context. For example, using Duke as a way to tell a story with an anti-toxic-masculinity message could potentially be very good. But you need the right writers to do that.
It's a great line, but it was blatantly stolen from the John Carpenter film They Live which came out eight years before Duke 3D. Roddy Piper claims to have ad-libbed the line during the shoot and it proved rather memorable.
I never expected God of War to be as good and different as it was, so its not impossible.
It's definitely possible to bring him back under a different context and I hope it happens.
Exactly. Many problematic characters can be updated for modern times. And in some cases, that can be used to tell a certain message.
Problem is, by updating Duke like that I think the devs would risk driving off large portions of the original fanbase, and I'm not so sure there'd be a lot of new fans to replace them if that happened.
I don't believe there is a "Duke fanbase." It's an old IP that most people don't care about. I think the only way to bring attention to it is to do something different with it.
Just making another Duke game as they were previously would be a failure. There is no way that releasing a new sexist Duke game works today.
Mmmm, I dunno. Like I posted further up, I think Duke can work as long as there's given some context to who and what he's a parody of, considering Duke is a product of a very specific period in time. Personally I'm a fan of Duke as he is, but then again I grew up on the kind of media he's a parody of and I get the joke behind his persona. I wouldn't have bought a Duke game that tried to change who and what Duke is, that wouldn't have appealed to me at all.