Frankly, the biggest reason nobody can figure out how to make a Duke Nukem reboot work is because they think the 90s edgelord bullshit is the main reason that Duke Nukem 3D was such a breakout hit, when the truth of the matter is that it succeeded at least partly in spite of that. Duke Nukem 3D legitimately pushed the envelope in terms of what it was possible for a first-person shooter to be – in many ways it's just as foundational to the genre in its modern form as Wolfenstein 3D or Doom. You can't recapture that with dick jokes, and if you're not willing to take risks in terms of basic game design, dick jokes are all you have.
Ultimately, what the franchise really needs to shake off its creative rust is to stop trying to iterate on its established formula and shift genres entirely. To this end, I have a proposal: make the next Duke Nukem game a side-scrolling metroidvania. In this essay
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✨✨ Congratulations to Sega of America and our INDUSTRY LEADING union contract ✨✨
With a gratifyingly massive vote in favour we ratified our contract guaranteeing worker protections, increased wages, credit for all games worked on and more!
We are the largest and only multi-department video game union, and hope this joyous news will encourage others to organize and fight for their own employee rights in our beloved, but layoff-plagued industry.
I'M SO PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF AEGIS 💙💙
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Nameological bullshit in video gaming, ranked:
Pretending you think a video game title which could plausibly be a person's name is the name of the player character
Pretending you think a video game title which couldn't plausibly be a person's name is the name of the player character
Referring to a player character with a canonical first name as "[first name] [title of game]"
As 3, above, but the game's title is very long, and you insist on saying it in full every time you say the player character's name
Making up an unlikely first name for a player character who's called by their title or role and treating the title/role as a last name
Combining 3/4 and 5, above, and referring to the player character as "[incongruous made-up first name] [title of game]"
Insisting that the player character of any game with a title of the form "Mark of [whatever]" is named Mark
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we can’t change what’s done, we can only move on
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