Duke Nukem Forever Multiplayer Exchanges Flags for "Babes"

WaffleGod

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So... Why am I getting this feeling that a lot of the people who think this is offensive are... Americans?

I never really got the entire "OMG! YOU CAN'T LAUGH WITH THAT!" mentality. I mean... I'm handicapped, and I laugh with my situation all the time. If people make a joke about my wheelchair or some random joke about handicapped people, do I suddenly become mad at them? Hell no! I laugh just as much as the other people. So, what's the big problem with laughing with this?
 

eljawa

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CD-R said:
Capture the Babe is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of a flag, players have to pick up a "babe" and bring her back to the home base. The babe will sometimes freak out, and players have to give her a "reassuring slap," which is "more goofy than offensive" according to OXM. Hail to the King wasn't detailed, but is apparently a "King of the Hill" mode.
I don't know about that. I really hope that's a misquoote. It's not the 1950's anymore.
so? its funny. Yeah its politiclly correct, but people against it need to get overthemselves
 

HentMas

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The babe will sometimes freak out, and players have to give her a "reassuring slap," which is "more goofy than offensive"
humm... would it be too ofensive if the "mother Base" was a Kitchen and the Duke after setting the babe down, slapped her ass and told her to "go make me a sandwich"??

I think the game is going to be hilarious, but that sentence made me raise an eyebrow

beating women??, seriously??
 

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j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
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Ok well in the game world all of the stupid nonsense is the norm. For example in the Duke-averse Las Vegas there is a hotel/casino called the "Felatio" a play on the name of our worlds Belagio. The humor comes from the fact that in the game world all of the sexism and other stuff that seems to offend you is taken seriously.
 

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j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
OK, fuck this. Stupid one liners I can handle. Meat-headed yeti protaganists I can handle. Stories so infantile a nurserty creche would look down on, I can handle that. But when developers pull shit like this:

Capture the Babe is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of a flag, players have to pick up a "babe" and bring her back to the home base. The babe will sometimes freak out, and players have to give her a "reassuring slap," which is "more goofy than offensive" according to OXM.
then games deserve all the media hatred they get. Is this what 15 years development time gives us? A tactless shooter using humour that was out of date twenty years ago?

They have a name for people who grap women against their will and use physical violence against them. They're called perverts, woman-beaters, and scum. Maybe this game won't allow you to clock a woman round the side of the head, but seeing how far they're going already, I don't see why the developers felt the need to stop. It's not as if the game could get any more tasteless.

This game is not a throwback to some golden age of shooters. It's a relic from a past which the medium should have abandoned long ago. Exploiting women is not cool, be it for personal gain or entertainment. This slap-happy approach to women doesn't make Duke a cool, finger-to-the-PC-brigade legend, it makes him a fucking ignorant idiot. The only time it's cool to slap a woman is in the bedroom, if that's what she's into. It's not a technique you use to calm women down mid-abduction. The word for that is abuse.

Ultimately, the fact that gamers are willing to play a game where the downright objectfication of women is one of the goals of multiplayer... well, that speaks volumes about where gaming and gamers are right now. And it's not a good place.

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Reading some of the responses here confirms my worst fears about what gaming has become. There was a time the community of the Escapist would call this out for the bullshit it is. Sadly, the teenagers with no actual life experiences of their own seem to see this as a good idea.

Word of advice kids: When you grow up and enter the real world, you'll see that sexism still exists, in all walks of life, despite what that nice right-wing commentator on Fox or Youtube might say. We should be fighting against that, not welcoming it into our games.
You do realise it´s stupid getting offended by this, right? Duke is a JOKE.

And bud, when you "Grow up and enter the real world", you´ll realise that yes, we should be fighting sexism in REAL LIFE, but that it´s perfectly fine to joke about it. Hell, it´s fine to joke about everything. And if you´re offended by a joke, then i believe that you need to grow some thicker skin.
 

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Spritzey said:
danpascooch said:
I get it's all a big joke, but even I think "reassuring slap" is going too far
I think it's applied to the bum and not the face...
Does that change the fact poeple *caugh*[sub]Fox[/sub]*caugh* are going to overreact about it?

Also, Why isnt the level cap 69? I mean come on, it would make perfect sense to do that...
 

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I would totally approve of this happening in WoW. No more nasty glowing flag, but a big haul of babe >:D
 

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Assassin Xaero said:
Anyone else surprised the level cap isn't something like, oh I dunno... 69?
This XD

OT:
I always thought the Duke to be the kind of guy that would say broad or dame, but w/e.

Fox are gonna have a field day of missing the point.
 

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thaluikhain said:
So...you kidnap women and slap them if they get annoying?

*headdesk*
Erm, no, not exactly. See, the point of the Duke universe is that if they don't go with duke the aliens find her. She's freaking out because of the shooting, the reassuring slap is a pat on the arse.

Wasn't explained well that
 

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Spritzey said:
danpascooch said:
I get it's all a big joke, but even I think "reassuring slap" is going too far
I think it's applied to the bum and not the face...
Exactly what I was assuming.

A slap isn't very reassuring if it's aimed at your face. That's just painful.
 

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henritje said:
Feminists are going to be pissed but I love it!
thanks Duke! for making me interested in a MP game that isn't TF2
Why the hell would you want that?

Anyways, yeah, the devs are getting pretty stuck-up over this game. They're not going to get away with it quite that easily :/
 
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Ah controversy, how we've missed you.

Let the flames commence, I'm sick of skating around what's designated wrong now.

(Slapping a woman's bum is bad but sending waves of men to their death is ok? C'mon world, lighten up.)

Edit: And Postal's Capture the Slag was ok?
 

ryai458

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For everyone complaining about the slapping let me give you this for your viewing pleasure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GW0Vnr9Yc