Fox News Takes Aim at "Offensive" Duke Nukem Forever

[Tom Goldman]

Fox News Takes Aim at "Offensive" Duke Nukem Forever

Fox News has already stepped up to the plate to criticize Duke Nukem Forever, even though the game isn't out yet.

Duke Nukem Forever [http://www.amazon.com/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Pc/dp/B002I0JAJ2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301260889&sr=8-1] has become the target of a negative Fox News article calling it "sexist" and "over the line." The game was bound to come under fire someday, but perhaps Fox News should have waited to actually play the game first.

The article uses Duke Nukem Forever's Duke Nukem 3D [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108162-Duke-Nukem-Forever-Rated-M-For-Immature] (has she actually played Duke Nukem's shooter debut?), and that the game's "depictions of women are extremely harmful, especially to young women."

Let's be honest, the article is absolutely correct in saying that Duke Nukem Forever is over-the-top in male chauvinism, sexism, and "immature" humor. Where the article goes wrong is in its failure to explain that Duke Nukem Forever is one big joke. This is a game where players take poop out of the toilet and throw it at the wall and punch aliens in the testicles. It's not supposed to be taken seriously.

Perhaps in the context of the actual game, had Fox News' writers played Duke Nukem Forever, they'd have realized its status as a parody of the cigar-smoking "man's man" action hero, though to an extreme a degree as you can get. Duke Nukem Forever isn't going to win any awards for moving society forward, but a silly game about killing aliens and boobs isn't going to move us backwards either.

Duke Nukem Forever was recently delayed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108712-Gearbox-Delays-Duke-Nukem-Forever-Until-Summer] to mid-June for release on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

Source: Fox News [http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/25/duke-nukem-dustup-games-capture-babe-mode-players-slapping-women/]

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[Goldenkitten01]

Well there's something nobody saw coming...

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

damnit fox I thought you where past this......oh who am I kidding.

 

[Duffeknol]

Good. Very good. Give it some free publicity. The people that watch Fox News shouldn't be playing video games anyway.

 

[Gerrawn]

The world is shocked by this development.

 

[lacktheknack]

Doesn't this technically mean it's successful with FOX? I'm sure that Gearbox would consider the hype to be a failure if FOX didn't say something about it.

 

[BreakfastMan]

The only wonder is why it took them so long to latch onto this. We all knew that FOX was going to get its hands on the game someday, I just thought it would be sooner...

 

[TheTurtleMan]

Well in Fox News' defense, Duke Nukem is technically sexist and over the line. They just can't understand that it being so over-the top is what makes it great!

 

[rockingnic]

But that is what makes the game Duke Nukem Forever! That IS why he was so popular and unique in the first place. Fox News has always had their own heads up their own asses.

 

[Konaerix]

Well...I don't know what to think when it comes to this game anyway...

 

[Quaxar]

[...] the game's "depictions of women are extremely harmful, especially to young women."[...]

You show me young women who'd play the game and become Duke babes and I'll give it a second thought, Fox.

 

[Irridium]

Also, FOX, what about the fact that Duke rescues the women from aliens? Is that sexist and over the line?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yawn oh when will they learn that no matter how much they bad mouth a game, it doesn't stop people from playing it (uless it got ban). Oh wait they never will!

 

[Assassin Xaero]

calling it "sexist" and "over the line."

... and what Duke Nukem game isn't?

 

[Anarchemitis]

Took them long enough.

 

[kaizen2468]

You know what I find more sexist than a game like DNF? The fact that every action movie, and to an large extent all movies include a female love interest for the main character. They offer nothing. Every movie I seem to watch has this pointless female in it for no reason other than to for the lead man to get with or protect. Obviously it's not the case in every movie, but it just seems to be the norm. It's really unfortunate because I like movies with a female lead who is more than just a set of tits and an ass.

 

[Sebster 105]

I also liked how they dismissed Bulletstorm as making you a rapist even though that's taking the piss as well

In other words:
REPUBLICANS ARE THICK

 

[Biag]

Even though it's the Duke, I've gotta say that "Capture the Babe" makes me a tad uncomfortable.

EDIT: to clarify, I'm definitely not siding with Fox. However, I'm not going to be buying the game either, and the sexism is pretty much reason number one. Some things just aren't funny to me.

 

[Stabby Joe]

Another penny for the Fox "News" prediction jar.

I might put it towards Duke Nukem Forever now.