Buretsu said:
Slappable tits randomly growing on a wall is not humor. Women getting raped and forcibly impregnated by aliens is not humor. Pointing at a helmet that kinda looks like Master Chief's and going 'Do you see what I did there?' is not humor. The humor didn't fail to resonate with some sort of 'anti-humor' crowd, it failed to resonate with anyone with a mental age higher than 12, the kind of people who won't crap themselves laughing just because you randomly say the word 'ass' or 'tit' or can burp on cue.
And failing at any sort of meaningful humor, it resorted to falling back to spectacle and pandering, aiming at an audience that went from acne-ridden teens to productive members of society in the time it took for the game to finally be released.
You ask me, THEY should pay ME $5 to buy this game.
Really, I am sorry, but I completely have to disagree with you here. First off, we have to look at the humor from DN3D in comparison. Was its humor any more elevated? No it wasnt. DNF's humor stayed consistent with the tone it was supposed to evoke and it had to be on an equal level of offensiveness scaled for the desensitization that had occurred in the decade. It was never intended to have gone through some sort of high brow evolution of char to meet the maturity level of the audience. Duke is supposed to be a caricature of chauvinistic ignorance.
That was the mark it was aiming for, and it essentially hit on it. It might be in poor taste, but if you werent looking for crude juvenile humor, why even bother playing Duke in the first place? I mean really if you started playing Conkers Bad Fur Day and got offended because you think the crude humor diminishes the gameplay do you think the developer should completely retool the character. to accommodate your personal sensibilities? Or should you simply go play Banjo Kazooie instead?
Just because you appreciate high brow humor does not preclude you from appreciating low brow humor as well. Honestly I can enjoy the standup of say Henry Rollins just as much as I can enjoy the comedy of Beavis and Butthead. I really dont think comedy has ever been or ever will be an all or nothing proposition.-
No when it came to the humor you had a joint diversion. You had one group who grew up with the original and ended up growing up themselves to having more mature and refined tastes in humor. To them they were disappointed the humor did not mature along with them, but if it had, it simply would not be Duke. Then there is the younger crowd who did not grow up with Duke who just happens to have this ideology that is more willfully accepting of political correctness to which Duke would come across as insanely insensitive and offensive to their sensibilities and seems downright alien because the humor doesnt revolve around someone who is apathetic, completely socially awkward and drenched in self depreciation.
Honestly, if I wanted to see that tedious trope, I could see Scott Pilgrim, Larry David, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, The office, Loads of recent British comedies(Poor UK, Comedy really went downhill since dear Mr Hill died), Basically any Aptow film or tons of other horribly humorless examples.
So personally I am DAMN glad that Duke in essence managed to stay true to the character Duke Nukem, because by staying true to the char would be less offensive than pandering to such thin skinned people. I mean if they humor WASNT offensive, then exactly what was the point of making the game anyway? Honestly might as well just reskinned Duke, and rewrite the dialog to be completely serious and straight.
Yet Can you imagine the sheer outrage at the char deviating drastically from the Duke of days of old.
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TheGauntman said:
Where is this mythical $5 Duke Nukem Forever on Steam? All I see is 75% off at $12.49USD a copy.
