Trailers: Duke Nukem Forever: Babes
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Shelby Knox is gonna have a field day with this one.
Be we don't care. It's the Duke.
All hail to the King.
Be we don't care. It's the Duke.
All hail to the King.
The best way to deal with criticism? Why, tackle it head first with what you were being criticised for!
Nah, I'm kidding. That was... interesting.
Calumon: Why can't I see it? I wanna see the pig try and herd sheep!
Nah, I'm kidding. That was... interesting.
Calumon: Why can't I see it? I wanna see the pig try and herd sheep!
Oh boy something tells me this will spark a lot of stupid arguments from stupid people.
But enough of that, TITIES!
But enough of that, TITIES!
VAAAAAARY NICE! we make sexy time now?
im wondering if this kinda stuff is going to be going on through the whole game, or just the start before you start killing and stuff
im wondering if this kinda stuff is going to be going on through the whole game, or just the start before you start killing and stuff
Because to be genuinely sexist there'd have to be an actual attitude toward women rather than marketing monkeys waving red flags around to generate fake controversy and free publicity? Sexism? Of the puerile variety maybe. Cynicism? In abundance.Pedro The Hutt said:
Further proof that we don't know what's good for us... and what's not. People will buy this game specifically for the boobs-oriented male fan-service. And that's exactly what will be setting the industry back, pushing more ratings issues forward, and increasing the likelihood of regulation that could bleed the life out of game development.Team Hollywood said:
Well, at least not the one YOU'RE thinking of. [ba-dum-tish!]The_root_of_all_evil said:
Also, that trailer was kind of worthless. It wasn't particularly funny, it didn't tell me anything about the game other then "It's got tits" which I already knew, and...Well, that' it. Not funny, not informative, not particularly cool....Just kind of worthless.
hell, if i can sneak it past my parents, it'll be for the retro gameplay and over-the-top dukeness more than anything else.Dastardly said:
but i doubt the boobs will hurt sales though...
This isn't satire. Satire makes a point to subversively speak badly about the subject it is pretending to champion. Duke Nukem isn't making "fun" of sexism and the objectification of women. It's making light of it. This isn't satirizing shallow, sex-based, man-child entertainment. This is reveling in it.Gabanuka said:
I'm not a woman, and even I find it unsettlingly awful toward women. Now, as a guy, I do like boobs. They're neat. But I also know that women are more than just life support for those boobs. Duke games do not.
To understand what I'm getting at, just change the subject a bit. Instead of sexism, substitute racism. Blazing Saddles's racism was satire, because the racists were all constantly outed as moronic hicks. They were caricatures and were shown to be wrong on all counts. The movie cites common racist stereotypes in order to prove them wrong, not just to say, "Isn't it funny that (we think) black people are like this?"
If a game were made that capitalized on those stereotypes and celebrated them so openly and unapologetically, there would be fire in the streets. Hell, Resident Evil 5 accidentally left open the implication of racism and got the shit kicked out of it in the press. Now, of course, a lot of white people would be able to sit there saying, "What? We're not serious, it's all in good fun! Can't you just take it as a joke?"
That's not satire. They're not challenging the stereotypes, they're celebrating them and wallowing in them. It's wish fulfillment. They're overdoing it, which makes it slightly comical, but that doesn't turn it into satire. Seriously, that'd be like saying porn is a "satire" of sex because it's comedically crammed full of naked people having sex.