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Duke Being Put To Pasture?

User is offline   Radar 

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@johnnythewolf

The difference is that Duke Nukem is a piece of entertainment that according to you is misogynisticsexistracist, which you also apparently enjoy very much. You also seem to believe that this aspect of Duke should change, so I can conclude you also believe that no longer consuming misogynisticsexistracist entertainment is one way to "improve society". Your view has no consistency, but I've come to expect that from folks of your ilk.

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View PostRadar, on 03 April 2019 - 01:50 PM, said:

I can conclude you also believe that no longer consuming [problematic] entertainment is one way to "improve society".


Nope! :lol:

To quote a certain individual that the mere mention of their name would most likely cause you and your gatekeeping ilk to become very, very agitated, if not downright seething with rage: "it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects."

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Anita Sarkeesian lies about being a gamer and started her career making hyper-radical-intersectional videos just for Kickstarter money. Find better heroes.

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Nope! :lol:

Ha, the lengths you go to in order to justify your gatekeeping of "a piece of entertainment", to use your own words... :lol:

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Nobody's gatekeeping anything. But you sure are trying your darndest to make enemies here by strawmanning anyone who asks a simple question.
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View PostDacoolguy, on 02 April 2019 - 07:02 AM, said:

Graphically it won't suck, I know for sure. We are living in a world and going towards a time when to release a game that is graphically displeasing, is pretty much impossible.



Actually even Half-Life 2 (which was released back in 2004) faces look better (more detailed) than in most of modern AAA games, including cinematic shit. Most of AAA games look too plastic nowadays. I'm not saying they would make it absolutely terrible looking, but I doubt it would be different from modern AAA games anyway.

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I am getting the feeling Dacoolguy never had the displeasure of looking at Rambo: The Video Game. :lol:

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This site is dedicated to Duke Nukem, not Douche Nukem. We reject the childish and douchey interpretation of Duke from DNF. When you say that Duke is misogynistic, it means that you accept Douche Nukem as the true Duke Nukem, which most of us do not. That's a major source of friction. The real Duke, the one from Duke 3D, inhabits a world with plenty of misogyny going on, but he himself is not a misogynist. He is a horny guy, and he does go to strip clubs, and when doing so acts like a normal patron of such estabishments. If that makes him a misogynist, then you are applying a certain contemporary standard, and that again is going to be a source of friction, since most of us around here reject it.
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View PostSledgehammer, on 04 April 2019 - 01:41 PM, said:




Wow. Everyone in the PS4 opening cinematic looks remarkably worse than the PS3 models.
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View PostMusicallyInspired, on 04 April 2019 - 04:43 PM, said:

Wow. Everyone in the PS4 opening cinematic looks remarkably worse than the PS3 models.

Why do you care? Graphics don't matter! :lol:
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View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 04:41 PM, said:

This site is dedicated to Duke Nukem, not Douche Nukem. We reject the childish and douchey interpretation of Duke from DNF.


But as I pointed out in the other thread, those two characters are very much the same, the only difference being that we get to see a lot more of Duke Nukem in Duke Nukem Forever: at the end of the day, whether we are talking about DN3D or DNF, Duke Nukem only cares about women as long as he gets to have sex with them or at the very least get sexually titillated by them. That is an entirely misogynistic mindset. Heck, for all the crap you (rightfully) give DNF's Duke Nukem, at least in that game, he is shown eventually helping women (mostly in the Doctor Who Cloned Me DLC, mind you); unless you are playing Duke Nukem 64, DN3D's Duke Nukem just does not give a fuck about women as human beings. And no, muttering "Damn..." in a monotone voice as he shoots them dead does not qualify as caring; again, even DNF's Duke Nukem is better in that regard, as he has a genuine outburst upon seeing the Holsom Twins and other women get abducted, one that is far more intense than "Nobody steals our chicks... and lives" delivered yet again in a monotone voice. Of course, the game ruins that later on by having him scoff at their death, but that is a different story...

Alien Armaggedon also felt like an improvement, as you gave Duke Nukem a female sidekick whom he treats as his equal and does not just value her for her sexual availability. You also had the good sense of populating the world with more than just sex workers and strippers and that now not every man in Los Angeles works for the LAPD! :huh:

View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 04:41 PM, said:

you are applying a contemporary feminist standard (not shared by all feminists, even)


I am really not sure what you mean by "contemporary feminist standard"; if you mean one that matters to the present, then... I guess so? :lol:

I would think that any self-proclaimed feminist who does not share that standard is either terribly out of touch or just not a feminist to begin with.

View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 04:41 PM, said:

That's a major source of friction.


That is not a reason to get really aggressive and start calling me names - or, in MusicallyInspired's case, repeatedly resort to gatekeeping and even gaslighting. :lol:

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View Postjohnnythewolf, on 04 April 2019 - 06:41 PM, said:

But as I pointed out in the other thread, those two characters are very much the same, the only difference being that we get to see a lot more of Duke Nukem in Duke Nukem Forever: at the end of the day, whether we are talking about DN3D or DNF, Duke Nukem only cares about women as long as he gets to have sex with them or at the very least get sexually titillated by them. That is an entirely misogynistic mindset.


In DN3D, all the women are either sex workers or alien captives. It's definitely a misogynistic world that he occupies. However, nothing about his reactions to the women are misogynistic. His interactions with sex workers are appropriate for how one interacts with sex workers. His interactions with alien captives are appropriate for how one should treat alien captives. We don't know how Duke treats women in normal situations, because those situations don't exist in the game. His attitudes towards women are largely unexplored.

View Postjohnnythewolf, on 04 April 2019 - 06:41 PM, said:

DN3D's Duke Nukem just does not give a fuck about women as human beings. And no, muttering "Damn..." in a monotone voice as he shoots them dead does not qualify as caring; again, even DNF's Duke Nukem is better in that regard, as he has a genuine outburst upon seeing the Holsom Twins and other women get abducted, one that is far more intense than "Nobody steals our chicks... and lives" delivered yet again in a monotone voice. Of course, the game ruins that later on by having him scoff at their death, but that is a different story...


DN3D is a simple game with simple interactions.The fact that he says "Damn..." when a female captive dies doesn't prove anything either way. It could be that he's disappointed at the loss of a potential sex object, or it could be that he's saddened by the loss of a human being that he considers his equal. Or something else entirely. The fact that he delivers his lines in a monotone voice is also irrelevant. All of these are instances of Duke acting in character, but it's a simple characterization with many blanks that are not filled in. You are filling a blank in with misogyny. I'm saying there's no reason to draw that conclusion.

View Postjohnnythewolf, on 04 April 2019 - 06:41 PM, said:

Alien Armaggedon also felt like an improvement, as you gave Duke Nukem a female sidekick whom he treats as his equal and does not just value her for her sexual availability. You also had the good sense of populating the world with more than just sex workers and strippers and that now not every man in Los Angeles works for the LAPD! :lol:


As for how Duke treats Bombshell, I see no reason to suspect that he would have treated her any differently had she been a character in 1996. With regard to the other NPCs, that's true. The world of Duke in AA is a big less misogynistic than in DN3D (although it also contains more explicit sexual objectification in places). I think it's important though to recognize the distinction between the world being misogynistic and Duke as a character being misogynistic.


View Postjohnnythewolf, on 04 April 2019 - 06:41 PM, said:

I am really not sure what you mean by "contemporary feminist standard"; if you mean one that matters to the present, then... I guess so? :lol:

I would think that any self-proclaimed feminist who does not share that standard is either terribly out of touch or just not a feminist to begin with.


I was referring to Duke's behavior towards women in DN3D. He treats sex workers like sex workers, and he treats alien captives like alien captives. I do not believe that makes him a misogynist. Now, if he walked up to a civilian woman on the street who is clearly not working as a stripper etc., and he held up some dollars and said "Shake it, Baby!" then that would be very sexist! Ironically, AA probably portrays him as more sexist than vanilla DN3D in some instances, because out of sheer laziness I coded him to use the stripper interaction on some of the female NPCs who are sexy but not strippers.
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A consideration I think shouldn't be overlooked in such discussions is how old and relatively rudimentary Duke Nukem 3D is. Let's not forget that even at the time it came out, it was quite pioneering in terms of realism and interactivity, quite a commendable feat as really, all the team had to rely on in order to successfully instill such a strong atmosphere was a limited amount of slots for Duke talk, and a handful of .anm files. Considering such technical limitations they did quite an amazing job at coming up with credible environments, unfortunately those also mean restrictions as far as developing character depth. I think Duke 3D really did the best it could at being fair to all genders if the primary objective of the developers was to convey the impression that Duke was the last capable man person alive. The women are reduced (or can be perceived as reduced) to sex workers, but then the men were turned into monsters (the Pigcops) and it is your primary purpose to downright kill them. I find that Duke 3D is a depiction of detachment from the human race's excesses as a whole, exaggerating our most basic instincts without necessarily discriminating against women specifically.

Duke Forever I've never played and don't really give a shit about, just enough to have skimmed through a few playthrough videos. But from what I've perceived, the developers pretty much tried turning Sheriff Woody into Buzz Lightyear which I think is a mistake. Duke 3D Duke was a fictional living timestamp of a particular era in the 90's that now belongs to the past, very much in the vein Sheriff Woody's imagery does. Buzz Lightyear is flashy modernity for the sake of flashy modernity; Duke Forever Duke kind of represents that, being a poor attempt at an 'update' as to better cater to a new generation of players who's obviously uninterested in a disconnected character, having way more modern imagery to relate to in other games to play. Where that strategy fails is that I don't think even the rowdiest teenagers nowadays still find sex and poo jokes funny (in video games at least as in real life it's probably going on all day, all day long), and where it sucks for people who appreciated Duke 3D for the social commentary it made for is that in the process, they completely dumbed down the character, its legacy and its potential current relevance.

I can definitely see why Duke Forever qualifying as misogynistic is justifiable, as early as the opening sequence. Just because it's now a scary word that gets thrown around too much and abused a lot doesn't mean it should be jettisoned altogether.

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Why is anyone engaging with the SJW? He's derailing discussions in order to get people fighting about stupid shit that doesn't matter. I mean, c'mon, misogyny in Duke Nukem 3D? It's satire. It's purposely making fun of 80s action movie stereotypes and the cultural norms of the time. A lot of people do find those things genuinely fun, but you gotta ask yourself - is it harmful? I don't think so. None of us I hope are mistreating women (I'm happily married) or going out and gunning down civilians. But this whole discussion is old hat, the notion of society being harmed because of entertainment media. Do people think Tarantino movies are serious? Some do apparently, and I don't think those people should be censored, but I also don't think we need to give them any more attention. They've had their say and it's been the same tired mantra for the last 20-30 years.
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He's no SJW. He's trying real hard, though...

View Postjohnnythewolf, on 04 April 2019 - 06:41 PM, said:

That is not a reason to get really aggressive and start calling me names - or, in MusicallyInspired's case, repeatedly resort to gatekeeping and even gaslighting. :lol:


Talk about gaslighting.

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View PostSledgehammer, on 04 April 2019 - 01:41 PM, said:






Obviously because they weren't using sprites and voxels. Everyone knows that sprites and voxels are the best.
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View Postjohnnythewolf, on 04 April 2019 - 06:41 PM, said:

But as I pointed out in the other thread, those two characters are very much the same,


THe only thing you pointed out is that you aren't able to look past a surface in a very onedimensional way and are not able to recognize the nuances that make both totally different characters. But fear not ... other people have that problem too ... trust me, that's why we got Douche Nukem in the first place in 2011.

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View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 04:41 PM, said:

He is a horny guy, and he does go to strip clubs, and when doing so acts like a normal patron of such estabishments.

I think people forgot about the right term womanizer and that's who Duke Nukem is, a womanizer.
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View PostTea Monster, on 05 April 2019 - 06:05 AM, said:

Obviously because they weren't using sprites and voxels. Everyone knows that sprites and voxels are the best.

Everyone but talentless people. Industry seriously lacks talent nowadays.

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View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

In DN3D, all the women are either sex workers or alien captives. It's definitely a misogynistic world that he occupies. However, nothing about his reactions to the women are misogynistic. His interactions with sex workers are appropriate for how one interacts with sex workers. His interactions with alien captives are appropriate for how one should treat alien captives. We don't know how Duke treats women in normal situations, because those situations don't exist in the game. His attitudes towards women are largely unexplored.


I'm going to have to disagree with you on the Duke3D world being misogynistic. The only way this would be true is if the Duke3D world is specifically prejudiced against women, which I see no evidence of. I can assume the strippers in the bar are acting on their own free will, no one is being forced to strip (not that it makes sense for them to just be chilling around while an alien invasion is going on). And while the women are targeted and captured in the alien's green slime, I can assume that men in the invasion also suffered a similarly terrible fate. For example, the pig cops are mutated LAPD officers. The vast majority of police are male. I can also assume thousands of men have been killed offscreen. And there's also a theory that suggests the aliens capture the babes to be used as surrogates, which means the alien's goal is purely utilitarian in nature, not prejudiced.
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View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

I was referring to Duke's behavior towards women in DN3D. He treats sex workers like sex workers, and he treats alien captives like alien captives. I do not believe that makes him a misogynist, unless you are applying a certain kind of feminist standard. Now, if he walked up to a civilian woman on the street who is clearly not working as a stripper etc., and he held up some dollars and said "Shake it, Baby!" then that would be very sexist! Ironically, AA probably portrays him as more sexist than vanilla DN3D in some instances, because out of sheer laziness I coded him to use the stripper interaction on some of the female NPCs who are sexy but not strippers.

I think it should also be pointed out that, unlike in DNF, the "interactions" are entirely optional. Duke doesn't comment or do anything upon entering the strip club, or seeing captive women, nothing unless you make him.
You can kill the women, or you can try to "save" them. The aforementioned "damn" has to be so monotone and vague because the game can't tell the difference if you shot them willingly or accidentally; if you were compassionate, indifferent or indeed misogynic.
And honestly, that is a big reason why Duke shouldn't be elaborated much on as a character. Duke 3D gives the player a huge amount of freedom, and so should a sequel. That means Duke's character has to be "thin" and twodimensional, to leave room for the player to choose and react. If you try to make him "deeper" to satisfy narrative demands, you will unavoidably damage him as a "game pawn".
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If you go deeper you could say that Duke is reflection of a player and thus if you act like a total cunt or to make it sound better "misogynist" (which I think can't go beyond murdering women anyway) you may as well be a total cunt or "misogynist" yourself. Gotta say I'm getting pretty good chuckles from this weird and quite gay topic.
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It's just projection. People who call Duke a misogynist are usually playing the game to live out that fantasy for themselves. Whether they think it's secretly good or not. Actually, especially if they consider it wrong.
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That's a simple way to say it I guess. I seriously cannot imagine anyone thinking this way about Duke 3D, the worst thing you can do is kill women there and the game even punish you for doing this, and, as I said, there is pretty much no deep meaning behind it.

Actually neither do I see this crap in Forever. I never had any thought related to this topic nor do I have now when it comes to Duke Nukem in general, never read that deep into Duke Nukem Forever overall, except maybe for that "aliens aren't enemies just because they're aliens" part which was quite amusing. The only thing which really caught my attention is that the writing was mediocre to say the least. The only "people" I heard from about this "too deep" theory were American journalists, but then I learned that they love to twist pretty much anything which is pretty much related to the fact that they love to project their bullshit onto others.

I know many people outside of this site who played the game and never had those silly assumptions. If they heard those theories they'd die from laughing.

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View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

In DN3D, all the women are either sex workers or alien captives. It's definitely a misogynistic world that he occupies. However, nothing about his reactions to the women are misogynistic.


You cannot be neutral on a moving train; if you live in a misogynistic world and you do not do anything to challenge it, then you are at the very least complicit in maintaining it.

View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

His interactions with sex workers are appropriate for how one interacts with sex workers.


No. Duke Nukem shows absolutely no concern for their safety and well-being. The game itself does not even punish you for allowing them to get hurt so much as it spawns extra monsters to fight; since the game's entire gameplay revolves around fighting monsters, it actually feels more like an incentive to kill them!

View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

His interactions with alien captives are appropriate for how one should treat alien captives.


Again, no. When you come across people in need of assistance, you try to help them; you do not just ignore them or shoot them dead because you think they are better off that way. If you want Duke Nukem to come across as caring about the alien captives, you have to show him doing so, like Duke Nukem 64 did by making them rescuable. It really does not reflect well on Duke Nukem's character that his slightly better attitude had to be the result of Nintendo's censorship.

View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

We don't know how Duke treats women in normal situations, because those situations don't exist in the game.


We do get to see how both he and the game treat them in "extraordinary" situations, i.e. as objects. Therefore, there is no reason to believe Duke Nukem would treat them any better in normal situations.

View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

DN3D is a simple game with simple interactions.


Not an excuse. Nobody forced 3d Realms to put those NPCs there in the first place.

View PostTrooper Dan, on 04 April 2019 - 07:51 PM, said:

All of these are instances of Duke acting in character, but it's a simple characterization with many blanks that are not filled in. You are filling a blank in with misogyny. I'm saying there's no reason to draw that conclusion.


I would argue that it is you who is filling the blanks with excuses to make the character come across as less shitty towards women. You might as well tell me that in your headcanon, Doomguy is actually a well-adjusted pacifist who shoot demons to free their souls so that they can escape Hell and go to Heaven! :lol:

Duke Nukem is a fictional character; as such, whatever he does outside of the game's diegesis is irrelevant. If the developers decided that his only interactions with women in Duke Nukem 3D would be to tip mindless sex workers and be able to get away with killing captives, then it is entirely fair to perceive those as the extent of the character's relationship with women. No amount of fanfiction on the player's behalf is going to change that - unless of course the developers adopt it, which they do not - and you should not be shaming me into going through the same mental gymnastics as you did.

View Postck3D, on 04 April 2019 - 08:01 PM, said:

but then the men were turned into monsters (the Pigcops) and it is your primary purpose to downright kill them.


It is kind of troubling when you think about it. If anything, the sheer joy Duke Nukem expresses whenever he does so reinforces my claim that Duke Nukem only values women for their sexual availability; otherwise, you would think he would be pissed whenever he kills a Pigcop.

What a Duke Nukem game could use is the ability to revert Pigcops back to their human form. For example, it could be a special weapon akin of Alien Armaggedon's Babifier that, upon its successful use, would cause Duke Nukem to make food-related jokes (e.g. "I guess you really were what you eat!") and maybe even make him rethink his consumption of pork (e.g. "Huh, I'm never going to be able to eat another pork sausage after this!").

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View PostSledgehammer, on 05 April 2019 - 09:24 AM, said:

If you go deeper you could say that Duke is reflection of a player and thus if you act like a total cunt or to make it sound better "misogynist" (which I think can't go beyond murdering women anyway) you may as well be a total cunt or "misogynist" yourself. Gotta say I'm getting pretty good chuckles from this weird and quite gay topic.

It could be, but obviously not necessarily so. It's play – Duke isn't real, the women aren't real, their dying or living isn't real – playing around with fictional death doesn't make you a murder and playing around with fictional "misogyny" doesn't make you a misogynist. Though if you hold misogynist views you could – to some extent – play those out in Duke 3D.
(There are some really fucked up mods for D3D – which I've played, of course :lol: – that imply some people got that sort of kick out of it.)
But none of this makes Duke, or the Duke games, misogynist.

The game would also allow you to play out some kind of, for instance, "anti-treehugger" plant-hating ideology by destroying much of the vegetation in the game. Or break all the toilets and plumbing. It allows you to do a lot of things that aren't central to or even part of its core identity.

If Duke Forever would have come out on time it would have had male NPCs and non-stripper female NPCs, and you most likely could have killed them all. It wouldn't have been because the game, Duke, or its developers were misanthropes.
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View Postnecroslut, on 05 April 2019 - 08:28 AM, said:

And honestly, that is a big reason why Duke shouldn't be elaborated much on as a character. Duke 3D gives the player a huge amount of freedom, and so should a sequel. That means Duke's character has to be "thin" and twodimensional, to leave room for the player to choose and react. If you try to make him "deeper" to satisfy narrative demands, you will unavoidably damage him as a "game pawn".


I do not know, MachineGames' Wolfenstein games gave BJ plenty of freedom, yet also fleshed him out as a character.

View Postnecroslut, on 05 April 2019 - 12:52 PM, said:

But none of this makes Duke, or the Duke games, misogynist.


Actually, it kind of does, if the most philogynistic thing you can do in a Duke Nukem game is not kill the women. :lol:

Again, if the only interactions Duke is allowed to have with women is to either treat them as sex objects or to kill them, then it is entirely fair to perceive the game and the character as misogynistic. Moreover, I do not think it is even a good idea to allow the player to enact their violent fantasies against sex workers in the first place, as it trivialises the real-life epidemic of violence against sex workers, who due to the nature of their work cannot even turn to law enforcement for help. It is no surprise that the latters have been behind calls to boycott the Grand Theft Auto series among other things.

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You can't interact with NPCs in majority of games anyway, depends from a genre. You either just can't touch them or can kill them in action games, but that's pretty much comes to no surprise because tech industry lacked in some areas and people weren't just thinking that much about this stuff since games were just a simple form of entertainment, especially action games where the main focus was, well, action. Same thing with action movies or pretty much shitton of movies suffering from a lot of typical goofs.

That said, it would be nice if America learned to differentiate reality from fiction. Maybe then people would try to fix things in real life, the most notable in my opinion is child trafficking or exploitation in general, that includes sex obviously. But hey! Let's talk about how video games are bad and let's ignore child prostitution or other problems. What have you done to stop this in real life? I can tell with not a single doubt that you did absolutely nothing and will do nothing. But yeah, it's really much easier to criticize fiction instead of fixing things in real life.
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And in the end people have to rely on themselves, while you or people like you pointlessly criticize irrelevant crap like fiction and desperately trying to fix it or what ever your goal is. There was some Slavic man whose children were stolen recently by Sweden "child protectors" with no reason so he had to escape with them to Poland, all by himself, his daughters actually love him and didn't want to be set apart from him. In fact they even tried to silence those children in court, but thankfully Poland support family values so the father won and his daughters are with him.

Cases like these are nothing new and happen quite often, the worst thing is that there is even more: slave trafficking, rape, murder, etc, yet every each of those pretentious vocal people do absolutely nothing.

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View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 01:15 PM, said:

I do not know, MachineGames' Wolfenstein games gave BJ plenty of freedom, yet also fleshed him out as a character.

No, not even close. To even bring up that as an argument proves you just don't get it, and that it is unlikely you will. A hypothetical "MachineGames Duke", even if it would be enjoyable on its own, would be a complete failure as a Duke sequel. Objectively.

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Actually, it kind of does, if the most philogynistic thing you can do in a Duke Nukem game is not kill the women. :lol:

...the same argument used to claim Half-Life supported killing security guards. It is a shooter – that's the extent of how you can interact with almost anything in the game. You shoot or you don't. Not doing something is not the same as doing something. Giving you the choice to not do something is not the same as encouraging you doing so.
You do get punished, albeit not very severly, for killing the women, even if by accident. If they wanted to reward it they would spawn ammo or health or reveal a secret area or level, and they don't. They simply give you the ability to kill or destroy pretty much anything.

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Again, if the only interactions Duke is allowed to have with women is to either treat them as sex objects or to kill them, then it is entirely fai r to perceive the game and the character as misogynistic.

It might be fair to ask the question, but not definitely to perceive. I could give you "objectifying", but not misogynistic. But "objectification" in games is a really tricky matter as games are not books, games are not movies and games are not real life. Games doesn't really have characters the way books of movies do – it has game pawns with a face painted on them. In a sense, putting images of people in games is always objectifying, but by deciding that problematic you end up with something like the old islamic ban against "picturing God's creation", only abstract games would be non-problematic.

But you're not even really given the option to treat them as sex objects. You don't get to rape women stuck in walls – although they totally should do that for the next Duke game. :lol:
But really, the whole stripper bit is a silly bit of unexpected interactivity, almost an easter egg, not dissimilar to the interactive feces in DNF (no further comparison). It's not a statement on women, their worth or what role they should have in society; because it is not a statement, political or otherwise.

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Moreover, I do not think it is even a good idea to allow the player to enact their violent fantasies against sex workers in the first place, as it trivialises the real-life epidemic of violence against sex workers, who due to the nature of their work cannot even turn to law enforcement for help. It is no surprise that the latters have been behind calls to boycott the Grand Theft Auto series among other things.

Your opinion, like I think the use of the term "sex worker" is problematic, stated as fact. It could also be claimed that GTA brought attention to that kind of violence. None of this is obvious one way or the other.

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View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 12:31 PM, said:

You cannot be neutral on a moving train; if you live in a misogynistic world and you do not do anything to challenge it, then you are at the very least complicit in maintaining it.


He's fighting the alien invasion and killing the aliens who are doing bad things to women and people in general! Anyway, it's a simple shooting game, what do you expect him to do, stop and give a speech about equal rights?


View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 12:31 PM, said:

No. Duke Nukem shows absolutely no concern for their safety and well-being. The game itself does not even punish you for allowing them to get hurt so much as it spawns extra monsters to fight; since the game's entire gameplay revolves around fighting monsters, it actually feels more like an incentive to kill them!


Why should the game punish you? It seems that you have lost track of what we are arguing about. I never said that a player could not act in a misogynistic way and decide to kill women in the game. I'm only arguing that Duke in DN3D is not necessarily misogynistic -- nothing about the story or his default interactions should lead one to that conclusion. It leaves room for interpretation, in other words. I can understand why someone would suspect him, though.

View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 12:31 PM, said:

Again, no. When you come across people in need of assistance, you try to help them; you do not just ignore them or shoot them dead because you think they are better off that way. If you want Duke Nukem to come across as caring about the alien captives, you have to show him doing so, like Duke Nukem 64 did by making them rescuable. It really does not reflect well on Duke Nukem's character that his slightly better attitude had to be the result of Nintendo's censorship.


This is a very strange complaint, because it's obvious that DN3D has a dark tone and in that game there is nothing Duke can do to help them. When they say "kill me" this is a reference to Aliens where the infested humans cannot be saved. The clear implication is that the captured babes are beyond help (at least, given Duke's lack of medical facilities/knowledge). Killing them in that case may in fact be the right thing to do, although the player is not forced to. The Nintendo version is a happier, lighter game because of the added feature, but that has no bearing on whether the original is misogynistic.


View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 12:31 PM, said:

We do get to see how both he and the game treat them in "extraordinary" situations, i.e. as objects. Therefore, there is no reason to believe Duke Nukem would treat them any better in normal situations.


I honestly don't know what you are referring to here. Everything in that simple game is a fucking object of some sort. It's a simple shooter from 1996. I was only pointing out that he never gets an opportunity to interact with a woman who is not a sex worker or hopeless captive, so we don't get to see how he acts around women in normal situations.


View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 12:31 PM, said:

Not an excuse. Nobody forced 3d Realms to put those NPCs there in the first place.


It's a fantasy world. You shouldn't assume that it's a reflection of how the developers want the world to be.


View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 12:31 PM, said:

I would argue that it is you who is filling the blanks with excuses to make the character come across as less shitty towards women. You might as well tell me that in your headcanon, Doomguy is actually a well-adjusted pacifist who shoot demons to free their souls so that they can escape Hell and go to Heaven! :lol:


No, I'm saying that he is open to interpretation as to his attitudes towards women in DN3D. He might be an OK guy, he might be a douche. Then DNF answers that question and makes him out to be a douche.

View Postjohnnythewolf, on 05 April 2019 - 12:31 PM, said:

Duke Nukem is a fictional character; as such, whatever he does outside of the game's diegesis is irrelevant. If the developers decided that his only interactions with women in Duke Nukem 3D would be to tip mindless sex workers and be able to get away with killing captives, then it is entirely fair to perceive those as the extent of the character's relationship with women. No amount of fanfiction on the player's behalf is going to change that - unless of course the developers adopt it, which they do not - and you should not be shaming me into going through the same mental gymnastics as you did.


This isn't about fanfiction or mental gymnastics. It's a very simple point. Maybe an analogy will help. Suppose the game starred a woman, and the only human males were male strippers/prostitutes and impregnated male captives. And let's say she acts towards them just as Duke does. Would it be fair for me to conclude that she hates men? No, it would not. It just so happens that she's a horny woman who appreciates the attention of the male strippers, and who can't do anything to help the impregnated men. You see, there is no mental gymnastics required. Is it possible that she hates men? Certainly. Is that implied by the game? No.
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View PostTrooper Dan, on 05 April 2019 - 02:11 PM, said:

It's a fantasy world. You shouldn't assume that it's a reflection of how the developers want the world to be.

I think its safe to assume 3D Realms did not desire the real world to be invaded by hostile aliens. :lol:
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