Zaxx, on 24 April 2019 - 06:05 AM, said:
Well, I would not be so sure about them just being "a few", but yeah, you summarise their tendency to miss the forest for the trees pretty well...
Anyway, I have been thinking about what the next Duke Nukem game could be , and if Gearbox does not feel like doing anything really extravagant, they could always build on The Doctor Who Cloned Me. Of course, it definitely was not great in terms of gameplay due to being just extra content for Duke Nukem Forever, and it felt like the developers had taken two entirely different games worth of plot - the Dr. Proton's plan to create a Dukeinator army and the Aliens on the Moon - and crammed it into one short DLC. However, in terms of set pieces, humour and Duke Nukem's characterisation, I thought it was mostly alright: the Serious Sam-esque gags (e.g. Duke infiltrating the Dukeinator Training Center by posing as himself, him carrying a shrunken Captain Dylan around and using him to unlock doors, the gang escaping the base in a school bus, etc.) were all pretty amusing and I still find the idea of a shrunken Duke Nukem having to visit a day care center to get a vehicle to be a hilarious stroke of genius as well as a fun, little detail in terms of worldbuilding.
And to be fair to Duke Nukem Forever in general, the Shrunken Duke sequences were in general among the best parts of the game in terms of creativity, so much that I would also be okay if the next game could ditch the classic FPS gameplay in favour of one focused all around exotic weaponry. Heck, it could take some cues from The Spy Who Shrunk Me in the ways the Shrink Ray can be used: