Jblade, on 31 October 2015 - 12:15 AM, said:
I don't think Duke was intended to be a satire honestly, I think he WAS made as the all American hero
I'd say he's a bit of both, satire and homage. Like he said in the interview, the game was never supposed to be too serious. Duke is a genuinely badass hero character, but he's also a funny character, and that he embodies those cliches so much in an over-the-top way, I think satire is a decent word to describe it. At the very least the game itself has a satirical tone, or a comedic one at least, with the pig cops, aliens stealing our babes, all that fun stuff. Though it has serious stuff as well, women who say "kill me" like in that Alien deleted scene etc. But overall the funner side wins out in Duke 3D in my opinion.
But as with the DNF stuff you mention later, which I disagree with, we've all discussed the tone of the Duke series a lot before and it is a bit subjective I guess, since the imagination is used to fill in some of the gaps of Duke 3D's world.
Not to make another topic about the ol' what should a next Duke game be like topic, but while it would be good to be less completely comedic than DNF, it also shouldn't be completely serious. But if Duke doesn't have satire in his DNA, he can't use parody law as an excuse to use all those movie lines, and they may have to remove them from Duke 3D.