How would you bring back Duke Nukem for the modern audience?
I wouldn't.Better he stays dead than be ruined by spiteful leftist goblins.
>>738222134This, I just replay zero hour from time to time
>>738221985By disregarding the "modern" "audience" entirely and going full testosterone unhinged
>duke nukem says trans rights
>>738222247The new first person mod for it is coolhttps://youtu.be/68jlcBxNCR8?si=J5woCkhQdoO_Ha1p
by telling the modern audience to blow it out their busted asses
>>738221985There was a time when he'd have to say "I'm here to kick a soccer ball and listen to a kween slay explaining why capitalism is bad, and I'm all out of soccer balls." Right now it would be best to mostly just keep it exactly the same and accept some people won't like that.
>it just one of those 'cozy' games where dukes enjoyes his retirement by mowing his lawn on his one billion dollar mansion, drinking beer, smoking stoogies, and having bbq by a pool with his family consisting of other hot/handsome sucesfull children and wifes
I would hire Hugo Martin to do the gameplay (a mix of Doom Eternal and Dark Ages) and I would hire James Gunn to do the writing. Mainly because I think Peacemaker is cut from the same cloth.
>>738223120>Hugo Martin to do the gameplay (a mix of Doom Eternal and Dark Ages) and I would hire James Gunn to do the writingwhat a terrible idea
Duke Nukem for the modern audience would basically be PC Principle from South Parkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvc1nxlJb-o
bring him back to his sidescroller rootsactually de-emphasize the parody elements and importantly don't go douche nukem 2011 mode
>>738223238Gunn wrote and contributed a lot of ideas to Lollipop Chainsaw too. He isn't just DC Comics Man.
>>738222662This>use the eduke32 engine>hire some modders/mappers from the Duke 3D community>three new episodes>all new weapons and enemies>same DukeThat's how I'd do it.
>>738223467Good for LP but Duke Nukem isn't LP. And Gunn sucks, he only had a pass for novelty with that marvel movie
>>738223547Alright. What about David Zucker then? The scary movie guy? Duke 3d is mainly media references anyway.
>>738223725No. None, you don't need writers for something like Duke Nukem.
>>738222134Cant have a thread about anything, even a dead 30 year old franchise, without you retards bringing this shit up
>>738223467I do not think Gunn could resist the urge to make the premise a parody of itself, when it was already meant to be a parody of action movie flicks from the 80s and early 90s.
>>738221985I don't see them ever risking AAA money on bringing Duke back, so maybe something like Boltgun. Attach some ridiculous but extremely satisfying and reactive "destructible enemies" gunplay gimmick like back in the Soldier of Fortune days.
>>738221985You can't, it came when it was fun to mock action movies. So it's even back then was a dated idea. Boomers tried to genderswap him but it was horrible
>>738221985>modern audience?you don't.
>>738223806yeah, wtf? just have the level designers write the game like the old days. do we really need wannabe esteemed auteurs handling duke goddamn nukem?
>>738221985Have him say fuck niggers
>>738225075You actually want modern gamedevs writing a duke nukem game?Jfc
>>738225075>do we really need wannabe esteemed auteurs?Never. No matter the medium, in fact; kill them in the spot when seen
>>738223828Get a rope tard
>>738221985>How would you bring back Duke Nukem for the modern audience?I would court the CHUD audience, make it extremely offensive to women, gays, and minorities. Then I'd shameless copy DOOM's homework. When IGN gave it a 1/10 for being extremely problematic I'd have my PR department call them a bunch of homos.
>>738222662Him acting exactly how he did in duke 3d in todays world could be funny, telling people bitching about him being problematic to eat shit and die, objectifying women, doing old one liners and references to old action movies...Too bad the current owners of the IP are FUCKING KEKS and will never do anything worthwhile with him
>>738221985A Doom 2016 style reboot with glory kills and weapon switching. Duke is now Duncan Norton, a resistance fighter trying to liberate Earth from the aliens. He doesn't speak at all until the final boss fight against the Cycloid Emperor.
>>738223828The point of the thread is Duke Nukem 3D is not leftist and there's a real fear that any sequel would try to be farther left but go too far in that direction.
>>738222134They already ruined him. That ugly Italian cuck "voice impressionist" and John St John has destroyed his legacy.
>>738223828Culture has to heal before we can have cool shit like the Duke again, I don't know what other answer you were expecting.
>>738223120You are a vile human being.
>>738221985>How would you bring back Duke NukemBy removing Randy Pitchford from the face of the planet.
>>738221985A new Duke game would signal the definitive death of wokeism and we're not quite there yet.
>>738221985Duke Nukem 3D 2. It's that fucking simple.
>>738222340Neat, I love ZH.
>>738221985Goold?
>>738221985nothing. people like old school shit
>>738221985The backstory for Duke Nukem 2 is Duke was a former special forces couch potato. His constant one-liners and pop culture references are because he watches a lot of TV.I don't think you could update that. People don't watch TV anymore, there isn't a monoculture so people get the references, and 80s action movies were literally 40 years ago at this point.You'd have to keep duke a dinosaur, but after he borrows a catchphrase he can start to mutate and be self referentialExample, Duke is shooting shit on a movie lot resembling the wizard of ozShoots some dude>I don't think you'e in kansas anymoreLater in the script>I don't think I'm in vegas anymore
>>738222340NIGGA WHATbless you
Fill him up with hip current lingo like "bazingles!!" like the sheldor man from the television. BAZOOPER.
>>738222134>>738227162the solution is make him a macho man who is classpilled.
>>738232650>modernThose lines are older now than the timeframe between Duke 3D and its lines.
>>738232780Zimbawe.
>>738222134fpbp
i am literally one of those kids being blown away by the radical energy of my screen from a 90s game ad rn holy shit this is cool as hell
>>738233406>Tell my wife...I...love her...
>>738232660>Those alien bastards are gonna pay for profiting off of my labor.I love Duke Nurx.
>>738221985Literally just reboot him identically to the 90s. Given how much praise the trailers for He Man, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat 2 are getting just by being the same, it's impossible to lose with this strategy.
The last good Duke Nukem game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8zUTGkG_I
>>738223828Its the fucking truth you retarded faggot.
>>738233803Zero Hour and Manhattan Project came after and both are better.
>>738234068
Boomer shooters are in vogue right now so that would work.
>>738221985put him in Chicago killing niggers>"Black Lives Splatter"
>>738234210TtK is still in the trifecta of good post Duke3D games but ZH and MP are better overall.
>>738222134Yeah I for one am OK with franchises just fucking ending instead of trundling on forever. You don't need Douk to have a classic FPS about blowing away aliens as a macho one-liner-spewing action-hero
>>738234331>Hehehe, things are about to get...bananas
>>738222134Fpbp, Zoomers don't deserve this kino.Same goes for James Bond, let him sleep a decade or two more until the Zoomers are out-of-touch uncs that we can legally lynch for being fucking faggots.
>>738221985Honestly I think they MASSIVELY overdid him being a megalomaniac and full of himself in forever.What id do-reboot where hes less well known.-hardass, no bullshit, purely objective oriented. Extremely abrasive but gets shit done.-others kinda dislike him for being a dick except he gets shit done-likes women but isn't beyond fucking their shit up if he gets in their way. Won't hesitate to shoot a girl if she's a threat.-kinda becomes an avatar of impulsive dickhead on downtime, but absolutely monsterous fighter who isn't discomforted or scared off, so hes tolerated-his methods explicitly cut red tape, break laws, break shit, but results are hard to argue with even if it leaves a mess people resent him over I really think there's something there for that . The megalomaniac shit was shit, but the idea of a guy who you KNOW is like a bull in a china shop but WILL get results is a trope not done enough.And I don't mean JUST impulsive heros, but explicitly they win BECAUSE they are able and willing to do insane shit that gets results but also leaves people screaming....like saving the president from a raid, from the Chinese while also blowing up a wing of the Whitehouse.Kinda hard to be mad, but you're still mad
The movie Demolition Man is essentially a blueprint for the plot of a modern Duke Nukem.The world becomes gay and lame, they can't do anything when a real threat appears, they have to bring back Duke, Duke makes fun everyone and everything for being gay and lame and soft and pussified, fucks all the sexually unsatisfied bitches, kills the invading aliens, saves the earth.
>>738221985I wouldn't change much. He kils aliens, cracks one liners and fucks bitches. Maybe add a Bulletstorm inspired style system to the kills.
>>738234867This guy fucking gets it. That focus on everyone else is pussies, and not just whiny bitch pussies, but beholden to rules so much and he breaks rules for good and says "gonna stop me faggot?, no ? Fuck off".I also think having some other flavors of misogyny would be good, like imagine him choking out a bull dyke female commander fucking shit up. Hes ABSOLUTELY commiting treason on a technical level, but nobody is going to shoot their best chance either.Another thought, the idea if him having a nuke molar from his earlier games is cool and I feel that could be expanded on... stealing top secret growth serums and using them just because while govt is SCREAMING "duke you fucking asshole thats a 20 million dollar project" and he just says "money well spent". Body mods for a knife hidden inside a rib, or capsules of roids hidden in his bones, so if he purposely breaks a select bone, he gets a drug boost... even the idea of a nuke molar would be hilarious to watch play out if he steals nuclear material, and forces a dentist to install it at gun point, while also holding police back at gun point, no pain killers just pure fafo energy.We really need a character who really embraces the whole "toxic masculinity", shit, but its also justified, even if he leaves people shaken everywhere he goes. A character who will tel literally anyone they are full of shit, and do anything to get the job done.That isn't done enough, I guess serious sam 3 kinda did it when sam blows up the sphynx. I want a whole game of that energy, people both dreading working with him, and reluctantly encouraging him because hes a double edge sole hope.
>>738234867I'd play it
Apocalypse civilization sim based off the ending of land of the babes.
>>738221985Dial everything up to 11 and sell it as a parody.I would then include absolutely no elements of satire, and at the end of the game Duke would look directly at the player and say that it’s ok to have fun sometimes, and that you don’t have to act like someone you aren’t for people who will always hate you anyway.
>>738236828>every girl starts off pregnant with a Duke baby
>>738222134NOOONOOOOOWHY ARE YOU GATEKEEPING? WE WON'T GET TO CONSOOOM IF YOU GATEKEEP!!@
>>738221985>fun platformer>gets made into bad 2D fps>lines ripped off from good movies>zoomers born in 1982 are like "HE SAYS SUCH COOL STUFF">"YOU CAN BLOW UP TOILETS"Why does it need to come back?
>>738221985>modern audienceBlow it out your ass
>>738237009>zoomers born in 1982
>>738222134The modding/mapping community continues to make amazing Duke content to this day.
>>738221985Sticking with the old duke wouldnt be enough. Let him channel a mix of tate, clav, fresh and some other faggot with a podcast idk. Keep the world straight as he nukemaxxes to save it.
>>738237148>I'll call anyone older than me a boomer>BUT ACKSHUALLY, ZOOMERS WERE BORN BETWEEN THESE SPECIFIC YEARS, GET IT RITE GUSY
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>>738237196>Keep the world straight as he nukemaxxes to save it.Then maybe he should channel a straight man instead of those ones you listed.
>buy Douk>do nothing with himWhat was Randy's goal here?
>>738234560>implying the gen alpha algorithm rAIsed retards can lynch zoomers
I don't get the notion that what the modern audience wants is really any different from what the old audience wanted. Shit blowing up, cheesy one liners, environmental interactivity, some fanservice, gore. Just with modern graphics and modern controls and modern physics.Standards didn't change all that much. Maybe you could do kind of a meta joke where you give Duke a comic relief rival who, to contrast his corny 80's action movie persona, is an annoying, quippy Chris Pratt type. Ideally, he'd be violently dismembered by the end.
He dies in the first five minutes and you spend the rest of the game playing as a gay black trans muslim.
>>738221985I wouldn't because it's always been reddit coded garbage
>>738223120>Duke nukem by hugo martin>COME GET SOME ITS TIME TO KILL THE TRANNY ALIEN MIND THAT LOOKS LIKE THE CYBORG ANGELS OF POOP ETERNAL>Hogman With edgy gladiator armor enter the arena.mp4>*SQUEAK* DUKE SLAYAH ILL NEVER FORGET WHEN YOU FUCKED MY BITCH AND LEFT THE ORDER PREPARE TO DIE> TIP SCREEN: SHOOT ONLY WHEN PIG SQUEAK AND HIS EYES ARE RED LIKE FLARE OTHERWISE YOU CANT DO SHIT, YOU CANT MAKE IT SMALL, USE PIPE BOMBS TO BYPASS ITS MEDIEVAL SHIELD OR FREEZE WITH YOUR SPECIAL GUNS ENJOY
>>738238050But enough about metal gay solid 2 anyway
>>738237369trying to be the guy that finished duke nukem forever
Make an open world soulslike survival rpg with crafting mechanics and a collectible cardgame.
>>738233803it has a cool intro but its just tomb raider reskinned i liked the western level tho
>>738240229You know anon I think you're onto something
>>738224172>Boomers tried to genderswap himWhere what when?
>>738232303This anon gets it. Trying to "modernize" Duke is like trying to unspoil milk. He's a product of his time by design. Imagine Duke spouting off TikTok memes.
>>738240415i think it refer to that bombshell game but it was barely a baddie blondie bitch for being a "genderswap"
>>738221985I wouldn’t, I would either make it exactly as it was (barring Forever) and then just ignore what cunts on social media say.
>>738221985I would make a 2D side scroller duke nukem game for the laughs
>>738240475dook going >6 7 would unironically make me laugh because it'd just be so absurd
>>738232303>Duke is just Gex + DOOMgrim
>>738240705Gex, but not voiced by someone funny.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3mB-tmxBZ8
>>738221985Have him make fun of legally distinct "Mandy" Pitchford in the trailer. Then have a pig cop placing a knee on a civilian and Duke blows them both up with an RPG and he says "Duke brutality". The civilian is white so there is plausible deniability but you know what it is.
>>738223120>I would hire James Gunn to do the writingDoesn't mean he'll transition well over to games. That said, I'd trust him to do a Duke movie. At least more so than I'd trust most hollywood fucks.
>>738241298Duke wouldn't willingly kill a civilian.
>>738241468One thing I really liked about the N64 version of Duke was the fact that you could actually rescue the babes traped in slime.
>>738221985Don't try to bring Duke Nukem into the "modern" era. At its core it's a parody of 80s and 90s action movies and they really need to embrace that. Set it back in the crazy 90s vision of the future basically.
>>738241468Okay then he says "all pig cops are bad" and the pig cop is shown being sentenced to 22 and half years on prison by an Octobrain. Happy now.
>>738222315>>738221985i would do the same. basically what Rockstar games did in the past when thay had balls. a Duke Nukem like this would trigger so many retards and journalists, it would increase popularity and sales
>>738221985I wouldn'tHe was very much a caricature of action shit of his time. Making a modern version would be garbage.
Duke Nukem is owned by Gearbox, the same guys who wrote those pozzed Borderlands games.So if they gave him a new game they'd probably make him like pic-related which is not a meme it is a real quote from a Borderlands game. These are the people in charge of the Duke Nukem IP now.
>>738242615Here's your new 2026 approved Duke Nukem bros.
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>>738241468Autism
>>738221985He should be black and fight Racism (white piggus), jokes about babes stay though
>>738221985He's like Austin Powers but buff. There. You have your franchise.
>>738222134yeah they would make an anime adaptation like Castlevania or DMC where Duke is a pussy bitch. Just let him rest in peace
you couldnt do duke in todays woke as fuck tranny climate.I was play testing a duke revival game and the faggots working on it snuck in woke humour everywhere.Projects like this attract trannies that just want to sabotage it.I remember one project a tranny snuck on the team and starting adding rants about racism or some such off topic woke shit in the alpha game and the other devs found out and removed it
>>738223828What did you expect? There's a clear, obvious reason on why it's dead and buried.
>>738222134Make him Black and roughly the stereotypical versial of that concept spouting the n word and being more rude than white Duke.
>>738222134This I was glad when the kotor reboot was aborted
>>738234867Might as well call it MAGA the game.
incredible how hard 3d realms dropped the ball with forever and lost rights to the franchise. its not like they were hacks who never made good games, and 2001 dnf looked awesome and they got a good of amount of work done on it but just didnt finish it or the version right afterwards. they should be ashamed of themselves.
>>738235246>tdlrDuke is unironically the biggest pussy in video games because he's a Obama support and he's a exaggerated American white man who makes fun of others without being self aware he's a joke of overcompensating white dudes trying to be the chadest thing ever
>>738234867>>738235246>finds out smoking is illegal in the future>this is completely intolerable to him
>>738245803>tdsshut the fuck up retard
>>738246404>Duke when someone tells him he can't smoke here
>>738221985Fuck the modern audience. I would just keep him as is and keep the boomer shooter aeathetic without trying to be too different.
>>738247010But if it's demolition man, he wakes up and there aren't any cigars to be found.Meaning that he immediately goes on a cigar odyssey
Obligatoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvL-WGcoBis
