Duke Nukem Forever

At the time this game came out it was judged by the contemporary standard of gaming.

Now that we have seen where games have gone, this is nothing but a breath of fresh air and nostalgia for times long gone.

HAIL TO THE KING!!!!

Was it good Duke? The game, I mean. Yeah, but after 12 years it better be!
Hail to the king baby! I love this game and I really wish Duke would get some more screen time. The classic alpha male boomer shooter reboot was awesome to me when it came out, and still fun for this most recent play through. Nice mix of puzzles, driving stages, classic Duke humor, and blasting the crap out of aliens.
Maybe it's just me but I feel like a good joke never dies. So it's weird seeing people complain of "outdated humor". Like I don't even understand what that means. Jokes are only funny for a short shelf life? I don't have an attention span that can be measured in nano seconds, so I still find the references and memes they packed in to be hilarious.
I had a great time playing this again and I truly hope more Duke games come around some day!

i dont care what anyone says this game made my dick grow by 6 inches with all the testosterone its a great game

I don't understand the hate that this game got when it was first released.
I played and finished it for the first time in 2024 and it was actually pretty decent! Graphics are decent for the time, gameplay is not too bad. (its actually a bit similar to Half Life 2 in a sense)
It's a bit silly and over the top at times but it's just an entertaining game. Very refreshing if you're sick of the politically correct world that we live in now.

Liked it, not as good as classic Duke Nukem 3D and it's expansions. Sad the saga seems ending with this title.... Hope we can get more Duke in the future.

Yeah, this game is no where near as good as Duke Nukem 3D, but I don't think it's as bad as everyone says it is. Outside of the dated graphics and humor, the game is alright. There's still a lot of environmental interactivity, you can increase your health in various ways, and many Duke 3D enemies and weapons return. The shooting is actually kinda fun, I liked weapons like the shotgun and the shrinker, many Duke 3D enemies like the Assault Troopers, Octabrains and Pigcops return with many of them being not changed that much, and I think most of them are satisfying to kill. The game often has puzzles and driving sections that serve as distractions from the combat and I didn't care much for them. Boss fights suck since the bosses can easily kill you and there's no checkpoints between boss phases. So you fought the final boss and you die in the last phase? Too bad, you are sent to the beginning of the fight.
Duke Nukem Forever is not really a bad game imo, just alright. The combat is actually fun and the minigames are fun especially if you play them to get health boosts. But then the bad boss fights, the sections that distract you from the combat and other things bog the experience down.
7/10

Maybe my misogynistic male mind can't comprehend what's so bad or problematic about Duke Nukem Forever. I just found it funny. Nobody seems to be happy with this game, neither the boomers who wanted a shooter nor the essayists for whom Duke isn't queer-coded enough. Seeing Duke discussed as a serious character is an undelivered joke in itself. Mate, he's named Duke Nukem.
This game, being a repository of dead memes, probably came out a decade too soon (yes, even after all that time). In 2011 the way Duke responded to the Holsom twins' fate made him a psychopath; today it would make him a sigma male. The satirical elements are ready to catch on now in a way that even the people who wrote them didn't intend.
There are major flaws. My main complaints are that the gunplay is de-emphasized in favour of platforming and puzzles I don't gib a hecc about, and that the game is slightly too long for my zoomer attention span. The textures are very muddy and focusing makes everything super blurry (my headcanon is that Duke is developing myopia, as this romanticizes him greatly - fighting to save the world despite his failing vision). On the plus side, the game is crammed full of detail and variety.
I thought this game was a bit of all right. It has the three basic virtues of heavy metal, hot chicks and manly fighting. I don't see where the obsessive hate for it comes from, but then again I was born after Duke 3D and got on with my life, instead of apparently spending every day waiting at 3D Realms' door like the dads for whom this game was the ultimate betrayal.
Don't cry because it's joever, Dukesisters, smile because it was barack.