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DNF Review Dust Up

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Ars Technica has a screenshot of a since-deleted tweet from PR firm The Redner Group with an overt threat about negative reviews of Duke Nukem Forever, saying: "#AlwaysBetOnDuke too many went too far with their reviews...we r reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn't based on today's venom." A follow-up tweet backs off from this and apologizes: "I have to apologize to the community. I acted out of pure emotion. I will be sending each of you a private apology." A pair of subsequent tweets stress that this was Redner acting on its own, and that "2K had nothing to do with this." As of this writing the Metacritic scores for the first-person shooter sequel are 57 for the PC edition, 56 for the Xbox 360 edition, and 48 for the PlayStation 3 edition.

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Re: DNF Review Dust Up

Jun 15, 2011, 14:35

yonder

Stolk wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 12:45: Yes to this. The game can be so juvenile with it's humor and it is so incredibly forced with its bad taste. While not necessarily offensive, I find myself shaking my head at poor humor that takes away from the action and spectacle of the game. I think Duke can continue on with success if they focus less on the vaginas and boobs and one-liners and more on the action and spectacle of a Duke game. I think someone is missing one of the entire founding points of Duke. Part of what SHOULD be the appeal of the game is it's horrible over-the-topness and unapologetic juvenile humor. And I love it for that. This quote (the one above, not mine) pretty much summarizes what's wrong with about 20% of the negative opinions (20% of each opinion). If you're offended by the juvenile idiocy of Duke... that's like being offended by torture in a Saw movie or blood in a zombie movie. Or, to be blunt... you're kinda an idiot.

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Comment [quote="yonder"Jun 15, 2011, 14:35][quote="Stolk"Jun 15, 2011, 12:45]Yes to this. The game can be so juvenile with it's humor and it is so incredibly forced with its bad taste. While not necessarily offensive, I find myself shaking my head at poor humor that takes away from the action and spectacle of the game. I think Duke can continue on with success if they focus less on the vaginas and boobs and one-liners and more on the action and spectacle of a Duke game. [/quote] I think someone is missing one of the entire founding points of Duke. Part of what *SHOULD* be the appeal of the game is it's horrible over-the-topness and unapologetic juvenile humor. And I love it for that. This quote (the one above, not mine) pretty much summarizes what's wrong with about 20% of the negative opinions (20% of each opinion). If you're offended by the juvenile idiocy of Duke... that's like being offended by torture in a Saw movie or blood in a zombie movie. Or, to be blunt... you're kinda an idiot. [/quote]

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