DNF Review Dust Up

[Jun 15, 2011, 09:53 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

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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Jun 15, 2011, 15:15

Teddy

yonder wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 14:35: 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. I'm not offended by the humor. I'm simply not amused by it. That's the problem. I would say this needs to be compared to something relevant. Take South Park for example. They use over the top, unapologetic, juvenile humor, but the difference is, they have a point behind all their jokes while DNF does not. It's the difference between satire and flat shock humor that's only 'offensive' for the sake of being 'offensive'.

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