I just found the whole dick this, dick that (wasn't "dicktits" in it?) and shit like "murderboner", especially how it was delivered, to be grating
Usually I don't really dig this kind of humor either, but for whatever reason it clicked for me in Bulletstorm and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.
I just found the whole dick this, dick that (wasn't "dicktits" in it?) and shit like "murderboner", especially how it was delivered, to be grating
Usually I don't really dig this kind of humor either, but for whatever reason it clicked for me in Bulletstorm and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.
From what I remember, it's immature without being grossly sexist.
That's one Dead Space marine [reference to Isaac Clarke, Dead Space's main character and is also an allusion to a classic line from Duke Nukem 3D in reference to Doom.]
I just found the whole dick this, dick that (wasn't "dicktits" in it?) and shit like "murderboner", especially how it was delivered, to be grating
Usually I don't really dig this kind of humor either, but for whatever reason it clicked for me in Bulletstorm and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.
From what I remember, it's immature without being grossly sexist.
It also mocked itself pretty regularly
Like
I'll kill your dick is followed by an argument about what the fuck that actually means
The bit about the copy protection making the game "buggy" to the point of it being unplayable made me chuckle a bit, since I've heard a bunch of complaints about that from legit customers
what if those aren't bugs, but the copy protection gone wrong?
To me this has always felt like the natural end point of all those "hilarious" copy protection schemes that make the game unwinnable in some way
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Also Duke Nukem formed in a time where riffing on tough guy action movies and making pop culture references wasn't yet beaten into a smoking crater in the ground, and it felt relatively fresh as a result.
The problem comes when,
A) You don't or can't change that formula to keep up with the changes in the video game landscape, pop culture, and society at large
The creators drank the Kool Aid, and instead of Duke being a ridiculous lampooning of these tough guy action heroes, they think he actually is the toughest and coolest guy around
I heard there were a lot of translation issues with Bulletstorm.
yeah I remember seeing an article fairly recently to that effect
something about it basically being written by non-native speakers and there are so many swears because they thought it sounds funnier that way?
See, my assumption would be that it's a tough game to translate out of English
Given that a lot of the humor is derived from fucking with hyper-specific turns of phrase, or of intentional misuse of profanity, it seems like it'd be rough to get that into another language
Bulletstorm seemed like a cool game I never got around to playing, and I've always loved Duke Nukem, so I'll probably go ahead and preorder this remake for sure
"Do you know any swear word in a foreign language?" he asked. "German, French, Polish? When you say it out loud, no biggie, right? Not a problem to use it during a family dinner, I assume?
"That is how all the f-bombs sounded to us. Being Polish, all the strong language in Bulletstorm was just exotic and fun to us. We did not feel its power. In other words, Epic thought this is what we wanted and respected our creative vision, while we had no idea this vision was a bit more than we really wanted.
"It was only at the end of the development, when I read the Polish translation of the game, that I realized how dirty we were. I swear a lot. A LOT. And yet still I… kind of blushed."
This RPS review of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun makes it sound 1,000% my jam, holy cow
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun [official site] awakens a genre that has been in deep hibernation for more than a decade. Its foe-festooned levels navigated and depopulated with the help of a cadre of five stealthy, player-controlled death-dealers, might be set in Edo period Japan, but the wonderful memories they stir are pure Old West and WW2. It’s blindingly obvious that the developers Mimimi have played an awful lot of Commandos 2: Men of Courage and Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive.
I'd not heard of the game at all, and now I'm gonna snap it up the second it comes out.
I dunno how you make Duke Nukem work nowadays aside from completely reworking that character
quippy ultramacho action hero doesn't play terribly well anymore
I think that's what you have to do, yes
Or at least reframe it so he's still the same dude, but the world around him isn't built to glorify that
Maybe it's like a Doomguy thing in the new DOOM, where they know Duke is the best at stopping alien invasions, but boy, do they wish they could have kept him asleep
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I dunno how you make Duke Nukem work nowadays aside from completely reworking that character
quippy ultramacho action hero doesn't play terribly well anymore
shadow warrior / shadow warrior 2 does an okay job with it
essentially everyone in the universe knows that the player character is an awful pervert and makes the worst jokes, but also has some respect for him as a dude who can get shit done
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Usually I don't really dig this kind of humor either, but for whatever reason it clicked for me in Bulletstorm and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.
Ugh
From what I remember, it's immature without being grossly sexist.
I mean if you played it at roughly the time in your life that I did you were what, 8 or 9?
That is precisely the window for that humour. Go easy on yourself.
I remember when I was ~9 or so, telling my older brother
"I'll Rip Your Head Off And Shit Down Your Neck"
hoping that would intimidate him
and he just looked kind of perplexed as he smacked me upside the head
Did they put in an ending this time?
Like
I'll kill your dick is followed by an argument about what the fuck that actually means
I used to have Duke Nukem action figures boy let me tell you how deep that shit went for young impressionable Z.
yeah I remember seeing an article fairly recently to that effect
something about it basically being written by non-native speakers and there are so many swears because they thought it sounds funnier that way?
To me this has always felt like the natural end point of all those "hilarious" copy protection schemes that make the game unwinnable in some way
The problem comes when,
A) You don't or can't change that formula to keep up with the changes in the video game landscape, pop culture, and society at large
AND THEY WERE RIGHT
Oh man I forgot they were doing this
Full Throttle is so cool and good god I hope they changed the bunny minefield thing because it sucks
See, my assumption would be that it's a tough game to translate out of English
Given that a lot of the humor is derived from fucking with hyper-specific turns of phrase, or of intentional misuse of profanity, it seems like it'd be rough to get that into another language
because normally I wouldn't care for that kind of dialogue?
But in Bulletstorm it just worked
They commit very, very hard to their aesthetic and you're either going to come with them for the ride from the word go or you won't
he once refers to the asian character as having 'slanty devil-eyes' and I was like holy shit dude
(Legend of Grimrock 2) (Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen) (Mordheim: City Of The Damned)
It's the only game where I've watched the Monster Factory video and gone "I gotta play that game"
Thanks a lot!
I'd not heard of the game at all, and now I'm gonna snap it up the second it comes out.
I actually think Bulletstorm could be the perfect vehicle for that, too
quippy ultramacho action hero doesn't play terribly well anymore
I think that's what you have to do, yes
Or at least reframe it so he's still the same dude, but the world around him isn't built to glorify that
Maybe it's like a Doomguy thing in the new DOOM, where they know Duke is the best at stopping alien invasions, but boy, do they wish they could have kept him asleep
shadow warrior / shadow warrior 2 does an okay job with it
essentially everyone in the universe knows that the player character is an awful pervert and makes the worst jokes, but also has some respect for him as a dude who can get shit done