Lots Of Games Are Discounted By 90% On Xbox This Weekend (February 7-10)

Duke Nukem is a steal at that price. What a classic. I often wonder how he would be taken in today's climate 😅

£1.59 is insane for Duke 3D.

One of the GOAT of all time classic shooters. Go get it or I'll rip off your head and ***** down your neck!

Seeing the Duke Nukem pic really makes me want the 2D games.

@Banjo- That infamous game wasn't that bad. Played it back in day on release. Felt dated, sure. But if like Duke, I'd recommend.

@GuyinPA75 Thank you. I haven't played any Duke Nukem.game, but my father had the old Doom games and that's what I played.

@Isolte 🤣🤣🤣

It just wouldn't fit at all would it? I think Duke Nukem Forever made it just in time before the world went mad. Any longer in development hell and christ, it'd have been pushed from pillar to post.

Even just the "wanna dollar" would be ridiculed to kingdom come 🤣 Not only that, but I don't even think a DN game that pokes fun at the current society norms would make it through. Shame though, I always loved the enemy designs and the likes.

Does anyone happen to know whether there is a complete / up to date edition of Destiny 2, @FraserG? One with all the content?

@Kaloudz Shame the online doesn't work.

@shoeses For Duke? I haven't tried it. I do miss a classic MP FPS.

@Isolte @Kaloudz Comments like these always puzzle me because we have no shortage of violence in gaming; it's as violent as ever, yet that's not an issue.

Then we have games like Stellar blade which got most of its attention due to Eve's ass and her various outfits.

GTA6 is likely to be raunchy as hell, and that's likely be GOTY and sell 100M+ in no time.

Maybe I'm just the oddball in that I can separate reality from fantasy; don't act like or treat real people in real life like how some of these games depict their worlds. *Shocking * 🤯🤷‍♂️
To me I think the perception that another Duke or raunchy Saints Row would fail doesn't quite match reality. 🧐

*And for the record I enjoyed the Saints Row reboot from a gameplay perspective, at least as a co-op game w/ my friend, as we'd done with 3 and 4.

@EVIL-C When was the last time you played Duke Nukem? Lol. It's about as chauvinistic and objectifying as a game character can get. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore Duke Nukem (apart from DN Forever, that game can kick rocks) but there's no way he's ever coming back due to society norms these days.

It'd be shot down before you could even blink at the green-light page. There's no way in hell that AC Shadows gets belted for a black samurai and a broken torii gate, and DN gets off free. I'd love a new DN game (I just maxed out the anniversary edition) but I don't think anyone has the guts to risk it lol.

@Kaloudz Last year, actually. My first game was Duke Nukem 64 from way back when. I adore the Duke series, even Forever I liked which most hated, but it was enjoyable to me. 🤷‍♂️

The AC Shadows thing I'm barely familiar with, at least the Torii gate element. There's some historical evidence for Yasuke maybe being real, maybe fictional, we don't know, but the main point with AC that the vocal online minority forgets is that it's supposed to be historical FICTION.

How relevant is Duke to a lot of audiences these days, if we're being honest? I doubt a lot of younger Gamers even have any idea who the character is. While I don't personally think the blowback would be that big of a deal, especially depending on the form the game takes, but until the publisher grows a pair and announces a new entry, it's open to speculation.
I remember there being a new Leisure Suit Larry game released as recently as 2020, and nobody gave a crap about that, and that series was known for being objectifying and raunchy.

I don't have terminal online social media brain rot, so I don't care about these hollow online controversies. Every side is doing it. It's ridiculous and beyond nauseating. I really couldn't care less. If something looks interesting, I'll check it out.

@EVIL-C I don't have terminal online social media brain rot, so I don't care about these hollow online controversies. Every side is doing it. It's ridiculous and beyond nauseating. I really couldn't care less. If something looks interesting, I'll check it out.

Couldn't agree more.

As for the Torii gate. They released a collector's edition with a one legged torii gate and the internet, for all that they truly care, took offense to it...

Bravo to you for enjoying Forever. I absolutely despised it. It just didn't feel like Duke in the slightest to me, aside the stadium level (which I believe as the first level?). Further, those loading times made Sonic 06 look like lightspeed.

@Kaloudz

Ahhhh I see now. Somebody on that marketing team should have done 5 minutes of research on the electronic Google machine before deciding on that statue design, lol. 😂 But was it worth yet another internet meltdown? No.

Ah yeah the stadium level was definitely awesome. 😁 DNF wasn't great, but it was enough of a novelty and guilty pleasure that I still found enjoyment from it. I'm probably too easy to please, lol.