Hahah… ohh boy. I could go anywhere with this post. So, this thing started trending on Twitter that Gearbox ‘wants another Duke Nukem game’. They’re even trying to find a new development team to do it and have even made concept art for those “lucky” devs that decide to do it. .. Ahah.. good luck to them.
Seriously, wasn’t Duke Nukem Forever an embarrassment enough to Gearbox? Personally, I liked the game. Didn’t love it, just liked. It’s almost if they’re trying to say to the gaming public: “Yeah, yeah… Duke Nukem Forever sucked. But we’re not done with Duke! We can make him better! Stronger! Even more full of himself! And we know JUST how to do it! We’ll find another development team to make the new game!! *insane publisher moment here*”
Gearbox’s CEO states how this “new Duke” would be “3 to 4 times more popular than the Borderlands franchise”…
3 to 4 times more famous than the Borderlands franchise, huh? Unlikely. Duke’s legacy is just that; a legacy. He doesn’t need to become FrankenDuke for us to like him again. That ship has sailed (and crashed into an iceburg).
This would be one of those “I’ll believe it when I see it” moments in gaming. In ways, I would actually like to see what whoever takes the job, actually uses technology that gamers demand.