Duke Nukem probably should remain dead imo.
The best game is obviously Duke3D, and it's a product of it's time. By that, I don't mean some far-left Polygon editor pretending it's bad because he saying things that make them cry.
It's a homage to 80/90's action heroes for people who grew up in that time who are now 30 - 40+ years old. Everything about was shortly at or around that time when he could act as an avatar to celebrate the absurdity.
Much like old Doom style titles of quality, it's relatively limitless in its replayability. Something can easily go back to almost yearly.
Randy Pitchford is a well known greasy face soy, with a lost USB stick. Who wears cheap looking shirts, enjoys bonuses and sings songs with so much cringe likely to develop colon cancer within 5 minutes, saying "He would ruin it" would be about several years too late.
The humour and themes doesn't land for younger people like it would back then. They basically dropped all Doom style gameplay for a poor, poor mans Halflife.
Suspect, since they have the licence, and since they want to make money from it regardless, they'll try a soft-reboot where they soften the edges change it thematically where he's basically some low rent Deadpool, or a shitty Borderlands character and spout out shitty SNL humour, rather than repeating thing from the 90s I remember (I clap!).
Like the video game equivalent of the Simpsons where it was perfect for that period of time, but now it needs to put out of its misery.
Can just play something like Bro Force instead if you want your action hero fix. And we now have plenty, plenty of Doom, Hexen, Quake etc.. Inspired games.
Ion Fury is basically a spiritual successor. While it's fun, it does feel like someone on Karaoke than the real thing, hollow when outside that bubble the Duke inhabited.
But yea, just leave it.
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