Alright – Duke’s Gone!

27 responses to “Alright – Duke’s Gone!”

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   Eats-a-Lot

   June 10, 2011 at 3:58 pm

   Seamus wears wigs? Why I never!

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2. 

   Braaains

   June 10, 2011 at 3:58 pm

   He might be gone, but all of Kotaku’s female readers are now pregnant.

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      Qumulys

      June 10, 2011 at 4:04 pm

      Nice!
      Also, I knew you’d be bound and gagged 😉

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         Braaains

         June 10, 2011 at 4:08 pm

         Err… I assume/hope you’re talking about Mark there… 😛

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      Duke-loopa

      June 10, 2011 at 4:06 pm

      And so am i, somehow

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      Strange

      June 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm

      I’m extremely thankful I only checked Kotaku today just as The Duke was leaving…any child of his would probably kick its way out of the womb. Ouch.

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         Duke-loopa

         June 10, 2011 at 4:32 pm

         Placenta-gum?

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3. 

   CJ

   June 10, 2011 at 4:07 pm

   I dont believe a word of this. There would be no room in the cupboard for you with all them wigs.

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4. 

   Duke-loopa

   June 10, 2011 at 4:08 pm

   Awwww that means he probably didn’t see my tribute 🙁

   *sniff*

   Also, I want to go out with the pop-sugar girls!!

   Duke, always hogs all of the action… all i get left with it Seamus’ soiled wigs!

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5. 

   Bish

   June 10, 2011 at 4:10 pm

   Lipstick and wigs?
   Standard Friday night then?

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6. 

   Dr Nic

   June 10, 2011 at 4:12 pm

   Way to ruin everyone’s fun Cody.

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7. 

   NegativeZero

   June 10, 2011 at 4:14 pm

   You were bound and gagged and wearing lipstick?

   I know we all like Duke and everything, but I didn’t think it was that much.

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      Duke-loopa

      June 10, 2011 at 4:19 pm

      haha that’s how it read to me too!

      however, i’m giving Mark a little slack as i’m quite positive that all those wigs would smell strongly of old spice, so his head has GOT TO be spinning quite intensely!

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8. 

   jamesmacusedmyhandle

   June 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm

   Seamus’s wigs were covered in lipstick!!! The plot thickens…..

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9. 

   happycow

   June 10, 2011 at 4:28 pm

   Whole thing made me cringe with embarrassment for the entire medium of gaming to be honest.

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   1. 

      Michael “Will someday have a cool handle” Winters

      June 10, 2011 at 5:46 pm

      Damn straight. All things gaming should be serious and meaningful. Fun has no place in games or anything to do with games. Nothing made me rage more than when I started enjoying playing duke.

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      1. 

         happycow

         June 10, 2011 at 10:56 pm

         No rage here, just cringe. If an outdated and horribly clichéd 90s stereotype masquerading as ‘parody’ floats your boat then by all means, go all out and have fun with it. I don’t have a problem with anyone enjoying a decent video game no matter what the theme is. That aside, I’m of the opinion that having “Duke” take over Kotaku was an incredibly lame marketing gimmick / exercise in product placement and seemed to bring out the pre-pubescent child in grown men all over this site today. If you don’t agree that’s fine by me.

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         1. 

            AerintheGREAT

            June 11, 2011 at 3:35 am

            So… you think Duke Nukem is *not* a parody, then?

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            1. 

               DONAR

               June 12, 2011 at 2:24 am

               Parody? No.

               Equal parts rip-off of Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead/s and Roddy Piper in They Live? Absolutely.

               Thought the same back in ’96 with 3D. Loved the game, had the action figures…and know he’s a rip-off.

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               AerintheGREAT

               June 14, 2011 at 1:23 am

               hahaha, well I guess the way I define ‘parody’ places it firmly within the ‘Rip-Off’ category from the get-go.

               So to me anything that is a parody is by its nature a rip-off.

               The only thing that annoys me is everyone who has never seen Evil Dead and/or They Live and then quote all the lines as if it was Duke Nukem who originated them… but that’s not Duke/3D Realms’ fault.

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    Dire Wolf

    June 10, 2011 at 4:32 pm

    Seamus upon finding Mark:

    “Dear diary, Jackpot!”

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    1. 

       Braaains

       June 10, 2011 at 4:42 pm

       Giggity!

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11. 

    Lillee

    June 10, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    Darn he’s gone? and I had so many questions left unanswered for a whole decade of no shrink/freeze/enlarge gun gaming. It’s been a long dry spell!

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12. 

    Steven Bogos

    June 10, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    Thank goodness for that! Now that his remarkably average game has been released, he can slowly fade into the background, only to be brought back for a gritty reboot in four or five years time.

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13. 

    TV

    June 10, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    That was fun. Do it again sometime, Kotaku.

    Can’t think of another character it’d suit, though.

    Master Chief? Mario? Gordon Freeman? Yep, Freeman! The silence would be deafening.

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14. 

    draus

    June 10, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Hope he didnt go because of a few cry babies and internet trolls. I thought duke was tougher than that!

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15. 

    Exaemo

    June 10, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    So,

    How much did Randy pay you for this guys?

    P.S.

    When’s the 10/10 review coming out?

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