Game:

Duke Nukem Forever (2011)

Duration: 10:28

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It's all strangely reminiscent of IGN's The Next Game Boss, where all these aspiring developers pitched these fantastically idiotic ideas that weren't too far out of line with what showed up in this game (Highlights here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb5ev2Dp4I0 ). I have a big long theory written up about DNF and one of the interpretations of it, but YouTube probably isn't the place for contemporary media analysis of video games and my video descriptions do tend to drag on rather long at times. Like right now.

The multiplayer genuinely is terrible, by the way, somehow managing to combine classic deathmatch with twitch gameplay while omitting anything that makes either of them any good. Usually it boils down to "get jetpack, get devastator, win." Then get XP to get levels to earn entirely cosmetic objects in a room that only you can see, along with titles and hats that your Duke can wear to impress the nine or ten other people who don't know any better than to play this game online. Or at all.

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