Because It’s a bad Duke Nukem game that couldn’t live up to the 14 year wait.
Let us look at how Duke is depicted in Forever. Duke in Forever seems at first glance to be pretty much the same as in 3D, Captain Dillon is an annoying git, so no wonder Duke does not shed a tear when the dude "dies" only to come back fine and dandy in the DLC. But I would say no, people still can like Duke in 3D and hate him in Forever, and that is not because he’s a flat macho action hero stereotype. I would say it's the presentation. In 3D all the stuff he can do that doesn't involve level progression and shooting aliens is optional, in Forever they tie boring minigames to actual story progression and increasing his max health. In 3D he moves fast and can carry 10 weapons, in Forever he doesn't seem as fast and carries 2 or 4 guns max. In Forever he says that Halo’s power armor is for pussies and then proceeds to duck under cover to let his health regenerate by itself. In 3D he quotes timeless movie classics, in Forever he makes references to dated memes like Leeroy Jenkins. In 3D and Manhattan Project all the babes he meets can be saved as far as the player is concerned, in Forever Duke cannot kill immortal but slowly teleporting alien abductors who WILL take those twin sluts and they WILL explode them since the story does not allow him to save them. In 3D, he alone is enough to glorify himself, in Forever all the people unless they are aliens or obvious hate sinks like the president want to suck his balls of steel (though the DLC is better in this regard, with the hot lady scientist being unimpressed by Duke’s machismo). In Forever he gets a distorted vision from drinking just one can of beer despite supposedly being that legendary tough badass. In Forever he is apparently pals with the annoying git Dillon.
In short, Duke's problem in Forever isn't that he is old-fashioned but the game he ended up in. And because of that greasy hack Randy Pitchford.
Duke wasn't some super deep or relatable character, but he was a good guy who always put saving the human race ahead of his own ego and sexual desires, and a love letter to the action heroes of the 80's. DNF made him into a complete self-parody who couldn't give a shit about helping others and instead would rather play slots or get a lapdance as his friends and lovers die somewhere else.
By Odin’s beard, his cameo appearance in Bulletstorm makes him look like a better character than DNF does. A joke character swap treated him better than a game people waited a decade and a half for.
Why i don't like DNF?
Because It’s a bad Duke Nukem game that couldn’t live up to the 14 year wait.
Let us look at how Duke is depicted in Forever. Duke in Forever seems at first glance to be pretty much the same as in 3D, Captain Dillon is an annoying git, so no wonder Duke does not shed a tear when the dude "dies" only to come back fine and dandy in the DLC. But I would say no, people still can like Duke in 3D and hate him in Forever, and that is not because he’s a flat macho action hero stereotype. I would say it's the presentation. In 3D all the stuff he can do that doesn't involve level progression and shooting aliens is optional, in Forever they tie boring minigames to actual story progression and increasing his max health. In 3D he moves fast and can carry 10 weapons, in Forever he doesn't seem as fast and carries 2 or 4 guns max. In Forever he says that Halo’s power armor is for pussies and then proceeds to duck under cover to let his health regenerate by itself. In 3D he quotes timeless movie classics, in Forever he makes references to dated memes like Leeroy Jenkins. In 3D and Manhattan Project all the babes he meets can be saved as far as the player is concerned, in Forever Duke cannot kill immortal but slowly teleporting alien abductors who WILL take those twin sluts and they WILL explode them since the story does not allow him to save them. In 3D, he alone is enough to glorify himself, in Forever all the people unless they are aliens or obvious hate sinks like the president want to suck his balls of steel (though the DLC is better in this regard, with the hot lady scientist being unimpressed by Duke’s machismo). In Forever he gets a distorted vision from drinking just one can of beer despite supposedly being that legendary tough badass. In Forever he is apparently pals with the annoying git Dillon.
In short, Duke's problem in Forever isn't that he is old-fashioned but the game he ended up in. And because of that greasy hack Randy Pitchford.
Duke wasn't some super deep or relatable character, but he was a good guy who always put saving the human race ahead of his own ego and sexual desires, and a love letter to the action heroes of the 80's. DNF made him into a complete self-parody who couldn't give a shit about helping others and instead would rather play slots or get a lapdance as his friends and lovers die somewhere else.
By Odin’s beard, his cameo appearance in Bulletstorm makes him look like a better character than DNF does. A joke character swap treated him better than a game people waited a decade and a half for.