And while I don't think the desire to do that is inherently bad, it was more ambitious and more fun to take her forward, re-think some things, and just make better games.Д®stablishing Duke Nukem as a real and developed character seems nearly impossible. Like there's a world where Lara Croft never moved forward to become a more interesting character in more interesting worlds they just kept her, tank controls and all, stuck in mostly puzzle-driven environs with, uh, disproportional amounts of polygons. That's not to say that there haven't been admirable takes on it, with games like Dusk and Ion Maiden being near the top of the list, but all of these kinds of games share one thing in common, and that's that they're all trying to imitate their betters, and I'd suggest that such an open admission is what keeps these games from actually being better, as backwards as that may sound. Problem is, that's not interesting, and this local minima we're stuck in of staying close to 'old school shooter' mechanisms to ensure it all fits together is getting, well, tired.

Like, at this point, the idea of placing him in an Ion Maiden-like enterprise just isn't 'hard' so-to-speak it's everyone's natural first thought when tackling the problem: instead of moving Duke forward, move games back to just fit with his ridiculous character. The challenge of bringing back Duke Nukem is actually what is interesting about him as a character at this point.

Lo wang vs duke nukem