Fox news goes at it with Duke Nukem Forever's "Capture the Babe" mode

[ultrachicken]

The game will be available in stores and online, where customers must click a button stating they are 17 years of age or older -- the only barrier to children buying such a game.

No, that's not true. First, stores have a strict policy restricting selling M rated content to children without a parent's permission. Second, to buy the game online, you still need a credit/debit card, which children don't have.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

*yawn* Yes, the Duke isn't exactly a posterboy for how to treat women, but who cares? It's funny as hell! Not that it would matter to Fox, breakdown of society, liberals, atheists, etc ruining everything. Can't wait for the inevitable "Duke=RAPE, and everybody who plays video games is a rapist" story...
Now if you'll excuse me, I've just finished playing some Minecraft (horribly violent game, etc...), and will now go to the nearest preschool to sodomize some kids, burn down an orphanage or two, and kick every puppy I come across.

 

[Floppertje]

"Kids, don't play this game! there's a lot of naked girls in it!"

somehow, I think the extra coverage isn't exactly going to reduce sales.

 

[Thaluikhain]

...

Fox news got the facts right this time. WTF?

Not really

Ah, right, got me worried for a bit there.

That's fine and all if you realize that, but I do wonder about the image of the gaming community that it creates in the minds of people who don't realize that these things are supposed to be immature because the immaturity of it is the joke.

It is? Isn't Duke immature to be, well, immature? I find it hard to believe there's a deep social commentary going on.

 

[GreyKnight3445]

to play devil`s advocate Duke has shot himself in the foot on this one, but I do agree with some of the points made here.

 

[redisforever]

I think this is a major selling point, and again, we can always rely on Fox News to give us all the facts...

 

[Matthew Wilson]

I can see why people might be offended but there's a little thing called 'context' that throws Fox's argument out the window - as if they should be another - Duke is expected to be humourously sexist so a Capture the Babe mode is appropriate and funny.

Also am I the only one who hopes DNF has a trophy/achievement called 'F*ck Fox News'

 

[Sindre1]

Took its time
Glad we got it over with.

 

[2xDouble]

I wonder if FoxNews gets some kind of subsidy for every controversy they stir?

Besides, took 'em bloody long enough. I was expecting this sh*tstorm months ago, when the trailer dropped... or during the promotions in the strip clubs... or a few weeks ago when the CEO said he wanted Duke to be a "feminist icon" (he's a hedonist, not a sexist)...

 

[Wintermoot]

called it!

 

[Zeraki]

I am actually surprised they didn't jump on this earlier. I guess they were too busy claiming Bulletstorm makes people into rapists. This whole crusade against video games has become such a joke.

 

[2xDouble]

It was clearly stated that in the game, you save women. Not abduct them. Questioning the Duke will get them killed.

Well... think about it... Capture the flag: each team has a "flag". Meaning you're rescuing one woman while preventing rescue of another.

...unless everyone agrees to a sort of prisoner exchange, ending in a tie game. That would be unprecedented, but awesome.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

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Fox news got the facts right this time. WTF?

Not really

Ah, right, got me worried for a bit there.

That's fine and all if you realize that, but I do wonder about the image of the gaming community that it creates in the minds of people who don't realize that these things are supposed to be immature because the immaturity of it is the joke.

It is? Isn't Duke immature to be, well, immature? I find it hard to believe there's a deep social commentary going on.

I hadn't meant to say that it was deep social commentary, just that the immaturity of it was the joke. That is to say that Duke Nukem is a self-aware expression of immaturity. If I were to try and express it more clearly than I was before, I would say that there are two types of immaturity. There is genuine immaturity, that is to say that the person making the immature thing has no idea how immature it is. When you laugh at its immaturity, you also laugh at the creator (whether you meant to or not) because it is a genuine reflection of immaturity. But the second type of immaturity is that possessed by Duke Nukem. The people at Gearbox are clearly aware of how immature the game is, and they're creatively working to make it as over the top immature as possible. Unlike the first type of immaturity, where the creator is the actual joke, in the case of Duke Nukem it is the creation itself that is the joke.

Likewise, there are two groups of people who will play Duke Nukem, those who will laugh at it, and those who will laugh at its immaturity. I think my fear here is that the assumption made of gamers by the non-gaming public (and anyone who doesn't realize that Duke is a joke) is that they are laughing at Duke Nukem as opposed to laughing at its immaturity.

 

[imperialreign]

We all saw this one coming. Fox has become too predictable. Moving along.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

fox needs a new motto, fair and balanced just doesnt make sense for them, instead it should be "fox news, we really want to be racist but will settle for being stupid"

I agree, but this alternate slogan works better, in my opinion:

 

[Rad Party God]

It's so tiring how movies and TV can show strippers and prostitutes in all kinds of circumstances, but videogames can not...

And then comes all the yapping about how videogames are interactive and when you DO something your more likely to repeat it than if you watch something. I don't buy it.

You know why they do it? Because they're stupid Because it's all for the children playing an M rated game with thousands of warnings and labels that parents are stupid enough to not look at. And because they're stupid.