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I think this is overhyped as damaging and negative. In fact, GTA VI seemed to be on the path to becoming the “new Duke Nukem Forever,” which is no longer the case. Everything I’ve seen from the leak indicates this will be a really great game with the same cinematic qualities and cultural relevance that remains somewhat unique to this franchise.

It’s not great from a creative standpoint to have parts of your narrative out there for inspection and criticism, true, but from a commercial perspective the timing of this leak (weekend of Tokyo Game Show) could not be better. More people are talking about this than whatever announcements took place at TGS.

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Duke Nukem Forever was such a disappointment.

One of the things that made Duke Nukem 3D such a smash hit was its shock value. It was probably the first mainstream game to include strippers.

But DNF was delayed so long that by the time it came out, Duke's schtick was just cringe-worthy. It wasn't shocking or fun, it just felt like your 50 year old uncle telling the same sexist jokes from 20 years ago.

DNF was a lot worse than 3d. If it had matched the level of distasteful / edgy humor, it'd have been a much better game. Tired, dated, yes. But better than what we got for sure.

There was a lot of naked women raped and pregnant by aliens getting torn apart. I don't recall anything that bad in 3d. (Searching around for discussions on 3d, I can't find any reference to anything either)

> In fact, GTA VI seemed to be on the path to becoming the “new Duke Nukem Forever,”

How did you get this perception? There was nothing to indicate that really and rdr2 was especially great single player experience.

“Industry analysts anticipate that the next Grand Theft Auto will be out sometime in Take-Two’s 2024 fiscal year, which runs from April 2023 through March 2024, but developers are skeptical. The game has been in development in some form since 2014. Although there are loose schedules in place, people interviewed for this article said they didn’t know of any firm release date and that they expect the game to be at least two years away. Earlier this year, a group of designers quit Rockstar’s Edinburgh office, telling colleagues they were sick of the lack of progress.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/gta-6-rel...

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