Duke Nukem Almost Had a Gay Robot Sidekick
Apparently Gearbox is saving Duke Nukem's gay robot sidekick for another day. Meanwhile, Mass Effect 3 gamers will finally get some love with male NPCs.
Sunday night during the BAFTA event in London, Gearbox Software head honcho Randy Pitchford revealed that Duke Nuken almost ended up with a "gay robot" sidekick. Because of Duke's strong sexuality, the team wanted to explore how he would react to a peer that had a different sexual orientation. But the idea was canned and the robot deactivated, yet it may still appear sometime in the future.
"I don't want to spoil it because we might go there," he told the audience. "Ultimately the robot was in a situation where for in order for victory against the aliens to be accomplished, the robot's inner workings – a nuclear generator – had to be sacrificed. The exploration was all very sincere and real and maybe we'll come back to that at some point."
He went on to defend the tone and content of Duke Nukem Forever, especially against the constant flow of misogyny and sexism accusations. Duke is a wild guy, he admitted. In his world, everyone loves him.
"His world is similar to ours but it's not our world. We are in the time when most of our heroes have become pussies," he added. "They're emo and everyone's trying to take themselves so seriously."
Ouch.
In related news, Monday brought reports that Mass Effect 3 will have a gay romance option for male and female Shepard characters. Mass Effect Executive Producer Casey Hudson confirmed this feature over the weekend on Twitter. "Happy to confirm #ME3 supports wider options for love interests incl. same-sex for m&f chars, reactive to how you interact w/them in-game."
The first two installments of Mass Effect allowed Shepard to participate in male/female, female/female and Asari (tentacle-head) encounters. This will be the first time players will have the ability to participate in romance situations will male characters (male/male). This feature is largely due to BioWare's Dragon Age series which allows players to actually define the sexual orientation of their protagonist.
As for Duke Nukem's robot sidekick, Pitchford didn't say when it would make a return. However Pithford did go off-subject and talk about Half-Life 2: Episode 3, saying that it wouldn't be surprising if Valve wasn't developing the third installment.
"We assume there's one but clearly [Valve's] priorities are different," he said. "Those of us on the outside are making assumptions, [but] let's cut 'em some slack."
Valve may not be working on Episode 3 because the company is seemingly focused on creating a valued platform, but more on that will be revealed in a separate new post...
JUST got email notification with video link saying demo is released to Duke Nukem First Access Club on June 3rd!!!!!!!
Balls Balls Balls Balls Balls Balls Balls.....
Though ...Dr Who is in love with his sentient 11th dimension tardus matrix so who knows?
pussy like the corny, childish and completely gay "nuclear" truck of the Duke Nukem trailer?
Heh, did you play The Witcher. No one could be easier as those women. I was hoping they might allow the homosexual option in Witcher 2 so that I could be twice the man-whore. I'll eff anything that moves! Also, bring back the collectible cards. Maybe include STDs for realism.
So, finally in ME3, Shepard will say this to Ash, his romance since ME1: "Ash, I think I am gay."
Thats gay...
I think you mean "Since when do robots have a sexual preference?" If I've read enough Asimov, which is to say, if I've ready any, which I haven't, the sexual preference core is usually located next to the sarcasm core.
Well, at least since Bender (Futurama). Much earlier there was Marvin (Red Planet) - Two most definitely male-gender tin-bots. For skin-bots, watch "Blade Runner". What was the name of the skin-bot played by Sean Young? She was good enough for Harrison Ford, lol.