Talking to CVG, Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford has dismissed feminist criticism of Duke Nukem as pretty much irrelevant, saying the big guy thinks he’s better than everyone, anyway.
“Duke isn’t a misogynist. He is ego-centric and everything in his world revolves around him. And women can offer him something different than men can. So if, to Duke, women are less than him, it’s not because they’re women, it’s just because they’re not him,” he explains.
“But he actually loves women and will put himself to great risk to make sure that they’re safe. That’s the whole premise of the game. I think it’d be really interesting some day to see what a female version of Duke would be like. Maybe that’s a game.”
Just not a very good game, probably. It would mostly likely involve lots of sitting around and talking about how everybody feels, crying, and wondering if this space marine armour makes your bum look fat.
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