![]() ![]() Games are in in their own modules and do not interact with eachother. The menu code from GZDoom is used as a generic system across all supported games ZMusic from GZDoom is used as music system GZDoom's post-processing effects framework is incorporated, allowing effects such as bloom and faking increased color ranges with dithering to be possibleĪ replaced and revamped file system, based on the WAD manager used in GZDoom ![]() This ensures that new renderer features can be added to the same backend, but where a different renderer other than Polymost can be used Polymost is used in this capacity to generate polygons and sending them off to the backend, which is OpenGL 3.3 with the option to use OpenGL 4.5 features. Polymost is used as the primary renderer, significantly rewritten and seperated from OpenGL, utilizing a new texture manager. It is primarily developed by Christoph Oelckers - Zahl - and Rachael Alexanderson - with inclusion of several other codebases, primarily those from Build and EDuke32. It combines EDuke32, PCExhumed, NBlood, and RedNukem in a single package, amongst various stability and renderer improvements. But if we’re not able to acknowledge the moral repugnance underneath it, then we’re selling games short by refusing to think critically about them.Raze is a source port of EDuke32 implementing several systems as found in the GZDoom source port. The fact that any significant number of adults still considers this game a classic is a disgrace, to both the games industry and gamer culture. But with Duke 3D, there’s just a terrible feeling of wrongness to it. I questioned whether Fallout 1 should be regarded as a classic because I simply felt it was an unenjoyable experience. I suppose the game did gain its audience of primarily teenage males, and it’s a good thing those people were grown up enough last year to pan Duke Forever.īut this game should not be regarded as a classic, and I don’t say that lightly. To anybody who regards women as more than meat, it just comes off as juvenile, tasteless, and shameless. Wait, why is she here? WHO CARES IT'S A DANCING NAKED LADYĪs is fitting with the copy-pasted imagery and themes, the game feels like Aliens as rewritten by a fourteen-year-old boy with some serious issues he needs to work through. I know the games industry in general has a problem with objectifying women, but Duke 3D goes above and beyond. The game shoves scantily clad women into the game every chance it gets. Strippers, poster girls, dirty magazines. It’s an extreme example, but by no means the only one, of women being objectified in this game. It’s obviously a blatant homage to Aliens, but it seems the aliens in this game only use attractive young women to procreate their species. I knew the game had strippers, but I didn’t know that you constantly encounter naked women wrapped in tentacles, and that if you try to talk to them they just utter, “Kill… me…” You can kill them all, and there’s no penalty for doing so or choosing not to. I happen to agree with the majority that Duke Forever is an atrocity, but now that I’ve played Duke 3D, I’m confused because most people talked as if the original wasn’t as horrible. The most infamous scene was one in an alien hive where you see nude women literally being raped, impregnated and killed by alien tentacles. There’s also a pile of nitpicks, like how the chaingunners in this one are somehow even more annoying than the ones in Doom 2, or how the confusing level design often requires you to find subtle secret doors or pathways that Doom would have just stuck extra ammo behind, or how the Duke repeats his lines so often they get old really quickly.īut there’s something much more important, and much more horrible, that I need to talk about.ĭuke Nukem Forever, which all of you must know about at this point, was heavily criticized for many reasons, but the biggest problem I heard about was it being exceedingly misogynistic. For instance, while Doom could get away with using 2D sprites for the enemies and objects since you couldn’t look up or down, in Duke 3D you can get above or under an enemy and look up or down at it, respectively, and doing so will reveal that monster as a flat paper cut-out. ![]() The game certainly has more features than Doom (jumping, pipebombs, items, one-liners, etc.) but more isn’t always better. This has given me the chance to play it extensively, and let’s just say, this was an eye-opener. ![]() Now that I’ve been introduced to the magic of source ports, I was able to get ye olde Duke Nukem 3D to a functional, playable state as well thanks to EDuke32. ![]()
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