Careercow Randy Pitchford / DuvalMagic - Gearbox's magical fuck-up of a CEO, lost a USB drive full of porn.

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You guys realize that there are probably countless weight lifters or body builders they could find to play Duke Nukem, right? It doesn't necessarily have to be Jason Mamoa or the Rock.

While I've loved watching Dwayne from childhood, his movies have always been hit or miss. Mamoa cannot do anything convincingly, period. He shat up the Conan the Barbarian remake so badly and I will never forgive him for that atrocity.
There aren't that many bodybuilders and weightlifters that have the charisma of the Rock however. Momoa was a dumb mention on my part.

Regarding the abortion that was the Conan remake, I don't blame him as much as I blame the casting director who put him in the role and the producer. That movie should NEVER have happened in the first place.

The only Conan movie that should have been made for decades now is Conan the King, with Arnold back in the role as king of Aquilonia. However Arnold is rapidly ageing out of being able to do it properly.
 
There aren't that many bodybuilders and weightlifters that have the charisma of the Rock however. Momoa was a dumb mention on my part.

Regarding the abortion that was the Conan remake, I don't blame him as much as I blame the casting director who put him in the role and the producer. That movie should NEVER have happened in the first place.

The only Conan movie that should have been made for decades now is Conan the King, with Arnold back in the role as king of Aquilonia. However Arnold is rapidly ageing out of being able to do it properly.
I fully agree re: charisma but even Arnie's non English speaking ass back in the day had enough charisma to land him leading roles. Re: Conan, he still couldn't speak English well in 1982 and was doing his lines phonetically.

As for King Conan, I don't think we'll get one nowadays. I feel Arnie is just too old now, despite what the wonders of make up can do, and the current Hollywood and political culture wouldn't allow King Conan to get made. SJWs have targeted the Conan franchise (and Red Sonya) for years due to what they think are transgressions against their holy political correctness texts. The last window for King Conan I feel was back when Arnie made Sabotage.

I think his illegitimate son though could 100% make Conan movies if they ever decide to again. That kid is the fucking spitting image of Arnold, it's so uncanny. I honestly hopes he takes on Schwarzenegger's last name in the future if he ever decides to get into movies.
 
Randy was behind a lot of backlash from killing the Duke Nukem Franchise. It's hurts my soul very much in the inside heart.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned how GBX all of a sudden announced Duke-related content shortly after Battleborn's failure. (DN3DWT came out in October, and Bulletstorm's special edition will allow you to play as Duke)
Let's be real, GBX needs money and they know Duke still has a fairly active fanbase: the real reason no games came out after Forever was probably to sweep Forever's negative reception under the rug. Nowadays, DNF isn't as hated as it used to be and the reception leans more towards a mixed one. You either like the game or don't, there's little middle ground from what I've seen. That and DNF isn't as relevant as it used to be.
Combine this with Battleborn's failure and GBX is obviously gonna pull money from the Duke franchise. Hell, with old school FPSes on the rise (especially after Wolfenstein The New Order, Shadow Warrior 2013 and most recently, Doom 4 were successful) I wouldn't be surprised DN5 might be announced soon. (There's also this article: http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/15/gearbox-has-done-concept-development-for-new-duke-nukem-game and keep in mind, this was back in 2015)
Hopefully DN5 will be a good game and they won't turn Duke into some sort of strawman, but that's me being too optimistic.

Also, what ever happened to Brothers in Arms? The infamous Furious 4 spinoff got turned into it's own game and then it got cancelled. After that, haven't heard a damn thing about that series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDlB2P1leRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o53UjcablsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuuyRGB_BA Don't forget about how many trailers 3D Realms had put up in the public along with Gearbum' version.
 
Son of Kurt Russell (Wyatt Russell) could play the Duke. He would be ok choice, little buffing up and some makeup would do the job (Duke is doing Snake Plissken type of talking anyway and Wyatt is perfect age for the role).
But how long would we have to wait for the sequel?
 
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Off the top of my head I can't think of another big bodied and youthful enough actor with enough presence to play Duke. Of any skin colour. The Rock would probably own that kind of role, but I'm not sure he'd be up to go full R rated.
Jon Cena?
 
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I fully agree re: charisma but even Arnie's non English speaking ass back in the day had enough charisma to land him leading roles. Re: Conan, he still couldn't speak English well in 1982 and was doing his lines phonetically.

As for King Conan, I don't think we'll get one nowadays. I feel Arnie is just too old now, despite what the wonders of make up can do, and the current Hollywood and political culture wouldn't allow King Conan to get made. SJWs have targeted the Conan franchise (and Red Sonya) for years due to what they think are transgressions against their holy political correctness texts. The last window for King Conan I feel was back when Arnie made Sabotage.

I think his illegitimate son though could 100% make Conan movies if they ever decide to again. That kid is the fucking spitting image of Arnold, it's so uncanny. I honestly hopes he takes on Schwarzenegger's last name in the future if he ever decides to get into movies.
Ironic that the mutt he had in an affair looks the most like Arnie. Rumours say he spends more time with that kid than he did with his other legit children too. Almost like he's less ashamed of him than his other family members.
 
Civvie just loves to hate Pitchford. I don't blame him, Randy is the King of punchable faces, a greasy hair and soul.
Who doesn't. I like to hate them both tho. One because he's greasy piece of merchant who fucks up everything he touches and second for his brainlet crowd that absent of every bit of a brain cell.
 
Son of Kurt Russell (Wyatt Russell) could play the Duke. He would be ok choice, little buffing up and some makeup would do the job (Duke is doing Snake Plissken type of talking anyway and Wyatt is perfect age for the role).
Someone with the personality of the Rock and most of the look of Wyatt Russell (a white guy with a more narrow face than Russell in particular) would work but it's such a specific requirement. They'd have to get a more obscure actor to do the role if they were to do it today because nobody in Hollywood or the popular European industry fit him right now.

It's a shame because with OTT action films like John Wick and Nobody being popular a Duke film could work with a good director and competent screenwriters.
 
Imagine my surprise checking out the STO forum and seeing this


STO is now owned by fucking gearbox of all companies. Considering what pitchford did to colonial marines I wonder how this is going to end
 
Imagine my surprise checking out the STO forum and seeing this


STO is now owned by fucking gearbox of all companies. Considering what pitchford did to colonial marines I wonder how this is going to end
Oh fuck no, i know it is flawed but fucking hell i like STO
 
second for his brainlet crowd that absent of every bit of a brain cell
Not to hijack the thread, but until he made the Half-Life video, his fandom was pretty harsh on everybody who even dared to say that Half-Life wasn't that bad.

Does anyone have any more news on those Duke Nukem Forever beta, which he promised he would've released forever ago? I know that 2K also own the rights to Duke Nukem, but how hard could it be for both Gearbox's and 2K's lawyers to find an agreement, both developers worked closely for a while now.
 
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A Duke Nukem movie can work, a Duke Nukem movie with Randy's involvement will be total AIDS, which is more likely to happen, he sees Duke more as a clown than an action hero.
Not just a clown, but a Flanderized clown in a 'funhouse mirror' (to use Randy's term) version of the world that was mainly targeted towards 13-14 year old boys (towards whom he admitted to aiming the DNF game at.)

That game was shit not only because he aimed it mostly at the wrong age group, he failed to grasp that in DN3D the porny stuff was not even a huge part of the game (kicking alien ass was) and what there was, was a lot more mature and tasteful and not some prurient sex jokes intended to impress some adolescent boys. Also Duke's one liners and jokes only really shine when the world he's saying them in is serious. Having most of the NCPs also acting like horny dumbasses in a 'funhouse mirror world' is cringy and not funny and makes Duke look retarded.

That's how badly he misunderstood the games, and if he made a movie, it would definitely crash, burn, and leave radioactive fallout. Some of the older fans that played DN3D pretty much walked away from the fandom after DNF dropped, and what was left was either long-suffering normies that went quietly back to the older games or those weirdos overly obsessed with DNF's digital titties. I can understand however why some people walked away, DNF all but glassed the planet, and made everything related to it into a joke that was long past it's prime.
 
Not just a clown, but a Flanderized clown in a 'funhouse mirror' (to use Randy's term) version of the world that was mainly targeted towards 13-14 year old boys (towards whom he admitted to aiming the DNF game at.)
Says a lot about his perception and upbringing when DNF was made as fucked up as it was.

That game was shit not only because he aimed it mostly at the wrong age group, he failed to grasp that in DN3D the porny stuff was not even a huge part of the game (kicking alien ass was) and what there was, was a lot more mature and tasteful and not some prurient sex jokes intended to impress some adolescent boys. Also Duke's one liners and jokes only really shine when the world he's saying them in is serious. Having most of the NCPs also acting like horny dumbasses in a 'funhouse mirror world' is cringy and not funny and makes Duke look retarded.
YES! Duke Nukem is a ridiculous character, but he's also still a totally badass action superhero who can get shit done, and Duke, along with an occasional joke or reference, is supposed to contrast with how the overall world of DN3D is actually dark and grim.
He works because he manages to be weird and laughable for his excessive ego and attitude, yet he's genuinely cool at the same time, the exaggerated machismo manages to not feel like a put-on. He works so well as a 'knight in shining armor' in the gloomy setting that is DN3D.
E1 and E3 have a lot of scummy locales, but E2 with all its dark moonbases and space stations is just excellent, it gets downright spooky at times, but you feel like a confident asskicker as Duke.

Randy doesn't understand this AT ALL. Randy looks at Duke ripping the head of the Alien Overlord and shitting down its neck, and what he sees is simply a poopoo joke. He COMPLETELY ignores the sheer balls of fighting and defeating this massive rocket-spraying monstrosity, and then actually tearing off its entire head to shit down its neck in an absolute act of defiance (one that was unrivaled in games at the time), making reality of what one initially assumes is just a generic one-liner.
It's preposterous, and it's awe inspiring in how macho it is.

I can understand however why some people walked away, DNF all but glassed the planet, and made everything related to it into a joke that was long past it's prime.
It's a crying shame, because DN3D is one of those games like Doom or Quake, where it's bewilderingly good and has basically infinite mileage with modding. Duke's modding scene already was smaller because it's simply not as easy to mod for, so seeing it shrink because of DNF just hurts.
 
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