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October 4, 2010 5:00 AM

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After three days of the complete sensory assault that was the Eurogamer Expo, I'm feeling a little dizzy. I spent three days in a bubble of video games surrounded by video game people and now my own life feels a little alien. Is that what I normally do? I feel like I've forgotten something very important. It'll come to me.

Out of that, I'll be telling you about a preview of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and a talk Peter Molyneux gave plus delivering hands-on previews with Brink and Dragon Age 2 (on Xbox 360). Then there's whatever gibberish I scrawled in my notebook over the course of the event about some sort of new entertainment format named the "video game." There were many of them and I saw them and wrote things on paper. Oh, and yes, absolutely none of the 3D tech that filled the show floor worked with my hyper-intelligent eyes. Fantastic.

I did something else. I can't remember what. It'll come to me. I definitely did, though.

Alice O'Connor

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Marrbe

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October 4, 2010 5:17 AM

MD'd: The sequel to DNF should be a DN + Blood + Shadow Warrior epic where you can co-op as Duke, Caleb and Lo Wang.

First, an introduction to what the characters are up to at the moment, and then some cataclysmic event which prompts some defense bureau to call a crisis meeting. There, they reach the conclusion that only this trio of manliness could possibly stop the onslaught of aliens, cultists and triad members. The 3 characters are summoned and after being introduced to each other, the players get to decide who plays whom.

Think of the oneliners and in-game dialogue they could belt out as they all kick asses together.
- zerog83
  
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  October 4, 2010 5:19 AM
  
  WHO WANT'A SOME WANG!?
  - donhunt
    
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    October 4, 2010 5:35 AM
    
    I like sword. That's a personal weapon.
- Alice O'Connor
  
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  October 4, 2010 5:20 AM
  
  I'm often heard complaining that not enough fanfic becomes official.
  - Lone Swordsman
    
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    October 4, 2010 5:24 AM
    
    That's not a fanfic, a fanfic would involve Duke and Lo Wang fighting for the love of a teenage girl in Tupelo, Mississippi.
    - skryte
      
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      October 4, 2010 5:42 AM
      
      ...and then doing spock in the butt.
      - Lone Swordsman
        
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        October 4, 2010 5:52 AM
        
        Oh yes, any female fanfic should involve a little yaoi.
        
        skryte
        
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        October 4, 2010 6:10 AM
        
        otherwise we wouldn't be justified in saying that fanfic is gay as hell.
        
        skryte
        
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        October 4, 2010 6:10 AM
        
        ...not that there's anything wrong with that
  - Marrbe
    
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    October 4, 2010 5:29 AM
    
    Crossovers often turn out well in video games, such as AvP. The Build Trio should be no exception.
  - twifosp
    
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    October 4, 2010 6:07 AM
    
    Alice, if you were writing the plot to Duke Nukem Forever and Ever Amen, how would it go?
    - Alice O'Connor
      
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      October 4, 2010 6:12 AM
      
      Aliens invade Earth but Duke Nukem kills them. That is how my DNF plot would go.
      
      The devil's in the details, though.
      - twifosp
        
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        October 4, 2010 6:13 AM
        
        Aliens? That's been done. What about a squid uprising out of the Sea?
        
        Alice O'Connor
        
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        October 4, 2010 6:19 AM
        
        Aliens being "done" is what makes it so work. Duke Nukem carries on as ever while everyone he meets wonders what the hell is wrong with him. It'd be a haunting and tragic tale filled with explosions.
        
        twifosp
        
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        October 4, 2010 6:21 AM
        
        What about his mother? We need some backstory.
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        October 4, 2010 6:15 AM
        
        so the devil is an alien? brilliant!
- thecatinthehat
  
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  October 4, 2010 5:21 AM
  
  Three player coop could be interesting.
- umegastar
  
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  October 4, 2010 5:49 AM
  
  I never played shadow warrior
  - roushimsx
    
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    October 4, 2010 6:22 AM
    
    Fun idea, poor execution. Extreme overuse of monster closet design, weapons were poorly balanced, and enemies were cheap.
    
    :(
- roushimsx
  
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  October 4, 2010 6:20 AM
  
  As long as it didn't play anything like Shadow Warrior, that would own. East Meets West Meets Wild West
  - Marrbe
    
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    October 4, 2010 8:11 AM
    
    Yep, more of a Duke + Blood combo with aliens working together with cultists and their demons, with some SW enemies thrown in as recruits. Wang's weapons would be balanced more like those in Blood.