Simpler Times

Author: Alex Pistol
Release Date: December 23rd 2023
Story: It was about 10 years since the events in Duke Nukem Forever, and it’s been a rough 10 years for Duke. He was labelled a misogynist for some odd reason (despite loving women of all colors, shapes and sizes more than anyone else in the world!), his fans have grown up and seen through him as being something else than the idealized all-American hero image they kept from their childhood and, due to some weird legal actions, he even lost the rights to his own media image. The worst part, however, was definitely the fans – on one hand, they kept nagging him for “betas”, and on the other, they started to dig into the stuff Duke would rather no one find out about (including a drunk incident involving a donkey). This was far too much! Duke decided to withdraw from public life (being hit with cancel culture helped with it) and only poke his nose whenever the Earth needed to be saved from another alien invasion. Spending his time defending what was left of his good name over at the Internet forums, drinking booze with his only remaining friend Dylan and getting laid a lot (he’s still Duke, after all), he was living up his days in a world where he no longer fit. However, this was soon to change… Some guy got in touch with him and claimed he knows about an old warehouse where all the beta materials from Duke 3D and DNF are kept. This was a chance for Duke to finally regain his good name! If he could only destroy that warehouse, getting rid once and for all of all the embarrassing, shameful stuff – and also of the stuff people kept begging him about all the time!… Having paid the guy with still sealed, boxed copies of his 90s games, Duke got his hands on the coordinates of the warehouse and set out for a trip to Alexanderville, a picturesque town by the river where the warehouse was located. Renting a room in the Otterlook Hotel, he started making plans on how to hit the warehouse. Little did he know that all the damage done to his image was an intricate revenge campaign set out by the aliens, who would not satisfy themselves with his death, but wanted to humiliate him and ruin his life for the thousands of their brethren he has slain over the last 25 years! Learning that he is coming to the very town where they kept all their evidence against Duke, the aliens have decided it’s high time to finish the revenge by killing Duke right there.

* Play Information *
Single Player : Yes
DukeMatch 2-8 Player : No
Cooperative 2-8 Player : No
Difficulty Settings : Yes
Plutonium Pak Required : Yes
New Art: No
New Sounds: Yes
New Music: Yes
Duke HRP: Not Tested
New .CONs: Yes
Demos Replaced: No