History WMG / DukeNukemForever

Tile 4484 in VideoGame/DukeNukem3D (Atomic Edition) shows the text "Ultimate warrior", with a picture of Duke detailing his brain, skin layer, cells and DNA. This is a clue that Duke has been genetically engineered to be the ultimate warrior and actually possesses a {{Wolverine}}-like healing factor. This only appeared in VideoGame/DukeNukemLandOfTheBabes and subsequent games due to LiteraryAgentHypothesis.

It's either that, or he'll stick with thefake review he's already got.

* There's this one link to a [[Website/YouTube 'Tube]] video where, after blowing up an ExplodingBarrel next to one of the aliens, he says "Looks like pigs really CAN fly!" [[CrowningMomentOfFunny BOOSH!]].

* The principal player in this scheme, after 3D Realms, is Blizzard. See: ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}} II'', ''{{Starcraft}}'', ''Starcraft: Ghost'', ''Starcraft II'', ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Adventures'', etc. etc.
** Diablo 2 and Starcraft were actually released, but both were heavily delayed. If there wasn't such a pariah as Duke Nukem Forever, then there might have been more anger with them being so delayed.

* Confirmed. ''Duke Nukem: Critical Mass'' was released for the NintendoDS. And it sucked.

[[WMG: Duke Nukem Forever will be released before Max Payne 3]]
DNF is on the 2011 calender, but MaxPayne3 is not.

* The Devastator was pretty much unchanged. Just made easier to carry and given a nice redesign. But it was also made to hold [[FreudWasRight 69 rockets]] despite firing in increments of 2. You can tell Duke was a top designer in the "re-purposing" program.

It was posed in the form of a challenge ("You can't even tell a Planck length from a pluton") and used to tell a Duke clone from the real Duke. It's possible that, being created by Doctor Proton, Duke clones would know exactly what those things are, so they would fall for the challenge and reply with scientifically accurate definitions. The real Duke, instead, has no scientific background whatsoever (he doesn't even realize that his answer, [[HilariousInHindsight "I got your Planck length right here"]], basically means [[GeniusBonus he has a microscopic penis]]), which let Dr. Valencia tell he wasn't a clone.

Possibly (relating to the guesses above) genetically engineered by Doctor Proton as well. The clues are in some 1998/99 interviews with George Broussard, where he states that Bombshell "is not attracted by Duke, so he '''assumes''' she is a lesbian". He '''assumes''', which means there might be another reason. In another interview, George says that Bombshell is "involved in a few plot surprises", and the easiest way to have a "plot surprise" with a new character is to make them related to the main character.

** What? Diablo 2 and Starcraft were actually released.
*** Ah, but both were heavily delayed. If there wasn't such a pariah as Duke Nukem Forever, then there might have been more anger with them being so delayed.
* I actually thought of something like that in early 1997. It occurred to me that we had many screenshots of Prey and none of Duke Nukem Forever, despite the fact that DNF (at the time, based on the Quake 2 engine) was supposed to come out before Prey. I figured that DNF had to be a commercial machination. In 1997, the Quake 2 engine was the most advanced engine ever, while the coolest game character ever was Duke Nukem. A game putting the two things together would have been something nobody could have competed against. Thus, I figured, 3DRealms had to spread rumors about the imminent release of such a game to coerce competing software houses into rushing their games out before this "monster" of a game could come out. Those games would have been unfinished and buggy, which would have damaged those software houses and let gamers wanting more, wishing they could play a solid game... which they would have got with Prey. Ironically, Prey actually came out before DNF.