this is the most badass motherfucker in all of video games. and this is coming from someone who only played the blood games in the past couple months. holy shit i bow down to caleb

>>11880403 (OP)
Explain fully please.
Make some actual points.

If quoting movies and comedians while sounding cocky is "badass" then surely Gex is the most badass gaming character in history.

Always bet on Duke

Gayleb is the ultimate tryhard in a game for tryhards. I'll always prefer Lo Wang and Duke.

Heh heh truly ebin ftw references in this game, hearing the crawling hands say “I’ll swallow your soul” like in Evil Dead never gets old and when you face the cerberus boss he says “cujo?” another epic ref since cujo is an evil dog truly such atmosphere could never be replicated elsewhere

>>11880403 (OP)
He cries and simps and fights for a woman. By definition he can't be badass.

>>11880543
Always disliked this, back then and just as much now. Eye-rolled when Sam (of Serious fame) did the Indiana Jones whistle at the rolling boulder reference.
Only thing that lifts Caleb from the same trash bin as the other build engine protagonists (+Sam) are his design and voice performance.

>>11880403 (OP)
Who?

>>11880543
don't forget frozen jack from the shining

>>11880685
ok edgelord

>Heh heh truly ebin ftw references in this game, hearing the crawling hands say “I’ll swallow your soul” like in Evil Dead never gets old and when you face the cerberus boss he says “cujo?” another epic ref since cujo is an evil dog truly such atmosphere could never be replicated elsewhere

>>11880543
I hate throwing around the term but I think this is actually a zoomer. The only reason someone would think this is because they've never known a life without the Internet where they weren't bombarded with information nonstop and could actually enjoy things without viewing everything through 6 layers of irony.

>>11880685
it's called passion when cool people do it

>>11881932
Not only that, they didn't experience the references in relevant media, let alone in a timely manner. Pop culture references age like milk, but they tend to leave a relatively positive impression when fresh. Now shit curdles faster than ever.

>>11880449
Caleb is badass because of those things and more.

>>11880685
He's a villain who kicks the ass of a greater villain for his betrayal.

>>11881932
I believe that we should actually kill people who are irony poisoned.

In the case of "badass" no character comes close to Johnny Rocketfingers.

>>11882385
what UI is that?

>>11880523
Tiny Wang and Dyke Nukem are pussies compared to Leonard from RR

This has nothing to do with irony poisoning or zoomers.
Referencing popular media of the time is just not going to land with some people, some people being burnt out on what's being referenced or not fond of it. Maybe it aged really poorly (Yes, references aged even before our current internet landscape, don't be silly). It's very cheap and easy to do, which there's nothing wrong with but these games lean pretty hard onto referential humor so if you don't like it you're gonna be annoyed more than anything when it comes up.

Remember spoof movies? It's a bit like that, the better ones would mix in good comedy that would age well without relying entirely on the thing its referencing while others, like the mid-2000s "X Movie" parodies, were just kinda crass low brow shit that made most of their money from tricking people by putting the biggest references in the trailer, iirc a few these went into production before the things they were parodying came out.
This also doesn't necessarily have to do with the reference being fresh or not, usually being worse if you're already saturated with said pop thing. I certainly wouldn't enjoy a reference to Avengers Endgame now (Pretend it hasn't been 6 years, I don't know what's popular anymore) just like I didn't enjoy a reference to Star Wars or Indiana Jones when they were in their heyday. Of course the people that DO enjoy mere timely references don't apply, doubt many of them would enjoy the Narnia parody movie now if they hadn't watched it back then.

Zoomers are absolutely obsessed with multimedia shit, specially in games. All of the big games have crossovers with other big franchises. Which I don't need to tell you is beyond referential, and any cynical person would see it as an obvious cash grab. Some of these are weird like a Mistborn one in Fornite and Alucard from Hellsing in Call of Duty.

>>11880403 (OP)
Wrong.

>>11883293
References are references and Duke Nukem 3D is a product of its time, and neither Duke nor Blood define their humor entirely from references.
Modern corpo-safe crossover shit is another bucket of muddy dildos entirely.

>>11881932
Anon, we’re the generation of Wheaton dialogues being held up as top-tier writing, oh-so-random MySpace humor, and endless heckin subversive deconstructarinos
If anything, it’s the late Zoomers/early Alphas that are bringing earnestness back as a reaction against Millennial writing

>>11883621
>Anon, we’re the generation of Wheaton dialogues being held up as top-tier writing, oh-so-random MySpace humor, and endless heckin subversive deconstructarinos
That stuff was generally ok when it was just in its own corners, instead of becoming omnipresent and tiresome.

I liked Buffy (mostly the first five seasons), but Whedon's style of writing definitely should not have been everywhere.

>>11883293
>these games lean pretty hard onto referential humor
having a handful of references across the entire game is not leaning pretty hard into it. they at least turned the "i'll swallow your soul" one into an enemy.

>Remember spoof movies? It's a bit like that
it's not. those movie's entire raison d'etre is references. not the case for blood.

>>11880403 (OP)

>>11883293
>the better ones would mix in good comedy that would age well without relying entirely on the thing its referencing
Like Airplane! where many of the references are now obscure but the jokes still stand up. "Fred never vomits at home" etc.

>>11883702
Right, I should've said most of the voice lines tend to be references. Duke's one liners themselves are a homage to movies from that era.