10 Video Games Sequels That Were EXACTLY The Same

Duke Nukem was one of the video game staples of the early 1990s. A homage to the buffed-up, hyper-masculine '80s action hero, his trilogy of games let young fans live out a perfect power fantasy of mowing through waves of enemies, spouting curse-riddled one-liners in a gravelly monotone, and, most importantly, getting the babe. The best game in the franchise might have been Duke Nukem 3D, which hit shelves in 1996. Little did gamers realize at the time that they wouldn't see Duke for another fifteen years.

After being stuck for almost two decades in what could be generously called development hell, Duke Nukem Forever featured Duke doing Duke stuff: fighting aliens, trash talking like a twelve year-old, and being as misogynistic as a thrice-divorced drunk cousin at Christmas. While it looked different, Duke Nukem Forever was ostensibly the same game as all the previous games in the franchise.

But while Duke was the same old meathead that gamers had fallen in love with, the '90s were long over and global culture had progressed to the point where juvenile jokes and disposable women weren't just signs of a lazy game, they were downright insulting. Forever had taken so long to come out that people didn't want the same old Duke game they'd played with as a kid, so it's a shame that's exactly what they got.