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'Behold! Keen 3D!


We got a great deal reusing a Sonic engine; for some reason the company was glad to be rid of it. Also, now more focus on women and kids!'
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More focus on kids? This IS a kids' game, right?
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Keening_Product wrote:More focus on kids? This IS a kids' game, right?
It was a kids game 20 years ago, but just like all of us it and Keen grew up. :p

Seriously though I'm a bit ambivalent on the issue; I do want another game, preferably it gets handed to Tom Hall and he can finally finish the trilogy the way he wants it, but the way the big companies chuck out garg every now and again does concern me.
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Keening_Product wrote:More focus on kids? This IS a kids' game, right?
It seems that what people think kids should play has changed. In the early days of games (1980s to mid 1990s) games were seen as much more family oriented than they are now. Pac Man was deliberately created to appeal to women, Monster Bash was something goofy for the family, Keen could be played by anyone.

But then the market turned towards young men and shooting lots of badguys with blood n' such and now that's what we tend to think of when we speak of video games. (Games like Farmville and Candy Crush Saga are of course ignored.)

So if Keen were retooled for kids I don't know 8what* they'd do to it.

But here, have some Candy Jam games: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/02/candy-crush/
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Monster bash should never get a sequel because it's misogynist and warps kids minds to bring deadly slingshots to school, you monsters!

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Here's how the new 3D Realms website will look like:

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And... what do you know! Keen 6!
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I really hope that's not a mock-up!
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But the first thing I noticed was
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Live event on TWITCH:
http://www.twitch.tv/interceptorentertainment
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I can't hide my disappointment. The girl looks terrible, the trailer is awful even though I think that the only explanation for this poor student-like quality is that it is meant to look that bad. Its intention is to bring a nostalgic feeling for when Duke Nukem Forever was meant to be released back in the early 2000s.
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There but for the grace of Id goes Keen.
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