Apparently there is a rape scene in Duke Nukem Forever, I assume it's on the alien ship/base/whatever, probably more towards the end of the game. To give some perspective, here is a quote from a review I was reading, and for the sake of discussion, the quote will remain anonymous (to avoid a derailing): 
 

couldn't care less about rape in games, it happens in eal life and has been a theme in movies. im not going to blow my mind just because there is interactivity.

Sounds disgusting.

Please be careful with spoilers in the thread titles...

I'm sure this will be an intense and important discussion, but let us play the game first.

@buft said:

couldn't care less about rape in games, it happens in eal life and has been a theme in movies. im not going to blow my mind just because there is interactivity.

Let me know the next time a blockbuster movie has women writhing in pain while being raped and then the protagonist cracks a one-liner about it.

Like the reviewer, I'm not beyond crude humor, but even in crude humor there is a line between funny and creepy/tasteless.

EDIT: I should add that I haven't played the game myself, but if this description is accurate, then my statement stands.

Think this is all in the quicklook.  Doesn't seem like they show the rape, just....  they explode and a bunch of baby aliens come out.

I don't think this game deserves controversy. Just let it babble and dribble away in the corner.

Not having played the full game, I'd like to know how accurate this description actually is before I make any judgment.

@nintendoeats said:

Please be careful with spoilers in the thread titles...

I'm sure this will be an intense and important discussion, but let us play the game first.

I think this should serve less as a spoiler but more as a warning.

@buft said:

couldn't care less about rape in games, it happens in eal life and has been a theme in movies. im not going to blow my mind just because there is interactivity.

Sure rape, genocide, brutal murders. It's all in real life. That doesn't mean I want it in my entertainment. Personally, this makes me want to skip the game.

Isn't that part in the Quick Look? I've gotta say though, that whole level is a bit.. unsettling.

They are talking about the part in the underground part of the game, its in the quicklook they just put up. Go watch it and make up your mind. Hmm I don't know I agree its a whole giant rape scene, but everyone is going to interrupt it how they want.

There's no rape. It's just women attached to ceilings and walls in dark areas that moan and cry because they're harboring aliens inside them. Same concept as Alien.

I've seen worse.

I hate it. Only because its clearly going out of its way to try and be controversial and that's just fucking childish. 

This post might contain spoilers, but I've been as general as possible.

While normally I'm not really for faux moral outrage, I still think that the way this scene was presented was kind of troubling. I mean, alien impregnation has been a long standing trope in the "body-horror" genre as you all know from movies like Alien. I think the thing that makes these scenes stand out in particular is the way that the game makes them out to be entirely sexual. Duke even runs into two girls who apologize for having sex with / being impregnated by the aliens and putting on weight before they explode. The problem also being that Duke's response doesn't seem typical of his character - instead of reacting with any kind of anger, as one would expect from Duke (who loves chicks, as is the point of the whole game), we get some shitty pun about how they're "fucked."

All in all, it's not as horrible a scene as Sterling makes it out to be but it still troubled me.

@Dread612 said:

They are talking about the part in the underground part of the game, its in the quicklook they just put up. Go watch it and make up your mind. Hmm I don't know I agree its a whole giant rape scene, but everyone is going to interrupt it how they want.

I can see how you could interpret that as rape, the women are naked and their lower bodies are covered in what look like tentacles. During the entire time they are moaning in pain and agony.

Now if this game was a serious thriller, fine. But I wouldn't expect something like that what is supposed to be a "funny" game. I found the scene in the QL nauseating...

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

Get over it. Didn't disturb me, why would it disturb anyone else? Oh wait, since they're pansies.

Or you know. Rape is not a joke. I hope for you it never affects your life.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

Get over it. Didn't disturb me, why would it disturb anyone else? Oh wait, since they're pansies.

Not that it offends me, but why does being a woman make you the barometer of what offends and what doesn't?

Was more disturbed with one of the concept images found on Kotaku.

@Marz said:

Think this is all in the quicklook. Doesn't seem like they show the rape, just.... they explode and a bunch of baby aliens come out.

If the quicklook is actually the part the reviewer is talking about, he made a little bit of his story up. Maybe there still are giant inseminating penises in the game, but I saw none when Jeff played. Don't you think Jeff would have mentioned something about that since he beat the game?

That sequence was Shown in Quick Look plus something similar was in Duke 3D so we should expect it here. They steal babes for some reason right?

@PhatSeeJay said:

Was more disturbed with one of the concept images found on Kotaku.

Ok so the creators are in to disturbing Japanese hentai tentacle porn. Now it makes sense.

It's not even the rape that seems to bother me, but the entire scenario. Like the entirety of that game it just sounds repulsive in general.
 
Also, the quote is from Jim Sterling at Destructoid who reviewed the game and gave it a 2/10. Only decided to post that because purposely leaving information out of something only makes me more interested. Disclaimer: I like Jim Sterling, so I'm not complaining.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

Get over it. Didn't disturb me, why would it disturb anyone else? Oh wait, since they're pansies.

Not that it offends me, but why does being a woman make you the barometer of what offends and what doesn't?

Being intentionally offensive doesn't stop it from being offensive. 
 
Fact is, there is a.) a joke about rape "Looks like you're ... fucked." and b.) has the victims apologise for being raped.

@Marokai: I purposefully left it out so that people wouldn't jump on that bandwagon again and derail the thread. I'm lad this has picked up discussion. I'm watching the QL now, so I might see the scene.

Just saw the quick look, it's not that bad.

As long as it's rated appropriately for adults this shouldn't be a discussion at all. Making it into a talking point just boosts sales and makes kids more likely to want to play it, it's counter productive, more than it deserves and akin to giving attention to a child that's acting up.

@NeverDave said:

As long as it's rated appropriately for adults this shouldn't be a discussion at all. Making it into a talking point just boosts sales and makes kids more likely to want to play it, it's counter productive, more than it deserves and akin to giving attention to a child that's acting up.

Just because something is rated for adults doesn't mean we can't still have discussions about the content in the game.

That's it, I'm getting this game.

@Xolare said:

There's no rape. It's just women attached to ceilings and walls in dark areas that moan and cry because they're harboring aliens inside them. Same concept as Alien.

Is Gearbox really to blame?  I assume their involvement was taking what they got from 3D Realms and trying to piece that together into a game that can be played.    What exactly did Gearbox do in terms of story and level design?  Judging by what I have seen of the game it looks like they just went around and made everything look like shiny plastic.  I assume it was rated by the ERSB.  Who did not seem to think it needed an AO rating.  
 
Having seen the quick look it seems reminiscent of Aliens with people attached to the hives waiting to have xenomorphs burst out of their chest.  Only replace Xenomorphs and Space Colonist with brain spiders and naked chicks.  Though I couldn't see your giant penises but that might of been because it was dark  in the quick look.  

@benjaebe said:

@NeverDave said:

As long as it's rated appropriately for adults this shouldn't be a discussion at all. Making it into a talking point just boosts sales and makes kids more likely to want to play it, it's counter productive, more than it deserves and akin to giving attention to a child that's acting up.

Just because something is rated for adults doesn't mean we can't still have discussions about the content in the game.

I meant more along the lines of this becoming some big debate about videogames. I just don't think a game that sets out to push peoples buttons should be given the satisfaction of being discussed in such a way.

There is no alien mothership level. I also beat the game twice and I never realized it was rape. I guess you need to think about it really hard.

It always seems that there can be violence galore in games/tv/movies and no one blinks an eye. Toss in something sexual in nature and everyone loses their shit. I'm sure said scene isn't pleasant, but me blowing a guys brains out at point blank range is?

In 100 years, this alien rape in Duke Nukem will be considered art too.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife , is an erotic woodcut of the ukiyo-e genre by the Japanese artist Hokusai, first published in 1814.

That's disgusting 

@yakov456 said:

It always seems that there can be violence galore in games/tv/movies and no one blinks an eye. Toss in something sexual in nature and everyone loses their shit. I'm sure said scene isn't pleasant, but me blowing a guys brains out at point blank range is?

I think there's a difference between something sexual in nature (i.e. nudity in Heavy Rain or sex scenes in Mass Effect) and what some people here and Jim Sterling are perceiving as glorified rape.

@stoodspoon said:

That's disgusting

That is in a museum.

Anyone else found the title immediately confusing?

The (soon to be, I think) infamous rape scene.

Since Infamous 2 is coming out now, I though that this was refering to a rape scene in Infamous 2, before I saw that it was attached to DNF.

Christ, there really are some whiny self-righteous cunts on this forum.

I don't really see what's so self righteous about wanting to discuss an event in a videogame that some might find offensive.

Kind of fucked up. I wouldn't buy the game anyways, but that's depressingly pathetic.

@Old_Corncob said:

In 100 years, this alien rape in Duke Nukem will be considered art too.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife , is an erotic woodcut of the ukiyo-e genre by the Japanese artist Hokusai, first published in 1814.

One of the reasons why I love the Japanese.

After watching the QL I think this game is very misogynistic. The area with the crying, naked women(who I guess are the ones getting raped?) and then killed my Duke is fucking disturbing. I'm fine with ANYTHING in a game but that really came off as wrong.

Dude's making shit up. The scene where the twins get 'sexually assaulted' is in the Quick Look, so there's some evidence that he's wrong. They just stand there and then explode.

And really, Alien is a movie about a little creature that latches onto your face, sticks it's dick down your mouth and then shoots semen into your stomache until it's satisfied and dies, wherein babies will burst out your stomache.

I see no difference in what that critically acclaimed, cult status film does and what the women in this mediocre game are subjected to. I hope that guy never watches Alien, he might actually throw up.

Dude's making shit up. The scene where the twins get 'sexually assaulted' is in the Quick Look, so there's some evidence that he's wrong. They just stand there and then explode.

And really, Alien is a movie about a little creature that latches onto your face, sticks it's dick down your mouth and then shoots semen into your stomache until it's satisfied and dies, wherein babies will burst out your stomache.

I see no difference in what that critically acclaimed, cult status film does and what the women in this mediocre game are subjected to. I hope that guy never watches Alien, he might actually throw up.

Dude's making shit up. The scene where the twins get 'sexually assaulted' is in the Quick Look, so there's some evidence that he's wrong. They just stand there and then explode.

And really, Alien is a movie about a little creature that latches onto your face, sticks it's dick down your mouth and then shoots semen into your stomache until it's satisfied and dies, wherein babies will burst out your stomache.

I see no difference in what that critically acclaimed, cult status film does and what the women in this mediocre game are subjected to. I hope that guy never watches Alien, he might actually throw up.

@Aishan said:

The difference is that in Alien it's done for horror. In DNF they use it as a joke.

I don't see why a poor joke would cause him to want to throw up. If he didn't expect terrible jokes about women, he really shouldn't have bought that game. I mean, even in the part where he said the twins were sexually assaulted, they straught up say "It was our first time with an alien!" so I'm not seeing where this horrible rape comes from. Slutty chicks bangs an alien and explodes, that's Duke Nukem for you. Not funny, but it's not disgusting rape.

@Napalm said:

I don't really see what's so self righteous about wanting to discuss an event in a videogame that some might find offensive.

Nor do I. It is worthy of some discussion at some level. Granted, the game is dated in almost every fashion but that scene is just wrong. This isn't about people having weak constitutions when they get offended. Some things just aren't funny.