>Rape and abuse of women as a plot point? Lost me there.

You were never the target market of the series. Duke Nukem 3D's job was to parody 80s and early 90s action movies and it's not meant to be taken seriously in any way; Forever is, obviously, just like it.

Also, Dragon Age and Duke Nukem aren't even remotely similar games and weren't even made to appeal to the same audiences. I don't intend to sound angry or anything, but few people play games for how progressive they are with depicting gender and sexuality. Games exist for one purpose: fun. If someone likes crude humor, then Duke Nukem is probably fun, but I don't think anybody is going to take any life lessons out of it because they're not supposed to.

I'm a little puzzled by comments such as this. Haven't we been pointing out that "it's just a game" when people point to the unending stream of murder and genocide out of videogames for the past 30 years?

Besides, I'm fairly certain at least the rape in this case is being done by the alien bad guys....