@Firstaide bbasically it was chock full of pop culture references and was so 90s action movie it hurt, PLUS it ...was kind of embarassingly super macho sexist?
Duke Nukem Forever came out after ...what...12 years or something of delays? and almost being cancelled?... and took it way way further and was just...ugh...gross as hell. DN3d's main playerbase was largely 14 to 20 year olds?...
DNF forgot its audience from DN3d had grown up by quite a large amount since then.