Fred Durst is multi-faceted and multi-talented. After guiding the world into the new millennium like a rapping, rocking Pied Piper, Durst quickly found himself not just a generation’s poet laureate, but also a filmmaker, guitar virtuoso, the last guy to popularize red baseball caps as an apolitical fashion statement, and, most importantly for our purposes here, a character in multiple video games.
The last of these accomplishments is the subject of a video from YouTuber Matt McMuscles, who launched an expedition deep into the murky, hot dog-flavored waters of the past to bring a history of Durst’s involvement with games back to the surface.
The story of Digital Durst begins, as you’d expect, in 2001, the year he appeared in WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It. As the video tells it, the wrestling game’s creators needed permission to feature Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’” in the game as the Undertaker’s entrance music and, as part of the deal that made this happen, Durst wanted to be turned into a playable character. This marked the very first time kids in oversized Korn t-shirts sitting cross-legged in front of giant CRTs across the world were able, at last, to play as Fred Durst in a video game.
After this, Durst was put into 2002's WWF Raw, which is notable mostly because, as the video points out, he walks into the ring with the swagger of a baby trying to hide the fact that they’ve just shit their diaper. Unfortunately, Durst’s video game career rose and fell about as quickly as Limp Bizkit itself. In 2004, during the last gasps of nü-metal, he was a part of the ridiculous Fight Club video game adaptation, probably because he really wanted to be in it. (We noted before that Durst is a noted Club-head, telling listeners at one point that he’s seen the movie “about 28 times.”)
Sadly, we’ve now gone 16 years without another appearance from Digital Durst. The video says that we missed an opportunity for this to happen back when Jonathan Davis of Korn was trying to make a game called Pop Scars, starring his band, Durst, Aaron Lewis of Staind, and Marilyn Manson. That this game was never made available is one of life’s many small tragedies, but, as a minor consolation prize, you can still make your own Fred Durst Mii by following these simple instructions.
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Anyone else always have serious trouble remembering which Durst is the murderer?
The one who could rap?
So none of them?/snark
He certainly killed music for a few years.
‘Scuse me, I just finished The Leftovers, so the only Durst I remember is the amazing Carrie Coon:
It’s less that I can’t tell them apart and more that I won’t.
One murdered people and the other one murdered music sooooo….
♩ ♬ My name is MC Durst and I’m rapping with force,
What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course! ♪ ♫
FUCK this is good!
It doesn’t help that Robert Durst started a New Metal band called Limp Biscuit.
So… three? I count three games. I guess that’s a lot compared with, um, me?
Don’t sell yourself short. A lot of games will let you change the name (and often the appearance) of your protagonist so you can dare to live the dream!
Anyone know what he did it for?
All I heard was a bunch of he said/she said bullshit.
Hot dog water for his chocolate starfish if I remember correctly.
Like a chump (hey)…Wait.
Oh, now I know why you wanna hate him.
Smart guy with that WWF game deal.
why is this video 17+ minutes long?
“Fred Durst is multi-faceted and multi-talented.”
It was the best of times, it was the Fred Durst of times.
These video game appearances are a perfect tribute to the man who did it all for the nookie.
Considering the guy looks like a generic background NPC, you could argue he’s never left video games.
It’s pretty neat that I own a good chunk of these games. The fight club game fucking sucks
Ha! He wishes his body looked like that screencap up above. Did ya guys see he was in a Carmax commercial? Guess that directing gig didn’t pan out too well.