10 Classic Video Games That Play Horribly Today

6. Duke Nukem 3D (PC)

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If you were a prepubescent teenage boy in 1996, Duke Nukem 3D was your favourite game. So what if Doom did it first and Quake did it more atmospherically? Duke 3D had a fully-functional strip joint and a foul-mouthed protagonist.

PC gaming didn't get any better back then, but we all have to grow up one day, and that's when pixelated boobs and casual swearing were no longer welcome.

Beneath Duke 3D's attempts to be edgy was a good first-person shooter, but not a great one. There are great FPS titles from around that time - Half-Life came out just two years later, and GoldenEye knocked local multiplayer out of the park in 1997 - and they're the ones which hold up today.

Modern gamers will be more unforgiving of its janky visuals and penchant for backtracking. It can almost pass as a nostalgia package if you're old enough to appreciate the Duke's pop culture references, but otherwise, it's no more than a relic.

In 2018, a world where the likes of Grand Theft Auto V and Bulletstorm provide our low-brow thrills, characters like Duke Nukem no longer feel relevant.

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