Fond memories aside, I was actually kind of disappointed with my return to the game. I wasn't naïve enough, of course, to think that I'd be walking into it with the same mindset of my younger self, but it still surprised me how ultimately underwhelmed I was by the whole thing. There was a time when I thought that Duke Nukem 3D was outright awesome. The violence, the attitude, the sexuality; to a nine-year old in 1996 a game with honest-to-god boobs seemed like a revolution. In 2014, on the other hand, it's a game that feels goofy at best and mildly uncomfortable at its worst. The fact that the game focuses so heavily on captured, imprisoned and sexualized women (many of whom beg you to kill them) just really rubbed me the wrong way as an adult.

Almost 20 years later however, it feels more like a marker of how far we've come than anything else.