Before I started I apologize for no clickable links, or thumbnails for that matter it doesnt seem to work for me. Highlighting and copying and pasting is important to see what I am talking about. Please bear with me.
I got bored so I decided to play my all time favorite game, Wolfenstein3D. It was the first video game I ever played.
Heres a refresher if you do not know the game I am talking about:
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/9548/79455263wo6.jpg
Then I noticed this:
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1644/29978008bx4.jpg
PG-13? SAY WHAT?!
This game is incredibly violent even by todays standards, even though the graphics are horribly outdated, anyone knows whats going on. This is me defeating hitler.
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8463/76404874kw0.jpg
That is not a childs image, and the text following is not much better:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7630/96808091yg7.jpg
Seriously? This is not age appropriate by any means.
This was the first game that I ever played when I was very young, and I am normal. Every one of my friends played this game from a very young age and they are all normal.
My question is, based on this why did the industry get candy coated in terms of whats acceptable and whats not?
Why is it now anything with any type of excessive violence is instantly a M rating?
Considering that at the time of this games release this was extreme, so why the change into so much censorship?
Hope I made my post clear.
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