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What were your parent's rules on video games? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 days ago by trslim@pawb.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines. The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted. How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I was playing mortal Kombat when I was 9-10. They didn't do due diligence, and if I thought they'd have a problem with it, I would just lie about it. I'm still playing mortal Kombat but compared to everyone else in the world, I suck ass now. Same with call of duty. From 19- 28 or so, I was awesome. Quit playing when they announced advanced warfare because it was getting too corny and the maps kept getting worse and worse for making plans, and all about chaos and random encounters. Got MW2 with my PS5 for nostalgia, and I again found that I wasn't as good as I used to be. Oh and all the stupid skins like santa running around in a warzone was fucking stupid. They should've left that to fortnight. These days I mostly play racing sims (thankfully I'm still really good at GT7) and RPGs which is funny that as I got older I wound up playing more family friendly stuff.