It also has crude adolescent humour which humourless old men (like me) may deem inappropriate for children.

It's crude, surely, but it's mostly lost on the audience that's too young to understand it, and if they understand it, then they're obviously not too young?

Also, what's the problem with crude adolescent humor ?

That depends so radically on the child.

What their personality/psychology is like and what they've been exposed to already.

I wouldn't want DN3D to be my son's first exposure to the idea of female strippers. (What should it be? Now that TV channels no longer exists and you just don't catch inappropriate imagery by accident... I don't know! Something that explores the idea that he's starting to enjoy naked ladies, which is good bu under societal strictures; strippers are sometimes exploited so it's ethically fraught; OTOH men can be def exploited through their sex drive, the many traps. Also look that's a fake boob. Not some guy with a gun, godamnit.)

> Now that TV channels no longer exists and you just don’t catch inappropriate imagery by accident...

What? Hehe, on the internet today kids are way way WAY more likely to see inappropriate imagery than when we had TV channels. My kids seem to have turned out okay, but we had multiple accidents where they search for something and got back stuff that was so much worse than what they asked for. They get a firehose of inappropriate content on TikTok and YouTube. I would kill to have the internet be as moderated and tame as TV was.

I grew up playing God of War saga with my 3y old bro and other games like MK9 and so on. We just laugh at the fact.

Good memories. We enjoyed both R and kid games.

While shopping in a mall with my dad, in 1997, I found Duke Nukem 3D in a bargain bin. I think it was something like $20, which was a steal back then - IIRC most games, especially consoles, retailed for three times that.

Anyway, I was under 18, and I begged - but no dice, he saw the PEGI 18 symbol and wouldn't budge. Not one bit. Instead he saw Civ II in the same bin, and thought that would be a good game for me. And it was!

You definitely got the better deal :)