Poll: Your Parents on Gaming.
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My dad used to be a REALLY great tekken player(Seriously, I never won against him and i was a button masher) and I fondly remember watching him dominate Duke Nukem.
However nowadays he doesn't play games anymore, however since the new Duke Nukem Forever is coming out he is going to try it and i'm hoping he'll start playing games again!
However nowadays he doesn't play games anymore, however since the new Duke Nukem Forever is coming out he is going to try it and i'm hoping he'll start playing games again!
My mother still seems to harbor the impression that all games are violent time-wasters for people who have no lives. My infatuation with games is a source of constant but (usually) silent disappointment.
My dad is a bit more open-minded and actually programmed a few simple games back in the '80s, though he rarely actually plays them. He did get all the stars in Angry Birds, which I guess is impressive enough, and he got all the way through Portal, which made me so, so proud. Never mind that actually watching him play was like watching a cat trying to catch a goldfish by swatting at the glass with its paw. Now to persuade him to play Portal 2.
My dad is a bit more open-minded and actually programmed a few simple games back in the '80s, though he rarely actually plays them. He did get all the stars in Angry Birds, which I guess is impressive enough, and he got all the way through Portal, which made me so, so proud. Never mind that actually watching him play was like watching a cat trying to catch a goldfish by swatting at the glass with its paw. Now to persuade him to play Portal 2.
My dad ignores it. My mom is very open to it, I introduced her to the Layton games and L.A Noire and she like those, so that's good. She did once ask me if I ever get tired of them and I responded with "do you ever get tired of books or movies?", and she understood. So, I'm lucky.
My parents love the old Tomb Raider games. I used to play the 1st 3 all the time with them and I got into more better games. They think some games are really cool like the concept or the looks they aren't fans of GTA4 or Saints Row 2 but their upper middle class Christian parents what do you expect *Shrug* still love em' though.
I got both of my parents to play Rock Band before, but it go very well.
My mom plays Bejewled and other Pop Cap games on the computer and my dad has his own Xbox 360 that he plays racing games and shooting games on.
My mom plays Bejewled and other Pop Cap games on the computer and my dad has his own Xbox 360 that he plays racing games and shooting games on.
My Dad and I used to play Super Mario 64 when I was a kid, but he lost interest in gaming as I got older.
My mum is utterly indiferent to all kinds of games. Card games, board games, videogames, sports, she can't be bothered with any of them. She's really boring like that.
As for my dad, he utterly despises videogames. Just thinks they're for children and dumb people.
It's so much fun being a gaming enthusiast in this household...
As for my dad, he utterly despises videogames. Just thinks they're for children and dumb people.
It's so much fun being a gaming enthusiast in this household...
I've got some pretty great memories of me and my dad playing through Mario Bros/Mario 3/Mario World/Donkey Kong Country/Donkey Kong Country 2/Crash Bandicoot/2/3 together.
I'd oft times come home from school and find him in my room sneaking in an hour of some game or another. Sadly he never made it past the hurdle of 3d games with cameras that you had to control.
But good times, good times. When he'd jump between vines in DKC he'd actually move his whole body.
I'd oft times come home from school and find him in my room sneaking in an hour of some game or another. Sadly he never made it past the hurdle of 3d games with cameras that you had to control.
But good times, good times. When he'd jump between vines in DKC he'd actually move his whole body.
It's a bit of an odd situation. My dad is a bit of a sci-fi geek, and he thinks, for example, Half-Life 2 has an intriguing plotline as I describe it to him. However, he will never, ever actually play a game, as he believes my generation is too dependent on electronic entertainment and he simply doesn't want to get involved. Yes, he reads speculative fiction and somehow is also a Luddite.
My mother is, simply put, a casual gamer. She plays everything Popcap's put out--fortunately she hasn't sunk to the level of Farmville--and is currently playing Plants vs. Zombies rather obsessively. She has tried, on occasion, to play something with a little more substance, but she panicked when introduced to the 3D worlds of Portal and Minecraft. She started rotating the mouse to the left when she wanted to look to the left, and the concept of moving forward and jumping at the same time was utterly beyond her. At one point, she created a portal loop and was very proud of herself until I told her she was passing through the same room over and over again, at which point she got a queasy look on her face and walked away from the computer. She also refuses to believe that games can be more than just mindless entertainment. If I try to explain a storyline or clever element of gameplay to her, she immediately starts rolling her eyes.
So they're a bit odd when it comes to games. They don't outright hate them, but don't really understand them either.
My mother is, simply put, a casual gamer. She plays everything Popcap's put out--fortunately she hasn't sunk to the level of Farmville--and is currently playing Plants vs. Zombies rather obsessively. She has tried, on occasion, to play something with a little more substance, but she panicked when introduced to the 3D worlds of Portal and Minecraft. She started rotating the mouse to the left when she wanted to look to the left, and the concept of moving forward and jumping at the same time was utterly beyond her. At one point, she created a portal loop and was very proud of herself until I told her she was passing through the same room over and over again, at which point she got a queasy look on her face and walked away from the computer. She also refuses to believe that games can be more than just mindless entertainment. If I try to explain a storyline or clever element of gameplay to her, she immediately starts rolling her eyes.
So they're a bit odd when it comes to games. They don't outright hate them, but don't really understand them either.
My dad hates gaming, and doesn't want to see it at all. My mom however, plays wii games with me a lot (no, I dont mean Wii sports), although she only ever plays sidescrollers. To date, she's the only one that I know personally that beat donkey kong country returns without losing a life on her very first run of it.
My mum wastes her time when she's not working on bejeweled and shit like that. But says that I should stop wasting time and money on xbox game
My dad plays the hell out of Resident Evil and Silent hill and will often play games with myself and my brother on the PS3 and the PS2. The last time I was visiting my parents he was beating my brother on the new Mortal kombat games. My mum, whilst not a gamer herself, will often sit and watch and will make comments on the story. My parents are just cool people
My mom is one of the biggest gamers i know and rocks at them. I only recently started getting good enough at games that I can play them with her without hanging my head in shame. She is also by no means only into "happy games" the way the stereotype mom is, in fact there have been more then a few times when I've heard her say "when the hell do I get to shoot shit!" during an over long cut scene or something.
My dad (before they where divorced) tried to jump on the gaming bandwagon a couple of times, mostly because he can't grow up and spends his days trying to be youth full and cool, but only played a few crappy racing games and GTA 2 or something. I can thank him for introducing me to Metal gear though...because he borrowed it from a "buddy' but gave up after 15 min and couldn't even get to that first elevator that brings you up to the actual game so i got it for the rest of the time and beat it.
Ya. I pretty much got as lucky as humanly possible when it comes to my mom. I have never (no exaggeration) had any of the general problems of not being allowed to do things without crossing the line of "can do what I want since 2 because of no supervision." I remember hearing from some kids in my neighbourhood, the year I started high school, whining that their mom's wouldn't let them get some piercing or something. Then in the same day my mom, at supper, saying that starting high school is exciting and I should go crazy and die my hair purple or get a nose ring or something to celebrate. The other kids were mad when I turned it down and they were still begging.
My dad (before they where divorced) tried to jump on the gaming bandwagon a couple of times, mostly because he can't grow up and spends his days trying to be youth full and cool, but only played a few crappy racing games and GTA 2 or something. I can thank him for introducing me to Metal gear though...because he borrowed it from a "buddy' but gave up after 15 min and couldn't even get to that first elevator that brings you up to the actual game so i got it for the rest of the time and beat it.
Ya. I pretty much got as lucky as humanly possible when it comes to my mom. I have never (no exaggeration) had any of the general problems of not being allowed to do things without crossing the line of "can do what I want since 2 because of no supervision." I remember hearing from some kids in my neighbourhood, the year I started high school, whining that their mom's wouldn't let them get some piercing or something. Then in the same day my mom, at supper, saying that starting high school is exciting and I should go crazy and die my hair purple or get a nose ring or something to celebrate. The other kids were mad when I turned it down and they were still begging.
Long ago, I made the horrible, wretched mistake of introducing my mother to two games in particular:
Pikmin and harvest moon: Another wonderful Life.
Dear lord... she got so addicted we practically had to have an intervention. I had to beg my mother to get off the gamecube to not only play it for myself but to get her to do anything. I once cam downstairs at 2-3am and found mom playing harvest moon, just farming away. Also, so many pikmin met their ends at her hands... she brought the damn gamecube on vacation with us, to the beach, and played the majority of the time one year.
She's since been rehabilitated but damn, dark times they were.
Dad is completely inept at games.
Pikmin and harvest moon: Another wonderful Life.
Dear lord... she got so addicted we practically had to have an intervention. I had to beg my mother to get off the gamecube to not only play it for myself but to get her to do anything. I once cam downstairs at 2-3am and found mom playing harvest moon, just farming away. Also, so many pikmin met their ends at her hands... she brought the damn gamecube on vacation with us, to the beach, and played the majority of the time one year.
She's since been rehabilitated but damn, dark times they were.
Dad is completely inept at games.