Things your Folks used to say when they saw you Gaming

[Plurralbles]

"it's time to eat, come to the table"

They only really ever bothered me when it was time for a meal, my family dictated that we would eat at the table every meal possible. I didn't appreciate it at the time but looking back it was a good deal.

 

[Plurralbles]

Once after playing tonnes of Assassins Creed, my grandad said to me "Haven't you killed enough arabs today?"

He gets 50 win points.

Heh, when my grandad of ma father's side visit(ed. Moved outta the U.S.) he'd ask me to put in a high quality game, turn the hud off and kick as much ass as I could, make it look like a nice action movie. He enjoyed watching me play Assassin's Creed and go on murdering sprees the most.

that's really cool.

That's one thing pretty graphics can do, make it fun for others to watch the person play.

My answer though would be, "Nope, there can never be enough"

Actually have pretty deep conversation about games design with my Mum. Get some good ideas from her knowledgeable-outsider's perspective.

But her boyfriend always asks me "Are you winning?" ... which is difficult to answer cause I mostly play single player. Can you be said to be winning if you are merely progressing through the story?

I ask that to be ironic. I'll see my roommate playing GTA4 and simply watching an NPC talk or just running around running over pedestrians and I'll ask him if he's winning. Just a fun(to me) reference to the early days of gaming when that could be answered in a simple, "yes" or, "NO I just died!"

 

[Custard_Angel]

You should really do something better with your time.

That was a favorite.

 

[AfroTree]

My dad?

"Gies a shot"

My mum

Nothing.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

My parents don't like video games at all. But they respect the fact that it's what I like to do (I think...) My mom is usually the one to say stuff but when my dad does, it's really harsh.

Like my dad says that I was tearing my soul up and such with all the violence and pestering me about what I get out of it. And he says that I am the one killing people (on the games) and enjoy killing people so I should be in the military and kill people for real because it would pretty much be the same thing. Also saying that the game plays out everything for me, leaving no room for imagination so I'm losing my imagination even though I have an awesome imagination. And his lighter one was asking "why do you have to play a game with so much violence" "why can't you play something where you build instead of destroy, and help people". I help people by killing bad guys

 

[The Lawn]

Since my dad got me into gaming, he never said anything.

But when I was younger I would usually get home from school and play mah good ol genesis, and within 10 seconds of me picking up my controller my mom would come in, without fail, and say "You've been playing video games all day, you should go outside and play."
Even though I had just been outside with my friends for a good 2 hours while we came home from school, we lived in a farming town in Germany and the route we took home did take about 2 hours, and beside the fact that I had only been home for about 5 mins and neither the TV or the genesis were even on...

So I used logic and said that if I were to play with my friends I'd just be doing the same thing but in a different living room.

This continued until middle school where I invested in portable video gaming solutions.

And in high school I mostly did PC gaming, with my friends, so when my mom told me to play with my friends... I said I am, because I was.

 

[Mechsoap]

i once managed makeing my mom play world of warcraft, she dident even make it to talk to a quest giver, since then my mom dont comment it much

my dad does well, he calls me his little gamer even though im bigger then him, and he keeps not understanding games at all and says ''stop killing people and get down''

 

[Mechsoap]

Since my dad got me into gaming, he never said anything.

But when I was younger I would usually get home from school and play mah good ol genesis, and within 10 seconds of me picking up my controller my mom would come in, without fail, and say "You've been playing video games all day, you should go outside and play."
Even though I had just been outside with my friends for a good 2 hours while we came home from school, we lived in a farming town in Germany and the route we took home did take about 2 hours, and beside the fact that I had only been home for about 5 mins and neither the TV or the genesis were even on...

So I used logic and said that if I were to play with my friends I'd just be doing the same thing but in a different living room.

This continued until middle school where I invested in portable video gaming solutions.

And in high school I mostly did PC gaming, with my friends, so when my mom told me to play with my friends... I said I am, because I was.

thats so true infact, and good answer with the last sentence

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Your not playing that all day!

And i ended up doing so

 

[Benj17]

Dad: Stop Killing Aliens

Me: Its actually (insert ethnic minority)

Dad: Same Thing

My mom will usually just come into the room and stare unless i need help on a puzzle, i'll explain how it works and shell give me a solution, smart lady

 

[Sirenskye]

"Can't you do something a little more ladylike?"

"When are you going to grow out of them?"
"Mum, both my uncles play and they're older than me!" The best part of this one was three days later I caught her playing on my Wii and loving every minute of it. She still plays it now... and still asks when I'm going to grow out of gaming/do something a little more ladylike.

 

[Phase_9]

My parents actually supported my habit, because I always planned on becoming a game designer, and now I am doing it.

 

[Sunstrike]

my father doesn't care for them. My mother thinks they are childish. My girlfriends mother believes that games are only for children and she is one of those people who are completely ignorant to the depth they can be. I'm trying to be a developer/artist/game programmer, but she thinks it's childish and hopes i will give up and also thinks that life is all about making money. That kinda scares me how much she is into the go to school for the money and not for the passion.

Food for thought, when I checked 2 or 3 years ago that entry wage for game programmers with little to no expeirience was somewhere in the range of 50 000 $ a year, people with 10-15 years of expeirience could make up to 100,000$ a year. While certainly not insanely wealth, definatly an upper middle class type wage.

To the OT

My parents were usually pretty cool with me playing video games. As long as I kept my grades up and did what I needed to get done they didn't really care. The pretty much figure now that I've moved out (to go to school) I'm mature enough to handle my own affairs and don't care what I do with my spare time,

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I get the stock standard "You should take a break" and "Are you going to play all day?"

but also (this happened when playing Heavy Rain since my Mom loved watching me play that game) "Wait...what are you doing? You haven't beaten the game yet?!" and "Okay...now pause I've had to use the bathroom for an hour and I'm going now. So pause."

My Dad would also do a running commentary when I played FIFA to try to trip me up since we always played together?

 

[ninjapenguin981]

My mom flinches when there's blood on the screen or if I'm killing someone, and I always get the don't you have anything better to be doing line.

 

[crystalsnow]

"Oh so THAT'S how you get onto the ledge."

 

[StarofAzura]

My parents always go really worked up about it, especially my mom. She'd rage and cry and complain about how I was "wasting my life" or some other such nonsense. She'd sit me down and Very Seriously explain that spending five hours playing Dark Forces II on the computer was Not Normal, and that I needed to go outside more.

When I joined Star Wars fandom she arbitrarily decided to hate Star Wars, and ever since, whilst hopping through various fandoms and periods of being obsessed with this or that, I'll get the whole "THE DEVIL IS TAKING MY BABY" -sob- spiel.

I love my mother, but daaaaaaaaaaamn she can be dramatic.

Oh, and my father still (I'm 23) refuses to buy me anything with sexual content (I asked for Dragon Age for three months straight and they refused to buy it because of the "sex" scenes - what a laugh. Also, without doing any "real" research other than a Focus on the Family or other "Christian" review.) And when I was eighteen I found a copy of the X-Files game which happened to be rated M for some "realistic" autopsy scenes, and I got yelled at and told "never to bring that filth into the house again".

How's that for overreaction?