Your Parents view on a Game you were Playing
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As a child: Mom, can I get Halo? All my friends have it.
Mom: No, it's too violent.
As a preteen: Mom, can I get Halo 2? You only kill aliens and online players.
Mom: No, those guys used it to practice sniping, then killed a bunch of people.
As a teen: Mom, Halo 3 isn't that bad of a game. Look for once.
Mom: O, it has such amazing graphics. O, you are fighting for good. Well if I would have known that earlier...
As a teen: So I spent years of my childhood outcasted from all my friends who played Halo because you refused to actually look at Halo, rather than listening to Fox news? Now I'm years behind in playing skill!
Mom: No, it's too violent.
As a preteen: Mom, can I get Halo 2? You only kill aliens and online players.
Mom: No, those guys used it to practice sniping, then killed a bunch of people.
As a teen: Mom, Halo 3 isn't that bad of a game. Look for once.
Mom: O, it has such amazing graphics. O, you are fighting for good. Well if I would have known that earlier...
As a teen: So I spent years of my childhood outcasted from all my friends who played Halo because you refused to actually look at Halo, rather than listening to Fox news? Now I'm years behind in playing skill!
I only got one comment on games...from my grandpappy.
After -much- coercing and many, many written debates on the reasons to finally get that "internet thing", he finally broke down and put in a dsl line, yay.
Now, having taught the man how to surf the web, (73 this year) he gets totally into the Yahoo! games thing, especially the card games.
His one statement about online play?
"Why are all those people so rude?"
Oh, and my grandma is far too interested in Pokemon Diamond. I want my DS back. T_T
After -much- coercing and many, many written debates on the reasons to finally get that "internet thing", he finally broke down and put in a dsl line, yay.
Now, having taught the man how to surf the web, (73 this year) he gets totally into the Yahoo! games thing, especially the card games.
His one statement about online play?
"Why are all those people so rude?"
Oh, and my grandma is far too interested in Pokemon Diamond. I want my DS back. T_T
my dad plays more WoW than me. now and then he also plays Dawn of War: Dark Crusade or Soulstorm.
he taught me how to play pc games like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (*cough* best game ever) and RTS´. he is an experienced PC gamer, but he doesnt play on consoles.
He does however sometimes watch me playing on a console or a new PC game. the best part of it is he´s 39 and still prefer games over sport, TV and other stuff
my Mom used to be Uber-1337 at Wolfenstein 3D.
he taught me how to play pc games like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (*cough* best game ever) and RTS´. he is an experienced PC gamer, but he doesnt play on consoles.
He does however sometimes watch me playing on a console or a new PC game. the best part of it is he´s 39 and still prefer games over sport, TV and other stuff
my Mom used to be Uber-1337 at Wolfenstein 3D.
heh I end up having huge game chats with my dad... we play the same games most of the time.
most recently we were both up to the same mission in CoD4
most recently we were both up to the same mission in CoD4
My mother used to comment on things she'd hear from my room like the constant stream of m-m-m-m monster kill-kill-kill or swearing in GTA games, other than that they never cared.
What's odd to me is that both of them get motion sickness if ever they attempt to play a game.
What's odd to me is that both of them get motion sickness if ever they attempt to play a game.
The last game either of my parents have seen me playing was Half Life 2. It was my dad, who said "Hey, that looks like fun."
Next time I came over to his house, he'd downloaded it, played it for an entire weekend and uninstalled it because he couldn't stop playing. Then again, he did get me into gaming, only stopping because he literally became addicted.
As a side note, he managed to play an FPS with a track-pad. I'm impressed.
Next time I came over to his house, he'd downloaded it, played it for an entire weekend and uninstalled it because he couldn't stop playing. Then again, he did get me into gaming, only stopping because he literally became addicted.
As a side note, he managed to play an FPS with a track-pad. I'm impressed.
My mum was horrified when she saw me playing L4D.
She always asks "What's This?" she can't keep up with what I'm playing.
I've only seen her play twice and both times she was great, sadly enough.
I'm also jealous of the people who say they come from gaming family's. I'm the other one who really games in my house, my brother only plays sport games so he doesn't count.
She always asks "What's This?" she can't keep up with what I'm playing.
I've only seen her play twice and both times she was great, sadly enough.
I'm also jealous of the people who say they come from gaming family's. I'm the other one who really games in my house, my brother only plays sport games so he doesn't count.
My dad always used to say how incredible it was they managed to make these 3D enviroments, he also was very impressed with animation movies and (cheap) GC special effects. About two years ago he finally stopped doing that.
When I was playing Metroid Prime 3, my mom once made the ridiculous comment 'these kind of games' probably are never made by a woman. I said she was correct, because games are never made by one single person but a huge team consisting of many different people with different genders.
When I was playing Metroid Prime 3, my mom once made the ridiculous comment 'these kind of games' probably are never made by a woman. I said she was correct, because games are never made by one single person but a huge team consisting of many different people with different genders.
My mum (IT'S SPELT MUM) loved it when I played Mario 64 (she felt that it "educated me")
And dad'll be watching me play Okami (in the really boring, non-story bits, naturally) and he'll say:
"I have no idea how you can be entertained by these games all day"
And I'll say:
"And I have no idea how you can be so entertained by staring at the same bloody canvas every day." (he still hasn't touched it)
Oh yeah, my step-dad's a Final Fantasy nerd, so, yeah
And dad'll be watching me play Okami (in the really boring, non-story bits, naturally) and he'll say:
"I have no idea how you can be entertained by these games all day"
And I'll say:
"And I have no idea how you can be so entertained by staring at the same bloody canvas every day." (he still hasn't touched it)
Oh yeah, my step-dad's a Final Fantasy nerd, so, yeah
(Fallout 3)
"Hey mom, lookit this, ain't it pretty?"
"....Its a destroyed city."
"Yeah, but its pretty"
"...But its a destroyed city."
"... Its still pretty."
(Mirrors Edge)
"If I watched you play that game I think i'd get dizzy."
She could still put people to shame at her leet skills on Gauntlet Dark Legacy and Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance. Back before I traded in Left 4 Dead for Saints Row 2 I tried to get her into Left 4 Dead and I swear, she died twice in the very first room and then quit.
"Hey mom, lookit this, ain't it pretty?"
"....Its a destroyed city."
"Yeah, but its pretty"
"...But its a destroyed city."
"... Its still pretty."
(Mirrors Edge)
"If I watched you play that game I think i'd get dizzy."
She could still put people to shame at her leet skills on Gauntlet Dark Legacy and Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance. Back before I traded in Left 4 Dead for Saints Row 2 I tried to get her into Left 4 Dead and I swear, she died twice in the very first room and then quit.
About a week ago I was playing UFC: Undisputed at my mom's house and she seemed impressed with the game. She liked how the screen would lose color and the crowd would be toned out when the person gets dazed. The only thing she didn't really like was when I kept punching the guy while he was down.