Hehe. I have 3 daughters ages 3, 4, and 7 and they love to watch me play it even though it scares them. Although, they're too scared to play it themselves.
My kids love to watch me play my games, even though I won't let them play yet. I'll let my son do Marathon when he's twelve.. uh, next year! (holy crud...)
My 8-yr-old daughter likes to watch me play GTA3, but I'll only let her when I'm doing the offroad challenges or looking for packages. And if any gangs come after me while she's watching, of course I gotta run away and not gun them down. But I've explained the idea of the game to her, in essence: "Don't EVER do any of the stuff in this game!!" So it's a running joke, now.
My kids love computer games, and they're always curious about how the rules work, asking me questions about what happens when you yadda yadda... That gives me a little confidence, that means they're thinking about consequences and play structure, good skills for living in the real world, too.
And I let my daughter fool around with the Marathon level editor, she built a little floor plan and I textured it up. She was stoked about that. Can't wait to drop Radiant on her someday...
Come to think of it, I can't wait till my kids are old enough to play 'grown-up' games with me. Yeah.
hahah, that's rad. I remember I came home one day to find my 1 year old daughter sitting in my "videogame chair" (an old crazy creek)holding the playstation controller looking at a blank tv screen.She would also like to sit at the computer and wiggle the mouse on the mouse pad and look at the computer all intense, like she was really into it.
Im kind of weary about letting my babies see violent games, I only play Gta San andreas after everyone has gone to bed. and I keep the volume low.
He's 8 Jzero. I warned him that it wouldn't be something he'd like. D3 is too much of a horror movie for him, and I alreasy new that. I also knew he would run away from the game, just like he did. He now has stopped pestering me about wanting to play it. Maybe he'll trust my gama advice a bit more now.
Hahaha thats awesome. I showed my 6 year old sister HL2 and she was intrigued... until she heard a headcrap and just about pissed herself. This coming from a girl that owns 3 snakes, rats, and all sorts of rodents.
yeah brome, Headcraps scare the hell out of me also !
when you start playing D3 the atmoshpere and mmonsters scare you, when you get over half way thru the thought that you paid 50 bucks for this turd scares you
Ohh i dont have kids or have had any kids be scaread by my pc games...but...id like ot add that the new black head crabs creeep me out O.O. *shrug* that scream they make as they jump at you...the effect after you get poisoned...and their zombies...fuck the fast zbs, i dont get near the poison headcrab zombies. >.< i nuke them from way far...from under a light lol..i think a have black-headcrab-phobia..
I was letting my 7 year old nephew play some of the skiff boat levels. He was having a blast driving into things and just messing around. Then it came time for him to get off the boat and go into a tunnel, a dark tunnel with creepy noises inside. It was funny because the conversion went something like this.
Nephew: Whats in the tunnel.
Me: I dunno why don't you go in and find out?
Nephew: not until you tell me...
Me: I am pretty sure bad guys are in there...
Nephew: what kind of bad guys.
Me: go in and find out
Nephew: no, you tell me
Me: oh sounds like they are coming out for you, get ready
Nephew: I wanna go back to the boat he runs back to the boat and drives off, crashing into more things
I took my brother (his father into rottingham (whatever its called) he was creeped out and amazed at the saw blades. I know what you mean about the black headcrabs Needles I can't count the times I was unloading in the general direction of one of those, while back peddling. That little hiss snake rattle scream thing they do gets my attention faster than anything =P
I hate any form of small melee enemies in FPS games (which is why I hate UT2004 Invasion, all the enemies are either Skaarj variants or tiny melee enemies). Having ones that put you down to 1 health with a single hit only makes it even more annoying.
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My kids love to watch me play my games, even though I won't let them play yet. I'll let my son do Marathon when he's twelve.. uh, next year! (holy crud...)
My 8-yr-old daughter likes to watch me play GTA3, but I'll only let her when I'm doing the offroad challenges or looking for packages. And if any gangs come after me while she's watching, of course I gotta run away and not gun them down. But I've explained the idea of the game to her, in essence: "Don't EVER do any of the stuff in this game!!" So it's a running joke, now.
My kids love computer games, and they're always curious about how the rules work, asking me questions about what happens when you yadda yadda... That gives me a little confidence, that means they're thinking about consequences and play structure, good skills for living in the real world, too.
And I let my daughter fool around with the Marathon level editor, she built a little floor plan and I textured it up. She was stoked about that. Can't wait to drop Radiant on her someday...
Come to think of it, I can't wait till my kids are old enough to play 'grown-up' games with me. Yeah.
/jzero
Im kind of weary about letting my babies see violent games, I only play Gta San andreas after everyone has gone to bed. and I keep the volume low.
And my dad(46) got through HL2 in 3 days... On Hard! O_o
BTW, I finally got to try Doom3 for myself an it almost scared the crap out of me! 1AM no lights and the sound cranked wooooooeeeeeee!
when you start playing D3 the atmoshpere and mmonsters scare you, when you get over half way thru the thought that you paid 50 bucks for this turd scares you
ok now lets move to your previous sheduled thread
Nephew: Whats in the tunnel.
Me: I dunno why don't you go in and find out?
Nephew: not until you tell me...
Me: I am pretty sure bad guys are in there...
Nephew: what kind of bad guys.
Me: go in and find out
Nephew: no, you tell me
Me: oh sounds like they are coming out for you, get ready
Nephew: I wanna go back to the boat
he runs back to the boat and drives off, crashing into more things
I took my brother (his father into rottingham (whatever its called) he was creeped out and amazed at the saw blades. I know what you mean about the black headcrabs Needles I can't count the times I was unloading in the general direction of one of those, while back peddling. That little hiss snake rattle scream thing they do gets my attention faster than anything =P