You can't replace the Roblox and Fortnite, you can only hope to supplement them.
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Correct, it's about giving them a wider perspective. Also I'm teaching them that scummy games that push micro transactions on you with manipulative shit should be avoided, or at least being conscious about their manipulative shit. In the end you can't make them not play Minecraft, but there is a difference between Java and Bedrock
This is the right way to do it. Don't try to prevent your kids from enjoying what they want to play, don't forcibly alienate them from the cultural zeitgeist that will connect them to their peers. But if you can get them to develop a wider palate with an appreciation for titles both old and new, that's a positive.
I did try to get a nephew to play pokemon fire red (emulated on a tablet), he found it really boring 😅
Gotta think of another game that plays fine on a tablet and maybe isn't as boring
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Spiderman 2: I solely play as Peter Parker. My daughter solely plays as Miles Morales. I wish the game was 2 player.
Minecraft: my daughter watches the YouTube videos yet somehow I'm the one who got us diamond armor. Go figure.
Super Mario Odyssey: She always makes me Mario and she's a good cappy.
She's not even remotely athletic but she's brainy and is pretty popular with her friends. Go figure.
This will be me when I have children and I am not sorry.
I'll help them build that foundational understanding of what games were and then if they still wanna play the modern bs, they can.
I feel this is exactly the same as boomers who raised thier kids on exclusively 70 and 80s "classic" rock.
I do have a fondness for old rock/metal from that era too and am pretty happy with it, so maybe that's a green light!
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Gaming peaked with the Wii, LOL
I had a chipped Wii during uni and so we (flatmates + me) downloaded and burned a vast ocean of Wii games.
I don't really see it as the peak of gaming. There's a few good games, like SMG 1 & 2, but I'd be hard pressed to name more than ten exclusives worth revisiting. So much shovelware and low quality ports.
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I just let my sister have access to my Steam account and it's turned out alright
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meh, maybe one AAA game a year is worth buying, old or indie games are way better
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There are people who grew up with game but are well rounded and sociable. It depends entirely on the person and the type of environment they grew up in.
I don't think that's what the image is suggesting. More like the kid might be culturally "out of touch" with their generation's gaming because they play old games instead.
Like, you know, everyone's talking about Fortnite and Brawl Stars and whatever mobile game is trending right now and they're like, yesterday I got Fierce Deity in Majora's Mask.
It's a bit silly a concern honestly. They'll take whatever they like in the end, and if that makes them the weird kid, well, that's how they are, and they'll survive. Been there, done that.
Good. May they learn to never preorder.
I got Commodore C128 as my first computer when rest of the world was solidly running Pentiums. That had to be around 1997 or something. That might explain my "acquired" taste in games.
the first time i ever played video games was on a ps1... in 2009. we didn't have a lot of money back then and all we had was my dad's old playstation. he mostly played resident evil and similar games before he had kids; you can't give preschoolers resident evil unless you want to traumatize them, so i spent hours playing gran turismo and a handful of arcade games on that thing until we got a wii in 2011. this began a trend of our family waiting until the end of a console's life cycle to purchase it until i got old enough to buy my own consoles. now my parents wonder why i spend my money on old games instead of buying new ones...
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