my 6 year old coisin as a mother that let him play CoD2 zombies even after freaking SCHOOL and then he became kinda agressiv with his rollplay of zombie and stuff and you now what his mother said to me -its because of that stupid game and of you because you always rollplay with him now i see that she is a really bad mother
ok, the problem is that that is clearly not a game for kids so young. most kids at that age barely understand the concept of warfare, much less being prepared for something like Call of Duty. Fortunately for you, he is still young and impressionable. You modeling more appropriate behavior in roleplaying is going to make an impact on him.
My mom to this day will watch me play GTA and whenever I'm driving she'll be like "this song sucks, change it." Or "This song is as old as dirt." It's like real driving XD
As someone who has experienced this first hand, I can tell you that this is one of the greatest experiences a child can have. Let me explain. When I was younger (spotlight on the "er" there) I use to play those children's MMO's you saw on TV all the time. Whether it be Toon Town, Wizard 101, or whatever it might be. One day, my mom walked into the office that I was playing Wizard 101 and asked me what I was doing. When I told her that I was playing my games and brushed it off as her making sure I was ok, she asked me about why I enjoyed playing these games so much (I was like 9 or 10 at the time so I wasn't very good at explaining why somethings good or bad, but bear with me). I told her that I liked it because it was colorful, engaging, and reminded me of when I use to play card games when I was even younger. That got her intrigued, and she asked if she could join me for a bit. I said ok purely on the fact that none of my friends were on at the time and I was getting a little bored. After a while, she had started helping me in battles. We would talk about how the cards and things worked and how to win. We started playing in every night and it became a sort of habit, at one point, there was an update where you had to be a certain level to get special place that would only be there for a certain time. I was about 5 levels off and the event was going to end the next day. So, my mom stayed up all night grinding through tons of monsters to get me to that level. We did this for at least 2 years until we were the highest level in the game. To this day, it is one of my favorite memories and shows that this works. While I may not have been learning in a sense, we still were bonding and sharing story's. I just wish that we could have continued that, but it is probably the reason that I am so into games and the reason that me and my mom are so close to this day. To any parent out there that is still not convinced that video games can be a learning/bonding experience, I want you to take my word for it and try it. I promise you that you wont regret it.
You didn't ramble and I ramble, when I try to explain things, so helping your mom understand the different parts of the game probably helped you explain things concisely. I didn't have that because whenever I played a game with someone, I was getting told everything (because I'm the youngest and I would play with my older brother or sister). Then I was just interested in finding games I didn't have to spend a lot of time understanding it, like pokemon. You hit the thing then throw a ball, wait, wait, wait, got the thing now it's yours to hit other things with. Anyway (see the rambling) you learnt how to say things concisely.
This is basically how many 21st century kids feel. When I spent *weeks* making my first profesional level 3D model using a profesional tool, I felt so proud that I had to show them. They both kind of just looked at me funny, assuming that it was an easy thing to do, and that I should just "focus on getting a real job." Technical literacy is suprisingly low among my parents' generation, and it is creating a divide between them and their children. I bet that in 20 years down the road, we will be known as an "independant generation, who were typically detatched from family life."
My mum and sister love drawing, so my mum supports her in drawing anything. But when I make a game, she doesn't seem to care so much, because it's a medium she doesn't understand as well. Or something. I don't know why.
Kth77 Same here, too bad I'm the one who loves video games xD. I try to talk to my brother, but our age gap is too much to converse easily, and I can't easily "teach" him because he doesn't respect me the same way he respects my parents
This video makes me kind of sad. The only interaction between me and my parents relating to games was them dismissing me or yelling at me for playing to much. I still feel uncomfortable playing longer than half hour. fearing that my mother would burst in and screaming hysterically about how I am wasting my life.
be careful with that. I was in the same boat, but they kept me in line. Now, I wasted ~4 years at university, barely studying, always playing. I abused the sudden freedom, and its hard AF to get it together.
I have made a similar experience. My parents would only allow me to play for half an hour a day, later a full hour, because of their irrational fear of those games. They claimed that I was a bad way of spending my time and they would punish me for playing more than I was allowed by fully banning video games for days, weeks or rarely even a month at a time. When I turned 16 - 17, they did not enfoce those rules anymore as they did with my older brother (without ever officially declaring that limiting my play time would be up to me), it just worked out over time. How do you expect someone to take up responsibility for themselves if you never left them the freedom to actually develop that responsiblity?
When I was a kid, my mom used to think video games were a Japanese conspiracy to rot the brains of American youth. 15 years later, I've given up Nintendo and she's addicted to Candy Crush.
This just get me sad, I tried to talk with my dad about games when I was younger. But he just dismissed it, and told me to stop talking about computers, that there are other things in the world. So I rarely talked to my dad about anything.
My dad is like this too, except he now explains to me why he acted that way, and that he wishes we connect more. and that, in my opinion more than makes up for it.
***** Surely there's things to talk about besides computers though. TV, movies, sports, books, people you both know, etc. Just because someone doesn't understand one large aspect of your life doesn't mean they can't understand other parts
Hoopsicle Mcgee That's not really the point. It has more to do with the fact that their dad isn't willing to understand something that's so important to them, and it hurts.
64 Bit Artist I know. And I'm sure the dad might love sports or something and the son doesn't want to talk about that and the dad might feel the same way. Everyone has different things they prefer to talk and think about the most. It's bad to dwell on the things you can't connect on and find out instead that you both love wes anderson movies and talk about them
Most parents don't play games with their kids. Either because they are too involved in their job or they don't care. They don't realize how harmful this is to their parent-son relationship. How many of us have been told we "never spend time with them because of our games" and when we ask them to spend time together "they are too busy". Being busy doesn't change the fact that your son is becoming more and more distant because of your negligence. Sometimes being an hour together is more valuable than extra money in the paycheck.
***** I'm pretty sure thats what he meant, ill accidentally say "He" when addressing someone like a pilot or a cashier sometimes when I know that a pilot or cashier can be both a man or a woman, I say the same thing about alot of occupations as well but you get the idea.
But what most people don't know is that many gamers are female and when speaking of gaming, I always hear "he" if not "they" instead of how in other cases, I hear "he", "they", AND "she". When it comes to gaming, women are spoken of a lot less often than in other cases.
When someone if referring to others in casual conversation the male pronouns are often used, unless specifically referring to females. For example, "If anybody eats the leftovers I put in the staff refrigerator, I will kill him". The female pronouns (like she) are typically used only when referring exclusively to women. For example, "If Susan eats my leftovers, I will kill her". Saying him/her is only used if you need to be politically correct.
The comments section makes me feel kind of sad to know that I was lucky with the parents I have. I mean my mom completely dismisses games in general as a waste of time. Whereas my sister took it a step further and constantly belittled myself, my father, and my older brother for having such a love of games. But on the other hand I had my aforementioned father, who got me into gaming in the first place. It started when I was 4 and he taught me how to play chess, telling me that he wasn't going to go easy on me and when I win, I would actually earn it, and betting me 10$ that It would take me a year to beat him for the first time, it took me 4 months and he laughed and gave me the money when I remembered that bet. Today he wins every 3rd game we play. When I was 6 he introduced me to Final Fantasy, which forged a love that today has me feeling depressed and betrayed with all the new final fantasy's sucking but that's not the point. then when I was 10 he showed me his all time favorite, Dungeons and Dragons, which at age 18 today, I play with him and his friends. So my experience with parents and video games has been relatively balanced unlike alot of the comments I've been reading. tl;dr my mother and sister hate games, my father and older brother love them and my father taught me to play in the first place so fairly balanced childhood. Comments here make me sad.
randomintrestsperson ehhhh with Dnd its mostly just fantasy, There are other systems such as D20 or GURPS that would probably be better suited for a more modern era. From a personal standpoint, as far as getting into DnD I would recommend 3.5 edition. Although I admit that version is not exactly easy to learn. Especially not helped by 3.5 no longer being in circulation save through Ebay. People seem to be liking 5 but after reading it myself I personally don't understand why (I don't think there should be rules on roleplaying, and an entire chapter dedicated to pre-baked character backgrounds/personalities/motivations when the player should be writing their own is just lazy and a waste of pages) but at the very least it is easier to get your hands on and does player training a bit better. So basically if you want to try it get 3.5 if you can but if not 5th edition is at least easy to learn the game.... Even if it does suck. The books you will need to play are the Players Handbook, Monster Manual, and the Dungeon Master's Guide. Oh and avoid 4th edition like it carries the Bubonic Plague is the general consensus
randomintrestsperson Dnd, can be fun, i particularly like the new dnd 5. however pathfinder is very overly complicated but can be fun for those who like stragey board games as it's essentially more of a board game than a role play. But no DND is a pretty specific setting. If you want that same setting more attuned to role play and tabletop strategy. I'd recommend dungeon worlds. However, If you are looking for a RP system that is universal to any setting. I'd highly Recomed Savage Worlds. It's a system that is very simple and easy to run yet has a lot of combat depth. The mechanics are some of the most realistic have seen in a rpg, and are really intuitive. The system can handle anything you can throw at it and is specifically designed to be modified and tailored to a specific setting. It is by far may favorite RPG system. Admittedly most of the setting books sold are a bit wired and wacky but you can just ignore those since it's any setting you want.
My mum doesn't play games, my dad loves games (and plays this one football manager one a lot) and my brother is a little rat- He's a bit annoying and plays tnt run.
I mean you can use it if you stay on the right radio station and don't go around killing NPC's out of random while he's there. If you take out the killing and crime it's a driving simulator.
Ac is an interesting historical réconstitution and its more fun to just wander during the revolution or the crusade instead of learning boring historical date
00:47 I used to work at a Gamestop. Its so true! I've had so many parents come in and buy horribly gruesome games for their kids. My favorite was an instance where a mother was looking for a good game for her 6 year old. After what seemed like half an hour, and warning her multiple times "This is Not a game for little children"; she decided to buy GTA4 (of note: she refused to buy any of the Harry Potter games because "Witchcraft is the work of the Devil! I won't expose my child to that filth!")
Somewhat related subject! I saw a post on tumblr in which a girl said that her school (which was a catholic school (NOTE: nothing wrong with catholic schools, just this particular catholic school)) had decided to ban a massive list of books She was a big reader, and people actually started asking her if they could borrow books. She decided to set up an against-the-rules library, using the unoccupied locker next to her own, with a schedule of when to return the books and everything. The list of books that were banned included: The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Animal Farm, The Divine Comedy, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Canterbury Tales and The Quran.
My Uncle and I played GTA when I was 6 and he was 18. He taught me that while in a game these things are okay, but know what was wrong with everything the character did and why I should never repeat them. 12 years later I graduated high school without a single detention, never touched drugs, and never mugged anyone. It's about teaching right from wrong and my uncle did that very well! Maturity is taught.
The Big Kids were given nun-chucks and they started to hurt everyone, We were allowed to bring them home then on one day, my cousin came and started a whole battle.
If a child spends so much of their time doing something even as teenagers, it's important to them and has some meaning. Just because it's a game does not mean it's _just a game_ and means nothing. I'm still in high school, and I just always thought parents werent supposed to be there when you play games, or talk to you about it. But then I remember when I was still in grade school and my mom would ask how my game of Pokemon was going, and the joy I felt was a kind I have yet to recreate or surpass. If you are a parent who does not play games but has a child who does, I urge you to interact with them. Turn it from something that keeps you apart into something that brings you together. This video makes me wish my parents had done that, or will do that. But the view of games as being "_for kids_" stops parent-child relationships in their tracks. I just end up staying in my room most of the time, because my relationship with my parents is very underwhelming because even though I try to watch Law and Order with my mom, or the Daily Show with my dad, they don't meet me half way to play Super Smash Bros or Mario Kart. It's honestly a big missed opportunity for most parents nowadays.
i remember my dad playing call of duty 1 with me when i was around 15-16, we were playing deathmatch online and he was sometimes even leading the scoreboard, which was fucking cool because he was like 47 or something at the time.
Boom! Mindblown!You mean providing a young impressionable child with proper guidance and context and teaching them important lessons as they grow and experience the world is how you are supposed to raise a child?!?
I am really glad this video exists. I see and hear it waay too often these days; kids (more commonly teenagers) becoming isolated from their parents because of the large interest that child has. A lot of people (not just parents) think that their child doesn't want to communicate with them and WANTS to be isolated from them. This frankly isn't true. As a parent you should find out about what it is that your child is interested in and dedicating time to and try to talk with them about it or even better, get involved with it. Just like what is said in the video, if they're playing a game like Call of Duty, start a conversation with them about the World Wars, or anything in relation to that type of game. But what do I know, I'm not a parent. (I hate that logic)
TrueFriends HelpMoveBodies That's no excuse, sadly. There are many opportunities right there in your arguments to actually spare interest for gaming and sharing it with your kids. Each job has a similar representive in a game, so that can be used as a connection point. Cooking as well. Buy the kid Cooking Mama on DS and let it learn with it. You can also explain through that how realistic the cooking in this game is compared to reality and might try cooking some of the dishes presented in the game together with your kid. All sorts of hobbies nowadays are made part of gaming already. Sports, knitting, writing, music, art. Using that as an excuse is weak, since you could combine your hobby through a game to show it to your kids and they might start enjoying it themselves. There is no excuse for failing to connect with your child through something it loves. *That* is the problem with parents these days. Blaming other components instead of looking on where they went wrong or what could they do to improve on that. I am 28 years old, work 8-15 hours a day, have a dog, two cats and two tarantulas to take care of. I work on Games myself and study a lot 24/7. Yet I always skip anything I rather want to do to enjoy some games with my 13 year old sister. And I did so since she was 5 years old. My Dad also spares interest in what she's playing even though it is not what he likes. And I come up with games that we all can enjoy together as family. Instead of searching for excuses that prevent me from connecting to my siblings and family, I try find something we all can enjoy equally. That is time well spend.
TrueFriends HelpMoveBodies My uncle wakes up at 4:00am everyday and works late into the evening six days a week. He is responsible for a large portion of household chores and does a lot of the cooking. He may not have much time to play video games anymore, but he always makes time to talk games with his kids and just share their interests in general. So yes, i'd say it is possible no matter how busy you are.
+SkippyGeekk Not to sound bigoted or anything, but a lot of these obstacles are based around how the parents are brought up. There is still a heavy stigma about playing games when you could be reading or playing sports. This problem might be part of the greater issue of people seeing games as children's toys. The good thing is as their generation rotates out and ours rotate in, we are much more inclined to know the benefits of games, and much more likely to do this simply out of instinct. Unfortunately, it's very likely that we ourselves might succomb to this if something else new comes along. Personally, I dislike mobile games since I prefer a certain genre of games (RTSs and FPSs) so while they might not be "new" when I have kids, I might very well be unable or unwilling to find time to connect with my child if mobile games is all he/she plays. The true key here is to keep an open mind and be willing to be a supportive, engaged parent. The problem now then becomes us as a society, since such a criteria was there even in past generations, but there were still many parents who would just wash their hands of actually taking care of their kids and ploping them in front of the first thing that would engage the child (TVs and even Radios were, at one point, accused of the same things games are now).
+MechaEmperor7000 Exactly! We just need to keep an open mind and be supportive and engaged. One of the best ways to help someone is to show them that you care.
I really like RPGs with great stories and art, I think partly cos my mum would occasionally sit and watch me play some games and talk to me about how great the art was. Its so important to make this hobby one that we share with others!
1:40 A guy (especially a teacher) that can turn GTA into an educational program about something as simple fucking colors is a badass, I want that teacher. I want a teacher that'll talk about video games while we chart down notes that would be awesome.
+Hornchief In US history the teacher sent about 4 classes going over Assasin's creed 3 and where it does and does not reflect real history. Those were interesting classes, and the 4 people in the room who did not play games were a bit clueless, but the other 20 kids loved it.
"MUM! COME SEE MY MINECRAFT HOUSE" The start of an engineering career. "DAD! WHAT INTERSECTION SHOULD I USE FOR THIS TRAFFIC JAM IN MY CITY" The start of a City Planner "DAD! HOW SHOULD I ATTACK THE CITY" The start of a deep conversation about military strategy
+Playstation Newbie It can be even simpler than that. "Dad should I get the new weapon in the shop or should I wait?" A discussion about decision making, priorities, and good budgeting practices.
Son: Mom, I'm playing this dating game and I can't get to any of the H-scenes! Mom: What H-scenes? Son: Nevermind, I'll ask dad. Mom: Wait, did you say dating game? Come back here! The start of a mother questioning the father's teachings to her sons.
+Daniel Sedlarević I do this all the time for my little brothers! Heck, one of them plays gtaV (only online, my demand for that) and I am almost always there next to him for when he asks where something could be, or what car should he get. I don't know a lot of car facts or have the entire map memorized but I know the mechanics and such better then him and do my best to explain it to him.
When my mother and father left their homes to live together, they didn't have much. Just a trailer, their car, and a wish to have more for their daughter (my sister). They often didn't have much in the way of money, so all of their time was spent either working or caring for her. As they both continued through college and were able to start their careers, they continued to maintain their lifestyle of saving money constantly, although they had a much larger pool of disposable income. This was around the time that video games were growing in popularity and became well known to the general public. It was around the time when they got to a point in their careers where they didn't have to work nearly 15 hour work days that they invested in a game console. They would go to work, come home, then play Super Mario or Punch out!! while talking to each other about their day or with their daughter. They continued to buy things like the Sega Genesis, dreamcast, SNES.. you name it, even though it continued to become a less convenient medium for entertainment than something like television or movies. Around the time that their son (Me!) was born, they still played games, but not all that often. I had a few learning disabilities that I'm not going to name, but it caused serious problems for me as I was growing up. Many of the instructors at my schools, as well as research regurgitated by the media, seemed almost hell bent on making sure parents wouldn't let their children play video games. My personal instructors were especially firm about this, seeing as learning disabilities at the time were either approached as if they were passing phases, or as if they were curses from God, turning me into a vessel that Satan would inspire hate, violence, and insanity in if I so much as saw somone punch something in a video game. Thankfully, my parents knew better, and introduced me to the medium. I'm not going to go into detail about all of the games I played growing up because this comment is too long already. My mother would play games like Monkey's Island and spy hunter with me, and my dad would play things like GTA and Driv3r, driving us to the library to find cheat codes because we didn't have a home PC, teaching me about things I could do at the library while I was there. He also played medal of honor on the GameCube with me, and I remember him telling me about the horrors of WW2 and wars in general, and I remember actually crying when I saw a soldier sobbing in a corner during the pearl harbor attack. There's not really an underlying thing here, just reinforcing some of the things that were said in the video. My relationship with my parents and my sister is great, and video games have a lot to do with that. They made sure to communicate with me while I was playing, and that has been with me for years. Talk to your kids about the games they play, trust me, they'll always remember the things that you shared with them.
My father is the most closed minded person towards video games and basically sees them as the root of all evil. I wanted to liven up christmas with the family by bringing along some party games and my god he was PISSED. But when I asked if I could bring along some board games he said "Now that's a good idea". Ironic huh.
I mean board games are a ton of fun and I like them too, my point is that it's funny that some people don't want to see that a game you play together and a game you play together on a screen are basically the same thing.
I would've given anything for my parents to take an active part in my hobbies and interests as a kid. I always felt like I had to be the one to take an interest in their hobbies for any bonding to happen. It really makes a difference now a days to have my dad sit down and watch Supergirl with me and talk about the characters and ideas. Even if you don't understand the thing your kid likes, there's probably something about it you can enjoy.
I loved the story about the parents who used video games to their advantage by teaching their children about different things in life that were both practical and, thanks to the connection, interesting to them. I especially enjoyed the teacher who's literally teaching his kid about traffic laws and colors, even about makes and models of cars, from a video game that in general displays violence, drug wars, and other such things we'd rather avoid in real life. This, my friends, is excellent parenting.
My dad spends a lot of his free time playing strategy war games, and my mom's addicted to facebook games, so I certainly don't have that problem. I guess it helps that they were gamers themselves back in the day.
The worst type of parent is that one that simply hates games just for not understanding them and calls them all stupid violence and stuff, but it gets even worse when our government does that. (I'm in Germany and our government is really gamerhostile.)
Wilkommen im Klub, dank der Scheiß Propaganda durfte ich erst immer nur eine halbe, und später eine Stunde am Tag spielen und wurde mit Verboten bestraft wenn ich die Zeit überzog. Der Umstand, dass ich nur wenige Freunde hatte mit denen ich mich selten traf hat dann meiner Freizeitgestaltung natürlich noch besonders viel Vielfalt zugeführt... Ist natürlich die allerbeste Methode um deinem Kind eigenverantwortliche Zeitplanung beizubringen, und erstrecht förderlich für Vertrauen und Selbstwert *hust*
Thank you for making this video exist. This speaks more to me as someone who is interested in television, but it works well for games. I can never make my family understand why children's entertainment can be engaging and important for teens and adults or why the more mature topics shouldn't be censored.
I remember playing TMNT with my old man over the years on the old ps2...Good times! Once we got the wii, he played bowling with my sister and I. I wasn't that good, but it was very fun to have that family competition evey now and then. Every now and then, he watches me play some game and simply says "You're getting hit on that side, man! Take 'em out!" I can't help but wonder if he wants the power of a controller back in his hands once again...
up till 4:42 I was like "this is a cool way to raise my children if I have any", but then past that point the feels train hit me, because my father or mother were not part of my gaming life and they don't even know any of the games I play. Then on top of that I had to figure out every thing myself and find all the thing myself with no one beside me telling me what to do or how to do it, before this I thought "playing video games are cool to play without the bothersome of parents" then I saw how little my parents come in my room, they only come in just to tell me to do a chore and that's it, nothing special, and I remember only playing with my parents once or twice and those were the most memorable moments in my gaming life and I haven't got any since. This video really got me thinking.
NobleSavage Thank you for making me realise something, instead of thinking the negative things about it. my mom pretty often walk in the room to hear how im doing, now that i see that some don't, i apprecate that instead of thinking "only if i had a dad to play or talk about games with, or a mom with time to talk about it with" Thx!
NobleSavage You've hit me with some empathy I didn't even realize I had. The same applies to me. All my life, I've never played any games I enjoyed with anyone I felt could really enjoy them for years. It's because I never knew that feeling that now, at 13 years old, I feel like I'll never meet a person that shares similar tastes than I do. I usually think every kid who claims to be a "Gamer" has a Xbox One and plays GTA 5 and COD and swears online. Which as a result, have completely ruined my taste in those games. I barely play Call of Duty anymore and I can't get into GTA 5 for even a minute. I've never made any real connections with anyone in my entire life. Any connections I do make are just stretches because I don't really like that thing or "Yeah, I've heard of it." So I have a deep depression. Clearly, realizing it hasn't helped and now it's taken a toll on my schoolwork. I took a online school and got kicked out because I didn't do work. I don't even know how to convince my mother into these things, since I have a fear of introducing someone to something I like and them rejecting it. I don't know if anyone has felt the same way I do, and has gotten out of it. I'm seeking therapy, for what it's worth.
I have fond memories of me and my dad playing Total War together. It was truly a collaboration. I was more the military strategist who decided who we were going to conquer and how our military should progress (as well as doing the battles) while he was the one who managed the places we'd already conquered, kept the populations under control and managed our finances. He's a project manager, you see, so it came naturally to him. Over time, I learned how to properly manage my empire on my own, but I did sometimes let him still do it, as he has much more patience than me when it comes to that sort of thing.
***** Oh I'm very familiar with the Starcraft games. Been there since 1998! But by 2-person team battles I only mean 1v1 battles involving a player and a strategist standing beside them :P
Me: *picking up the ring of burden underwater in Oblivion* *running through the house to wake up my brother* "What does over encumbered mean?"... Him: "It means you're carrying things that are too heavy" Me: *Uses that word to impress many teachers and in many essays*
I really have to limit how much of this channel i watch per day, I keep thinking "Just one more video." Next thing i know it has been an hour, you just have to many great ideas, especially this one.
god i wish my dad gave a s**t about my hobby of gaming. Im being dead serious when i say that our relationship is not what it used to be, because of one conversation. After getting my first actual job (at a resturant), my first few paychecks went toward a 3ds. i was very excited. and the first person i saw was my dad me: hey dad wanna see what i bought? its a 3ds and it has glasses-free 3d, its stereoscopic which means- dad: can you bring in the washing later?
In my friend circle I'm pretty much the last to have kids. Some have become model parents, going the extra mile for their kids, some are lazy as all hell. One of my friends let his kid play COD at an early age, and there's some problems with a game like that, first the kid thought that when someone died they would just respawn, which is very akward trying to tell a kid about mortality. And second he got in trouble at school for threatening to shoot people in the face with a shotgun. If your going to let your child play a game, play it yourself first, and ask yourself if its appropriate. That will also allow you to help your child with a good game, and then you understand it so it makes explanations easier.
I can vouch for this. I loved video games as a kid, and while i did love playing them alone, there were times i really wanted my parents to play with me. Id even pull my dad into my room to get him to do this little puzzle that showed up often, and i always tried to include my mum in what i was doing, but they never really took an interest. Even after i got second remotes they never sat down and played multiplayer with me, and thats something i always wanted. In fact its something i wanted so much that when i finally had that chance with a friend of mine, i ran it into the ground to the point she didnt want to play that game. Honestly, it made me feel really lonely when i was playing them, online play didnt have the same charm, and its never something i really enjoyed, since i didnt really like randomly meeting people i didnt know that well. So, if youre a parent or family member reading this, dont be afraid to take part in your kids hobby, they might actually enjoy it. Just, dont force it, make sure theyre okay with it :)
I remember playing Driver 3 on the PS1 and while my parents sucked at the game, it was hilarious to watch them drive into walls with police bashing them, my mum even got stuck behind a bench somehow. That was the first and last time we played games together and I was about 7 at that point, I am now 23.
My dad, even that he is "too old" for this stuff did this a lot with me. I'm not a native english speaker, but I can say I speak much better than most my friends, and a LOT of how I did this was playing mmo's when I was younger together with my dad. At first he wrote a few basic sentences to help me with simple conversations like "Hey, how are you?" to "How much?" "Can you help me?" and some other stuff. That was my first ever time with the language. He tought me about the name of items in the game, maps, classes and quickly I started to understand and speak english without ever going to an english class. It's indeed an awesome way to see the future. Not with games keeping people away, but actualy getting them closer and serving as a learning tool. I like it. Awesome channel guys. You made me realize and have a much greater appreciation for what games can be.
Exceptionally well put. I've learnt English with videogames too, although through online games rather than RPGs. I did go to a couple of English classes, however. Obrigado pelo comentário e o sorriso que deixou no meu rosto, mesmo 5 anos depois.
Parents should learn to look at the back of a game box, and read WHY a game has that rating. That's not the kids fault they ended up with a game that has bloody violence or stuff of the like. That's the parents fault that they don't look into something like that to begin with, if they claim to care that their kids are playing brutally violent games, or games with inappropriate content. Of course, that applies across all mediums, but parents buying their kids a video game, learning what's in it after the fact, and then blaming the industry for making it in the first place is erroneously unjust. That's like blaming the makers of South Park for making an animated show the explicit content, simply because the parent thought the fact it's an animated show immediately makes it a kid's show. It's not the way the content is presented, more so than the fact what the content is.
I remember something similar when i was a kid. I used to play games with my cousin who is 15 years older than me and everytime there was a dialogue he translated it to me and this way i learnt english (i'm italian) and i'm really happy about this because a good 90% of the italian population can't speak or just know the basics of english. So even if he wasn't my dad or my mom i think having an older person play games with you when you are a kid is always a great thing because you can always learn something!
Teen mom here and I will never forget when my son's grandmother bought him a leap pad for him, he was a only 11months old but loved it. I would sit him in my lap and try to get him to play a simple game but he would always press the home button or power button. He almost has it mastered now, he only gets stuck when they ask him to do something, but he knows how to turn on or off and is learning words as well. I was cooking while he was playing and I turn around to see him laughing so hard at a small turtle. It just is awesome little thing that I simply enjoy and he does too.
+Logan Hollis i cant tell you how my dad got me into gaming, he gave my and my younger brother his old n64 and showed us his 3 favorit games, after some time we only needet help turning it on.... and then he kind of forgot about it until we asked for a ps2 that one of my friends had, yes we had a ps1 but never played on it, mario 64 was god for us when we were 5 and 6
+Lets Pretend Almost same here, my father gave me one of those old Atari consoles and then showed me how to play the old Spectrum machines (yes yes I know I am an Oldy). Nowdays its the other way around: Everytime I get back home to Canada, I have to fix the PC for him and install a dozen games for him. I just love that old man gaming :)
This resonates so much with me. I got to know video gaming because my father was an avid player of point-and-click puzzle adventures, specifically the wonderful Myst series, and I used to be his audience. He even let me take notes for him some times. I was really too young to understand much about the puzzles, though he explained them to me quite well, but the amazing surreal visuals gave me a love for the otherwordly and the strange that has lived to this day. I think the evenings where we played together were some of our best bonding moments. I still have his old note book, a small, black plastic-covered book with a label reading "Myst" on its front...
Wow, my dad is awesome. To put it in context, this is our weekend activity 1. A round of multiplayer civ 5 2. we play super mario world on his super nintendo 3. we play gauntlet dark legacy on my gamecube. He always hated the sky realm! Thanks dad!
I wonder if that's what people 10 ~ 20 years ago thought about... TV, music and stuff alike? example: "I'll playing rock music in the house that my kids also like when I become a father" or something... But on positive note, playing game with your parent is pretty cool :P I play minecraft or MMO RPG with my mother XD
sandbox gamer I remember it being my mum who brought up the topic, so I kinda got really lucky XD It ended up going like what this video suggested, I sat there as my mum was playing her first XBox game(one of Star Wars games)... and she some how got better than me at it;; her history of game before that was solitaire, mine sweeper & the like;; how o_O;;; -edit- Oh and the MMO, start really simple, don't pick games with extremely complex skill tree and try to avoid the one with PvP I think. I went Maplestory(2005~6 ish? on Korean server). Currently we're playing archeage, just the two of us on Korean server until it went F2P & now on English server along with my friends XD
Minecraft is probably one of THE SINGLE BEST GAMES to follow this with. If there are ANY parents out there looking for an amazing learning experience with games and their children, then Minecraft is a GREAT way to do it. It's the BEST BOX OF LEGOS you'll ever own! ;-P
My little brother is a Minecraft maniac, actually, and he builds INSANE things to show to our parents. Sometimes, they even ask to post a screenshot on the fridge! I COMPLETELY agree! Although, it does depend on the parents and what you're playing. For instance, my mom has degrees in literature, so while she's FASCINATED by games like The Stanley Parable and You Find Yourself in a Room, she has trouble even staying in the same room with games like CoD and Gears of War. My dad, on the other hand, is a history buff OBSESSED with strategy, and tends to shout out such strategies when I'm in the middle LoL and Dota, but tends to dislike more action heavy games like TF2 and the aforementioned CoD. Thusly, I tend to avoid buying action-heavy shooters for their sake, and focus more on well written and strategic games, just to be a little easier on them. BE NICE TO YOUR PARENTS, KIDS!
Rabano Doom I quit playing Call of Duty because it simply lacks what I want in a shooter. I want an open world where you have to keep on your toes, because ANYONE AND EVERYONE could be your enemy.
I was blessed that my parents did this. Hell, that is part of why Final Fantasy (NES) is my favorite in the series and one of my favorite RPGs (along with Dragon Warrior 4). Because my dad and I played them together. We made the team on FF, in battle he asked me what should be done and we learned (together) enemy weaknesses and how best to handle the boss fights. Even now, after he passed last September, when I pull out Dragon Quest IV on my 3DS or FF1 on my cell... Dad's right there with me. I may not have him anymore but he is right there when I play our games.
+Lrbearclaw Man, I've come so frighteningly close to losing my father multiple times, I'm really sorry for your loss. It's so much tougher when your dad is your best friend.
Maybe it doesn't always have to be parents that can play with children and help them learn. Back when Pokemon X/Y was out and I was in a doctor's waiting room, I noticed a little girl looking at my screen and telling her brother "Look, she can ride a bike in that game O:" so I switched to the roller blades to see how she'd react and she got even more excited. I proceeded to take some cute and some cool looking pokemon from the box, went into Pokemon ami and she was so happy. When her mother told her to stop staring because it's rude, I asked if she (the mother) would mind if I let the girl play a bit. It was fun letting her and her brother feed the Pokemon, helping her solve the little jigsaw puzzle in Pokemon Ami (Like "Try to put the pieces with the corner first") and having fun. They were so happy that after their treatment they said they'd go and buy it, too. (And asked if I could come to the doctor again to play with them, how cute) I hope they'll keep playing together and that the mother might interact with them in this way too. Letting them play and helping, sometimes explaining. Now that I think about it, Pokemon X/Y is a really good way to start making your kids interested in Pokemon games. There is Pokemon Ami, dressing up and customizing your character (so rather "girlish" parts of the game), tiny puzzles that are not too frustrating, combat with your cool 3D Pokemon and a rather easy mode with the exp share (so more for little boys who just got started) and getting into breeding is much easier in that edition. I'd recommend playing something like that with little girls beside the usual Animal Crossing / Casual Party games / Harvest Moon things we show to girls. :)
Ilija Mitrevski I would say same, but I forced my dad to play a video game, and he was doing good for about ten minutes before he got stuck on something easy and gave up.
I remember how awesome my dad was with me playing video games. I played a lot of games when i was young and still play today, and one of the constants in that have been my family and it has been great. My brothers and i would play pokemon together while my mom and dad would watch the TV show with us while we were young. My dad played diablo 2 with me and my brothers as we would switch off computers with LAN sharing a single copy of the game. When i was in middle school as well as watch me play mario and the other games i liked and would joke and tease making my experience even better. He even got me into starcraft. My parents were even patient with me and wouldn't ask me to do too time consuming things when i was in my ranked LoL games phase and let me find out for myself that it's a very time consuming game with very little payoff in comparison. Even now when i'm 18 years old my dad still plays battlefield with me and loves hearing about how i got a new hat in team fortress 2 while goofing around or got the upgraded master sword in legend of zelda. With my mom showing me the awesome score she racked up on candy crush as i try...and fail to beat it and even gives me tips as we switch off on her tablet late at night. I'm sad that i'm leaving home, my parents helped me make games in my life a positive thing. Instead of being scared of it and trying to take it away from me they immersed themselves so that we could relate and we use games as ONE of the things we relate to each other with.
my dad would always play video games with me, let me watch him play, and watch me play video games all the time! Now, he never reenforced it with lessons, but it made me happy and made me want to play it more. And that is probably what made me like video games today. Thanks dad!
honestly gaming is so much better when you're a child playing with your parent. no matter how much I love a game nothing tops the fond memories I have playing Booger man on the Genesis with my pops. the game itself isn't that great and it took replaying it at an older age to realize why those play sessions brang me joy, it was playing games with my dad and making crass jokes at an age where boogers and burps were the pinnacle of comedy.
I made german subtitles for this video just so I could show it to my mother. I feel like this is something that could have solved a lot of problems during my days as a kid. Great video.
This episode made me cry.....because my parents don't like me playing video games, they only hate the device.. I've always wanted a gamer parent to play with and to bond with as I grew up. I never got that, I've always been playing on my own, getting yelled at, and having my game consoles be taken away. It's a real shame, the childhood I could've had
Every other Monday I play video games not with my dad, but my grandfather. Almost always civilization, as his reaction time prevents him form playing games where time is a concern. I usually win, but not always.
+MrMinerGuy142 thanks, I think I have purchased Civ 5 like 5 times across its 75% off sales to give a copy to various family members so we could play. Only my grandfather continued playing past one to two hours where I showed them the game.
I have to thank you. Your video brought a tear to my eye. Being 14 and having games as a solitary activity, it constantly frustrates me that I can't talk about gaming news or what I like about a particular genre with my Dad without him segwaying the conversation or just plain not understanding. For example, I was trying to explain how it was funny how people we're calling Titanfall "Call of Duty with mechs," but now that Advanced Warfare has been announced, people are saying "Call of Duty is ripping off Titanfall." He responded by saying "Isn't Call of Duty a really violent game?" I said, "Yes, but that's not the point!" "Oh," he said. Realizing the conversation wasn't going anywhere I just walked out of the room. I don't know why I keep trying, even though I'm constantly shot down like this. It just rips me apart that I can't share the one thing I love most with him.
I basically grew up playing games with my parents. My dad loves the old-school mario games. And I love the bonding we share at these moments. (Especially when I blow some dust off my SNES nowadays, 12 years later.) He was so good at it that made me fall in love with these kinds of games. My mom played Mortal Kombat with my brother, bomberman with me. She made any sorts of games, regardless of their theme, to be simply funny and engaging. All the times I've got stuck in a frustrating level in these games and I quickly remembered of my mom making silly remarks. It prevented me from giving up and helped me enjoy my experience. Yes. Parents's presence in a young gamer's life is important and can be life changing! :)
can I just say (and this has nothing to do with the topic of the video) that I love the art style you use in your videos. The amount of diversity used in such a casual way that really isn't a big deal, but makes the topic seem more open and more inclusive of everyone in gaming. Idk I just really appreciate it for some reason and I just wanted to say that you guys rock.
If I ever get kids I will be sure to not make the same mistake as my parents made "gaming is a waste of time" "you can't socialize through gaming" "gaming is kids toys" "gaming is not an art form they are toys" I love my parents and I have a good contact with them even thou I don't live with them anymore. But it would have been nice to have had that support from them on that front. Bottom line is it does not matter wether it's sports, arts, drawing nor gaming take interest in your kids interests instead of alienating them, demoralize them and YELL at them for their hobbies.
This just makes me wish my dad had more respect for gaming. He's said numerous times that it doesn't matter and it's just a game. Now I'm certain this comes from his ability to get addicted to games easily and trying to detach himself from it, but when my brother and I are deeply engrossed in gaming, it hurts to hear him say that. Games do matter. They aren't a waste of time, and intelligent conversation and thinking can come from them. It won't necessarily rot my brain either. Bleh.
+Lachlan Oh man, can't even begin to think how many times my parent's asked me why I can't just pause dota. Now I just say either I'm playing a video game or I'm playing an online game. Emphasizing the distinction has actually worked for me.
Finding a good comparison can help highlight the difference in their own terms, such as you could not pause tv broadcasts but you could pause a video tape. It should not be that hard to understand that there's differences within similar mediums.
MrVauxs My parents never played a video game in their lifes and they even think it rots your brain or something.Everytime I do something they don't like it's "these damn videogames transform you into an aggressive rebel" or something like that T_T
“Frustratingly jump in the same pit 20 times in a row” Man, I know this feeling and I’m not even a parent, I just have a younger brother. He’s not even that much younger. He’s learned though, and is better now.
Watching this video really makes me wish that my parents got to play my video games with me more often. Whenever I do talk about video games to them, I mostly try to keep things simple because if I don't, then they'll either get lost in what I'm saying or they'll tell me to work on something else instead. I remember having them and my sister play with me a few times in a few games, but it wasn't really enough for them to keep doing it more often or for them to support me in the game I'm playing. I mostly just isolate myself playing while my parents are doing something else and sometimes, I get bored when I don't have a Player 2 by my side in a game like Super Mario or Smash Bros. When I become a parent, I'll make sure to be a good, supportive one, just like the examples in this video.
This is actually happening with me and my dad. When he let me use his steam account that he doesn’t use anymore I started play Total War II! Now we’re going to start playing Shogun II together!
I wish my parents were like this but my parent are stereotypical asians. What are you doing? Playing dota2. What is dota2? Well it's a game where...(gets cut off) Why u no study? Because I did that already. MUDDABITCH THEN STUDY MOAR!
+Chris Li just tell then that studying until go to the bed actually reduces productivite, since over time you become more and more stressed, and more and more tired.
+Chris Li I've always found the asian parents stereotype kind of amusing. Obviously it's damaging to a young mind but the strictness has always been interesting. *6 year old boy* : Daddy look its pokemon :D:D:D:D *Father*: Why you not doctor yet? *same boy 15 years old*: Hey dad I can finally play that song on guitar *Father*: Why you not doctor yet? *same boy 30 years old*: Hey dad I'm getting married and I want you to be there *Father*: Is she doctor? Are you doctor? As damaging as it is, it can't be ignored that asians are typically far more successful and financially stable than most all other groups of people. The trade off is the high rate of suicide.
It was a beautiful message. I'm not a parent yet, but when I become one, I would like my child to play games and for your advice I would play with my kid or assist it.
This is interesting, my dad actually only played videogames for the Apple II, Windows 1.3 and occasionally casual PC games, and in the end he convinced me to ask for a PlayStation for Christmas instead of a Nintendo 64... yet he never actually played any game with me (except for ChessMaster 3D once or twice), but we can have many conversations about videogames that we both could understand, so yeah, you might be right we can have a special bond with videogames without actually having to play together...
I have kind of the same thing. My dad got me a Gamecube when I turned 5 (I'm only 18, shut up). He played it a bit, but I played it a LOT. The games he played the most, though, were the WWII shooters. I wasn't allowed to go anywhere near those until i was like, 11 (I was the poster child for "impressionable youth" ._.). I did eventually play them, and really like them. But now, my dad plays them exclusively. He's in a CoD clan. Whenever we play together, it's always me joining him in a round of CoD and never him joining me in sandboxing, or Smash Bros, or any "kiddish" games (ie, non-shooters). While I've become a more open, try-it-all gamer, he's turned into a one-trick pony. We can still talk about games sorta, like the newest gritty AAA title. But mostly, I don't much share my hobby with him.
Michelle Lehto Hobbies tend to have there niche things and specialties kinda like most things in the world. He can understand the strategy that may go into what you do as well as the thought.
Sometimes it can take patience from the child too, I remember when my dad was starting to play Minecraft and I would have to constantly remind him how to craft something as simple as a torch.
If their reason to rarely talk to you is a job, try to make them take you with them. It can be an a learningful expirience. In my days I asked my dad to take me to his polygraphy, I don't know how it translates on english but it's bassicaly mass producing stuff that can be printed (posters) and maybe then combined up (notebooks). I would ask my father 10 questions a step. Welp, my job is done, good luck!
This video got me thinking about my family's experience with video games. I have four brothers and only one sister, so my brothers played (and still play) video games quite a bit. However, their love of video games started with the fact that my parents bought an NES when they first got married. My parents played games like the first Legend of Zelda and other classics, and as we grew up they were willing to get us other Nintendo systems, especially multiplayer games, so we could play with each other. Granted, my parents really don't play video games anymore (they have other priorities now, which is OK), but they still sometimes enjoy watching us play games, and they are good about simply keeping our game playing in balance with other aspects of life. :) I have fond memories of games in my family for that reason.
My parents were the same growing up. We'd often have family competitions on games like Super Mario Bros (high score) or help each other out on more difficult titles. Now my parents still play games but they are mobile games rather than console but there is still that sense of competition.
I'm a grandmother and my grandsons and I play Minecraft. As a family we got a online server and now play together with other family members across the US. My older grandson (9 years old) is learning redstone while creatively designing things for our shared world. With Skype and Discord he interacts with the others on the server. With the other games we play on my console while I watch and provide occasional help. Sometimes he helps me by reading my quest text for me when I play. Our shared experiences have provided hours of conversation and wonderful memories.
Even as a teenager, I find it comforting when my parents allow me to talk about my games with them, and the conversation often leads onto other topics that they might know more about. When I learnt my dad had played World of Warcraft, even though it was for a small amount of time, gave us something more to talk about and even if I would have probably told him about it regardless, knowing he even vaguely understood it helps further develop the bond we have, even if it was pretty strong anyway. And hearing my mom used to play Mortal Kombat... now that was glorious moment.
Thank you so much for this!! I'm going to show it to my parents :) They think video games are a wast of time and always turn down what I love and it DRIVES ME CRAZY! I keep wanting them to play Minecraft with me but THEY ALWAYS SAY NO! "I don't really care for Minecraft." "I don't know how to play video games." "It's just a wast of time." ITS SO ANNOYING
As an American, I would argue further that the government has no right to regulate or censor video games. Neither of my parents are into video games, but it is something I plan to introduce to my kids. I hope to foster many good memories with this art.
The government has the right to regulate the media. That's not even in dispute. The freedom of the press does not include a freedom from consequences for their own irresponsibility. It's the same with any other media including games.
Video games and nearly all media is protected under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The only real exceptions to this general rule are calls to violent action and threats to a person's life.
Not true. Other abuses of media privilege include slander, libel and defamation of character as well as breach of privacy. An example that happened recently is that a well known athlete sued a newspaper for releasing his medical records, which they had no right to do. That one's gonna go against the newspaper since it violated the athlete's right to privacy, and could result in fines or other action against the paper and its personnel as well. Just one example of things the government can do to regulate the media without violating its freedom as such. These abuses are regulated in both criminal and civil court and the government does have the power to check abusive media. The Constitution is a list of what government power must not exceed, not an exist list of all the government's authority to the extent that nothing not on the list can be a government power.
I kinda wish my dad did this with me. Unfortunately, it's not so much that he doesn't "get" games, but rather, he just has zero interest in them. He's really bad at them and just doesn't care about them. That said, he knows how much I enjoy them and doesn't ask questions (usually), and hell, more than once intelligent conversation has arisen from video games. Usually however, movies are what bring me and my dad together, so I usually like to compare both films and video games, in order to help him have a greater understanding. Thanks for making this video, I might show it to him. He'll probably find the topic very interesting.
My parents can't compare games to tv, they could sit all day watching tv whether its sports or soaps or movies, but I can't do that at all, saying its "not normal"
I remember when i was like 5 on my mega drive, my mum would always sit with me while i play and we used to play co op in streets of rage and beat it together, but the best moment was with sonic 2, i got to the final boss for the first time and my mum told me to just survive while she wrote down the bosses pattern until it looped, we beat it on our last life, and cheered at the final cut Seen, i cant wait to have a similar experience with my kid when i have one :)
My grandpa went out of his way to play games with my younger cousin on their SNES system. He didn't like games, was very bad at playing them, and couldn't see well in dark areas, but he did it anyway because he wanted to share the experience with my cousin, who was like a son to him. Now he's passed, and my cousin still treasures those memories, and the games they played together hold a very special place in his heart.
I'm in a half-and-half situation. Dad's into games, loves strategy titles like the Total War series, Panzer General, that kind of ting. Mom.... isn't. She's a hands on person, loves handicrafts, crocheting, that kind of thing. If she spends hours on something she demands some useful product at the end of the exercise. It's just how she grew up as the children of an WWII Army engineer and a Boston nurse. She... had a rough adjustment to the arrival of the NES into the family, and Dad had to lay some groundrules about when and how games would be played in order to make sure Mom didn't feel left out of a household that was otherwise 100% gamers. Mom fought a long, hard rearguard action against the games, partly because she felt they were an utter waste of time and partly because if we were gaming, we weren't including her in what we was doing, at least as she perceived it, because she didn't game and wouldn't engage us as gamers, and I think she resented the time we spent in something for which she was so comprehensively uninvolved. I don't think she actually realized that it was she who was isolating herself by not getting involved in the way the video talks about. It actually took surviving cancer to get her over her issue. While recovering from cancer she lay in a hospital bed in the living room, which was usually game central (since putting computers and game consoles in the bedrooms where they could be unsupervised was one of the things Mom insisted must not happen, although we all suspected her ulterior motive was to make sure we didn't isolate ourselves and spent at least a little time indirectly interacting with the rest of the family) the chemo frequently left too weak to crochet, her favorite sitting activity, so she'd sit there in the hospital bed with nothing to do but talk. Suddenly games were things that brought us into the room as objects to talk to and interact with. We were a little older then so we'd make time for her when she wanted to chat (to this day I won't buy games with no pause feature for this exact reason). Or she'd read aloud to us It's a habit we kept going after, thank God, she recovered, and a source of greater peace in the home as a result.
The wii is quite a family friendly place as well, family gamenight went from actual boardgames to wii stuff lol. Until they forgot the wrist strap and threw the wiimote right into the tv screen, good times.
I grew up with my mom playing games with me. She was big into Star Wars and helped me play the Star Wars game on the Sega Genesis. She also loved fighting games like War Gods and Xena Warrior Princess on the PS1. It was really fun seeing her get so excited... (about beating her 4-5 year old in a fighting game.... love u mom)... She always talked about how cool it is that girls can take a punch and punch back (Xena). She was going on about how Xena fights for those who cant and how she learns from mistakes. It was one of the things that taught me to never cower from bullies and help those who are bullies when I started kindergarten. I can whole heartedly agree that you can turn games into a postive bonding experience with your family.
I loved this video so much. It reminded me of growing up with video games. Raised by my single mother. Sometimes she'd sit and watch with me, asking questions about it. She wasn't a game and she didn't always do everything in this video, but if I wanted to talk to her about my experiences or a problem I was having, she was always willing to listen and try to understand. She'd offer as much guidance as she could. And just being there as someone to bounce ideas off of was usually enough to do the trick. I always appreciated her so much for not dismissing what I loved doing. That phrase "its just a game" burns my blood. Maybe it is, but its meaningful to me and I'm very passionate about it. Don't dismiss what your kids care about.
I like this video. If I ever have kids (a big assumption already), I'll have to watch this again. I play a lot of video games, nowadays it's grand strategy and simulations, but there was a time when I played the big popular titles like Gears of War and Halo 3. While I enjoyed these games, I never found either of them memorable, save on one occasion, when my parents decided to have a go with me. The only truly memorable occasion I have of Gears of War was watching my father constantly running into walls because he had no clue what he was doing. It was a strange situation for me, where our roles were reversed and it was me saving his bacon rather than the other way around. My only memorable occasion for Halo 3 was when my mother decided to play co-op with me, and her strategy was to run around in circles spaying bullets everywhere. She somehow managed to kill some grunts while I desperately tried to stay out of her way. The point is, of all the hours I put into those two games, the only times I really remembered playing them was when my parents decided to have a go with me. It was a good bonding exercise, which was really nice because we didn't have much in common with one another otherwise. I really wish they showed a bit more interest at a younger age, as it may have helped us to understand each other a bit better in later life.
This really makes me wish my parents didn't just view video games as an addiction. I can't ask my dad if I want to buy a game because he'll simply sigh and say 'The last thing you need is another game!" However, my mother is slightly more forgiving, as long as I'm paying for it (Which I do 95% of the time) But then there is their view on ratings! Oh boy! If the game in question contains a gun, any small amount of blood, It's taboo. My parents flip when I bought Metroid Prime (I'm 13) and then interrogated me on it's content. But then they will ask me to come downstairs and watch The Walking Dead, a show I find quite disturbing, or even better, beg me to come downstairs and then they put on American Horror Story! A show so goddamn terrifying that the first scene consisted of rape, stabbing, and heart removal, followed by puking and satanic witch groups! Friendly eh? Because apparently TV shows are A-OOOK! But Video Games? NO! They believe (And they said this to my face!) that I'll turn into some school shooting homicidal maniac!
4:46 woooooow.... I've watched this episode like 10 times and only just now gotten that pun. I think might have just gained a slightly higher IQ than a door knob now.
My Mum used to sit with me while I played games. She still does. It's great when a parent does that, and even though she wasn't playing she was still able to help though explaining things. Makes playing even better and less of a lonely experience.
0:50, hopefully this'll diminish once uninformed parents go the wayside as an entire generation of hardcore gamers grow to adulthood and eventually parenthood. Like with any cartoony looking game that is decidedly NOT cartoony in content "What do you mean it's an M rated game, it's got cutesy looking characters on the front cover therefore it HAS to be for children." Conker's Bad Fur Day anyone?
Makes me think of my mom. She was never right next to me, but that was a good thing. She gave me the space I wanted when I was playing, and would come in immediately to check out any cutscene or musical score my nerdy self just had to share. She not only accepted my favorite passtime, but tried to see my passion, and even defended it. And when you have someone you love defending you, you never want to prove the haters true, so it helped to keep me responsible about my gaming habits. It even helped sparked my curiosity about the political, then technical side of gaming, then the larger world as it tied into that interest. Heh, probably why I'm watching this series in the first place. I'm a proud, politically aware, socialogically and psychologically curious gaming enthusiest, and I probably have my mother to thank for not letting me feel shame in what I liked.
Defending something you don't particularly like/understand/are a part of because it's right is one of the best qualities a human can have. This is why I find brony haters much more annoying than bronies. In fact, someone liking MLP isn't a bad thing at all. Criticizing me for NOT liking it would be, but they rarely seem to do that.
I'm really glad that my dad will listen whenever I talk about games. He even plays from time to time. I had this friend who's parents totally didn't understand games at all. We were talking about backwards compatibility, and my friend's dad didn't even try to understand what we were talking about. He just shut the whole conversation down.
I know its a old video but thought I would still comment. My son is 4yrs old, he's doing football practice. Enjoys football and had only been training for 3 weeks. Trying to understand the rules etc is actually harder to teach than you think. Not many of the children understand, tried showing videos, drawing, showing, talking nothing worked. I decided to buy fifa for his playstation and teach him the basic buttons to play it etc. Within a few hours of playing on fifa with him he understands the rules and more. Improved his techniques and extra moves etc. So I took him back the fourth week and the coach was baffled, asking what did I do? he named several teams, names, numbers, positions, rules and again techniques. Honestly learnt more that week on fifa than he did 3 weeks of training. He out shined the others who were training an extra year than him, who still never fully understood football. Well you wouldn't expect a 4-5yr old too. So the coach told the parents to give fifa ago if they have access to a console. That 5th week of returning it was like watching a total different bunch of children, passing, positioning, rules were all fully understood. Instead of every child just running at the ball. Definitely worked for us
But this requires parents to actually parent
my 6 year old coisin as a mother that let him play CoD2 zombies even after
freaking SCHOOL and then he became kinda agressiv with his rollplay of zombie and stuff and you now what his mother said to me
-its because of that stupid game and of you because you always rollplay with him
now i see that she is a really bad mother
As stupid as it may sound, have you tried telling her that and being ready to explain how stupid that is?
yes but she doenst listen
She says he's agressive because of a game but she still lets him play it?
And you join in in his aggressive role play?
ok, the problem is that that is clearly not a game for kids so young. most kids at that age barely understand the concept of warfare, much less being prepared for something like Call of Duty.
Fortunately for you, he is still young and impressionable. You modeling more appropriate behavior in roleplaying is going to make an impact on him.
My mom to this day will watch me play GTA and whenever I'm driving she'll be like "this song sucks, change it." Or "This song is as old as dirt." It's like real driving XD
ProDJ222 put on the classical channel.
ProDJ222 That makes me tear up a little. :') I kinda wish I had people to play my games with...
@@GoVocaloider a friend maybe or that to deep to ask. if yes your not alone ; )
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Most kids are taught colors by Elmo, Big Bird, or Barney. This kid had Nico Bellic teach him colors.
Lucky kid.
Heds123 Big bird is lit af though
Eeeeey! Yellow caaaaar!
As someone who has experienced this first hand, I can tell you that this is one of the greatest experiences a child can have. Let me explain.
When I was younger (spotlight on the "er" there) I use to play those children's MMO's you saw on TV all the time. Whether it be Toon Town, Wizard 101, or whatever it might be. One day, my mom walked into the office that I was playing Wizard 101 and asked me what I was doing. When I told her that I was playing my games and brushed it off as her making sure I was ok, she asked me about why I enjoyed playing these games so much (I was like 9 or 10 at the time so I wasn't very good at explaining why somethings good or bad, but bear with me). I told her that I liked it because it was colorful, engaging, and reminded me of when I use to play card games when I was even younger. That got her intrigued, and she asked if she could join me for a bit. I said ok purely on the fact that none of my friends were on at the time and I was getting a little bored. After a while, she had started helping me in battles. We would talk about how the cards and things worked and how to win. We started playing in every night and it became a sort of habit, at one point, there was an update where you had to be a certain level to get special place that would only be there for a certain time. I was about 5 levels off and the event was going to end the next day. So, my mom stayed up all night grinding through tons of monsters to get me to that level. We did this for at least 2 years until we were the highest level in the game. To this day, it is one of my favorite memories and shows that this works. While I may not have been learning in a sense, we still were bonding and sharing story's. I just wish that we could have continued that, but it is probably the reason that I am so into games and the reason that me and my mom are so close to this day. To any parent out there that is still not convinced that video games can be a learning/bonding experience, I want you to take my word for it and try it. I promise you that you wont regret it.
You didn't ramble and I ramble, when I try to explain things, so helping your mom understand the different parts of the game probably helped you explain things concisely. I didn't have that because whenever I played a game with someone, I was getting told everything (because I'm the youngest and I would play with my older brother or sister). Then I was just interested in finding games I didn't have to spend a lot of time understanding it, like pokemon. You hit the thing then throw a ball, wait, wait, wait, got the thing now it's yours to hit other things with. Anyway (see the rambling) you learnt how to say things concisely.
That's a amazing story!Just saying i'm young,you can notice that if you watch my videos.
I played games with my mom. It helped establish the bond we have today.
+Gay Father and the fact that he didn't capitalize I and put a space after ! and ,.
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This is basically how many 21st century kids feel. When I spent *weeks* making my first profesional level 3D model using a profesional tool, I felt so proud that I had to show them. They both kind of just looked at me funny, assuming that it was an easy thing to do, and that I should just "focus on getting a real job." Technical literacy is suprisingly low among my parents' generation, and it is creating a divide between them and their children. I bet that in 20 years down the road, we will be known as an "independant generation, who were typically detatched from family life."
That sounds so true. TOO TRUE...
My mum and sister love drawing, so my mum supports her in drawing anything. But when I make a game, she doesn't seem to care so much, because it's a medium she doesn't understand as well. Or something. I don't know why.
Theo im in a similar situation, I've been making games for 5 years and everyone but my parents see how difficult and time consuming that is
Miles Beler Hmmm..... Why don't you tell your mom to try designing a 3D model. Lets see how she feels when she doesn't understand your pain
Miles Beler Tell me about it.
I am also a 3d generalist.
It's really annoying when that happens
I'm not a parent... but this makes me want to try being a better big brother...
Be there! Go for it! Never know how it'll help you out later in life
YA better big brothers are just as good unfortunately for me i had a brother who didn't want to waste his time with me.
Kth77 Same here, too bad I'm the one who loves video games xD. I try to talk to my brother, but our age gap is too much to converse easily, and I can't easily "teach" him because he doesn't respect me the same way he respects my parents
did you succeed?
I know this is late, I could do that with my younger brother just now discovering ocarina of time.
This video makes me kind of sad. The only interaction between me and my parents relating to games was them dismissing me or yelling at me for playing to much. I still feel uncomfortable playing longer than half hour. fearing that my mother would burst in and screaming hysterically about how I am wasting my life.
I know that felling bro .
be careful with that. I was in the same boat, but they kept me in line. Now, I wasted ~4 years at university, barely studying, always playing. I abused the sudden freedom, and its hard AF to get it together.
The pelican Emperor ._.
I have made a similar experience. My parents would only allow me to play for half an hour a day, later a full hour, because of their irrational fear of those games. They claimed that I was a bad way of spending my time and they would punish me for playing more than I was allowed by fully banning video games for days, weeks or rarely even a month at a time.
When I turned 16 - 17, they did not enfoce those rules anymore as they did with my older brother (without ever officially declaring that limiting my play time would be up to me), it just worked out over time.
How do you expect someone to take up responsibility for themselves if you never left them the freedom to actually develop that responsiblity?
@@clausroquefort9545 so, do you think that allow your kids to drink alcohol will help them to learn responsibility?
When I was a kid, my mom used to think video games were a Japanese conspiracy to rot the brains of American youth.
15 years later, I've given up Nintendo and she's addicted to Candy Crush.
I lel'd
Candy Crush succc
apple memes boom!!! No it’s the best game
Probably addicted to social networks as well, as mostly of the humans in this century.
Uno card reverse
This just get me sad, I tried to talk with my dad about games when I was younger. But he just dismissed it, and told me to stop talking about computers, that there are other things in the world. So I rarely talked to my dad about anything.
My dad is like this too, except he now explains to me why he acted that way, and that he wishes we connect more. and that, in my opinion more than makes up for it.
Lemme guess, then he questions why you hardly converse with him.
***** Surely there's things to talk about besides computers though. TV, movies, sports, books, people you both know, etc. Just because someone doesn't understand one large aspect of your life doesn't mean they can't understand other parts
Hoopsicle Mcgee That's not really the point. It has more to do with the fact that their dad isn't willing to understand something that's so important to them, and it hurts.
64 Bit Artist
I know. And I'm sure the dad might love sports or something and the son doesn't want to talk about that and the dad might feel the same way. Everyone has different things they prefer to talk and think about the most. It's bad to dwell on the things you can't connect on and find out instead that you both love wes anderson movies and talk about them
Most parents don't play games with their kids. Either because they are too involved in their job or they don't care.
They don't realize how harmful this is to their parent-son relationship.
How many of us have been told we "never spend time with them because of our games" and when we ask them to spend time together "they are too busy".
Being busy doesn't change the fact that your son is becoming more and more distant because of your negligence. Sometimes being an hour together is more valuable than extra money in the paycheck.
parent-child relationship. Women play video games too.
***** If only everybody else realized that almost 45% of gamers are female...
***** I'm pretty sure thats what he meant, ill accidentally say "He" when addressing someone like a pilot or a cashier sometimes when I know that a pilot or cashier can be both a man or a woman, I say the same thing about alot of occupations as well but you get the idea.
But what most people don't know is that many gamers are female and when speaking of gaming, I always hear "he" if not "they" instead of how in other cases, I hear "he", "they", AND "she". When it comes to gaming, women are spoken of a lot less often than in other cases.
When someone if referring to others in casual conversation the male pronouns are often used, unless specifically referring to females. For example, "If anybody eats the leftovers I put in the staff refrigerator, I will kill him". The female pronouns (like she) are typically used only when referring exclusively to women. For example, "If Susan eats my leftovers, I will kill her". Saying him/her is only used if you need to be politically correct.
The comments section makes me feel kind of sad to know that I was lucky with the parents I have. I mean my mom completely dismisses games in general as a waste of time. Whereas my sister took it a step further and constantly belittled myself, my father, and my older brother for having such a love of games. But on the other hand I had my aforementioned father, who got me into gaming in the first place. It started when I was 4 and he taught me how to play chess, telling me that he wasn't going to go easy on me and when I win, I would actually earn it, and betting me 10$ that It would take me a year to beat him for the first time, it took me 4 months and he laughed and gave me the money when I remembered that bet. Today he wins every 3rd game we play. When I was 6 he introduced me to Final Fantasy, which forged a love that today has me feeling depressed and betrayed with all the new final fantasy's sucking but that's not the point. then when I was 10 he showed me his all time favorite, Dungeons and Dragons, which at age 18 today, I play with him and his friends. So my experience with parents and video games has been relatively balanced unlike alot of the comments I've been reading.
tl;dr my mother and sister hate games, my father and older brother love them and my father taught me to play in the first place so fairly balanced childhood. Comments here make me sad.
randomintrestsperson ehhhh with Dnd its mostly just fantasy, There are other systems such as D20 or GURPS that would probably be better suited for a more modern era. From a personal standpoint, as far as getting into DnD I would recommend 3.5 edition. Although I admit that version is not exactly easy to learn. Especially not helped by 3.5 no longer being in circulation save through Ebay. People seem to be liking 5 but after reading it myself I personally don't understand why (I don't think there should be rules on roleplaying, and an entire chapter dedicated to pre-baked character backgrounds/personalities/motivations when the player should be writing their own is just lazy and a waste of pages) but at the very least it is easier to get your hands on and does player training a bit better. So basically if you want to try it get 3.5 if you can but if not 5th edition is at least easy to learn the game.... Even if it does suck. The books you will need to play are the Players Handbook, Monster Manual, and the Dungeon Master's Guide.
Oh and avoid 4th edition like it carries the Bubonic Plague is the general consensus
randomintrestsperson Dnd, can be fun, i particularly like the new dnd 5. however pathfinder is very overly complicated but can be fun for those who like stragey board games as it's essentially more of a board game than a role play.
But no DND is a pretty specific setting. If you want that same setting more attuned to role play and tabletop strategy. I'd recommend dungeon worlds.
However, If you are looking for a RP system that is universal to any setting. I'd highly Recomed Savage Worlds. It's a system that is very simple and easy to run yet has a lot of combat depth. The mechanics are some of the most realistic have seen in a rpg, and are really intuitive. The system can handle anything you can throw at it and is specifically designed to be modified and tailored to a specific setting. It is by far may favorite RPG system. Admittedly most of the setting books sold are a bit wired and wacky but you can just ignore those since it's any setting you want.
What a father! I really want to be a father like that when I grow up.
My parents and my family as a whole play video games. :D
My mum doesn't play games, my dad loves games (and plays this one football manager one a lot) and my brother is a little rat-
He's a bit annoying and plays tnt run.
use GTA for education?
Now that's impressive.
"Daddy, what's a 'nigga'?"
I mean you can use it if you stay on the right radio station and don't go around killing NPC's out of random while he's there. If you take out the killing and crime it's a driving simulator.
What's next? Using assassins creed as a nursery rhyme?
Ninjjadude Jj possibly
Ac is an interesting historical réconstitution and its more fun to just wander during the revolution or the crusade instead of learning boring historical date
00:47
I used to work at a Gamestop. Its so true! I've had so many parents come in and buy horribly gruesome games for their kids. My favorite was an instance where a mother was looking for a good game for her 6 year old. After what seemed like half an hour, and warning her multiple times "This is Not a game for little children"; she decided to buy GTA4
(of note: she refused to buy any of the Harry Potter games because "Witchcraft is the work of the Devil! I won't expose my child to that filth!")
Somewhat related subject!
I saw a post on tumblr in which a girl said that her school (which was a catholic school (NOTE: nothing wrong with catholic schools, just this particular catholic school)) had decided to ban a massive list of books She was a big reader, and people actually started asking her if they could borrow books. She decided to set up an against-the-rules library, using the unoccupied locker next to her own, with a schedule of when to return the books and everything.
The list of books that were banned included:
The Hunger Games,
Harry Potter,
Animal Farm,
The Divine Comedy,
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,
The Canterbury Tales
and The Quran.
Randygandalf95 I understand why the Quran since it's not their religion
*facepalm*
Drago 303 Well,I take that back since it was a month
I W O N ' T E X P O S E M Y C H I L D T O T H A T F I L T H .
My Uncle and I played GTA when I was 6 and he was 18. He taught me that while in a game these things are okay, but know what was wrong with everything the character did and why I should never repeat them. 12 years later I graduated high school without a single detention, never touched drugs, and never mugged anyone. It's about teaching right from wrong and my uncle did that very well! Maturity is taught.
Damn, sounds like you had a great life.
14 years later? Christ, maybe you learned a little maturity but you must be dumb as rocks.
The Big Kids were given nun-chucks and they started to hurt everyone, We were allowed to bring them home then on one day, my cousin came and started a whole battle.
@@Voroshilov406 You were fined.
Woah you got a smart uncle right there my uncle likes to be a rude to me
If a child spends so much of their time doing something even as teenagers, it's important to them and has some meaning. Just because it's a game does not mean it's _just a game_ and means nothing.
I'm still in high school, and I just always thought parents werent supposed to be there when you play games, or talk to you about it.
But then I remember when I was still in grade school and my mom would ask how my game of Pokemon was going, and the joy I felt was a kind I have yet to recreate or surpass.
If you are a parent who does not play games but has a child who does, I urge you to interact with them.
Turn it from something that keeps you apart into something that brings you together.
This video makes me wish my parents had done that, or will do that. But the view of games as being "_for kids_" stops parent-child relationships in their tracks.
I just end up staying in my room most of the time, because my relationship with my parents is very underwhelming because even though I try to watch Law and Order with my mom, or the Daily Show with my dad, they don't meet me half way to play Super Smash Bros or Mario Kart.
It's honestly a big missed opportunity for most parents nowadays.
dude thats sad and when you a kid you take things deeper and im only 9
yeah
i remember my dad playing call of duty 1 with me when i was around 15-16, we were playing deathmatch online and he was sometimes even leading the scoreboard, which was fucking cool because he was like 47 or something at the time.
Some of the best times I had with my mom were when we were playing Kirby's Epic Yarn together. It was one of the best parts of my childhood.
Same situation here, man. Btw srry im late.
Boom! Mindblown!You mean providing a young impressionable child with proper guidance and context and teaching them important lessons as they grow and experience the world is how you are supposed to raise a child?!?
ALL PARENTS AND ADULTS NEED TO SEE THIS!
MultiJeje12345 nah they should see this on UA-cam
MultiJeje12345 no. Just broadcast this on TVs
Andronic Wrecker agreed
hmm.. I will just leave this on and if they waljk into my room they will see it xd
I am really glad this video exists.
I see and hear it waay too often these days; kids (more commonly teenagers) becoming isolated from their parents because of the large interest that child has. A lot of people (not just parents) think that their child doesn't want to communicate with them and WANTS to be isolated from them. This frankly isn't true. As a parent you should find out about what it is that your child is interested in and dedicating time to and try to talk with them about it or even better, get involved with it. Just like what is said in the video, if they're playing a game like Call of Duty, start a conversation with them about the World Wars, or anything in relation to that type of game.
But what do I know, I'm not a parent. (I hate that logic)
TrueFriends HelpMoveBodies
That's no excuse, sadly. There are many opportunities right there in your arguments to actually spare interest for gaming and sharing it with your kids. Each job has a similar representive in a game, so that can be used as a connection point. Cooking as well. Buy the kid Cooking Mama on DS and let it learn with it. You can also explain through that how realistic the cooking in this game is compared to reality and might try cooking some of the dishes presented in the game together with your kid. All sorts of hobbies nowadays are made part of gaming already. Sports, knitting, writing, music, art. Using that as an excuse is weak, since you could combine your hobby through a game to show it to your kids and they might start enjoying it themselves.
There is no excuse for failing to connect with your child through something it loves. *That* is the problem with parents these days. Blaming other components instead of looking on where they went wrong or what could they do to improve on that.
I am 28 years old, work 8-15 hours a day, have a dog, two cats and two tarantulas to take care of. I work on Games myself and study a lot 24/7. Yet I always skip anything I rather want to do to enjoy some games with my 13 year old sister. And I did so since she was 5 years old. My Dad also spares interest in what she's playing even though it is not what he likes. And I come up with games that we all can enjoy together as family. Instead of searching for excuses that prevent me from connecting to my siblings and family, I try find something we all can enjoy equally. That is time well spend.
TrueFriends HelpMoveBodies My uncle wakes up at 4:00am everyday and works late into the evening six days a week. He is responsible for a large portion of household chores and does a lot of the cooking. He may not have much time to play video games anymore, but he always makes time to talk games with his kids and just share their interests in general. So yes, i'd say it is possible no matter how busy you are.
TrueFriends HelpMoveBodies Props to someone who agreed with the other side of an argument!. This is what UA-cam needs these days.
+SkippyGeekk Not to sound bigoted or anything, but a lot of these obstacles are based around how the parents are brought up. There is still a heavy stigma about playing games when you could be reading or playing sports. This problem might be part of the greater issue of people seeing games as children's toys. The good thing is as their generation rotates out and ours rotate in, we are much more inclined to know the benefits of games, and much more likely to do this simply out of instinct.
Unfortunately, it's very likely that we ourselves might succomb to this if something else new comes along. Personally, I dislike mobile games since I prefer a certain genre of games (RTSs and FPSs) so while they might not be "new" when I have kids, I might very well be unable or unwilling to find time to connect with my child if mobile games is all he/she plays. The true key here is to keep an open mind and be willing to be a supportive, engaged parent. The problem now then becomes us as a society, since such a criteria was there even in past generations, but there were still many parents who would just wash their hands of actually taking care of their kids and ploping them in front of the first thing that would engage the child (TVs and even Radios were, at one point, accused of the same things games are now).
+MechaEmperor7000 Exactly! We just need to keep an open mind and be supportive and engaged. One of the best ways to help someone is to show them that you care.
I really like RPGs with great stories and art, I think partly cos my mum would occasionally sit and watch me play some games and talk to me about how great the art was. Its so important to make this hobby one that we share with others!
Kaiser68 That's the spirit!
1:40 A guy (especially a teacher) that can turn GTA into an educational program about something as simple fucking colors is a badass, I want that teacher. I want a teacher that'll talk about video games while we chart down notes that would be awesome.
+Hornchief In US history the teacher sent about 4 classes going over Assasin's creed 3 and where it does and does not reflect real history. Those were interesting classes, and the 4 people in the room who did not play games were a bit clueless, but the other 20 kids loved it.
I want to be that teacher
"MUM! COME SEE MY MINECRAFT HOUSE" The start of an engineering career.
"DAD! WHAT INTERSECTION SHOULD I USE FOR THIS TRAFFIC JAM IN MY CITY" The start of a City Planner
"DAD! HOW SHOULD I ATTACK THE CITY" The start of a deep conversation about military strategy
+Playstation Newbie It can be even simpler than that. "Dad should I get the new weapon in the shop or should I wait?" A discussion about decision making, priorities, and good budgeting practices.
hagamapama MUCH DEEP, SUCH PSYCHOLOGY
"Dad, do I use an X or an Y to rob the bank"
@@hagamapama "Hey mom, what would be the correct evidence to present?" Start of a career in law.
Son: Mom, I'm playing this dating game and I can't get to any of the H-scenes!
Mom: What H-scenes?
Son: Nevermind, I'll ask dad.
Mom: Wait, did you say dating game? Come back here!
The start of a mother questioning the father's teachings to her sons.
One of the perks of having a brother. He does those things instead of parents
+Daniel Sedlarević Absolutely true. Being the oldest brother, that as my thing.
Bryan Bergh
unless you're the younger brother. But it's still nice.
Depends what kind of brother
Dr Poo
it does depend
+Daniel Sedlarević I do this all the time for my little brothers! Heck, one of them plays gtaV (only online, my demand for that) and I am almost always there next to him for when he asks where something could be, or what car should he get.
I don't know a lot of car facts or have the entire map memorized but I know the mechanics and such better then him and do my best to explain it to him.
When my mother and father left their homes to live together, they didn't have much. Just a trailer, their car, and a wish to have more for their daughter (my sister). They often didn't have much in the way of money, so all of their time was spent either working or caring for her. As they both continued through college and were able to start their careers, they continued to maintain their lifestyle of saving money constantly, although they had a much larger pool of disposable income. This was around the time that video games were growing in popularity and became well known to the general public. It was around the time when they got to a point in their careers where they didn't have to work nearly 15 hour work days that they invested in a game console. They would go to work, come home, then play Super Mario or Punch out!! while talking to each other about their day or with their daughter. They continued to buy things like the Sega Genesis, dreamcast, SNES.. you name it, even though it continued to become a less convenient medium for entertainment than something like television or movies. Around the time that their son (Me!) was born, they still played games, but not all that often. I had a few learning disabilities that I'm not going to name, but it caused serious problems for me as I was growing up. Many of the instructors at my schools, as well as research regurgitated by the media, seemed almost hell bent on making sure parents wouldn't let their children play video games. My personal instructors were especially firm about this, seeing as learning disabilities at the time were either approached as if they were passing phases, or as if they were curses from God, turning me into a vessel that Satan would inspire hate, violence, and insanity in if I so much as saw somone punch something in a video game. Thankfully, my parents knew better, and introduced me to the medium. I'm not going to go into detail about all of the games I played growing up because this comment is too long already. My mother would play games like Monkey's Island and spy hunter with me, and my dad would play things like GTA and Driv3r, driving us to the library to find cheat codes because we didn't have a home PC, teaching me about things I could do at the library while I was there. He also played medal of honor on the GameCube with me, and I remember him telling me about the horrors of WW2 and wars in general, and I remember actually crying when I saw a soldier sobbing in a corner during the pearl harbor attack.
There's not really an underlying thing here, just reinforcing some of the things that were said in the video. My relationship with my parents and my sister is great, and video games have a lot to do with that. They made sure to communicate with me while I was playing, and that has been with me for years. Talk to your kids about the games they play, trust me, they'll always remember the things that you shared with them.
I'm glad your learning disorders go away as you grow older.
My father is the most closed minded person towards video games and basically sees them as the root of all evil. I wanted to liven up christmas with the family by bringing along some party games and my god he was PISSED. But when I asked if I could bring along some board games he said "Now that's a good idea". Ironic huh.
I mean board games are a ton of fun and I like them too, my point is that it's funny that some people don't want to see that a game you play together and a game you play together on a screen are basically the same thing.
Time to bring in cards against humanity
I would've given anything for my parents to take an active part in my hobbies and interests as a kid. I always felt like I had to be the one to take an interest in their hobbies for any bonding to happen. It really makes a difference now a days to have my dad sit down and watch Supergirl with me and talk about the characters and ideas. Even if you don't understand the thing your kid likes, there's probably something about it you can enjoy.
Every time I try to talk to my parents about games they get mad at me.
how mad? on a scale of 1 - Trevor phillips mad.
PixlPlayer Same
welp time for new parents
if i showed this video to my mom to show her that she messed up my childhood she'll get mad at me.
SAME!!!
I loved the story about the parents who used video games to their advantage by teaching their children about different things in life that were both practical and, thanks to the connection, interesting to them. I especially enjoyed the teacher who's literally teaching his kid about traffic laws and colors, even about makes and models of cars, from a video game that in general displays violence, drug wars, and other such things we'd rather avoid in real life. This, my friends, is excellent parenting.
This makes me sad about my parents having a "VIDEO GAMES ARE BAD AND STUPID AND A WASTE OF TIME" attitude :(
My dad spends a lot of his free time playing strategy war games, and my mom's addicted to facebook games, so I certainly don't have that problem.
I guess it helps that they were gamers themselves back in the day.
The worst type of parent is that one that simply hates games just for not understanding them and calls them all stupid violence and stuff, but it gets even worse when our government does that. (I'm in Germany and our government is really gamerhostile.)
Wilkommen im Klub, dank der Scheiß Propaganda durfte ich erst immer nur eine halbe, und später eine Stunde am Tag spielen und wurde mit Verboten bestraft wenn ich die Zeit überzog. Der Umstand, dass ich nur wenige Freunde hatte mit denen ich mich selten traf hat dann meiner Freizeitgestaltung natürlich noch besonders viel Vielfalt zugeführt...
Ist natürlich die allerbeste Methode um deinem Kind eigenverantwortliche Zeitplanung beizubringen, und erstrecht förderlich für Vertrauen und Selbstwert *hust*
Thank you for making this video exist.
This speaks more to me as someone who is interested in television, but it works well for games.
I can never make my family understand why children's entertainment can be engaging and important for teens and adults or why the more mature topics shouldn't be censored.
I remember playing TMNT with my old man over the years on the old ps2...Good times!
Once we got the wii, he played bowling with my sister and I. I wasn't that good, but it was very fun to have that family competition evey now and then.
Every now and then, he watches me play some game and simply says "You're getting hit on that side, man! Take 'em out!" I can't help but wonder if he wants the power of a controller back in his hands once again...
up till 4:42 I was like "this is a cool way to raise my children if I have any", but then past that point the feels train hit me, because my father or mother were not part of my gaming life and they don't even know any of the games I play. Then on top of that I had to figure out every thing myself and find all the thing myself with no one beside me telling me what to do or how to do it, before this I thought "playing video games are cool to play without the bothersome of parents" then I saw how little my parents come in my room, they only come in just to tell me to do a chore and that's it, nothing special, and I remember only playing with my parents once or twice and those were the most memorable moments in my gaming life and I haven't got any since. This video really got me thinking.
NobleSavage i dont have a room o sleep in the sofa
Eduardo Remasterd Sorry to hear that hope u can get something better
NobleSavage nah i kinda like sleeping on the sofa
NobleSavage Thank you for making me realise something, instead of thinking the negative things about it.
my mom pretty often walk in the room to hear how im doing, now that i see that some don't, i apprecate that instead of thinking "only if i had a dad to play or talk about games with, or a mom with time to talk about it with"
Thx!
NobleSavage You've hit me with some empathy I didn't even realize I had. The same applies to me. All my life, I've never played any games I enjoyed with anyone I felt could really enjoy them for years. It's because I never knew that feeling that now, at 13 years old, I feel like I'll never meet a person that shares similar tastes than I do. I usually think every kid who claims to be a "Gamer" has a Xbox One and plays GTA 5 and COD and swears online. Which as a result, have completely ruined my taste in those games. I barely play Call of Duty anymore and I can't get into GTA 5 for even a minute. I've never made any real connections with anyone in my entire life. Any connections I do make are just stretches because I don't really like that thing or "Yeah, I've heard of it." So I have a deep depression. Clearly, realizing it hasn't helped and now it's taken a toll on my schoolwork. I took a online school and got kicked out because I didn't do work. I don't even know how to convince my mother into these things, since I have a fear of introducing someone to something I like and them rejecting it. I don't know if anyone has felt the same way I do, and has gotten out of it. I'm seeking therapy, for what it's worth.
I have fond memories of me and my dad playing Total War together. It was truly a collaboration. I was more the military strategist who decided who we were going to conquer and how our military should progress (as well as doing the battles) while he was the one who managed the places we'd already conquered, kept the populations under control and managed our finances. He's a project manager, you see, so it came naturally to him. Over time, I learned how to properly manage my empire on my own, but I did sometimes let him still do it, as he has much more patience than me when it comes to that sort of thing.
I wonder if there's an esports market for 2-person team RTS battles =D
***** Oh I'm very familiar with the Starcraft games. Been there since 1998!
But by 2-person team battles I only mean 1v1 battles involving a player and a strategist standing beside them :P
Huh.
Yo Hadgerz. Archon mode is now a thing ya know.
The "having someone looking up stuff for you while playing a game" thing, is in fact, AWESOME! I can't even explain just how awesome it is
I remember that from childhood, one of my brothers or even myself would look up things online to help us. It's an awesome feeling.
Me: *picking up the ring of burden underwater in Oblivion*
*running through the house to wake up my brother*
"What does over encumbered mean?"...
Him: "It means you're carrying things that are too heavy"
Me: *Uses that word to impress many teachers and in many essays*
Megabithero Games You learn something new in even the most small actions.
+Megabithero Games I'm gonna start doing that!... sister's gonna be P.O.ed at me lol
Yeah for me as a kid it felt kinda like running a news station or something like that
I really have to limit how much of this channel i watch per day, I keep thinking "Just one more video." Next thing i know it has been an hour, you just have to many great ideas, especially this one.
+Seán O'Sullivan It may or may not be 3 am for me xD
I'm definitely going to bed at 1am. Defini- Oh crap, its already 5am.
+AstrosGamer It's 2:50am i think there's no turning back o. O
+SilverWhip I may or may not have a lot of homework I said I would do 3 hours ago.
I'm not alone....
"Patently, positively supporting them while they very frustratingly jump into the same pit 20 times" LOL
god i wish my dad gave a s**t about my hobby of gaming. Im being dead serious when i say that our relationship is not what it used to be, because of one conversation. After getting my first actual job (at a resturant), my first few paychecks went toward a 3ds. i was very excited. and the first person i saw was my dad
me: hey dad wanna see what i bought? its a 3ds and it has glasses-free 3d, its stereoscopic which means-
dad: can you bring in the washing later?
In my friend circle I'm pretty much the last to have kids. Some have become model parents, going the extra mile for their kids, some are lazy as all hell.
One of my friends let his kid play COD at an early age, and there's some problems with a game like that, first the kid thought that when someone died they would just respawn, which is very akward trying to tell a kid about mortality. And second he got in trouble at school for threatening to shoot people in the face with a shotgun.
If your going to let your child play a game, play it yourself first, and ask yourself if its appropriate.
That will also allow you to help your child with a good game, and then you understand it so it makes explanations easier.
GhostInTheShell29 Also if a kid plays COD, that means some years later another annoying person who only likes COD and nothing else.
I can vouch for this. I loved video games as a kid, and while i did love playing them alone, there were times i really wanted my parents to play with me. Id even pull my dad into my room to get him to do this little puzzle that showed up often, and i always tried to include my mum in what i was doing, but they never really took an interest. Even after i got second remotes they never sat down and played multiplayer with me, and thats something i always wanted. In fact its something i wanted so much that when i finally had that chance with a friend of mine, i ran it into the ground to the point she didnt want to play that game. Honestly, it made me feel really lonely when i was playing them, online play didnt have the same charm, and its never something i really enjoyed, since i didnt really like randomly meeting people i didnt know that well.
So, if youre a parent or family member reading this, dont be afraid to take part in your kids hobby, they might actually enjoy it. Just, dont force it, make sure theyre okay with it :)
You can tell he's a good youtuber because he's one of the few that can use there, their, and they're correctly.
+dylan claridge What about Jacksfilms? He has an entire 100+ episode SERIES on terrible grammar.
Well now he did something that he wasn't supposed to do
I remember playing Driver 3 on the PS1 and while my parents sucked at the game, it was hilarious to watch them drive into walls with police bashing them, my mum even got stuck behind a bench somehow.
That was the first and last time we played games together and I was about 7 at that point, I am now 23.
driv3r was a ps2/xbox/pc game
My dad, even that he is "too old" for this stuff did this a lot with me. I'm not a native english speaker, but I can say I speak much better than most my friends, and a LOT of how I did this was playing mmo's when I was younger together with my dad. At first he wrote a few basic sentences to help me with simple conversations like "Hey, how are you?" to "How much?" "Can you help me?" and some other stuff. That was my first ever time with the language. He tought me about the name of items in the game, maps, classes and quickly I started to understand and speak english without ever going to an english class.
It's indeed an awesome way to see the future. Not with games keeping people away, but actualy getting them closer and serving as a learning tool. I like it.
Awesome channel guys. You made me realize and have a much greater appreciation for what games can be.
Exceptionally well put. I've learnt English with videogames too, although through online games rather than RPGs. I did go to a couple of English classes, however. Obrigado pelo comentário e o sorriso que deixou no meu rosto, mesmo 5 anos depois.
Parents should learn to look at the back of a game box, and read WHY a game has that rating. That's not the kids fault they ended up with a game that has bloody violence or stuff of the like. That's the parents fault that they don't look into something like that to begin with, if they claim to care that their kids are playing brutally violent games, or games with inappropriate content. Of course, that applies across all mediums, but parents buying their kids a video game, learning what's in it after the fact, and then blaming the industry for making it in the first place is erroneously unjust. That's like blaming the makers of South Park for making an animated show the explicit content, simply because the parent thought the fact it's an animated show immediately makes it a kid's show. It's not the way the content is presented, more so than the fact what the content is.
I remember something similar when i was a kid. I used to play games with my cousin who is 15 years older than me and everytime there was a dialogue he translated it to me and this way i learnt english (i'm italian) and i'm really happy about this because a good 90% of the italian population can't speak or just know the basics of english. So even if he wasn't my dad or my mom i think having an older person play games with you when you are a kid is always a great thing because you can always learn something!
It's strange, isn't it?
At first they use games as babysitters and then they are surprised when their kids spend too much time with them. #parents
They are stupid sometimes
My childhood in one sentence.
Teen mom here and I will never forget when my son's grandmother bought him a leap pad for him, he was a only 11months old but loved it. I would sit him in my lap and try to get him to play a simple game but he would always press the home button or power button. He almost has it mastered now, he only gets stuck when they ask him to do something, but he knows how to turn on or off and is learning words as well. I was cooking while he was playing and I turn around to see him laughing so hard at a small turtle. It just is awesome little thing that I simply enjoy and he does too.
why don't you say "my mom", or "mother in law"? Rude to say "my son's grandma"
Hmmm guess I never thought of it that way.
+knuxiefan1994 because if she's not married to the father of the child, parent-in-law is inaccurate. Same if the parents are divorced.
If any of my kids ever become interested in gaming I am gonna be right there with them for the long haul.
Logan Hollis Ditto
+Logan Hollis i cant tell you how my dad got me into gaming, he gave my and my younger brother his old n64 and showed us his 3 favorit games, after some time we only needet help turning it on.... and then he kind of forgot about it until we asked for a ps2 that one of my friends had, yes we had a ps1 but never played on it, mario 64 was god for us when we were 5 and 6
+Lets Pretend Almost same here, my father gave me one of those old Atari consoles and then showed me how to play the old Spectrum machines (yes yes I know I am an Oldy). Nowdays its the other way around: Everytime I get back home to Canada, I have to fix the PC for him and install a dozen games for him. I just love that old man gaming :)
John Paul Gaming is a lifelong hobby. You are never too old to enjoy a good video game.
Logan Hollis
If my father now aged 60 is an example then most likely you are right.
This resonates so much with me. I got to know video gaming because my father was an avid player of point-and-click puzzle adventures, specifically the wonderful Myst series, and I used to be his audience. He even let me take notes for him some times. I was really too young to understand much about the puzzles, though he explained them to me quite well, but the amazing surreal visuals gave me a love for the otherwordly and the strange that has lived to this day.
I think the evenings where we played together were some of our best bonding moments.
I still have his old note book, a small, black plastic-covered book with a label reading "Myst" on its front...
Wow, my dad is awesome.
To put it in context, this is our weekend activity
1. A round of multiplayer civ 5
2. we play super mario world on his super nintendo
3. we play gauntlet dark legacy on my gamecube.
He always hated the sky realm!
Thanks dad!
In 10-20 years or so, parents are gonna be awesome, I wish my parents played video games with me :(
So do I, cheese, so do I.
I wonder if that's what people 10 ~ 20 years ago thought about... TV, music and stuff alike?
example: "I'll playing rock music in the house that my kids also like when I become a father" or something...
But on positive note, playing game with your parent is pretty cool :P I play minecraft or MMO RPG with my mother XD
Justin Park the funny thing is imagining how long it took to get your mother into video games especially like mmo's
sandbox gamer I remember it being my mum who brought up the topic, so I kinda got really lucky XD
It ended up going like what this video suggested, I sat there as my mum was playing her first XBox game(one of Star Wars games)... and she some how got better than me at it;; her history of game before that was solitaire, mine sweeper & the like;; how o_O;;;
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Oh and the MMO, start really simple, don't pick games with extremely complex skill tree and try to avoid the one with PvP I think. I went Maplestory(2005~6 ish? on Korean server).
Currently we're playing archeage, just the two of us on Korean server until it went F2P & now on English server along with my friends XD
Minecraft is probably one of THE SINGLE BEST GAMES to follow this with. If there are ANY parents out there looking for an amazing learning experience with games and their children, then Minecraft is a GREAT way to do it.
It's the BEST BOX OF LEGOS you'll ever own! ;-P
I refuse to give spoilers for it, but LEGO MOVIE.
My little brother is a Minecraft maniac, actually, and he builds INSANE things to show to our parents. Sometimes, they even ask to post a screenshot on the fridge! I COMPLETELY agree!
Although, it does depend on the parents and what you're playing. For instance, my mom has degrees in literature, so while she's FASCINATED by games like The Stanley Parable and You Find Yourself in a Room, she has trouble even staying in the same room with games like CoD and Gears of War. My dad, on the other hand, is a history buff OBSESSED with strategy, and tends to shout out such strategies when I'm in the middle LoL and Dota, but tends to dislike more action heavy games like TF2 and the aforementioned CoD. Thusly, I tend to avoid buying action-heavy shooters for their sake, and focus more on well written and strategic games, just to be a little easier on them.
BE NICE TO YOUR PARENTS, KIDS!
Rabano Doom I quit playing Call of Duty because it simply lacks what I want in a shooter. I want an open world where you have to keep on your toes, because ANYONE AND EVERYONE could be your enemy.
DARKGORZ Planetside 2. Or maybe DayZ.
Rabano Doom You should try FTL for your Dad, and for your Mom, Papers Please is great.
I was blessed that my parents did this. Hell, that is part of why Final Fantasy (NES) is my favorite in the series and one of my favorite RPGs (along with Dragon Warrior 4). Because my dad and I played them together. We made the team on FF, in battle he asked me what should be done and we learned (together) enemy weaknesses and how best to handle the boss fights.
Even now, after he passed last September, when I pull out Dragon Quest IV on my 3DS or FF1 on my cell... Dad's right there with me. I may not have him anymore but he is right there when I play our games.
+Lrbearclaw Man, I've come so frighteningly close to losing my father multiple times, I'm really sorry for your loss. It's so much tougher when your dad is your best friend.
Maybe it doesn't always have to be parents that can play with children and help them learn.
Back when Pokemon X/Y was out and I was in a doctor's waiting room, I noticed a little girl looking at my screen and telling her brother "Look, she can ride a bike in that game O:" so I switched to the roller blades to see how she'd react and she got even more excited. I proceeded to take some cute and some cool looking pokemon from the box, went into Pokemon ami and she was so happy.
When her mother told her to stop staring because it's rude, I asked if she (the mother) would mind if I let the girl play a bit. It was fun letting her and her brother feed the Pokemon, helping her solve the little jigsaw puzzle in Pokemon Ami (Like "Try to put the pieces with the corner first") and having fun. They were so happy that after their treatment they said they'd go and buy it, too. (And asked if I could come to the doctor again to play with them, how cute) I hope they'll keep playing together and that the mother might interact with them in this way too. Letting them play and helping, sometimes explaining.
Now that I think about it, Pokemon X/Y is a really good way to start making your kids interested in Pokemon games. There is Pokemon Ami, dressing up and customizing your character (so rather "girlish" parts of the game), tiny puzzles that are not too frustrating, combat with your cool 3D Pokemon and a rather easy mode with the exp share (so more for little boys who just got started) and getting into breeding is much easier in that edition. I'd recommend playing something like that with little girls beside the usual Animal Crossing / Casual Party games / Harvest Moon things we show to girls. :)
Are you saying that some guy used GTA IV to teach his son colors?
In fact, that is exactly what he said.
+5raptorboy1 seems to work
That is beautiful
Best parent ever.
5raptorboy1 If he can teach his son colors with GTA I can teach my kid that life's not fair with Dark Souls or Spelunky
my parents couldn't care less...
sorry to hear that
Ilija Mitrevski Same
Ilija Mitrevski I would say same, but I forced my dad to play a video game, and he was doing good for about ten minutes before he got stuck on something easy and gave up.
Too many couldn't.
druze isto ali moj brat je ok tak da nije tolko lose
I remember how awesome my dad was with me playing video games. I played a lot of games when i was young and still play today, and one of the constants in that have been my family and it has been great. My brothers and i would play pokemon together while my mom and dad would watch the TV show with us while we were young.
My dad played diablo 2 with me and my brothers as we would switch off computers with LAN sharing a single copy of the game. When i was in middle school as well as watch me play mario and the other games i liked and would joke and tease making my experience even better. He even got me into starcraft.
My parents were even patient with me and wouldn't ask me to do too time consuming things when i was in my ranked LoL games phase and let me find out for myself that it's a very time consuming game with very little payoff in comparison.
Even now when i'm 18 years old my dad still plays battlefield with me and loves hearing about how i got a new hat in team fortress 2 while goofing around or got the upgraded master sword in legend of zelda. With my mom showing me the awesome score she racked up on candy crush as i try...and fail to beat it and even gives me tips as we switch off on her tablet late at night.
I'm sad that i'm leaving home, my parents helped me make games in my life a positive thing. Instead of being scared of it and trying to take it away from me they immersed themselves so that we could relate and we use games as ONE of the things we relate to each other with.
my dad would always play video games with me, let me watch him play, and watch me play video games all the time! Now, he never reenforced it with lessons, but it made me happy and made me want to play it more. And that is probably what made me like video games today. Thanks dad!
honestly gaming is so much better when you're a child playing with your parent. no matter how much I love a game nothing tops the fond memories I have playing Booger man on the Genesis with my pops. the game itself isn't that great and it took replaying it at an older age to realize why those play sessions brang me joy, it was playing games with my dad and making crass jokes at an age where boogers and burps were the pinnacle of comedy.
rayajoct13 my mother dosent even know how to hold a controler and my father is dead and my bother thinks that all my games are bad lol
I made german subtitles for this video just so I could show it to my mother. I feel like this is something that could have solved a lot of problems during my days as a kid. Great video.
This episode made me cry.....because my parents don't like me playing video games, they only hate the device.. I've always wanted a gamer parent to play with and to bond with as I grew up. I never got that, I've always been playing on my own, getting yelled at, and having my game consoles be taken away. It's a real shame, the childhood I could've had
Wait they warn parents at the store?
Wow those employes care about their job huh ?
Possibly also that they care about the game and don't wanna see children turned off of a game they weren't ready for.
Matsokune yes that too
RIGHT?????????
Or they wanted to avoid angry moms ranting about how a shooter game made their kid aggresive or something.
It's really in the stores best interest to warn the parents, after all, every business wants repeat customers.
Every other Monday I play video games not with my dad, but my grandfather. Almost always civilization, as his reaction time prevents him form playing games where time is a concern. I usually win, but not always.
+Enoan That's so nice, there's a bit of warmth in me now. :)
+MrMinerGuy142 thanks, I think I have purchased Civ 5 like 5 times across its 75% off sales to give a copy to various family members so we could play. Only my grandfather continued playing past one to two hours where I showed them the game.
I have to thank you. Your video brought a tear to my eye. Being 14 and having games as a solitary activity, it constantly frustrates me that I can't talk about gaming news or what I like about a particular genre with my Dad without him segwaying the conversation or just plain not understanding. For example, I was trying to explain how it was funny how people we're calling Titanfall "Call of Duty with mechs," but now that Advanced Warfare has been announced, people are saying "Call of Duty is ripping off Titanfall."
He responded by saying "Isn't Call of Duty a really violent game?"
I said, "Yes, but that's not the point!"
"Oh," he said.
Realizing the conversation wasn't going anywhere I just walked out of the room. I don't know why I keep trying, even though I'm constantly shot down like this. It just rips me apart that I can't share the one thing I love most with him.
I know that feel bro.
*Feels*
I basically grew up playing games with my parents.
My dad loves the old-school mario games. And I love the bonding we share at these moments. (Especially when I blow some dust off my SNES nowadays, 12 years later.) He was so good at it that made me fall in love with these kinds of games.
My mom played Mortal Kombat with my brother, bomberman with me. She made any sorts of games, regardless of their theme, to be simply funny and engaging. All the times I've got stuck in a frustrating level in these games and I quickly remembered of my mom making silly remarks. It prevented me from giving up and helped me enjoy my experience.
Yes. Parents's presence in a young gamer's life is important and can be life changing! :)
can I just say (and this has nothing to do with the topic of the video) that I love the art style you use in your videos. The amount of diversity used in such a casual way that really isn't a big deal, but makes the topic seem more open and more inclusive of everyone in gaming. Idk I just really appreciate it for some reason and I just wanted to say that you guys rock.
If I ever get kids I will be sure to not make the same mistake as my parents made
"gaming is a waste of time"
"you can't socialize through gaming"
"gaming is kids toys"
"gaming is not an art form they are toys"
I love my parents and I have a good contact with them even thou I don't live with them anymore. But it would have been nice to have had that support from them on that front. Bottom line is it does not matter wether it's sports, arts, drawing nor gaming take interest in your kids interests instead of alienating them, demoralize them and YELL at them for their hobbies.
This just makes me wish my dad had more respect for gaming. He's said numerous times that it doesn't matter and it's just a game. Now I'm certain this comes from his ability to get addicted to games easily and trying to detach himself from it, but when my brother and I are deeply engrossed in gaming, it hurts to hear him say that. Games do matter. They aren't a waste of time, and intelligent conversation and thinking can come from them. It won't necessarily rot my brain either. Bleh.
I have the same issue just not as bad. But he still thinks I can 'pause' my csgo match
+Lachlan Oh man, can't even begin to think how many times my parent's asked me why I can't just pause dota. Now I just say either I'm playing a video game or I'm playing an online game. Emphasizing the distinction has actually worked for me.
Finding a good comparison can help highlight the difference in their own terms, such as you could not pause tv broadcasts but you could pause a video tape. It should not be that hard to understand that there's differences within similar mediums.
I grew up with games alone
And my parents can't play games
Have fun resocialising me
MrVauxs lmao
MrVauxs Me to...
MrVauxs Me too
MrVauxs The empathy is strong.
Although my mom said she beat the original Super Mario Bros. on the NES when she was young. She's in her late 40s so...
MrVauxs My parents never played a video game in their lifes and they even think it rots your brain or something.Everytime I do something they don't like it's "these damn videogames transform you into an aggressive rebel" or something like that T_T
Or "Hey, you're playing Spore? Let's talk about Darwin's Theory of Evolution!"
Emerald Cruncher lol i don't think he meant that.
I think he meant exactly that.
+Willem Maas your avatar is perfect
MrVauxs Thank you :D I really like it.
Smience
“Frustratingly jump in the same pit 20 times in a row” Man, I know this feeling and I’m not even a parent, I just have a younger brother. He’s not even that much younger. He’s learned though, and is better now.
Watching this video really makes me wish that my parents got to play my video games with me more often. Whenever I do talk about video games to them, I mostly try to keep things simple because if I don't, then they'll either get lost in what I'm saying or they'll tell me to work on something else instead. I remember having them and my sister play with me a few times in a few games, but it wasn't really enough for them to keep doing it more often or for them to support me in the game I'm playing. I mostly just isolate myself playing while my parents are doing something else and sometimes, I get bored when I don't have a Player 2 by my side in a game like Super Mario or Smash Bros. When I become a parent, I'll make sure to be a good, supportive one, just like the examples in this video.
This is actually happening with me and my dad. When he let me use his steam account that he doesn’t use anymore I started play Total War II! Now we’re going to start playing Shogun II together!
I wish my parents were like this but my parent are stereotypical asians.
What are you doing?
Playing dota2.
What is dota2?
Well it's a game where...(gets cut off)
Why u no study?
Because I did that already.
MUDDABITCH THEN STUDY MOAR!
+Chris Li just tell then that studying until go to the bed actually reduces productivite, since over time you become more and more stressed, and more and more tired.
Drago Hammer I tried, they dont believe me.
sad.
+Chris Li I've always found the asian parents stereotype kind of amusing. Obviously it's damaging to a young mind but the strictness has always been interesting.
*6 year old boy* : Daddy look its pokemon :D:D:D:D
*Father*: Why you not doctor yet?
*same boy 15 years old*: Hey dad I can finally play that song on guitar
*Father*: Why you not doctor yet?
*same boy 30 years old*: Hey dad I'm getting married and I want you to be there
*Father*: Is she doctor? Are you doctor?
As damaging as it is, it can't be ignored that asians are typically far more successful and financially stable than most all other groups of people. The trade off is the high rate of suicide.
mechanoid2k Lmao, the last part is savage. But, to be honest, even if asians are more successful and stable they tend not to be as happy.
It was a beautiful message. I'm not a parent yet, but when I become one, I would like my child to play games and for your advice I would play with my kid or assist it.
This is interesting, my dad actually only played videogames for the Apple II, Windows 1.3 and occasionally casual PC games, and in the end he convinced me to ask for a PlayStation for Christmas instead of a Nintendo 64... yet he never actually played any game with me (except for ChessMaster 3D once or twice), but we can have many conversations about videogames that we both could understand, so yeah, you might be right we can have a special bond with videogames without actually having to play together...
I have kind of the same thing. My dad got me a Gamecube when I turned 5 (I'm only 18, shut up). He played it a bit, but I played it a LOT. The games he played the most, though, were the WWII shooters. I wasn't allowed to go anywhere near those until i was like, 11 (I was the poster child for "impressionable youth" ._.). I did eventually play them, and really like them. But now, my dad plays them exclusively. He's in a CoD clan. Whenever we play together, it's always me joining him in a round of CoD and never him joining me in sandboxing, or Smash Bros, or any "kiddish" games (ie, non-shooters). While I've become a more open, try-it-all gamer, he's turned into a one-trick pony. We can still talk about games sorta, like the newest gritty AAA title. But mostly, I don't much share my hobby with him.
Michelle Lehto Hobbies tend to have there niche things and specialties kinda like most things in the world. He can understand the strategy that may go into what you do as well as the thought.
Sometimes it can take patience from the child too, I remember when my dad was starting to play Minecraft and I would have to constantly remind him how to craft something as simple as a torch.
Rarely talk to my parents, they don't care much for what I do and visa-versa
i know your what you are talking about
If their reason to rarely talk to you is a job, try to make them take you with them.
It can be an a learningful expirience.
In my days I asked my dad to take me to his polygraphy, I don't know how it translates on english but it's bassicaly mass producing stuff that can be printed (posters) and maybe then combined up (notebooks). I would ask my father 10 questions a step.
Welp, my job is done, good luck!
ProjectGame Oh wow
This video got me thinking about my family's experience with video games. I have four brothers and only one sister, so my brothers played (and still play) video games quite a bit. However, their love of video games started with the fact that my parents bought an NES when they first got married. My parents played games like the first Legend of Zelda and other classics, and as we grew up they were willing to get us other Nintendo systems, especially multiplayer games, so we could play with each other. Granted, my parents really don't play video games anymore (they have other priorities now, which is OK), but they still sometimes enjoy watching us play games, and they are good about simply keeping our game playing in balance with other aspects of life. :) I have fond memories of games in my family for that reason.
My parents were the same growing up. We'd often have family competitions on games like Super Mario Bros (high score) or help each other out on more difficult titles. Now my parents still play games but they are mobile games rather than console but there is still that sense of competition.
there is still a mandatory MK competition for an hour since I grew up on old-timey mario and my kids grow up on new-timey mario. Every week. forever.
I'm a grandmother and my grandsons and I play Minecraft. As a family we got a online server and now play together with other family members across the US. My older grandson (9 years old) is learning redstone while creatively designing things for our shared world. With Skype and Discord he interacts with the others on the server. With the other games we play on my console while I watch and provide occasional help. Sometimes he helps me by reading my quest text for me when I play. Our shared experiences have provided hours of conversation and wonderful memories.
Even as a teenager, I find it comforting when my parents allow me to talk about my games with them, and the conversation often leads onto other topics that they might know more about. When I learnt my dad had played World of Warcraft, even though it was for a small amount of time, gave us something more to talk about and even if I would have probably told him about it regardless, knowing he even vaguely understood it helps further develop the bond we have, even if it was pretty strong anyway.
And hearing my mom used to play Mortal Kombat... now that was glorious moment.
Thank you so much for this!!
I'm going to show it to my parents :)
They think video games are a wast of time and always turn down what I love and it DRIVES ME CRAZY!
I keep wanting them to play Minecraft with me but THEY ALWAYS SAY NO!
"I don't really care for Minecraft."
"I don't know how to play video games."
"It's just a wast of time."
ITS SO ANNOYING
As an American, I would argue further that the government has no right to regulate or censor video games.
Neither of my parents are into video games, but it is something I plan to introduce to my kids. I hope to foster many good memories with this art.
The government has the right to regulate the media. That's not even in dispute. The freedom of the press does not include a freedom from consequences for their own irresponsibility. It's the same with any other media including games.
Video games and nearly all media is protected under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The only real exceptions to this general rule are calls to violent action and threats to a person's life.
Not true. Other abuses of media privilege include slander, libel and defamation of character as well as breach of privacy. An example that happened recently is that a well known athlete sued a newspaper for releasing his medical records, which they had no right to do.
That one's gonna go against the newspaper since it violated the athlete's right to privacy, and could result in fines or other action against the paper and its personnel as well. Just one example of things the government can do to regulate the media without violating its freedom as such.
These abuses are regulated in both criminal and civil court and the government does have the power to check abusive media.
The Constitution is a list of what government power must not exceed, not an exist list of all the government's authority to the extent that nothing not on the list can be a government power.
I kinda wish my dad did this with me. Unfortunately, it's not so much that he doesn't "get" games, but rather, he just has zero interest in them. He's really bad at them and just doesn't care about them. That said, he knows how much I enjoy them and doesn't ask questions (usually), and hell, more than once intelligent conversation has arisen from video games. Usually however, movies are what bring me and my dad together, so I usually like to compare both films and video games, in order to help him have a greater understanding. Thanks for making this video, I might show it to him. He'll probably find the topic very interesting.
My parents can't compare games to tv, they could sit all day watching tv whether its sports or soaps or movies, but I can't do that at all, saying its "not normal"
I remember when i was like 5 on my mega drive, my mum would always sit with me while i play and we used to play co op in streets of rage and beat it together, but the best moment was with sonic 2, i got to the final boss for the first time and my mum told me to just survive while she wrote down the bosses pattern until it looped, we beat it on our last life, and cheered at the final cut Seen, i cant wait to have a similar experience with my kid when i have one :)
My grandpa went out of his way to play games with my younger cousin on their SNES system. He didn't like games, was very bad at playing them, and couldn't see well in dark areas, but he did it anyway because he wanted to share the experience with my cousin, who was like a son to him.
Now he's passed, and my cousin still treasures those memories, and the games they played together hold a very special place in his heart.
I so want to do this with my kids in the future
Now, if only we can find that one partner...
Jonard Lolz lmao, true
RawkHawkMcGawk『Deezy』 Player 2 yeah😆
RawkHawkMcGawk『Deezy』 same here i want to be part of my childs life not just the ones who feed them and stuff
I've looked at your profile pic
Old don't reproduce
I'm in a half-and-half situation. Dad's into games, loves strategy titles like the Total War series, Panzer General, that kind of ting. Mom.... isn't. She's a hands on person, loves handicrafts, crocheting, that kind of thing. If she spends hours on something she demands some useful product at the end of the exercise. It's just how she grew up as the children of an WWII Army engineer and a Boston nurse.
She... had a rough adjustment to the arrival of the NES into the family, and Dad had to lay some groundrules about when and how games would be played in order to make sure Mom didn't feel left out of a household that was otherwise 100% gamers. Mom fought a long, hard rearguard action against the games, partly because she felt they were an utter waste of time and partly because if we were gaming, we weren't including her in what we was doing, at least as she perceived it, because she didn't game and wouldn't engage us as gamers, and I think she resented the time we spent in something for which she was so comprehensively uninvolved. I don't think she actually realized that it was she who was isolating herself by not getting involved in the way the video talks about.
It actually took surviving cancer to get her over her issue. While recovering from cancer she lay in a hospital bed in the living room, which was usually game central (since putting computers and game consoles in the bedrooms where they could be unsupervised was one of the things Mom insisted must not happen, although we all suspected her ulterior motive was to make sure we didn't isolate ourselves and spent at least a little time indirectly interacting with the rest of the family) the chemo frequently left too weak to crochet, her favorite sitting activity, so she'd sit there in the hospital bed with nothing to do but talk. Suddenly games were things that brought us into the room as objects to talk to and interact with. We were a little older then so we'd make time for her when she wanted to chat (to this day I won't buy games with no pause feature for this exact reason). Or she'd read aloud to us It's a habit we kept going after, thank God, she recovered, and a source of greater peace in the home as a result.
+hagamapama Thats a really beautiful story man. I started feeling the tears. I'm glad your mom's doing well
finally we have a game that most people are playing with friends and family
Pokemon go...
unfortunately for me, they only ask me what each pokemon's name is since im the only one who has played the handheld games
The wii is quite a family friendly place as well, family gamenight went from actual boardgames to wii stuff lol. Until they forgot the wrist strap and threw the wiimote right into the tv screen, good times.
I grew up with my mom playing games with me. She was big into Star Wars and helped me play the Star Wars game on the Sega Genesis. She also loved fighting games like War Gods and Xena Warrior Princess on the PS1. It was really fun seeing her get so excited... (about beating her 4-5 year old in a fighting game.... love u mom)... She always talked about how cool it is that girls can take a punch and punch back (Xena). She was going on about how Xena fights for those who cant and how she learns from mistakes. It was one of the things that taught me to never cower from bullies and help those who are bullies when I started kindergarten. I can whole heartedly agree that you can turn games into a postive bonding experience with your family.
I loved this video so much. It reminded me of growing up with video games. Raised by my single mother. Sometimes she'd sit and watch with me, asking questions about it. She wasn't a game and she didn't always do everything in this video, but if I wanted to talk to her about my experiences or a problem I was having, she was always willing to listen and try to understand. She'd offer as much guidance as she could. And just being there as someone to bounce ideas off of was usually enough to do the trick. I always appreciated her so much for not dismissing what I loved doing. That phrase "its just a game" burns my blood. Maybe it is, but its meaningful to me and I'm very passionate about it. Don't dismiss what your kids care about.
I like this video. If I ever have kids (a big assumption already), I'll have to watch this again.
I play a lot of video games, nowadays it's grand strategy and simulations, but there was a time when I played the big popular titles like Gears of War and Halo 3. While I enjoyed these games, I never found either of them memorable, save on one occasion, when my parents decided to have a go with me.
The only truly memorable occasion I have of Gears of War was watching my father constantly running into walls because he had no clue what he was doing. It was a strange situation for me, where our roles were reversed and it was me saving his bacon rather than the other way around.
My only memorable occasion for Halo 3 was when my mother decided to play co-op with me, and her strategy was to run around in circles spaying bullets everywhere. She somehow managed to kill some grunts while I desperately tried to stay out of her way.
The point is, of all the hours I put into those two games, the only times I really remembered playing them was when my parents decided to have a go with me. It was a good bonding exercise, which was really nice because we didn't have much in common with one another otherwise. I really wish they showed a bit more interest at a younger age, as it may have helped us to understand each other a bit better in later life.
This really makes me wish my parents didn't just view video games as an addiction. I can't ask my dad if I want to buy a game because he'll simply sigh and say 'The last thing you need is another game!" However, my mother is slightly more forgiving, as long as I'm paying for it (Which I do 95% of the time) But then there is their view on ratings! Oh boy! If the game in question contains a gun, any small amount of blood, It's taboo. My parents flip when I bought Metroid Prime (I'm 13) and then interrogated me on it's content. But then they will ask me to come downstairs and watch The Walking Dead, a show I find quite disturbing, or even better, beg me to come downstairs and then they put on American Horror Story! A show so goddamn terrifying that the first scene consisted of rape, stabbing, and heart removal, followed by puking and satanic witch groups! Friendly eh? Because apparently TV shows are A-OOOK! But Video Games? NO! They believe (And they said this to my face!) that I'll turn into some school shooting homicidal maniac!
Move out. Now. They are complete idiots. These stories are far too common here and I don't like it.
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woooooow.... I've watched this episode like 10 times and only just now gotten that pun.
I think might have just gained a slightly higher IQ than a door knob now.
Please enlighten us, the lowly knob folk.
Really, what's the joke here?
DaemonEX0 that creature doesn't evolve.
DaemonEX0 Haha, its that they put up a picture of minecraft's ORE blocks when Dan says the word "or"
Uniquenameosaurus there's that pun too.
You god damn smart little fuck... your profil pic trap works.
A bit too good.
(also, dat name)
This is the kind of parent i want to be in the future
if i ever become a parent at all, that is
My Mum used to sit with me while I played games. She still does.
It's great when a parent does that, and even though she wasn't playing she was still able to help though explaining things. Makes playing even better and less of a lonely experience.
0:50, hopefully this'll diminish once uninformed parents go the wayside as an entire generation of hardcore gamers grow to adulthood and eventually parenthood. Like with any cartoony looking game that is decidedly NOT cartoony in content "What do you mean it's an M rated game, it's got cutesy looking characters on the front cover therefore it HAS to be for children." Conker's Bad Fur Day anyone?
Makes me think of my mom. She was never right next to me, but that was a good thing. She gave me the space I wanted when I was playing, and would come in immediately to check out any cutscene or musical score my nerdy self just had to share. She not only accepted my favorite passtime, but tried to see my passion, and even defended it. And when you have someone you love defending you, you never want to prove the haters true, so it helped to keep me responsible about my gaming habits. It even helped sparked my curiosity about the political, then technical side of gaming, then the larger world as it tied into that interest. Heh, probably why I'm watching this series in the first place. I'm a proud, politically aware, socialogically and psychologically curious gaming enthusiest, and I probably have my mother to thank for not letting me feel shame in what I liked.
Defending something you don't particularly like/understand/are a part of because it's right is one of the best qualities a human can have.
This is why I find brony haters much more annoying than bronies. In fact, someone liking MLP isn't a bad thing at all. Criticizing me for NOT liking it would be, but they rarely seem to do that.
We should have that as a bumper sticker "Games are not a Babysitter".
I'm really glad that my dad will listen whenever I talk about games. He even plays from time to time. I had this friend who's parents totally didn't understand games at all. We were talking about backwards compatibility, and my friend's dad didn't even try to understand what we were talking about. He just shut the whole conversation down.
I know its a old video but thought I would still comment.
My son is 4yrs old, he's doing football practice. Enjoys football and had only been training for 3 weeks. Trying to understand the rules etc is actually harder to teach than you think. Not many of the children understand, tried showing videos, drawing, showing, talking nothing worked. I decided to buy fifa for his playstation and teach him the basic buttons to play it etc. Within a few hours of playing on fifa with him he understands the rules and more. Improved his techniques and extra moves etc. So I took him back the fourth week and the coach was baffled, asking what did I do? he named several teams, names, numbers, positions, rules and again techniques. Honestly learnt more that week on fifa than he did 3 weeks of training. He out shined the others who were training an extra year than him, who still never fully understood football. Well you wouldn't expect a 4-5yr old too. So the coach told the parents to give fifa ago if they have access to a console. That 5th week of returning it was like watching a total different bunch of children, passing, positioning, rules were all fully understood. Instead of every child just running at the ball. Definitely worked for us