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2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

Syd Lexia wrote:

I would never let a three year old touch a video game controller. They'd fucking drool on it or something. I especially wouldn't buy them a game that used a plushie. I've seen what kids do to plushies.

so what you're saying is that because YOU wouldn't do it, it's not a good idea?

Posted: Jan 03 2010 03:59 pm

Yeah.

I was introduced to electronic gaming somewhere in the 4.5 - 5 range. I think any earlier than that is completely unreasonable, unless we're talking about some point and click Ernie's Big Splash bullshit, and only if a parent is manning the controls.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

meh, we have a two and a half year old here, and she'll take a 360 controller and climb into a chair and play games with me just fine. I suppose it's a matter of upbringing.

Posted: Jan 03 2010 07:20 pm

There's only one way to settle this: knife fight. If I win, I'm right.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I was hoping this would turn into a discussion about parenting, which would prompt soldierhawk to jump at the opportunity to merge this with the topic in general discussion, which would then cause that topic to go off topic, resulting in jeebus locking it, which would cause backlash within the community. while the mods were busy stifling the uprising, the NWO would use this opportunity to attack general discussion, allowing hacker the time he needs to hack into the mainframe and replace you as syd lexia. the commoners would be none the wiser to our evil plot!

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

I started playing video games at 2, mostly Super Mario Bros and Battle City, where I played coop with my father.
Though sometimes I got pissed and shot the US headquarters, leading to a game over.

Posted: Jan 03 2010 08:02 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

I think any earlier than that is completely unreasonable, unless we're talking about some point and click Ernie's Big Splash bullshit, and only if a parent is manning the controls.

Why is it unreasonable? 3 year olds don't drool, and my son handles a Wii remote pretty well for a little kid, as like I said before, he has completed all of the Lego games by himself. Him and I even had a bunch of great Boom Blox sessions together when I rented it.

Once they get the concept of the game and how to use the control, 3 year olds are just as savvy as 6 year olds (and I know, because I have a 6 year old stepson too). I guess it's one of those things you need to actually have a kid yourself to understand.

Posted: Jan 03 2010 08:18 pm

Pandajuice wrote:

I guess it's one of those things you need to actually have a kid yourself to understand.

I will certainly concede that point. As an actual parent with actual children, you know better than I whether your children possess the cognitive skills and reflexes necessary to play video games.

But I personally wouldn't risk it. Continuation of my bloodline or not, there is no child I wouldn't throw down a flight of stairs if they in any way damaged my consoles, games, or game peripherals. So until I decided they were worthy of gaming, my children would known my Nintendo as Daddy's Super Awesome Fun Machine That Will Kill You If You Ever Touch It Or Look At It For More Than 5 Seconds.

Posted: Jan 04 2010 08:00 am

Yeah, you're definitely right there in that kids can do some damage to your games/controllers, even if you teach them well. I've written off the Wii for myself, so I just let them go sick on it and a couple of nunchuks have paid the price (another complaint about the Wii: the connector between the wiimote and nunchuk fucking sucks) and needed to be replaced. Plus those Lego discs I mentioned that he plays are pretty scratched up by now from being handled by a 3 year old.

I definitely won't let him play my PS3 once I finally get it until he is much older and can be trusted to handle it more gingerly.

Posted: Jan 04 2010 10:18 am

The one thing I worry about, and I have absolutely no scientific evidence to back this up, is that if kids start on video games too early, they'll become dissociative.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I hear that if a kid plays doom, they'll shoot up their school.

Posted: Jan 04 2010 02:05 pm

I don't think that. But I do think that it is probably not a good idea to introduce children to immersive fantasy worlds in their preschool years. It has the potential to severely disrupt their social development in a lot of nasty ways. But again, I have absolutely no proof that it does.

Posted: Jan 04 2010 02:40 pm

I've gotta be honest.....I'd be really embarrassed if someone saw me playing that.

Posted: Jan 04 2010 07:38 pm

FNJ wrote:

I was hoping this would turn into a discussion about parenting, which would prompt soldierhawk to jump at the opportunity to merge this with the topic in general discussion, which would then cause that topic to go off topic, resulting in jeebus locking it, which would cause backlash within the community. while the mods were busy stifling the uprising, the NWO would use this opportunity to attack general discussion, allowing hacker the time he needs to hack into the mainframe and replace you as syd lexia. the commoners would be none the wiser to our evil plot!

lol thats funny

Posted: Jan 04 2010 08:11 pm

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

I've gotta be honest.....I'd be really embarrassed if someone saw me playing that.

Let's say an adult would play this, would they kneel on the floor like in the video? It'd probably be more comfortable to sit down and hold the thing in your lap, but then you'd look like a whackjob bouncing a stuffed animal around on your crotch. Confused

Posted: Jan 04 2010 09:02 pm

FNJ wrote:

meh, we have a two and a half year old here, and she'll take a 360 controller and climb into a chair and play games with me just fine. I suppose it's a matter of upbringing.

I agree with FNJ on this one; my two year old niece likes to hold the controller and pretend to play NES with me all the time, and she's just fine with it.

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

It depends on the controller. I let little kids play NES with me all the time, but most newer stuff I'd be too afraid of them fucking up. Like, I play Sonic and Mario and stuff with kids lots, but when they want to play something on my DS or PS2, they sit on my lap and I'm totally lame about it (DS games using the stylus are totally off limits for obvious reasons, though).

I don't know, I think most kids can handle most games by the time they're five, or so. Shucks, my nephew's damned good at Sonic.

Posted: Jan 04 2010 10:29 pm

my niece (just turned 4 in november) loves playing excitebike. the new excitebike on wiiware. she does terrible, but she manages to finish the races and gets real excited about it too. we take turns playing.

Posted: Jan 04 2010 10:33 pm

Blackout wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

I've gotta be honest.....I'd be really embarrassed if someone saw me playing that.

Let's say an adult would play this, would they kneel on the floor like in the video? It'd probably be more comfortable to sit down and hold the thing in your lap, but then you'd look like a whackjob bouncing a stuffed animal around on your crotch. Confused

Yea.....I think you'd need an extremely understanding wife/GF/neighbor to not think you were a total whackjob. I wonder if/how well it would work if you didn't use the stuffed animal.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

username wrote:

FNJ wrote:

I was hoping this would turn into a discussion about parenting, which would prompt soldierhawk to jump at the opportunity to merge this with the topic in general discussion, which would then cause that topic to go off topic, resulting in jeebus locking it, which would cause backlash within the community. while the mods were busy stifling the uprising, the NWO would use this opportunity to attack general discussion, allowing hacker the time he needs to hack into the mainframe and replace you as syd lexia. the commoners would be none the wiser to our evil plot!

lol thats funny

Posted: Jan 05 2010 12:45 am

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Blackout wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

I've gotta be honest.....I'd be really embarrassed if someone saw me playing that.

Let's say an adult would play this, would they kneel on the floor like in the video? It'd probably be more comfortable to sit down and hold the thing in your lap, but then you'd look like a whackjob bouncing a stuffed animal around on your crotch. Confused

Yea.....I think you'd need an extremely understanding wife/GF/neighbor to not think you were a total whackjob. I wonder if/how well it would work if you didn't use the stuffed animal.

Well if you had an an extremely understanding wife/GF/neighbor you could just bounce them around on your crotch instead! This Is A Joke

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I actually think the doll is kind of cute.

Joined: Nov 11 2009 Location: Cajun Country Posts: 1511

Meh, it gets a 6 out of 10 on the cuteness scale.

Posted: Jan 05 2010 08:48 am

FNJ wrote:

I actually think the doll is kind of cute.

I was actually thinking it's pretty damn ugly. Looks like the bastard offspring of Crash Bandicoot and Stimpy.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

that's what makes it so cute.