Getting 9 year old to play games other than Roblox?

[thrasher_565]

8 minutes ago, GoStormPlays said:

This has been around for over a decade.

oh looks like its on steam now... (looking at the cd copy i got...)

[GoStormPlays]

11 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

oh looks like its on steam now... (looking at the cd copy i got...)

Yeah that too. It's also on EA.

[StarsMars]

On 2/24/2024 at 1:14 AM, diegoaccord said:

Is there a gateway game that could possibly be used to transition into playing actual games?

 

Kid has a lot of games at their disposal, owns a Switch and a 3080 Ti PC. The whole ass PC only getting used is the PC for that one game.

 

I don't care that they want to play that game, but I'm always being asked to play it, and basically, I'm not. It's going to prevent gaming together from being a core memory. Like it had been for myself. At the time I got into games, it was me and my sibling playing with our father, but we played games that we all enjoyed. Like I recently found a CIB copy of game we used to play on NES, Bases Loaded 2. At that time, there were a lot of games that we could play together without it being forced. Because of how things are different, and what NPC kids play (Yes, I feel my kid is an NPC- but I'm not the only parent), there isn't a crossover. Also, I'm not going to force any games, they'll play what they want. It sucks, I keep being asked to play, but I'm not going to play Roblox, for more than 10 minutes, and she cannot play a real game for more than 5 minutes.

 

What do we do? Keep the status quo?

I would just let her play her games and you play yours until she takes an interest in your game or you in hers.

PS: No tiktok. Tiktok bad. Say no to tiktok.

[artuc]

Rocket league

 

Free is good. The competitiveness when getting stomped though is a tough one. Far more chill just versing derpy bots.

 

Minecraft

 

Can be cool playing together, building a house etc. Can be some overlap with Roblox as some games are clones or have voxel building/destruction aspects.

 

Been meaning to see if they'd like something like Stardew Valley or Snowrunner 

 

[Spotty]

Moved to PC Gaming and locked the thread since discussion is really just people crapping on OP.