Shit Kid Gamers Say

[MrBroadway]

Jabba's right on this one. You need to teach kids early. Also, you wankers calling Mega Man hard are a punch of pansies.

[Necromancer]

Punch?  Is that like a cross between a bunch and a peck?

[Jibbajaba]

Jabba's right on this one.

Well, you throw enough shit at the wall and something is bound to stick.

[TR0N]

Kids today are not used to being challenged, so when faced with something "hard", their reaction is to give up.  It isn't their fault, at all.  Society today shelters kids beyond belief.

This kids today are not condition for challenging video games.Modern video games make it much easier,compered to the 8-bit and 16-bit era consoles.

[Arkhan]

Kids of today don't play games. They watch Let's Plays.


Just kidding, thanks for sharing these enjoyable conversations.

I know someone who watches LPs, and equates that to him having played the game also.

He's not a kid though.  He's like 25.

He's a f*cking douche.

[technozombie]

I'm happy to say my 11 yr old daughter is pretty good at MegaMan 2 she can beat most of the bosses but hasn't made it to Dr. Wiley's stage yet. Things are quite a bit different for my kids than it was for me. I had so few games that I pretty much had to play them over and over. I mostly rented games so my completion rate wasn't very high.  Now my kids have way too much to choose from. Neither of them ( my son's 12) play crap like CoD though. For him it's Minecraft or WoW.

[MrBroadway]

Kids of today don't play games. They watch Let's Plays.


Just kidding, thanks for sharing these enjoyable conversations.

I know someone who watches LPs, and equates that to him having played the game also.

He's not a kid though.  He's like 25.

He's a f*cking douche.

I mean, I get that watching a long play will allow you to make a judgment on whether or not certain features of a game fit your tastes. But who the f*ck would say that they actually played it from that?

Also, why are people watching long plays for reasons other than to figure out whether to buy it or for getting past a certain point?

[lukester]

I have some friends who want to play certain games that are out, so they watch an entire longplay by a typical Twitch streamer.

One conversation went like this.

Me: Hey bud, have you played Valiant Hearts?

friend: No, but that's a really cool game!

Me: Oh I see. Well it's on Games with Gold.

friend: Yeah I know, but I watched a streamer on Twitch play it.

Me: So just part of it?

friend: Nope, a full 10 hours

Very strange. Another friend watched a full 30 hour playthrough of Dark Souls.

[Dicer]

I weep for the future of gaming, lucky for my lil shit I taught him early and his first games were old classics, yeah they were hard but he had fun trying, too many games now are just gimme a win or re-spawn me or give me more lives, f*ck that noise. His friends into retro stuff as well (cause of his dad) so at least his little circle of friends are good and not oblivious to how shitty things are now.

It sucks cause kids don't even wanna bother, hearing "it's dumb" or "it's too hard, I don't get it, this sucks" ugh makes me want to punch kids, and that's never a good look, lol...

[Gentlegamer]

I have some friends who want to play certain games that are out, so they watch an entire longplay by a typical Twitch streamer.

One conversation went like this.

Me: Hey bud, have you played Valiant Hearts?

friend: No, but that's a really cool game!

Me: Oh I see. Well it's on Games with Gold.

friend: Yeah I know, but I watched a streamer on Twitch play it.

Me: So just part of it?

friend: Nope, a full 10 hours

Very strange. Another friend watched a full 30 hour playthrough of Dark Souls.

Those type of long plays are only interesting to me when I've already played the game in question. For instance, there was a LP of Dark Souls by a woman who was a total novice, but she was completely methodical in figuring things out and it was very interesting to see her advance. Similarly, a youtuber called EpicNameBro is very into the Dark Souls lore, and is doing a LP series where he shows all the dialog you might miss and pieces together the cryptic story and possible interpretations. That's pretty cool.

In general watching a stream or LP is sorta like when we were kids and took turns playing a game, or your younger sibling would want to watch you. It's a type of social activity.

[Bonknuts]

My son was playing Ninja Gaiden on my NES (on an HDTV which has at least a 5 frame delay) and he got to area 6. That game's pretty tough. It took him all day to get there. He's been practicing his 8bit kung fu lately. He actually thinks NG1 is easier than NG2... no way! NG2 is way easier. As for Megaman 2.. easiest game I ever beat back in the day. I beat the day it came out. I was pissed that it was too easy. It took me years to get pasted the yellow blob guy in MM1 (I didn't know the pause trick).

 I have a young niece that plays a lot of SMB3 (on the snes though). Pretty much the only thing she plays on it. Pretty sure she's beaten SMB3.

[Gentlegamer]

Mega Man 2 is easy if you play it on pleb mode and spam Metal Blade.

Select normal difficulty and things are different.

[esteban]

There was a different thread about our kids playing games, but my now-6th grader enjoys playing 8-bit and 16-bit games, including Gameboy...and whatever classic arcade games we can find:

Recently (last 6-12 months, ha!)...
Pokemon
Dr. Mario
Parasol Stars
Galaga/Galaxian
Joust
Gyruss
Balloon Kid
Kaboom!
Bonk 1-3
Monster Lair (co-op, I help her survive)
Mario (all)
Mariokart
Ninja Spirit
Star Parodia

Etc.

[esteban]

Megaman 2 was so easy,  back in the day. Contra without the cheat? That was hard. 1943 was a slog.

SMB2 (USA), Legendary Wings= easy
Gradius/Lifeforce = challenge

[Medic_wheat]

There was a different thread about our kids playing games, but my now-6th grader enjoys playing 8-bit and 16-bit games, including Gameboy...and whatever classic arcade games we can find:

Recently (last 6-12 months, ha!)...
Pokemon
Dr. Mario
Parasol Stars
Galaga/Galaxian
Joust
Gyruss
Balloon Kid
Kaboom!
Bonk 1-3
Monster Lair (co-op, I help her survive)
Mario (all)
Mariokart
Ninja Spirit
Star Parodia

Etc.

Gyruss is so great