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My 4 year old is kicking butt in Empire Earth!
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BeauJangles
Lifer
Empire Earth is a fantastic game 🙂
incallisto
Golden Member
My nephew is the same way.
He used to play Quake3 at the age of 5 and could rocket jump, strafe across the entire map, and even circle strafe jump so far that people would stop and immediately type "how did you do that" -- only to meet their demise at the hands of a 5 year old w/ a rail from across the map. 😉 He had 84% accuracy with rail on Q3DM17 against some of the top players I know. Even cycled weapons like the pros do. He used MG to "wound" them and prediction rocket shots to take them out and if those missed, he nailed them with a perfect rail. 😉
It's hilarious! Friends of mine who have been playing FPS games since the original wolfenstein get annihilated by a child playing RTCW like a veteran.
He used to play Quake3 at the age of 5 and could rocket jump, strafe across the entire map, and even circle strafe jump so far that people would stop and immediately type "how did you do that" -- only to meet their demise at the hands of a 5 year old w/ a rail from across the map. 😉 He had 84% accuracy with rail on Q3DM17 against some of the top players I know. Even cycled weapons like the pros do. He used MG to "wound" them and prediction rocket shots to take them out and if those missed, he nailed them with a perfect rail. 😉
It's hilarious! Friends of mine who have been playing FPS games since the original wolfenstein get annihilated by a child playing RTCW like a veteran.
SherEPunjab
Diamond Member
sweet. don't let him play too long though. kids will get addicted. on a side note, my 2 YEAR OLD nephew has been playing NFS Porsche unleased. i have to help with turns, but he'ls picking it up. he calls MS Midtown Madness "Car game" and NFS Porsche Unleashed "New Car Game" (i installed that more recently)
My sons name is Jacob, and he sat and watched me through all of WarCraft III. He took all his soldiers into the bedroom for hours playing WarCraft with them. Now every thing is Empire Earth. I taught him the alphabet on his key board playing Carnavories by mapping movement keys to A,B,C, and so on until he understood and reccognized each letter in turn. Then I would switch to the next set of letters until he was very profitient. Kids, They grow up so fast these days.
Sounds like we should all get our kids together for some online gaming! 🙂
My six-year-old has just begun to kick my butt in Unreal Tournament, and this week we've been playing hours of mulitplayer Operation Flashpoint together.
Like SherEPunjab's nephew, my son started out at 2 playing most of the same games I played. He called Unreal "the gun game", NFS: PU "the car game", 4x4 EVO2 "the truck game" and Wolfenstien was "the German Nazi Game." Eventually I decided that his skill level was proficeint enough that it was time he started learning to call them by their proper name and I'd correct him until he got it right. In the beginning I would enter cheats for "God Mode" for most of the games, but now he doesn't need it. It's fascinating to watch his little hands flying around the keyboard like a pro!
My six-year-old has just begun to kick my butt in Unreal Tournament, and this week we've been playing hours of mulitplayer Operation Flashpoint together.
Like SherEPunjab's nephew, my son started out at 2 playing most of the same games I played. He called Unreal "the gun game", NFS: PU "the car game", 4x4 EVO2 "the truck game" and Wolfenstien was "the German Nazi Game." Eventually I decided that his skill level was proficeint enough that it was time he started learning to call them by their proper name and I'd correct him until he got it right. In the beginning I would enter cheats for "God Mode" for most of the games, but now he doesn't need it. It's fascinating to watch his little hands flying around the keyboard like a pro!
SherEPunjab
Diamond Member
thats cool man. what do you feel about gun games? dont' you think they are too young for violent games?
SherEPunjab
Diamond Member
its not necessarily a bad thing. i actually did that because i was babysitting one day, and didn't know how to keep my nephew busy. in retrospect, i shouldn't have started him, cuz now he DEMANDS 'new car game' everytime he comes. he's addicted i think
I'm into FPS alot. Totally hooked on UT2003 but don't play them much when he's around. I don't want him to think that gunplay and death are matters to take lightly. He can play EE and learn a little about planning and such, though I did edo Meccs in Giants with him as it's more cartoon based and is humorous. He laughed like hell every time Boyjoyzee knocks the Reaper off the cliff with his cane.
SherEPunjab
Diamond Member
i love online ut23k, but i won't play around him. man you hear so many things about kids these days (guns), sometimes i worry for my nephew how will things be for him later on. and my kids. seems like everything is getting worse year by year.
I don't think it's necessarily the guns or violence that is the issue, it's the emotional maturity of the child and the responsible way in which the parent handles it. I wouldn't recommend some of these games for just any child. There are some, and I've met a few of them, that I am just certain a violent game would have a negative impact on. Whereas other children demonstrate an extremely sensitive nature and appear to clearly understand when you talk to them about the differences between the guns in a video game and what a gun in real life can do to another human being.
I know my son very well and spend my entire day with him since I'm homeschooling him. So in the afternoons we are able to have a little fun over the LAN and I'm always there to monitor the time he spends playing the games and how they seem to affect him. I'm always talking to him about games vs. reality and so forth.
And of course I turn down the gore level when I can. Wolfenstien seemed to creep him out a little too much and make him afraid of the dark so we backed off from that game for now.
So my take on the subject is that it depends upon the child and in all cases it requires close parental supervision.
Man, you could not have stated this any better! My son is very sensitive and loving in his nature. I am not at all worried about him as we always play together, at the same time. I built a room out in the garage and our lan is about 6 feet apart. easy to watch his progress and help him along.
You should be commended for being an attentive parent.
Too many parents use computers and TV as electronic babysitters. Kids are well rounded with opportunity and guidance. Take away either one and you have potential for disaster.
Thank you! 🙂
And even conscientious and caring parents like ourselves have to watch it lest we lapse into this! With all the demands that adults have it's an easy thing to do. But I feel I've been extremely blessed with my son and continue to do my best. It's unfortunate that not everybody thinks this way....
acidvoodoo
Platinum Member
hehe, my little brother enjoyed watching me play age of empires a few years ago, so when he was 5 he started playing himself. He started with the cheats on, like the food ad gold ones, but he has progressed to not need them. He even went when he was 6 or 7 to buy age of conquerors himself. He is 8 now, and was playing battlefield 1942 the other day. He started a month ago, it was funny, i wa watching him play, and i send 'quick jak look an enemy' and he goes 'i'm trying to shoot him but it's too laggy!!'
made me laugh
I don't like him playing games like GTA3, but my older brother seems to let him
made me laugh
I don't like him playing games like GTA3, but my older brother seems to let him
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