Yeah, kids shouldn’t be allowed to play Undertale, Armored Core 6, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XVI, Hollow Knight, or Stardew Valley.
They’ll play shovelware and like it, just like we did!
There are plenty of great games today and horrible games from when we grew up (E.T. anyone?), the trick is to filter the good from the bad and show them what to watch out for.
That’s the thing I did with my niece. She didn’t get to watch many films growing up (she read a lot, listened to a lot of music, but her parents didn’t really do films or TV so it wasn’t much of a thing). As a teenager we started hanging out and I’d show her films that I thought that she’d enjoy and would be culturally important. Meanwhile I’d give her the rundown of “You can watch this, but I wouldn’t bother. This one is good, the rest you can skip.”
I like to think she’s going off to uni with good memories of watching films with me. Hopefully I can do something similar for my recently arrived daughter.
Yeah, kids shouldn’t be allowed to play Undertale, Armored Core 6, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XVI, Hollow Knight, or Stardew Valley.
They’ll play shovelware and like it, just like we did!
There are plenty of great games today and horrible games from when we grew up (E.T. anyone?), the trick is to filter the good from the bad and show them what to watch out for.
That’s the thing I did with my niece. She didn’t get to watch many films growing up (she read a lot, listened to a lot of music, but her parents didn’t really do films or TV so it wasn’t much of a thing). As a teenager we started hanging out and I’d show her films that I thought that she’d enjoy and would be culturally important. Meanwhile I’d give her the rundown of “You can watch this, but I wouldn’t bother. This one is good, the rest you can skip.”
I like to think she’s going off to uni with good memories of watching films with me. Hopefully I can do something similar for my recently arrived daughter.