Seriously, if you start playing video-games any later you suck-not only are you at a disadvantage but it also means that you'll have missed out of some great games.

Instead of your head being filled with kiddie tv shit and stuff you grow up with explosions, epic stories, emotional journeys and works of interactive art.

You didn't play games when you were four, at least not FPS, RPG, etc...maybe basic platformers. I have a nephew who is four and still shits his pants, no way you played Halo at that age and could comprehend any of it.

I think 8 years of age an old is a good start for video games.. seven and younger year olds should still being playing manly with action figures and doing outside stuff

I think 8 years of age an old is a good start for video games.. seven and younger year olds should still being playing manly with action figures and doing outside stuff

Lolno, Discovery Channel, an atlas, my PS2 and box of toy soldiers was my childhood. Then football jumped in the mix

Quote from: Forgewolf on January 02, 2015, 07:43:12 PM

I think 8 years of age an old is a good start for video games.. seven and younger year olds should still being playing manly with action figures and doing outside stuff

Lolno, Discovery Channel, an atlas, my PS2 and box of toy soldiers was my childhood. Then football jumped in the mix

>calling it football
>it's soccer you pleb

Quote from: Sprungli on January 02, 2015, 07:46:47 PM

Quote from: Forgewolf on January 02, 2015, 07:43:12 PM

I think 8 years of age an old is a good start for video games.. seven and younger year olds should still being playing manly with action figures and doing outside stuff

Lolno, Discovery Channel, an atlas, my PS2 and box of toy soldiers was my childhood. Then football jumped in the mix

>calling it football
>it's soccer you pleb

It's football, soccer is a lazy term, a shortening of Association FOOTBALL. Association Football to differentiate from Rugby Football (Rugby)

I think the best time to start playing video games is when you can read... because at that point, you have the ability to comprehend symbols and can begin to understand BASIC motives of characters and grasp stories over a long period of time.

Also, you can play games like Pokemon and understand what's going on.

So, light platformers like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are what I would want my child to play after they learn to read, as well as Pokemon Red and Blue.

It wouldn't be until they were 8 or 9 that I would sit down and play games like Halo CE, MGS, etc.

If you honestly think a child could enjoy, let alone comprehend, a game like Halo 1, Mass Effect or any other somewhat complex game, you're out of your tree. This is where I call bullshit on the fact that you've been playing these kinds of games since you were 4.

I mean, unless you're some kind of super-mature, 170+ IQ mastermind. Which is evidently not the case.

I think the best time to start playing video games is when you can read... because at that point, you have the ability to comprehend symbols and can begin to understand BASIC motives of characters and grasp stories over a long period of time.

Also, you can play games like Pokemon and understand what's going on.

So, light platformers like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are what I would want my child to play after they learn to read, as well as Pokemon Red and Blue.

It wouldn't be until they were 8 or 9 that I would sit down and play games like Halo CE, MGS, etc.

If you honestly think a child could enjoy, let alone comprehend, a game like Halo 1, Mass Effect or any other somewhat complex game, you're out of your tree. This is where I call bullshit on the fact that you've been playing these kinds of games since you were 4.

I mean, unless you're some kind of super-mature, 170+ IQ mastermind. Which is evidently not the case.

Playing them, not necessarily being very good at them or understanding them.
At 4 I was good at BF2 and could complete a couple of levels of Commandos 2. I was shit at Tomb Raider and Dino Crisis, I was about 6 before I got any good at them

my niece was 3/4 years old and playing Soul Calibur with me. then she came over and asked to play the game with "the girl with her fanny hanging out" (Ivy, her go-to character) no more Soul Calibur for that kid. now she plays Lego Star Wars and wants to marry Vader. i think ive gone good.

Quote from: Snake on January 02, 2015, 08:23:40 PM

Quote from: Luis (っ◕‿◕)っ on January 02, 2015, 08:04:29 PM

Quote from: Snake on January 02, 2015, 08:00:14 PM

I think the best time to start playing video games is when you can read... because at that point, you have the ability to comprehend symbols and can begin to understand BASIC motives of characters and grasp stories over a long period of time.

Also, you can play games like Pokemon and understand what's going on.

So, light platformers like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are what I would want my child to play after they learn to read, as well as Pokemon Red and Blue.

It wouldn't be until they were 8 or 9 that I would sit down and play games like Halo CE, MGS, etc.

If you honestly think a child could enjoy, let alone comprehend, a game like Halo 1, Mass Effect or any other somewhat complex game, you're out of your tree. This is where I call bullshit on the fact that you've been playing these kinds of games since you were 4.

I mean, unless you're some kind of super-mature, 170+ IQ mastermind. Which is evidently not the case.

srsly
my 4 y/o nephew asked if he can play my alpha sapphire, and then I told him he was too stupid to be able to play

he looked like he was about to cry afterwards

That's what I tell my niece. Maybe not as blunt as "you're too stupid", though. Aha.

She says she wants to play Halo or Pokemon with me. I tell her I'll let her play if she learns to read (which she doesn't want to).

I'm only mean to him because he literally does whatever he can to annoy me and make me want to kill myself, which is why I love the days when he goes to his grandma's house. He also has a shitty attitude when he doesn't get what he want. He kicked me in the face once because I didn't let him play xbox with me( I don't know why he was so pissed, I have never let him use it), let's just say my right hand paid a visit to his left cheek afterwards.

Aha, then yes. He's definitely deserving an ass whooping.

I started when I was 3.

I would watch my older brother play games that I didn't know what to do in. That's when I fell in love with Starcraft. I would always watch him play Starcraft and when he didn't I bugged him to play it so I can watch. Then one day he let me play and that's when it all started for me.

Quote from: Luis (っ◕‿◕)っ on January 02, 2015, 08:36:57 PM

Quote from: Snake on January 02, 2015, 08:23:40 PM

Quote from: Luis (っ◕‿◕)っ on January 02, 2015, 08:04:29 PM

Quote from: Snake on January 02, 2015, 08:00:14 PM

I think the best time to start playing video games is when you can read... because at that point, you have the ability to comprehend symbols and can begin to understand BASIC motives of characters and grasp stories over a long period of time.

Also, you can play games like Pokemon and understand what's going on.

So, light platformers like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are what I would want my child to play after they learn to read, as well as Pokemon Red and Blue.

It wouldn't be until they were 8 or 9 that I would sit down and play games like Halo CE, MGS, etc.

If you honestly think a child could enjoy, let alone comprehend, a game like Halo 1, Mass Effect or any other somewhat complex game, you're out of your tree. This is where I call bullshit on the fact that you've been playing these kinds of games since you were 4.

I mean, unless you're some kind of super-mature, 170+ IQ mastermind. Which is evidently not the case.

srsly
my 4 y/o nephew asked if he can play my alpha sapphire, and then I told him he was too stupid to be able to play

he looked like he was about to cry afterwards

That's what I tell my niece. Maybe not as blunt as "you're too stupid", though. Aha.

She says she wants to play Halo or Pokemon with me. I tell her I'll let her play if she learns to read (which she doesn't want to).

I'm only mean to him because he literally does whatever he can to annoy me and make me want to kill myself, which is why I love the days when he goes to his grandma's house. He also has a shitty attitude when he doesn't get what he want. He kicked me in the face once because I didn't let him play xbox with me( I don't know why he was so pissed, I have never let him use it), let's just say my right hand paid a visit to his left cheek afterwards.

Aha, then yes. He's definitely deserving an ass whooping.

yep

I will let my child play videogames when they can fluently read.

I will let my child play videogames when they can fluently read.

This

>Not playing with Bionicles.