Fun for the whole family!

[CK11]

Pocket you rock!! ^^

[Andrien]

wait.. 8 & 9 year old with a computer?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

wait.. 8 & 9 year old with a computer?

lol my nephew is 5 yr old and start playing PSPs.. <_<"

[Dreadnought]

cool story for family friendlyness but i think this is first hand proof that there isnt nearly enough (and i NEVER thought id say this about video games because im no trucker/sports/FPS/beer/metal head/anti fashion enthusiest) Bad-ass anything in this game.

if there were, then a parent wouldnt be particularly proud their 8-9 year old daughters were having the time of their lives while im sitting here going "where the hell are the hordes of angry looking monsters i normally enjoy AOE murdering? oh well more screen shots of my EM looking sexy.... 5 mins later /logout."

[grandm]

so refreshing to see a feel good thread. hope you and you family have lots of fun. just wondering you say its cool they kill monsters. what about them poor sheep? lol

[Orophin]

Make sure your profanity filter is on!

That's pretty cool to hear about kids that age interested in an MMO though.

[nasomi]

We're not killing them, we're making them "unconcious" so they "sleep", that's why if you wait 5min, they reappear^^

Also they both have psp-go's that have some cartoons on them, LBP, modnation racers, puzzle games, a couple rpg's, etc, and they are by FAR the most used, for long car rides, in the evening to calm down, kill time, etc. They get a ton of use.

And that's not to say they never go outside, they're out all the time, be it playing in the snow, kickball with the neighbor kids, tag, riding bikes, swimming, etc.

And I just realized that they've come up to me in game and are throwing snowballs at me, so I guess it's back to that for a while.

[Atoli]

We're not killing them, we're making them "unconcious" so they "sleep", that's why if you wait 5min, they reappear^^

I hope you explained to them that's not how reality works..xD

[PurrrjinKitteh]

OMG! How good it was to finally see a post worth responding to! I play with my entire household LOL. That includes my husband, my twins and our 14 year old. We have a lot of fun doing things together and it really brought us all closer, spending so much time together playing. It is a LOT more fun playing with people you know.

I have to say the FFXI was the game they broke me in on. Before that I never played video games much, much less an MMO. I pretty much stuck with Tetris or Jewels. And like most wives, gf's, etc.... I hated video games like MMO's because everyone spent so much time on them and not with me or together as a family. But out of boredom (I had major surgery and was laid up for 5 weeks) my two oldest started me on FFXI because I liked watching them play. Once I got the hang of it I was off! I even leveled ahead of them and was helping THEM out ingame LOL. I can honestly say that "If you can't beat them, join them" works. No fighting, bad feelings or forcing them not to play in order to have time together. Instead of board games or movie night, we just added in video game night.

Now we have all moved on to 14 and included our 14yr old and things are great! Sure we still have busy RL things to do... but instead of hundreds of dollars on movie night or grumblings over board games... we just gather together on the latest and greatest MMO's ^^.

[Rowyne]

OMG! How good it was to finally see a post worth responding to! I play with my entire household LOL. That includes my husband, my twins and our 14 year old. We have a lot of fun doing things together and it really brought us all closer, spending so much time together playing. It is a LOT more fun playing with people you know.

I have to say the FFXI was the game they broke me in on. Before that I never played video games much, much less an MMO. I pretty much stuck with Tetris or Jewels. And like most wives, gf's, etc.... I hated video games like MMO's because everyone spent so much time on them and not with me or together as a family. But out of boredom (I had major surgery and was laid up for 5 weeks) my two oldest started me on FFXI because I liked watching them play. Once I got the hang of it I was off! I even leveled ahead of them and was helping THEM out ingame LOL. I can honestly say that "If you can't beat them, join them" works. No fighting, bad feelings or forcing them not to play in order to have time together. Instead of board games or movie night, we just added in video game night.

Now we have all moved on to 14 and included our 14yr old and things are great! Sure we still have busy RL things to do... but instead of hundreds of dollars on movie night or grumblings over board games... we just gather together on the latest and greatest MMO's ^^.

LOL, kind of sounds like me. I was a gamer growing up, and played lots of console RPGs, but never had any interest in MMOs. My husband was hooked on EQOA back in the day, and it drove me nuts how addicted he was to it (always raiding Plane of Sky into the wee hours). So, when FFXI came out and most of his Hodstock friends were leaving to go play, he convinced me to try it with him so we could play together. I was a HUGE Final Fantasy fan and couldn't resist. I was instantly hooked!

We played FFXI for about a year together, until he got sucked into WoW. I refused to leave FFXI because of my friends and the memories I had made, despite how many times he tried to get me to come to Azeroth. But after a couple years of us sitting in the same room yet worlds apart, I just couldn't hold out any longer. And ever since, we play all our MMOs together, designating one character each that we only play with each other (he's an alt junkie and he's always got 3-4 characters he's playing at once, so it doesn't slow us down except in Final Fantasy MMOs where you play all classes on one character). We duo all the way to level cap, do all our quests, all our dungeons, all our firsts together. It's MUCH more fun that way!

Just like you said, we could be doing other things like watching TV, playing cards, going to the movies. Instead, we adventure together.

It really is true, the family that plays together stays together.