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CloseAaaawww, haha. I remember doing the same thing with Donkey Kong 64; I'd fall all the way from a high ledge in that games' hub area, taking about a full watermelon off and thinking I was dead. Then my cousin told me I wasn't, and I had the most surprised looked on my face. Oh, how I wish I was 5 and oblivious again.
How old's the kid you're describing, Ratty?
How old's the kid you're describing, Ratty?
Mistakes are pretty much me every time I try up a new video game. Even if I'm familiar with a genre, there's always some different gimmick that I manage to find, and the result is usually either:
1. Scream and die.
2. Yell 'What the heck?!' and die trying to run away.
3. Die before realizing what just happened.
My siblings usually let me try new games, probably because they enjoy watching me try to play them.
I do have to say that my worst series is probably 'Hitman'. I don't think I can name all of my idiotically homicidal attempts at stealth. I do remember one of my first times playing a board in a giant hotel, where I sneaked through this civilian's room and tried to assassinate my target on his balcony. All's well, I'm on the balcony, no one notices me, and I can see my target in his room. So, I start assembling my sniper rifle, when the civilian comes out onto the balcony and is just sitting there watching me. I have no idea how he sneaked up on me, but I flip out and stand up, alerting my target's bodyguard, whom immediately starts shooting at me while I'm trying to give the civilian a sleeping syringe. I wind up murdering both of them, then having to destroy the entire police force, because they start flooding onto the balcony.
I never got my target, but I went down in a blaze of glory!
1. Scream and die.
2. Yell 'What the heck?!' and die trying to run away.
3. Die before realizing what just happened.
My siblings usually let me try new games, probably because they enjoy watching me try to play them.
I do have to say that my worst series is probably 'Hitman'. I don't think I can name all of my idiotically homicidal attempts at stealth. I do remember one of my first times playing a board in a giant hotel, where I sneaked through this civilian's room and tried to assassinate my target on his balcony. All's well, I'm on the balcony, no one notices me, and I can see my target in his room. So, I start assembling my sniper rifle, when the civilian comes out onto the balcony and is just sitting there watching me. I have no idea how he sneaked up on me, but I flip out and stand up, alerting my target's bodyguard, whom immediately starts shooting at me while I'm trying to give the civilian a sleeping syringe. I wind up murdering both of them, then having to destroy the entire police force, because they start flooding onto the balcony.
I never got my target, but I went down in a blaze of glory!
author=zacheatscrackers
Aaaawww, haha. I remember doing the same thing with Donkey Kong 64; I'd fall all the way from a high ledge in that games' hub area, taking about a full watermelon off and thinking I was dead. Then my cousin told me I wasn't, and I had the most surprised looked on my face. Oh, how I wish I was 5 and oblivious again.
How old's the kid you're describing, Ratty?
I think he was around 6 or 8 at the time.
author=Ratty524author=zacheatscrackersI think he was around 6 or 8 at the time.
Aaaawww, haha. I remember doing the same thing with Donkey Kong 64; I'd fall all the way from a high ledge in that games' hub area, taking about a full watermelon off and thinking I was dead. Then my cousin told me I wasn't, and I had the most surprised looked on my face. Oh, how I wish I was 5 and oblivious again.
How old's the kid you're describing, Ratty?
Daaaaaw, haha.
My cousins' the same way with games as well, so I can definitely relate.
It's fun and frustrating watching my son play videogames. In Super Mario 3D World he would helpfully pick me up and throw me off a cliff whenever I got hit and turned small, "so that you get big again!". He would also happily jump off the cliffs himself if he got hit.
author=kentona
It's fun and frustrating watching my son play videogames. In Super Mario 3D World he would helpfully pick me up and throw me off a cliff whenever I got hit and turned small, "so that you get big again!". He would also happily jump off the cliffs himself if he got hit.
Do you ever suspect that your son is just trying to mess with you?
Oh, right! my first game... shiiit.
I was six, guys... Winway2 though.
If you don't know that (which is fine, google doesn't either) then at 8 my Uncle introduced me to Heretic, DooM 95, Xargon and Magic Carpet (along with a bunch I don't remember the name of).
I was six, guys... Winway2 though.
If you don't know that (which is fine, google doesn't either) then at 8 my Uncle introduced me to Heretic, DooM 95, Xargon and Magic Carpet (along with a bunch I don't remember the name of).
My younger sister (not that young since she turns 20 this year) doesn't play videogames. So i never got the chance to experience something like this.
UNTIL, one of my young cousins (6) came and saw that i was playing minecraft. He asked me to let him play, so i did.
I'm not very sure what i felt.
First thing he did was pick up three stacks of dirt.
Night fell, and monsters began appearing. I forgot to set the game in peaceful mode.
He started panicking, running without a direction thinking that way he would avoid the monsters, only to keep encountering more and more monsters because it was nightime.
I told him he had to make a house to wait until it was daytime again, he started stacking dirt blocks, but before he could make a dirt shack a creeper sneaked behind him and killed him.
He was devastated about having lost his three stacks of dirt.
He ran to get them back, but everytime he tried to get back to where he had been killed, he kept dying because on the way there were a lot of skeletons and he got pelted with arrows.
Everytime he got killed, he would sprint back to his deathplace again to recover his dirt.
He really really didn't want to lose all his dirt.
After a few minutes daytime finally came.
When he finally found his half-made dirt shack, the dirt had disappeared.
He was pretty bummed out.
Then he began picking dirt up again.
That's where i stopped paying attention.
UNTIL, one of my young cousins (6) came and saw that i was playing minecraft. He asked me to let him play, so i did.
I'm not very sure what i felt.
First thing he did was pick up three stacks of dirt.
Night fell, and monsters began appearing. I forgot to set the game in peaceful mode.
He started panicking, running without a direction thinking that way he would avoid the monsters, only to keep encountering more and more monsters because it was nightime.
I told him he had to make a house to wait until it was daytime again, he started stacking dirt blocks, but before he could make a dirt shack a creeper sneaked behind him and killed him.
He was devastated about having lost his three stacks of dirt.
He ran to get them back, but everytime he tried to get back to where he had been killed, he kept dying because on the way there were a lot of skeletons and he got pelted with arrows.
Everytime he got killed, he would sprint back to his deathplace again to recover his dirt.
He really really didn't want to lose all his dirt.
After a few minutes daytime finally came.
When he finally found his half-made dirt shack, the dirt had disappeared.
He was pretty bummed out.
Then he began picking dirt up again.
That's where i stopped paying attention.
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
author=Mirak
UNTIL, one of my young cousins (6) came and saw that i was playing minecraft. He asked me to let him play, so i did.
(The Tale of one Boy and His Dirt)
This is the cutest thing. :3
Gleason
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I remember playing regular NES with my mom when we could get her to play. She...wasn't very good at SMB3 (especially world 1-4, with the moving platforms that fell when you touched them), and would jerk the controller upwards whenever she hit the jump button as if it'd help Mario jump higher.
Bomberman, though...she was a pro at Bomberman. I swear she could clear all 50 levels in one sitting if she'd ever make the time to play for a few hours straight.
Bomberman, though...she was a pro at Bomberman. I swear she could clear all 50 levels in one sitting if she'd ever make the time to play for a few hours straight.
author=GleasonI swear every inexperienced player does this.
and would jerk the controller upwards whenever she hit the jump button as if it'd help Mario jump higher.
I think it's more related, atleast in the driving games, to if you've driven cars.
I never have done it, nor has my bro, but my Mum even though she's really good, still does steering wheel movements, it's just a hardcoded driver thing I'm pretty sure.
I never have done it, nor has my bro, but my Mum even though she's really good, still does steering wheel movements, it's just a hardcoded driver thing I'm pretty sure.
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
Jerking the controller makes sense, because you're used to natural, real-life movements. Games don't tend to allow for an intellectual process of, "Oh, wait, it doesn't make sense that my jerking the controller around would affect anything, because its input is clearly a button pad and not a motion sensor. Haha, I will refrain." Games allow for "OH SHIT AM I GONNA MAKE IT JUMP REALLY HIGH OKAY whew made that now I can OH GOD WHAT IS THAT RUN FUCK FUCK DODGE JESUS!!!!"
The latter attitude is not involved in rationally thinking things out, it is involved in throwing anything at the wall and seeing what sticks.
(NB I'm not really a controller-jerker myself because I'm naturally super restrained and terrified of losing my dignity. :( )
The latter attitude is not involved in rationally thinking things out, it is involved in throwing anything at the wall and seeing what sticks.
(NB I'm not really a controller-jerker myself because I'm naturally super restrained and terrified of losing my dignity. :( )
