I’m just trying to portray a bad scenario to scare parents @saghen.
There are way better things for a kid to do than play Rocket League.
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Kinda weird that Rocket League never got voice comms to work, yet voice comms work perfectly in other titles. IMO, Rocket League is super shady.
I downloaded it on epic for free and me and my son tried it for about ten minutes and then went back to farming simulator. Not a game I would ever enjoy and he wasn’t old enough to understand or just wasn’t interested. Either way. I’m kinda glad he wasn’t bothered.
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Yeah…I can see the logic in that. But these days, the internet is a pretty awful place. Beheading videos, crazy challenges that might get you hurt or killed, etc…etc… I just feel like I can’t give them free reign. We aren’t hover-parents by any stretch of the imagination, but I dunno…I’m just trying to preserve their innocence a smidge longer (by having them shoot down Communist North Vietnamese aircraft…get him Kai…get him…!) LOL… I can see the irony…
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More than ironic, I think it’s a matter of culture.
Some historical “baddies” are just that.
Eventually when they’ll grow up you might want to check what stuck and what didn’t just to make sure that no preconceptions cloud their judgement.
Yeah…it is always interesting how things come full circle. I read a passage recently about Vietnam and how over the decades they have moved away from China and Russia and are a weird mix of communism and capitalism. The author of what I read was like: “If we had only known that the Vietnamese just wanted some McDonald’s franchises…we probably could have talked it all out at a table…”
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I’m not a parent, so take all this with more than just a grain of salt.
I’m 100% with piper on this, you can’t keep it from them anyway unless you lock them in a cellar (how ironic, coming from an Austrian). I feel like all this energy is better spent equipping your kids with mechanisms to properly place what they are seeing, to deal with what they are subjected to and to give them a good compass. Someone who knows kindness, empathy and understands what human rights are and why we came up with them will not feel the urge to watch people being beheaded, because it will seem barbaric and disgusting to them. I feel like a teenager that has had proper sex-ed (whatever that may be) will see porn for what it is, a hyperbole of human sexuality for the purpose of arousal and not a blueprint of what to do.
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It’s not a blueprint of what to do? No wonder my wife is upset with me…
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Circling back to games, I would also recommend Wreckfest.
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That game can be challenging offline!
Thank goodness for the first half of that sentence.
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Roflmao- you made me spit the water I was drinking.
My stepsister got pretty upset with me too!
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Lmao almost dropped my phone