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Your kids and gaming.

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My almost 5 year old son had his first full blown gaming experience the other day c/- Burnout Paradise Remastered on the PC. He loved it of course. Previously he’s played simple driving games on the iPad.

I’ve dug out the old OG Xbox and Midnight Dub 3 which is one of the few free roam open world driving games for the system.

How have you guys gone with your kids and gaming? Any success and/or horror stories? My son having enjoyed it so much wants nothing more than to play again. He’s good with boundaries and hands the controller over when his time is up. My partner is far less gaming inclined so is concerned he’ll turn into GameHED.

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My eldest of 8 gets into tantys when the tablet has to go off for dinner (he's only allowed it for about an hour and half after homework) and his attitude really takes a tutrn for the worst. Currently he's banned for 2 weeks and grounded after hitting a teacher. I want to game with him, but he just gets so shitty when I play with him. I'd really like to get a Xbone and MCC so we can co-op to give him an awesome memory when he's older but I think he's still got a bit of maturing to do to prevent these meltdowns. I know he's only 8, but we thing he has a mild form of ADHD.
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My kids have been gaming for a few years now, I find microsoft family controls excellent, it allows me to monitor and limit game time for both my boys. I get a weekly report detailing how much time they've spent playing what.

On playstation they only recently added better family support, so I just limit their exposure to games appropriate for their age. With the switch I haven't bothered too much because the games on their are kid friendly and they don't have online access. MS has the best and most robust system for this imo.

In my household now we have 3 xbox's, which allows us to play a lot of co-op stuff these days. MS cloud save system allows them to move to different machines and access all their saves/profiles. The 3rd xbox is in my study and allows me to co-op with them on stuff that is xbone only, the kids play in the living rooms, although lately I've been able to cross play with them a lot on PC.

We had a cool experience on the weekend, my brother setup a Minecraft realm a few weeks ago, over the weekend the 4 of us all worked together taking down the Ender Dragon. It was cool to have 2 generations of brothers working together.

I guess that old saying, "a family that plays together, sticks together" holds a lot of weight.

Embrace it, control it and have some great bonding experiences with your kids. :up:

Also gamepass is excellent for my kids, they get spoiled with fresh stuff to try and they don't pester me for extra cash to buy games anymore. :)
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I have had a nightmare with the two xboxes and one xbox live sub though, still locks mine out of some games from working until I have to go onto his xbox and login, it certainly isn't easy I was at the point of just getting him his own membership. Have I done something wrong to make it so hard?

So through two xboxes, I set mine boy up when he was 5 with the old xbox and then made him an account on it, linked them all up on xbox.com etc and it's all locked down to only games he can play by age. It's actually really well done by Microsoft except the bit where sharing the gold/gamepass account across the family over two xboxes turned into a pain in the ass. He's only been playing Roblox these days anyway so it's fine at the moment, we had a good time when we played Forza 4 together, it did his head in that we were in the same game world. He's still not great at those kind of games though and basically just gets into roblox and runs around yelling at the players and stuff and enjoying himself. My daughter just watches him play as she's younger but loves watching.

When he was little he used to watch me play the Witcher 3 every night as he ate in his high chair lol. "GET IT DADDY". He played a lot of Forza Horizon 3 with my wheel and Hot Wheels but safe to say my wheel didn't survive once the kids had access to it and had worked out how to turn the TV on and the xbox+ wheel without me, so I won't be making that mistake again now I've just got a new one.
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I'll also say it's like anything, if you're into it and they are used to it being around then they won't go nuts on it like a private school girl who just turned 18 and can go to a pub and socialise with the opposite sex.
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If you setup a microsoft family, your kids should get access to xbox live and gamepass. You don't need to be signed into the box for them to get those benefits. This is how all 3 of us can play online together.

We still come across this issue for purchased games, where anyone can play the game on the nominated home console, but on the second machine they will need to sign you in to play purchased stuff. This is why I like gamepass, it removes the sign in requirement on the second xbox due to family sharing.

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This family also extends to their windows 10 logins on PCs at home, it's all one linked system.
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OK yep I have done that, I think it's the purchased content issue. How I set it up according to I think their instructions was I made my default console his and his mine which seemed to fix some of the issues with some games for a while, Game Pass as you say has solved most because nearly everything he plays is on it or free like Roblox.

Game Pass is the greatest thing ever with kids, the best bit is when they are bored of something there's so much to choose from. Add that it's now ramping up the PC games it's a must have.
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Yes purchased stuff isn't family shared, you need to be signed in with the user profile that bought it.

So yeah I have one console set as my home one, which bypasses the sign in requirement and my kids sign me into the other box for both of them to play the same purchased game.

Gamepass works like xbox live, so it's fully family shared, so you don't need to do the sign in tricks. This is how we can all play minecraft and horizon 4 together these days.

This is why you see my profile has a heap of stuff my kids play on it, because they sign in as me to play games I buy for them.

Also note when doing this, make sure you put pin code/password on purchases, you don't want them buying stuff if you allow them to easily sign in as you.
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Yeah I have the pin on, basically for myself as well. I used to sit there watching tv fiddling with the controller until one day I flicked it over to the xbox to find out that I'd bought a bunch of stuff I didn't want.

See the difference is I don't want mine being able to play any games he isn't rated for so won't give them my login yet. Typical boy wants to play anything with guns but then is petrified when a game he doesn't like boots up. They are terrified of the evil within just from it's cover so I let them watch it for 2mins when Mum was out and they were both screaming to turn it off but all I had done was walk down some stairs lol
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The imagination of kids eh? :lol: My youngest stumbled in on RDR2 while I was doing a side mission, hunting a wolf with a one legged war vet. Wolf jumped up at the screen, Tate screamed and ran off to mum saying there was a naughty dog on telly. Good job it wasn't a cougar/puma, "naughty pussy on telly" wouldn't go down well. :rollin:
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Letting the kids watch a horror game for a few seconds while mum is out is such a dad thing to do. :D
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I don't have kids but if I did a small part of me thinks it would be good to start them on the games I played growing up, just a best of list. Maybe not the 8-bit era but definitely from the 16-bit era onwards. Makes me sad to think at least two generations now have never experienced Super Metroid, Zelda ALTTP, Super Mario World 1 & 2, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Sonic etc.
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I've set up the 360 with kinect and a bunch of kinect games in the toy room. He still finds reason to make me boot up the One X though...he loves those evil Disney games.
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lestat wrote:Also gamepass is excellent for my kids, they get spoiled with fresh stuff to try and they don't pester me for extra cash to buy games anymore. :)
The AMD GPU offer at the moment is three months of Gamepass. A bit lame I thought vs the usual offer of 2 triple A games but I'll give it a whirl and it'll be good to have when we get a modern Xbox for the boy.
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Two young men now. 18 and 16.
I guess rancher kids are pretty lucky when it comes to accessibility to games.
Having a gamer dad, they never had to "go without". They never really had games they had to "save up for" or whatever, or that one game they got at Xmas/Birthday that was all they had to play all year.
I guess the closest they got to that type of scenario was them having to buy WoW expansions and WoW time.
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This is my philosophy towards gaming and kids also.
If they're stuck inside, then I see no difference between Games, TV, Movies, or screwing around on a phone, so they may aswell be playing games. Actually I'd prefer them gaming over watching TV.
I really push a well rounded, balanced upbringing. We also play a lot of board games, and I strongly encourage social and physical activity. My eldest lifts and runs, and my youngest is still loves playing soccer.

We never really limited time to games, as long as school work comes first and is chugging along ok.
Family controls were only really a new thing back then. We never bothered. But they were never alone in their bedrooms playing games until they were middle-teenage. Gaming always happened in the shared areas, and was always monitored to some degree.
We never really monitored content much, but games that are sadistic in nature (CoD and GTA in particular) were never allowed until they were older.

When they were much younger, they played some kids PC games like Thomas the Tank Engine. Then on OG Xbox/PS2 gen, fun family co-op things like the early Lego games, Shrek, etc. They really loved Simpsons Hit and Run.

As they've got older, they are mostly PC gamers, but they respect the craft and also enjoy Nintendo.
They're typical elitist PC/Nintendo combination.
They'll play Fortnite with their friends, but they recognize what a pile of garbage it is.
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Can't wait until Joshua (17 months haha) is old enough. Looking forward to playing through the Lego games in co-op.

I miss split screen gaming :(

My oldest nephew (sister's boy, 10) is right into Minecraft, Roblox (?) and Lego games, my other nephew (on my wife's side, 6) is all about Pokemon.

My nieces (sister's girls, 4 and 2) like playing with and watching their brother play Crash Bandicoot.

I guess I was around 4 or 5 when I first started with the Commodore 64? Can't remember. Wizard of Wor and International Soccer.
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International Soccer, lol, headering the ball 3/4s of the pitch. :lol:
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