Riley has enjoyed sitting in my lap, watching me play various video games both computer and console. His first real interaction with them has been him hitting the space bar and making the character jump. He loves to make them jump. Shortly after Guild Wars 2 came out, he came into the room while I was playing and got in my lap. (Actually he said "what are you doing" while he forced his way under my mouse arm and climbed up.) After playing a little bit, I decided to make another character. I let him pick all of the visual selections. He had fun picking things out.
Fast forward to this past weekend. this time he's in Angela's lap watching her play. Again, he gets to make all of the visual selections and choose the name. He decides on one. I laugh quietly at the selection not thinking she would actually try it. She didn't think anything of it at first, entered it and started the game. The name was Wankerstein. Needless to say, I had her deleted that character and remake it. I didn't want my three and a half year old running around with a character name of that connotation. The new name was Hamerstein.
He spent about 10 to 15 minutes running and jumping around the asura area. Being only three and half, it was more going in kind of straight lines then actual running around. I would have to go over and turn him around whenever he was against a wall or cliff.
And so begins the next generation of gamer.
Yep, remember when both my kids would run around doing that in World of Warcraft. I went a step further, setup a Mangos server, put the kids on computers next to each other and let them chase each other around.
ReplyDeleteWhat was their favorite thing to do? Play hide and seek in Stormwind Keep.
Haha! That's awesome.
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