/v/ - Video Games

>>274237 (OP) 
One of these, eh? Sanic, Mario, Tetris. Anything that worked with you when you where are child als works with young children today, because they dumb and basically don't have any taste yet.

Depends on age, but Minecraft is probably the best thing you could hope for a kid to get into, assuming you expect them to get into videogames in the first place. Load it up with mods like Create https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8W-f9YhYA
>but it's a cringe kids game
Yes. Kid stuff is cringe to an adult, that's just how it is.
>but they should only like things that I, a 25+ year old adult like
No.

I would avoid anything that encourages you to shut off your brain, such as FPS games or open world combat types (unless they involve complex exploration), although I have the impression that kids tend to be more into mentally stimulating games than adults are. I'd probably look for sandbox-ish games where you do some kind of self-directed problem solving, I don't have a good example but maybe something like TerraTech. Teardown sounds good but I recall it being somewhat difficult, though I only played it when it first went 1.0.

You can probably find good niches within Roblox, but that's a rabbit hole I wouldn't want to go into myself and I hear it's super monetized.

I have fond childhood memories of games like Ocarina of Time because of the adventure and mystery, even though I never got even a third of the way through it. Something like that might be good too, like CrossCode (the puzzles might become a problem though).

It might be good to introduce them to games where you don't play as characters directly, could widen their view of games. Rimworld is the only game that comes to mind, but that's probably too complicated. From Dust isn't exactly a kids game but I might have been enamored by it if I played it as a kid.

Depending on how autistic they are, the older ones might like messing around with Universe Sandbox or Powder Toy.

>>274237 (OP) 
Just start them off on early systems. Kirbys dreamland, sanic, mario. As they get older introduce later systems.

>>274237 (OP) 
Pre-2007 Need for Speed games, they were practically made for little boys.

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I play Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. Kirby and the Forgotten Land, and FNAF maps on Roblox with my little brother.

>>274237 (OP) 
Crash Bandicoot

I played a bunch of arcade games and other emulated coop games on mame with my nephew when he was around 9. He really got into it and loved all the beatemups especially when you could fuck up eachother.

Streets of rogue was also fun for him.

Played a lot of Behemoth games (Alien Hominid, Castle Crashers, Battleblock Theater), TimeSplitters FP, Deep Rock Galactic, It Takes Two and Bloons with my kid brothers. Also played a good amount of Forgotten Lands and New Horizons with them. Think they mostly play BotW/TotK/Age of Calamity if they aren't watching jewtube shorts. Think they used to play Terraria with the middle sibling a lot. I've tried to get them into older games, but they don't seem very interested.

My niece loves pokemon snap and legends: arceus, but she just likes watching me play. Also she really got into the Spongebob game that came out not long ago

>>274512
You got pix?

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Try some old, simple 8-bit games.

>>274237 (OP) 
Tell the kids to play galges.

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Nothing wrong with the classics.  Point and click stuff like Pajama Sam.  Basic learning games like Word or Number Muncher.  If you are daring go so far to try a more complicated point and click game like Myst.

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Frankly I find the whole idea of "games for kids" insulting.  My view hasn't changed on this since childhood.  Good games are good whether you're a kid or an adult.  I wouldn't recommend trash like Minecraft to a kid the same as I wouldn't recommend it to an adult.

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>>274647
Same.
>trash like Minecraft
Minecraft isn't terrible by itself, it's the community around it that makes it unholy filth.

>>274777 (checked)
>it's the community around it that makes it unholy filth.
I agree, but i would still argue that minecrap only became as big as it is not because the game is that good, but mostly because it got overhyped by jewtubers followed by children.

How does one incentivize children not to fall for the goyphone/Windows 10tation?
I die inside everytime I see toddlers "playing" "games" on tablets handed to them by lazy parents, or illiterate niglets being Skibidi experts even though they can't fucking read when back in my days kids were emulating Zelda on Windows 98.

>>274783
Can't argue with you on that.

>>274237 (OP) 
>not the only one with kids
>having kids
>not only not being a virgin but actually impregnating some roastie
>implying that if not a roastie that you have a trad wife and rather than providing for your family and or raising your little boy(s) you are wasting time on the Internet
Children like balls and sticks and puppies. They don't need video games.

>>274237 (OP) 
I honestly recommend arcade games. The kind that you can pick up easily and get sucked into. Those are still fun and much better than the modern brainrot.

Old RTS games can be fun also (Red Alert 1 & 2 aged pretty well, and I think there's an AoE 2 remaster or something now that isn't hot garbage). Warcraft 2 is not bad either.

Adventure games can be fun especially for kids who don't usually game a lot, assuming they don't look up walkthroughs for everything.

JRPG style "we all go on an adventure" games can also be appealing to kids. Golden Sun 1 & 2 for instance are pretty fun, but they'd need either a GBA or emulator. Honestly, an actual GBA would probably do kids good, since there are a lot of good old time kids' games for the GBA with real gameplay and not a lot of brainrot. Having a GBA practically encourages them to not waste time on shitty iphone stuff, but you'll want to buy them a small library of fun games (ie. Super Mario, Golden Sun 1 & 2, Sonic, Final Fantasy Tactics). If you're getting multiple kids GBAs with the link cable you can throw in Street Fighter II, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Megaman Battle Network, Puzzle Fighter 2, etc. Honestly a GBA sounds like a really good idea. It has a lot of fun games.

>>274788
>How does one incentivize children not to fall for the goyphone/Windows 10tation?
Your kids need activity, you can either give it to them yourself by spending time with them and taking them to places, or you can toss an ipad at them like modern parents.

>>274788
The GBA recommendation is a pretty decent one, since it has a lot of good games, doesn't have any skibidi bullshit, and has plenty of nintendo hard games. You basically need to give them something that's more fun and engaging than the brainrot they are mindlessly consuming, where they can't switch back to brainrot as easily either. Just the slight effort of switching to your cell from your GBA as opposed to switching apps on your cell discourages being a low-attention span idiot. You'll have to buy them a small library of games though, but there's plenty of good stuff going for cheap now.

You can also do shit like buy them the Harry Potter books, as those are usually engrossing stories for kids that will make them want to read. If you have any interesting and fun kids books, like "100 cool science tricks" or something, you can give that to them as well. It'll improve their literacy drastically if you get them in the habit of actual reading.

There's also giving them toys like K'Nex which are actually quite fun and getting them in the habit of watching Mark Rober stuff, for instance. That's also a huge step up from brainrot consoom.

Really, you need to give them better and more interesting activities to busy themselves with. Stimulating curiosity is also a very good call if you want to have smart children that don't passively consoom.

>>275259
Very true. I'm assuming he's not their parent but if he is he should absolutely take them to parks and playgrounds and shit and let them have fun outside. It's also a fun uncle activity to do on occasion, taking them places they like to go out and do things. There are some swimming pools that are really fun for kids also, assuming you made sure they learn how to swim.

>>275262
I wouldn't want to give my kids anything that they can carry around. On one hand, handhelds allow them to play outside of the living room so they can move more and maybe they're less annoyed to leave home if they can bring their game with them, but on the other hand I feel disgust every time I see a kid holding some digital device up to their face.

>>274237 (OP) 
No video games until they've completed the playground tutorial level and completed a few woods open map quests:

Sample quests:
Fetch two really cool sticks (repeatable, leads to sword fight minigame)
Collect five (5) interesting bugs.
Finding the biggest frog ever.
Climb the tree really high.
Disturb the guardian of the pond with a large rock (Usually a raid but can be soloed)