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How did your dad react to all the different games he saw you play?

My dad was never home.

>>720646620
Why not?

>>720646521 (OP)
>having a dad to react to your videogames
I had his old Grey brick gameboy after it all though

My dad played WoW more hours than I have probably played all games combined. He lived in that game.

>>720646721
Latchkey kid started with Gen-X and carried on to future generations. Did you faggots legitimately believe Millennials had spoiled childhoods?

>>720646521 (OP)
He only really commented on how good games looked these days when I was walking to riverrun in skyrim.

>>720646521 (OP)
My dad doesn't understand any of my hobbies really and just listens to me ramble autistically occasionally. Sometimes he asks me for context when a mass shooter or whoever scribbles gaming memes on his guns, like with what happened last week.

>>720646521 (OP)
"save after this level son, i want to play some medal of honor"

In GTA5 when you swap characters you'll be engaged in whatever they were doing as you switched. When you switch to Trevor there's a chance he's at his trailer jackin it and after you swap to him he finishes and wipes his hand on the wall. My dad watched as exactly that happened on screen and I tried to tell a joke to make it less awkward but he never said anything, he just got up and left.

>>720646521 (OP)
He loved them. When we got the Playstation back in the 90s we couldn't believe how realistic Virtual Pool looked and how cool the physics were. He played a lot of NES, but he never touched the PS. He later got into gaming again with the PopCap games on PC.
I never chose my games when I was a kid, he would just come home with a new game randomly (megaman 4, metroid, mario 3, castlevania 3... all bangers)

>>720646721
I'm black

>>720647393
>My dad doesn't understand any of my hobbies really
Same
>just listens to me ramble autistically occasionally
You lucked out. Mine just asks arguments in bad faith and proceedes to ramble about the most insignificant shit to shift the topic away from video games.

>>720646521 (OP)
My Dad used to play Star Fox 64 and Smash 64 with me but my mom didn’t like vidya and he stopped. I don’t like my parents they don’t care about anything besides politics and Jebus and Jebus themed politics and they never really listened to what I had to say about anything

>>720646521 (OP)
As games got more complicated, my parents just became more confused and disconnected, especially when I played overwatch and shit. That game is completely incomprehensible from a spectator's point of view even IF you know the game. It's been ages though. I bet my dad would love something like red dead or ghosts of tsushima if the difficulty is on easy. Neither of them can into 3d games.

>>720648037
Fuck off. I'm black too. Your dad's just a faggot.

>>720646521 (OP)
My dad used to play Genesis and N64 games with my brother and I.
>>720648065
Same but whenever I bring up anything related to politics. Literally picrel.

>>720648493
modern games have a visibility problem its not just boomers

>be me
>bought the minecraft beta when I had finished highschool.
>playing minecraft on my old ass pc
>dad came in my room and said, "What fag shit are you playing, the graphics look old."
>"Minecraft, your supposed to mine and stuff."
>"That is fucking gay, why don't you play the nazi zombie game. The graphics look better."

As a kid I didn't have money of my own so videogames would be bought by my parents anyway. And the television was in an open space so time spent gaming was relegated to when it wasn't already occupied
It wasn't until I got into PC gaming as an early teen that things really took a more distant turn. Especially with having unfettered access to the internet. Once I had my own computer it was full on isolation, I didn't need to tell anyone what weird shit I was getting myself into.

>>720646521 (OP)
He didn't, he was either at work or watching tv.

>>720646521 (OP)
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>>720646521 (OP)
Yelling and beatings mostly. If I was having fun playing nintendo and made any sound it would upset him. If the computer was running slow it was because I had installed too many games.
He really didn't like it the one time he caught me playing Carmageddon.

I learned to code pretty young but I don't have any of the early games I made because he made me sit next to him one day while he deleted them one by one.

>>720646521 (OP)
He liked the action stuff like Devil May Cry and God of War. He did not like the spooky games. Resident Evil 3 freaked him out, and Fatal Frame unnerved him so much he traded it in and got us Tekken.
>To be fair, all of us were scared shitless playing Fatal Frame

>>720647517
my favorite ones are when he is either taking a shit behind a trash can or just wakes up in its undies in some random location completely drunk, either its in a random rooftop all by himself or in some beach and surrounded by bodies.

He finds them interesting but also confusing if the games are a bit intense like a FPS game with a lot of stuff happening at once. If it's like a normal little platformer, story game, or something slower paced, he finds them pretty chill but not too interested in playing them. And I guess my parents are always amazed at how far games have come along and realistic they look these days.

He played all the zelda games until the switch ones, so every game with a pot or a patch of grass he'd be like "better check it for hearts."

Somebody post the "god damn commies" comic.

>>720648879
>cod zombies enjoyer
Damn, your dad sounds based, shame on you for not doing some kino or nacht co op sessions with him.

>>720646521 (OP)
my dad was actually a gamer, so he was just blown out by the ever-evolving grafix and quality of games, we played together sometimes too

>>720646521 (OP)
My dad got me into games then promptly stopped playing games once I got better than him, only recently with broken hands he’s trying to beat Doom Eternal and Doom 1-2 on the hardest difficulties, Doom is his favourite series but I don’t understand why he choose after bending his fingers the completely wrong direction he decided to get back into games

>>720648879
I'm going to be that dad someday
>the fuck is that faggot [insert live service game] you're playing son?
>get the off that shit and play some flood firefight with me

>>720649253
I only saw it once but one time I swapped to him and Trevor was threatening a guy on a bridge to jump or he'd shoot him and then you get a couple wanted stars.

>>720646521 (OP)
>God of War comes out for the PS2
>dad takes me to the vidya store to get it for my birthday
>get the game from the shelf and walk up to the counter
>the cashier tells me I'm too young for it and promptly tells me to pick something more appropriate
>dad appears out of thin air, slams the cash on the counter
>"It's for me."
Then proceeded to hand it over to me as we exited the store
he also snuck me in for the premiere of 300

He used to encourage me to insult and swear at people on runescape and laughed about it when I did

My dad only liked platformers and first-person shooters. He got me into classic shooters by bringing me a CD-R with Duke3D, Doom and Quake on it.

>>720646521 (OP)
>play a lot of WoW
>every time dad passes by the screen he sees the character is running
>calls it the running game
>whenever he goes by he asks "ya still running son?"
He still refers to it as the running game to this day.

>>720646521 (OP)
A lot like Hank. He doesn't approve of violence, but he might not care if it's against robots or something.

>>720646521 (OP)
my dad would play a lot of games like mgs, gran autismo and rainbow six on the ps1.

>>720646521 (OP)
He was alright with them. I'm sure he thinks I still play those shooter games like I did back in middle school but in reality I play mahjong and shmups

>>720648675
TAA has done irreparable damage to the industry. It's only getting worse with everything requiring upscaling technology just to run the game at recommended specs.

>>720649457
was? did he discover /v/?

>>720650245
Based dad. My older brother took me to see 300 in the theaters.

>>720648065
>proceedes to ramble about the most insignificant shit to shift the topic away from video games
Sounds like my dad. Sadly I'm at the age now where I kind of see his point.

My dad only ever played one game, Star Trek 25th Anniversary for PC which is mostly a point and click story with a few ship battles. IIRC there some absolute cancer of a ship battle at the end that he could never beat. After months of waiting I beat it because i wanted to see the end and he got mad at me. My mom is a big gamer though. She likes RPGs along with the usual casual-gamer fare like puzzle, card, and board games.

>>720651502
no, he just stopped playing games when i grew up since he can't justify having a console for himself, has no computer and he always cheaps out big time on phones so i doubt he even plays mobile games
whenever we hang out nowadays we do adult stuff, like fishing or traveling

>>720646521 (OP)
With an unfathomable amount of anger acting as if I had an addiction when all I did was play super mario world an hour or two a day

>>720646521 (OP)
For some reason my brother would show my dad weird shit like Bioshock and he’d be pissed like why are you showing me you murdering children. One time I played Prince of Persia in front of him and the Prince makes a comment about getting roped into things because of crazy women and my dad said “haha join the club pal.” He’s been in a loving relationship with my mom for the past 30 years.

>>720652403
Your dad sounds pretty based, ngl.

>>720646521 (OP)
I tried touching the SMB cartridge while he was playing and he slapped my hand

>>720646521 (OP)
>How did your dad react to all the different games he saw you play?
My dad was never interested in my hobbies, for him and my mother I should spend all day outside my house with friends I don't have or get a girlfriend and leave the home.
I'm literally earning more than any of them with my programming job, and they still say I shouldn't be at the puter all day.

>>720646521 (OP)
>forza horizon 2 with an asuka itasha and he wanted to play and exclusively played with the hood cam
>MW2 when it came out said "didn't you already play this one"
>DaS2 and wondered why it wasn't a game about shooting people

>>720646521 (OP)
Mine taught me how to play games, We used to StreetFighter 2 together now when he visits he has been doing the same for his grand daughter.

>>720646521 (OP)
Usually he'd watch for a bit, comment on how realistic the game looked, and then start talking about how he played Knightmare when he was younger.

>>720646521 (OP)
My dad made sure my first video game was Pong (the analog, not the digital version) since our local theater had a machine for it. He raised me on Asteroids, Galaga, and Pac Man, and was just as much of a gamer as I was growing up. He personally loved shmups the most, but we had a lot of fun playing games together.

Now he's too old to even hold a controller, but whenever I do play a game he asks me to play it in the living room so he can watch from the couch and enjoy it through me. Genuinely the only reason I even still bother with video games anymore. I'm gonna miss him, bros.

>>720646521 (OP)
He asked me to do all the lockpicking minigames for him in Oblivion when he saw that I could crack even the Very Hard chests with starting-game skills.

>>720654962
Cute kot

>me during high school
>often spend Friday evenings at the community center's youth lounge hanging with friends, shooting ybr shit etc
>someone brought their ps2 and mortal Kombat armageddon
>not really into MK but having fun watching others mess around, everyone's having a good time

>later dad unexpectedly arrives, says he wanted to give me a ride home instead of me taking the bus (what I usually do)
>immediately sees someone perform a fatality

>during the car ride home dad berates me over violent video games, I have to convince him that I understand the difference between fiction and reality and that I don't usually play games like MK
>to this day (nearly 20 years later) any time he sees a fighting game he thinks it's mortal kombat

>>720649253
>mfw got off a huge chase with franklin just to mess around
>switch to trevor
>he's running away from cops and I have two stars
made me chuckle

>>720646521 (OP)
Never met him

we used to play point n click adventure games together when i was a kid. he doesn't really care for video games beyond that though.

My dad loathed vidya and basically anything that wasn't sports. He also molested me for years.

>>720661141
this

General mixed feelings about every thing, but in the end i think it was towards disgust.
There were times i wasn't sure if he just wanted to bond with me, genuinely liked some things, or was just trying to fit in.
At one point he said he hated playing games, but liked to see me play.
At one point he made a "make your own adventure game" on excel when practicing with commands that if you clicked in a cell it would put you in another cell, but it was very bare bones with practically nothing on it.
He would try to play Medal of Honor on my PSP but couldn't ever pass the first level because he didn't had any thumb coordination, so essentially he was moving like if he was using tank controls because he couldn't move and shoot at the same time.
He used to say that he played Wolfenstein, the OG one on a floppy disk when he was younger, but when he saw me playing House of the Dead when i was a 7-8 year old toddler he took the CD out of the tray and broke it so we couldn't play it.
During a trip when i was a kid, i was playing some Lego Star Wars game for the NDS, and he snapped to me tell me to please turn off the music because he was going insane listening to it for hours.
He would try to buy me cabellas and fishing games that were ass, but i realise later he wanted for me to get out and actually try those things IRL and encouraging/manipulating me to do em, especially since he liked hunting and fishing.
Then he divorced my mom after she found out he was cheating on her, and according to almost every other on on my family he because a fulltime joyless asshole. Cut all communication with me, told my cousin that games are a waste of time, generally pissed off everyone, started to do lots of sketchy shit with some chinese for money, etc.
Even when my grandad, his father, died he was the only dick that not only didn't cried, but his main concern was the inheritance. He was even smiling too.
Anons, i know this is wrong, but sometimes i really wanted to punch my dad.

>playing transformers devastation
>fighting megatron on the beach
>get mollywhopped
>hear a scoff behind me
>turn around
>mfw

I hate my dad

>>720646521 (OP)
>hello kitty island adventure
oh shit I'm gonna get my ass whipped

the same way that he reacted when I brought home a gf who looked like picrel

>>720646521 (OP)
He didn't understand the concept of online games. He still doesn't. Whenever he sees me playing one, he asks "are you playing with real people?"
He was in his 20's when he and my uncle played NES games, so he's still stuck in the mentality that video games are frustrating and make you angry. I don't blame him. NES games were hair-pullingly hard, man.