bigdaddygamebot
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whats so fuckin scary at the start of WW?
its a cartoon ffs
Do you have a small child?
You're saying you'll let a child watch something based solely on the fact that it's a cartoon?
whats so fuckin scary at the start of WW?
its a cartoon ffs
She shouldn't be watching it either.
There's parts at the beginning that would scare most three year olds.
She's three.
ITT: people who assume 3-year olds have no concept of the world around them.
My thoughts exactly. Editing WW? I dunno. It's just a really hack-kneed solution. As the OP points, he's ostensibly lied to his kid.
So his 3 year old daughter is able to read? Congrats.
For fuck's sake. Give her some Metroid games.
Seems overreactive. Especially considering she's 3 and probably hasn't questioned any of it yet. I can associate with any character regardless of gender or race. I dunno why people get so pressed about it.
Corollary: I would play and enjoy a Zelda game with a female Link. I really just don't care.
I'm surprised there's so much criticism here. LOL you guys.
Well that's a different subject. I was only defending/refuting a point where having a quota on "games with "x" amount of gender" is irrelevant to the issue at hand.Of course. There need to be more 'strong' female leads in games, if only for some dame variety. MMOs are popular with women, because they can play as females. Not to over generalise, but men are main characters cause men prefer it, women are not being catered to. Would the next cod or what nots be as big as they are if you played as a female? When people have a choice they generally pick their own gender to play as. Why's the white male the standard? Because he is the main consumer and target audience.
kinda weird to go to such lengths, should have just given her a first person game. but why are the parents forcing their kid to waste away playing videogames? bad parenting all around
Not that I have a daughter, but wouldn't it be OK if the father can explain to her along the way? It's not like she 100% sure to grow the wrong way if she watched the scary part of Wind Waker.
What the hell are they doing on a computer then?Wtf? Bad parenting? Are some of you Amish?
what if he is reading it to her
for fuck sake the amount of hate in this thread is stupid.
As a male, for the longest time I never but much consideration into these things. When I had my first child, for a while we thought it was going to be a girl (Turned out to be a boy). During that time I started looking at my hobbies and ways to encorperate a girl into them and found how much is overlooked for young girls.
There are almost no female superheroes sutible for a small girl, and of the few there are, there is NO merchandise for. Unless she wants to be a princess there aren't many videogame options for a young girl either.
This is one of those things that once I've seen, I can't unsee it. I notice this gap in almost everything my son gets interested in, and it really bothers me. We own dozens of little superhero squad/ DC universe playschool figures and the only woman I can even find to buy is Catwoman.
I'm glad this Dad found a way to tilt the scale a little.
stick to bedtime stories right now, I don't see anything amazing about lying to your child.
she isnt fucking playing video games, she is bonding with her father whilst HE plays video games. She might be super interested in the game and he changed it to be what he wants her to be thinking.
So he might have just been playing and noticed she was watching it all the time.
its like reading a fucking book to her, but different.
Still seems like a lot of trouble for something her daughter probably dont care about at this age, especially if she can't read or anything. I mean, there is no voice acting there.
If he cares that much, give her that Princess Peach game on the DS or something.
We probably wouldn't change anthropomorphic characters into humans to better the game for our kids.
Some parents try way too fucking hard.
If changing the pronoun in a videogame story is lying, then so are bedtime stories ...
Your dad leaving you when you were ten doesn't mean everyone else must suffer as well.
sorry, I didn't know that watching some dude playing videogames was a bonding experience
Hahahaha, what the shit is this?
It's just a really hack-kneed solution.
It's okay, let it all out. I'm here for you. My shoulder is yours.
Some parents try way too fucking hard.
It is, kids will naturally take an interest and I have no problem with it.
Three year olds will happily play games like wheres my water or physics based puzzlers like cover orange and the like. It only makes sense they would want to play dad games as well.
But I'm sorry, unless your three year old is pulling you up and saying "Dad that isn't what the text says, fucking read it right" this is all going way too far.
The heart is in the right place, but personally I feel the time and energy would be better spent in another direction. Still not like I don't waste time on all sorts of shit.
sorry, I didn't know that watching some dude playing videogames was a bonding experience
Yeah, fuck him, right?!
Piece of shit, trying to bond with his daughter while, at the same time, personalizing the experience so his daughter can imagine being a hero.
That tryhard. Pretending that kids like to imagine and stuff. Stupid.
Are you the man that this thread is about? You seem pretty angry about people criticizing this man.
Although - aren't a lot of the characters in children's entertainment anthropomorphized specifically so that it's easier for kids to identify with them?
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