Yep , you can go easy but don’t let them win , and when they get better you can stop going easy … 😈
Gotta drop the skill level though so they don’t get entirely sick of playing. Just enough where you’d never lose but keep them thinking they could win
This, 100%. Get them having fun so you’ve got a gaming buddy for life.
Me teaching my wife THPS 1+2 (I played too much of the original series back in the day): scoring 100k Combos with 7 or so tricks
Her: in oh wow you’re so good I’ll never be able to do that
Me in multiplayer of the same game: you children shall learn to score a 5 million combo minimum or thou shalt not even sniff the leaderboard
Also “can you make me win, despite my lack of coordination, inexperience in this game mode, and lack of strategic thinking.”
My kid rages when he’s knocked in online FPS games, and I don’t survive the fight to revive him. My brother in genetics, if I could survive I would.
[] Allotropy 😛: This player is fantastic! Just needs to work on movement, prediction, awareness, aim, dodging, spam spots, timing, weapon switching, trickjumps, positioning, item control, map knowledge and INTUITION!There is something very wrong if your kid is your brother in genetics.
They’re just from Alabama.
There’s a song by Ray Stevens about that.
Git gud, son.
git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.Git help
Every time
I’ll make an exception. I won’t exploit glitches.
You give yourself an obvious handicap. Play with one hand. If they can beat you go to 2 hands. If they can’t beat you 2 hands try playing with the controller upsidedown
Reminds me of that grandpa playing chess with one hand to give himself a handicap.
A true master
Well the dad’s clearly cheating. The kid has a controller that’s split in half!
He rage broke it last time.
Yeah as a dude with a 5yo, all my controllers break. The only upside is an excuse to get new controllers every other year or so
Reminds me of a moment in Deltarune that’s sort of the opposite of this:
Minor spoilers: >!In Chapter 1, if you look under Asreal’s bed you find a console with two controllers, one original and one knock-off. Then at the very end of Chapter 2 if you look at Toriel’s monitor in her classroom, it’ll say something like "The desktop background is you and your brother playing videogames. He’s using a knock-off controller.!<
That hit me unreasonably hard lol. It was a mix of “AAAAAAAAA he’s such a good older brother 😭” and “Jesus Christ this is some good fucking storytelling.” It’s a callback to the very beginning of the game, which you find at the very end of the demo. An absolute gem of storytelling put into the flavor-text of two otherwise mundane objects. It’s such a subtle yet beautiful way of showing that he loves you.
A few tears were shed.
Kid gets the good controller when he earns the good controller
never let the kid win and when he eventually does he will never forget.
the torch will have been passed.That was how my mom taught us. I didn’t win a board game, card game, video game, word game, or car game until I damn well earned it. First time I beat her at chess the look of complete shock and bafflement on her face was priceless.
Haha I remember the first time I beat my dad in chess. I think it was mostly luck, since I won in like 3 turns (I later learned it’s called the fools gambit or something). Was very funny, and is still the only time I’ve beat him
At one point my dad taught me chess, and within a few weeks I could beat him because he was never very good.
Years later, I started playing my stepdad, with an 1800 rating who ran tournaments of blitz chess every day at his workplace. I had learned to play better at my chess club at school, and knew how to play speed chess, and was even beating most of the club at school. But this guy never, ever gave an inch on chess. If you made the exact same mistake twice in two games, you just got punished the exact same way in two consecutive games. He probably would have helped me if I’d asked, but I was too stubborn for that. We bought a chess clock so we could play at home, and played every night. I think we halfway wore out the first chess clock before I ever beat him once. He was momentarily annoyed and then quietly beaming the rest of the night. I was too shocked to say anything except good game.
I will accept I’m old once my niece can beat me in any video game. Until then she gets goomba stomped into the ground.
Kid’s gotta learn somehow.
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