My youngest is 10 now and I’ve gotten back into gaming after stopping completely for a decade or so, so yeah the parenting does slow down and you can get back into it. Overwatch is good for that since the rounds aren’t super long like an RTS or a Moba, at least in QuickPlay.
The new support seems fun but i kinda don’t like how she doesn’t have any game-breaking crazy power like some of the other supports do. Mercy’s Rez, Kiriko’s suzu, Ana’s anti-heal, and Lucio’s speed & boop are all amazing for big plays that shift the whole course of the game, and they’re not even ults.
Okay but we got like 5 years of free updates for OW1. If they had an option to play 6v6 and locked out the new characters, that would basically be “the game you paid for”.
I mean, I hate the 5v5 too, but I can’t say I didn’t get my money’s worth for OW1.
Big feature I want is remote keyboarding, so I can open the keyboard on my watch and say “actually I’d like to type this from literally anything else because that’s a 1 inch screen”.
I obviously haven’t played it yet since it’s not out yet, but I kickstarted “Girl Genius: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne” which is based on the Girl Genius comics. The comics are a bit violent and cheesecakey but the game looks like a more cartooney take on the story.
The “Girl Genius” setting is like a fantastical take on 19th-century Europe if it were run entirely by mad scientists - basically taking the Steampunk concept into more fantasy direction. The plot of the game: Agatha is a mad scientist with a heart of gold but she’s also the lost last heir to the evil and depraved Heterodyne Family. To prove her claim to her birthright and save the city of Mechanicsburg she has to get the badly-damaged and utterly crazed AI-powered Castle Heterodyne under control.
Well, some 5-year-olds have watched a half-dozen Marvel movies that have very similar content. That’s why I’m giving details onto what’s age-inappropriate about the Portal games so the parent can make an informed decision.
edit: And if just the constant black comedy from GlaDOS is okay, but the blood-splatters when you get shot are concerning, there are ways to disable it (although they’re console-commands and not part of the menu). In Portal 2 the blood was removed altogether because the game didn’t really need it anyways.
Yeah. I like worker placement games, but Stone Age seems to think “oh player X goes before you this turn and gets dibs on spot Y so revise your plans” is the most interesting part of worker-placement. Which, no, it isn’t. It’s an important mechanic, but it feels like that and collect-em-up is basically the whole game in Stone Age.
If you’re okay with some very black comedy (all spoken-aloud, nothing shown) and the occasional blood splatter when you get shot, the Portal games are good. The villains are robotic turrets with machine-guns that are defeated simply by tipping them over - so while they’re acting in very violent and lethal ways, the player is just teleporting around and nudging them over to fall down onto their side. But I remember my kid being very offended when GlaDOS called the player character fat, and later reveals she mass-murdered a building full of scientists using nerve-gas.