Gaming Biased Opinions in your home?

[Proarcher]

So... Here's the story - 15 minutes ago I just sat my Mum down, as she wasn't doing anything, to watch the latest two (well three part) Extra Creditz series on Game Addiction on YouTube. Hoping to let her see how much valid, interesting information was present here about games and about countering game hype while expressing the real issues.
Bottom line..
Three quarters of the way through she stood up because she forgot to do something, so as she began to walk away I said, "Hey, it's interesting don't you think?' just trying to get some kind of reaction to all the knowledge and thought behind what she was just watching. and she simply said; It's alright, for a cartoon' and walked off.

I'm twenty, moving out in 3 months, and she still feels the need to patronize the forms of media I find valid and interesting. But I suppose that's what gaming and gaming discussion is to her and her generation, what it will always be I suppose. Just a cartoon and a distraction.. >_< I pity them, I really do.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Even to such an extent of such... I don't know. Ignorence and blindness I suppose. She was watching and listening to the thing for crying out loud and nothing valid sunk in, apparently 'because it's a cartoon' Gah it just makes me so angry.

 

[Total LOLige]

My mum called dead rising 2 ridiculous. And regarding red dead redemption's undead night mare add-on she said cowboy zombies are also ridiculous

 

[Tommeh Brownleh]

Mom thinks my general misanthropy comes from the fact that I play a bit of Saints Row now and then, rather than all of humanity being utter retards.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

My mum called dead rising 2 ridiculous. And regarding red dead redemption's undead night mare add-on she said cowboy zombies are also ridiculous

Dead Rising 2? Ridiculous? The game where you can attach chainsaws to a helmet and run through crowds of zombies while simultaneously being attacked by cartoonish psychopaths? She must be crazy.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Bottom line..
Three quarters of the way through she stood up because she forgot to do something, so as she began to walk away I said, "Hey, it's interesting don't you think?' just trying to get some kind of reaction to all the knowledge and thought behind what she was just watching. and she simply said; It's alright, for a cartoon' and walked off.

Wait, wait... what?! If she only watched those three eps and to three quarters of the way through... surely she must've realised that most of it was just James Portnow in front of a camera, spilling his guts and struggling not to cry as he recounted how gaming compulsion nearly screwed up his life and how he dragged himself out of it. Did she listen to anything he said... at all?!

OT: Thankfully, no such problem in my household. My parents don't care what I do provided I don't waste my time/money excessively (hell I occasionally get my old man to play multiplayer battles in TW titles and he plays a couple strat games himself), and my sisters are casual gamers themselves. Yay for Chinese liberalism, I guess.

 

[StorytellingIsAMust]

My parents see potential for games as art, but think that they are too immature at the moment, which is true enough. They also love how it "fosters teamwork and cooperation between you and your brothers." Funny thing is, we don't play that many coop games.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

My mum called dead rising 2 ridiculous. And regarding red dead redemption's undead night mare add-on she said cowboy zombies are also ridiculous

Dead Rising 2? Ridiculous? The game where you can attach chainsaws to a helmet and run through crowds of zombies while simultaneously being attacked by cartoonish psychopaths? She must be crazy.

My sentiments exactly

OT: My dad and stepmom won't even give gaming a chance. Like most parents i guess they too only see it as a distraction and as nothing with educational value or even potential. My mom on the other hand at least has the decency to sit down and play Mario Kart with my brother sometimes.

 

[sky14kemea]

It's just how things go with the next generation I think. I never got that 'cause my mum loved the Tomb Raider games, so our family time used to be watching and helping her complete those. =P

However, when she tried the newer Anniversary remake, she put it down after 10 minutes and said "Why did they add all these silly moves and buttons?"

What I'm saying is, they've probably not seen shows like Extra Creditz, which focuses on video games and problems with that genre. Maybe the OP's mom really did think it was just a cartoon?

 

[krazykidd]

Well my mom thought i sPent too much time playing video games when i lived with my parents . She thought i should spend more time studying than playing video games . In a sense she was right, if i spent half as much time studying as i was playing diablo 2 , i could easily have been the top of my class in every subject . But hell thats my fault for being stupid not gaming.

 

[Rawne1980]

As the adult of the house and also a gamer i'm not biased towards games in any way.

People are free to do what they want in their own time.

My kids game themselves "when it's appropriate". By that I mean as long as they have school work and any room cleaning that needs doing then they can do as they see fit. I'm not going to stop my kids gaming when I do it myself however i'm not going to let them sit their all day doing it either.

As long as they get done what needs to be done then what they do in their own free time is up to them within reason.