I AM the dad that bought his kids iPhones and iPads... so they can leave me alone while i play dust...

how much do i owe Apple for babysitting?

I am a dad of 2 year 3 month olds boys, i allready make alt to my older kid and that alt has allready 3 mil sp to spend

I didn't mean family gaming so much as new players struggling to get into the game.

I'd like to play with my 15 year old but he has decided to be a devotee of the PC master race and plays more Minecraft than anything else.

Alot of older gamers are better set for inverted controls. I always had trouble with shooters because of this. Somewhere around ff12 I just snapped and can use any config. Something with the camera.

Yea I have read this story before a million times over. They all sound the same. The OP brings in new player, new player either has or had played FPS games. The new player doesn't do well. The OP makes some statement of "see this is why we need NPE because my friend keeps dying"

Listen, me and many others got their butts handed to them when we first arrived to New Eden. You know what I got? A HTFU speech. And you know what, they were right. It doesn't take much for a player to skill up some so he can be competitivve. Plus NPE doesn't teach somehow how to fight, how to hide, or know when to engage and disengage.

Honestly, your dad couldn't make it in COD or BF, no offense. You want him to enjoy the game? Tell him about the harshness of New Eden, because the universe is built on it. Then its up to him what he wants to do. This isn't one of those games where you can pick up and have causual fun, really. It's a jagged pill that you learn to swallow or spit back out.

I'm all for helping the new players but the sympathy violins being played needs to stop. If some new guys I met understand this and accept the challenge, how come the others cannont?

I hadn't thought of this... maybe you are on to something. Will ask him to try this soon.

I know he needs the sensitivity tweaked down a little. Sometimes when he sees a redberry he panics and ends up spinning in half-circles before getting gunned down. If it wasn't so goddamned funny it would be sad.

Lol, I AM the dad that bought the PS3 in my household. I got it for my kids to play Skylanders. I'm glad I didn't buy it for DUST. CCP has been living up to the reputation they already earned with me GÇô one or squandered opportunities that looked to be big, but deflated into crap decisions.

I thought for sure DUST was lining up to be the next HALO on the PS3. Nope. Tanks were going to be awesome in 1.7. Nope. TTK was going to be decreased. Nope (cloaks ruined that).

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I'm not a dad but people call me daddy ;)

Your dad sounds awesome.

I am 100% serious; that is an awesome human being right there.

Posted by Avimaan Syam March 28, 2012


The last talk I caught at GDC was called GÇ£Breaking the Rules of Game Design: When to Go Against Competence, Autonomy and RelatednessGÇ¥ by Kaitlyn Burnell at Naughty Dog (all the Naughty Dog talks were pretty extraordinary). The brunt of BurnellGÇÖs talk was to take three metrics for user retention that most social/MMO-style games adopt and look at how designers can play around with these user needs.

Breaking them down:



Autonomy: Autonomy lets players feel in charge of their interactions and in control of the world. When you take that away from the player, they want to rebel against the power wrestled away from them. Burnell stressed that it was important that broken autonomy be focused in the game world instead of the game design, so players donGÇÖt feel frustrated with gameplay itself.



Competence: Competence lets players feel like masters of a skillGÇôthat they excel at something (this something being your game). When you take that away from the player, they suddenly feel helpless.



Relatedness: Relatedness lets players feel like theyGÇÖre contributing to something bigger than themselves. It gives credence to their actions. Taking this away from the player makes them feel alone, isolated.



Do we want our players to feel rebellious, isolated, lonely, helpless, frustrated? For an extended period of time, probably not. But in small doses? In my opinion, itGÇÖs more difficult for interactive media to delve into rich emotional context because it usually comes with some discomfort, which a user interacting with the system always has the ability to choose a more comforting decision. Generally speaking, we donGÇÖt turn off a movie when a character makes a bad decision.

I believe that if we can illicit these emotions from users by breaking autonomy, competence, and relatedness in small pockets, we can deepen the userGÇÖs experience. The lower the lows, the higher the highs feel.

Dad: 20m sp

He still need someone telling him to reload his gun at all time

Could tell you how many time hes been saved cause ive told him to reload.....cant say the others but they had to have saved him a bit too

I'm not a dad but people call me daddy ;)

Cool story, can't wait to hear more.

but to throw some new player into this ****? now?! oh man.. what a fate.

I am a dad of 2 year 3 month olds boys, i allready make alt to my older kid and that alt has allready 3 mil sp to spend