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pineapplelover, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

All I’ve played is csgo growing up. Cool game

LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
@LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net avatar

The Finals is fun and free. Apex Legends is cool too. A lot of shooting but no gore at all.

BingoBangoBongo,

The finals is also only voice chat and its opt in from the get go, so really good for avoiding toxic behavior from randos

Scary_le_Poo, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

Maybe introduce him to Beyond All Reason? It’s an RTS in the vein of Total Annihilation. Free and open source and very good looking.

WetBeardHairs,

Beyond All Reason

That game looks awesome. I need to check it out.

_ffiresticks_, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

Deep rock galactic

jackpot, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
@jackpot@lemmy.ml avatar

your edit shouldnt be so aggressive, no one knew that and as we didnt know it wasnt judgemental to be mad

jackpot, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
@jackpot@lemmy.ml avatar

yeah java minecraft (NOT BEDROCK) is great, you can mod the shit out of it too on a pc.

RaoulDook,

You can get them both with the one license now, so you don’t have to pick. I like having the 2 options available and I don’t let my kids buy anything on the bedrock one where they have the Minecoin BS to buy stuff. They only have real money (paper) and no digital-compatible methods to pay for anything.

But the mods on Java edition are excellent, and the fact that it runs on any computer OS is a big plus. I can’t recommend anything more than Minecraft for a kids’ game.

DarkenLM,

I never understood the "Minecraft Bedrock was made so it could run everywhere" argument. Like, wasn't Java's moto "Write once, run everywhere"? Why settle for a garbage version of the original, when the original can run on every computational device made within the last decade?

ArcticAmphibian,

When Java was made, nobody guessed that a phone or console would ever be as powerful as a PC. “Everywhere” really meant “Everywhere powerful enough (just PCs).”

Could MC Java be ported to a phone? Yes, but C++ is just so much more efficient for a small device.

DarkenLM,

Well, considering most android apps are written in Java (mostly Kotlin, but it uses the JVM still), I guess it could.

However, Bedrock is vastly inferior in terms of quality, and performance is not an excuse for it.

realitista,
@realitista@lemmy.world avatar

How does this work? I have a Minecraft Bedrock license for my Playstation, can I somehow get a Minecraft Java license from this too?

RaoulDook,

You should be able to see the license in your Microsoft account. I think everyone got both licenses sometime earlier this year.

comicallycluttered, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 17th

Okay, I’m really enjoying Deathloop now. At first I wasn’t super feeling it, but as it went on, it seems to have become kind of like “Dishonored, but if it didn’t take itself seriously at all”.

Part immersive sim, part detective/puzzle game, part rogue-lite.

Has a lot in common with the Sexy Brutale as well, which is interesting, but plays very differently.

Weapons are fun and I love the '60s spy-fi vibe, so I’m enjoying it.

DroneRights,

Deathloop is fantastic. Colt and Julianna are brilliantly written and acted, they sell the game singlehandedly. The fact that the rest of it is awesome is just a bonus

SPRUNT, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

No Man’s Sky is fantastic now.

Renacles, (edited ) do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

I haven’t seen Splatoon being recommended here, it’s a ton of fun and has no microtransactions. You can but your kid a Switch for cheap nowadays.

Dalek_Thal,
@Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone avatar

Categorically disagree. I am a grown arse adult. Splatoon 3 tilts me like no other game, due to some very deliberate FOMO game design decisions and a very poor matchmaking algorithm. Whilst there’s no real money store in the game, it has a lot of other problems that make it just as bad as Roblox imo

Renacles,

Can you elaborate a bit? I played Splatoon 2 until Nintendo started charging for the online but, as far as I know, Splatoon 3 only has a free battlepass.

Am I missing anything?

Dalek_Thal,
@Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone avatar

Honestly it’s a combination of the battlepass system and the stage design causing constant, very fast-paced combat. The stages are too small, so players are funnelled into the middle of the stage. This also causes spawncamping if the matchmaking is even slightly unbalanced (which it is most of the time), as one wipe will allow a team to push all the way into spawn.

Previous Splatoon games were very good about this - most stages were abstract shapes, with a lot of terrain, meaning combat was rare, and the game encouraged painting over fighting as painting would net the most points on a per-match basis. Splatoon 3’s new maps are all thin, straight lines, which forces players into that central killzone.

The battlepass, along with some very poor decision making around the results screen, which shows the winning team celebrating, means that losses feel bad. The matchmaking similarly punishes winstreaks by forcing losestreaks, usually matching you against people above your skill level, but on a team with players below your skill level. Whilst this is very addictive, it makes losing feel genuinely awful, and a losing streak causes tilting due to the FOMO of the battlepass.

Hope this writeup makes sense. I view Splatoon 3 as a genuinely bad game because of these factors, and greatly prefer Splatoon 2.

Renacles,

I think I understand what you mean, I only played Splatoon 2 so I don’t have much to add, I don’t think there is much of a population left sadly.

Shayreelz,

Seconding splatoon. Very kid and adult friendly, and basically no micro transactions (unless you count amiibo). No other game has kept my attention like it has for the last year

robot_dog_with_gun, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

give him an apple 2 and make him learn how to use a command line

WetBeardHairs,

Not until after he can patch RCT1’s assembly

Tathas,

Pshtt, not until he dies of dysentery once or twice.

sooper_dooper_roofer, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

I don’t think there’s a problem with restricting internet access for your kids, especially if you can get other parents (of your kids friends) to do it too

jack, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

If you’re that kind of person, throw away the Xbox too, pure garbage. Everyone deserves the open environment of a PC where one can tinker and learn about the system, maybe even make some mods for games.

Coskii, (edited ) do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
@Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It would be helpful to understand what types of games the kid was playing in the first place to suggest alternatives. I ripped this answer from quora on how to see which games within roblox your child was playing

  • Game History: Roblox used to have a “Game History” feature that allowed users to view a list of recently played games. This feature showed the last few games you played, but it was limited in terms of historical data. It’s worth checking if this feature is still available in your account settings.
  • Roblox Account Activity: You can check your Roblox account’s activity feed, which may show some information about recent game interactions and achievements. However, this feed typically doesn’t display a comprehensive game history.
  • Roblox API: Some third-party websites and tools may offer services that attempt to retrieve and display more extensive game history data by accessing Roblox’s API. Be cautious when using third-party services and make sure they are reputable and secure.

I went looking for any kind of account tracker and to no one’s surprise they are mostly about account value from items, not so much about worlds/experiences they have been on.

Most of the responses I’ve seen on here are just suggesting games which may or may not be to your kids looking purely based on those games being generally accepted as good.

Surp, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

Gary’s mod, Minecraft

can,

gmod is great. Another game with several other games inside.

realitista,
@realitista@lemmy.world avatar

Videos I look at seem rather violent with a lot of guns. Are these included by default or addons? My son’s 6 and just getting into minecraft but I don’t want to turn it into an FPS for him.

Microw,

Garry’s Mod includes various games/game modes but the most popular one is Trouble In Terrorist Town, where you have to shoot each other. I wouldn’t recommend it for a 6 year old, in a few years it will fit better.

realitista,
@realitista@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks.

CrypticCoffee, (edited ) do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?

Try Minetest - www.minetest.net

It’s a FOSS voxel engine, so they can play multiplayer with their friends for free. MineClone2 is a Minecraft clone on Minetest, so even if their friends don’t have Minecraft, they can still play with friends.

For paid games, consider indie games, as they’re less likely to be micro-transaction bullshit. Raft, Stardew Valley, Two Point Hospital are good options. Not so much multiplayer, but Stardew supports it. Multiplayer wise, maybe Among Us if the parents are comfortable with that.

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