So my mom has been saying for awhile how she wished she could play Hogwarts legacy, and my older sister just replaced her gaming PC. So my sister sent her old pc to my mom. Nothing crazy, but meets minimum system requirements! My mom is now kind of speed running learning about gaming and it’s been amusing. I just think these are adorable.

  1. She complained that she couldn’t find the game for sale for PC anywhere, she could only find it for XBOX and PS. She was looking on amazon, and I had to point her towards steam, and help her setup an account for steam.

  2. She happened to purchase it while it was on sale and she was super confused why it was randomly on sale! Had to explain how steam works. She’s disabled and the $60 was the extent of her fun money for the month, so getting it on sale was a huge deal to her.

  3. Complaining at how long it took to download the game off wifi when she was ready to play RIGHT NOW. She kept asking if we could use an Ethernet cable to make it go faster, but her PC was like 40 feet from the nearest jack and we didn’t have a long enough ethernet cable (No I wasn’t driving home to my house to look for one, and no I wasn’t buying her one. Love you momma! You gotta wait!)

  4. She realized she hates mouse and keyboard, so used the money she saved from the sale to buy a little controller from walmart.

  5. She talked about how much she likes that because she’s on “story mode” she can skip puzzles/challenges she thinks are stupid. Considering there are games I never beat as a kid because of a specific mini game/challenge I couldn’t beat, I resonated with that. Back when we were kids if there was a quick time event you couldn’t beat, we quit the game!

  6. A few weeks later she talked about how she was super happy to finally find a youtuber that would give walk through/tips/advice on how to do things in a not annoying way. The one she likes are basically “Here is a 30 second clip of doing this specific thing in this room”. She is not a fan of 30 minute lets plays with intros/outros.

  7. Complaining about long load times between rooms, and quests that make her go through multiple loading zones. No comment, she’s just right to complain.

All her revelations were super relatable and I just thought it was cute that at an older age she went through modern gaming transition in a few weeks, and hit on emotions we all basically hit.

  • SharkEatingBreakfastEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Whoa, cool it! Maybe going the route of emotional decimation for someone new to playing games is a tad much.

    Start with the light-hearted stuff first, then ask if she enjoys having her heart ripped directly from her chest, then suggest “Spiritfarer”.

      • SharkEatingBreakfastEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I think it may be more impactful if you’ve had someone close to you pass.

        What absolutely wrecked me was

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        the chicken. I’ve aided in caring for a grandparent who went through it, and I expect at least one of my aging parents will go through it, too.

        That’s all I’ll say.