We all have heard them before. Those annoying little kids under 12 who haven't hit puberty yet infesting online multiplayer modes in popular console shooters. But why are shooters the only real genre to attract little kids to Xbox Live and to a lesser extent, PlayStation Network? Why don't we usually see little kids in a Fighting game match, or an RTS, a Resident Evil Co-op session, or even and an Online JRPG like Dark Souls or Monster Hunter? I know these genres are probably more complex than an average little kid can manage, but shooters can be just as complex depending on the game, yet even in the complex variety, why are little kids running ammok?
Probably because they are interested in games for older audience and that are popular by older audience...COD has been a popular game and they just want to be like the big boys....
Take it from someone who ranks among the younger members here. When you're 8 or 10, it's "cool" or "baddonkey" or many other, less tasteful descriptors to play a game with blood and gore in it. The more adult content the better. Thus, a very large portion of the audience for these games are children, in spite of the M rating. Using online is even cooler because mommy doesn't let you say those bad words at dinner. Stray observation, the blood and gore aspect of a game seems to become less and less important the older you get. It's more the case of "omg you still play video games?" when you're a teen and presumably (I have not reached that yet) "who gives a damn what you play?" when you've reached adulthood.
Why COD and not RE is a different thing, but I assume it's more of a cool military setting as opposed to the whole corny zombie thing, plus there's the much faster pacing of COD. I'm still too old to remember those little details.
The big M on front of Call of Duty boxes looks too big boy for their childish minds to go without...and generally if they need it to feel cool then they probably aren't mature enough to handle playing competitive games with others, no pun intended. Take that in with too much materialism in society and you have a recipe for disaster: whiny children and man-children shouting homophobic slurs at you for winning.
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Take it from someone who ranks among the younger members here. When you're 8 or 10, it's "cool" or "badass" or many other, less tasteful descriptors to play a game with blood and gore in it. The more adult content the better. Thus, a very large portion of the audience for these games are children, in spite of the M rating. Using online is even cooler because mommy doesn't let you say those bad words at dinner. Stray observation, the blood and gore aspect of a game seems to become less and less important the older you get. It's more the case of "omg you still play video games?" when you're a teen and presumably (I have not reached that yet) "who gives a damn what you play?" when you've reached adulthood.
Why COD and not RE is a different thing, but I assume it's more of a cool military setting as opposed to the whole corny zombie thing, plus there's the much faster pacing of COD. I'm still too old to remember those little details.
Yeah, I also noticed a lot of co-op games, several racers, and fighting games seem to be ammun to this. I think little kids feel that shooters and sports games are what mature gamers only play.
its also a mob mentality thing, kids want to play with their friends, if one popular kid decides he wants to play call of duty his friends will follow...
We all have heard them before. Those annoying little kids under 12 who haven't hit puberty yet infesting online multiplayer modes in popular console shooters. But why are shooters the only real genre to attract little kids to Xbox Live and to a lesser extent, PlayStation Network? Why don't we usually see little kids in a Fighting game match, or an RTS, a Resident Evil Co-op session, or even and an Online JRPG like Dark Souls or Monster Hunter? I know these genres are probably more complex than an average little kid can manage, but shooters can be just as complex depending on the game, yet even in the complex variety, why are little kids running ammok?
You're acting like kids don't play other games aside from Call of Duty and Gears of War. They do.
Video games and Call of Duty (since that's an easy franchise to discuss), are phenomenons. Call of Duty is huge and has been since 2007. For the last seven years, the press and millions of teens and kids have been buying, talking about, and playing yearly installments of Call of Duty. Like Mario and McDonald's, kids in the U.S. are aware of Call of Duty and want to be like their friends and relatives.
Just like with anything that's popular, kids are there to join the bandwagon regardless of what the broader picture is. Fads in particular. Younger kids and teens loved fads like planking, Gangnum, harlem shake and, now, the ice bucket challenge.
But don't worry, I've played plenty of other genres where kids have used the mic for their own entertainment. The reason I didn't run into more than I would have Battlefield, CoD, GoW, etc? The same reason those online communities died a few months after launch: the games weren't popular.
I was at the park with my gf and dog a few weeks ago.
There was a bunch of kids with plastic toy-guns.
Instead of playing 'soldiers' or 'cowboys and indians', they were playing 'team-deadmatch'.
Because they're simple, easy to learn and most importantly fun. I was obsessed with Goldeneye on the N64 when I was a kid, so i understand the appeal.
I play Black Ops 2 on Wii U these days, and its great fun (plus MK8 Online rarely works for me!)
When something is so popular that's what happens. Sure it's annoying hearing them but they are just children doing whatever is 'cool' and most likely having fun at it in the process.
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I was at the park with my gf and dog a few weeks ago.
There was a bunch of kids with plastic toy-guns.
Instead of playing 'soldiers' or 'cowboys and indians', they were playing 'team-deadmatch'.
Nuff said.
Are they not the same thing?
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Because it's cool! At least it beats being cool in the 80's and 90's and that was smoking. They're always looking to grow up or do more grown up things as early in life as possible.
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If I was only ever able to have Monster Hunter and EO games in the future, I would be a happy man.
I was at the park with my gf and dog a few weeks ago.
There was a bunch of kids with plastic toy-guns.
Instead of playing 'soldiers' or 'cowboys and indians', they were playing 'team-deadmatch'.
Nuff said.
Are they not the same thing?
Yes, but they renamed it after a game they play. Truly the innocence has been lost.
Online shooters are only infested with kids because kids make up 90% of gamers (although MS and Sony would have you believe that they are in their late 20s and 'hardcore') and most of those kids just want to play the most popular games and can play their dad's games. I think the shrieking, swearing and playing of poopoodoodoocacapoopledoople music down the mic is exactly what it would be like whatever generation of gamer was playing.
When I was a gamer with an unbroken voice, I used to play Street Fighter 2 in the Arcades. I guess it was a bit more intimidating than anonymous online interaction because I wouldn't have dared speak with my posh Kentish accent in front of all the South London hoodlums. Challenging the local champ face to face would probably put some of the whinier kids in their place and shut them up.
I was at the park with my gf and dog a few weeks ago.
There was a bunch of kids with plastic toy-guns.
Instead of playing 'soldiers' or 'cowboys and indians', they were playing 'team-deadmatch'.
Nuff said.
Are they not the same thing?
Yes, but they renamed it after a game they play. Truly the innocence has been lost.
so instead of pretending to kill actual people, they're now pretending to kill made-up people in a video-game setting. seems like a step up to me, if only a marginal one :3
that said, kids are the only ones with enough time on their hands to play crazy amounts of video games. that would bey guess as to why. :3
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