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Unfortunately his Dad seems to have ruined him playing kids games by letting him play 18+ so early, think he started playing them before he was 6. My boys love minecraft but he only really plays it when they are at mine. I installed Skyrim yesterday and he had 5 minutes on it before bed to see what it's about and is quite excited about finding a bow tomorrow to start shooting animals with.
 
Omaeka said:
You can turn the blood off in Just Cause 2 if that's any help. :p
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LoL would say this as all I've seen on the internet from this is running about, attaching lines to things and making them spin round and round (think 747 going round a bridge xD ). I remember Soldier of Fortune had option to turn off blood/gore, quite funny going from blood everywhere and being able to shoot off bits of peoples heads at a time to just having a bright spark hit marker like you're shooting flint at a rock xD


I'm pretty glad that you and the misses think 8 is too young for the likes of GTA and such. hell i think the most violent game at a young age I played was roadrash at like 12 or something and that's more arcade racing with the ability to bop people off their bikes.

so yea as stated, minecraft is a good run about game, any of the fallout/skyrim series is worth an adventure. what about letting him play arma3 if he likes the look of it? you can play offline missions with AI and they are releasing their story bit by bit. can also turn down/off the blood. don't think there's any swearing in it......maybe dayz? :p could play that single player (if possible?) so massive world, survive zombies and exploration?
 
I always used to play The Sims games growing up. Sims 2 was my favourite.
Not free roam, but still fun.

You also have that new game out called 'Gone Home'. You come home from a long time away to find your family missing. You have to explore the house and find clues to where they are.

Not so much the recent one but Tomb Raider was a great game. TR2 was my favourite. Not that the recent one isn't great, it's just a little more violent.
 
Sasso said:
LoL would say this as all I've seen on the internet from this is running about, attaching lines to things and making them spin round and round (think 747 going round a bridge xD ). I remember Soldier of Fortune had option to turn off blood/gore, quite funny going from blood everywhere and being able to shoot off bits of peoples heads at a time to just having a bright spark hit marker like you're shooting flint at a rock xD


I'm pretty glad that you and the misses think 8 is too young for the likes of GTA and such. hell i think the most violent game at a young age I played was roadrash at like 12 or something and that's more arcade racing with the ability to bop people off their bikes.

so yea as stated, minecraft is a good run about game, any of the fallout/skyrim series is worth an adventure. what about letting him play arma3 if he likes the look of it? you can play offline missions with AI and they are releasing their story bit by bit. can also turn down/off the blood. don't think there's any swearing in it......maybe dayz? :p could play that single player (if possible?) so massive world, survive zombies and exploration?
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Yeah about 12 or 13 is when I started playing GTA, and I didn't play the missions much it was pretty much solely for the free roam. But if I had a child, I'd never let my child play games like GTA until 14 or 15 because I can't see it doing any damage :) I mean legally I still can't play GTA now... and that's just ridiculous :p
 
Will be quite difficult to get him off CoD now I would imagine.

If you can push him more towards Minecraft that would be good. My nephew tends to like the Counter-strike and TF2 Surf maps and also those daft Jail type ones.

Might be worth a try. Anything to get him off CoD!
 
mass effect or assassin's creed series? a lot less violent than COD, Far Cry etc... a lot of freedom to do stuff obviously not as free roaming as GTA

Lego Marvel, Lego Harry Potter, Lego Lord of the Rings, etc.. are quite fun and have big maps to explore. Should be great for his age, or any age. I love them
 
leisure suit larry.....get some life skills ;) hahahaha!!!!!! but yea, dunno why the lego games didn't pop into mind!! they are epic! is that lego MMO still going? I quite literally made an account, installed the game, booted in, ran about 20 steps, jumped a few times.....then uninstalled the thing never to be played again haha!!! :p
 
My 9 year old's a minecraft nut obviously, but he likes third person action-adventure games too. Lord of the Rings: War in the North is a favourite, and I've let him play a bit of Batman AC too, supervised.
 
I have lego marvel on the xbox one and he just isn't that interested. I think he gets stuck quite easily and loses interest. As I said, the standard kids games just don't hold his attention.
 
Actually mine plays JC2 a lot aswell. At first I thought, absolutely no way, but I actually like the way the whole grapple mechanic makes him stop and think about cause and effect. Once he realised you could grapple pretty much any two objects in the game together, the little scientist in him was hooked :)
 
Sleepery said:
Actually mine plays JC2 a lot aswell. At first I thought, absolutely no way, but I actually like the way the whole grapple mechanic makes him stop and think about cause and effect. Once he realised you could grapple pretty much any two objects in the game together, the little scientist in him was hooked :)
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I see what you did there!
 
Has he heard of 'football' or 'running about in the woods' or 'illicitly exploring nearby farm buildings', all popular games when I was his age. ;)
 
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