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[hockeycanuckjc Trusted Contributor]

Im wondering if bringing it into the house was a good thing... Her and I were never close to begin with now all of a sudden shes nice to me cuz I brought that game in LOL..............

Guess its a good thing. FYI My Grandmother, Mother and I all live under the same roof... Heh.

[SlimJim77]

Better get her into rehab before it's too late ;P

[GeraldRose]

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hockeycanuckjc wrote:

Im wondering if bringing it into the house was a good thing... Her and I were never close to begin with now all of a sudden shes nice to me cuz I brought that game in LOL..............

Guess its a good thing. FYI My Grandmother, Mother and I all live under the same roof... Heh.

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hockeycanuckjc, that is funny, interestingly enough my sister who is older than me and almost 30 is obsessed with Rock Band 2 for Nintendo Wii, I don't get it, I played it and it was okay for about 5 minutes but then I thought it was very boring. Oh well to each his own I guess.

My mother on the other hand is obsessed with The Sims 2, I bought the original almost 9 or 10 years ago and thought it was really good, but I got over it, she has been obsessed with it since then. She plays a lot and actually complains when her Sim does something she doesn't want them too, or heaven forbid her Sim Cat pee's on the floor.

[hockeycanuckjc Trusted Contributor]

Right now I have the game removed from my hard drive, I had to do a clean install on my machine and buy Vista Basic to essentially have a clean install without all the MCE junk and other bloat on my acer computer.

Once I get my Hybrid SLI enabled video card back in there , its time to game!

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hockeycanuckjc wrote:

Im wondering if bringing it into the house was a good thing... Her and I were never close to begin with now all of a sudden shes nice to me cuz I brought that game in LOL..............

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I wouldn’t necessarily say that it's a bad thing! It could simply be a sign that the two of you have more interests in common that you had previously thought.

My mother asked my brother to teach her how to play Halo a few weeks back, and she’s never been a fan of video games in general. In fact, the closest that she ever came to one was Minesweeper or Solitaire on her desktop PC. After he taught her how to play, however, the three of us starting having conversations that would have never happened had she not asked him how to play the game.

Granted, she didn’t exactly run out and buy herself an Xbox 360 afterwards, but she did enjoy the experience enough to do some additional research on her own. Last we spoke she was happily playing Brain Age and Mario Kart on her new Nintendo DS.

Now if only I could convince her to try out a good, old-fashioned JRPG or MMO…

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GeraldRose wrote:

My mother on the other hand is obsessed with The Sims 2, I bought the original almost 9 or 10 years ago and thought it was really good, but I got over it, she has been obsessed with it since then. She plays a lot and actually complains when her Sim does something she doesn't want them too, or heaven forbid her Sim Cat pee's on the floor.

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Your comment made me laugh GeraldRose.  My oldest daughter loves the Sims, but sometimes she does not like to send them to school or work, and just indulges their social side, so her Sims have MULTIPLE times started fires and burnt her houses down!!!  I think I will keep her away from the stove  

My youngest is obsessed, I mean horridly obsessed with Guitar Hero.  However, she will not play on anything but "Hard" mode and says that if you play on easy you are a "cheater".  Of course, this is the daughter who learned to read at the age of 4 so she could "play her games better".  When we moved to Minnesota, I warned my then fiance that she would school him on Soul Caliber.  He did not believe me that a 5 year old could be so good at a video game, but she is, and she did indeed hand him a defeat or two! "

My whole household loves video games, now that I think about it.  I think if my mom played any games, she would enjoy it too, but she is so far away in Florida!  I guess I will have to settle for my in-laws loving the Wii!

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[GeraldRose]

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Dorothy-BBY wrote:

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GeraldRose wrote:

My mother on the other hand is obsessed with The Sims 2, I bought the original almost 9 or 10 years ago and thought it was really good, but I got over it, she has been obsessed with it since then. She plays a lot and actually complains when her Sim does something she doesn't want them too, or heaven forbid her Sim Cat pee's on the floor.

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Your comment made me laugh GeraldRose.  My oldest daughter loves the Sims, but sometimes she does not like to send them to school or work, and just indulges their social side, so her Sims have MULTIPLE times started fires and burnt her houses down!!!  I think I will keep her away from the stove  

My youngest is obsessed, I mean horridly obsessed with Guitar Hero.  However, she will not play on anything but "Hard" mode and says that if you play on easy you are a "cheater".  Of course, this is the daughter who learned to read at the age of 4 so she could "play her games better".  When we moved to Minnesota, I warned my then fiance that she would school him on Soul Caliber.  He did not believe me that a 5 year old could be so good at a video game, but she is, and she did indeed hand him a defeat or two! "

My whole household loves video games, now that I think about it.  I think if my mom played any games, she would enjoy it too, but she is so far away in Florida!  I guess I will have to settle for my in-laws loving the Wii!

Dorothy

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My mom can play the Sims all she wants, but talking to her Sims or yelling at her Sims...too much.

Cettainly a amazing game but it becomes stale after a while, I wonder if she will buy The Sims 3??

Guitar Hero, I just can't get into that. Perhaps I would rather be rocking out to my music rather than making it.

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Yeah...I am not so good myself at Guitar Hero.  Like I said, my children love it, and we bought them World Tour this past holiday, however I found the screechy singing and the drum playing not to my liking after a very short time period.  We have it set up downstairs in the basement and it totally intereferes with my World of Warcraft!

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    I am not so good myself at Guitar Hero.  Like I said, my children love it, and we bought them World Tour this past holiday, however I found the screechy singing and the drum playing not to my liking after a very short time period.  We have it set up downstairs in the basement and it totally intereferes with my World of Warcraft!
       
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