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Today I judged a fish on its ability to climb a tree.
8 years ago
A few weeks ago, around the time of my birthday, I came up with the idea to do something a bit different. The idea was to have my mom watch and try to play some of my videogames. I suppose I thought she might be able to enjoy and view them in at least a similar manner to my own.
Skip to today, we finally acted on the idea. I laid out several games from each system, having her pick a "most interesting" and "least interesting" selection from each console to try and gauge her views. (Granted, she'd seen me play a few of the games before and admitted that influenced some of her selections.) She stayed away from anything that looked too violent (RAGE, Brink, Mad Max, etc.). Finally I had her select one or two games from each console that she'd like to watch a little of.
At the end of it all, we had planned to play together on the first Little Big Planet and "cow racing" (One of the ancient mini-games from the Wii Play collection and one of the only "games" she's shown any interest in aside from Uncharted, enjoying the fact that it feels like watching a movie).
We ran out of time for the multiplayer games, but I'm actually relieved we did. I can't really say what I expected from trying this, but it just felt weak, for lack of a better word. The most interest shown for many games was "Oh, I remember seeing you play some of this" or such along those lines. She WAS excited about Wii sports and Wii Play at least.
Looking back, I think what I may have been looking for was a way to reach out to my parents through something I enjoyed, hoping they too could enjoy the games. I've never really been close with my parents, aside from the fact that they ARE my PARENTS. We've never really done much together, at least nothing I'm very interested in. I often go target-shooting with my dad, I suppose that's something.
I guess it's just not possible for someone else to enjoy something in EXACTLY the same way as I do, though I suppose I was hoping for something coming close to that. Such a thought saddens me.
Skip to today, we finally acted on the idea. I laid out several games from each system, having her pick a "most interesting" and "least interesting" selection from each console to try and gauge her views. (Granted, she'd seen me play a few of the games before and admitted that influenced some of her selections.) She stayed away from anything that looked too violent (RAGE, Brink, Mad Max, etc.). Finally I had her select one or two games from each console that she'd like to watch a little of.
At the end of it all, we had planned to play together on the first Little Big Planet and "cow racing" (One of the ancient mini-games from the Wii Play collection and one of the only "games" she's shown any interest in aside from Uncharted, enjoying the fact that it feels like watching a movie).
We ran out of time for the multiplayer games, but I'm actually relieved we did. I can't really say what I expected from trying this, but it just felt weak, for lack of a better word. The most interest shown for many games was "Oh, I remember seeing you play some of this" or such along those lines. She WAS excited about Wii sports and Wii Play at least.
Looking back, I think what I may have been looking for was a way to reach out to my parents through something I enjoyed, hoping they too could enjoy the games. I've never really been close with my parents, aside from the fact that they ARE my PARENTS. We've never really done much together, at least nothing I'm very interested in. I often go target-shooting with my dad, I suppose that's something.
I guess it's just not possible for someone else to enjoy something in EXACTLY the same way as I do, though I suppose I was hoping for something coming close to that. Such a thought saddens me.
