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Funny/Interesting things kids these days say about gaming.

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Cloud Strife

Member
I volunteer at a kid's youth group (ages 8-13) and tonight, we played some Smash Bros. Brawl. There were a good mix of boys and girls and we played for a good few hours. So I start making some random convo, like if any of them have heard about the new Smash Bros. for WiiU and 3DS or have heard about any of the new characters etc. etc.

Here are some of the responses:

Boy 1: "What's a WiiU?"

Boy 2: "It's like a Wii but with a dumb controller"

Boy 3: "Yeah my cousin has it, it's interesting but dumb."

Boy 1: "That's dumb, why would anyone buy it?"

Boy 4 (Holy shit Boy 4): "Actually it's the new Nintendo console and it's not a Wii, most of the games are in HD and it looks really cool. I have one."

Boy 1: "Oh, cool-OMG WHO'S SONIC STOP KILLING ME."

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Girl 1: "Wow Smash Bros.! I played this on my ipod!"

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Me: "So have you heard of any new characters in SSB4?"

Boy 4: "Yeah Greninja looks really cool!"

Boy 1: "What's Greninja?"

Me: "A Pokemon from the newer games that came out last year."

Boy 1: "Why do they have so many Pokemon in this game? They should put flappybird in them instead"

Boy 2: "OMG that would be so cool!"

Me (being sarcastic because a present co-volunteer knows as much about the hype as I do): "Yeah! And add Ridley while you're at it?"

Boy 4 (I shit you not!): "If Ridley isn't in, I probably won't buy it."

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Girl 2: "What games do you like?"

Me: "Ehh, depends, I like a lot of games."

Girl 2: What? Everyone plays games on their phone, that's what gaming is now everywhere."

Me: *laughs*

Girl 2: WHAT. It's true! Gaming isn't coming out anymore for Wii or anything else anymore!"

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Boy 1 (he's like, 11) : "Know what's dumb?"

Me: "What?"

Boy 1: "My little brother goes over to his friends house and he has GTAV and he gets to play it before me and he's two years younger!"

Boy 2 (similar age): "No fair! My grandma said she would get it for me next week for my bday!"

Me: "Well now..."

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Boy 3 (when using Kirby and getting his smash): "OHHH YEAH COOKING TIME WITH KIRBY!"

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Boy 5 (using Sonic and wrecking the crap out of everyone): "Yeah smash ball!"

*Boy 5 proceeds to get Smash Ball*

Boy 1: "HOW DO YOU MAKE HIM STOP SAYING 'NOW I'LL SHOW YOU'!?"

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Boy 2: "Why is a girl beating me at video games?"

Girl 3: "That's sexist, I'm just as good as you and I play video games alot!"

Me: *tears of joy*

Anyway, I was really intrigued/entertained at their convos with me following the industry and participating in other gaming shit we all discuss or rant about here at GAF. What's the funniest or most interesting thing you've heard younger kids say about the current gaming environment/market? /B]
 
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BatDan

Bane? Get them on board, I'll call it in.
OldKingDoran said:
i kinda find it a little hard to believe that a little kid would know who Ridley is and a little girl knows what sexism is.
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Ridley is in Brawl's Subspace Emissary, so it's possible.
It's also possible he played Metroid Other M (poor kid...)
As for the girl knowing what sexism is... kids are smarter than you'd think
 
C

Cloud Strife

Member
Thorakai said:
i need to see the receipts on that kid that knows who ridley is.
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This was me:

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OldKingDoran said:
haha no doubt. What other games do you guys play?
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Just SSBBrawl, although some kids yoinked my phone and dusted off some games on it (Temple Run etc.)
 
Bog

Bog

Junior Ace
This reminds me of those horseshit EGM articles from ~10 years ago where they supposedly recorded old ladies and little kids playing games.
 
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sportzhead

Member
My young niece who loves Minecraft. See her at the table with her toys, hard at work making something with construction paper
and tissues. I ask her what she's doing, her response..... I'm modding my toys.
 
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Cloud Strife

Member
OldKingDoran said:
haha no doubt. What other games do you guys play?
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sportzhead said:
My young niece who loves Minecraft. See her at the table with her toys, hard at work making something with construction paper
and tissues. I ask her what she's doing, her response..... I'm modding my toys.
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I worked at a summer camp this past summer and it seemed like every kid I talked to (boy or girl) played Minecraft. I'd do an icebreaker on the first day and say "What's you favorite video game?" Always got Minecraft or Cod as a response (was surprised at the random Final Fantasy answer I got once).
 
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Soulflarz

Banned
I hate the age group directly under mine (well it partially bleeds into mine but still) in regards to stupid gaming perspectives :/

^and yeah. Most people my age that i know havent played FFs. Plenty bought Bravely Default because of the marketing (probably?) and enjoyig it but nah FF "isnt their thing"
Sigh
 
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GamerJM

Banned
OldKingDoran said:
i kinda find it a little hard to believe that a little kid would know who Ridley is and a little girl knows what sexism is.
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It's not that hard to believe, kids in the 10-13 age range are pretty smart. I mean, by the time I was 13 I would have been lurking GAF (didn't make an account for several years), so......
 
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Hyperactivity

Banned
GamerJM said:
It's not that hard to believe, kids in the 10-13 age range are pretty smart. I mean, by the time I was 13 I would have been lurking GAF (didn't make an account for several years), so......
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WAIT, since when is that considered little
Just above that range

Have a friend who 13 and plays all the same sorts of stuff GAF does.
 
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KoopaTheCasual

Junior Member
Boy 4 is literally a physical manifestation of NintendoGAF.

Also, good on the little girl for sticking up for her right to kick ass at video games.
 
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Gintoki313

Banned
During one of my classes in high school, I had to be the teachers helper for a 3rd grade class. It was the day CODBO2 came out, so you can probably guess what they were talking to me about.

One of them asked me if I was getting it, and I said yeah. The kid was telling me how he liked to
stab some guy in the ending of
MW2. I was kinda surprised since I didn't know kids were into violence like that. Regardless, me and all the other students talked about COD most of the time that I was there. They were telling me about strategies, the best loadouts, etc. I couldn't understand a word they were saying since I mostly play it for fun. I never really got too far into strategies. I remember one of them asking me what kind of games I play, and I said "JRPG's and stuff." They said "what's that?" I didn't have much else to talk about them with except Mario and COD.
 
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Castcoder

Banned
When I was 10, I got involved in a lot of things online. I played Ratchet Deadlocked and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory online. I also played Animal Crossing Wild World and traded Friend Codes over IGN's boards. I frequented Runescape, too. I started my YouTube channel when I was 12 and gained over a thousand subscribers in about one or two years. I was also hyped and following news on the Wii when I was in 5th and 6th grade (came out when I was in 6th grade).

To see 10-11 year olds play and understand the industry to a decent degree is common at that age. To see that amount of diversity understand a good idea of video games isn't as common as I expect. I'm not happy to see the GTAV comment, but I was in that situation too (except I don't have siblings).
 
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Mellahan

Concerned about dinosaur erection.
I'm a teacher's aid. I hear all kinds of stuff daily.

Kids are still up-to-date with Pokemon; they're utterly dumbfounded when I tell them there used to be only 151. They scoff at the idea I don't play CoD. They've never heard of a Vita. A 4th grader is under the impression that the Xbox 360 houses a secret "TRON" achievement awarded only to those who've managed to, somehow, teleport themselves into a game.

Oh, and there's this one girl whose completely obsessed with video game creepypastas. No joke, for "sharing time" she read Ben Drowned to the whole class. It went over everyone's head. I couldn't help but laugh.
 
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Cloud Strife

Member
Mellahan said:
I'm a teacher's aid. I hear all kinds of stuff daily.

Kids are still up-to-date with Pokemon; they're utterly dumbfounded when I tell them there used to be only 151. They scoff at the idea I don't play CoD. They've never heard of a Vita. A 4th grader is under the impression that the Xbox 360 houses a secret "TRON" achievement awarded only to those who've managed to, somehow, teleport themselves into a game.

Oh, and there's this one girl whose completely obsessed with video game creepypastas. No joke, for "sharing time" she read Ben Drowned to the whole class. It went over everyone's head. I couldn't help but laugh.
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Some kid that came to camp this summer started singing the Dragonborn theme from Skyrim randomly LYRICS AND ALL. Horrible singing but I was impressed.
 
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Hyperactivity

Banned
Mellahan said:
I'm a teacher's aid. I hear all kinds of stuff daily.

Kids are still up-to-date with Pokemon; they're utterly dumbfounded when I tell them there used to be only 151. They scoff at the idea I don't play CoD. They've never heard of a Vita. A 4th grader is under the impression that the Xbox 360 houses a secret "TRON" achievement awarded only to those who've managed to, somehow, teleport themselves into a game.

Oh, and there's this one girl whose completely obsessed with video game creepypastas. No joke, for "sharing time" she read Ben Drowned to the whole class. It went over everyone's head. I couldn't help but laugh.
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Holy crap, you have one hell of a student right there.

And for the "Tron achievement" I remember being in 2nd grade and thinking that Pokemon were real, just really rare and hard to find
 
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Lumyst

Member
I actually was talking to my younger cousin last year (high school sophomore) about video games and she mentioned that while some people at her school speculate about "Nintendo going third party (it's always to mobile devices though)", the people who like Nintendo at her school always bring up that "Nintendo makes more money." So I proceeded to tell her "You see, there's this chart that's always brought up..." I was laughing because I just knew they had to be referencing that one chart.

Oh and the 2DS is a doorstopper, and the Wii Mini is for kids' bedrooms so that's why it doesn't have internet, that's their thoughts on the 2DS and Wii Mini.
 
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Magwik

Banned
Mellahan said:
Oh, and there's this one girl whose completely obsessed with video game creepypastas. No joke, for "sharing time" she read Ben Drowned to the whole class. It went over everyone's head. I couldn't help but laugh.
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Polybius is best creepypasta
 
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Skelter

Banned
This is less about what the kids I work with say but..I work in this place in Brooklyn, New York basically an after school thing for kids to come and take lessons in random stuff. There was this shitty teacher or whatever like a year or two older then me who did nothing. Anyway the kids who typically come to the program are all in highschool so naturally they bring their consoles and we play stuff like Street Fighter or Smash Bros on a projector. Fun as hell playing fighting games.

One day I decided to start installing some games on the computers. Some of these kids never played Halo 1 or Unreal GOTY 99. Holy shit did they go crazy for it. Lately though its ONLY been StarCraft 1 which is fine with me. Its like reliving my childhood again. I'm even thinking of putting Civilization on the PC's next. My favorite thing about StarCraft though is how it gets everyone to shutup.
 
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kittens

Unconfirmed Member
Thanks to Minecraft, all monsters in all games are "mobs".
 
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Pikma

Banned
The other day a young girl (6-7 years old) restored my faith in the world's youth. She and other two kids were browsing the Trading Card Games shelf in my local Target, Pokemon TCG to be more specifically, she was super excited naming XY Pokemons left and right, thing is the XY games had just released so there was no way she could have known them because of the Anime, she was legit, I can guarantee you that.
 
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vocab

Member
I think the last time I heard about gaming was in a GameStop and this kid asked his friend when he was coming over to lan cs source. I wanted to bash his head through a magazine wrack, but I knew that would be wrong but so right.

Though in classes dudes younger than me always talked about cod and shit. Found some guy who scrimmed 1.6 and played quake live. Another guy just read eventhubs and srk during class then busted out his laptop to play third strike. We played everyday because we had an hour to kill. He seriously brought his stick with him.

Some kid who knew i liked games asked me if I played dota and how to play dota and if sandking was a good hero. Random as hell.

This one dude who was like the biggest bleach nerd I have ever met talk on his phone about el furte and sfiv. Just weird.

Much Younger kids? Aside from my cousin talking about Xbox 360 and cod and watching a 6 or 7 year old cousin know how to play Minecraft on PC was kinda fascinating.
 
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LookAtMeGo

Member
I was playing killzone shadowfall multiplayer and I heard what sounded like a 2 or 3 year old say "boom! Headshot"!! .. I was like "haha who is this?". Then the guy playing with me was like "oh thats my son". I just kind of laughed a little, then I kept hearing the kid say "Dad!, shoot him in the head!!.. Dad!! Shoot him in the head!!"
Im not going to lie, I felt uncomfortable.
 
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Cloud Strife

Member
LookAtMeGo said:
I was playing killzone shadowfall multiplayer and I heard what sounded like a 2 or 3 year old say "boom! Headshot"!! .. I was like "haha who is this?". Then the guy playing with me was like "oh thats my son". I just kind of laughed a little, then I kept hearing the kid say "Dad!, shoot him in the head!!.. Dad!! Shoot him in the head!!"
Im not going to lie, I felt uncomfortable.
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Whoa that's fucked up. After working with kids for so long, you see some parents and just facepalm at the way they handle their kids.
 
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