Comments on: Ask GamerDad 5/16/08 http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/05/21/971/ Games from a Parental Perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shaequan Robinson http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/05/21/971/comment-page-1/#comment-9165 Shaequan Robinson Wed, 21 May 2008 22:15:19 +0000 http://www.gamingwithchildren.com/?p=971#comment-9165 Battalion Wars II is by far the best game i"ve played on the Wii. Its a bit cartoonish for a war game though. I often find myself laughing at what the soldiers are saying. Battalion Wars II is by far the best game i”ve played on the Wii. Its a bit cartoonish for a war game though. I often find myself laughing at what the soldiers are saying.

]]> By: Mike Anderson http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/05/21/971/comment-page-1/#comment-9159 Mike Anderson Wed, 21 May 2008 19:54:08 +0000 http://www.gamingwithchildren.com/?p=971#comment-9159 Interesting questions ... the first one in particular. But to the point at hand - I definitely recommend headphones. There really isn't any appropriate volume setting that will be loud enough for you and soft enough not to be heard. I remember trying that in my old house in the back office we had at the time - woke my son up. Since then I have come to love headphones ... playing a game like Thief Deadly Shadows with headphones is wonderful ... As for language, I agree that Shadow the Hedgehog is a problem. It isn't like hearing the word 'damn' once or twice would harm a child, it is that hearing it once or twice *every ten seconds* is drilling it into their heads. I'm not surprised that they started parroting it ... that was a bad choice made to make the game seem more 'edgy'. Interesting questions … the first one in particular. But to the point at hand – I definitely recommend headphones. There really isn’t any appropriate volume setting that will be loud enough for you and soft enough not to be heard. I remember trying that in my old house in the back office we had at the time – woke my son up. Since then I have come to love headphones … playing a game like Thief Deadly Shadows with headphones is wonderful …

As for language, I agree that Shadow the Hedgehog is a problem. It isn’t like hearing the word ‘damn’ once or twice would harm a child, it is that hearing it once or twice *every ten seconds* is drilling it into their heads. I’m not surprised that they started parroting it … that was a bad choice made to make the game seem more ‘edgy’.

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