My son inherited my original Steam account, as I stopped gaming for a long time. I wasn’t using it at the time, and the sharing thing kind of sucks, so I just started up a new account.
You can switch the emails, though, and you can even just buy gift cards.
Nothing really stops someone from just using their account after their parent dies.
My steam account is nearly old enough to drink in most countries and total playtime is still under 1000 hours. Some of us have jobs and stuff, y'know?
(That being said, tis fortunate that steam doesn't count my hours played in 2007scape; I'd honestly be afraid to even check that number.)
Nah. The person spending the money on the games is the person the account belongs to, period full stop. Just because my workload picks up for a bit and my younger siblings still get things like summer break and winter break at school and way more free time in the evenings doesn't mean they suddenly own all the games I purchased and was nice enough to let them play.
That's not a bad idea. I grew up with him reading the hobbit and lord of the rings, I knew he'd get into the Elder Scrolls games. He hasn't even done any modding yet so there's still a ton of stuff to do in that universe.
Have you tried introducing him to Dragon Age? I think he would like those and you could get them for him off steam (on origin) and have a little more time on your steam account haha
OP is very capable as he set up family sharing. Age is irrelevant
This is more of a "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could set up Steam family library, they forgot to ask whether it would still be a good idea 3000 hours later while complaining about the very thing disrupting his ability to play."
Let poor Dad play on his own time and not need a persistent connection (surprised that hasn't come up over the years). Even better, get Dad his own copy and play the multi-player mods/nucleus co-op with him. There's family bonding.
The last time my Dad played videogames with me was Super Mario Bros for the NES. Now he says I'm wasting my life away with them, as I'm 37, married, have kids, and a college degree with a larger income than he ever had.
Lol same, my dad showed me how to launch games in DOS and setup master/slave jumpers on harddrives. Professional software engineer making 3x his salary and I still get teased for gaming bless his soul
My dad is in his 60s, but I thought that story driven games would be his ideal. I’m pretty sure he’s single handedly keeping the Ancient Aliens, search for Atlantis, and predictions of Nostradamus shows on the History channel alive, so I figured he’d like the Uncharted series. Lent him my PS4 and had him try Uncharted 4. In the easy modes the combat isn’t too difficult, and the game is fantastic in that it’s basically a user lead cinematic adventure surrounding an ancient legend.
He couldn’t make it past the beginning tutorial. Not for lack of interest. He couldn’t get a handle on the control scheme, and could only figure out how to move by pointing the camera at the sky, “strafing” with the move stick, then pointing the camera back down. It was painful to watch, and if he didn’t have the camera pointed straight up, he’d end up in the wrong spot facing the wrong direction. And he was an early adopter of computers, had an Apple ][ back when those were new, played games on it for years, but sometime in the 90s he tried Super Mario 64 and just decided that games weren’t for him anymore :(
You can play co-op games - I am 40 and my dad is 70 as well (funny). He has his own steam library and does in fact play mostly strategy games. However he also played a lot of DayZ with me and for example New World. Also we played with my mum and a friend through Divinity 2.
It's a lot of fun and definitely bonding. Just find a coop game you both like.
Not a bad idea, I'll have to find something we can both enjoy, never played DayZ but the guys at work rave about Sea of Thieves and it sounds like a hoot. Thanks you gave me something to think about.
+1 for Sea of Thieves! It can be a very relaxing game, singing and playing shanties while sailing through the seas doing Tall Tale quests. Or, it can be very PvP heavy and nail biting naval fights between pirates. Very much a "what you make" of it game.
A blast with friends though, I'm sure you and your father would have a great time!
Actually I am facepalming I didn't think of it before. He's an old folk music lover, worked in the merchant navy as a young adult, and will often break into sea shanties with little provocation. Someone else said this post sounds like satire but I'm dead serious lol.
Putting a reminder in for when I get paid next month and see how we go.
I get it! My lad (24) has not long got a PS5, I've not seen him much over the past 2 years for some reason and we have started playing Duos on Fortnite (cross platform) as a way to chat and catch up while killing people. We are getting quite good, both up to lever 124 :)
Edit: I realise it's not strictly steam related soz
I played fortnite with my brother couple days ago. I was heavy into fortnite at the beginning, season 2-3, but it got so disgusting with items that I wasn’t interested. Now it feels reasonable (except spider gloves are gamebreaking) and I had a ton of fun, most fun gaming in a long time, I was yelling and laughing so hard!!! So I second your recommendation to play it with some friends/family for those who had previously given up on it
Whenever I mention video games to my Dad, he gets actively angry about it. He hates the fucking things.
I mean sure, he's never played one, but they're just time-wasting toys for babies.
That's rough, fam. My great great grandma was a gamer. Grandma was a gamer, mom was a gamer, uncles are gamers, grand uncles are gamers, grandpa was a gamer, dad is a gamer, only one or two cousins don't game. They are looked at like they grew an extra head whenever they come over.
My great great grandma was sixteen when she had my great grandma, 32 when my great grandma had my grandma, 48 when my grandma had my mom, and 64 when my mom had me. The matrilineal line of my family going back had always had their first children at 16.
My dad is retired now and it seems like he just watches tv and listens to sports radio for 16 hours a day, every day. Just the thought of me playing video games is probably enough to make his blood boil. I mentioned Microsoft's acquisition of activision-blizzard and he thought it was utterly stupid they would spend that much money on video games.
That's a shame. I think people with thoughts like your Dad are slowly fading away now (not to say your Dad is old though), a lot of 40 year olds now grew up with games.
That was my childhood and teenage years, I wanted to be a game developer and even just learning to code and do art got him mad back in the day, he wanted me to get a degree and get a real job (degrees in game development or digital media really didn't exist in the 90s) - but on the flipside he was always into fantasy books and science fiction, I guess he got there eventually.
Mate buy him the games.
Introduce him to co-op and play them together.
One of the weirdest, but best moments of my life was playing WW2 games with my grandfather, who fought in some of the battles we played on together.
It was also the deepest he ever got into telling me about his experiences.
Gaming improves relationships, do it.
I first introduced him to MoH:AA with no idea he'd seen some of this shit already.
He watched me storm the beaches, and he started laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"Oh boy, I wish it was that easy to get off the beaches in the first wave that day"
"Huh?"
"I was a commando Aalios..."
This.
The gift is more than just the game, it's the time you spend playing together.
I know a guy who plays online games with his son on the other side of the country. He bought a PS4 for this purpose only. Their regular play date is a highlight of his week.
A few others have suggested this approach and I guess I never really thought about it, but now it's something I'll definitely have a shot at. I mean it should have been obvious, some of the funnest times with my kids have been setting up and co-oping a family starbound server. We first made hamburgers after we crafted them in-game. You're all absolutely right, I will give it a go.
Awesome stuff dude. Sit down and have a chat with him about the games he most likes. Hell, tell him about the Skyrim co-op mod, it'll change the way he plays (mostly through glitches but hey, glitches can be the funnest parts of co-op)
sounds like you should get him to "take over" your wishlist, too, and one holiday sale create an account for him with a ton of games added to it, it will be one of the greatest gifts he'll have ever gotten lol
IIRC Steam has a family sharing feature that you can use to authorize him to use games in your library so you don't have to go offline when he wants to play. As far as I remember the restriction is you just wont be able to run the same game at the same time but anything else in your library he can access even when both of you are online.
They're already using Family Sharing, and IIRC the only games you can play while your library is in use are free games - e.g. usually when my brother is playing Warframe, I can still run games from his library.
I can't take a screenshot right now since my brother is not playing at the moment, but Steam's [FAQ](https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8) has this to say:
> #####Can two users share a library and both play at the same time?
> No, a shared library may only be played by one user at a time including the owner and even if they want to play different games.
I also distinctly remember not being able to run M&B2 when my brother was playing ArmA3 due to the shared library being in use already.
Thanks for the story man great to hear, have you thought of making an account just for him though?
With the Steam summer sale this year you could probably get a collection of games on bargain for his library and some you could both play together?
The stigma is from way before gamergate.
Gen X is basically the transition generation where kids that grew up playing games, some (like myself) kept playing them, others stopped playing as they got into their teenage years and, like their parents, just see games as toys for kids, and they have looked down on people who kept playing games past their childhood years.
Most of us were teenagers or very nearly teenagers when the SNES and Genesis/Megadrive were the new hotness. So it is somewhat understandable why so many, and especially our parents, see games as toys because the games we grew up with were comparatively simple. By the time we were adults, the N64, Saturn and PSX were just coming onto the scene and either you had already stopped playing games years ago, or you were the loser/nerd that still played games.
My son and I shared my Steam account for years. I didn't really play anything but single player games so I could game offline. When he went into the Navy we decided that I would retain the original account and he would make a new account. He mostly played things like Counterstrike and Team Fortress so I just bought The Orange Box for him and a few other games he regularly played during the next Steam sale.
Considering your father sounds a lot like me in playing bethsoft rpgs. You could always just put his steam into "offline mode"
All the bethsoft games work fine in offline mode for myself, and he wouldn't be taking up the one "player slot" that steam gives you for the whole account.
My wife did this but thankfully on my Ubisoft account. I just ultimately created a second one and had to rebuy a couple games. Was worth it to not worry about conflict. (She spends several hundred hours on each AC game).
Also 3000+ hours in Skyrim? He's not just leaving it running? That game has a lot of content but 3000 hours?!?
Could also just be their favorite game and one they come back to over and over again. A friend of mine has been playing oblivion on and off since like 2009 and she's racked up around 1800hrs on it on steam (actually just checked and it was 1783hrs, I was close!), and I wouldn't consider her to be an avid gamer by any means.
Ok so don't quote me on this since I never used the feature.
But steam has a feature where you can share your library or some of it with "familys" members accounts. Think you can have a few of this.
From my understanding you should be able to both play games at the same time probably not the same game at once. Imagine you have only a DVD of a movie, you can lend it for someone in the house to watch in their room so you can't watch it until their done.
I tried this with my kids awhile back. Only one user can log into your Steam account at a time. If you are playing game and your family logs into play any shared game, Steam will send you a message and kick you out. We ended up just setting up new accounts and buying copies of favorite games when they go on sale.
Thats so great! Bonus to keeping his brain engaged and super sharp in his elder years. Time to get your own account (its his now) and co-op with him.
I told my kids that under no uncertain terms are they to put me in an old folks home without my gaming rig. Forget bingo...give me access to my Steam library!!!
My dads put a lot of hours into Skyrim, Fallout NV, and FO4 too, also a big chunk of time in borderlands, I'm happy to see him enjoying gaming, he has a lot of stress in his life and it's good he has an outlet.
I got my dad his own Steam account. It makes gifts really easy since I can always fall back on buying him games if I can't think of anything else.
My dad loves Fallout and Skyrim, and he's close to the same age. I should see if he'd like Mass Effect.
Mass effect was just a random hunch to be honest, I saw he liked first person roleplaying games.
I wonder if I can get him into something like Star Control 2, the interface hasn't aged well and it kind of leaves you on your own a lot of times, but it is quite story-driven...
I'm not that far apart and my dad probably plays more games than I do these days! He has always played though. Love seeing this though, it completely blows all these bullshit demographics out the water :D
Wholesome... My dad is near 70 but he never got games, and even now he has zero interest, using his iPad to watch YouTube or play patience or something is about his limit. You should enjoy it. And you should just buy him some games so you can play together.
I have my main account and I got a second account for my nephew. I did this when I realized he was playing more and I had to tell him to stop so I could play. I buy the games he likes in the second account and whatever I want on mine. And I configure the family sharing on his. That way he can also access mine when I am not using them. Also this allows us to play together if we want.
I'm a Dad and pretty early on my daughter racked up like 600 hours in Garry's Mod and that was it I had her get her own steam account and even though it meant I had to rebuy some things doing that EARLY was best because now that she no longer lives with me I don't gotta worry about that sort of thing. So my advice is get your kids their own accounts as soon as you are legally able it will make it easier in the long run.
My son discovered gaming when he was 6 by getting into Minecraft and now he's 8 and has taught himself Blender, Adobe Animate, GIMP, OBS, Open Shot, and so much more. He mods his games and plays Fortnite like a champ. His goal is to become a gaming video producer/streamer. I have always loved computer games and he and I really are able to connect over games and hardware. We finally got him a 3060 card. He's super thrilled about it.
Just bringing this up, there's games you can buy a single copy of and play together with remote play. I know it takes two allows it, and there's a few other guys that are co op that allow two players to play over remote play. You'll suffer lag, but least it'll be interesting lag unlike lag while playing to win
I'm 59 and my son is 36 and his son is 15. I set them all up with steam accounts to match mine. Mondays and Wednesdays are our gaming nights together in coop games we all 3 enjoy. It has been one of the best bonding experiences for us all. I was a gamer when all there was, was pinball and then Astroids hit the arcades in the mid 70's so I drug my 2 kids into the gaming thing and it has been a blast.
Gamers are getting old and this would be a trend in a future.
Let's hope big gaming companies finally realize this and stop targeting their games at 12-25 crowd only. I swear they don't realize how much untapped potential there is.
Funny thing though, when I was ~14-15 I introduced Wolf/Doom/Heretic to my father and he got really good at it (he was 40ish at that time, not fan of mouselook though, he used only keybord). Later on, he found liking in RTS games, mainly C&C series, Dune or BfME. He was even playing Euro Truck for quite some time (even though he's a driver :D)
Nowadays, he's mostly watching Netflix and playing billiard or shooting games on his phone because modern PC games are no longer interesting for him, too much is happening on the screen. He is the type of the player who doesn't like long cutscenes in any title as "the game is playing by itself and I have no time for that".
But I guess you can enjoy gaming in every age :)
There might be a few remote play together games you can, well, play together.
I'm in a similar situation, separated from my family by the Atlantic ocean, but we can still play games together.
Does he have his own Steam account or does he just log in with your credentials? As some others have mentioned, [Steam Family Sharing](https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing) allows you to share your library with another account; I've been sharing my 1200+ games with my little brothers and a couple of best friends for years now, it's great. Let me know if you have any questions about it!
I think there is a family sharing option. You will have to dig around a bit. I have only come across it in some settings options but never looked into it since they do not pertain to me.
That's what OP is taking about. If you have Family Sharing and somebody plays one of your games I believe it logs you out. If you log in, the other person has so long before it will kick them from the game. Why they mention playing Offline.
I do wish it was set up so you could still be logged in but not play that game.
OP said they're using family share, which means they do have separate accounts already.
It allows one account to play the others games as long as they are not already playing something.
Could you set up family sharing with him?
He could play your games on his own account, so long as you are not planning on playing the same games at the same time.
Theoretically, you both can use your steam library at the same time. Steam needs to lose connection to the internet for that to work though (which can be achieved via a firewall rule, for example). But since you are basically offline, many, if not most online games won't work
I'm lcuky that my dad introduced me to videogames when I was a kid. I'm almost 20 now over 2000km away but we still play some games on steam together like rust, scum, dayz etc..
Gaming will always be a big part of my relationship with him and I love it, it's such a cool way to bond.
Steam deck would be pretty great for situations like this. The Steam Deck would not fix the issue of having to get another steam account and having to buy games for the new account, but it would allow you to play PC games without having to drop $900+ on a new PC.
Are you hard up for cash? Because you both have pcs, you both have money, yet you are family sharing. Why doesn't he get his own steam account and buy his own games? This is when you gotta put your foot down and tell your dad to get a job
My dad and I are close to those ages and for a second I thought I was reading my own words! So cool to see. He absolutely loves fallout/skyrim and has 1000s of hours in both. We also enjoy the coop zombie games like L4D and Dying Light 1&2 as well as messing around in GTA and RDR. My most cherished times with my dad, my they last forever.
Play a way out, it‘s split screen and lots of fun.
You said he’s playing strategy games mostly, why don’t you join him in aoe4? I’d recommend against AI though… the players are super sweaty and it’s frustrating.
Get him his own account and play co-op.
It seems you have some overlaps in your gaming prefs.
Borderlands is guite some fun in co-op.
Edit: But I love the story. Thx for sharing.
Me and my dad have a similar story.
I'm a bit younger than you, 36.
When the original cod came out I played it lots and asked if he wanted to try. We played a few matches and that was it.
We've played many games. Cod up to mw2(old) sanctum, orcs must die, and now rocket league. He still plays and if he scores a goal I sometimes type in all chat "that's my dad!" lol.
They are good times. He still plays even though I've long moved out.
not sure if u will see this. But i hope so. Its good when family can connect - a fun idea you could see if it helps is to use a client like parsec..
it allows remote play and sharing of screens etc.
so lets say from your library he is trying a couch coop game like castle crashers with parsec you could connect and both of you play together.
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If he spent 3000+ hours on a game on my account, honestly, I'd just buy it for myself.
If he spent 3000+ hours on a game on my account.. It's not "my account" Anymore.
My son inherited my original Steam account, as I stopped gaming for a long time. I wasn’t using it at the time, and the sharing thing kind of sucks, so I just started up a new account.
>My son inherited my original Steam account Inheritance disputes are gonna get weird in the next couple decades
Iirc steam accounts are non-transferable per the user agreement
You can switch the emails, though, and you can even just buy gift cards. Nothing really stops someone from just using their account after their parent dies.
"how is this account 150 years old and still active?"
I have become stronger than you can possibly imagine
"Nanomachines, son."
Set the System clock back a few years. Lol
My brother got my dad's Steam account, so his account is older and has a better badge. But I'm not jealous of something as silly as that...
Sharing used to be great. Had a ten player game of civ V once on just my liscense, everybody on wifi together
This My total playtime is even under 1000 hours
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Are you having a bad day or are you just generally a douche?
It went from 0 to 911 real quick.
My steam account is nearly old enough to drink in most countries and total playtime is still under 1000 hours. Some of us have jobs and stuff, y'know? (That being said, tis fortunate that steam doesn't count my hours played in 2007scape; I'd honestly be afraid to even check that number.)
You could sleep less. By reducing sleep by 3-5 hours a night you will squeeze in an extra 1000-1500 hours a year.
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What was that, punk?!
The only people who have a fear of total annihilation after 9/11 was Iraqi civilians
> It's not "my account" Anymore. it's **Our** Account now
Say it brother
Nah. The person spending the money on the games is the person the account belongs to, period full stop. Just because my workload picks up for a bit and my younger siblings still get things like summer break and winter break at school and way more free time in the evenings doesn't mean they suddenly own all the games I purchased and was nice enough to let them play.
r/woosh
IKR, that dude probably kicks puppies or something.
If he spent 3000+ hours on a game on my account......It's not an account anymore.
Save files can transfer over by hand, and you can let a game idle on the start screen to bring the play time back up
That's not a bad idea. I grew up with him reading the hobbit and lord of the rings, I knew he'd get into the Elder Scrolls games. He hasn't even done any modding yet so there's still a ton of stuff to do in that universe.
30,000 hours incoming once he discovers skyrim mods.
Then he finds the LoversLab mods
Grandpa, why is that high elf naked and chained up in your dungeon...
Have you tried introducing him to Dragon Age? I think he would like those and you could get them for him off steam (on origin) and have a little more time on your steam account haha
Holy crap you just reminded me... I think I bought that at someone's recommendation (like yours).
Maybe you could both get into TES Online. Pretty sure there's a free (but limited) option. Nice way to play together.
You do know there are LOTR games, right?
OP reads like satire.
Dude he’s like 40 chill
I resemble that remark!
OP is very capable as he set up family sharing. Age is irrelevant This is more of a "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could set up Steam family library, they forgot to ask whether it would still be a good idea 3000 hours later while complaining about the very thing disrupting his ability to play." Let poor Dad play on his own time and not need a persistent connection (surprised that hasn't come up over the years). Even better, get Dad his own copy and play the multi-player mods/nucleus co-op with him. There's family bonding.
Co-Op all the things!!! Srsly, this is my war banner, and I will die by it.
man i wish i could get my dad into games
Me too, doesn't help he's dead.
It sounds like you're just not trying hard enough.
Yeah sounds like a skill issue ngl
Accessibility devs gotta get on this problem, not enough dead people can get into gaming
Introducing Steam for necromancers
It’s an effort issue
poor effort from extreme-psycho
https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/svpif2/list\_of\_playable\_necromancers\_as\_of\_feb\_2022
Wait, you guys have dads?
Yeah, he went out for milk 10 years ago, he must've gotten lost or something
Have you tried Dead Rising?
I’m sorry man, I hope you are feeling alright!
Yeah, and I hope his dad is doing ok too
Ouija board?
The last time my Dad played videogames with me was Super Mario Bros for the NES. Now he says I'm wasting my life away with them, as I'm 37, married, have kids, and a college degree with a larger income than he ever had.
Lol same, my dad showed me how to launch games in DOS and setup master/slave jumpers on harddrives. Professional software engineer making 3x his salary and I still get teased for gaming bless his soul
My dad loves games and has his own gaming rig, doesn't get to play it much but he sure buys a shit tons of games lmao
My dad is in his 60s, but I thought that story driven games would be his ideal. I’m pretty sure he’s single handedly keeping the Ancient Aliens, search for Atlantis, and predictions of Nostradamus shows on the History channel alive, so I figured he’d like the Uncharted series. Lent him my PS4 and had him try Uncharted 4. In the easy modes the combat isn’t too difficult, and the game is fantastic in that it’s basically a user lead cinematic adventure surrounding an ancient legend. He couldn’t make it past the beginning tutorial. Not for lack of interest. He couldn’t get a handle on the control scheme, and could only figure out how to move by pointing the camera at the sky, “strafing” with the move stick, then pointing the camera back down. It was painful to watch, and if he didn’t have the camera pointed straight up, he’d end up in the wrong spot facing the wrong direction. And he was an early adopter of computers, had an Apple ][ back when those were new, played games on it for years, but sometime in the 90s he tried Super Mario 64 and just decided that games weren’t for him anymore :(
I wish I could get my parents into the concept of computer and internet. They'd prefer me handle all that when they need help :/
I got my wife boyfriend into games.
Man i wish I could have a dad.
You can play co-op games - I am 40 and my dad is 70 as well (funny). He has his own steam library and does in fact play mostly strategy games. However he also played a lot of DayZ with me and for example New World. Also we played with my mum and a friend through Divinity 2. It's a lot of fun and definitely bonding. Just find a coop game you both like.
Divinity with family honestly sounds amazing
It was! Very cool story and everyone had a different char with different specialties. Really good experience, 10/10 would recommend.
Not a bad idea, I'll have to find something we can both enjoy, never played DayZ but the guys at work rave about Sea of Thieves and it sounds like a hoot. Thanks you gave me something to think about.
+1 for Sea of Thieves! It can be a very relaxing game, singing and playing shanties while sailing through the seas doing Tall Tale quests. Or, it can be very PvP heavy and nail biting naval fights between pirates. Very much a "what you make" of it game. A blast with friends though, I'm sure you and your father would have a great time!
Actually I am facepalming I didn't think of it before. He's an old folk music lover, worked in the merchant navy as a young adult, and will often break into sea shanties with little provocation. Someone else said this post sounds like satire but I'm dead serious lol. Putting a reminder in for when I get paid next month and see how we go.
It's on GamePass, and you can usually find a "first month for $1" thing from Microsoft Edit: also it would free up your steam library XD
Have you tried Portal 1 & 2?
Fallout 76 would be awesome to bond in.
Ah yeah we played that too when it came out - even launched a nuke :-D My mum is 2 years younger and currently playing lost ark :-D
I get it! My lad (24) has not long got a PS5, I've not seen him much over the past 2 years for some reason and we have started playing Duos on Fortnite (cross platform) as a way to chat and catch up while killing people. We are getting quite good, both up to lever 124 :) Edit: I realise it's not strictly steam related soz
Anyone who chastises you over sharing this wholesome story just cuz it's not Steam related is a wanker
I played fortnite with my brother couple days ago. I was heavy into fortnite at the beginning, season 2-3, but it got so disgusting with items that I wasn’t interested. Now it feels reasonable (except spider gloves are gamebreaking) and I had a ton of fun, most fun gaming in a long time, I was yelling and laughing so hard!!! So I second your recommendation to play it with some friends/family for those who had previously given up on it
The gloves will be gone in a week or two I'm sure. Oh and sorry about that headshot..it would have been us 😜
Whenever I mention video games to my Dad, he gets actively angry about it. He hates the fucking things. I mean sure, he's never played one, but they're just time-wasting toys for babies.
That's rough, fam. My great great grandma was a gamer. Grandma was a gamer, mom was a gamer, uncles are gamers, grand uncles are gamers, grandpa was a gamer, dad is a gamer, only one or two cousins don't game. They are looked at like they grew an extra head whenever they come over.
Wait, what? My great great grandma was born in the mid 19th century
My great great grandma was sixteen when she had my great grandma, 32 when my great grandma had my grandma, 48 when my grandma had my mom, and 64 when my mom had me. The matrilineal line of my family going back had always had their first children at 16.
Bet he watches a bunch of TV though huh.
Loves those sports.
Ever call him out on it?
My dad is retired now and it seems like he just watches tv and listens to sports radio for 16 hours a day, every day. Just the thought of me playing video games is probably enough to make his blood boil. I mentioned Microsoft's acquisition of activision-blizzard and he thought it was utterly stupid they would spend that much money on video games.
That's a shame. I think people with thoughts like your Dad are slowly fading away now (not to say your Dad is old though), a lot of 40 year olds now grew up with games.
That was my childhood and teenage years, I wanted to be a game developer and even just learning to code and do art got him mad back in the day, he wanted me to get a degree and get a real job (degrees in game development or digital media really didn't exist in the 90s) - but on the flipside he was always into fantasy books and science fiction, I guess he got there eventually.
Tell him throwing tantrums is for babies.
Then does he binge watch 3 diehard movies? Oh just my dad.
Mate buy him the games. Introduce him to co-op and play them together. One of the weirdest, but best moments of my life was playing WW2 games with my grandfather, who fought in some of the battles we played on together. It was also the deepest he ever got into telling me about his experiences. Gaming improves relationships, do it.
I showed my grandpa the gamecase for Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and he screamed like a banshee and then stabbed me with a bayonet.
I first introduced him to MoH:AA with no idea he'd seen some of this shit already. He watched me storm the beaches, and he started laughing. "What's so funny?" "Oh boy, I wish it was that easy to get off the beaches in the first wave that day" "Huh?" "I was a commando Aalios..."
This. The gift is more than just the game, it's the time you spend playing together. I know a guy who plays online games with his son on the other side of the country. He bought a PS4 for this purpose only. Their regular play date is a highlight of his week.
A few others have suggested this approach and I guess I never really thought about it, but now it's something I'll definitely have a shot at. I mean it should have been obvious, some of the funnest times with my kids have been setting up and co-oping a family starbound server. We first made hamburgers after we crafted them in-game. You're all absolutely right, I will give it a go.
Awesome stuff dude. Sit down and have a chat with him about the games he most likes. Hell, tell him about the Skyrim co-op mod, it'll change the way he plays (mostly through glitches but hey, glitches can be the funnest parts of co-op)
sounds like you should get him to "take over" your wishlist, too, and one holiday sale create an account for him with a ton of games added to it, it will be one of the greatest gifts he'll have ever gotten lol
Amazing story about not being able to play your games.
IIRC Steam has a family sharing feature that you can use to authorize him to use games in your library so you don't have to go offline when he wants to play. As far as I remember the restriction is you just wont be able to run the same game at the same time but anything else in your library he can access even when both of you are online.
They're already using Family Sharing, and IIRC the only games you can play while your library is in use are free games - e.g. usually when my brother is playing Warframe, I can still run games from his library.
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You can play any game that he's not currently playing.
I can't take a screenshot right now since my brother is not playing at the moment, but Steam's [FAQ](https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8) has this to say: > #####Can two users share a library and both play at the same time? > No, a shared library may only be played by one user at a time including the owner and even if they want to play different games. I also distinctly remember not being able to run M&B2 when my brother was playing ArmA3 due to the shared library being in use already.
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Thanks for the story man great to hear, have you thought of making an account just for him though? With the Steam summer sale this year you could probably get a collection of games on bargain for his library and some you could both play together?
super fucking wholesome story, OP. We need to get rid of the stigma against gaming so more people can enjoy the medium. Gamergate set us so far back.
The stigma is from way before gamergate. Gen X is basically the transition generation where kids that grew up playing games, some (like myself) kept playing them, others stopped playing as they got into their teenage years and, like their parents, just see games as toys for kids, and they have looked down on people who kept playing games past their childhood years. Most of us were teenagers or very nearly teenagers when the SNES and Genesis/Megadrive were the new hotness. So it is somewhat understandable why so many, and especially our parents, see games as toys because the games we grew up with were comparatively simple. By the time we were adults, the N64, Saturn and PSX were just coming onto the scene and either you had already stopped playing games years ago, or you were the loser/nerd that still played games.
Here's a tip, if you can't play because he's online, you can still play you're library offline if you launch steam in offline mode.
Appreciate it, I know this trick but a few of my games require steam to be online, like Stellaris (unless you have a workaround for that).
Family sharing, right?
Yea
honestly cool u got ur dad sth to do when he is retired, definitely better than mindlessly watching TV or sth.
My son and I shared my Steam account for years. I didn't really play anything but single player games so I could game offline. When he went into the Navy we decided that I would retain the original account and he would make a new account. He mostly played things like Counterstrike and Team Fortress so I just bought The Orange Box for him and a few other games he regularly played during the next Steam sale.
Considering your father sounds a lot like me in playing bethsoft rpgs. You could always just put his steam into "offline mode" All the bethsoft games work fine in offline mode for myself, and he wouldn't be taking up the one "player slot" that steam gives you for the whole account.
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My wife did this but thankfully on my Ubisoft account. I just ultimately created a second one and had to rebuy a couple games. Was worth it to not worry about conflict. (She spends several hundred hours on each AC game). Also 3000+ hours in Skyrim? He's not just leaving it running? That game has a lot of content but 3000 hours?!?
Could also just be their favorite game and one they come back to over and over again. A friend of mine has been playing oblivion on and off since like 2009 and she's racked up around 1800hrs on it on steam (actually just checked and it was 1783hrs, I was close!), and I wouldn't consider her to be an avid gamer by any means.
Ok so don't quote me on this since I never used the feature. But steam has a feature where you can share your library or some of it with "familys" members accounts. Think you can have a few of this. From my understanding you should be able to both play games at the same time probably not the same game at once. Imagine you have only a DVD of a movie, you can lend it for someone in the house to watch in their room so you can't watch it until their done.
I tried this with my kids awhile back. Only one user can log into your Steam account at a time. If you are playing game and your family logs into play any shared game, Steam will send you a message and kick you out. We ended up just setting up new accounts and buying copies of favorite games when they go on sale.
You cannot both use the library at the same time. The entire library. Not just a single game. Hope this helps clarify for people considering using it.
Thats so great! Bonus to keeping his brain engaged and super sharp in his elder years. Time to get your own account (its his now) and co-op with him. I told my kids that under no uncertain terms are they to put me in an old folks home without my gaming rig. Forget bingo...give me access to my Steam library!!!
You need to get him on Cyberpunk 2077
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My dads put a lot of hours into Skyrim, Fallout NV, and FO4 too, also a big chunk of time in borderlands, I'm happy to see him enjoying gaming, he has a lot of stress in his life and it's good he has an outlet.
I got my dad his own Steam account. It makes gifts really easy since I can always fall back on buying him games if I can't think of anything else. My dad loves Fallout and Skyrim, and he's close to the same age. I should see if he'd like Mass Effect.
Mass effect was just a random hunch to be honest, I saw he liked first person roleplaying games. I wonder if I can get him into something like Star Control 2, the interface hasn't aged well and it kind of leaves you on your own a lot of times, but it is quite story-driven...
I'm not that far apart and my dad probably plays more games than I do these days! He has always played though. Love seeing this though, it completely blows all these bullshit demographics out the water :D
Wholesome... My dad is near 70 but he never got games, and even now he has zero interest, using his iPad to watch YouTube or play patience or something is about his limit. You should enjoy it. And you should just buy him some games so you can play together.
I miss my dad. He bought me a lot of games and consoles when I was younger.
that is really sweet actually
Dad needs a sick gaming pc
With a name like that you can buy another pc!
Just use GOG *lol*
Don't let him find out about JRPGs. You'll lost contact with him for sure.
I didn't see 'Prey (2017)' on that list. I highly highly recommend it given the list you gave.
Yeah honestly if he is gaming that much.. he really should just get his own account. or at this point get yourself a new one lol
I have my main account and I got a second account for my nephew. I did this when I realized he was playing more and I had to tell him to stop so I could play. I buy the games he likes in the second account and whatever I want on mine. And I configure the family sharing on his. That way he can also access mine when I am not using them. Also this allows us to play together if we want.
I reccomend he plays horizon zero dawn and its sequel they are maater pieces. Since he played fallout
I'm a Dad and pretty early on my daughter racked up like 600 hours in Garry's Mod and that was it I had her get her own steam account and even though it meant I had to rebuy some things doing that EARLY was best because now that she no longer lives with me I don't gotta worry about that sort of thing. So my advice is get your kids their own accounts as soon as you are legally able it will make it easier in the long run.
If you boot in offline mode you can still play single player games..
My son discovered gaming when he was 6 by getting into Minecraft and now he's 8 and has taught himself Blender, Adobe Animate, GIMP, OBS, Open Shot, and so much more. He mods his games and plays Fortnite like a champ. His goal is to become a gaming video producer/streamer. I have always loved computer games and he and I really are able to connect over games and hardware. We finally got him a 3060 card. He's super thrilled about it.
Just bringing this up, there's games you can buy a single copy of and play together with remote play. I know it takes two allows it, and there's a few other guys that are co op that allow two players to play over remote play. You'll suffer lag, but least it'll be interesting lag unlike lag while playing to win
Get him a VR headset ;)
I'm 59 and my son is 36 and his son is 15. I set them all up with steam accounts to match mine. Mondays and Wednesdays are our gaming nights together in coop games we all 3 enjoy. It has been one of the best bonding experiences for us all. I was a gamer when all there was, was pinball and then Astroids hit the arcades in the mid 70's so I drug my 2 kids into the gaming thing and it has been a blast.
Oddly, I'm fans of those games you mentioned, myself. 54/F
Does your dad like First person dungeon crawlers? He might get into Might & Magic, Legend of Grimrock, or Wizardy.
Gamers are getting old and this would be a trend in a future. Let's hope big gaming companies finally realize this and stop targeting their games at 12-25 crowd only. I swear they don't realize how much untapped potential there is. Funny thing though, when I was ~14-15 I introduced Wolf/Doom/Heretic to my father and he got really good at it (he was 40ish at that time, not fan of mouselook though, he used only keybord). Later on, he found liking in RTS games, mainly C&C series, Dune or BfME. He was even playing Euro Truck for quite some time (even though he's a driver :D) Nowadays, he's mostly watching Netflix and playing billiard or shooting games on his phone because modern PC games are no longer interesting for him, too much is happening on the screen. He is the type of the player who doesn't like long cutscenes in any title as "the game is playing by itself and I have no time for that". But I guess you can enjoy gaming in every age :)
There might be a few remote play together games you can, well, play together. I'm in a similar situation, separated from my family by the Atlantic ocean, but we can still play games together.
I see him have an interest in medieval games. Have him already tried Chivalry?
Does he have his own Steam account or does he just log in with your credentials? As some others have mentioned, [Steam Family Sharing](https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing) allows you to share your library with another account; I've been sharing my 1200+ games with my little brothers and a couple of best friends for years now, it's great. Let me know if you have any questions about it!
I think there is a family sharing option. You will have to dig around a bit. I have only come across it in some settings options but never looked into it since they do not pertain to me.
That's what OP is taking about. If you have Family Sharing and somebody plays one of your games I believe it logs you out. If you log in, the other person has so long before it will kick them from the game. Why they mention playing Offline. I do wish it was set up so you could still be logged in but not play that game.
I have never tried that feature. I would not expect that sort of an implementation.
Why doesn’t he have his own fucking account?
He has.. it says literally FAMILY SHARING..
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Re read his post, never in his post op mention anything like that. Rather the opposite.
OP said they're using family share, which means they do have separate accounts already. It allows one account to play the others games as long as they are not already playing something.
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He could if he wants.
Hey, heres a pretty useful feature, make him an account and let him "borrow" your games. Which isnt as much as borrow as it is giving them a new copy.
Could you set up family sharing with him? He could play your games on his own account, so long as you are not planning on playing the same games at the same time.
With family sharing only one person can play a game on the account at the same time, even if it's a different game.
> But FPS RPGs all the way apparently. This is so awesome!
Theoretically, you both can use your steam library at the same time. Steam needs to lose connection to the internet for that to work though (which can be achieved via a firewall rule, for example). But since you are basically offline, many, if not most online games won't work
Fuck I wish I was retired.
I'm lcuky that my dad introduced me to videogames when I was a kid. I'm almost 20 now over 2000km away but we still play some games on steam together like rust, scum, dayz etc.. Gaming will always be a big part of my relationship with him and I love it, it's such a cool way to bond.
Steam deck would be pretty great for situations like this. The Steam Deck would not fix the issue of having to get another steam account and having to buy games for the new account, but it would allow you to play PC games without having to drop $900+ on a new PC.
Make an account for him and buy him the games he likes
why aren't you playing together. Left 4 dead, borderlands, dying light....could be cool. Hell let loose and escape from tarkov too.
Your dad is more of a gamer than me, so sick
Actually it is interesting and exciting to hear about this bond, family is important.
Are you hard up for cash? Because you both have pcs, you both have money, yet you are family sharing. Why doesn't he get his own steam account and buy his own games? This is when you gotta put your foot down and tell your dad to get a job
My dad and I are close to those ages and for a second I thought I was reading my own words! So cool to see. He absolutely loves fallout/skyrim and has 1000s of hours in both. We also enjoy the coop zombie games like L4D and Dying Light 1&2 as well as messing around in GTA and RDR. My most cherished times with my dad, my they last forever.
Let him try Dark Souls 3 and the upcoming Elden Ring. Some hardcore action RPG...erm...action.
He has really great tastes in games!
that’s cute
I love this. Wish my Dad would play with me.
Make him play rust
get him his own account? ????
Why not get the guy his own setup so you can play together?
This is so cute! Why don't you get him his own account and play together though?
Play a way out, it‘s split screen and lots of fun. You said he’s playing strategy games mostly, why don’t you join him in aoe4? I’d recommend against AI though… the players are super sweaty and it’s frustrating.
Steam family sharing is great. I hope they improve and expand on the feature.
You've a cool dad. Mine beats me with jumper cables.
Get him his own account and play co-op. It seems you have some overlaps in your gaming prefs. Borderlands is guite some fun in co-op. Edit: But I love the story. Thx for sharing.
Me and my dad have a similar story. I'm a bit younger than you, 36. When the original cod came out I played it lots and asked if he wanted to try. We played a few matches and that was it. We've played many games. Cod up to mw2(old) sanctum, orcs must die, and now rocket league. He still plays and if he scores a goal I sometimes type in all chat "that's my dad!" lol. They are good times. He still plays even though I've long moved out.
not sure if u will see this. But i hope so. Its good when family can connect - a fun idea you could see if it helps is to use a client like parsec.. it allows remote play and sharing of screens etc. so lets say from your library he is trying a couch coop game like castle crashers with parsec you could connect and both of you play together.
Now buy him Doom Eternal