Have you ever tried to...
 

... explain Silent hunter 3 to a 9 year old girl?

I had the pleasure of doing that today when my niece were with me (home from school due to illness).

And it was actually quite rewarding in many ways, she made me think in a way I haven't since I started playing.

I explained everything from the torpedo to the sonar and she listened and after a few hours she sat with me making decisions on what we should do. For example at one point I asked her if she wanted to attack a lone destroyer off the west coast of Ireland. She then said that I should use the electric torpedo since the weather was clear.

I fired an electric torpedo against it and it went down. Afterwards we did a surface attack on a lone merchant, after that she said: "dive so the planes don't come" :arrgh!:

Have to get her to play it full time when she gets a little older :D

I had my little girl (8 years) old watch me last night, while I was being attacked by 2 DD and she asked me why I dont surface and take out those 2 DD.

I told her nicely that those pesky DD are much more powerful on the surface then my little U-Boat. Then she watched me for a little while and got bored and went upstairs.

My 9 year old just rolls her eyes and says "Daddy is playing submarines again! He's always playing submarines!"

Har!!! Great thread. I've often thought of the possibilty of playing SH3 with my child (conceived, but only in my mind:) It took me 26 years to get into subs. But then,..I had no one to guide me.

Hey TARJAk , my 15 & 17 year old daughters give me the eye roll too , and so does my wife . Usually if I'm still play'n past 3am

The famous wife eye roll, usually followed by the 'you're not playing that stupid game again, are you?', the 'you spend more time on that stupid game than with me' and the 'I'm going to bed, see you in the morning'.
Explaining to a nine year old? I'll take that over explaining to a twenty-something year old every time!

Wife doesn't bother me at all. I could be out drinking with the guys......:yep:

That's what a friend of mine said when his wife complained that, like their father, they had taken up miniatures wargaming. He replied "At least it keeps them off the streets."

I once tried to explain Rome: Total War to my friend that only plays Counter-Strike. He just couldnt get the point of it. I was close to choking him to death at that point. :rotfl:

Don't worry, I know the feeling hehe.

Great series btw, the Total War ones :up: I tried to explain the Close Combat series, one of my previous passions, to a Dungeons and Dragons/fantasy-fanatic once.

No +6 defence card when you cross this hedgerow my friend :rotfl:

Great story M00nstalker! You should look for a thread where a young girl, or someone's daughter, drew a drawing when she saw SH3! Can't remember who it was...

My son (1 yr old) can be anywhere in the house, and when he hears a torp detonate, both arms fly up in the air and he yells "yayyyy" like the crew.:rotfl:

Close Combat - now that brings back memories... I even found someone who had modded the Okinawa campaign. He must have busted his b**** to get that little puppy together.

That is priceless!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Now teach him to sing along to "It's a long way to Tippararry"!:up:

Ya my daughter is almost 5 and she knows the theme music to GWX 2.0. She come to see me sink the bad men ships.;) So I tell her all about the subs and stuff. She loves the graphics and music because I put all them oldies for ambiance. We both love it and my wife can't stand it.:up: Which make me more happy!:rotfl:

My 15-year old nephew was briefly intrigued by SH3 when he once watched me playing.

He even started up a career on my computer.

That lasted for all of five minutes before he realized it wasn't an FPS with massive firepower or WoW. :roll:

The media overload in today's culture has largely have taught kids to have the attention span of a gnat on "crack". :nope:

It would have been nice to have a little Graf Paper Jr. or Grafina Paper to teach and share all the experiences I've had over the years. :cry: