As a decades long strategy gamer, I very much hoped to impart said love on my children. While my adult daughter has only the slimmest interest in gaming of any sort, my 19 year old son is a hard core shooter/rpg fan (and very adept at it). While I've had some success in getting him interested in strategy games (most especially the Heroes of Might and Magic series) he has only intermittently played Civ and generally tolerated my enthusiasm. However, I'm enjoying BNW so much that I bought Civ 5 with all the expansions for him during the last Steam sale. I hoped he would play it, but I made it clear there was no pressure to play.
Last night he decided to start a game as Korea, after watching me play my current game. He was especially interested in going for a science victory (he is an engineering student at college). I went to bed at 10 last night with him engrossed in his game and about 30 turns in. Well, I went down to the family room at 6:15 this morning to pick up my lap top and found him wide awake still absolutely engrossed in his game (he was up to turn 450 playing at epic speed on a standard continents map).
I was simultaneously thrilled and horrified....Oh no, what did I do, did I create a monster? This game is truly a legal additive substance!
Last night he decided to start a game as Korea, after watching me play my current game. He was especially interested in going for a science victory (he is an engineering student at college). I went to bed at 10 last night with him engrossed in his game and about 30 turns in. Well, I went down to the family room at 6:15 this morning to pick up my lap top and found him wide awake still absolutely engrossed in his game (he was up to turn 450 playing at epic speed on a standard continents map).
I was simultaneously thrilled and horrified....Oh no, what did I do, did I create a monster? This game is truly a legal additive substance!
