Do you game with your kids?

Okay, I apologize in advance that only a percentage of you will be able to relate to this. When I game my 5 year old and 2 year old like to sit in my lap and "participate." It has led to some very interesting moments. My current favorite is my 5 year old asking me to jump off the tower (Lion's Arch lighthouse) for the sole reason of waiting for me to fly off so she can hit the spacebar and watch me plummet into the water. I then swim over to the beach nearby where she laughs while I make my character dance on the fire.

Do any of you have moments like this that you want to share? I thought this might spark some interesting sharing :)

Although, I've gamed with all my children at some time in the past, sadly none of them show enough interest in GW2 (or, in the past, in GW) to play this game with me. No funny stories, as some of my children are probably older than many of the posters here, if not older than their parents. Lol.

My older son (9 years-old) loves watching me do jumping puzzles. His favorites are the Wintersday and Clocktower JPs. He doesn't do this anymore, but he used to get SO into watching me do them that he'd hop/jump anytime my character did. It could get distracting, but it was also adorable. He also cheers along with the gingerbread men at the end of the Wintersday JP.

I don't have any kids but I've got some great memories of playing games with my parents. Especially a point and click puzzle game called Legend of Kyrandia which my whole family played together. It worked well because we all had our own strengths - mum made maps of the levels, dad was the methodical one, my brother and sister had all kinds of crazy "lateral thinking" ideas which sometimes worked and I collected and tried using all the items.

Sadly my parents never got into big, long RPGs so they don't play GW2.

My mom did join a D&D game session with me back in the 80's when I was in college. She played a cleric of Coyote and she got us out of a tough situation by intimidating an enemy via coyote yipping to call her god on the baddie if he didn't stand down. Yep, sitting there at the table, yowling :) She didn't get into lengthier RP with me, alas, not having the time. She envied me since when -she- was in college, long-lasting Monopoly games were about all there was in that vein. But as her SF library is what got me into F&SF and from there to D&D and tabletop and LARP and then MMOs, I'm not complaining.

If I had kids I would of course be having them play with me ... assuming I had time to play games. Seems like all my friends who spawn young then essentially disappear from my MMOs for a few years. I do have one guildie who has four toddlers using up her time and still manages GW2, ESO, lengthy RP, and tabletop gaming, but she's super mom or something. Another guildie's ferret has been contributing interesting strings of letters to Discord chat.

Last Wintersday there was an amazing video of a 4 year old girl acing the festival JP. If I had a child, I'd want me one like that, heh.

I don't have kids but I've got a little brother who I look after. He got into the game after seeing me play it. He likes playing as the Sylvari and Ranger is his favourite class because of the pet.

He loves to embarrass me in the guild we're in. He makes up stuff all the time and I can't leave myself logged in otherwise he types in chat from my character.

In an MMO we used to play before this we wiped on the first group of mobs and I jokingly made a comment about the healer. Turns out the healer was me and I forgot... He loves to tell that one.

I game with my parents(they dont go to the forums, so ill post for them.)

@Donari.5237 said:Last Wintersday there was an amazing video of a 4 year old girl acing the festival JP. If I had a child, I'd want me one like that, heh.

Part of me really wants to see that video. The other part doesn't want to admit that a 4 year old is better than me at this game.

@Donari.5237 said:Last Wintersday there was an amazing video of a 4 year old girl acing the festival JP. If I had a child, I'd want me one like that, heh.

That video was amazing. I showed it to my kids, and they thought she was the coolest person ever.

My at that time 6 year old son watched me a little playing during Season 2 of the LS in the silverwastes. And at one sunday morning when I was waking up he runs over me in our bed and shouts "I am a Mordrem Thrasher" and knocks me down. That hurt. B)

My husband and I play with our son and grandson. We've been playing with our grandson since he was 5 and now he is 18. If you don't mind a little grandma bragging...he just made platinum rank in pvp tonight. :)

@Reinthir.1349 said:

@Donari.5237 said:Last Wintersday there was an amazing video of a 4 year old girl acing the festival JP. If I had a child, I'd want me one like that, heh.

Watch or not as you see fit then:

I don't play GW2 with my kids -- only the wife -- but we'll play other games together; Mario Party, Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, Super Mario 3D World, Skylanders, Mario Maker, Donkey Kong, Breath of the Wild, and so on. Mostly Wii U games because they're great for families of four. :)

I do but kid friendly games only and not online because they are both under the age of 10 years old. Now when there older that is a different story, I will be telling them all about the cool games like Guild War 2 :)

My 7 year old placed in plat division season6.I have never been higher than gold3

My kids are not interested in GW2. I think they see it as 'mum's game' and not anything they would play (sorry Anet) but when they were younger, I used to watch them play their video games and offer advice. I was never much good at them myself but I 'knew' the best way to do it.

My grand-daughter played GW2 for a while a few years ago. I remember feeling proud, and a little envious of her fearlessness and dexterity, when she bobbed her way up Morgan's Spiral on a broomstick.

Do pets count? My feline companion loves to sit either in my lap or on the arm of my chair and chase the mobs and flashy weapons on the screen while I play, and occasionally enjoys pressing the buttons which give audible results. :)

Both of my kids have GW2 accounts. My daughter played at launch, and when my son got a little older I got him his own account. He still plays. She pretty much only logs in at Halloween. My favourite moment was playing Living Story Season 1 with my daughter. We were lucky enough to be able to play the Southsun Karka Queen event, without either of us getting disconnected. We also played the Marionette event together.

@Bobby Stein.3612 said:Yup. GW2 as well as console games (after homework and reading, of course).

Did the team ever take inspiration from their kids in development of the game? They have great imaginations, and also great ideas when it comes to story and creativity. Your response got me very curious to know if you did.

I don't have kids #sadstory #sorrybro #hashtag #whut? The hidden truth is I'm not old enough to have kids :O

I would play with my daughter now she's but older but we don't have the space currently to set up another pc. She has her own account already; all the characters are named from Frozen.

@Donari.5237 said:

@Reinthir.1349 said:

@Donari.5237 said:Last Wintersday there was an amazing video of a 4 year old girl acing the festival JP. If I had a child, I'd want me one like that, heh.

Omg, that was so smooth. No matter it was a four yo doing it but there wasn't any lagging or stuttering lol. So many dreams...

@Donari.5237 said:

@Reinthir.1349 said:

@Donari.5237 said:Last Wintersday there was an amazing video of a 4 year old girl acing the festival JP. If I had a child, I'd want me one like that, heh.

This 4 year old is plays so much better then me in JP. Wish I have someone to help me clear all my JPs :expressionless:

My kids are sometimes allowed to watch, which can lead to some funny reactions.

"Weeeee" when gliding is still funny.