Showing posts with label Online Gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online Gaming. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Father's Choice : Dungeons & Dragons Online







So your teen or preteen wants to play a online game but you don't know whats safe or even has content ok for kids and most teens who have tried Free Realms  do think it's lame. Well do I have the game for you and it's free too.
Dungeons and Dragons Online (commonly abbreviated DDO  ) is an MMORPG , that is now free to play , based on the Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Edition roleplaying game. Developed by Turbine, DDO allows players to adventure in the Eberron Campaign Setting, a supplemental rulebook to the standard Dungeons and Dragons game. Players choose from a variety of races and classes, eventually determining a selection that seems most appropriate for their play styles.


As an MMOG, Dungeons and Dragons Online actually steps outside of the box in many ways, taking some of the common mechanics of MMOGs and supplementing them with rules taken from the D&D roleplaying game. Instead of turn-based action, DDO features real-time combat . Instead of being a "sit behind your computer and hit a button every now and then", Turbine wanted DDO to really stand out as a game that brings players together and emulates the true nature of D&D.

DDO has a ESRB of T for Blood , Violence , and Alcohol Reference

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Online Gaming

Online Rating Notice

Online-enabled games carry the notice "Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB.

" This notice warns those who intend to play the game online about possible exposure to

chat (text, audio, video) or other types of user-generated content (e.g., maps, skins)

that have not been considered in the ESRB rating assignment.


Most gamers have seen this over and over after some time you start to forget it's even their .

Well what you need to know is that your kids may have contact with a person you may not even

know about and thats not good.


All the major consoles , The Wii , the Xbox 360, and the PS3 all have bilt in parent controls

if you have one step 1 is using them.


Xbox Live Gold

Giving a kid a xbox 360 with a gold account ( so that he or she can play online ) is the worst thing you can do for your child . Yet 90% of parents just buy the 1 year xbox live card and give it to the child in part because that don't understand what that are doing !

If you do this you give your child a all access pass to things like chat , web cams ,and voice chat .

Yes you do need a gold account to play online but a silver account will still let your child use most of the cool stuff on xbox plus it's free.