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Forums - Nintendo - Elders (now Teens!) React to Mario Kart 8

 

What did you think of their reactions?

Great - As expected 23 44.23%
 
Great - And I was surprised 8 15.38%
 
Okay - As expected 5 9.62%
 
Okay - And I was surprised 6 11.54%
 
Terrible - As expected 7 13.46%
 
Terrible - And I was surprised 3 5.77%
 
Total:52
TheGoldenBoy on 04 March 2015

That was as bad as I expected.



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PixelPerfect on 04 March 2015

As cringe worthy as expected.



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Soundwave on 04 March 2015

This kinda goes to show the whole "they like Wii Sports Bowling! Eventually they'll learn to play other games too!".

Nope.

Most seniors can't even play a simple game of Mario Kart and if they can, it's so mind wracking/stressful to them that they don't really enjoy it. Doesn't matter how much you dumb down the controls. 

There was no way that "senior" portion of the Wii audience was ever graduating up to playing probably even 2D Mario ... that probably is too complex for them.



RCTjunkie on 04 March 2015
Soundwave said:

This kinda goes to show the whole "they like Wii Sports Bowling! Eventually they'll learn to play other games too!".

Nope.

Most seniors can't even play a simple game of Mario Kart and if they can, it's so mind wracking/stressful to them that they don't really enjoy it. Doesn't matter how much you dumb down the controls. 

There was no way that "senior" portion of the Wii audience was ever graduating up to playing probably even 2D Mario ... that probably is too complex for them.


They caught on pretty quickly to GTAV and CoD. Do you think Nintendo has a problem making the games casual enough to bridge for non-gamers?



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Soundwave on 04 March 2015
RCTjunkie said:
Soundwave said:

This kinda goes to show the whole "they like Wii Sports Bowling! Eventually they'll learn to play other games too!".

Nope.

Most seniors can't even play a simple game of Mario Kart and if they can, it's so mind wracking/stressful to them that they don't really enjoy it. Doesn't matter how much you dumb down the controls. 

There was no way that "senior" portion of the Wii audience was ever graduating up to playing probably even 2D Mario ... that probably is too complex for them.


They caught on pretty quickly to GTAV and CoD. Do you think Nintendo has a problem making the games casual enough to bridge for non-gamers?

Which seniors can play GTAV and CoD honestly?

There is no "bridge" to an audience like this, they may be able to play a handful of very, very rudimentary games (ie: Wii bowling only because they have a real life frame of reference from actual bowling, and maybe some smartphone touch games that are super basic) and that's about the extent of where their gaming ability ends. 



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RCTjunkie on 04 March 2015
Soundwave said:
RCTjunkie said:


They caught on pretty quickly to GTAV and CoD. Do you think Nintendo has a problem making the games casual enough to bridge for non-gamers?

Which seniors can play GTAV and CoD honestly?

There is no "bridge" to an audience like this, they may be able to play a handful of very, very rudimentary games (ie: Wii bowling only because they have a real life frame of reference from actual bowling, and maybe some smartphone touch games that are super basic) and that's about the extent of where their gaming ability ends. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoOrFdgYR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F457iJ2C8JY

 

They got the hang of those games fairly quickly. I wouldn't completely underestimate the gaming skills of the elderly. Maybe instead of throwing them in randomly, taking 20 min to teach them controls would mean the world to them.



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Soundwave on 04 March 2015
RCTjunkie said:
Soundwave said:

Which seniors can play GTAV and CoD honestly?

There is no "bridge" to an audience like this, they may be able to play a handful of very, very rudimentary games (ie: Wii bowling only because they have a real life frame of reference from actual bowling, and maybe some smartphone touch games that are super basic) and that's about the extent of where their gaming ability ends. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoOrFdgYR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F457iJ2C8JY

 

They got the hang of those games fairly quickly. I wouldn't completely underestimate the gaming skills of the elderly. Maybe instead of throwing them in randomly, taking 20 min to teach them controls would mean the world to them.


They're terrible at COD, lol, any 8-year-old would destroy them. Most of them can't even get the basics of moving and shooting/aiming simultaneously down, the old lady in the pink shirt never even moved her character. 

They were able to walk around certain areas in GTAV ok, but only for the non-action sequences. 



HigHurtenflurst on 06 March 2015
ExplodingBlock said:
Interesting, to say the least
But nothing will ever be more cringe worthy than Kids react to gameboy

I like the one with Sony Walkmans.



b00moscone on 06 March 2015

They were complaining that they couldn't go straight, even though you literally just click the 'a' button :'(



 

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Teeqoz on 06 March 2015
Soundwave said:

This kinda goes to show the whole "they like Wii Sports Bowling! Eventually they'll learn to play other games too!".

Nope.

Most seniors can't even play a simple game of Mario Kart and if they can, it's so mind wracking/stressful to them that they don't really enjoy it. Doesn't matter how much you dumb down the controls. 

There was no way that "senior" portion of the Wii audience was ever graduating up to playing probably even 2D Mario ... that probably is too complex for them.


This has nothing to do with them being senior. It's because this is basically the first time they've ever played any games of this complexity. They're just as good as any other person that have basically zero experience with video games.