#8

also, make sure you’ve got the monitor, keyboard, mouse and all the cables needed too.

#9

AND A PROFANITY FILTER

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#10

we got our first computer when I was 13 and I remember having to ask my friend what ‘lol’ meant, and he told me ‘little old ladies’. Believed that for about 6 months.

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#11

Here are some words. You can thank me for them later.

Spelunky
Audiosurf
Faster Than Light
Terraria
Rayman Legends
Undertale
Hollow Knight

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#12

Lightspeed
Intastellar
Cosmic 440
Knights of the Realm
Mick’s Island
Yugioh 3000
Creator
Underdark
Nocturnal
Tellisor

#13

I’m assuming your son has been on the internet for a while now, but man. That first PC that can run a few games and play online <3

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#14

Download the blizzard (battleNET) launcher and install everything tbh.

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#15

Oh yeah, if you can have a wire from your router to your PC do that rather than WiFi

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#16

Was a very prolonged argument in my house when I seriously got into FPS games (had to stretch ethernet cable across the landing when I was playing games). That precious, precious latency.

#17

drives me cray that most people use wifi for heavy duty stuff

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#18

Not sure how old he is but make sure he’s aware of how hardcore Steam is about cheating.

It doesn’t completely destroy your online experience but it will annoy it. Reading through this


there’s a person on there who wasn’t cheating, they just had a mod turned on when they were logged into Steam they’d forgotten about or something.

So yeah, I guess make sure he’s fully aware of this side of Steam: you can’t really game without a Steam account these days, mind.

#19

Pfft, lad his age’ll have no problem setting up proxies. Every game of casual TF2 informs me that VAC’s a joke.

#20

try not to bamboozle noahvale, guys. probably doesn’t even know how to delete his sys32 file yet!

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#21

Well I am glad to hear this. :smiley:

#22

I have a spare copy of FTL sitting in my library I could gift but don’t know if he’d want it…

other dissers must have dupes lying around in steam libraries that could be passed on??

@Yesiamaduck @shadyadie @Parsefone @bamnam

??

#23

I’ll go through my dupes and send em tomorrow

#24

I’ve given away all my decent dupes by the looks of things. I’ve got these left if NV’s boy wants any of them though:

Fez
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Lost Planet 3
Resident Evil 6
Tower of Guns
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Starseed Pilgrim

#25

depeding on age he’ll also want some games from origin probably (essentially the same thing but only for games made by EA, think iplayer vs netflix), these include fifa & the sims, or the likes of battlefield, watch dogs, titanfall if he’s a bit older

#26

I gots me copies of Portal and Poker Night at the Inventory. Everybody gots them copies of Portal and Poker Night at the Inventory.

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#27

The overclockers website is really reasonable for all that stuff. That’s where I got my son’s gaming PC from (they build it to your specification)