Use your imagination they say

Um ... as much as I think your boy has awesome imagination unfortunately you have to use your imagination with the tools provided. However limiting they may be.

Excellent point.

@ruthless4u said in Use your imagination they say:

As I sit and watch my 9 year old try and play this game, he gets frustrated from lack of things to do.

So as many here suggested ( countless times) I told him to use his imagination. Problem is he tries, but can't do anything he imagines.

For example,

He wants to sword fight using snakes,

Ride on the back of a shark and race his friends,

Sneak up on a sleeping kraken and draw a funny face on it

Design his own ships

Make his own weapons

Have cliff diving competitions

Create his own dance moves

Create his own music

And the list goes on....

So if a big part of the game is creating your own adventure, but your unable to.Use your imagination but the game does not allow you to do so.

Why do people keep saying that you should try using your imagination and create your own adventure when the game does not allow you to do so?

I totally agree with your kid in here. A lot of games have opportunities to do things just based on your imagination. Like comparing to a lot older game called TES V: Skyrim. You could basically roleplay orc warrior living in wilderness and have fun for hours. Ofc Skyrim had way more immersive game world with a lot of NPC characters and wildlife. Imagination is great addition to games that are based on adventure and sandbox but SoT world is small and all islands are usually the same. Couple snakes and skeles to crush and those cave complexes are empty 99% of time.

@evildutchrebel said in Use your imagination they say:

Just because you don't get rewarded for it doesn't mean you can't do it.
You say cliff diving competitions, you can jump off a cliff all darn day if you want to, you can even do it with 3 friends who will rate your epic 360 no scope dive.

But I think you just want to say that there is no aditional content over the content you don't like, then why did you get the game in the first place? do some research next time, save yourself some money.

Parenting works multiple ways. Teaching people the words/what they mean at a younger ages, gives them the knowledge to not use them at an older age or use them as an insult entirely. Sheltering the children provides them with lack of the knowledge of the words, creates curiosity and when they hear it from someone else instead of you, they think it is ok to say. OP is ok so long as he teaches the child right from wrong. A program shouldn't decide that for you.

@evildutchrebel said in Use your imagination they say:

@ruthless4u You let your 9 year old son play an online game with a lot of toxic talking players? I'm not telling you how to parent, but I wouldn't let my nephew close to this game and he's 8.

Wow, really? That's some sheltered life you giving your kids. It's a pirate game, it "should" be heaven for an 8 year old. Just mute or monitor chat whilst he/she plays and let them have some fun. Jeez (If fun is actually possible in the current state)

So the OP does not play, but his son does? If that is wrong please let me know. If that is right, please play the game some yourself and get back to us.

I am having a blast!

@jacksonio said in Use your imagination they say:

@evildutchrebel said in Use your imagination they say:

@ruthless4u You let your 9 year old son play an online game with a lot of toxic talking players? I'm not telling you how to parent, but I wouldn't let my nephew close to this game and he's 8.

Wow, really? That's some sheltered life you giving your kids. It's a pirate game, it "should" be heaven for an 8 year old. Just mute or monitor chat whilst he/she plays and let them have some fun. Jeez (If fun is actually possible in the current state)

Regardless of my stance on the discussion, the game is rated teen by the ESRB which makes it a 13+ title.

You aren't wrong in your statement but then neither is the other guy.

@ruthless4u your son is right, the make your own fun argument is weak since the game lacks the mechanics to do alot.
its just pretty, nothing kids usually care about and ild suggest you give him something more challenging to play with, like minecraft or factorio if he can handle it.

you arent doing his development any good by having him play sea of thieves. he just seems to not be easy to please, dont listen to the people saying this game is so great and that something is wrong with your son, he's probably just smarter than them.

if a CHILD has no imagination, it is the parents' fault.

@kashaarafall said in Use your imagination they say:

@evildutchrebel said in Use your imagination they say:

Just because you don't get rewarded for it doesn't mean you can't do it.
You say cliff diving competitions, you can jump off a cliff all darn day if you want to, you can even do it with 3 friends who will rate your epic 360 no scope dive.

But I think you just want to say that there is no aditional content over the content you don't like, then why did you get the game in the first place? do some research next time, save yourself some money.

Parenting works multiple ways. Teaching people the words/what they mean at a younger ages, gives them the knowledge to not use them at an older age or use them as an insult entirely. Sheltering the children provides them with lack of the knowledge of the words, creates curiosity and when they hear it from someone else instead of you, they think it is ok to say. OP is ok so long as he teaches the child right from wrong. A program shouldn't decide that for you.

That’s a lesson most of the world needs to learn lol!

@toastywrath In an age where technology is mostly a babysitter, you'd figure this would all be mandatory at this point.

@kashaarafall it isn’t something people just inherently know. You have to be tought it in the first place. Which unfortunately isn’t commonplace:p

Maybe one day when people actually use the wealth of information provided for more than just meme videos XD (guilty of that)

@toastywrath This is true! The reason I stopped using Xbox 360 online was the amount of kids using profanity/calling me their bi()not gonna swear and speaking illy of my mother =P. I questioned how their parents let them do it, to which I got responded. "I do what I want, moms don't control me!" So yeah. It doesn't fix it by avoiding it mind you, but I didn't exactly like it either =P.

@ruthless4u I strongly disagree, he should play another game I guess, not tryng to offend at all, but I don't see this game to be a fun playgroung allround like riding sharks to race or creating your own dancing... it should keep pointing to pirate things to do, npc ships to steal, npc ships thats persuit your ship after grabbing their chest on their island, new quests, new enemy types, bosses, weapon variety and rewards to go after.

@ruthless4u Your son has a great imagination, I hope he grows up to be a games developer.

@vapingbad93 boi ur dense, username checks out

@eatdamuffin using your imagination is not something supposed to be done when playing a video game. Our grandparents probably told our parents "Use your imagination" when playing with a rock and stick. Being creative is a job for a "Creative team" they are supposed to "Create" and be "imaginative" I didn't feel a need to use my imagination in Arkham Knight or Fallout 4 or Rise of the Tomb Raider. Those games were cluttered with side missions and ways to have fun without "Using your imagination" I agree if you need to say 'use your imagination" about a video game that in all likelihood spells a failure by the Development team. The creative team should always be more creative than the common gamer.

@dickeyhugey agreed, show your son Tomb Raider and Arkham Knight. They are games that will reward his creativity by letting him immerse himself in Batman and Laura Croft. I think your son is hard to please which is a good thing. He's been spoiled by great video games apparently and he's a smart consumer for being 9 and able to spot utter shortcomings in this vanilla game

is this a parenting forum or are we still talking about SOT?

@dickeyhugey what ?

I cant remember a single game which offers any of your nephews wishes.

I cant ride squids in minecraft.

I cant fist fight birds in skyrim.

I cant dance in Breath of the Wild.

While i agree more interactions would be great, imagination always beat games with rules. (And rules are needed for balancing too...)

While your child is obviously very imaginative and may one day be creative, is this. Imagination is boundledd and totally free, where as creativity is the act of figuring out how to be imaginative within the box. This isn't an easy thing to learn in fact many of the people I went to Art School with didn't learn how to be creative within a box, even with 4+ years of training.

@finanzminister you can ride squids in minecraft. well atleast its clear you dont know what you are talking about now.