My 10 year old nephew's getting an Xbox and Destiny for Christmas. I know a few of you have kidlets who play Destiny, so I'm wondering if there's anything I need to watch out for.

What has been the hardest for them? Is it easy to take them through raids? What frustrates them? Also, taking tips for what I suggest for his gamertag.

Chappy came up with nice animal names like "RetardedPanda" or "SyphiliticOcelot" or something like that. Solid names, IMO. I'm going to strongly urge him to not base it on his current interests and to create an alias he can use online forever, without having to shove numbers in there or use his real name. Or should I let him pick his own name and have it be super dumb like PokemonWWE4lief32X?

Looking for honest gamer parent advice.

Lil'Blue is 8 and just plays from time to time. Both of my kids are into Minecraft, and it seems like that's the popular game for kids their ages, so Destiny hasn't been his main game for the last few months.

He mainly runs strikes and patrol missions. He's run VoG and Crota with me and with some nice folks from here that let him tag along. The main thing for raids is to make sure the group is ok with a younger player.

Encourage him to play for fun and don't worry about the grind for light level. Lil'Blue lost interest because he didn't want to do the grind to be able to raid.

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10? I think I came up with my username when I was 8.

Let him pick it. It's not like it's permanent, like a PSN name or something.

My boy just turned 7. It's a little much for him, but he's willing to do strikes and patrol missions, and pvp here and there. He randomly invited himself to a bunch of people's fireteams (while in the tower he mentioned "look at all my friends that are online!") and has actually got 2 legit friends that way. One a late teen early twenties guy that is pretty cool to him. The other is another 8ish yo kid. I feel thankful he hasn't received hate mail here and there. Heh. We've got a pretty cool community.

He wants to raid pretty bad, but isn't there in terms of ability. he also doesn't fully understand cause and effect in the game. Since he can stand next to people and complete bounties, quests and have things move forward, he isn't as diligent as he ought to be about actually working towards the objective. He only occasionally stares at the ground shooting corpses for fun while in the strike playlist. ;)

Overall think of it as a casual experience and let them set the terms of what they enjoy and what they want to do. It probably won't all overlap with how you see the game. Like playing hide and seek in the tower or jumping off the tower to their deaths and laughing hysterically. Or climbing the tree. You know, kid stuff. =)

I think it's good idea to brainstorm and steer them towards a decent gamertag, but let them ultimately choose. That's worked well for my kids in general over the past couple of years.

Like playing hide and seek in the tower or jumping off the tower to their deaths and laughing hysterically. Or climbing the tree. You know, kid stuff. =)

I... I honestly do all of that...

Should I be worried?

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