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Rhino
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Trying to find a multiplayer game both me and gf enjoy. She has tried some of mine and wants to try some of hers.
She loves the Sims 3; but it's only single player. Any type of multiplier Sim-like games?
We tried Second Life. I didn't really care for it much and some of those facebook apps (YoVile, etc)
She loves the Sims 3; but it's only single player. Any type of multiplier Sim-like games?
We tried Second Life. I didn't really care for it much and some of those facebook apps (YoVile, etc)
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I can't believe I'm recommending this game for a second time in two weeks, but doesn't The Guild 2 have a multiplayer mode?
If she likes The Sims, the odds are pretty good that she'll enjoy the process of creating a new character in WoW, customizing it, choosing a name and gender and hair colour and class. I don't know if you play WoW yourself, or if you did at any point in the past, but the game changed significantly with the last expansion: the old world was completely revamped, a ton of new quests and content was added, the leveling process is just a thousand times better now than it was back in the day. Quests are actually fun now, they're not just "slaughter two hundred quillboars to get me 60 blood shards," and the game is much more accessible to new and casual players than it ever has been in the past. Even if she gets tired of leveling at some point, it's completely possible to have fun just collecting things: pets, mounts, neat-looking pieces of armour. (Some people are really, seriously into the whole collecting thing).
The major downside to WoW, aside from it being a life-sucking vortex of endless timesinks, is the cost of entry, but you could always just buy the vanilla game first, and add expansions later if she decides she likes it - just bear in mind that with vanilla, you can only create characters from 8 of the 12 total races.
Which brings us to PvE combat. It is of course a central part of the game along with questing and leveling. But it's not hard or particularly grindy. The first 25 levels are easy to get even as a free player. PvP is not something you need to worry about. There is some in some obscure area, which I believe you can't even enter before level 40.
If you decide to give it a try Brandywine is the most populated server, so it will have to most groups as well as the most dickheads airing their personality on the chat channels. Landroval is the second most populated server, but it's mostly known for having the biggest role-playing community. There are European servers as well.
As far as classes go hunters, champions and guardians are all very easy, for a beginner. Minstrels and captains are almost just as easy but burglars and lore-masters are kind of hard and may not be a frustration you want to deal with while you are trying the figure the basic game play out. There are also rune-keepers and wardens, two other complicated classes, but you can't even play those unless you buy ($$) Mines of Moria expansion.
I don't think this is what the OP is looking for. The Sims and LOTRO are pretty different beasts.
EDIT: Same with the WoW recommend, though I haven't played The Sims since the first iteration, so maybe things have changed?
I heartily disagree. WoW is nothing like The Sims and the "character building" part of WoW is minimal and generic. For a multi-player fighting game, a game like City of Heroes / City of Villains would at least provide more in the way of customization, both of outfit and powers. But CoH/CoV is not really anything like the Sims either. Those are fantasy level-up games. The Sims is . . . well . . . The Sims. A city in a sandbox that you have total control over.
OP, why don't you just start a household of Sims in your girlfriend's game? Do you really want/need any more people involved than her or you? In a true multiplayer game, there's going to be limited control over the game-world, which is one of the core concepts of The Sims--controlling them. Making them have babies, forcing them to study to get that promotion, or purposely letting them oversleep so they'd lose their job.
Anyway, ask your girlfriend what she does in the Sims the most (dressing up her characters, focusing on family dynamics, following a family for several generations, building houses?) because it gets played a lot of different ways.
I know for The Sims 2 there was a lot of free content you could download from various fan-sites--I downloaded an amazingly accurate Blue Beetle outfit for my characters, for example--so you might looking into that for The Sims 3, if it would further your interest.
OP -- I don't think it's going to help you out immediately (as it doesn't have any multiplayer component, I don't believe) but get her The Sims: Medieval as a present at some point in the near future. It seems like it could be an ideal "gateway drug" into straight-up RPGs, at which point you'd have a better way of knowing how she'd enjoy games like WoW or LotRO (or other non-MMO multiplayer RPGs -- my wife's gateway game into RPGs was Fable II because of its cuteness, its cooperative multiplayer and its family aspect).
I have a couple of real-life (female) friends who don't identify as "gamers" at all, but they love World of Warcraft. They assemble different sets of equipment for different occasions, they collect vanity pets, they chat with their guildmates. One of them has been playing WoW for four years without ever getting a character above level 40, because she just keeps rolling new alts to play.
I freely admit that WoW may seem like an odd suggestion, but there's a lot more overlap between those two playerbases than you might expect. Besides, it's more productive to offer a variety of options for the OP to choose from than to just say "no you're wrong the OP wouldn't want that."
The Guild 2 is literally like the worst game ive ever played. The multiplayer is buggy as hell and goes out of sync like once an hour. Its great for the hillarious random moments caused by all the bugs (my guy got a baby arm once for some reason) but other than as a joke I wouldnt recommend it at all. Someone whos not into gaming is more than likely just going to be frustrated by the bugs more than anything else.
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IMHO we're superior to LOTRO and WoW, mostly because we're community developed, expect people to stay in character, the staff run live quests and stories, created on the fly for players, and we're 100% free forever.
I spent a little time mucking about with it and didn't mind it at all. Like most free MMOs they try to get you to purchase things to help yourself along, but you can progress just fine without spending money. Because it's a more casual experience, you won't necessarily find yourselves bogged down in some of the more obscure MMO tropes the big genre leaders or other free ot play games have.
My wife loves the Sims, she also loves these horrible demons of a game. So...perhaps yours will too?
Also, are there any multiplayer Animal Crossings yet?
Also, Sims 2 for PS2 is coop. Its really the Sims 1 though. So itd be a major step back from Sims 3, but the coop element is pretty sweet. Sims 3 for wii has sort of coop, which allows one person to control a fairy type thing or something, I read up on it a bit, but not too much.
There aren't any local co-op Animal Crossings, but if you both have DSs you could visit each other I think. Otherwise you could visit each other's towns separately and send each gifts. I bet she'd LOVE Animal Crossing.
If you really want to try an MMO, do LoTRO. It's a much better game than WoW and not as full of asshats.