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Great Games To Play With the Girlfriend
roflgoblin
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My girlfriend isn't as big of a nerd as I am, but I'm slowly converting her.
She can't hang in COD4, but she offers great target practice. In the meantime, what other games are great fun to play with a 360 noob like your girlfriend?
So far, we're considering Scene It! Lights, Cameras, Action...
Any suggestions?
She can't hang in COD4, but she offers great target practice. In the meantime, what other games are great fun to play with a 360 noob like your girlfriend?
So far, we're considering Scene It! Lights, Cameras, Action...
Any suggestions?
"There's no such thing as real life, just AFK."
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And I think Rez is getting an XBLA release soon.
Wii Sports.
I'm sure there are some good Live Arcade titles.
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Really the only game that my girlfriend has played for more than 10 minutes outside of Bejeweled.
Seriously, not a recommendation thread goes past me that I dont recommend Catan. Its fucking glorious.
Burnout 3: Takedown
Actualy She did sit down with a bottle of wine and play H3 on easy from begining to endin one marathon sitting. She did Deus Ex 2 in 2 sittings. And Timesplitters 2 and 3.
Apart from that she love Guitar Hero 2 & 3, Lumines, anything Tetris or tht has a dance mat...
This was one of the first games my friend's wife started playing with us and she loved it. It seems it was a pretty good "gateway game" too, because now she games with us much more often. It's still mostly games like Rock Band or Scene It, but she wouldn't have even given those a shot (well, maybe Scene It) to begin with.
There is no such thing as a great game for girls, because individual personality matters much, much more than some stereotypical gender bias. Does she like action? Does she like complex stories? Would she prefer something quick she could just pick up and play with you for fifteen minutes? The fact that she's a girl should be irrelevant here, and stressing the point will only lead to the usual faintly condescending "oh, girls like kid's games because they're easy, try Barbie's Horse Adventure!" or "well, women aren't any good at games involving situational awareness, so you'll want to avoid FPS games."
Gaming isn't about gender. I bought my boyfriend Shadow of the Colossus a month or two ago, and we spent a couple of days taking turns playing it. I can kick his ass at Tekken Tag Tournament, but he always wins at Capcom vs. SNK 2. I have a male friend who loves RTS and turn-based strategy games, but can't stand playing first-person shooters, and a female friend who introduced me to Quake back in the day.
Please, don't ask "what games should I play with my girlfriend." It would be like saying "so, I got my brother a PS3 for Christmas, what games should I get him to go with it?" Without the proper context, the question is meaningless, and picking games just because they're simplistic or easy or cute may backfire if she finds them boring.
What genres do you think she would be interested in? What sort of things does she look for in her entertainment? Provide that information, and the answers you get will be much more useful, I guarantee it.
The only games my girl has really showed interest in are:
Guitar Hero
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (custom, robotised version of her sold it)
Champions of Norrath
and Burnout, just for the crashing.
Dance Dance?
I didn't interpret the question to mean, "What's a great game to play with the girlfriend, who is a girl, and thus we need certain girl-friendly games?"
I interpreted it to mean, "My girlfriend is a really casual gamer. Are there any games that are easy to get into that we can play together?"
It's not like the OP was asking for games that girls like. He was asking for games that a 'noob' would be able to play with him without sucking terribly at it or being unfun.
edit: i agree with your post though, about gender etc.
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Beautiful Katamari
Raving Rabids
Viva Pinata
Lego Star Wars
Kameo
Blue Dragon
and her favourite of all games
Halo 3.
I'm pretty pleased with myself, she never really played any video games other than some N64, and shes now she has a couple 70's in warcraft, and plays Xbox with me. 8-)
Obviously I'm currently working on her, but it's a lot, lot harder. It's a much geekier console (which is why I really like it myself obviously). So far I'm thinking Lego Star Wars will work well on the 360, along with GHIII.
I haven't fully explored the Arcade, but I suspect a lot of goodness lies there, Catan especially will go down a treat. Isn;t there a music fireworks game? That should be great too.
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Yeah, I always take it to mean, a non-geek.
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I didn't mean to imply that because she was a girl, what simple games would she enjoy. In asking for suggestions, I included the fact that she was my girlfriend along with the details that she was a n00b to the xbox and couldn't hang in COD4.
This thread is more-so suggesting great titles for new comers, in this case my girlfriend, but games that we experienced gamers can enjoy alongside the new comers. So forgive the implication.
Saying that, she's sitting here in front of me playing more COD4. She just knifed someone. lmao.
In a move of irony, you forget the game that is in your sig. My girlfriend absolutely loved Kotor, and vicariously is enjoying a romp through this.
Shouldn't you be the one playing that game and not your wife?
I'm not sure if it's BC with the 360, though.
Carcassone
Guitar Hero (or Rock Band)
Halo games
Gears of War
Earth Defense Force 2017
You know what I mean...
It's no good without the peripheral, though.
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Yeah if you cant find it I guess you could just have sex. But where's the fun in that?
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now THAT would be pretty cool. I'll do some digging to see if we can. Thanks.
This one brought me, the mrs and the farther in law together every night for weeks..... we where playing until the wee hours (4am +) just to farm some more sweet loot.
I was the Ranger, Mrs the cleric, Father in la Barbarian... we played both Norrath games 3+ times through.
The games where utterly mindless but the team element really made for some great sessions.
Seems like everyone talks about how they have great girlfriends who play games with them. I have the opposite.
My girlfriend has the attention span of a 2 year old the moment she picks up a controller. She also dislikes games more because I like them so much.
Am I alone here?
No, it's still pretty fun.
Your avatar always makes me happy out of nostalgia.