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Whats the best way to beat my girlfriend? (At a game)
mxmarks
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Im bored at work and talking to my girlfriend via gmail, and we're talking games. I asked if she ever played Dr. Mario, and she said no, and I was bummed - because it's hard getting her hooked on new games, but it seems right up her alley. So it got me thinking it would be a good discussion to see what people play with thier significant others, and how they got them into it.
My situation - my girlfriend is awesome, and when we first met, after like a month, I played Guitar Hero 2 in front of her. She thought it was cool, and eventually learned to play. She loves playing Rock Band now in short bursts, and usually hangs around on nights I have my friends over to play it, popping in and out instead of getting into a regular rotation. Since then, she's gotten pretty into the Wii - as has the rest of the world. She went nuts when she found out PUNCH-OUT was on the VC, but that was the only Nintendo game she liked growing up. She loves the bowling and tennis, and even though they aren't GAMES, she's the only person I know who uses Everybody Votes regularly and enters every contest on Check Mii Out. She's played WarioWare, but really doesnt ask to play anything other than bowling. The only other game we play regularly is Scene It on the 360, which really is more of a board game.
So anyways - she's big into Tetris, and plays iZoo on my phone constantly, so she definatley seems to lean towards puzzle games. I was telling her I want to find a game we can play - competitively - against each other at the same time. Wii Bowling is turns, Rock Band we're a team, and I want to find a good game that she can get into without enough control schemes, rules, ect... that turn her off to it before it even starts.
So I turn to you, community. Anything good? I can't imagine she'd EVER get into Halo with me, or anything else in the FPS vein. I just feel like she wouldn't really care enough to learn all the little nuances with weapons and stuff to make it really fun. I'm thinking if I can get her to at least give Dr. Mario a shot, it seems perfect. Any other thoughts?
And as an aside, when I'm not trying to kick her ass - anyone play Zack and Wiki? I heard that was a good game for a lot of people to grab wii motes and co-operate...
My situation - my girlfriend is awesome, and when we first met, after like a month, I played Guitar Hero 2 in front of her. She thought it was cool, and eventually learned to play. She loves playing Rock Band now in short bursts, and usually hangs around on nights I have my friends over to play it, popping in and out instead of getting into a regular rotation. Since then, she's gotten pretty into the Wii - as has the rest of the world. She went nuts when she found out PUNCH-OUT was on the VC, but that was the only Nintendo game she liked growing up. She loves the bowling and tennis, and even though they aren't GAMES, she's the only person I know who uses Everybody Votes regularly and enters every contest on Check Mii Out. She's played WarioWare, but really doesnt ask to play anything other than bowling. The only other game we play regularly is Scene It on the 360, which really is more of a board game.
So anyways - she's big into Tetris, and plays iZoo on my phone constantly, so she definatley seems to lean towards puzzle games. I was telling her I want to find a game we can play - competitively - against each other at the same time. Wii Bowling is turns, Rock Band we're a team, and I want to find a good game that she can get into without enough control schemes, rules, ect... that turn her off to it before it even starts.
So I turn to you, community. Anything good? I can't imagine she'd EVER get into Halo with me, or anything else in the FPS vein. I just feel like she wouldn't really care enough to learn all the little nuances with weapons and stuff to make it really fun. I'm thinking if I can get her to at least give Dr. Mario a shot, it seems perfect. Any other thoughts?
And as an aside, when I'm not trying to kick her ass - anyone play Zack and Wiki? I heard that was a good game for a lot of people to grab wii motes and co-operate...
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A much better way is to play coop. I had an absolute ball playing an mmo with my gf playing as a tank, since she likes to play squishy classes. It was a massive challenge keeping everything off her because she really doesn't like her characters getting hurt.
I'd suggest finding a way to challenge yourself like that.
Seriously though, everytime you play a competitive game with a girlfriend you run the risk of setting back girlfriend-video game relations years and years.
Something like this. Note that I'm generalizing grandly, but if you're a competitive person you're going to do one of two things when faced with someone who's constantly better than you: Either you're going to practice and keep trying until you get better and eventually can win, or you're going to quit. I'm inclined to take Option A when it comes to video games, but my wife will always choose Option B.
Also,
Also, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, which you have mentioned.
Oh, and Pac-man.
Which is why I think puzzles come to mind best - as long as you understand what it takes to solve them, everyone usually is pretty evenly matched. I was just thinking - I may have to bust out my copy of Chu Chu Rocket for the DC, that may be a good one!
Pick a game from a genre neither of you are good at then. I guarantee tension if betting over dishes is a 80/20 surety in one person's favour because it uses skill they are good at, if you get me.
Treat carefully, young one. The way is perilous.
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She also doesn't mind helping me play the game in a supporting role. Like playing tingle in Wind Waker, tails in the old genesis Sonic games. She would probably like to help collect stars in Mario Galaxy and help with puzzles in Zack and Wiki but I don't have a wii to test this theory with. Perhaps you can give those a try.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Give it a shot.
I don't know if it supports local competitive multiplayer or not, but there's a version of Tetris coming to WiiWare that might fill the bill. There's also Tetris Splash on XBLA but I don't hear many good things about it in general.
(And also, its the perfect plan. We get to play a fun game together, which I love. If I lose, she gloats and I go do the dishes and she feels like the best. If I win, she gets pouty, I gloat for a moment, then I say it's ok, I'll go do the dishes anyways - and I come off as the nicest boyfriend ever. It's a formula that has worked for a year with Wii Bowling now, and I dont see why it cant translate elsewhere
I'd recommend Castle Shikigami III, which just came out for Wii, except that like most modern bullet-hell shooters, its difficulty curve is rather sharp. If you own a platform that has one of the Metal Slug games, you might try that, because of the hilarity factor -- my wife's first sight of the run-and-gun genre was Fio riding a laser-armed camel, and she laughed so hard she had to try it. (Not that this series isn't hard, but somehow I don't feel bad about credit-feeding a Metal Slug game.)
She also love's beat em up games. Most are usually coop and a lot of fun with two people.
She isn't very good at most of action/fps but loves watching them as long as there is a good story involved. I played Bioshock, RE4, GTA4, etc with her sitting on the couch watching.
The other day I put in bloom blox and an obsession devoloped. A sick addiction of fun.
We threw those crazy baseballs at towers until our arms were sore. When we were done we did the "Jenga" mode, whatever the hell it is called. This was a huge blast, usually a group game's fun level can be compared tohow loud the participants express themselves while playing. We were yelling.
Final Fantasy XI -> Carbuncle - Samash
That said, she enjoys boom blox a ton, simple puzzle games like tetris and such, and generally anything where he game mechanics take all of 5 seconds to explain/read. Any game with too much reading is almost certainly cut, though I working on changing this so she can improve her english more.
Also, if you want to get your girlfriend to play games with you, follow Han Solo's advice "Let the wookie win", now, how hairy your girlfriend is, not my issue, but they have been known to rip a boyfriends arm from his socket and beath him to death with it if you completly beat them mercilessly in a game. So when playing, try to just do as well as them, if you do accidently win, it will still be a close game and they might make them want to play again, and make sure to lose that one, MAKE SURE TO LOSE THAT NEXT GAME!