My wife and I came to a hot female friend's house. After some wine we started playing Big Brain Academy. Somehow, and I might have had something to do with this, it became strip big Brain academy. I only had 4 pieces of clothing shorts, flip flops, shirt and underwear, so I was wearing a couch pretty fast. These girls are also obviously way smarter than me. Fast forward 20 minutes... we are having a threesome! Is the Wii social? HELL YES!
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Dear Penthouse Forum. I never thought I'd be writing one of these letters, but...
And thus it was dubbed "The Thwii-some"
I didn't regret reading this thread until two posts ago. Now: regret.
OK, well for some gaming with the SO that includes clothes...
I had gotten my then-girlfriend, now-wife to play the occasional game with me. I got her started with Mario Kart Double Dash, playing through the 16-course GP mode, since it takes about 45 minutes, and she's getting good enough where she beats me sometimes, and sometimes pulls off a 1st place final finish. Since we're having fun, and we're playing competitively, I tell her that we should pick up the new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, since it's all co-op and we could play together. She agrees.
So we pick it up, play a bit, and we're having fun. However, about 2 weeks into playing, I wake up at around 3 o'clock in the morning to hear that I've created a monster. Faintly, in the other room, I hear these odd, yet familiar sounds. I blink, try to get rid of the grogginess, and faintly say her name. She responds meekly, and I ask what she's doing. She says "oh... I couldn't sleep."
I pop my head out of the bedroom, and what do I see on the couch but my girlfriend, staring blankly at the television... grinding for loot.
My wife is a puzzle/2-D platformer gamer. She loves Professor Layton to the point that I'm afraid to leave her alone in the room with the cartridge. She can brutalize me in every puzzle game known to man. She's pretty good at Super Mario Bros (any of the 2-D ones) and Donkey Kong Country.
But jesus christ...watching her play Super Mario Bros. 3 is like pulling teeth for me. She hits EVERY block and collects EVERY coin that she possibly can. Me, I just run through the earlier levels to get to the harder ones later on. But she strolls through the game, gleefully collecting each coin...1ups aren't that hard to get, every coin is not required!!!
Madness. But I find it more funny than anything. She also liked the PixelJunk Eden demo quite a bit, so I'm looking forward to some good times with the two of us and the psychedelic garden.
Well. After dating for 6+ years, my SO has had an on and off relationship with gaming. She was never able to beat FF7, 8 or 10 (I guess Nomura does design characters for girls). Never got her into SFAlpha. Never got DDR. But then she saw me making an ass of myself failing I think I'm Paranoid on RB.
Last week we 5 starred Hysteria; she did Hard vocals, I did Hard Drums. It took 10 years, but I finally had THE gaming moment of our relationship.
Don't tell her she can't do The Hand that Feeds at all on Medium Guitar tho.
My ex, at first, loathed videogames. If it wasn't Duckhunt she wasn't interested.
For a while she'd shit on me for playing games like Max Payne 2, Half-Life, etc., Like a knee-jerk, she called them all juvenile. After watching me play through the Ninja Gaiden demo she forbade me from ever buying the game. "Lame. Gory. Sickening" blah blah blah.
Messed, I know.
Then I picked up a little thing called Soul Calibur 2... (Not a long read, but just in-case)
First she'd watch me play as Talim... Then after a few nights of hearing me gut Spawn (worst console exclusive character ever) she did the unexpected... She asked to try the game out. I nearly punched a hole through my TV with regurgitated beer. No, I didn't see that coming.
Fast forward a few weeks and she was kicking my ass as Ivy. "You know, games aren't that bad..."
Then for Christmas, amongst the other presents, what did I find? A copy of Ninja Gaiden Black. Lovingly wrapped.
Things just got better from there.
She began to avidly watch me play games like Halo 2 and Chronicles of Riddick. We'd occasionally co-op Hunter The Reckoning, occasionally hotseat our way through Silent Hill 2. Soon I got her a Gamecube and after Smash Brothers Melee, she had changed. She watched me play RE4 from start to finish, providing much-needed atmospheric commentary "SHOOT." "AAACK!" "RELOAD" and the best one ever: "Pfft, what skank would fight monsters in a red dress."
RE4 still has a soft-spot in my heart because of that.
The DS led her to FF3 and Cooking Mama, the Wii became our Warioware and co-op Trauma Centre machine (I was the doctor and she was my nurse, I had the wiimote, she the nunchuck).
Erin also sat through Bioshock, diving into my shoulder when the Medical Wing was too much. Our best exchange came after seeing Dr. Steinman's bloody handiwork sprayed across a wall:
"...Is that paint?"
"Erin, its never paint."
All three Halos were completed with her at my wing. She was there when I bitched about the dual disappointments of Deus Ex: Invisible War and KOTOR2, and she goaded me to continue one very annoying achievement in Crackdown when I thought it was absolutely impossible. We even took to the Crimson Skies, where she'd cheap out and dropkick me with the Bulldog (fucking shotgun secondary). Erin even enjoyed slithering around as one of the snake/tentacles from The Darkness, cackling as she chomped on Mafioso hearts.
And even now, 5 months after our break-up I find myself filling her in on the plot details of MGS4 over Google Chat (we got jobs in two corners of the country, the distance was too much). She wished she could've watched me play the game after I showed her a few youtubes.
And on the eve of purchasing Soul Calibur 4, I sometimes wonder why we broke up.
I once dated a girl who was into WoW. Big mistake. She got waaayyy too deep into it and soon I had to be raiding along side her every night. Never let the ladies into the mmo's, they can't control themselves.
I burnt myself out so bad on WoW I never even considered playing it again.
Actually, I suppose that is a pretty good way to quit.
I once dated a girl who was into WoW. Big mistake. She got waaayyy too deep into it and soon I had to be raiding along side her every night. Never let the ladies into the mmo's, they can't control themselves.
I burnt myself out so bad on WoW I never even considered playing it again.
Actually, I suppose that is a pretty good way to quit.
I don't miss her at all.
Yeah I had a friend who made this mistake.
Now I was gonna buy a DS for my girlfriend as she likes some games but it's really hard to get her interested. It's like she doesn't want to try in then when I finally get her to try it she doesn't put it down. I talked to her about the DS idea and she said she wanted a PSP. So I don't know what to do, I think she would enjoy the DS more but I don't know.
Also once I let her play guitar hero and she could just not get the coordination down. She got so angry she hit me with the guitar and then the couch and it broke at the neck It was not fun, she apologized profusely the next day. I didn't really care I was just really suprised...I now know not to get on her angry side!
Also, the phrase "It did not end well" better make at least one appearance.
Tried to introduce my ex girlfriend to D&D once. It did not end well.
But the fiance got hooked. She made a gnome druid who had a gorilla animal companion and insisted on riding on its back. She also had a stutter. So addicted to this character, she played her to around level 18 in a campaign and had a delightful time.
Now I was gonna buy a DS for my girlfriend as she likes some games but it's really hard to get her interested. It's like she doesn't want to try in then when I finally get her to try it she doesn't put it down. I talked to her about the DS idea and she said she wanted a PSP. So I don't know what to do, I think she would enjoy the DS more but I don't know.
My wife likes the PSP for the same reason I prefer it over the DS -- there's something to be said for classic game control. I've gotten her to play some DS games but she usually gets sick of them before too long. She doesn't really dig poking at the screen. But I got her into Patapon, and I lost her for about 2 weeks as she curled up on the couch with headphones on.
Actually that's one of the bad things about getting your SO into gaming. If she picks up on it, well, not every game is co-op. There's a lot of fun games that are single player. I'm sure that if I got her into Disgaea, I wouldn't see my PSP for months. She doesn't have the time to play games right now, as she's wrapping up her PhD, but I'm afraid what she'll do when she's finished and has free time. She'll probably start into MGS 4 or something insane.
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edited July 2008
My girlfriend plays Ticket to Ride and Carcassone on XBLA like it's her job. She'll work all day, work her other job at night, and then come home at 10:30, and see my roommate and I getting ready to go to bed and say, "Who wants to play Ticket to Ride?"
We'll play a game or two, and then go to bed, and she'll come into my room at 4am. I'll wake up a couple hours later, and the TV and 360 are still on.
She's an addict.
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My wife and I came to a hot female friend's house. After some wine we started playing Big Brain Academy. Somehow, and I might have had something to do with this, it became strip big Brain academy. I only had 4 pieces of clothing shorts, flip flops, shirt and underwear, so I was wearing a couch pretty fast. These girls are also obviously way smarter than me. Fast forward 20 minutes... we are having a threesome! Is the Wii social? HELL YES!
My girlfriend plays Ticket to Ride and Carcassone on XBLA like it's her job. She'll work all day, work her other job at night, and then come home at 10:30, and see my roommate and I getting ready to go to bed and say, "Who wants to play Ticket to Ride?"
We'll play a game or two, and then go to bed, and she'll come into my room at 4am. I'll wake up a couple hours later, and the TV and 360 are still on.
She's an addict.
You should be happy it's not Ticket to Ride Europe, which I think is not only a better game, but far more addicting
My girlfriend plays Ticket to Ride and Carcassone on XBLA like it's her job. She'll work all day, work her other job at night, and then come home at 10:30, and see my roommate and I getting ready to go to bed and say, "Who wants to play Ticket to Ride?"
We'll play a game or two, and then go to bed, and she'll come into my room at 4am. I'll wake up a couple hours later, and the TV and 360 are still on.
She's an addict.
You should be happy it's not Ticket to Ride Europe, which I think is not only a better game, but far more addicting
The Europe expansion was supposed to come out yesterday for XBLA. The fact that it didn't is the only reason I got any sleep last night at all.
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1999: (ADOM)
"What's that?"
"It's called Ancient Domains of Mystery. Letters are monsters, punctuation is equipment, the @ sign is you."
"Isn't that kind of ... boring?"
"No, it's actually quite fascinating."
"OK, whatever."
2000: (Angband)
(snicker) "Are you slaying ASCII characters again?"
2001: (Crawl)
"Are you _still_ playing those ASCII character slaying games?"
"Try it sometime, you might like it. This one's really good."
2002: (She's unemployed for a few months)
"Shit, my quarterstaff just got cursed on me, and I don't have any food!"
"What do you do about these goddamned orc priests?"
"I guess you're not supposed to stand next to a hydra, huh."
"Fucking Sigmund with his fucking wand of lightning!"
We got some really funny looks in restaurants from these conversations for about a year.
Neither one of us plays roguelikes much any more; we don't really like the genres that are usually played co-op, except for shmups; and our skills are too disparate for head-to-head to be fun (she destroys me utterly at color-matching puzzle games, I beat her at everything else). But my wife spent probably 80 hours over the last month and a half playing The World Ends With You, and it all began with an @.
My wife likes the PSP for the same reason I prefer it over the DS -- there's something to be said for classic game control. I've gotten her to play some DS games but she usually gets sick of them before too long. She doesn't really dig poking at the screen. But I got her into Patapon, and I lost her for about 2 weeks as she curled up on the couch with headphones on.
Man, I hear that.
I originally got my current GF into gaming via FIFA... shes a soccer player, so I figured go with what you know. We moved on from FIFA to Soul Caliber 2, which went well, but she still wasn't really into gaming, more along the lines of being a sweety and trying to enjoy my hobby together.
Until we got Burnout 3. Man, we spent an entire 3 day weekend sitting in our underwear playing crash mode. It was fantastic.
Now shes a fierce little gamer. We had to get her her own PSP (I swear to god, we almost broke up over Patapon) and, in true gamer nerd fashion, she's got custom face plates for it.
One time while playing World of Warcraft with my wife, she rolled Need on a Bind on Pickup item I obviously needed that her character couldn't even equip. She won the roll.
My girlfriend isn't very much into gaming, except for Feeding Frenzy on the Box and, much to my surprise, City of Villains. She roughly knows what an MMO is but didn't play one before (56k at her home, plus an outright ancient computer). After I explained the gist to her, she became addicted within minutes.
That was pretty scary to watch, actually.
I hope I can get her into Warhammer Online or something once we've got our own place (and DSL). :winky:
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I would like to pause for a moment, to talk about my penis.
My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
My husband and I had both been gamers for years when we met in DAOC. Yes, occasionally those MMORPG relationships actually work out.
I think my favourite co-op gaming memory is when we rented Lego Star Wars. We didn't have the manual and there really aren't any instructions in the cantina where you start out. So I grabbed the controller attached to Leia (just until we managed to get Han Solo!) and he got Generic Lego Star Wars Guy. So we're running around the cantina, and I say, "What does this button do?" I Press the attack button and Leia hauls off and bitch-slaps Generic Lego Star Wars Guy. After we finished laughing, we were both like "Friendly fire is on? AWESOME!"
And that is why we have been happily married for five years.
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FalloutGIRL'S DAYWAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered Userregular
edited July 2008
I play video games as primarily a solitary time-killing endeavor, while having a girlfriend that understands video games would probably be a plus (as it would for any other activity I enjoy) I can't say I'd ever be in a rush to get them to be Luigi for me.
Well I have the opposite problem, my wife yells at me when I don't play games long enough. I like to take things slow in small gaming sessions, maybe play for 30 minutes at a time and then come back to it later.
Her: What's wrong with you? Mikey (her brother) will play for hours! You are weak.
And when she gets into a game, like Twilight Princess, she will sit there for 6 hours at a time playing. When I gave her Psychonauts to play when we were just dating she blew up my ps2 because she sat there for over 8 hours playing it non stop in a badly ventilated area.
I guess I need to work harder to be a gamer worthy of her standards.
I like to think i'm a pretty half decent tekken fan. Been playing since 1 all the way through to the one on psn. I remember when my girlfriend played against me for the first time while she was waiting for food to cook. She picked Anna williams. After the huge button mash fest, squealing and shoving me with her shoulder mid fight she turned to me and exclaimed;
"You let me win!"
And i laughed.
I did not let her win.....
p.s. I watch her play stafi and rhythm tengoku now on the DS. It's ultra cute.
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My girlfriend mostly enjoys watching games while I play them. I'm playing Majora's Mask "with" her currently.
She does play Diablo2, and a few other things from time to time.
My gf does this with some fps that she likes the look of but she doesn't trust herself to play since she gets dizzy in first person games.
It's both nice to share the experiences and makes me feel nerd buff when she goes "wow" at a perfect sniper shot from halfway across the map that she could never do. Heh.
She bought a psp though and now plays it almost as much as I play pc games nowadays. She got disgaea 1 and hasn't been off it in a month. It's nice to have disgaea3 to look forward to together, and have something geeky to talk about as well. It's not really coop as much as a shared experience.
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(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
I just wish my lady would take criticism better. She is so fixed on goldeneye controls that when ever she plays halo, she runs, then looks.... run AND look!!! arghbwarghle!
WoW round one: His Nelf Warrior, Her Human Priestess.
1,223,657 frothing guild invites later Nelf still warms the bench, Priestess is having purples thrown at her.
Then we remember: "Hey didn't we get this game to play together?"
WoW round two: Gnomish Ice Mage bookends named Fiddle and Faddle.
Good times ensue in the days before BC when Shatter was still awesome. Only ended by real life and cock mongering guildmasters.
WoW round three: Team Belf, Belfs of every class, powerleveled to 70 as much as humanly possible. Wherein our protagonists learn that it's easier to play WoW solo than it is a duo:
"We don't need a tank just a healer."
"We don't need a healer just a tank."
"We only need one DPS."
Fuck WoW.
Lately we've been having fun in Titan Quest with an Oracle and Summoner. She's been eyeing TF2 more and more though. We have high hopes for Fable 2.
I should probably add that I met an ex in California roleplaying ...you guessed it a wizard... in a text MUD, moved out there and had a steamy 3 year relationship. I started my career out there also, kept the career but not the woman.
On my first date with my girlfriend, after dinner and visiting the art gallery, we sat down on the art gallery lawn and I pulled out my DS. A few games of Elite Beat Agents and she was hooked. Got her own DS about a month later.
We've been together for 15 months now. her so much.
Also, when we go online in mario kart wii together, we are unbeatable on mushroom gorge.
Back in college I dated a girl who played Quake. And by played I mean "Where the fuck did that rocket just come from?"
Aside from that, every attempt to share one of my hobbies with girls has ended poorly. Most recent I can think of was when my current girlfriend picked up my DS and started playing time trials in Mario Kart. Thought she had some pretty good times set, so she showed them to me, and I went through and knocked a couple seconds off one of them.
Took her a few tries, but she beat my time, barely, and I knocked another couple seconds off. After a couple rounds of that, she finally got pissed off, "You're just tormenting me, aren't you?" I took the DS, played a track to the best of my ability, and handed it back (around 30 seconds faster than her best time at this point). She tried for a while to even stay in view of my ghost and now refuses to play video games at all.
I believe my girlfriend started gaming well before I met her (odd game here and there) but as we got together I introduced her to Warcraft, which she managed to grind all the way to 70 at! Impressive! She now plays The Sims (backward step? I'm not sure) and occassionally picks up the odd DS game like The Worlds Ends With You and even tried Halo 3 the other night, although she did struggle with aiming and moving (as we all did when we started) but I think most she likes watching the games I play. It's a good relationship
I got my girlfriend pretty big into Halo 2, but she really started to learn Halo 3. I bought a year's worth of XBL and she made her own gamertag and then like two months later my internet got cut off and now we never play it.
I explained to her how Mass Effect was more interactive movie then it was 'game'. She freaked and grabbed the controller. She struggled with the movement but was still interested.
What are some recommendations for similar ideas, that have easier controls?
DS seems like the winner cause its both cute and a gateway drug.
I explained to her how Mass Effect was more interactive movie then it was 'game'. She freaked and grabbed the controller. She struggled with the movement but was still interested.
What are some recommendations for similar ideas, that have easier controls?
DS seems like the winner cause its both cute and a gateway drug.
I would recommend more BioWare games. Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 are great and Jade Empire as well. I'd try to run them on an original XBox though as I've heard the 360 doesn't run them perfectly.
I’m not sure I could last in a long term relationship with a woman who didn’t play games! I’m pretty sure she’d simply go mad. As it is I’m marrying my player 2 next summer. The first sign of our relationship forming was when we fell asleep cuddled up to each other on the sofa of our Uni student house after an all night Mario Kart 64 session to celebrate the end of our exams.
Made for each other clearly.
These days for the sake of peace and harmony we tend to veer more towards the co-operative over the competitive. As any married man will tell you, spousal rivalry can get fierce and a flung game controller hurts!
I’m really hoping that Crystal chronicles Wii will recapture the magic of the GC version as those were some good times playing through together. We’ve got the DS version but something about it being on handhelds doesn’t seem to lend itself to play as much as we used to on the cube.
Oh and she won us a weekend trip to Paris and a pre-launch DS by dressing as Link for a competition on the UK Nintendo website.
One time while playing World of Warcraft with my wife, she rolled Need on a Bind on Pickup item I obviously needed that her character couldn't even equip. She won the roll.
Then I murdered her.
Are her parents related?
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My wife started by watching me play Wind Waker. She didn't really want to play games herself because "the controls are to complicated". Next step was Double Dash: I would drive while she would take care of shooting the other guys and throw bananas which was great fun.
A few month back her sister gave her a DS with that brain training game and (for some reason I'm not getting) she was hooked. She actually played the shit out of it until she consistently managed to get the best possible score.
Then I got her Phantom Hourglass because "It's like Wind Waker and you can play it with the Stylus" and this worked out great (that was also when it occured to me how fucking genius those guys at Nintendo actually are). She played the shit out of that to. Made little treasure maps and all that which I just found Adorable.
Tonight we are going to start playing the Subspace Emissionary together. 8-)
Oh, and of course she also loves Mario Party which I absolutley can not stand at all for the random piece of crap it is. Luckily she has her sister to play that with.
My ex and I used to say our relationship was all due to Monkey Island. He fell for me as soon as he saw the Guybrush picture on my binder, and I knew I loved him when he quoted Monkey 4. Our first "date" was playing the first two games together since he hadn't played them.
We were both playing through Disgaea (separately) when I had my wisdom teeth out, and since I desperately wanted to play but couldn't since I was still all drugged out after the procedure, I insisted he play his game while I laid there and watched drifting in and out of sleep.
We also both worked as game testers together for awhile and frequently stayed up way, way too late talking about whatever games we were currently playing when we had work in the morning.
Oh also there were many attempts to play through Alien Hominid together that, while fun for awhile, did not end well.
I'm the gamer in the household, my bf doesn't game nearly as much. The DS, PS2, Gaming PC? All mine. The Wii however, is ours (technically his, he bought it, but for us).
We don't really have any co-op games to try together so the most is that I sometimes watch over my shoulder to see what he's playing and he sometimes watches what I'm playing (with varying interest). He doesn't use my PC, even if he's free to if he wants, to play any modern PC games short of Oblivion (he had a bit of a thing for Morrowind when it came out too) and he's only used my PS2 to play through most of Wild Arms 3 and SMT: Nocturne (but won't touch any other jrpg). On the Wii he's mostly busy right now with Resident Evil games, he's played through 4 and is working on Umbrella Chronicles right now, he gets pretty into it (don't disturb him when he's gaming, he either won't even register you're talking or he gets annoyed) and he's said he really enjoys RE games and would like to have more.
Maybe we'll find some co-op games we can both enjoy someday, otherwise we'll just game on seperately and sneak looks at what the other is doing now and again.
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I had gotten my then-girlfriend, now-wife to play the occasional game with me. I got her started with Mario Kart Double Dash, playing through the 16-course GP mode, since it takes about 45 minutes, and she's getting good enough where she beats me sometimes, and sometimes pulls off a 1st place final finish. Since we're having fun, and we're playing competitively, I tell her that we should pick up the new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, since it's all co-op and we could play together. She agrees.
So we pick it up, play a bit, and we're having fun. However, about 2 weeks into playing, I wake up at around 3 o'clock in the morning to hear that I've created a monster. Faintly, in the other room, I hear these odd, yet familiar sounds. I blink, try to get rid of the grogginess, and faintly say her name. She responds meekly, and I ask what she's doing. She says "oh... I couldn't sleep."
I pop my head out of the bedroom, and what do I see on the couch but my girlfriend, staring blankly at the television... grinding for loot.
But jesus christ...watching her play Super Mario Bros. 3 is like pulling teeth for me. She hits EVERY block and collects EVERY coin that she possibly can. Me, I just run through the earlier levels to get to the harder ones later on. But she strolls through the game, gleefully collecting each coin...1ups aren't that hard to get, every coin is not required!!!
Madness. But I find it more funny than anything. She also liked the PixelJunk Eden demo quite a bit, so I'm looking forward to some good times with the two of us and the psychedelic garden.
Last week we 5 starred Hysteria; she did Hard vocals, I did Hard Drums. It took 10 years, but I finally had THE gaming moment of our relationship.
For a while she'd shit on me for playing games like Max Payne 2, Half-Life, etc., Like a knee-jerk, she called them all juvenile. After watching me play through the Ninja Gaiden demo she forbade me from ever buying the game. "Lame. Gory. Sickening" blah blah blah.
Messed, I know.
Then I picked up a little thing called Soul Calibur 2... (Not a long read, but just in-case)
Fast forward a few weeks and she was kicking my ass as Ivy. "You know, games aren't that bad..."
Then for Christmas, amongst the other presents, what did I find? A copy of Ninja Gaiden Black. Lovingly wrapped.
Things just got better from there.
She began to avidly watch me play games like Halo 2 and Chronicles of Riddick. We'd occasionally co-op Hunter The Reckoning, occasionally hotseat our way through Silent Hill 2. Soon I got her a Gamecube and after Smash Brothers Melee, she had changed. She watched me play RE4 from start to finish, providing much-needed atmospheric commentary "SHOOT." "AAACK!" "RELOAD" and the best one ever: "Pfft, what skank would fight monsters in a red dress."
RE4 still has a soft-spot in my heart because of that.
The DS led her to FF3 and Cooking Mama, the Wii became our Warioware and co-op Trauma Centre machine (I was the doctor and she was my nurse, I had the wiimote, she the nunchuck).
Erin also sat through Bioshock, diving into my shoulder when the Medical Wing was too much. Our best exchange came after seeing Dr. Steinman's bloody handiwork sprayed across a wall:
"...Is that paint?"
"Erin, its never paint."
All three Halos were completed with her at my wing. She was there when I bitched about the dual disappointments of Deus Ex: Invisible War and KOTOR2, and she goaded me to continue one very annoying achievement in Crackdown when I thought it was absolutely impossible. We even took to the Crimson Skies, where she'd cheap out and dropkick me with the Bulldog (fucking shotgun secondary). Erin even enjoyed slithering around as one of the snake/tentacles from The Darkness, cackling as she chomped on Mafioso hearts.
And even now, 5 months after our break-up I find myself filling her in on the plot details of MGS4 over Google Chat (we got jobs in two corners of the country, the distance was too much). She wished she could've watched me play the game after I showed her a few youtubes.
And on the eve of purchasing Soul Calibur 4, I sometimes wonder why we broke up.
I burnt myself out so bad on WoW I never even considered playing it again.
Actually, I suppose that is a pretty good way to quit.
I don't miss her at all.
Yeah I had a friend who made this mistake.
Now I was gonna buy a DS for my girlfriend as she likes some games but it's really hard to get her interested. It's like she doesn't want to try in then when I finally get her to try it she doesn't put it down. I talked to her about the DS idea and she said she wanted a PSP. So I don't know what to do, I think she would enjoy the DS more but I don't know.
Also once I let her play guitar hero and she could just not get the coordination down. She got so angry she hit me with the guitar and then the couch and it broke at the neck
My wife likes the PSP for the same reason I prefer it over the DS -- there's something to be said for classic game control. I've gotten her to play some DS games but she usually gets sick of them before too long. She doesn't really dig poking at the screen. But I got her into Patapon, and I lost her for about 2 weeks as she curled up on the couch with headphones on.
Actually that's one of the bad things about getting your SO into gaming. If she picks up on it, well, not every game is co-op. There's a lot of fun games that are single player. I'm sure that if I got her into Disgaea, I wouldn't see my PSP for months. She doesn't have the time to play games right now, as she's wrapping up her PhD, but I'm afraid what she'll do when she's finished and has free time. She'll probably start into MGS 4 or something insane.
We'll play a game or two, and then go to bed, and she'll come into my room at 4am. I'll wake up a couple hours later, and the TV and 360 are still on.
She's an addict.
CURRENTLY PLAYING:
Android: Netrunner, Warhammer: Conquest, Star Realms
Uh. My Wii must be broken.
You should be happy it's not Ticket to Ride Europe, which I think is not only a better game, but far more addicting
The Europe expansion was supposed to come out yesterday for XBLA. The fact that it didn't is the only reason I got any sleep last night at all.
CURRENTLY PLAYING:
Android: Netrunner, Warhammer: Conquest, Star Realms
"What's that?"
"It's called Ancient Domains of Mystery. Letters are monsters, punctuation is equipment, the @ sign is you."
"Isn't that kind of ... boring?"
"No, it's actually quite fascinating."
"OK, whatever."
2000: (Angband)
(snicker) "Are you slaying ASCII characters again?"
2001: (Crawl)
"Are you _still_ playing those ASCII character slaying games?"
"Try it sometime, you might like it. This one's really good."
2002: (She's unemployed for a few months)
"Shit, my quarterstaff just got cursed on me, and I don't have any food!"
"What do you do about these goddamned orc priests?"
"I guess you're not supposed to stand next to a hydra, huh."
"Fucking Sigmund with his fucking wand of lightning!"
We got some really funny looks in restaurants from these conversations for about a year.
Neither one of us plays roguelikes much any more; we don't really like the genres that are usually played co-op, except for shmups; and our skills are too disparate for head-to-head to be fun (she destroys me utterly at color-matching puzzle games, I beat her at everything else). But my wife spent probably 80 hours over the last month and a half playing The World Ends With You, and it all began with an @.
Man, I hear that.
I originally got my current GF into gaming via FIFA... shes a soccer player, so I figured go with what you know. We moved on from FIFA to Soul Caliber 2, which went well, but she still wasn't really into gaming, more along the lines of being a sweety and trying to enjoy my hobby together.
Until we got Burnout 3. Man, we spent an entire 3 day weekend sitting in our underwear playing crash mode. It was fantastic.
Now shes a fierce little gamer. We had to get her her own PSP (I swear to god, we almost broke up over Patapon) and, in true gamer nerd fashion, she's got custom face plates for it.
Then I murdered her.
That was pretty scary to watch, actually.
I hope I can get her into Warhammer Online or something once we've got our own place (and DSL). :winky:
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
I think my favourite co-op gaming memory is when we rented Lego Star Wars. We didn't have the manual and there really aren't any instructions in the cantina where you start out. So I grabbed the controller attached to Leia (just until we managed to get Han Solo!) and he got Generic Lego Star Wars Guy. So we're running around the cantina, and I say, "What does this button do?" I Press the attack button and Leia hauls off and bitch-slaps Generic Lego Star Wars Guy. After we finished laughing, we were both like "Friendly fire is on? AWESOME!"
And that is why we have been happily married for five years.
Her: What's wrong with you? Mikey (her brother) will play for hours! You are weak.
And when she gets into a game, like Twilight Princess, she will sit there for 6 hours at a time playing. When I gave her Psychonauts to play when we were just dating she blew up my ps2 because she sat there for over 8 hours playing it non stop in a badly ventilated area.
I guess I need to work harder to be a gamer worthy of her standards.
I KISS YOU!
"You let me win!"
And i laughed.
I did not let her win.....
p.s. I watch her play stafi and rhythm tengoku now on the DS. It's ultra cute.
My gf does this with some fps that she likes the look of but she doesn't trust herself to play since she gets dizzy in first person games.
It's both nice to share the experiences and makes me feel nerd buff when she goes "wow" at a perfect sniper shot from halfway across the map that she could never do. Heh.
She bought a psp though and now plays it almost as much as I play pc games nowadays. She got disgaea 1 and hasn't been off it in a month. It's nice to have disgaea3 to look forward to together, and have something geeky to talk about as well. It's not really coop as much as a shared experience.
1,223,657 frothing guild invites later Nelf still warms the bench, Priestess is having purples thrown at her.
Then we remember: "Hey didn't we get this game to play together?"
WoW round two: Gnomish Ice Mage bookends named Fiddle and Faddle.
Good times ensue in the days before BC when Shatter was still awesome. Only ended by real life and cock mongering guildmasters.
WoW round three: Team Belf, Belfs of every class, powerleveled to 70 as much as humanly possible. Wherein our protagonists learn that it's easier to play WoW solo than it is a duo:
"We don't need a tank just a healer."
"We don't need a healer just a tank."
"We only need one DPS."
Fuck WoW.
Lately we've been having fun in Titan Quest with an Oracle and Summoner. She's been eyeing TF2 more and more though. We have high hopes for Fable 2.
We've been together for 15 months now.
Also, when we go online in mario kart wii together, we are unbeatable on mushroom gorge.
Aside from that, every attempt to share one of my hobbies with girls has ended poorly. Most recent I can think of was when my current girlfriend picked up my DS and started playing time trials in Mario Kart. Thought she had some pretty good times set, so she showed them to me, and I went through and knocked a couple seconds off one of them.
Took her a few tries, but she beat my time, barely, and I knocked another couple seconds off. After a couple rounds of that, she finally got pissed off, "You're just tormenting me, aren't you?" I took the DS, played a track to the best of my ability, and handed it back (around 30 seconds faster than her best time at this point). She tried for a while to even stay in view of my ghost and now refuses to play video games at all.
I didn't really plan for that.
What are some recommendations for similar ideas, that have easier controls?
DS seems like the winner cause its both cute and a gateway drug.
I would recommend more BioWare games. Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 are great and Jade Empire as well. I'd try to run them on an original XBox though as I've heard the 360 doesn't run them perfectly.
Made for each other clearly.
These days for the sake of peace and harmony we tend to veer more towards the co-operative over the competitive. As any married man will tell you, spousal rivalry can get fierce and a flung game controller hurts!
I’m really hoping that Crystal chronicles Wii will recapture the magic of the GC version as those were some good times playing through together. We’ve got the DS version but something about it being on handhelds doesn’t seem to lend itself to play as much as we used to on the cube.
Oh and she won us a weekend trip to Paris and a pre-launch DS by dressing as Link for a competition on the UK Nintendo website.
Are her parents related?
A few month back her sister gave her a DS with that brain training game and (for some reason I'm not getting) she was hooked. She actually played the shit out of it until she consistently managed to get the best possible score.
Then I got her Phantom Hourglass because "It's like Wind Waker and you can play it with the Stylus" and this worked out great (that was also when it occured to me how fucking genius those guys at Nintendo actually are). She played the shit out of that to. Made little treasure maps and all that which I just found Adorable.
Tonight we are going to start playing the Subspace Emissionary together.
Oh, and of course she also loves Mario Party which I absolutley can not stand at all for the random piece of crap it is. Luckily she has her sister to play that with.
We were both playing through Disgaea (separately) when I had my wisdom teeth out, and since I desperately wanted to play but couldn't since I was still all drugged out after the procedure, I insisted he play his game while I laid there and watched drifting in and out of sleep.
We also both worked as game testers together for awhile and frequently stayed up way, way too late talking about whatever games we were currently playing when we had work in the morning.
Oh also there were many attempts to play through Alien Hominid together that, while fun for awhile, did not end well.
We don't really have any co-op games to try together so the most is that I sometimes watch over my shoulder to see what he's playing and he sometimes watches what I'm playing (with varying interest). He doesn't use my PC, even if he's free to if he wants, to play any modern PC games short of Oblivion (he had a bit of a thing for Morrowind when it came out too) and he's only used my PS2 to play through most of Wild Arms 3 and SMT: Nocturne (but won't touch any other jrpg). On the Wii he's mostly busy right now with Resident Evil games, he's played through 4 and is working on Umbrella Chronicles right now, he gets pretty into it (don't disturb him when he's gaming, he either won't even register you're talking or he gets annoyed) and he's said he really enjoys RE games and would like to have more.
Maybe we'll find some co-op games we can both enjoy someday, otherwise we'll just game on seperately and sneak looks at what the other is doing now and again.