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Recomend On! The Girlfriend
Teyar
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So, some of us actually have women-folk that live with us. And being electron addicts, we've introduced them to the wonderfully sicklysweet cathode ray waves of neon light and dashing explosions.
And now they want to play games WITH us.
Okay, enough allusion. She likes Katamari, loved Perfect Dark, hates Fallout, digs Oblivion, likes how pretty Eternal Sonata is but hates Polka, loves DnD but wants to strangle Drizz't'tkd'k'shamala'ding'dong.
(Mostly caus she met Salvatore at one point, and aparently he's a perfectly "Oh, I just write for money" jerk, but hey. )
Good adventure puzzle games seem to go over well, Zelda together was a blast. We'd puzzle things out, I'd handle the tedium, and she'd often figure the brainbusting puzzles as often as I did.
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And now they want to play games WITH us.
Okay, enough allusion. She likes Katamari, loved Perfect Dark, hates Fallout, digs Oblivion, likes how pretty Eternal Sonata is but hates Polka, loves DnD but wants to strangle Drizz't'tkd'k'shamala'ding'dong.
(Mostly caus she met Salvatore at one point, and aparently he's a perfectly "Oh, I just write for money" jerk, but hey. )
Good adventure puzzle games seem to go over well, Zelda together was a blast. We'd puzzle things out, I'd handle the tedium, and she'd often figure the brainbusting puzzles as often as I did.
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Lumines
Metroid Prime 1, 2, 3
Castle Crashers
Braid
off the top of my head
I would choose Malus (Warhammer) over Drizzt (D&D) anytime.
Hmm only 360.
How about trying another RPG?
Lost Odyssey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Odyssey
Platformer gameplay + Puzzler gameplay + Giant Lego Set. And you solve puzzles and tasks by building the 'ideal' vehicle for the task... and it's completely open ended. And it's pretty as fuck.
Lost Odyssey is another recommendation I can get behind. This is the FF12 Sakaguchi would've made if he'd stayed at Square Enix.
Viva Pinata. Kameo is a bit like Zelda with puzzle solving and similar combat. In fact, generally, Rare's whole 360 library is great.
Shed loads of XBLA games... I'm sure others will cover that.
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I can personally attest to this.
Lost Odyssey has lots of battle crap of course but it's cinematic enough and with enough literary readings via memories and such that it Enthralls Onlooking Womenfolk.
My wife loves Lumines as well.
Basically anything that doesn't punish her too much for screwing up.
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There is a shedload of awesome games on the live arcade, all with demos, maybe just spend a few minutes grabbing demos of stuff she thinks look intersesting, definately look into the following:
Single player:
Braid
RezHD
Portal: Still Alive
2 player with coop:
N+
Geometry Wars
Castle Crashers
Fable 2.
Another Tried, Tested and True exammmple. I still haven't finished it, but the Ladyfriend spent a week plowing through it pretty much steadily on her free time.
I'd go for cooking mama. It also implies that either a) you expect her to cook for you or b) that her cooking is sub-par and needs improving with a series of inane minigames. Or both!
ed: Really, guy above me? Using the words "ladyfriend" and "plowing" in the same sentence?
My wife and I love it. :P
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This game is awesome for co-op, and you said she likes puzzle adventure games. It might be a little on the hard side though.
Just about 90% of the things recomended... We've already done. Portal on PC, Fable 2 already, World of Goo ages ago, and yeah, she didnt like the setting of Fallout.
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Dokapon I'm told is interesting, but we wont have the Wii much longer. The thoery is, we need the money now, and when we can afford to buy a wii again, there'll be a larger base of games. The release list for the next few months is... underwhelming.
The Simpsons Game is actually really fun, too, but it's over quickly. It's a good rental.
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My girlfriend likes Katamari and hates Fallout as well (although she would not like Perfect Dark, she generally doesn't enjoy games where she feels like she is being hunted.... GoldenEye (N64) trauma I think)
She enjoys:
She's also been clean and non-WoW'ed for nearly a year now. She's been playing older games mostly, but she just splurged and ordered Fable II, Viva Pinata and I think she's going to actually give Braid a try.
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Yes. YES. Yet another reason that I should not have sold my 360.
Also, Settlers of Catan on XBLA is awesome, because the game is awesome anyway and you can easily find players.
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Dynasty Warriors. The wife and I like to play coop on it. Combat is a little on the repetitive side, but that's ok.
Any of the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance style beat 'em ups. Me, the wife, and the kid all played endless hours of Champions: Return to Arms.
She doesn't like most shooters, but the wife seemed to like Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 because it was more tactical than run and gun, and also Army of Two because the 3rd person view was easier for her.
She plays Fable 2 and Overlord as well. And she loved watching me play Mass Effect.
Rock Band/Guitar Hero
Kameo?
Dead Rising (not the hostage saving but hacknslash zombie fun)
My better-half also enjoyed Bioshock (on easy) but hates every other FPS she's ever played
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Try it with DDR pads sometime with her. My fiancee kicks my ass like that.
Okay, so my girlfriend wants something that we can play on the PC online while she's away at uni, ideally co-op but against each other is also fine. Her setup is roughly 5 years old so no, Left 4 Dead will not do. I'm thinking maybe the likes of System Shock 2 (although I'm not sure I've tried co-op online with that) and maybe something like Unreal Tournament?
It doesn't have to be FPS or anything like that either, any other suggestions would be welcomed.