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Stealth brag thread incoming.

My wife is a gamer. No, not your "oh I play Mario and cute shit like that" ....or one of the women that try to fit in with the "dudebro" crowd by playing stuff like Madden or CoD, I mean like a real, bonafide, sit-down-and-seriously-invest-time-and-care-about-what-you're-doing type of gamer.

She's played and beaten stuff like Ninja Gaiden Sigma, smashed Zeus' face in (and instinctually knew she needed to lay off the O button after a while) in God of War 3, nearly (if not already) platinum'd Catherine, dreams of a similar-calibur mainline title to Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and is currently adventuring around on Earthbound, just to name a few.

Dawg, its sooo dope having a live-in gaming "buddy." To have some that can sit and strategize with you, share techniques and advice on a specific boss, root each other on or actually sit down and enjoy a nice co-op game of Borderlands 2 or Pikmin 3. I remember one night, just randomly we started talking about KH Dream Drop Distance, (as I had just beaten it earlier that day) because she's a BIG Kingdom Hearts fan, and we spent the greater part of nearly 2 hours pondering,Google'ing and "theorizing" about what the fuck is going on with the plot, the confusing shit about the Nobodies, and what could be in store for us in KH3.

I bought her a purple 3DS and I drew her a birthday card with Sora giving Kairi a paopu fruit and she nearly melted through the carpet. I gifted her a set of Turtle Beaches for her Xbox 360 along with Far Cry 3 when it first released and she immediately took to Facebook with pictures to "make them hoes jealous". She even enjoyed going with me to the Gamestop Expo that came to my state a few years back. A weird thing she does is she actually sits and watches walkthroughs for newly released games that she wants, with full intentions to buy/play them even having being spoiled by watching the entire thing played. If that shit ain't a one of the weird traits of a hardcore gamer, then I dunno what is!

So what about you fellas/ladies? Does your "other" game too?

 

[Warxard]

My fiancé beat Boogerman in one sitting.

She has more willpower than I.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

[QUOTE="D";198013453]So what about you fellas/ladies? Does your "other" game too?[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't be able to game without my right hand.

 

[Anno]

Off and on, yeah. Recently moreso when we play through stuff together. But at least once a year she breaks out the SNES and powers through The Lion King which isn't the easiest game ever.

 

[Adrian]

Thank god she's not HC as me, can't understand the whole fantasy around the gamer girl, hardcore gamer girls are just like us, like dudes, with no female manners and lack of that beauty that goes away rapidly when they can't stare at other thing than the TV, like us when we play.

A buddy is one thing, a girlfriend is something else, no racism here, i just think that a buddy relationship cant be addressed the same as a love relationship

 

[RoninChaos]

My wife games. When she goes in, she goes IN. She raids more hardcore than I do when we play MMOs. I can't fuck with her when she plays those. She will fucking kill me.

She's played a lot of stuff, from wow to dragon age to plants vs zombies. She loves Bayonetta too.

It's nice having your wife as a gamer. I dig it. She just tends to play different things that I do.

 

[v1lla21]

No she's not the type you described. She only plays certain Nintendo games. I'm glad she isn't because then I'd have to show her up on rocket league. Dunk on her all day. 2ez.

 

[M.J. Doja]

My gf doesn't game, doesn't seem to grab her attention. She isn't against it though. Seems pretty fun to be able to share your hobby with the person you spend so much time with. What the OP has seems like it would be cool

 

[fernoca]

My husband does.

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In my dreams.
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[ThisGuy]

She's way more of a gamer than me. She's played easily three times the amount of games I have in 2015. And I couldn't say in 2016.

She also enjoys comic books much more than me. In fact my requests and digging in slays thread is actually for her aside from the flash.

 

[MikeE21286]

My wife is in no way a gamer at all

 

[Spring-Loaded]

I haven't been able to touch the Wii U since we got Splatoon

 

[Brofield]

Wouldn't be able to game without my right hand.

I completely expected this response and I still giggled.

No significant other currently. My ex was sort of tolerant. Every now and again when she came to visit if I was just wrapping up a game before I devoted my full attention to her, she'd sit next to me and just ask some questions here and there figuring out what was going on. Handed her the Wii U tablet once when I was playing Hyrule Warriors, and she admitted it was pretty cool to see the enemy K.O. flash 1,500 on screen like it was her achievement (not that my 1,450 prior kills counted or anything)

 

[thomasmahler]

Not at all. My girlfriend is in politics and education and I quite like that I have other things with her to discuss than games, which I'm spending the rest of my day with. A man needs balance in his life!

 

[SinCityAssassin]

She's into it enough to keep up with what I say usually, but she's not as into it as I am.

She's way into Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and Fire Emblem though.

 

[CHC]

Nope, girlfriend doesn't care at all. Occasionally she will visit over my shoulder and comment on things she thinks are cool / creepy / nice-looking, recently Bloodborne, Firewatch, and Journey have attracted comments. But I always play with headphones on and it's pretty much a personal hobby, which I have no problem with.

 

[Eggbok]

My boyfriend is a gamer, he's really into Nintendo games and systems. He's completely obsessed with Smash, Splatoon, etc. He's honestly the reason why I bought a Wii-U lol.

 

[Voidance]

She's way more of a gamer than me. She's played easily three times the amount of games I have in 2015. And I couldn't say in 2016.

She also enjoys comic books much more than me. In fact my requests and digging in slays thread is actually for her aside from the flash.

Definitely true in my marriage. She devours games once they get their hooks in her.

 

[Salsa]

[QUOTE="D";198013453]

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Stealth brag thread incoming.

My wife is a gamer. No, not your "oh I play Mario and cute shit like that" ....or one of the women that try to fit in with the "dudebro" crowd by playing stuff like Madden or CoD, I mean like a real, bonafide, sit-down-and-seriously-invest-time-and-care-about-what-you're-doing type of gamer. [/QUOTE]

idk why this made me cringe

 

[Golgo 13]

How dare you come in here and brag about a relationship scenario most of us could only dream of.

I've had many girlfriends, none of them gamers. I did date a hardcore gamer for a few weeks but ultimately we had nothing else in common and I kicked her to the curb.

I still live my life dating women who marginally even accept my passion, but to my credit I tell them all that I'm not going to stop playing games just because they don't understand them, etc. I am just not attracted to "gamer girls" for some reason.

 

[Fragamemnon]

wife's been a top-echelon MMO player since basically forever. Way more hardcore than me.

 

[CHC]

idk why this made me cringe

his wief aint no casul bro

 

[Rival]

My gf plays my old 3dsxl I gave her when I got the N3ds xl. And she likes Mario kart and Mario party on wiiu. But no not hard core. She did surprise me last year by getting me bayonetta2 which I thought was pretty awesome.

 

[Begaria]

Yup, my wife is a gamer. She's actually on her gaming rig playing a MMO with her sister right now. We've completed many a game together and are currently playing through Until Dawn (great SO co-op experience by the way). I showed her Stardew Valley and she immediately exclaimed, "Oh my god, it's Harvest Moon! I have to play this."

 

[Tagyhag]

[QUOTE="D";198013453]

Spoiler

Stealth brag thread incoming.

My wife is a gamer. No, not your "oh I play Mario and cute shit like that" ....or one of the women that try to fit in with the "dudebro" crowd by playing stuff like Madden or CoD, I mean like a real, bonafide, sit-down-and-seriously-invest-time-and-care-about-what-you're-doing type of gamer.

She's played and beaten stuff like Ninja Gaiden Sigma, smashed Zeus' face in (and instinctually knew she needed to lay off the O button after a while) in God of War 3, nearly (if not already) platinum'd Catherine, dreams of a similar-calibur mainline title to Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and is currently adventuring around on Earthbound, just to name a few.
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Pfft that's the same thing . Call me when you're both knee-deep into Dwarf Fortress and Hearts of Iron.

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I miss that guy...

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Wife only watches movies and reads books... :'(

 

[sn00zer]

Nnnnnnope, but my SO likes watching me play Bloodborne and is willing to grab a controller for puzzle games like Portal.

 

[Peléo]

She used to be a huge Age of Mithology/Diablo back in the day. We played a bit of NSMBU together as well.

Now we mostly play boardgames though.

 

[minx]

Wife isn't a gamer at all. She liked makes choices for me in the Walking Dead Telltale games. She played Wii Mario Kart. That's about the extent of it.

 

[FriedConsole]

idk why this made me cringe

There were several points in the post that made me cringe but the apex of cringe was clearly the use of the word "dudebro".

 

["D"]

Yup, my wife is a gamer. She's actually on her gaming rig playing a MMO with her sister right now. We've completed many a game together and are currently playing through Until Dawn (great SO co-op experience by the way). I showed her Stardew Valley and she immediately exclaimed, "Oh my god, it's Harvest Moon! I have to play this."

She kills me with watching walkthroughs, recently when Until Dawn came out she was binge watching it and it took me everything to keep myself from watching too (cause I'm planning to pick it up when it gets a tad cheaper)

 

[Dog Problems]

My girlfriend likes Dr. Mario and a few games on her phone.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

My wife is a "watcher" so no, but my son...the force is strong with that one. Beat mario 64 and OOT (with me reading for him) at 4 or 5 years old. The future is bright in the Hardin House!

 

[JinjoUnchained]

My wife is amazing at Super Mario Maker. It started out that I would build her levels and we'd share cool online levels we found. Then I got distracted with other games, next thing I know she had hundreds of stars and fans awaiting her next creation. I feel like I need to get back in there and earn back my gamer card!

 

[John Kowalski]

She would.

 

[M.J. Doja]

Not at all. My girlfriend is in politics and education and I quite like that I have other things with her to discuss than games, which I'm spending the rest of my day with. A man needs balance in his life!

This is basically how I feel. But only because of the balance aspect. Gaming can become a bit too consuming if both people are the obsessive type.

Of course it would suck to have to hide or justify your own game playing, tolerance is so crucial.

 

[Neoxon]

I'll make a full response if I get past the first date with this one girl.

 

[Theodran]

My wife hasn't played games seriously since Pokemon Red/Blue, except for maybe Tsum Tsum, she plays that when bored. She sometimes plays Super Mario, Mario Kart, and Fantasia: Music Evolved with me when she feels like it, and played a survival match with me when Battlefront was released, but she's not a gamer by far.

She sure loves watching Let's Plays, though, especially survival games and survival horror games (The Forest, Alan Wake, Dead Space, Evil Within etc.)

 

[BennyBlanco]

Wouldn't really call her a gamer but my gf loves Animal Crossing and Zelda games. She still plays Animal Crossing New Leaf almost daily.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Nope, not at all.

She did play through Firewatch with me, but only because of Rich Sommer

 

["D"]

My wife is a "watcher" so no, but my son...the force is strong with that one. Beat mario 64 and OOT (with me reading for him) at 4 or 5 years old. The future is bright in the Hardin House!

Congrats lol

 

[FaintColt388301]

My lady isn't hardcore at all. She's never really played games too much and isn't confident with them so she doesn't play them on her own.

I've been slowly getting her in to them. I've been having her play simple, story based games to start her off. She started with Gone Home, Journey, Life is Strange and such. Right now we're playing Tearaway. She has a blast playing them with me but thats about it. She's super casual.

 

[Captains Curse]

My GF can beat Donkey Kong Country way faster than me. We both grew up with that game but holy hell she is precise.

I've also seen her beat paper mario 1000 year door, the Alice games and almost every Zelda game.

 

[kassatsu]

My wife likes fighting games (Soul Calibur, Tekken, SF). She will play some f2p stuff from time to time on her phone as well.

 

[Bossniak]

Nah

 

["D"]

I'll make a full response if I get past the first date with this one girl.

Good luck bro. If she doesn't already know if the princess is in another castle, she's not the one for you dawg

 

[Shmuppers]

Gf is a gamer, better than me at League. It's infuriating.

 

[TonberrysKnife]

My wife is not a gamer in the least but tolerates me playing.

 

[Lorcain]

I wish. I walk this path alone. I'm really happy (

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and f*cking crazy jealous

) for people that have significant others that are gamers. I think that would be amazing. I have other things in common with mine, but sadly gaming isn't one of them.

 

[Kama_1082]

Nope. My wife doesn't play games and I'm thankful for that.