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[Deified Data]

I only date good looking girls unfortunately, which means they aren't interested in games. I try not to play games when they are around in order to keep their perception of me as godly as possible.

lol, I know you were joking but even then I doubt the correlation you suggest is as strong as you think it is. My SO's gorgeous and she spends about as much time gaming as I do. Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, Pokemon, Saint's Row 3 ahve all been getting a lot of play time lately.

It's not like I take your comment personally - I know what you're getting at - but it's hardly an "either/or" scenario. There are plenty of gorgeous women who play "real" games.

 

[Pestilence11]

My girlfriend and I both have a PS3 set up in our living room, her on the 42" and me on my 24" monitor. We've played lots of BF3 together in squads but recently have been playing through Darksiders.

 

[Heretic]

Why is it sad if she does better than you?

BECAUSE SHES A GIRL

 

[Goldenroad]

Gaming with my g/f is pretty much limited to 2D platformers like NSMB Wii, Little Big Planet, Rayman and she even helped me get through the last couple stages of Double Dragon Neon. We'll also play some Kinect crap like Happy Action Theatre and Dance Central, and we went though a long phase where we played way too much Rock Band too.

She's not a gamer and, personally I don't care if she ever really loves games the way I do, so long as she's cool with me obsessing over them constantly, we can maintain some kind of harmony.

 

[SolsticeZero]

Gaming with my g/f is pretty much limited to 2D platformers like NSMB Wii, Little Big Planet, Rayman and she even helped me get through the last couple stages of Double Dragon Neon. We'll also play some Kinect crap like Happy Action Theatre and Dance Central, and we went though a long phase where we played way too much Rock Band too.

She's not a gamer and, personally I don't care even she ever really loves games the way I do, so long as she's cool with me obsessing over them constantly, we can maintain some kind of harmony.

Brofist. I completely agree.

 

[Korosenai]

My ex used to give me blowjobs while I played Halo. Does that count?

 

[Pau]

He is right you know?

Cutscenes are usually boring! I just wanna get to the game.

I only date good looking guys unfortunately, which means they aren't interested in games.

This seems like it's just as accurate.

 

[Dylan]

lol, I know you were joking but even then I doubt the correlation you suggest is as strong as you think it is. My SO's gorgeous and she spends about as much time gaming as I do. Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, Pokemon, Saint's Row 3 ahve all been getting a lot of play time lately.

It's not like I take your comment personally - I know what you're getting at - but it's hardly an "either/or" scenario. There are plenty of gorgeous women who play "real" games.

My math doesn't account for asian girls.

Spoiler

wakka wakka!

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

My wife used to play some games with me such as the Champions of Norrath series, Dead or Alive series, and Animal Crossing. She also was into the Prof. Layton games and Wii Fit for a while. The last few years she's been steadily losing interest though. Hasn't picked up her DS or Wii Fit in ages, though if I suggest we sell them she says she still wants to play them.

To be honest, she got her first iPhone early last year and that's basically when she stopped playing her DS. It was mainly something to play before bed, when she was bored, or watching TV, and she uses the phone for that now. She doesn't even play games on the phone, really. Just Facebook, Youtube, and websurfing.

I don't really care, but it'd be nice if I could offload that WiiFit and DS. Time is money.

 

[GoddyofAus]

I only date good looking girls unfortunately, which means they aren't interested in games. I try not to play games when they are around in order to keep their perception of me as godly as possible.

Dude, you must have some seriously shit luck with women because a lot of my girlfriends have been gamers and gorgeous gamers at that.

 

[Dylan]

This seems like it's just as accurate.

I believe it, unfortunately : (

 

[DJ_Lae]

My wife used to play games with me - co-op stuff, mostly. She really enjoyed the Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath games, especially running around ninja-ing all the loot from me.

Speaking of that, she enjoyed the Mini Ninja games (console and DS) as well as Animal Crossing. Doesn't play an awful lot any more, though.

 

[Mesoian]

I've gamed with almost all of my past girlfriends in one form or another. I dated a few girls that I met on the pro DDR circuit. They were a lot of fun, but our live directions just went different ways. Most girlfriends i've had and that friends of mine have had don't really play games, but they'll watch them. A friend of mine plays marvel a lot and his girlfriend can't really wrap her head around getting her hands to do what her minds whats them to do, but his girlfriend does some AMAZING yipes-esque commentary, it's super fun to watch.

The problem comes from if a girl has no interest in video games, but feigns excitement over it. I had a girl once get super in my face about teaching her how to play street fighter because I like street fighter. It was a miserable time because ultimately, she had no interest in video games and was simply using it as an excuse to come over more often. That relationship went no where because we had no common ground and she was forcing herself to try to love everything I loved even though she found it boring or hard or annoying.

 

[Pau]

I believe it, unfortunately : (

Luckily for a lot of us, both are untrue.

 

[8bit]

She helps out, points out where health packs are for instance. Earlier she threw me a packet of salt. Uh, wait...

 

[someguyinahat]

It's hard because she gets motion sickness playing 3-D games - we learned that when Morrowind came out - and she's not willing to "practice" to get over it (and I can't really blame her for that.) She's also pretty casual (her favourite game is Settlers Online) but we have played some games together, such as Realm of the Mad God. That works out pretty well.

 

[Fireblend]

My GF plays a lot on pretty much every console we own. She even owns more games than I do on Steam

Spoiler

she's more worthy of being on GAF than I am

. Last year we 100% Rayman Origins together and it was incredibly fun. afaik she's going through Mario & Luigi: BII right now.

 

[BigEvilTurtle]

My girlfriend isn't a gamer but she certainly enjoys playing video games. She grew up with, like, Crash Bandicoot and GTA and stuff. She's an absolute boss at Mario Kart and can wreck pretty much everyone I know (including me). I got her into Minecraft, too, since it's a pretty approachable game.

 

[sikkinixx]

Please tell me your girlfriend has logged over 100 hours n PvZ too.. I don't think my girlfriend would be interested in RPG's although she loves shit like LOTR and The Hobbit, she just likes simple and easy.

Probably more than 100 across all the platforms... I remember showing it to her on PC and her "meh" reaction. Come home from work a week later to see her playing it. Go to bed while she is still playing it.

Yeah. PC one, then on her Mac then on the 360 then on the iPad and now since it was free with PS+ she bogarts the Vita to play it. It's in weird waves, where she won't touch it for months then all of a sudden that's all she will play.

 

[kayos90]

My boyfriend and I don't get along when we play games together.

Tales games together? He free-runs all the time and doesn't help out with combos. It also doesn't help that I generally play on a higher difficulty than he would like.
Fighting games? We're both super-competitive. He button-mashes in games he's not familiar with (and combos when he does know the game) I try to combo and sometimes it's successful and sometimes it isn't.
Platformers? Depends. We had a rough hilarious ride with NSMB Wii with us throwing each other into pits. Actually, we're alright with Mario games. Platformers are alright.
I can't play first-person shooters with him because they make me nauseous.
Dumbass trivia / minigame / nonsense games? We get a laugh out of the absurdity even though the games may not be that great.

We're better off watching each other play games, to be honest. Or taking time to ourselves and playing on our own (ex: he does it with God of War, hockey games/WWE stuff, shooters, and RPGs; I do it with RPGs, platformers, and action/adventure games).

Edit: I just can't fathom playing SP games with him and switching off after every mission/dungeon/level, though (outside of SMB3, which did that sort of thing decently). We play games far too differently from each other. He grinds in RPGs. I don't. He likes to take his sweet time in platformers. I like going fast. He likes button-mashing in fighters; I don't. He likes free-running in Tales; I can't stand the mechanic. It's just somethin' you've gotta come to grips with. And those differences, even if they're irritating at times, are what makes things exciting.

Rofl. This is sort of funny.

 

[kitsuneyo]

I only date good looking girls unfortunately, which means they aren't interested in games. I try not to play games when they are around in order to keep their perception of me as godly as possible.

Lolz... even though, generally speaking, you're probably on to something with both statements.

My wife is good looking and she likes games, in fact she just got her own 3DS. She doesn't spend a tenth of the time playing I do though.

Edit - oh yeah, we co-op'd Halo Reach together too, that was fun.

This seems like it's just as accurate.

Haha yup.

 

[n64coder]

My wife has no interest in video games whatsoever. She thinks it's a waste of time. Yeah, facebook and watching lame TV shows are a lot better. :rolleyes

Fortunately, I have two daughters that do enjoy gaming. It'll be interesting to see if they maintain that love as they get older or if they change.

 

[Lucent]

I'm jelly. I've never had a g/f ever and I'm going on 28. =l Just haven't been in the right place for that. She's really gonna have to be a gamer though, that's for sure. I mean, I like to do other stuff, but gaming is definitely my main hobby.

Someday. ;-;

My wife has no interest in video games whatsoever. She thinks it's a waste of time. Yeah, facebook and watching lame TV shows are a lot better. :rolleyes

Fortunately, I have two daughters that do enjoy gaming. It'll be interesting to see if they maintain that love as they get older or if they change.

That is cool. lol. I have been a gamer ever since my parents got me an NES. It's probably her fault. Though I'm sure I would've gotten into it anyway.

And I agree about the facebook and lame TV stuff. I think it's just a funny thing for people to say "playing video games is a waste of time" but then they do stuff like watch TV, which is like games but not interactive. I enjoy watching shows I like and stuff when I'm tired or eating, but usually it's gaming.

 

[Salsa]

my ex-gf was better than me at Warcraft III

and that's all she played, no interest in any other game

it was weird

 

[Square Triangle]

She can play games based on tv shows, LBP, Rayman Origins, etc. Nothing too complex since its not a hobby she enjoys.

Although, she did make me buy her a pink DualShock 3..

 

[wrowa]

I love playing JRPGs together with her, especially Tales games are a blast since we can fight the battles together. We aren't actually playing any real multiplayer games (from time to time we start an MMO, but not really seriously), we enjoy it more to play RPGs and experience the stories together.

 

[electricpirate]

My wife and I don't really game together anymore. We both had DSes and would love to play games together. Our favorites were Planet Puzzle League, MIght and Magic: Clash of Heroes, big brain acadamy and swapping puzzles in layton.

Sadly, no one has cracked that market like nintendo did. My wife plays tons of games on her phone, but there's nothing to play together and nothing that grabs her. The 3DS is terrible for us, as 3D gives us headaches. Also, none of the games have really managed that crossver appeal like on the DS.

 

[web_slinger_62]

man i need a gf...

 

[MechaZain]

Mine's a gamer but she sticks to RPGs and Action/Adventures. Assassin's Creed, the Arkham games, LA Noire, etc. She's only recently gotten into shooters thanks to third person games like Tomb Raider, and the only FPSs I can ger her to play are the alternative ones like Portal & Bioshock. Gonna try and get her into Mirror's Edge and Portal 2 co-op.

She's tolerant of my Halo obsession but she's only given it a try once. She's generally opposed to military shooters even if they're scifi. I don't think I'd be able to deal with a non-gaming girlfriend. It would be like dating someone who doesn't like movies.

 

[Lucent]

Sadly, no one has cracked that market like nintendo did. My wife plays tons of games on her phone, but there's nothing to play together and nothing that grabs her. The 3DS is terrible for us, as 3D gives us headaches. Also, none of the games have really managed that crossver appeal like on the DS.

Could always leave the 3D off. But, yeah, if the games you like aren't there, I guess there isn't a point.

man i need a gf...

I know that feel. =l

Mine's a gamer but she sticks to RPGs and Action/Adventures. Assassin's Creed, the Arkham games, LA Noire, etc. She's only recently gotten into shooters thanks to third person games like Tomb Raider, and the only FPSs I can ger her to play are the alternative ones like Portal & Bioshock. Gonna try and get her into Mirror's Edge and Portal 2 co-op.

She's tolerant of my Halo obsession but she's only given it a try once. She's generally opposed to military shooters even if they're scifi. I don't think I'd be able to deal with a non-gaming girlfriend. It would be like dating someone who doesn't like movies.

I could totally relate to her. lol. I used to like Halo at first but after the first few games I got tired of it and most FPS games in general. And RPGs and Action/Adventures are two of my fave genres. But I agree with not being able to deal with a non-gaming girlfriend. I just won't settle for that.

 

[-NeoTB1-]

My wife used to play games a lot, but she scaled down significantly once my son was born. We used to play MMO's together. She's also a big WRPG fan.

 

[EvilMario]

My wife and I play a ton of games together and on our own too. We're both well over 50 hours on Monster Hunter Ultimate, most of that being co-op time. She's at least as big as a gamer as I am.

 

[flyinpiranha]

Although I was joking, I'm willing to bet if we could correlate the amount of time each GAFfer spends playing games vs. the average attractiveness of their significant others....

well, I'd put my money on p < 0.05 and not in the happy direction.

That's pretty shallow. What does it matter how attractive a person is if they aren't into or at least tolerant of your hobbies? I'd rather be with an unattractive kick ass chick than a good looking shallow girl who has no acceptance for my likes. Been through those shallow hotties in college and they were all pretty worthless in retrospect, then again so was I.

Luckily I have a gorgeous fiance who's also into games. Took a while, but I found her.

I'm sorry you have such terrible luck with women.

*in before "dude, I have no problem with women, I get laid all the time by supermodels"*

 

[Akuun]

I play stuff all the time with my gf.

• Duoed to 60 in TERA with me healing and her playing as DPS. This was particularly amusing because the game has equal opportunity fanservice.
• Co-op in Borderlands 1, Saints Row 3 and Left 4 Dead.
• I'm more knowledgable and experienced with FPSes, and she's the same with console JRPGs.
• We were about evenly matched in Blazblue when we first met and have improved at about the same rate, which is amusing because we can really well when an update skews our character matchup one way or another.
• We took turns playing Catherine. There were times when she got stuck at places that seemed obvious to me, but apparently she felt the same way about me when I played.
• Both played and finished Dark Souls. We sometimes watch each other play and/or watch speedruns.

She's way better at Dark Souls than she seems to think. There was one time she was playing on a crappy PC, and was having trouble with the Titanite Demon in Anor Londo. After a switch to a better computer, she beat it on the first try with no shield, midroll, and only got hit once. I was like WTF since I've beaten the game at SL1 and I'm still scared of that guy.

 

[RooMHM]

This feminist trend on NeoGAF needs to stop, seriously. Everyone can be measured.

 

[andymcc]

This feminist trend on NeoGAF needs to stop, seriously. Everyone can be measured.

ohhh boy...

i don't play games with my S/O and rarely play them around. usually just vintage stuff if i do. she'll occasionally play, get frustrated and quit.

 

[Tiops]

My wife has the platinum trophy for Demon's and Dark Souls.

Yes, I say this proudly.

 

[missfuuchan]

My husband and I play pretty much everything together - co-op when we can, and share/watch each other on single player games. He's good and some games and I'm good at others - it works out really well

 

[Dark Octave]

Been playing a lot of classic Konami (they just happen to be Konami) beat em ups with the wife before bed. Been having a lot of fun latley. Hpefully this keeps up.

 

[Lucent]

My wife has the platinum trophy for Demon's and Dark Souls.

Yes, I say this proudly.

That's awesome. =D

 

[plutoknight]

Because he got her into it. Don't turn this into a sexist thing. Its not.

Sexist or not, this doesn't bother me. If my S/O could beat me at games? Awesome!
I don't see a feminist trend in this thread, either (Plus, I mean, gender "equality" in the games industry is a pretty huge problem that we're now sorta-kinda looking at with some scrutiny. Part of "growing up".)

I'm currently without girlfriend (though, working on fixing that). But, I had one former girlfriend who was into games, but her tastes didn't mesh with mine really well except for one game -- World of Warcraft. We leveled 1-70 together (YAY Triple XP!). It was cool.

I'm currently talking to a girl now who isn't much of a gamer (but has played and finished Final Fantasy VII!), which I think is okay because, well, she's open to exploring the medium given the right games. And I have the right games! (She wants to play Bioshock Infinite for the story. I think that's a great start.)

 

[Brofield]

man i need a gf...

Overrated. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

So, I choose without. Hella cheaper, so more money for video games.

Spoiler

I also have incredibly low confidence, ambition and self-esteem so don't listen to me.

Love thyself before you love others.

 

[Nekki]

She used to kick my ass in Tekken. Repeatedly.

 

[Mesoian]

How gaming with girls I'm interested goes when they express a desire to play video games with me when they don't have any interest or prior knowledge of games.



It's rarely fun for me. I get competitive and they get annoyed because they can't get competitive because they don't know gaming "fundimentals", it rarely works out.

 

[andymcc]

Overrated. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

So, I choose without. Hella cheaper, so more money for video games.

Spoiler

I also have incredibly low confidence, ambition and self-esteem so don't listen to me.

Love thyself before you love others.

lmao

 

[honorless]

Most multiplayer genres we don't really agree on. He doesn't like puzzle games, and though I thought he liked platformers NSMBWii just made him frustrated. Even if I was really interested in learning about 4X games, I've never played one before and since he's got over a thousand hours in Civ 4 alone the skill differential would probably be a big issue. We're going to try SR3 co-op but I'm not sure our playstyles will work well together&#8212;he screws around a lot (100 hours in Skyrim and still hasn't completed the main story) while I prefer to go down the list of objectives in order to beat the game.

Where we meet: side-scrolling beat-em-ups and run-and-guns. We used to play the Metal Slug PS2 collection together every so often until we got an apartment and an HDTV&#8212;he isn't really fazed by shitty upscaling and just thinks I'm a weirdo for wanting to hook the PS2 up to the SD CRT in the corner. :/

Since the Dungeons and Dragons games are coming out on Steam, I hope we can play those together.

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

I only date good looking girls unfortunately, which means they aren't interested in games. I try not to play games when they are around in order to keep their perception of me as godly as possible.

Amazing.

 

[RMI]

My girlfriend is not interested in games. Actually, she's not interested in much of anything.

*to be fair, she's not awful at Balloon Fight.

 

[Miroku129]

This thread makes me want to have a girlfriend... :/

 

[overcast]

I started playing certain co-op games with him last year. First person shooters are probably where she struggles most. Thus far we've played:

Scott Pilgrim- Loved it, pretty challenging, but very fun. Plus she loves the comic/movie.
Rayman Origins- Incredible. One of the best experiences I've had with a game. She loved it as much.
Trine 2- Good, but we delayed beating it for too long. So it dragged a bit. Gorgeous game.
Lego Batman- Pretty fun, but almost too simplistic.
Walking Dead- She watched me play the whole thing, which we both got a kick out of. Works shockingly well.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light- Probably my second favorite game I've played with her. Game has some awesome mechanics, and a perfect balance of action and puzzles.

Borderlands 2 was too complex, and wasn't that great for the both of us. I obviously play games more often alone, but when I get certain co-op games I will see if it works out.