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[Tawpgun]

My girlfriend doesn't game at all. When I told her I was going to PAX East (I live in Boston so its not like im leaving) she teased me about it and kept calling it Geekapalooza

Also two of her best friends here at school LOVE videogames. One has a PS3, is currently loving Far Cry 3, and is obsessed with Game of Thrones.
The other goes over there all the time to play on the PS3 and she's obsessed with Assassins Creed. She even asked me if I had a spare pass for PAX East, and I managed to get one for her, girlfriend wasn't interested.

It's like I picked the wrong woman

Nah, its fine. I'll convert her. I introduced GTAIV to a lady friend of mine who lives in Manhattan and she loved it.... if only for just driving around causing chaos.

 

[vikingvessel]

My wife and I are equally passionate about all things gaming, though her natural thoroughness has her platinum ratio crushing mine by roughly thirty-to-one. She has the patience and skills to overcome the maximum difficulties and 100% completions, though I tend to move on to the next title quicker in most cases. There aren't as many co-op options these days, so we spend a majority of the time gaming simultaneously. We both have plenty of other interests, though gaming has been a major staple of our lives for many years as far as free time goes, with no sign of slowing down.

 

[SinSilla]

My wife is not into gaming at all, but she still managed to land that one trick in Skate ive been trying forever on the first try (not even on purpose). Was kinda surreal...

 

[Shoogoo]

I introduced her to a few games like Picross, Picross 3D and Zoo Keeper.

She plays those like a robot, I'm serious, she's incredibly fast.

I'm so proud of her when I see that!

She gets dizzy on FPS though. TPS are okay.

 

[Evolved1]

I dislike playing games with girlfriends... I don't even talk about games with them. (Or ever, outside of gaf) The last few girls I dated didn't even know I was interested in it.

Never dated a girl who was too into videogames. I think it's awkward and weird to try and "get them into" gaming. When I was a teenager, I did that once, to pretty awful results. Even if I met a girl who was into them, I don't think I'd pursue it as a thing to duo.

That's my thing I do on my time. When I'm spending time with a girl we are usually doing something more active... I don't even really watch movies/television with girls I've dated.

The last time I watched a movie with this girl, I swear the movie seemed to never end. Longest movie of all time. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. I image it'd be even worse with a videogame.

 

[Shortt Sirket]

How does the two tvs look? Got a pic? I figure it'd be a bit distracting if beside each other.

I don't have a pic of the new setup yet. I have a sectional so the main, big, TV is at an angle between the L. She has her smaller TV at the end of the L so I can sit next to her while we play. It is a REALLY good setup for Co-Op games!

Plus ForzaGAF has heard my g/f and our old roomates cheering and yelling when we would do our races.

 

[xxjuicesxx]

I dont get my GF she loves playing me on the iPhone, games like Dice, Words, Scramble, and at first she loses but then she gets really good, I tell her she should play some more serious games. She likes Mario Kart but that game almost has universal appeal. She said she'll try SimCity with me which is good. Still though she thinks games are for kids and wants me to eventually stop even though I tell her I'm always going to be a gamer. Its a hot issue, she especially doesnt understand how time intensive games can be.

 

[Chaotic Kitten]

My husband and I are really into videogames, We have different tastes though, I played games like Tekken, Diablo, and Rogue, and he's more of a Zelda, Cave Story, and Mario kind of guy.

So 7 years ago we started making games we wanted to play together that just didn't exist, and it's been a blast, our latest game is actually getting fairly popular and it's not even finished yet!

The amusing thing is now that we are making games for a living, we have way less time to play together!

 

[nimbus]

I went thru Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance with my ex. I was an archer and she was a paladin type. Sigh...

 

[Holy Order Sol]

And how is that a bad thing?


Again how is that sad? Shouldn't that be awesome?

No?

 

[Mdeezy]

My ex was really into gaming. My current gf plays casual games such as family feud etc. Mostly phone apps. Im gonna get her into gaming eventually but until then Ill keep doing multiplayer with my two bros.

 

[Dunan]

My girl doesn't play many games herself, but she loves watching me play games. She watched me play through FFXII:IZJS, with its Japanese text and English audio, and, both being Japanese-English bilinguals, together we marveled at how good the translation was.

She got really, seriously into Heavy Rain. We were going to play it together but seemingly every day I'd come home and she'd apologize to me, saying that she'd played some more Heavy Rain because she just couldn't resist. I eventually gave up and let her play it to completion, and she couldn't stop talking about it. She was obsessed by that game, so I got her L. A. Noire one time, thinking that she might like another detective story... but it sits unopened.

The other game she got obsessed with was Panel de Pon, a. k. a. Tetris Attack. We played the Japanese one (with the goofy fairies) over and over.

I say that she likes to watch me play stuff, but if I start talking, she can get annoyed. She hated when I would bust out my freshman-level Italian 101 when playing Assassin's Creed. She wants to see Ezio wander around Florence and Venice, but doesn't want me to be Ezio. Also, one of the puttane in AC has her name (which is not very Italian to begin with), and when she saw this, she accused me of putting it in the game to mock her. I was as surprised as she was to see it there!

 

[terrisus]

My wife enjoys video games as well. Would have been pretty difficult if she didn't.

She mainly enjoys Puzzle games, which is great since I love those as well, and she's very good at them, and can regularly beat me as well. Aside from that, she also likes racing games, which are also fun to play together, and platformers which of course to tend to be single-player but that's fine. And, I got her to play through Chrono Trigger a couple of years ago, so I was happy about that.

 

[akidnamededdy]

I've only really played LBP and Minecraft with my girlfriend. She likes Minecraft because she can play in peaceful mode and not worry about monsters (she still cannot grasp the concept of moving with one stick and looking with the other). She did well enough in LBP.

We actually played through a bit of NSMB Wii back in the day but it usually ended up with me carrying her through the level while she spat fireballs nonstop, it was kind of amusing.

Tried to play Halo a couple times with her, but that aforementioned handicap about dual stick games made that kind of frustrating for her.

 

[NotMyUsername]

My girlfriend isn't into them as much as I am but she actively played before we started dating and that has translated into plenty of gaming time for both of us. She had a max level WoW character but hates interacting with others so it was done outside of a guild and without any PvP or instances/raids. But she enjoys questing and working on professions and making guild. Since we started dating she'd bring over her laptop and I've since transferred to her server (Shadowsong-US) and got her to run through instances including a couple heroics. She's not as practiced at being as efficient but she can usually hit around middle of the group in DPS and has become a lot more confident in doing stuff with others in the game. We both come and go in the game and we haven't played much the past four months or so.

Otherwise we really just stick to co-op stuff or watch each other do one-player things. She doesn't like to appear bad at anything so dying in games in front of me can frustrate her so we tend to play things where death is barely a factor, like the Lego games. Also, I tried to get her into You Don't Know Jack but I'm quite good at it so that didn't go over too well.

We're really probably happier just watching one another play games and aim to be pickier on co-op stuff to make sure it won't be something that frustrates her. She recently commented that she likes to watch Call of Duty, which I wasn't aware since I never play it, but I'll probably look into doing more stuff like that since she has fun watching.

On her own she plays a lot of stuff on the DS and The Sims. She's always been huge into Pokemon and recently got deep into Professor Layton games. She owns pretty much every version and expansion of The Sims out there and actively plays them pretty much daily. The houses she creates are crazy and I'd never have the patience in creating the replicas that she likes to put together.

 

[Jack_AG]

We like horror stuff like Amnesia. She digs those kinds of games when I play them and often sits next to me watching.

 

[BocoDragon]

My girlfriend rarely picks up a controller.. But when she does its surprisingly hardcore. She was a natural at Soul Calibur IV and we recently co-oped all the way through Gunstar Heroes

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

My S/O Is in the FGC, and often makes me feel inadequate since fighters are what I mainly play and i'm not that good :/

 

[acheron_xl]

My GF can't handle dual analog. It's mouse and keyboard or bust. As a result, if we play together, it's PC only. Minecraft, mostly.

 

[ZenVolta]

My GF can't handle dual analog. It's mouse and keyboard or bust. As a result, if we play together, it's PC only. Minecraft, mostly.

Pretty much this. Shes not what I would call a "gamer". She hasnt even played Smash Bros. She loves watching me play though. From time to time I try and pass her the controller but shes just not into it.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

We've only really played LotR: War in the North together, which was fun. He's a huge Pokemon/any-RPG-with-swords nut and I'd tried many times to get him into Monster Hunter, even got him a 2nd hand PSP with MHFU to play but he wasn't really interested.

This time though I got him hyped for MH3U, picked up 2 3dS copies and 1 Wii U and we're playing non stop. I can't pull him away from it! I'd never really played it coop before (he's dual swords, I'm a hammer) and it's really fun - having someone around for local wifi means I probably won't even bother with online. Seriously addictive.

 

[zweifuss]

My wife loves to play the Sims online. Facebook of all places. Sims social I believe it's called. But she won't play anything I like. I like 3rd person adventure games and fighters. She will watch me play uncharted though. If a game has an intriguing story she will watch but not play. I'm just glad she doesn't think my hobby is for children!

But as far as playing together we tried once but it didn't turn out well. New super Mario Wii makes enemies not friends!

 

[Certinty]

We play ocasionally.

Top Spin 4 - Same doubles team vs the computer, can be pretty fun.

Dead or Alive 5 - She loves this game, totally kicks my at it.

LittleBigPlanet 2 - Usually play this when we have friends round, great fun!

 

[katkombat]

I watched my girlfriend play Resident Evil 4 yesterday. It hurt. I then took the controller and breezed through the section immediately after meeting the merchant. For some reason this turned her on.

Easter redeemed.

Nice haha.

Back when I was still dating the crazy yet hot one, we played The Walking Dead. And Need For Speed: Most Wanted. She liked watching Mass Effect 2 and some others but she seemed to enjoy those the most.

 

[Einbroch]

My girlfriend thinks games are dumb, and that's fine. I think her "romantic" books are dumb.

 

[Shortt Sirket]

My girlfriend thinks games are dumb, and that's fine. I think her "romantic" books are dumb.

See, part of me thinks that is kind of sad. With how much I play games and how much they have been a positive influence in my life, I think I would have a hard time being with someone who doesn't at least appreciate my hobbies.

It is just a great thing to share and connect over. My GF is also a ballet/ballroom dancer and I have really enjoyed getting involved in her world, as it becomes something we can share. I guess I am lucky that she is also a huge nerd because I love the fact that we can play games and share our hobbies together.

 

[Grief.exe]

My girlfriend doesn't game at all. When I told her I was going to PAX East (I live in Boston so its not like im leaving) she teased me about it and kept calling it Geekapalooza

Also two of her best friends here at school LOVE videogames. One has a PS3, is currently loving Far Cry 3, and is obsessed with Game of Thrones.
The other goes over there all the time to play on the PS3 and she's obsessed with Assassins Creed. She even asked me if I had a spare pass for PAX East, and I managed to get one for her, girlfriend wasn't interested.

It's like I picked the wrong woman

Nah, its fine. I'll convert her. I introduced GTAIV to a lady friend of mine who lives in Manhattan and she loved it.... if only for just driving around causing chaos.

If her friends are hotter you should just trade up man.

I've tried everything to get my gf into gaming

Portal - confused by movement/aiming, frustrated by puzzles
Castle Crashers - frustrated by coordination
Animal Crossing - actually liked this one for a bit, but got bored. I picked up Harvest Moon: A New Beginning for 3DS and have to give that one a try.

She will watch hours of TV, and I will join her even though I don't really like watching TV, especially most of the shows she watches. But she won't even sit near me when I'm playing a game.

 

[Slygmous]

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.

Not only is this majorly generalizing, but you also just called everybody's girlfriends in this thread ugly.

My ex would game only a little less than I, but prefers open world games and RPGs. We split up years ago but still find time to play games together.

 

[VALIS]

My wife gets sick from 1st person cameras, so unfortunately that limits a lot of what we can play.

But she/we do play tons and tons of Pinball Arcade, Spelunky, Lara Croft (the overhead one), Plants v. Zombies, Ticket to Ride, we'll do some point & clicks together, etc.

Which she could stomach the 1st person POV. I heard seasick medicine might help.

 

[sphagnum]

My girlfriend always wants to play games with me but then gets mad when she loses, so she goes back to playing her own things, which are mostly DS related. Currently she's playing Style Savvy and Etrian Odyssey IV.

 

[TheSchwab_7]

My girlfriend plays games mostly on her iPhone. She got me hooked on this bubble popping game which is pretty fun, but the micro-transactions sort of ruin it.

She wanted to play Halo 4 one time and it took her 1h50mins to beat one level of Spartan Ops on easy. It was brutal.

She also played Far Cry 3 a few times and liked hunting the animals.

 

[Endesu]

Haha, not too much to say here, to be honest. We've played quite a bit of stuff, more recently Sin and Punishment and Resident Evil 6. We tend to do pretty well at the stuff we play but sometimes we hit a stopping point and need to strategize appropriately.

Since we only get to see each other so often, our co-op sessions are generally online, which works given how more and more games are keeping their cooperative stuff to online only...

 

[CaptainSchwann]

My math doesn't account for asian girls.

Spoiler

wakka wakka!

I know this is troll bait, but oddly enough I do know A LOT of pretty asian girls who game. Mostly exclusive to Nintendo stuff though.

Also, yeah I'm waaayyyy too competitive when it comes to most video games so usually it boils down to just co-op stuff.

 

[OCDuty]

Use to play Metal Slug 2 and X with my now wife. Don't have nearly as much time now, but we'll probably beat DKC Returns this year. The original DKC was her favorite game. She's into platformers and hates the violence in games now. Not sure why she enjoyed Metal Slug so much tho...

 

[Readvacancy]

She prefers playing the Sims but she is pretty good at Mario Kart and Smash Bros. Anything involving dual analog usage and she is out though. Usually if I am playing a game she's on her Sims. It works out nicely.

 

[hachi]

Had a fantastic session of NSMBU Boost Mode with the lady earlier; having to coordinate my platforming and her blocks for those challenges is like couples therapy. (And NintendoLand really shines with the little one added into the mix.)

 

[KojiKnight]

I figured s/o meant "shit out" meaning, you were playing commando.... seriously, who uses s/o?

That said, my wife has always been a gamer and we play everything from bejeweled to starcraft to left 4 dead together.

 

[Neki]

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.

hey what's wrong with free running in tales games?

 

[batbeg]

I don't know how you'd manage to play a game without your hands?

...oh....

 

[hgarrett54]

Don't have a S/O

._.

 

[Blueblur1]

I played through both Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword in the last 12 months with my ex-girlfriend. I piloted Link and she helped me all the puzzles and figuring bosses. She's a big Zelda fan and often fogured out what to do when I was lost. It was an absolute blast.

 

[Dark Schala]

hey what's wrong with free running in tales games?

I can't stand it when the boss design is tailored around it. And in co-op I don't really appreciate people doing it when I've caught an enemy off-guard and need help to build up a combo.

It's fairly easy to abuse, and people I know like doing it rather than pitching in and helping out when they should.

 

[Jacksonlee]

i really doubt she'll ever game with me.

EVER.

 

[Neki]

I can't stand it when the boss design is tailored around it. And in co-op I don't really appreciate people doing it when I've caught an enemy off-guard and need help to build up a combo.

It's fairly easy to abuse, and people I know like doing it rather than pitching in and helping out when they should.

psh, all you need to do is pick a mage character and spam all that high level shit to lower the frame rate. (like I do with Pascal!)

me and my gf usually just play diddy kong racing/mario kart/mario party, hopefully we'll start playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate soon though

 

[Hilti92]

i really doubt she'll ever game with me.

EVER.

Why not? Does she have some haunting child hood memory that makes video games terrible?

 

[akidnamededdy]

Pretty much this. Shes not what I would call a "gamer". She hasnt even played Smash Bros. She loves watching me play though. From time to time I try and pass her the controller but shes just not into it.

I have never been able to teach an SO how to play Smash Bros. I explain double jumping and moving around, never even get to stuff like triple jumping or even ATTACKING, and they always walk straight off the edge of the level.

I think I'm picking up the wrong kind of girls.

 

[user8503492]

I play FIFA against my wife almost every day. Her, me and my son routinely have, what we like to call, house champion of the night. I play him, or her him, or me him etc.. then winner plays that winner.
Its very common if we arent just sitting around and nothing is on TV or there is nothing to do one of us will throw down the challenge.

Only downside is my wife loves to hit with controllers. I score a goal, injure a her players...WACK! She sends a controller at my leg/arm lol.

We play Rockband too, well we did, now she just plays solo. Back when it was the "hot shit" we all played, but she always made fun of us cause we struggled on hard and she played expert on everything. Now she plays solo with out us.

Play hot seat civ and some other co-op stuff. Last thing we beat tho was Dead Nation.

She hates FPS tho, she freaks out when shit jumps out at her.

We also played the MMORPG Anarchy Online together for about 4 years, from about 2002-2006/7

 

[Dark Schala]

psh, all you need to do is pick a mage character and spam all that high level shit to lower the frame rate. (like I do with Pascal!)

The only mage characters I like to use in Tales are Milla, Rowen, and Pascal, and even then, I prefer the speedy melee fighters (which is funny, because Asbel was a character I liked to main a lot) as opposed to the stationary mage characters/magic swordsman characters. But I've always preferred speed classes in any RPG.

Different strokes, I guess.

 

[rahulkadukar]

What is S/O

 

[NotMyUsername]

What is S/O

Significant Other.