Is your wife/gf/bf a gamer? Are they as "hardcore" as you?

My wife used to play Mario and Tetris, where I can jump in and play together.
Now she just play F2P mobile games (what's it called again? Hay day? something about a farm???) and I couldn't care less.

;(
 
She is not as "hardcore" as me but she's a gamer. She mainly plays things like Elite Beat Angels, the Trauma Center series, Ghost Trick, Danganronpa, Hatoful Boyfriend, Corpse Party and other rpg maker indie horror games. For almost a year she was addicted to Love Live School Idol Festival. She is also a huge 2D Mario fan and a Puzzle Bubble master.

But anything more complicated/intense/absorbing than that is an instant turn off for her. She likes watching me play though. Sometimes she asks me to play through Chrono Trigger again because she loved watching the experience from start to finish. We played Silent Hill: Shattered Memories together, taking turns (well, basically I had to do all the nightmare sections...)
 
My wife posts on NeoGAF more than I do and is seriously into Pokemon. I can't understand her obsession with it, but as long as she's enjoying herself, I'm all for it. I think I play more stuff, but when it comes to RPGs she probably plays more than I do.
 
Nah, she has a wii. Loves playing games on my PS4 or watching me play. So many gorgeous titles.
 
My wife plays Mario Kart. By "plays", I mean that about 42 nights in the 15 years we've been together, she's played Mario Kart with me. She'll also play puzzle games on her phone. Rarely. No, she's not a gamer. Thank gosh. That would get expensive if we had to buy 2 gaming computers.

Having a son, I've reverted to only being a gamer for about 2 hours a week. Can't wait until he's playing though. "Sorry Hun, but we HAVE to get the Nintendo 2022 Fondue-Sphere... for Miles."
 
My fiance games, but she's not particularly "hardcore" about it.

Amusingly, unlike almost everyone else in the thread she doesn't really care for Nintendo games. We play MK8 online a decent amount, but I tried to get her into NSMBU and Super Mario 3D World and she didn't care for either. She doesn't care about Nintendo characters at all.

She played through Rayman Origins/Legends, and was obsessed with Bioshock and Infinite for a while. She loved Dishonored and Portal, Fez, Ori. Mostly she goes for 2D platformers, especially those with co-op. Oh, and Nidhogg!

I'm blessed with a girl who has good taste in music, games and TV/films. The holy trifecta!
 
My girlfriend wasn't as into games when we first got together. But a year and a half later she's really gotten into them. It's amazing sharing a lifelong passion with her. I've seen her recently complete Paper Mario 64 and TTYD which kind of introduced her to RPGs. She now loves them and wants more. I want to try Mass Effect with her but she's not as enticed with the idea of all the shooting... Sadly :( Although she'll watch me play Star Wars Battlefront and Halo 5. Never joins in though.

Beyond that we play a lot of Nintendo games together. Lots of Mario Kart on the Wii U, which she gets fiercely competitive over and hates to lose. Makes for some hilarious reactions. Recently on occasion, we've been making a drinking game out of Mario Party 2 which got heated QUICK, haha. We fostered a town in Animal Crossing GCN for about two months but I just couldn't shake the feeling that, as much as I adore that one for its OST, it is just so inferior to the 3DS installation.

Oh and Rocket League... She's obsessed with Rocket League. She just bought an Xbox One Lunar White controller primarily to play that game with me because I'm a cheap ass and only had one controller for the console. She knows how to game in style and luxury, no doubt.
 
My girlfriend plays a little, shes surprisingly good too given how little she plays. She played through Wolfenstein last year and we play things like Diablo 3 co-op from time to time.
 
Yes she is, and continues to get better each year.

It's quite a wonderful thing when you're wife is your lover and your best gaming buddy too. I really don't deserve her.
 
Yes

She's currently making her way through the Mass Effect Trilogy on PC for I think the 4th time before starting on Pokemon Blue and Twilight Princess HD.


She logged more hours than I have in the last year... Maybe...
 
When I met her, she said that barely played anything, but had an xbox 360 to play dance central, just dance and mortal kombat. Then I lent her my DS and she really liked rhythm heaven and warioware. I'm trying to convince her to play Ace Attorney because she also likes anime, reading and CSI.

So no, she isn't as "hardcore" as me, but I couldn't care less about that.
 
My gf has 2000+ hours on GTA Online. Never spent half this much time on any game ever.

When she's not playing GTA, she'll be playing Garden Warfare 2 or quiet games like Firewatch or episodic games like Life is Strange.
 
My wife plays a lot of very specific series/genres, but when those aren't available she basically doesn't play much.

I pretty much play constantly.
 
When I first met my wife in 1998, one of the first questions she asked me upon hearing I was a gamer was if I knew when Baldurs Gate was coming out, because she really wanted to get it as she'd loved Menzoberanzan and Ravenloft. She still plays lots now, too...still really into RPGs and MMOs. And Civ.

I should add that both of my kids have said they want to make games...maybe in the future I can have a father-son-daughter indie studio or something. :p
 
No, my fiance is not. He sees no point in it but will usually hang out at night while I play (or go do projects). I've tried to get him into it several times but he does not have the patience and isn't interested enough to get past the getting used to the controls stage.

Best I've done is get him amused by free roaming around GTA and stealing cars (though he decided he didn't like shooting cause it was too annoying).

Oh well, more gaming for me as we aren't fighting over the game console/tv.
 
My wife plays games and although she doesn't play as many games as I do or frequent GAF as much as I do, she's put in over 700 hours in Animal Crossing New Leaf.
 
My boyfriend posts on NeoGAF.

He plays almost everything, from point-and-click adventure to RPGs to RTS to shmups to fucking everything except MMOs, mobas, racing and sports, basically. So he's probably more hardcore than me since I stick to a far more limited genre list.

Still took way too long to play Dark Souls (which of course he ended up loving, as I knew he would!), and the other day I caught him playing... The Walking Dead! That filthy casual!

Adrian said:
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
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This post... I can't

What?

Pau said:
A real gamer who will play Bloodbourne and knows about shit like Panzer Dragoon Saga.
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Bloodborne*

So close, so close... ;)

I'm not sure what's going on in this post.
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I think he's saying that hardcore gamer girls are icky and unfeminine, and that we lose our beauty if we game for too long... or something? Also being buddies with your SO is like, wrong? I guess I've been doing relationships wrong for 16 years!
 
My girlfriend isn't but she wants to learn. I wish I had the patience to teach her though lol. Getting there, one day I hope she'll be able to play properly against me.
 
[QUOTE="D";198013453] I drew her a birthday card with Sora giving Kairi a paopu fruit and she nearly melted through the carpet.


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?[/QUOTE]


Yes my partner games. She was kind of forbidden from it as a kid but she had a babysitter who had a ps1 so she could play spyro in occasion. Since we've been together though she is becoming more of a nerd :)

Funny that you mentioned Kingdom Hearts as that's her absolute favorite. I made her a stuffed heartless that plays music from the game last year and it's going to be the theme for our wedding. Our cake topper is the heart with sora sharing the paupu :)

And she does nearly the same thing! She will read everything there is about a game before I play it but still wants to see/play the whole thing. Boggles my mind lol.

The only problem is she gets motion sickness from many games. Basically anything that controls the camera for you. I'm hoping she
can still enjoy VR.

She loves watching me play and will discuss development, rumors, plot, and gameplay with me. It's hard to find time to play co op these days with a little one running around. We're
currently going through Diablo 3 which has a teleporting (autopilot) function that's handy when one of us has to stop.


Tl; dr
So yes she does, but not as hardcore as I do :p


I don't think I could have a serious relationship with someone
who didn't at least appreciate and understand the medium
 
My girlfriend is a horrific monster and queen of Mario Kart.

I hit her with a red shell once and came first and she didn't talk to me for the rest of the day.

Some serious shit.
 
Yeah she is. We actually met while working at EA so it only makes sense. We have the same favorite RPG (FFVI) which made it all the cooler. Nowadays with our kid, she plays more mobile than console, PC, or handheld.
 
Neoxon said:
Thanks, I'm gonna need it. She's typically more of a PC gamer, but I've been training her in the ways of Street Fighter V as of late (though she called me out for always using Karin, which was what inspired me to spend more time with F.A.N.G, Rashid, & Charlie). She does play Smash though, so that's a plus.
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Wifey material :p

Seriously though, good luck mate


For those that have partners that don't, you've just got to find the ONE that will hook them. Start off with something SIMPLE. Don't take for granted the years you've put into learning how to move and look. Don't push too hard. They already know you'd like them to try.


Here's some that you might try (for women, sorry I don't have experience for men, my only advice is toget there friends to play with them)


The sims
Animal crossing
Pokemon
2D zelda
'movie' games like Telltale/Quantic dream
Littlebigplanet
Mario kart
Nintendogs
Ibb and obb
Flow, flower, and journey
Trivia games (especially those with buzzers)
Simple fighters (preferably those you DON'T
know)
Puzzle games (bust a move,bejeweled)
Tower defense (Pixeljunk monsters, crystal defenders)
Gauntlet (Dark Legacy or before)
Rampage
Motion games (just Dance, wii sports)
Music games (ddr, rock band, singstar)
Minecraft
 
LucidMomentum said:
Barrens Chat?
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...I actually met my first girlfriend in Barrens chat.

Maybe you're on to something.

I'm at a 50% success rate in terms of having a gamer as an S/O. It's pretty swell, but with my most recent relationship, it got a little...uh..overwhelming, I guess. She always wanted to play certain games all the time together and it ruined my playtime with games that I wanted to play.
 
She doesn't play at all, outside of the occasional Animal Crossing or Civ 4. At some point, she was interested in playing one of the older Tomb Raiders, but that came and went in just a couple of days.
 
She loves retro games and is also way better at them than me (favorite system is SNES and her top favorite games are Super Metroid and DKC2). She doesn't keep up as much with modern games as she has very specific rules for what she's looking for, usually me trying to show her a newer game doesn't go so well.
 
My gf loves more recent games and she loves the Final Fantasy series. Not a hardcore gamer but casually plays. She does love to watch me play horror games.
 
My girlfriend has a light obsession with certain mobile games (she's a Drop7 addict). She does not own a console and is generally oblivious to the gaming industry. One of her great traits is that she's very understanding of my love for video games and doesn't have a problem with me setting aside time to play. I convinced her to play Until Dawn with me and she really loved it. I would have played The Witness with her too but I had already started it before asking.

My ex used to get so pissed off when I'd play games, even if she wasn't around. It was annoying and borderline disrespectful. I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a factor of our break-up. I've never dated anyone who had my level of love for games, but I at least need to be with someone who can appreciate it as one of my hobbies. Feel fortunate that I have that right now.
 
I just got my girlfriend a PS4 (we've been playing destiny together). She doesn't play games on the reg. It's been a very eye opening experience. To realize there's been this game language given to you over the years and how much modern game designed is built around that is bonkers.
 
My girlfriend has really good taste in games, but doesn't get as obsessively deep as I do. She grew up on emulated Neo Geo games and N64, so she's big into KoF and Zelda. Her two favourite games are Money Idol Exchanger and Xenoblade Chronicles. She's pretty great. I got her a n3DS for her birthday last year and she's since gotten into Fire Emblem, Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright. She's also really into Castlevania, and we played through SoTN, CotM and AoS together.

I've always been big into collecting so I guess I have a wider breadth of knowledge, but her specific experience with Neo Geo and other arcade games means she knows a lot of obscure stuff from there. I was watching saltybet and she's like "oh that's a character from Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer" and I was like "dang nice"

Edit: oh yeah, we also play lots of strategy games! Favourites are Age of Mythology, Civ V and Rise of Nations!
 
More than I would've thought, we've played a lot together. We're sharing Stardew Valley now.

She got me into Witcher, Undertale, that was unexpected.
 
My girlfriend is probably what most would consider a hardcore gamer, but idk if she would consider herself one. She has a 3DS, a PS3, and a PS4. She doesn't play as many games as I do but she plays more than most people, she loves games like The Witcher series, Dragon Age, Batman, and Elder Scrolls along with more experimental games or adventure games like Until Dawn, Life is Strange, Grim Fandango, etc. She really loves Double Fine and the Monkey Island games, so that sort of thing.

Grew up gaming on PC mostly with whatever weird stuff her dad would bring home for her and her sister. I was raised on Nintendo and to a lesser extent Playstation, so in that way our tastes are a bit different and we expose each other to new things. I've gotten more into visual novels and adventure games due to her influence, she got into Bloodborne and Fire Emlem from me. It's nice honestly, to have someone who is intelligent and that I respect to have conversations with about the industry and whatnot. I would guess that being with me has encouraged her love of games more than if we weren't together, but I think she'd still play games even if she hadn't been with me.

Overall it's nice to have someone who has the same general interests as you, but who's tastes are different enough to expose you to new things inside of those interests. If she wasn't into gaming that wouldn't affect my attraction to her at all, but the fact that she is accepting and understanding of my primary hobby is necessary, imo.
 
Juke Joint Jezebel said:
Finding a local fella who's into more than just the yearly shooter and sports sequels is pretty tricky, surprisingly!
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Aww man I can't empathize but I feel for you. I can definitely see that being true.

Sheriff_Battlesnake said:
My girlfriend is lovely enough to want to share passions with me so she is giving it a real sporting effort. She loves it when she accomplishes stuff and is really proud of herself, but she does get frustrated easily. I'm so impressed by her passion and am completely thankful.
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This story made me smile. It's a beautiful thing. Just don't push too hard lol

Love your avatar btw.


Giever said:
well as long as no racism
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Lol yeah, wut?
 
I can understand why some folks here are fine with their other not being into games...less console hogging (unless yall have two or other means to play) plus having that extra alone time is a plus.

But having someone that has the same hobby ad you and most importantly, someone who UNDERSTANDS it, bruhhh it saves on so many potential arguements about "why did you buy this, whats an amiibo" or "all you do is play the game, you dont spend time with me" nonsense when she can just join in, watch or play in another room. No headaches or feeling guilty about loving a hobby you grew up with when you both can nerd out together.


On a side note she just got into Phoenix Wright games, I think she's playing the crossover with Apollo Justice
 
Do smartphone/puzzle games like Picross or Sudoku count?

I got her in a Towerfall hook around when we first started dating, but even attempting to get her to play one now is harder than traveling back in time.
 
My wife is a gamer. One of the reasons why I married her. She loves the Tomb Raider, Uncharted, and GTA franchises. The first game we played together was Soul Caliber III on PS2. Currently, she's constantly on GTA Online with her buddies.
 
Not exactly, but she loves Rhythm Heaven, Elite Beat Agents, Fire Emblem, Pokemon; and Picross. We always love playing Super Puzzle Fighter as well.
 
pip77 said:
My wife is a gamer. One of the reasons why I married her. She loves the Tomb Raider, Uncharted, and GTA franchises. The first game we played together was Soul Caliber III on PS2. Currently, she's constantly on GTA Online with her buddies.
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It's funny cause she makes fun of me for not beating GTAV yet because SHE did.....but my backlog is horrendous. Plus, new things keep releasing and as much as I try to resist I'm buying new games before I even get past tutorials/prologues

*sighs*
 
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