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

My wife is a mild gamer (animal crossing/daganrompa style) but also loves watching me playing games (BB, witcher3 etc). If she do not fall asleep while I'm gaming means the game is surely a GOTY (never missed one :-)
 
Yeah. My wife is way better at games than I am, apart from like, the NHL series and a few scattered exceptions here and there.
 
Spring-Loaded said:
I haven't been able to touch the Wii U since we got Splatoon
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This so much haha!

Yeah, I got to know my now fiancé on a gaming forum a little over 7 years ago. Pretty sure that says it all. We currently play Black Desert (she loves to play MMOs) but we also game on consoles or play games like Terraria on PC (played in co-op for roughly 150 hours total...)

She's also a huge Zelda and Yoshi fan. She was and still is the perfect dream girl for me.
 
My GF plays in bursts: currently AoE2, sometimes a co-op thing on Xbox, other times Zoo Tycoon or Rollercoaster Tycoon. She hates FPS/TPS as she's not great at twitch and feels pressured by being under attack. She prefers puzzles and strategy.

But sometimes she plays nothing but Temple Run or Plants vs Zombies.

So nice to have a GF who gets why games are awesome, even if I am way more into them than she. My previous partners all thought games were for nerds who argue shit on gaming forums...

...oh shit.
 
Not married, but my girlfriend will get into some games with me. Mostly first person puzzle solvers akin to Portal, but every once in a while we can jam on some side scrollers like Spelunky or Super Meat Boy.
 
My wife has been playing WoW since BC and still puts in 3-4 hours a day. She also has 2 golden heroes in Hearthstone and had us buy a second Wii U so we could play Splatoon together. Oh and she walked down the aisle to Tifa's theme.
 
My wife doesn't like all types of games like I do, and plays mostly on PC. She goes in pretty hard on games she really likes. For example, she has 260 hours in Skyrim, and 150+ in Witcher 3.

We also play co-op in games like Diablo, Torchlight and MMOs.
 
She plays street fighter with me (Wife) and mashes.

Other than that i had her try mario , she fell in the first pit in 1-1 countless times lol def not a gamer.
 
drugstore_cowboy said:
Nope. She's got no interest in gaming whatsoever and I like it.

Good company without thier face constantly lit up by a mobile phone playing some puzzle game shite is nice.
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First why do you assume it would be some mobile game she is playing?

Second, why is what is good for the goose isn't good for the gander? Second time in this thread where it seems that 1. people assume gamers are like a certain way and 2. think females should put up with it from them but aren't willing to do the same in return.
 
My wife plays sometimes, but not nearly as often as I do. She mostly likes to play story based games and some platformers in co-op. Most recently she played Until Dawn and Life is Strange and loved both.
 
Always-honest said:
She plays Nintendo games mostly. But that's not gaming apparently. Because you have to play what testosteron driven creatures play to be a gamer.[/ QUOTE]

Man, I agree, the "filthy casuals / Mario and Mobile don't count" attitude is what puts off girls describing themselves as gamers in the first place. OP really made me angry reading that shit: Is your girlfriend a true hardcore gamer, one that shitposts on the internet about framerate and beats Bloodborne on hard? Because people that play 30 different puzzle games and mobile games daily aren't the "real" gamerzzz, so women will never be gamerzzz lolzzz.

Anyway, I am a gamer girlfriend of many years to a boyfriend who never played video games in his life. I got him into Zelda, Mario Kart and Splatoon, but since these are Nintendo properties, it doesn't count as we all know.
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My GF is a gamer. She has tons of those "F2P" puzzle games on her tablets. She will sit down for hours on end playing those games.

I just let her be, and join her once it a while by playing Words with Friends against her or watching her play bubblewitch (which frustrates her a lot sometimes).
 
Wife is a Diablo junkie. She is higher than me. But other than an unhealthy addiction total WOW years ago, it's only slots mobile gamesite for her. Daughter is mobile only. Son spends his free time pc gaming with his buddies.
 
There was a point where my gf was always on resistance fom and COD4. As much as me maybe but she never enjoyed the franchises after that. Can't argue with her like
 
My gf has been gaming since she was 8, getting into it thanks to her older brother.

I'd say she's a hardcore gamer, currently has 96 hours clocked in on Divinity. 70 or so we played co-op (I got bored, but she's determined to finish the game). We play a lot of smash bros, Mario kart and Pokemon. She's mostly into RPGs though.
 
mrklaw said:
Feel free to not answer, but ever had great sex after a memorable co-op multiplayer session?

Also my wife is literally the opposite - never plays, never sees the point in games at all. Every now and then I try a new game to see if she'd be interested but it usually falls flat. She enjoyed smashing my face in on Wii boxing and it was a bit scary to see :)

HTC vive is my next chance
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Indeed. Even made it a little game...like whoever would lose would have to do something sexual for the other person or something close to that
 
Every so often, my wife will go on a Mass Effect bender with the sole purpose of procreation with Garrus. She has a fifth cycle coming up soon and he has no idea he's about to be used up and tossed aside yet again.
 
My boyfriend probably spends about the same amount of time playing games as I do, but he's the type to get super deep into one game for weeks on end whereas I play a greater quantity of titles. For instance, he's still playing XCom 2; I beat it weeks ago and moved on, and I've completed two other games since then. I'm usually the person who tells him about a new game rather than the other way around, he just plays stuff while I follow news and read neogaf daily.

...Also League of Legends, we both play far too much of that (usually together, so I know we've got a strong relationship if we can survive that lmao).
 
Yes, my GF of 4+ years is a very solid gamer. It's interesting to compare our gaming habits, actually:

While I tend to play a lot of different games, and move on to new ones with some regularity, she plays the ever loving hell out of a few select games, and only occasionally moves on from one of them. I introduced her to Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, for example, and they quickly became pretty much all she plays, while I'm still trying to juggle HotS with new releases, and my own favorites.
 
Yep, dating for 8 years and gaming is a big part of our relationship.
Honestly don't think I could be with someone who doesn't have at least a slight interest in video games.
She's mostly into JRPGS and adventure games (Lego Harry Potter, etc). She also loves board games too which is awesome.

She's a keeper for life, marrying this girl.
 
My girlfriend loves games as much as me. It's actually really awesome as we have a really sweet back to back TV setup where we play Destiny, Diablo 3, Smash, ect. Every night. He'll most of the time I come home from work and she is knee deep in some sort of multiplayer game online. It's great.
 
Somewhat, she wants us to buy the new Ratchet and Clank game and she played Firewatch. She is no where near hardcore.


But she also played Watch Dogs and GTA 5 story mode at least 7 times each.
 
My wife is kind of a gamer, she likes RPGs but strangely skips most of the cut scenes and doesn't pay much attention to the story. We played through all the Halo's recently in the MCC and she wanted to skip the cutscenes, it drove her insane that I wouldn't let her.

She does love playing Call of Duty, and while her K/D is usually pretty terrible, she plays the objective like a champ.
 
my wife likes games but almost only exclusively plays games with me (co-op, taking turns, etc).

she almost never just plays a game by herself. so no? yes? it doesn't really matter.
 
Tigress said:
First why do you assume it would be some mobile game she is playing?

Second, why is what is good for the goose isn't good for the gander? Second time in this thread where it seems that 1. people assume gamers are like a certain way and 2. think females should put up with it from them but aren't willing to do the same in return.
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I'm talking about the difference between my girlfriend and the ex. I knew it was a mobile game from the sound.

ys45 said:
My girl friend plays video games since she's 7 and like a lot of genre and recently got into jrpgs and western rpg . We played together Diablo 3 and Borderlands on PC .
We also played EDF and the Musou series together .
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She's 7?
 
My girl friend plays video games since she's 7 and like a lot of genre and recently got into jrpgs and western rpg . We played together Diablo 3 and Borderlands on PC .
We also played EDF and the Musou series together .

She don't play as much as I do but she 100% most of the game she start .
 
It's occasional sprints of obsession. I think as long as the story is promising or has a interesting concept or If you can craft your own story. It Helps her to invest in the game world.

RPG's: Eternal Sonata, Skyrim, Catherine(she loved Katherine)
Action games: Remember me, Batman Arkham Asylum, all Zelda
Telltale style game:The Wolf among us, Life is strange, tales of the borderlands


She hates dota2 mainly because when I play it and I don't listen to anything in the outside world
 
Nope, and thank God for that. She'll occasionally play Just Dance with the kids, but that's about it. I love my wife exactly as she is. She's passionate about other stuff and supports my passion for gaming, even of it doesn't interest her. That's all I need.

My best friend's wife, of the other hand, is a fairly successful Youtube/Twitch gamer, and knowing what I do about her and their relationship, I'm glad my wife isn't like that...
 
Yep my wife plays games like diablo 3, left 4 dead, Zombie Army trilogy, and call of duty.

She doesn't play them daily though, before we had a kid she played more.
 
My girlfriend had a lot of fun playing P.T. (she still references Lisa months later) and she loved the shit out of the hour she spent with The Last of Us, but she has never touched games other than that.

Totally fine with me. She is incredibly supportive of my hobby and it's really sweet that she tried to play some games that I said I liked.

Oh, and she also is a "D-Air as Kirby" player, so she's human scum and needs to get gud.
 
Ever since I got a job, it has gotten to the point that my wife plays more games than me.

Currently, she's looking forward to play Uncharted 4.
 
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she's not even remotely interested. Sure, sometimes she watches for a bit but there is no connection, like nothing that would stir her in any way. Like starring at a blank wall for one minute without a thought or emotion.

She has her own gaming called the art of cooking/baking, and she's damn fine at it. I have my gaming time, she has hers.
 
She does, but not often. Sometimes she'll get addicted to a game and play a lot (and I mean A LOT), but she's not buying new games every month like I am.
 
When we started dating, my GF only played Mario Party and Mobile games. I got her to play Diablo 3 coop with me, then InFamous, then GTAV, then Assassin's Creed. She's partway into Brotherhood at the moment, but my goal is to eventually get her to try out Dark Souls.

It's nice being able to sit down for the evening and play games side by side. Last night I was running missions in The Division while she played AC on the laptop next to me.
 
I think my last gf was not into games enough so it didn't work out. She said Mario was for kids. Which is true, but who gets tired of Mario? I think someone who is completly into Nintendo is a winner. None of those Cod, Wow, ps4 only mentalities anymore.
 
Ryne said:
My GF is a gamer. She has tons of those "F2P" puzzle games on her tablets. She will sit down for hours on end playing those games.

I just let her be, and join her once it a while by playing Words with Friends against her or watching her play bubblewitch (which frustrates her a lot sometimes).
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Lol, I would dump someone over those tablet do dabs. They annoy me to no end.
 
Yeah, my SO is a pretty hardcore gamer in their own right. We share a common love for Nintendo stuff, otherwise they have a penchant for visual novels and roguelikes that I don't have. I'm more of an rpg guy.
 
My wife is a very light gamer compared to me.

She does some 3ds every once in a while, likes farmville, and sometimes she'll play platform games like rayman or super mario 3d world with me.

She usually does not complain about my excessive gaming habits, as long as I do my share of duties and husbandly stuff.
 
Not really. She does enjoy a few games here and there, and we can play things together in co-op. But overall she would choose to do other things with her free time and I prefer it that way. She keeps me grounded and helps me moderate myself.
 
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