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

Nope not since she was much younger and had a PS1, seemingly no interest in gaming at all. I love her so much and we share other stuff but I do wish I could share this
huge
side of myself with her. She doesn't mind me playing though.

Moving in with her soon so I guess I will see then if she enjoys watching, maybe taking some interest. I'm not sure though and it doesn't matter too much at the end of the day!
 
My wife doesn't play games as much as I do, but no one that I know does. She has other things that she'll do instead.

However, she definitely plays a lot of games where she knows what her tastes are. She's not against playing anything that I want her to try, but she'll stick to her own tastes otherwise.

We had a conversation last night about how she can't stand battlefront, but it didn't last very long because she just disliked most everything about it and that was that :lol

she is a "gamer" though for sure
 
We both play games a lot although our tastes are a bit 'lop-sided'. I tend to play games that would normally be more associated to something my partner would prefer.

He likes driving simulators and I love FPS games such as Crysis, FEAR, Doom, Wolfenstein, Metro.

I was the one that got him into gaming. Doom on the Jaguar (yes) started it all off. It would be hard to imagine being with somebody who didn't share some kind of, at least, mild interest in gaming. In fact I don't think I could manage it.

I am the one who researches and buys the parts for the gaming PC in our house; he doesn't really have an interest in that side of things.
 
I've had to expose her to certain genres, but she takes to them very well.

She has several genres that she enjoys that I do not.

For instance, when Mass effect and Skyrim came out, I pretty much didn't have a wife. I had a person who lived in the basement that I saw occasionally get a soda out of the fridge.

What's hilarious is that she is tiny and very pretty, so if I've ever brought some guys home from work to play games, she'll kick their ass, and it's hilarious to see them fend for their masculinity.

This:
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Can do this:

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Edit: The K/D doesn't do her justice. She just normally plays objective based games, and sacrifices herself for the better of the team.

This might be a better representation (Dem win percentages):
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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.
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I some how missed this part, or at least it went over the top of my head.

What the hell does that even mean? I have played my fair share of COD games and have no bloody calling to fit in with a "dudebro" crowd.

Not that any one should have to prove themselves by what they play, or for how long, or how seriously they take it but I would say I am a "real, bonafide, sit-down-and-seriously-invest-time-and-care-about-what-you're-doing type of gamer".
 
My gf only plays a few games a year, stuff like Pikmin/Pokemon/Animal Crossing but she puts HUNDREDS of hours into them so she plays way more than me.
 
My husband is a very casual gamer, he plays Candy Crush and other mobile games on his phone. I have gotten him Pokémon games, but he never seems to stick to them very long to play.

His favorite games are The King of Fighters series, I have bought him a few other fighting games on PS3/PS4 as well, like Saint Seiya Soldiers Soul (the version from Mexico that has the Spanish & Portuguese dubs as well as the Japanese version on a disc)

He's just not much of a gamer because he didn't grow up with games like I did :(
 
My wife plays a lot of games. Mainly on the 3DS, but she did put 200 hours into Skyrim after I got it on Steam. And then she got her own PS4 to play the Uncharted Collection.

But she has zero interest in reading videogame reviews and forums, or watching other people play games. So she's very different from anyone on GAF in that respect.
 
I don't think my wife would call herself a gamer, but Maggie can hold her own.

She's ridiculously talented at racing games, from Mario Kart to all things Forza. (I had the then-newly-released DriveClub waiting for us at the house when we got back from our honeymoon, but that one didn't take.) She's also a sucker for good puzzle games, with Pushmo World standing out as a recent obsession. We played through Lego Dimensions together earlier this year, and we're most of the way through Yoshi's Woolly World in co-op mode. (All flowers and all yarn in the first five worlds! Haven't started six yet.) She plays Life Is Strange off and on. She's not all that interested in first-person shooters, but she picked up Destiny after seeing how consumed by that I was, and she got the hang of it astonishingly quickly. She could barely move and control the camera at first, and a half hour later, she was soaring through stuff that I struggled with somewhat.

One difference is that I always want to finish games, and that doesn't really mean anything to her. She completely lost interest during the chase that leads up to the final boss battle in Pikmin 3, for instance. I offered to help guide her, but it was too different from the game she'd been enjoying up to that point. She doesn't mind putting weeks/months between play sessions either. I don't think that Maggie's bought a game for herself in the four years I've known her, but she'll play stuff I buy (for myself, for us, or for her).
 
My girlfriend definitely isn't a gamer but recently she has been playing MK X while I am at work. I notice the game is always suspended when I turn my PS4 on. But she will only touch fighting games at this point, would it be cool if she was a gamer..yes but I really love that we have different interest and hobbies.
 
My wife was an MMO player. We've played Final Fantasy XI, World of Warcraft, FFXIV, Rift, Star Wars: the Old Republic, Wildstar, Guild Wars 2, and probably others together. She also plays RPGs, like Diablo 3, Borderlands series, Dragon Age, etc. Lately though, like in the past year, she's dropped "real" gaming and pretty much just plays mobile stuff. A lot of that was due to the fact that I was always pretty hardcore about mechanics, stats, strategies, and she liked the social aspects of MMOs more.
 
When she was a kid my girlfriend had a commodore 64, later a mega drive then she stopped - typical games aren't for girls 80s/90s bullshit and that was that
But when she met me she was interested in my 3DS so much so i bought here one, she loved the old games on the VC (but hates mario as the timelimit means she can't explore) she borrowed my Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks to play and loved those (low standards on Zelda games) - all in all the 3DS made her a gamer again

Now she's playing Doom on her PC regularly, takes her 3DS with her regularly and uses my WiiU more than i do now - started her on Diablo 3 on the PS4 last week and she loved the classic dungeon crawler style

She's more of a lapsed/casual gamer as she isn't as regular gamer as i am now but she's a gamer non the less
 
My boyfriend was a casual-level gamer before we got together - he had a PS2, was a big FF fan (although hadn't played XIII yet), owned a 3DS and knew a bit more than the average person on the street, but wasn't up to date with the latest happenings in games.

Since we've been dating he's really stepped up on the gaming front by taking advantage of my consoles and games (which I'm perfectly happy with). He's got himself a PS3, played through XIII and nearly all of XIII-2, co-op'd any two-player WiiU game with me, plays MK8 with me constantly (to the point where I feel weird if I'm playing solo), and regularly kicks my ass at Puyo Puyo Tetris. I love it.
 
My wife is an on again off again kind person with gaming, but she has great taste and 'learns' each game she tries very quickly, often becoming far better than me and in shorter time.

That said, she hasn't played anything in a while because she lost her job in November and has been doing graphic design commission work at home and doesn't want the distraction.

Otherwise, she loves Destiny PvP, Dying Light, Mercenary Kings, Sports Friends, Zelda, Smash, and generally finishing many of the digital games I bought in single sittings. It's pretty awesome because gaming is never any conflict with us. She also likes setting up in the living room to work so she can watch me play stuff.
 
She likes to watch me play and participate vocally like "go there!....kill the guy to your right!" but eventually she'll fall asleep on my lap everytime.
 
My wife probably plays more games than I do... but it's in the form of small mobile games like this spinning puzzle dot game on her phone. WHen we watch TV or when we're driving somewhere, she'll usually play it (as a passenger).

She doesn't play many console games, or any at all really, except for Super Mega Baseball once in a while. But when she found out that the difficulty level she plays at, 9, is 9 out of 100 and not 9 out of 10, she was bummed.
 
My girlfriend pretty much exclusively plays Nintendo games and is much better at most of them than me, I've been trying to get her to branch out lately though.
 
My wife has the potential to be. She's gone all the way to level 80 with me on multiple characters in Guild Wars 2, as well as all the way through Diablo III and its expansion. She doesn't play on her own, though, and for good reason. Like me, she would just get sucked into the games and that would take over her hobbies, so she stays away (unless playing with me).
 
Yes she is. More than me? Well, when she starts playing she is able to stay on for hours, while I tend to take more pauses, atm she is avoiding games like the plague because of her exams (she even left me her psv) but I know she is playing something on her phone when she is commuting to school.
 
My wife is a gamer but not as hardcore. I got her hooked in FFXI and we played that together for years. She will play COD, FF and KH games now but that's pretty much it.
 
I'm single but not a single girl I've been with has played games outside of the occasional Wii stint. When I was in middle school I thought I'd love to date a girl that plays games, now I realize I couldn't care less.
 
Yeah, she enjoys video games but has nowhere near the passion for it that I do. There are few specific genres and franchises that appeal to her and luckily those include 2D Marios, most Zeldas and Pikmin.
 
My ex-gf was pretty hardcore into a few games. We spent hours playing Pokemon on the couch together, either teaming up, battling eachother or talking while doing our playthroughs. Also I helped convince her to try Skyrim and got her hooked on that.

Dammit it was awesome.... hope I can somehow get another girlfriend with game interests some day. Was really fun bonding activity.
 
My girlfriend loves the Ratchet & Clank series, she's bought and competed them all and is eagerly awaiting the PS4 outing. She has just started playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 on the iPad and is really enjoying that. She also plays some of those free city building games on the ipad like Metropolis and she has been playing The Sims Free play for nearly 3 years now.

Is she a gamer? Fuck no!
 
Yeah my girlfriend is a gamer, although she mostly plays WoW or Diablo 3(with me of course). She still enjoys playing Mario Kart sometimes, or watching me play Mass Effect again & again to the point of knowing who Shepard, Wrex, Miranda, Tali, etc. are just by hearing their voices.
She's a hardcore fan of FF7 too, she probably won't be able to resist buying the remake(and a PS4) haha.
 
Not really. We've played games together before (games like Pixeljunk Monsters, LittleBigPlanet, HotShots Golf, and Knack) but it has been a while.

It would be cool if we could play together more often but I'm OK with not having to always share game time. She's not hardcore at all and seems to have little interest (or time) these days with a full-time job and some part-time on the side. She doesn't even play mobile games on her phone or ipad.
 
One of the games I worked on ages ago was EverQuest 2. I had the interesting experience of having my wife get ridiculously addicted to it, to the point that she ran a big raiding guild and knew more about the game than I did. She convinced a bunch of her coworkers to try it and I think they actually still play.

We try pretty much every MMO that comes out, and she's always about 10x more hardcore than I am. At least.
 
My girlfriend plays games, yeah. Not nearly as often as I do but w/e it's not a big deal, I don't play nearly that many anymore these days either.
 
Candy Crush and those missing item Ipad games. I try and get her involved when I play as I feel bad when I'm staring at a screen intensely for a few hours when shes with me but she has little interest in new games. Games with a story and such she doesn't 'get' and is much more comfortable with something tgat has quick interaction and little plot like Mario Kart or a puzzler.

I coaxed her into trying out Gears of War co-op with me to help her with the analogue controllers as her biggest barrier to trying anything is the controller and hell we had alot of fun...I think. It's hard to tell though, sometimes I relate it to watching The View or Dancing with the Stars, I have zero interest and don't see that changing but I'll bear with it and try to enjoy it just to share something she enjoys.

She does like it though when I spent an hour creating her in a character customizer for say Neverwinter Nights or Star Wars the Old Republic, just to wipe it then select the hot redhead preset (troll face)
 
Yes. I run an endgame static in FFXIV and we raid together (I tank, she heals, her brother DPSes). We used to watch Starcraft together. She regularly puts gaming streams on at home - it's her TV. I think she's just as hardcore as I am when it comes to games, but our tastes diverge a bit. I'm much more into FPSes than she is, and she's much more into JRPGs.

We actually met through Blazblue and I think she's better than me at it. I tend to be better with combo execution, but she has better decision making/mindgaming while I have a tendency to autopilot. I think one of the topics that really got us talking together regularly was Mass Effect 2, which we both liked a lot.

We both agree that it would be hard to date someone who wasn't into games.
 
My boyfriend is also a long time gamer, but he's more focused in some titles and series than I am (he's mainly into Final Fantasy and Dragon Age).

He goes to a whole new level of hardcore than me when it comes to games he loves, tho.
 
No. I also have two daughters and they don't play video games much at all either. My 6 y/o likes watching me play Splatoon and Zelda so there's some hope for her. My 8 y/o is interested in this social game called Animal Jam. I'm hoping she'll get interested in Animall Crossing or Yokai Watch or even Pokemon when she gets older and her friends discover these things. She likes to collect things like Shopkins .I've never played Pokemon so maybe that is something I can play along with her.

My wife played Mario Galaxy and Wii Sports when he Wii was in its hey day. I can't get her to game with me now whch sucks because I end up primarily playing Wii U multi-player games solo primarily. It's fine though. I still get my Zelda fix and Destiny gives me the online gaming I want once they come out with additional PVE content.

My neighbor has a son and they have a Wii U and PS4 and he gets to game with him. I'm so jealous.
 
If my fiance played games as much as me we both would be in some serious trouble.

I try to get her to play stuff now and then. She loses interest pretty quick.
 
Yep. She was playing Assassin's Creed last night while I was making my way through Wind Waker HD. It's a very good relationship.
 
Nope, my girlfriend hates games, she gets motion sickness from watching fast paced 3d games.

It's a good thing. I could never date a female version of myself.
 
My Wife is not a hardcore gamer, when she was young she played some games like Mario (we are an older couple). But since I am a gamer, she has been interested. We played a lot of Elder Scrolls On-Line for a bit, going back to it once the Thieves Guild for Consoles comes out.

She is still learning, but gets frustrated easily. We played Destiny for a while, but I usually am running around protecting her or trying to keep her alive. We just started The Division and she is not doing too bad, still little things like when I told her to fast travel to the BoO and she could not figure it out on how to find it on her map, even though it was on her map like dead center with a the big icon. But being that she is new to these type of games, she has been getting better. It is fun however, having her being involved in my hobby. She definitely frowns a bit when UPS or Fed Ex shows up because I have recently been in a Retro kick and getting some good deals on older games, but she is accepting of my hobby, so all is good about it. Her getting involved in gaming with me has been great. Before the Division came out, out of the blue she said that we should get new headsets because she wanted better voice and sound quality and wireless...so things like that make it a much better time.
 
My girlfriend plays videogames a lot. Usually she just like japanese games, doesn't have much interest in western games.

She likes fighting games, JRPGs, rhythm and puzzle games. She kicks my ass on fighting games and puzzles (specially Puyo Puyo). She´s so cute.

She is the reason why I came back to JRPGs, a genre that I though I didn't like anymore, so she got me into the Persona games. I bought her a PS Vita, so she could finally play Persona 4: Golden. I am always playing something new because of her gaming interests.

Currently she is playing Fire Emblem Fates on 3DS.
 
I'm super lucky to have an awesome gf that plays games with me. She consistently serves me up a shit sandwich in Dr. Luigi and races quite well in MK8 online. Not hardcore by any means, though, unless it comes to the farming/cooking game on her phone. :]
 
My wife probably plays games more than I do, as she constantly plays a match 3 game on her phone for hours every day, year-round. She has no interest in any other games whatsoever. Never plays anything else. So if you put in countless hours playing a game, does that by definition make you hardcore? Or does Candy Crush and it's variants not count?
 
No. But she's a great game critic. And she's great fun discussing the essence of the games. She only plays games that have their fundamental rules placed into the gameplay. Shes easily bored and have little interest in interactive stories. She's played games like Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Scott Pilgrim and LittleBigPlanet 2. She has a weakness to cute games and really enjoyed Doki-Doki Universe. She's a bit tired of games and promotes an all-digital lifestyle.
 
Bisnic said:
Yeah my girlfriend is a gamer, although she mostly plays WoW or Diablo 3(with me of course). She still enjoys playing Mario Kart sometimes, or watching me play Mass Effect again & again to the point of knowing who Shepard, Wrex, Miranda, Tali, etc. are just by hearing their voices.
She's a hardcore fan of FF7 too, she probably won't be able to resist buying the remake(and a PS4) haha.
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If she plays WoW and Diablo without you is that like cheating?

ElCidTmax said:
My wife probably plays games more than I do, as she constantly plays a match 3 game on her phone for hours every day, year-round. She has no interest in any other games whatsoever. Never plays anything else. So if you put in countless hours playing a game, does that by definition make you hardcore? Or does Candy Crush and it's variants not count?
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How could you marry a Candy Crush player?

What will you teach the kids? How will they know who or what to believe?
 
My wife enjoys games, but not to the extent that I do. More importantly though, she supports and understands this lifelong hobby of mine. :)
 
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