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Games to play w/ your GF/BF
kingbloop
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I am curious as to what PC games you would/are play/ing with your girlfriend or boyfriend (if you swing that way or are female).
It doesn't matter if its FPS, RTS, MMORPG, or sims, I could care less. I just wanted to see what was played together for couples.
Now me and my GF (who will find this thread and post most likely) play a few games.
1. WoW - Easy to learn and lots to explore. Her first mmo experince because of me.
2. CoX - Simple, easy to group and get around, and you can make pretty or ugly chars and do what you want.
3. Wizard 101 - cause we can play it with her kid and each other and have loads of fun.
I'll leave some thing to list for her haha. Now get to it people, answer me.
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No matter how hard I try she wont play computer games with me (but she will play them by herself). But console games. Jeez She use to bug me to play x-men with her on the ps2.
Baldurs gates, Everquest, x-men legends are the ones we played for awhile. Weve bought other 2-player games but we didnt play them for long.
As soon as they make a tomb raider mmorpg then ill be able to win her to the dark side.
Well I am simply burnt out on the mmo's we played, hun.
SWG was fun, but too expensive.
Gotta subscribe to CoX because it seems interesting to continue, but until then we couldn't play it at the moment. Their trial limitations are so stupid.
Anyone know any games to suggest? Thanks.
I'm kinda partial to hide the salami. More seriously, I've not had much luck with women playing video games. I've only found one that liked(or at least pretended to) playing any video games. We always played like the two most important party characters, like pure tank/pure healer, so we could easily form a group and easily do things on out own and they worked well together. Played EQ, DaoC and AO with her. No idea about newer stuff.
I got my g/f into MMOs with SWG. Since then we have played LOTRO, COH/V and we just started playing EQ2 together and we're having a lot of fun with that game. I'd say most MMOs are good for couples to play together. I think having someone else to group with on a regular basis makes playing an MMO a lot more fun overall.
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Me and the wife got together in like 1989, so over the years we have played several video games together.
MMOs...I started EQ in 01, and got her into it in 02. The trick was having her help me swap out items between accounts(I had a 2nd account waiting for her). As she would be online, I would have people from my guild saying hi. Eventually she gave it a shot ,and is now a hardcore MMOer. We raided somewhat hardcore in EQ for a few yrs, and she does now in EQ2 as well.
She sometimes mentors me in EQ2 since I cant usually play much online anymore, but have been trying to devote more time to it (hurts to sit in PC chair too long). We enjoyed CoH when it launched, but after a few months it got super boring and we went back to EQ. Tried WoW at launch...I quit before the free 30 days were up. SHe hung on for a month or 2. We went back to EQ that time as well. We tried SWG together when they did the NGE change...heh that didnt last a week.
A couple of games we have enjoyed over the yrs on console were golf on original nintendo and N64. She luved Sonic on the Sega system, but kicked my arse too bad...I wouldnt play it with her. :P
Mario Kart on N64 used to be fun as well. That was last console gaming for us, as we went to MMOs after that. I got back into console games when I bought the kids a PS2 about 5 yrs ago. Ended up getting myself a X-Box, and now have upgraded to 360.
Asking Devs to make AAA sandbox titles is like trying to get fine dining on a McDonalds dollar menu budget.
I'd be playing something that didn't last long enough to interfere with getting plenty of sex. Noughts and Crosses, maybe.
I've never had any luck either.....The only games I could ever get a woman to play were on the console......
Currently playing WoW with my fiancee. We have previously played Baldur's game and Champions of Norrath on the console side. Before MMO's we used to play diablo 2.
I play LOTRO with my girls.
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I started my wife out on EQ then we moved to DAoC and CoH. We bounced around others games until WoW which she loves so for now we play wow.
Can't work out if this is inuendo or not, kinda hope so.
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DAoC, LoTR (PvMP), and now WAR.
The missus only really like to casually play and get bored fairly quickly. The best fun she every had was in the DAoC starter guild (the default one everyone starts in) where she used to Troll by saying WoW was rubbish (not quite the word she would use but you get the gist). Naturally someone would always bite, and there would be massive arguement for the next few hours. In WAR we ended up in an ex-WoW guild and I has to ban her from doing that
Glad to see other couples playing together in mmos and such. people in game seem to either give two reactions to finding out that me and my gf are playing together.
1. Awe thats cute/wish my gf played with me.
or
2. i get a whisper saying man you are so whipped.
what about you guys simular reactions?
Sadly I usually get an whisper asking "your not the jealous kind are you?" which always leads to me wondering wth is the intent of people playing online games, really?
Before we played EQ2 we played games like HOMM3 and Baldurs Gate.. EQ2 has a very good crafting system (and housing) wich appeals to my GF
My girlfriend likes to do tailor jobs in real life, she makes most of her own clothes and when I ask her if she wants to play with me she ansk me: And you want to help me doing me a jacket?
My major problem is my wife used to play WoW with me and CoX but she is one to see grind very very fast. She also works with multiple screens up at a time and the last thing she wants to do when she gets home is look at another one.
I think my hardcore nature in wow may have scared her off even though these days I do not raid anymore and spend time doing many different things.
I would love to get her playing my games with me again but she just looks at the screen Im using says glad your having fun Im off to watch the TV and she will sit and play patience on her lappy while watching that sceen.
Her happiest days were playing Daoc when we shared 1 computer.
Let me know when you find a good one. Been trying to get my wife to play for years w/o avail.
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me and my girl are both playing mmos but we play different mmo but we respect each others opinons regarding mmorpg.
we share and exchange ideas about in our game and even that we play different agmes we still have more time in ou relationship. mmos is our a hooby and use it for killing time ^^,
Sadly I usually get an whisper asking "your not the jealous kind are you?" which always leads to me wondering wth is the intent of people playing online games, really?
Funny you mention this. 'Cause IMO, MMOing or ANY online gaming for that matter is just a hobby really. When you think about it, other people meet each other through mutual interests, whether it's at a Bar, or Art gallery, Book shop, TT Gaming, etc.
Gaming is just a hobby primarily, it's only with the advent of current gaming trends ("Pro" (that term used very loosely) Gaming, and competitive leagues, along with some de-evolution of the internet) that it has become something else OTHER then a hobby. To those who play the game and actually meet someone online I say kudos, because you are actually socializing enough in-game to validate an out-of-game relationship with that person. Alot of people get caught up in questing, item whoring, what-have-you and forget that there are *real* people on the other end of that broadband connection.
If more people just realized the simple truths like these, you would probably see a major change in the online societies for the better, and you would also see a greatly increased social acceptance to gaming from the mass public opinion. As it is, when I say gaming is a hobby of mine, I get wierd looks from people, and that is ashame really.
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Sadly I usually get an whisper asking "your not the jealous kind are you?" which always leads to me wondering wth is the intent of people playing online games, really?
Funny you mention this. 'Cause IMO, MMOing or ANY online gaming for that matter is just a hobby really. When you think about it, other people meet each other through mutual interests, whether it's at a Bar, or Art gallery, Book shop, TT Gaming, etc.
Gaming is just a hobby primarily, it's only with the advent of current gaming trends ("Pro" (that term used very loosely) Gaming, and competitive leagues, along with some de-evolution of the internet) that it has become something else OTHER then a hobby. To those who play the game and actually meet someone online I say kudos, because you are actually socializing enough in-game to validate an out-of-game relationship with that person. Alot of people get caught up in questing, item whoring, what-have-you and forget that there are *real* people on the other end of that broadband connection.
If more people just realized the simple truths like these, you would probably see a major change in the online societies for the better, and you would also see a greatly increased social acceptance to gaming from the mass public opinion. As it is, when I say gaming is a hobby of mine, I get wierd looks from people, and that is ashame really.
Aye it is a hobby, but as with any other hobby there are super hardcore elite people that do the same hobby. I met some people who do model airplanes and they are quite simulare to the people we call 'elitests' in our games. those are the things that make peole frown down on to certian hobbies cause the 'elite' people they meet doing those hobbies.
I have met 2 or 3 people in real life, i have met online first. My girlfriend of the past 2 years i met on a social network and got her to play WoW with me to be able to spend time together cause we lived so far apart. Now not long after we got together i came down here to visit her and well stayed. and the past 2 years together have been amazing.
I had tried for years to get my ex wife into gaming with no avail. With my gf now though, she is hooked. We have played DR for a while, but her kids took over those accounts. We are currently playing CoX together and we play Left4Dead together.
I think CoX is a great game to play with your gf. You can make your char into about anything and its easy to get the hang of. gotta love it.
My wife and I have been playing eq2 off and on for 4 years, we've also played Lotro, WoW, and Guild Wars. We both love mmo's for the interaction with other ppl while playing, and its really nice having someone to group with all the time. Ive recently started working more and she is now unemployed so she gets to play too much and me not enough. There always seems to be those few ppl that find out its a real female playing the character and all the sudden they want to be best friends, and always play together, but only duo, no big groups, its like dude, married, and its a game.