Games for my Mom?

[Sejs Cube]

I realise that Call of Duty 4 might not be her thing (she loves crime stuff) but I know she's open to the media, but the learning curve is too great at this point.

It sounds like your mom is going to love the SHIT out of LA Noire.

 

[gazumped]

If you had to choose between Pharaoh/caesar III, age of empires, rollercoaster tycoon, sims, simcity, civV or any other strategy -

which do you think is the most "Mom" friendly?

I love rts and city builder games, and tbh with mothers day around the corner, I'd love this to be the year I got my mom into gaming.

I'd probably recommend the Sims and a Tycoon game to get her off the ground. My mum gets pretty nervous about games where you can get killed by enemies, even with stuff like AoE she gets kind of upset when armies come and knock down her hard work.
She's probably most obsessed with the Sims, I guess if your mother's a motherly kind of mother she might appreciate the whole looking-after-people-and-building-a-family aspect of it. Or, of course, she might want to just get away from that so I guess it depends on your mum, but most people's mums I know love the Sims if they like games at all.

I know someone whose mum's obsessed with Final Fantasy, actually. She's a Reverend.

 

[moretimethansense]

Hey Guys,

I'm really interested in getting my mom into some games, I feel like she's missing out simply because of the learning curve. I realise that Call of Duty 4 might not be her thing (she loves crime stuff) but I know she's open to the media, but the learning curve is too great at this point.

Is there any game that has a low enough learning curve, and is also high quality and has a good story - that it might convince her that theres some worth in taking the next step up into harder games.

I've already tried portal, but she didn't know what a portal was, and also how to move in an FPS. We're not ready for that yet.

Please bear in mind that Im on PC !!

Point and clicks may be a good first start:

Broken Sword and Monkey Island games are quite good with some humor (especiall MI) and not all that hard to play, avoid kings quest though, not a good one for a first timer.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Most of the Wii stuff is great for mums. It gives them the illusion of getting fit while having fun.

And we all know that isn't possible.

Yeah, this. My mom spent months trying to convince me that I wanted a Wii, just so she could use it. Never mind that I don't even live at home anymore.

Anyway, I'd say something casual and Wii-esque is your best bet to get her into games.

 

[Sad Face]

Portal.