Poll: Games to play with your girlfriend

[Johnny Novgorod]

I've been on a relationship for over a couple of years now. We share more or less the same interests. Video games are not one of them. I'm always trying to get her hooked on something - because video games are a big part of my life, and I'd like to share them with her - but her reaction is always to get either bored or repelled by them. It's sad. I gamed a lot with a previous relationship, and it's the one thing I miss.

For one thing, she can't get over the violence. Not even Worms-level violence (which I went for because my ex could both stomach it and loved it). I showed her Shadow of the Colossus, which is a go-to game when you want to introduce someone to the artsy side of gaming, right? She complimented the visuals, got bored with riding, then got appalled with the black blood jetting from the colossi. I then showed her a Silent Hill game of all things. She was intrigued by the set-up, but it never went past mild amusement.

So I wanted to hear out your ideas and/or experiences about gaming with your girlfriend. How do you wake up an interest in gaming on your significant other? What titles or genres do you go for? What games have worked for you in the past, whether they're co-op or single player?

EDIT: I should probably mention I'm not trying to force video games on her. She's always shown interest in them (if anything because we're curious abuout each other) and she will occassionally bring up the subject and dare me to find one she likes. So that's my shortcoming, no sex pun intended. She gamed frequently as a kid, SNES and stuff, so I'm willing to believe it works like riding a bicycle - you can always shake the rust off.

 

[TehCookie]

Get her Professor Layton, bitches love Professor Layton.

To get someone interested in gaming know their other interest. My mom loves solving puzzles I starter her out with Club House games, then Professor Layton and I'm starting to get her into games like 999 and Ace Attorney. When gaming with my girlfriends (no homo) I play casual games on the Wii. Or my friends who find games to complicated I'll put in a classic game where you have three buttons: punch, kick and jump. I don't know your GF, but if she hates violence get her a game like Journey.

Also don't force it on her, if she doesn't like games it's okay to have different interests. If you force it on her she could start hating them.

 

[Xannidel]

What about the Lego video games? They are funny (or so I am told, I plan on starting my Lego video game collection soon).

I say throw random genres at her and see which one clicked the best with her and work from there.

 

[Rawne1980]

bitches love Professor Layton.

When gaming with my girlfriends (no homo)

Cooks, I think you're awesome and I still want that hat but you are one strange lass.

On Topic.

I don't really game with my missus. She's a Sims and WoW lass and i'm, well, not a big fan of Sims or WoW.

We did play WoW together until I got bored of it but that was a while ago. She's tried some of the games I do like but she's not interested in story, she hates fighting games and anything with rapid movement gives her motion sickness.

So I play with myself .... and game by myself too.

What?

Too much info?

 

[TehCookie]

bitches love Professor Layton.

When gaming with my girlfriends (no homo)

Cooks, I think you're awesome and I still want that hat but you are one strange lass.

Aww shucks. What can I say, it comes naturally.

 

[Kryptoserb09]

Me and my girl don't usually play games together, but we have gotten through RE5 and Fable 3 together. She loved RE5 and it had that slower stop and aim style that really let her play it without any issues. If she got ganged up on in the game I could just haymaker some zombies and she'd be fine. She kept freaking out whenever we fought a boss though.

Stepbrother used to have a girlfriend who was pretty hardcore. Not awkward or lonely either, she was cool and she played games all the time and could probably give most people a run for their money in pretty much any game.

 

[mattttherman3]

Fat Princess. Put that in and post her reaction. Record it if possible.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Portal 2? Best thing I can think of at the moment.

 

[Laluune]

From what you've mentioned you are just trying to get her to enjoy games without you. All wrong buddy. If you want her to get into games go co-op. I'm constantly on the look out for co-op games to play with my boyfriend. (http://www.co-optimus.com/ is a good site for this) Donkey Kong Country Returns on Wii is my most favourite. Great platform, good level of skill (but not overly hard), good replay-ability and just fun. Fun, fun, highly recommended.

Find out what interests her, so no violence. Shooters out. Does she like problem solving, Professor Layton (mentioned above) great game. Maybe she likes dull and monotonous (heh) Cooking Mama all the way. If she likes reading and mystery perhaps Heavy Rain (if she can get past the three hours of tutorial). Is she overly controlling? Sims 3!

Wii is a good console for casual gamers there's lots of potential there to persuade her. Maybe Mario Party? WiiSports? I dunno. Super Mario Bros was just a terrible griefing game imo I don't recommend that unless you want to be yelled at, but I'm a runner lol.

Good luck!

 

[teebeeohh]

give her something that you can play together, that doesn't go against her interests(if she doesn't like violence don't give her a shooter) and if there are games that do something she likes (puzzle games for puzzely people have been mentioned) try to get her to play those.
or, you know try journey.

my current girlfriend had never touched a console but she really got into MP shooters because she likes how competitive it is and from there got into other games. i still sometimes feel like I turned her into a bad CoD cliche, she language she uses while playing is really not for kids.

 

[Meatspinner]

Not a lot of games that I can't play with my right hand...

On as serious note, most gamer couple I know of play WoW or Wii party games together. And when I'm over it's all board games

 

[ledchicken]

well my girlfriend likes to watch me play god of war 3... but that's not exactly a typical game for girls to like and its definitely not for you if your girlfriend doesn't like violence . Other than that, she has a ps1 that we play crash bash, spyro and stuff on

 

[Hafnium]

Before we sold our wii, we had a lot of fun with Mario kart, but that might only work on the ones who played Nintendo when younger. My gf played a lot of pokemon, some fighting games and other stuff, but some genres will probably never work for her, like serious racing, shooters and strategy-games. She just got me the new Sega all-stars racing game to play together, but we've also enjoyed Sam & max (puzzle) and dragonica (asian sidescrolling MMO). I'm considering getting The walking dead, could be fun.

 

[hazabaza1]

Rapelay
Depends on what you like, really. Sometimes me and the non-missus will play a big of LBP, but she's not great at games so she gets mad. Then we usually turn to Guitar Hero or just that whole "switch controller when you die" technique, if not just watching the other one play through something.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

I played Torchlight 2 with mine, till I got fed up with her anger issues from dying once or twice. She hasn't been a avid gamer, so dying is very frustrating for her and in turn for me.

 

[lechat]

if she can enjoy the walking dead show she will prolly love the game
prolly the best bet for a couple playing and staying together is WOW although i would rarely recommend anyone to play a mmorg and would instead suggest going for a walk or having a life

without a doubt the wii is your best bet of spending quality gaming time together though. wii sport resort is pretty much guaranteed to be couple friendly unless the couple is in their 90's and even then its pretty likely

 

[Phasmal]

Me and the boyfriend play pretty much everything together, but if your girlfriend is a person who's not really into games it's a little more complicated.

I'd recommend something straightforward, like Portal 2, but you have to make sure you let her figure the puzzles out and just don't be like `Portal here, portal there`.
Look at the kind of things your girlfriend likes in terms of genre to think of what she might be interested in.
But overall, don't force it.
They may just not be for her.

 

[default]

I'm lucky enough that my girl is into games like Skyrim, Gears of War and Halo 4. I had turned into a vampire on Skyrim just recently and told her I had no idea how to change back, and she went online and did all the research for me. She's the best <3

We've played some Smash Brothers together as well, but that isn't going to suit someone who has hardly touched a game before... This is a tough one.

But forget Portal 2, just the barrier of learning first-person controls will be hard enough without doing confusing co-op puzzles with obtuse concepts.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I've been on a relationship for over a couple of years now. We share more or less the same interests. Video games are not one of them. I'm always trying to get her hooked on something - because video games are a big part of my life, and I'd like to share them with her - but her reaction is always to get either bored or repelled by them. It's sad. I gamed a lot with a previous relationship, and it's the one thing I miss.

For one thing, she can't get over the violence. Not even Worms-level violence (which I went for because my ex could both stomach it and loved it). I showed her Shadow of the Colossus, which is a go-to game when you want to introduce someone to the artsy side of gaming, right? She complimented the visuals, got bored with riding, then got appalled with the black blood jetting from the colossi. I then showed her a Silent Hill game of all things. She was intrigued by the set-up, but it never went past mild amusement.

So I wanted to hear out your ideas and/or experiences about gaming with your girlfriend. How do you wake up an interest in gaming on your significant other? What titles or genres do you go for? What games have worked for you in the past, whether they're co-op or single player?

Let see I've played a few games with my wife.

Unreal Tournament 3
Rift
Mortal Combat
Perfect Dark Zero
Dungeon Defenders
Fable 3
GoldenEye (N64)

Quite a few others, I want to get her into the MMO I'm playing now the SWTOR game, but she doesn't like cinematics in MMOs, very much against it.

It really depends on the woman, don't group them up into one area where they sing Garage Band when drunk and play the Sims there are plenty of girls that like other games. Just explore the genres.