Poll: Girlfriend/Spouse who plays games: Good or Bad?
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I reckon one of the reasons why my girlfriend of 2 years and I are so close are because we game together regularly. It's important to have things you can do together and we were lucky enough to have gaming as a mutual interest.
She actually just bought a PS3, so we went into EB Games the other day and both preordered a collectors edition of Little Big Planet 2.
I also bought her Tekken and Red Dead Redemption for her birthday and havin the same console each means we can play RDR online together and share games. Now if only she was a bigger racing fan, I'd get her into GT5. ;P
She actually just bought a PS3, so we went into EB Games the other day and both preordered a collectors edition of Little Big Planet 2.
I also bought her Tekken and Red Dead Redemption for her birthday and havin the same console each means we can play RDR online together and share games. Now if only she was a bigger racing fan, I'd get her into GT5. ;P
it's good, but if her getting pissed about you winning annoys you, remind her it's just a game. If that doesn't work then try letting her win sometimes
No worries, mate. There will be plenty of time for choosing character and intellect over looks and hollow pursuits when you're my age. In the meantime, enjoy the kids while you're a kid. Live life according to what makes the best story in the retelling and maybe, years from now, you'll be telling (in the words of Bruce Springsteen) "boring stories of glory days" and looking back on a misspent youth with a combination of contentment and wonder at your own audacity.Knusper said:
Just don't marry a shallow youthful-indiscretion type...no matter how fucking sweet her tits are. You'll regret it later.
I'd rather a partner who encourages me to play less, not more. I only play games when I've got nothing better to do with my time.
It has it's good and bad moments. For instance, when talking about how awesome our kills on Assassin's Creed: Brother were, or the best routes to a target in the story mode, or our epic adventures in Red Dead, it's ok, but when she starts with Final Fantasy, she never stops...
I absolutely love it if girls play games. I spend a lot of times playing games, and if they do, then it's an excuse to combine two awesome things.
50-50. If you are a major gamer, it's good to have someone who can relate to you in that way, someone you have something in common with and can bond with that person. With that said, the competitiveness of constantly playing each other, combined with losing yourself and your overall identity as a couple in the games, are definite risks. It's important for sure to have the same mindset when you are playing games, remember that you guys are a couple, it's fun, don't take it too seriously. Also, find times to go outside and have fun that doesn't consist of playing games, so you keep the relationship fresh, and your relationship doesn't only revolve around one thing, because that will get dull.
It can go either way, I think. My first boyfriend was a huge game geek but we argued all the time since with pretty much any little issue surrounding gaming we had totally opposite opinions. On the other hand I tried dating a guy with exactly the same taste as me but found that we had nothing to talk about since we both knew and thought the same things, leading to a lot of awkward silences. And then there were the non-gamers, and they each one couldn't understand my gaming. Like, straight-up didn't get it and thought I was being stupid to take any of it seriously, which was probably the most frustrating. In short: although my relationships always inevitably fail it hasn't really been helped or hindered in any way by my gaming. Finding the right person is more complicated than that and for any one individual 'the right person' might cover a scope of people so diverse that one potential perfect partner might be the polar opposite of another.
Its good if you and your partner have the same hobbies. And since gaming is a hobby for most of us its nice to always have someoene to share your experiences with it. For instance in WoW you always have someoene to group up with for a hard quest or for an instance.
That is easily the most stuck-up thing I've heard today.SimuLord said:
While I can say that women with a vapid personality (I.E. none) are uninteresting, your depiction of those that are uneducated/don't care to discuss more high brow topics being undesirable is pretty disgusting. I'd even say that's fairly shallow of you. Just because a person likes to discuss topics of interest that don't require an educated background, doesn't make them bad choices for life partners. I'd rather have a girl who can talk about something she's passionate about, even if it is shopping or celebrity gossip or whatever common topic you can think of, than someone who can flex their mind muscle just to prove they can.
To be perfectly honest, I've had much more interesting conversaitons about video games with a few of my friends than I have about anything else. Why? Because they discuss them in a more intelligent manner than 90% of gamers. They study games for a living and the fact they treat them as something of a refined art means that discussions with them become much more meaningful than, say, a discussion about a painting or some political point of interest. This includes my girlfriend, who doesn't even study games but can still carry a conversation about the artistic value of particular games. Again, passion versus knowledge, passion is far more interesting.
So yeah, maybe you didn't word yourself properly when you tried to make a point, but saying that topics like video games are beneath you interms of conversational points of interest between you and a potential mate is very narrow-sighted and shallow. Hopefully you mistook knowledge for passion and that is what you truly seek, otherwise I pity you for being a fairly one-dimensional person.
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IS THAT YOU JOHN ROMERO!?!?Hawkeye16 said:
Not a very good solution, mind you... If my boyfriend 'let me win', I'd be annoyed, I think...Jroo wuz heer said:
It depends on the game as you seem to have pointed out. It's bad for me right now because of the long distance relationship. I have a poor connection and hers is terrible so we can never game together. Although we did once: Left 4 Dead: No Mercy. It was pretty fun. She's going to be getting me into WoW.
It's a great way to bond I think, which seems good to me.
It's a great way to bond I think, which seems good to me.
Good generally. I'd love to have someone play alongside or against me. But hogging the console/pc would be bad. And being better than me at the game would probably make me really bitter. Not that I'm competitive or anything...