Yes, as my lovely lass is a female gamer. I recently introduced her to the joys of Fallout, and we've had many a fun mutual pwnage session playing Halo 3 on co-op.

My wife is an avid WoW player, and on many occasions we've braved instances together.

EDIT: You may want to edit the title of the thread to say 'your' instead of 'ur', the mods aren't keen on that kind of thing.

GTA4 really makes me miss my last girlfriend. She was a huge fan of the series, to the point she had the box set of the music from San Andreas.

I used to drink while watching her play _Destroy All Humans_. In fact, we loved that game so much she agreed not to play it without me there. So instead she played _Max Payne_ when I wasn't around.

I wonder what console she's playing GTA4 on...

The spelling...it burns us.
ON topic though, I have tried introducing non-gamers (never had a girlfriend) with poor results.

My girlfriend and I are both gamers, but since we're both mostly into RPG's, platformers, and adventure games, we tend not to play together a lot.

Introducing non-gamers (generally only girls) to gaming is difficult. Also this topic has appeared before.

my girl friend isnt really a big gamer.. i wouldnt consider her a gamer... yet she does play them occasionally... she plays the sims2 on her own time along with her Nintendo DS (which is her younger sisters not hers)she plays the pokemon series on it... which is a game I never had interest in because it sucks (my opinion)... but together she actually doesnt mind watching... she finds it humorous if she watches me play with my friends... but together we absolutely love GTA IV

The trouble is, the vast majority of gamers I know (myself included, although I'd list myself firmly in the "casual gamer" section) don't have a girlfriend, and a good many of us have never actually seen a girl before at less than fifty paces. Antisocial geeks are sadly unappreciated by the female population in general!

I don't like girlfriends who play games. This is because gaming is usually "me time" and if she is into games then they become "us time" (which is actually "she time.") The last thing I want to do is wait to play the latest game until my gf is around so we can "play it together." I once met a girl who liked gaming so much that's all we ever did when she came over (instead of, you know, having sex and stuff).

My current chick dislikes gaming and that's fine with me. Gives her something to bitch about.

got a girl that plays CoD4, good enough for me

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The trouble is, the vast majority of gamers I know (myself included, although I'd list myself firmly in the "casual gamer" section) don't have a girlfriend, and a good many of us have never actually seen a girl before at less than fifty paces. Antisocial geeks are sadly unappreciated by the female population in general!

Sadly, that is true, real geeks are not exacly on the top 10 list of girls "guys i'd hump" list, if they have such a thing...who knows

My ex played the sims alot, but that's not really a game is it. Games have challenges to conquer, sims is a virtual doll house. She left me alone sitting at the pc and went down to the shop to get some ciggies. I was clicking about when a fire started in the kitchen. I didn't know what to do so I just watched as the whole family ran around panicking...at least a couple of sims died that day...

I never have tried, and probably never will.

Video games are just something I wouldn't want to do with a girlfriend. I would feel kind of weird, you know, just having to show her how to play and all. And the fact that I can get pretty heated during my games, so I wouldn't necessarily want to show a girl that I liked that enraged nerd side of me. Plus I mostly game for single-player. But just her watching wouldn't be that big of a deal.

I want to point out that this thread blocks out 10% of this community (sorry lesbians).
that said, I've found that the best way to introduce girls to gaming is to start with "cute" games like Kirby, Ecco the Dolphin, and strategy/puzzle games like columns or zelda. i don't know why but this seems the most effective strategies to create lady gamers. incidentally, two rules of thumb. Play co op, and if co op isnt possible, don't be a dick about beating them

cause beating women is wrong...
ok, im going

Well, does Rez count? Street Fighter and Marvel Vs Capcom are two of our top favorites (even tho she's better than me), but nothing beats Rez...

i tried playing COD4 with mine but she is more of a 3rd person player so that didnt go to well. then i put in Gears and GTA and we had a great time with those ones.

most of my girlfriends are already gamers, or enjoy playing games even occaisionally, and since I'm not very good they are usually better than me even if it's a game they've never played and I have been playing for ten days.

Hah. First post.
I'm a girl, and I never really understood why most of us don't care about video games - I've been a geek since I was little. (Ah, the good old C64 times.) I think most guys mess up at this part:

Xwii360:
Playing video games with your girlfriend is a difficult endevour mainly for two reasons.
1. You're trying to help her understand HOW to play the bloody game.

...because most of the time they're really annoying and condescending. I usually just yank the controller/keyboard out of their hands and learn the game by myself whenever this happens xP

I'd like to note that as a female it was my brother that showed me the possibilities of the gaming world. He's two year older than me and we've been playing together for as long as I can remember. I'm a fast learner but I agree with Aquana. You shouldn't make trying to teach her how to play a chore. It should be just for the fun of it. Not because she's pulling your leg about it. If she asks you to teach her how to play don't be a jerk about it. Just have fun teaching her. You where in her shoes once before as well so cut her some slack. I would jack my so called 'boyfriend' in the face if he acted like that to me while trying to teach me something. Especially since it's me just trying to get closer to him. That's all it ever comes down to when a girl asks you to teach her to play when she's never even picked up a controller before.

^_^

I taught a girl I was dating once to play Soul Calibur. Easy work, however... I had never had my ass kicked so hard at that game.

My wife enjoys pretty much anything we buy. She even liked 'Jericho' to an extent, which I found almost unplayable after a few hours (and I bought it before the ZP came out, for the record).

And I have yet to met the person who can beat her throughly at Madden or NCAA. You may win a game or two, but she will stomp you when she wants to.

My girlfriend is more of a NES generation gamer. She likes the Mario games and a ton of other NES games. She played some SNES games, but the most current games she really played is Zelda: WW, Super Paper Mario, Paper Mario:TTYD and Wii Sports. She has trouble with 3d games, especially first-person, and doesn't like them for that reason. She hated Mario64.

Most of the females I associate myself with are gamers, so I've never had this issue.

Hell, even my little sister totally owns anyone at Gears of War, and she uses the chainsaw EXCLUSIVELY. As in, if you hear it, your already dead.

Several of my female friends are hardcore counter strike players too.

The only female I've tried to get to like games is the littlest of my two sisters, she's the kind of any grade below and A+ is too low person and generally hates doing anything she sees as not improving herself in school... ironically however... she watches a lot of MTv.

So just... don't try to force them to play, if they don't want to thats fine.

I actually played Halo 3 with my girlfriend a while back. Needless to say she caught on quick. I was very surprised. It threw my buddy and I off that she was kickin his ass. He's good but he's not as good as me. I mean, I hardly had to explain anything except what the buttons do. Most girls I hang out with either drink and play guitar hero or...just drink. She is the only girl who I know that played Halo 3 and liked it. After that though, we both came to an agreement that we shouldn't play games together because I was pussy whipped. Thank God that's not the case anymore.

Try something simple at first, like just make her use the Wii remote while you are playing mario galaxy, it's easy, all she has to do is collect the stars, and help you jump every now and then.

Then, she starts to find it fun, and you start playing more games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjVV843nFw
This is very relevant.
There's also a part 2, and a Bioshock one.

Ha Ha that's funny. That girl seemed like she had no idea what was going on. My girlfriend was very violent though and very into it. She would kill me or my buddy and like get up in our faces and stuff. It was kinda funny but also very scary.

Oh yeah--I remember playing Mortal Kombat with a girl because none of the other guys would play with her.

I would just pick a character that I'd never studied and used it as a practice session, which was great because it meant I wasn't holding back just to make it fun for her yet she was able to hold her own against me which made it fun for her.

My girlfriend just picked up the controller to GTA 4, got into a fistfight with some woman and laughingly said "I feel like some sort of pervert when I play this." That was her brief extent outside of the world of anything cute and Japanese.

I used to play sims 2 with my ex when we were going out. We took it in turns to be at the helm and background commentary.

My ex was/is a bit of a gamer, though she prefers to avoid FPS, because the twitch action pushes her panic button. It's a guilty pleasure of watching her get killed in Call of Cthulhu: DCOTE.
Current gf is struggling with the gamer/games stigma(As in, letting loose uninformed, tactless comments every now and again) which I hope Psychunauts will cure.

play wii games with girlfriend as they are tacky and don't take any knowledge to play.