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Anonymous Source  Posts: 7 Joined: 17 Jan 2008 | Whenever I played against my ex at a game like halo, after being whipped a few times would just start killing himself until I got pissed off, turned off the console and resorted to real life ass whipping. The new man just plays PSP and goes a little quiet when I beat him at games that he owns and I don't. |
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Red Guard  Posts: 966 Joined: 16 Dec 2007 |
Ye= you (plural) Was a mod edit. It used to read "Ur." And what's wrong with saying "playing video games with your (thy) girlfriend?" |
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Muckraker  Posts: 248 Joined: 28 Oct 2007 | To those looking for girl gamers to date remember this: especially the last panel. --- On topic: Some girls play games, my GF owns mroe consoles that me. She doesn't like FPS games. Her sister is a bigger gamer, plays PC games (Guild Wars among others). The things to remember are: 1) You must play games YOU enjoy(if she doesn't have any interest in Halo or whatever why would she enjoy it?). SO the first strange is to find a game she likes to look of. 2) It should probably be coop if at all possible - nothing worse that sitting playing a game because it totally dominates the situation. My GF says she doesn't like playing when i am around because she feels like she is ignoring me - which in essence SHE IS. 3) Taking 3 into account it might be better if she learns to play and enjoy games in her own time - IF SHE WANTS TO. That way she can play if and when she wants to - some times in just not in the mood for a game i'm sure its the same for everyone. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 65 Joined: 11 Apr 2008 | i used to play multi player halo with my ex(that was fun, ended up having disturbing dreams about it) also conkers bad fur day and my current bf and i play WoW all the time (2 computers in one room) |
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Paperboy  Posts: 44 Joined: 2 Jan 2008 | My Girlfriend is a big Zelda Fan. I never played or understood them so she offered to play them with me. Such good Games!! In return, I am showing her Bioshock. |
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Paperboy Posts: 11 Joined: 7 May 2008 | My gf got into playing Baldur's Gate from watching me, early days of our relationship. She then got addicted and took over my PC. That was fine, bought a 2nd one and networked them, and we played parts of it co-operatively. Same with BG2, and she picked up various other games she liked the look of, and we both went the way of the WoW addict. She is madly waiting for Buzz on PS3 (as am I) and generally goes for RPGs. Excluding the Wii, is a bad idea, as it is probably a great introduction to games - like that first sample of crack for free. Get them hooked and move them onto bigger and better. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 143 Joined: 5 May 2008 | The answer is really simple (or is it??) Just play Super Smash Bros. Melee (Yes I still play this version) The look of amazement on my girlfriend's face is funny as hell especially when the only games she plays is stuff like Spyro and Crash Bandicoot.... |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 8 May 2008 | My ex gf liked games. She was going crazy about assassins creed before it was released. But as far as i could tell she didn't game much. But she liked them. Back then the both of us where really socializing allot and didn't have much time for games. My current(sorta, we're clicking... but nothing to serious yet) gf is a very casual gamer. I don't think she has any consoles at home. But she enjoys to play a game when the opportunity arises. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 71 Joined: 27 Apr 2008 | I've had a good experience with this. Not my girlfriend, but my best friends girlfriend. (We are at the point of friendship that we can finish eachothers sentences). We introduced her to Rainbow Six Vegas on the 360. Of course she wasn't a gamer, as one time she said have I got a playstation.. to play hello kitty roller rescue! A part of me died there but I recovered. She had also played the sims but what girl hasn't. Besides its more of a shopping/interior decorator than a game. Besides a dark and shallow 'gaming' background, I was ecstatic when she picked the AK47 with ACOG scope for her weapon, so there was hope. The game had a rawring start as I taught her the controls, picked them up quite easily. Left trigger to use cover, aiming, scoping, etc (Altough she hasn't got to grips with moving and turning at the same time). She progressed swimminly. The next time I saw her she was matching my best friends K/D ratio! From two weekends worth of play that is realy impressive! |
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Paperboy  Posts: 15 Joined: 18 Apr 2008 | Ah, if only~ Speaking as a female gamer who has been playing for the most part of my short life I'd like to point out something. I've never actually dated a guy who was as into games as I am (and can also keep up with my vocabulary and random outbursts of multi-lingual bile). This somewhat confuses me, as I was unaware that it was socially acceptable among men to be out-nerded by a 5'4", cosplaying gamer girl. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1363 Joined: 4 Nov 2007 |
Nice one wilson. I appreciated it much more than I would have liked "Ur". |
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Paperboy  Posts: 19 Joined: 10 May 2008 | my bf hates palying with me. cos i always win :D ...is what i would say if i were any good. actually, I've been playing games for the past 15 years, as part of a balanced diet, in betweengreen veg and muesli |
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Brand Manager  Posts: 442 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | My ex HATED video games, BUT in the beginning of our relationship she was very open to trying a game or two out. I showed her how to play CoH and she just thought it was too boring. From then on she thought it was a waste of time...thus one more straw to the camels back of our relationship. |
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BANNED  Posts: 302 Joined: 6 May 2008 | From then on she thought it was a waste of time...thus one more straw to the camels back of our relationship.[/quote] Videogames are never a waste of time. As long as you're having fun then nothing is a waste. My Gf just fell in love with ZP about a week ago. She demands that I speak in a stronger British accent. Damn you Yahtzee stealing m' ladies! User was banned for: Random answer generator request and also do you have any eccentricities?. (Permanent) |
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Paperboy Posts: 22 Joined: 12 Feb 2008 | I agree with those posting about partners who don't play games. It's better that way. My ex was an avid WoW player for a while, and knew as much as I did about the game. That's a scary thought considering I used to work for Blizzard in the Customer Support teams. Not a cool idea, seriously. Instead of doing the usual things you do with your partners, we used to argue about the game and theory-crafts. :| Casual gamer girls are fine, otherwise it can get ugly in a competitive game. |
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Paperboy Posts: 32 Joined: 6 May 2008 | OK none of those are my problems....its not getting my ass kicked by her...she gamer like me, we spend most of are time gaming, but in the end i win! she gets lucky sometimes... |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 9 Joined: 19 Dec 2007 | When my girlfriend and I started dating, the only game she had played all the way through on her own was Ocarina of Time (she occasionally played Goldeneye with friends, as well). Lucky for me, upon realizing that I was more into games than she may have previously thought, she remained open and was willing to try new games with me. We've played through Wind Waker, Eternal Darkness (this was a pleasant surprise, given the limb-severing style of gameplay), Twilight Princess, Katamari Damacy/WLK/BK, Final Fantasy X, Psychonauts (she protested at first, but eventually saw the light), a portion of Eternal Sonata, and Super Mario Galaxy. Unfortunately, she was not a big fan of Shadow of the Colossus, nor is she interested in FPS games at all (three grenade-suicides into a local multiplayer game of Halo, and she got the vibe that it wasn't for her). Oh well -- like Meat Loaf said, ten out of twelve ain't bad. Ah, hearing someone who was once a non-gamer make Katamari and Psychonauts references is music to my ears. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1167 Joined: 1 Feb 2008 |
Why does this shut us out? It's true I've never tried to teach one of my girlfriends to play video games, but if any woman is ever foolish to date me in the future, I'm sure going to try. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1363 Joined: 4 Nov 2007 |
I thought we'd established that 10% of the community was women. So unless this site has some sort of straight woman repellant the number of lesbians must be less than 10%.[/silly aside] |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1167 Joined: 1 Feb 2008 |
Shouldn't it be "Sorry, gay guys?" They're the ones that get shut out by the girlfriend discussions. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1668 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 |
The amount of Lesbians on this website is roughly 1%. Why? Well 10% of the entire population is homosexual therefore 10% of the entire female population are lesbians. Seeing as how there are only 10% of the Escapist population are women then that means that 1% lesbians. This means the amount of gay men will be around 9% of the population. I don't understand why lesbians wont have Girl friends to play with though. |
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Paperboy Posts: 46 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | Likely, there are confounding variables to mess around with your mathematic precision, perhaps gay guys or girls are less/more likely to play video games, or be a member of an online community related to gameing. Not to mention the complication put forth by Bisexuals. However, I suspect a poll would be in bad taste... |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1668 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 |
I did not take into account variables because I have no idea what they are. This is a rough estimate, most likely wrong, but the closest I could get without a crude poll. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 92 Joined: 22 Apr 2008 | "Thine" girlfriend. Not being a man, I can't really say. But I play games with my boyfriend all the time, and beat him at them. Not all the time, though. |
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Muckraker Posts: 248 Joined: 28 Oct 2007 |
Ok... here an example, just go with it: Say 20% of the population of the USA is Orange (REMEMBER hypothetical). Now you walk into Orange Town. What percentage of the people on a given street will be Orange? By your logic 20% - however actually its 90% Orange people. You need a representative sample for global stats to be applicable - The Escapist won't be representative. The actual percentage cannot be assessed. Hell its hard enough to get the percentage of women let alone gay women! -- Anyways todays lesson in a nutshell is: Statistics don't scale down well. ps i have no idea why i felt i should write this but i figure i've got this far so why not... ------ On topic: Its always nice ot hear about good experiences. Just makes me feel all the more sorry for the people (men or women) who feel they have to hide how much they like games. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1363 Joined: 4 Nov 2007 | What have I done? What have I DONE?! |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 75 Joined: 25 Feb 2008 | My first girlfriend used to kick my ass at Tekken 2/3, my second used to kick my ass at any console shooter. |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 987 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 | My girlfriend likes Adventure Games, RPG's, Platformers, Puzzle Games, Party Games, some Racing, Sim games and some Action games but hates Shooters, Horror, Strategy, Sandbox Mayhem (the GTA genre), Fighting (basically all the multiplayer games my male friends like), and MMORPG's. She's bad at twitch gaming, which I suppose is why she hates some of the above, but she will watch if the graphics are interesting and there's a story she can follow. If it's too slow paced however she will completely lose interest. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 49 Joined: 29 Apr 2008 | My girlfriend is a big D&D player and thus likes the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series. She doesn't like twitch reflex games, which is odd because she has very good twitch reflexes. We played a game "together" once. It was Hitman Silent Assassin. By "together" I was operating the controls and she was dictating strategy. Back seat gaming if you will. For a game like Hitman that approach works because hiding locations are not really time sensitive decisions. Thanks to Yahtzee she is now very interested in portal and may back seat driver me through that game as well. |
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Paperboy Posts: 27 Joined: 23 Feb 2008 | Peggle. I don't actually have a GF, but with the few non-gamer girls (or very casual gamers) It's always been hilariously fun, as there is no way you can really be that good at it, so it's always fairly matched. Anything with a good character creator (oblivion, CoH) Is great, its funny what people can come up with. |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 4 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 | When I used to play WoW, my girlfriend got into it too. However it was often more frustrating than fun. However - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for DS has been a shit load of fun. Definitely recommend for playing together. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 34 Joined: 14 May 2008 | Someday I will make eye contact with my girlfriend. |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 7 Joined: 14 May 2008 |
That does surprise me as it usually is guys more into games then girls. Nevertheless the fact you adore them more then kittens is a commendable thing indeed. Now if you enjoy slaughtering kittens (people) in whatever games allows it... there is nothing left to say. :P On topic, while I do not have a GF. I know some chicks that enjoy video games, although one says she avoids Halo because she hates crying twelve year old losers with too much time on their hands; a statement I shall fondly remember for all time. She is more into JRPGs and the fact she literally starts singing praise to my favorite game of all time (Lunar: SSSC) has me a tad disappointed she lives bloody far away. Mostly however I am a solo gamer, while certainly having little qualm with playing co-op, it is not my cup of tea per say in most scenarios. My one inquiry here though is how anyone allows their gaming time to become "Us time" or even more embarrassing "her time"? Can you not merely start two separate files and if she whines about that, am I they only one not to giving a flying rat's ass? |
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Paperboy Posts: 49 Joined: 9 May 2008 | Yes, try playing co-op games with her like Batman Rise of Sin Tzu, Ultimate Marvel or Justice League, or Lego Star Wars. Lego Star Wars is a great game for my wife and I to play together since she is really good at figuring out puzzles (better than I am). I'm better at shooting and saber swinging than she is, so we make a good team on those Lego games. We both like the Indy movies (she likes them better than Star Wars) so, we're looking forward to Lego Indy. Co-op games are good for playing with your girlfriend, especially if she is one of those who isn't a good loser and pouts when you beat her. In co-op games, you are on the same side so you both win together. My wife kicks butt as The Invisible Woman while I prefer being The Thing when we put the Fantasic Four characters together in Ultimate Marvel. |
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........Neopets -_-
She introduced ME to it though.
Btw...
Thy = You/Your
It really peeves me when people attempt to use old english when they don't even know what the words mean.