Girls and Gaming
I ran across an article on how to get your girlfriend into gaming. The suggestions are:
1. Don't be a jerk. Let her know she is more important than the game, otherwise she'll make the game her enemy.
2. Find a game she'll like (Rock Band?), not Halo.
3. Invite her to watch you game, but make her feel important. "Honey, can you watch out for snipers for me?"
Take a read of the article. Opinions?
1. Don't be a jerk. Let her know she is more important than the game, otherwise she'll make the game her enemy.
2. Find a game she'll like (Rock Band?), not Halo.
3. Invite her to watch you game, but make her feel important. "Honey, can you watch out for snipers for me?"
Take a read of the article. Opinions?
Comments
My current boyfriend has gotten me more into role playing games (Dungeons and Dragons), but we'll still play wayy too much Super Smash Brothers Melee or Brawl and sometimes play Mario Kart Double Dash. Lol, put the setting on easy and then have her just throw stuff at other racers-- thats a good girlfriend job. He's also getting me into Bioshock and Portal, buuuut I don't think I'd recommend that for a first game to play, hahaha.
Another good girlfriend game- The Sims. But that can get addicting, and may never actually get her into playing any other games. *shrug* I love it though. That and Animal Crossing
If you really want to get a girl into gaming, buy rez on the PS2 with the trance vibrator.
She'll love it.
haha nice. but besides that rez was amazing, i still play it on my PS even though i have the xbox version
It runs similar with the other article, but girls and gaming are a frequent topic. All I can say is that I've noted that a lot of girls "who play games" tend to gravitate largely to Final Fantasy games (later ones starting with VII), Zelda (again, not so much the early NES games), and maybe WoW. WoW is probably a matter of playing because their boyfriend plays and then they get hooked.
There are statistics that suggest more girls are playing games these days, but they often tend to lump a bunch of middle aged women playing peggle and bejeweled into the mix. I'm not sure how honest statistics like that are.
I've also played Rez before, but just the demo on my friend's 360. It's sooo cool. I likes teh music.
My mom likes to play Animal Crossing and the old NES Mario games.
She loved the multiplayer mini games in Pokémon Stadium though (I always won).
Speaking of which, did anyone else think the lickitung mini game where he eats sushi was hilarious?
Deep down, though, I really think the problem is that she didn't get into video games when her brain was soft. I think there's skills you have to pick up in early childhood that make gaming easy. I can pick up a controller and the buttons don't seem like buttons anymore. They're just like muscles... you obviously move your finger slightly down and to the right from default position and press slightly to jump. It just makes sense. But Megan hasn't grown up doing that, so it still feels like pressing a button to make something happen... an extra layer of cognition that slows things down.
And of course, people can get into video games later in life, but they have to want it... and as she has to work, she often feels like reading or watching movies in her free time instead of struggling with video games.
I've never really had anything higher than a Sega. If it's 3D action, I get frustrated and confused, losing interest. If there's a story, I tend to skip over the titles, not caring. I'd rather get story out of a book.
Games I like: Warcraft III, Mortal Kombat (and similar 2D ripoffs), Sims 2 (seriously addictive), Super Mario Bros (1+3), Ecco the Dolphin, and Guitar Hero/Rock band at brother's house. And Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, I actually beat it
And Andrew, you sound like Ryan. Except less of a jerk.
Mario would actually be really bad for her, because it's ridiculously easy to fail in that game. She did get about halfway through Kingdom Hearts, but got frustrated on Oogie Boogie and gave up. She does like Rock Band/Guitar Hero/DDR, but that's because the number of choices you can make is minimal.
And like I said, I don't think girls can't play video games, I just think that a lot of girls weren't raised on it, and thus fewer girls play. And also, as that article states, there's a stigma attached to video games, and it's a pretty strong one. It's comparable to the stigma surrounding graphic novels, but not as strong.
I can see where Megan is coming from. I myself don’t get the hang of a game until I’ve put a lot of time into playing it. What I absolutely LOVE though, is to watch my brother play games. Half-Life 2 is a good example, because I love the storyline, but lack the skill to play it. So I annoy my brother to play just so I can find out what happens.
Asia just wins.
To get my girlfriend into gaming, I'll have to get a girl to want to be my girlfriend first.
You just haven't met any girl gamers yet.
And really, are they that much cooler than any other girl? If the only thing you'd want to do is play video games, you're not being a good boyfriend at all. There is more to life than playing video games!
I think the key to introducing a girl to games is co-op.
And I like the article posted. I just think, as Andrew kinda said, that if a chick is not interested in gaming, don't try too hard to the point that it gets annoying. It's cool to try though.
Very much ditto, intelligence is a much bigger draw for me than simply looks.
If a girl can't look at a motherboard and know what most of the components on it are, and what they do, then it's not worth my time.
But man, if I did find a girl who could hold a discussion of comparison between ich10r and sb750 I don't think I would ever let her go.
Suck it bitches.
(Not really, I haven't been on a date in months)
As for gamer girls, it's really nice if they are, but I don't really find it a prerequisite. It's important to have lots of interests and hobbies in common, not just one.