How successful have you been in getting your wife/girlfriend to play?

[Caspertoo]

I have been a bit successful. I got her to try out some of the certs, she didn't like the FPS but she was interested in the vehicles. I had her try out magmowing but she didn't like the sideways movement. I thought I had failed but yesterday I come in from work and low and behold she's got a reaver pilot going and she was done with VR training and was flying and killing a bunch of TR's.

[Hamma]

If I had a hot gf that played games..

that would be it for me. My life would be complete.

[SumYungGui]

I have sooo got to get a girlfriend that's into video games.

meh, that'd require a social life. forget it.

[Squeeky]

She didnt get the WASD movement and after 30 seconds she shut down planetside to play solitaire

[Mr1337Duck]

WASD is hard to start out with. I actually learned it not from shooters, but from The Elder Scrolls 3. Weird, huh?

Girls don't play video games, it's like an impossibility. Pwning other people is hard for them. This comes very naturally to guys.

[Vis Armata]

I got my wife to try Tribes 2 once...the mouse movement didn't agree with her, and the whole jetpack bit sealed the deal. No FPS for her. Spider solitare is about it.

[BUGGER]

my gf once played delta force 2, but once her soldier died she left teh comptr.

[SumYungGui]

solitaire on a PC is an abomination and should not be allowed by law or decency. I'm a little touchy on the subject because my parents spent YEARS abusing my poor rig by playing solitaire on it, leaving me with an emotionally scarred wreck to attempt to play Tribes on.

[Lonehunter]

My girlfriend probably loves PS2 just as much as she loves me. I used to beat everybody I know at racing games, then I met Angel . She doesn't like PC games though. "Too many buttons."

[Sleepwalker]

gamer girls are NOT as good as you'd think. i made the mistake of dating one once, and it turned out she was only into DDR (controller, not pad) and RPG's. i play FPSes now primarily because the RPGs of my childhood require no skill or reflexes.

also, she was an annoying bitch.

the shy girls at school play videogames more than you'd think, but they're BAD at relationships.

sorry if i offended anyone, but those are my experienced. best to treat girls and games like church and state.

[Happy lil Elf]

If I had a hot gf that played games..

that would be it for me. My life would be complete.

Amen. Preach on, brother Hamma.

[Revolver]

Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
WASD is hard to start out with. I actually learned it not from shooters, but from The Elder Scrolls 3. Weird, huh?

Girls don't play video games, it's like an impossibility. Pwning other people is hard for them. This comes very naturally to guys.

I think its a result of testosterone. Guys' natural competitive tendancies probably add to our gaming aptitude

[SumYungGui]

I dunno, intellectually I know there are people that cannot do it, but on a more personal level I just don't see how WASD (or ESDF, or SZXC..there's alot of freaky set ups out there) and a mouse can be hard for someone to use. left hand for axial mobility, right hand for rotational mobility/firing. it seems so basic, so simple to me.

now people that try to play shooters on a console, THEY confuse me. I've not yet played halo and I refuse to until they finally decide it's ok to release the PC version.

[Lonehunter]

They won't Not soon anyway.

[Bismarck]

You have no earthly idea what you're missing.

Now I love PS and I play it alot (I chose option # 4). I used to have a g/f, but I dunno, every girl I like doesnt like me and the girls that like me are preppy whiny bitches.

Uhh back to the point. Halo kicks the the shit outta PS. If they make a online Halo, that will be the end of my gaming career, that will become the only game I ever play from then on.

For now I have to basically "waste time" with PS and HL2 until Halo 2 comes out. Halo is worth the price of the Xbox alone.

But....PS has replay value, different battles, real people, d/lable content. Halo has very little replay value, although I admit I have played each level at least 50 times with my friends.