Teaching Someone To Game
With nothing to do and sitting around at the mall with my girlfriend she turned to me and asked me if I wanted to teach her how to play games. I think this is a strange request but I was much obliged. We proceeded to my house and she asked me to show her how to play shooting games (apparently in Japan she's amazing at Light Gun games in arcades). I immediately popped in "Call Of Duty" and proceeded to show her the first sequence of the Russian campaign (we are both big fans of "Enemy at the Gates" and huge history buffs). After a little while (I died running into machine gun fire) I got her to play the training mission on the American campaign. She was having serious trouble (imagine never having played any games before in your life) but eventually got the hang of it. She was moving around a little bit and learning some basic skills (changing weapons, reloading, crouching, etc.). She was terrified of the noise of guns shooting and grenades exploding (remember this is still the training session), I had the volume extrememly loud though. After she completed it (after being very scared and moving at a frantic pace) the next level started and she made me show her how to play it. She loved the atmosphere of the game and the sound (she still prefers Ligh Guns as they are more realistic shooting-wise). When it was all said and done (she still had only done the training session) she turned to me and said "This was fun, I think I will buy it."
That's my story for the day.
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That''s nice. I wish my girlfriend had patience to learn new games, she has an hard time with the 3D movement/environments. All the games she plays are 2D, so we''re mostly playing oldies on the good old NES and SNES =)
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Retro gaming is so much fun though. Nothing compares to playing through some good old Mario or Sonic. I found some of my old Mega-Man carts and nearly had a spontaneous orgasm! Such good fun.
"Just remember that sometimes you need to allow problems to just roll like water off of a duckilama's back." ~Reaper
This is my wife exactly -- she still plays the SNES. When the GameCube came out she wanted as she loved the old Nintendo games, but she found the 3D games difficult and not as fun as the 2Ders. Thus, the GameCube collected dust until I sold it.
I also bought her a GBA SP, thinking she''d get into that with all the 2D games however she ultimately stopped playing it too. When she plays games, my wife predominantly loads up the old SNES I had to hook up to our widescreen (a funny sight) or the puzzle games she has on her Palm/Clie.
The closest to a ""modern"" game she got into for a while was the Sims. No surprise there.
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My wife is so technologically challenged it''s not even funny. I''ve actually never had a girlfriend that played video games. You guys tell me they exist, so I suppose I must believe you, but damn it sounds more like a dream.
BEWARE!
Although turning the significant other on to games is great...think of this..if you only have one computer, you now have to share it!
My lady got interested in SWG while I was playing it and started her own character. She had never played video games (except for yahoo type games) until then.
From then on our computer had to do double duty!
Luckily (?) now she works a different schedule so we both have plenty of game type....but be careful, you might get what you wish for!!!
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The up side, assuming you can scrape enough together to keep two rigs somewhat game-worthy tech-wise, is that it gives you a great connection.
My 14 year old son and I talk about game maps, mpds, complain about weapons (like the BF-V M-60), upcoming games, ""dream games"", and strategies. It gives us a solid common ground that I''m hoping will keep the doors of communication open through adolescence.
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This is one of the main reasons I want a boy (planning on a child this year). Makes it much easier to justify playing games well into my forties (that''s a scary thought).
""I''m buying this game so I can bond more with my son. Yeah, that''s it.""
Call of duty is a great one for her to start on. My wife played that one all the way through.
Twice.
Why do I admire videogames so much?
There's nothing else on earth that entwines art and science so closely.