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How to Make Your Girl a Gamer

Games 4 Guys writes: It’s not an easy task inspiring your lady to enter the wonderful world of video gaming. Many have tried and few have succeeded. This is from three years of experience having a girl who wouldn’t play, to a girl who has the calendar marked for the release of Gears of War 3. There are several rules to follow in any relationship that are applicable when turning your girl into a gamer.

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BigKev454890d ago

Stop giving her the big daddy long stroke then she will start playing games. I bet'ch.

velocitygamer4890d ago

I'll tell her to play Uncharted 2...she'll think she's in a movie :P

sdtarm4890d ago

I Dont wanna make my girl a gamer :@

Stop this ridiculous articles plz!

Ocelot5254890d ago

what BS is this, she doesn't need to game, she must make sandwiches while I AM GAMING

FrankMcSpank4890d ago

I got one already. All it took was cheesecake.

zootang4890d ago (Edited 4890d ago )

If you don't like your misses not liking what you like, indoctrinate her?! Really?!

If you are not happy with your misses get a new one! One that has some kind of interest in games.

Or

Trade off! Go shopping with her for an hours worth of her gaming with you.

Bull5hifT4890d ago

Put a controller in her hand when shes asleep.. Then whisper challenge her to a match of Tekken or Street Fighter... You Win' n she's a gamer. Or get her the sims or lil' big planet

MariaHelFutura4890d ago

You don`t want your girl to game, it`s overrated. It`s not so sexy when she doesn`t want have sex cause she needs to keep grindin to get a new sword.

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dragonyght4890d ago (Edited 4890d ago )

How to Make Your Girl a Gamer?

...Why

mastiffchild4890d ago

Indeed, my missus is a bigger gamer than I am at times and our kids are all into it as well. If you get your girl, who currently isn't a gamer, into gaming you open yourself up to the kind of things I get to put up with!!

Getting the pad at all can be a big issue at times cos the wife gets on one and hogs it or she's playing a game you don't want to on the console(or the PC) you want to use etc, etc. Then, if your missus is like mine, she might take to beating you at everything and showing you up in front of everyone. The worst thing my missus does to me is make mne buy her COD games as presents because she knows how I feel about Koltick and Acti and would NEVER buy oner if it wasn't an asked for present-she's asked for Blops and MW2 the last two birthdays!!

So, yeh, it's cool to game together and have her "get" your hobby but there are serious drawbacks so we ought to advise being careful what we wish for in our partners. Naturally this also goes for any girls wishing their guys were gamers as well. Kids beating you is worse, mind, way worse because the gloat EVEN more than the wife does. For days. They never let you forget and because they're your kids you have to put up with it even if you were going easy on them and know their "win" was a mirage. In fact that can make it sting even more.

jeeves864890d ago

Maybe you just need to...be better at those games maybe? It sounds like your pride is a lil hurt.

Urmomlol4890d ago

I hate web sites that think they're being clever by writing absolute crap articles like this.

Please note, this is the same web site that posts smut in order to get hits --clearly they're experts on relating with girls.

/sarcasm

Urmomlol4890d ago

Jimmy, your web site is absolute garbage and everyone knows it. I don't troll, I state the obvious.

Jimmy the Greek4890d ago

im just stating the obvious too.

chesed4890d ago

I enjoyed the read. Take it for what it is. If you don't like it, I highly recommend NOT reading anything on N4G. It's just not for you. Unless you get off on complaining. For which I say, "Carry on..."

On topic, my g/f shows a mild interest in games. She prefers to watch me play, but will occasionally pick up the controller once in a while. I got her hooked on Zen Pinball on PS3. She fumbles big time with CoD because she has no experience with the controls, but she tries. Partly because she's interested and partly because she knows it makes me happy.

You shouldn't really try to change people, but there's no harm in introducing them to new experiences.

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Sarobi4890d ago

"People" in general like video games, female or male, it appeals to both if the game is "fun" so i don't get these articles

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Two Decades Later, the Original Splinter Cell is Still a Masterpiece

They don't make games like this anymore.

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vgvill4d ago

Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.

Jingsing4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.

TheProfessional4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.

rlow14d ago

I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.

vgvill4d ago

They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.

PrecursorOrb4d ago

Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company

Chocoburger4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.

Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!

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A Matter Of Trust: What The Game Industry Should Do To Win Gamers Back

Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.

anast10d ago

Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.

Garethvk9d ago

How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.

anast9d ago

Wait until release. Watch Gameplay. Exercise patience.

Garethvk9d ago

But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.

1nsomniac9d ago

Get rid of the suits in the industry and job done!!

Garethvk9d ago

They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.

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From The Last of Us to Baldur's Gate 3: The success of the Game Music Festival

Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.

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