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[Cybercat999]

mousestalker wrote...

Cybercat999 wrote...


Nope, I wouldnt mind buying him a copy or paying subscription for my games if he would play them. He prefers classic FPS though.
The problem is I am not only a gamer but much better gamer than my husband, I beat him every time if I manage to get him to play with me, I out-level, out-gear and OD him on regular basis. He says I am hurting his "manly" feelings

All one of them?

(It had to be asked)....

I do my best to spare some...

[Zandilar]

Heya,

Zachriel wrote...
Hehehe. I have a pretty hard time resisting Leliana too, even though there are times when I think she is one loony lady. That whole eyelash thing. . .

That's just her being sappy and silly while being in love. Trust me, people say all kinds of silly things when they're in love. I guess romance is really dead in this world.

I personally found it very sweet. (Especially her reaction afterwards when you tell her that the darkspawn can wait.)

[Recidiva]

sagevallant wrote...

Wait wait wait... your HUSBAND wants you to STOP playing games?.... Everything I thought I knew about how the world works is crashing down around me.

The family that plays together, stays together.

I probably couldn't survive in a non-gamer marriage.

[Sialater]

sagevallant wrote...

Sialater wrote...

Hey, don't blame me, man. According to my husband, I need a 12-step program.

Wait wait wait... your HUSBAND wants you to STOP playing games?.... Everything I thought I knew about how the world works is crashing down around me.

He doesn't actually want me to stop.  He just thinks I'm an addict.


But yes, he only wants me to stop so he can play more.

Modifié par Sialater, 24 décembre 2009 - 02:42 .

[Freckles04]

Sialater wrote...


He doesn't actually want me to stop.  He just thinks I'm an addict.


But yes, he only wants me to stop so he can play more.

I have a good solution for this. I got my hubby the PC version of the game so I wouldn't have to give up my Xbox. :happy:

[Sialater]

Freckles04 wrote...

Sialater wrote...


He doesn't actually want me to stop.  He just thinks I'm an addict.


But yes, he only wants me to stop so he can play more.

I have a good solution for this. I got my hubby the PC version of the game so I wouldn't have to give up my Xbox. :happy:

Don't think I haven't considered this.

[Recidiva]

Cybercat999 wrote...

Nope, I wouldnt mind buying him a copy or paying subscription for my games if he would play them. He prefers classic FPS though.
The problem is I am not only a gamer but much better gamer than my husband, I beat him every time if I manage to get him to play with me, I out-level, out-gear and OD him on regular basis. He says I am hurting his "manly" feelings

Everyone in my family has a particular gaming gift.  I tend to be the patient, dogged one who will...say...play a game seven times through if it suits me.  Or replay certain games once a year or so.  If there's a crafting option, I'll get enamored with that.  I'm also an altaholic and tend to make one of everything that can do everything in a game.  But my zenlike peaceful games are strategy games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Alpha Centauri...long, long patient games where I slowly build up overwhelming force...no interest whatsoever in FPS.  Turn-based strategy or fantasy roleplay are my favorites.

My husband is an insanely good strategic and twitch gamer and moves so fast I don't even know what happened.  Give him a player versus player game and everybody's dead.  He will get accused of cheating he's so good.  He can take any game setup and figure out ways to kill people.  I swear if you give him The Sims long enough, he'll figure out how to garrotte the neighbors with tooth floss.

My daughter is the OCD gamer.  Must do everything.  EVERYTHING.  If an option is missed, must restore and then do it.  She excels at puzzles and I will most often want to hand her the controller in any mini game or otherwise.  For instance, playing Fable, she'll sit at the tables for hours and hours playing the mini games and making me cash to buy big shiny sword.  She will obsess on a game until she gets every achievement.  Or until she decides getting that last achievement she spent three months on might not be worth it.  "Viva Pinata" made her want to breed everything to everything and I think that's still on hold, she has yet to admit achievement defeat.  Most likely to be "easily sidetracked"

Son has Asperger's and has an unbelievable gamer knack.  He can watch everyone else play and then...even before he could read or anything announce..."I know how to do that."  And the worst part, he does.  Everyone in the family has experienced him breezily announcing that and saying "FINE, you think you're so smart, you do it."  And it doesn't matter if we've all spent hours and hours trying to fix something, he's got it done in about five minutes and the rest of us are nonplussed and swearing.  So he's shooed out of the room often.  It'd be less annoying if he weren't always so right.   If he's in the room, he'll compulsively advise you on everything he'd do better.  In fact, he can't understand why I never play a mage in Dragon Age and always has to lecture me on the benefits of burning things down with fire skills.  "Oh my God, go away!  I've played the game six times!"  "Telling you mom.  Fire.  Check it out.  If I were there, everything'd be dead already."  "You're not there, and if you don't stop, you'll be dead already."  *giggles*

I think one of the most fun we all had playing a game together was when my daughter and I were trying to get through "Fatal Frame:  Crimson Butterfly" and my daughter and I kept getting progressively more and more freaked out until we started screaming and throwing the controller when the "heart beat" of the controller indicated a ghost nearby.  Husband took mercy on us and replayed through the game while we watched several times so we could get all the different endings based on difficulty level.  I'd remember where they needed to navigate for the next story line step, my daughter would grab the controller for all puzzles, and my husband unflinchingly killed everything while my daughter and I sat in the dark shrieking and eating popcorn.  Fun.

[Recidiva]

Sialater wrote...

He doesn't actually want me to stop.  He just thinks I'm an addict.

But yes, he only wants me to stop so he can play more.

Oh.  OH!

That's why you need two X-Box 360s, two well-running PCs and several copies of the game.

Gamer love takes planning.  We have several copies of lots of games...since when a good one hits, EVERYONE wants a crack at it.  And we all get very crabby when jonesing.

Modifié par Recidiva, 24 décembre 2009 - 02:53 .

[Sialater]

Recidiva wrote...

Sialater wrote...

He doesn't actually want me to stop.  He just thinks I'm an addict.

But yes, he only wants me to stop so he can play more.

Oh.  OH!

That's why you need two X-Box 360s, two well-running PCs and several copies of the game.

Gamer love takes planning.  We have several copies of lots of games...since when a good one hits, EVERYONE wants a crack at it.  And we all get very crabby when jonesing.

We usually do have two copies.  At least of Guild Wars, but our laptop entered it's dotage and we're down to one computer for awhile.

[tigrina]

Recidiva wrote...
Oh.  OH!

That's why you need two X-Box 360s, two well-running PCs and several copies of the game.

Gamer love takes planning.  We have several copies of lots of games...since when a good one hits, EVERYONE wants a crack at it.  And we all get very crabby when jonesing.

Ha! We have two decently running computers with indeed 2 copies of several games. I love your family story btw :innocent:
We do have only 1 xbox though, and mostly do co-op on that. In games that need speed, my friend usually gets the tactics first, but I am the one who has the patience to get actually better at it. Like with puzzle games, we usually beat them together too. I don't know what I would do if we didn't share at least a bit of gaming love.

[Recidiva]

Sialater wrote...

We usually do have two copies.  At least of Guild Wars, but our laptop entered it's dotage and we're down to one computer for awhile.

Eeek.  My condolances.  Husband just built me a new computer for Christmas, gave mine to my son, and set up my son's in another room where it can stream music and video if we happen to be in there.  It's my daughter's old room and we just moved an exercise bike in and called it a "home gym."

We have a Wii, two 360s, a PS3, couple PS2s (I can't do without, as I must be able to play old versions of Romance of the Three Kingdoms...must...and my old copy of Final Fantasy VII...and...oh so many things.)

I think the two 360s happened when my husband was getting really good at Guitar Hero and it had the gall to break down.  Had to get another one while it was being rebuilt.

I canceled my subscriptions to Warcraft, Everquest and Everquest II after a few days with DAO.  Not sure I can go back.  I'm in MMORPG remission.

"What do you mean you don't have clever dialogue options?  Why do you keep saying the same thing?!"

I'm now ruined.

[Recidiva]

tigrina wrote...

Ha! We have two decently running computers with indeed 2 copies of several games. I love your family story btw :innocent:
We do have only 1 xbox though, and mostly do co-op on that. In games that need speed, my friend usually gets the tactics first, but I am the one who has the patience to get actually better at it. Like with puzzle games, we usually beat them together too. I don't know what I would do if we didn't share at least a bit of gaming love.

My husband loves FPS, but he hates using consoles for it.  Computer versions of Team Fortress 2 will give him a lot more in the way of options and accuracy.  So he usually gets fed up with console FPS in no time and opts for PC.

Heh.  I forgot my son's contribution to that story.  His contribution was "scare the crap out of mommy" and he'd do imitations of the ghosts.  Two in particular scared the everloving hell out of me.  He's a bit of a contortionist, to the extent that I could sell him to Cirque du Soleil.  Which I threaten to do occasionally.   One was the ghost of a woman who had died from a fall and she was all broken and twisted and moved with her neck twisted up but her hands and feet on the ground in backbend position, and she'd scuttle across the floor and one of her sounds was a horrifying shriek.  He thought it was funny to stay in a dark part of the room and come scuttling at me and scream like she did.  Holy crap.  The other was two little kids who would run around taunting "I'm right here...we're over here..." and he'd run around and hide behind the chairs and do the creepy voices.  STOP THAT!

Modifié par Recidiva, 24 décembre 2009 - 03:26 .

[Maconbar]

Recidiva wrote...

Sialater wrote...

We usually do have two copies.  At least of Guild Wars, but our laptop entered it's dotage and we're down to one computer for awhile.

Eeek.  My condolances.  Husband just built me a new computer for Christmas, gave mine to my son, and set up my son's in another room where it can stream music and video if we happen to be in there.  It's my daughter's old room and we just moved an exercise bike in and called it a "home gym."

We have a Wii, two 360s, a PS3, couple PS2s (I can't do without, as I must be able to play old versions of Romance of the Three Kingdoms...must...and my old copy of Final Fantasy VII...and...oh so many things.)

I think the two 360s happened when my husband was getting really good at Guitar Hero and it had the gall to break down.  Had to get another one while it was being rebuilt.

I canceled my subscriptions to Warcraft, Everquest and Everquest II after a few days with DAO.  Not sure I can go back.  I'm in MMORPG remission.

"What do you mean you don't have clever dialogue options?  Why do you keep saying the same thing?!"

I'm now ruined.

Isn't it nice to be in mmo remission? Haven't quite cancelled Aion and Warhammer but ....

[sagevallant]

I'm right there with you. I play WoW occassionally but it's just... the same thing... over and over and over... without even the really grand, involved story of an rpg. Many of which I have played more than once. Cinematic games are just more fun.

I happen to be the only hardcore gamer in my immediate family, though my brother is a Madden monkey. Back in the day, he used to get mad at me for pwnfacing him in Goldeneye for the N64 repeatedly. To the point where he celebrated if he managed to kill me even once. I could tell where he was standing just by checking his screen. One time he blocked my entire screen off, and I still killed him first. Then he threw his controller and stormed off.

So, yeah, until I locate a cute, single gamer chick I'm pretty much on my own. Though my little nephew is VERY into gaming... but I'm gonna wait till he's at least, like, ten to introduce him to games like this. Not even halfway there yet.

Modifié par sagevallant, 24 décembre 2009 - 05:24 .

[Maconbar]

I think its going to be Lego Star Wars with my nephew next week. Should be fun, he's in 1st grade.

[Recidiva]

Maconbar wrote...

Isn't it nice to be in mmo remission? Haven't quite cancelled Aion and Warhammer but ....

It kinda is, yeah, I tend to get on a never-ending level fest where my altaholic tendencies keep me cycling from game to game.

We're talking two Sony Station accounts with two sets of EQ and EQ 2 characters and all the inherent trade skills from that, the card game Sony has attached to the two, and also WoW, both sides, alliance and horde, full up with characters and all the trade skills there.

Trade skills in DAO are nonexistent...but I still love it more.

[Sialater]

sagevallant wrote...

I'm right there with you. I play WoW occassionally but it's just... the same thing... over and over and over... without even the really grand, involved story of an rpg. Many of which I have played more than once. Cinematic games are just more fun.

I happen to be the only hardcore gamer in my immediate family, though my brother is a Madden monkey. Back in the day, he used to get mad at me for pwnfacing him in Goldeneye for the N64 repeatedly. To the point where he celebrated if he managed to kill me even once. I could tell where he was standing just by checking his screen. One time he blocked my entire screen off, and I still killed him first. Then he threw his controller and stormed off.

So, yeah, until I locate a cute, single gamer chick I'm pretty much on my own. Though my little nephew is VERY into gaming... but I'm gonna wait till he's at least, like, ten to introduce him to games like this. Not even halfway there yet.

You could do what my husband did, find a slight geek and convert her.  Need massive amounts of Alistair-like charm, though.

[sagevallant]

Sialater wrote...

sagevallant wrote...

I'm right there with you. I play WoW occassionally but it's just... the same thing... over and over and over... without even the really grand, involved story of an rpg. Many of which I have played more than once. Cinematic games are just more fun.

I happen to be the only hardcore gamer in my immediate family, though my brother is a Madden monkey. Back in the day, he used to get mad at me for pwnfacing him in Goldeneye for the N64 repeatedly. To the point where he celebrated if he managed to kill me even once. I could tell where he was standing just by checking his screen. One time he blocked my entire screen off, and I still killed him first. Then he threw his controller and stormed off.

So, yeah, until I locate a cute, single gamer chick I'm pretty much on my own. Though my little nephew is VERY into gaming... but I'm gonna wait till he's at least, like, ten to introduce him to games like this. Not even halfway there yet.

You could do what my husband did, find a slight geek and convert her.  Need massive amounts of Alistair-like charm, though.

I'm not quite as good as Alistair, but I'm getting there. I will never have the boyband hair though. Aside from the face tattoos, that portrait on the left is vaguely accurate. Well, add a little "But I just shaved!" stubble, too. Sigh, I am descended from people with pale skin and dark hair 

[Recidiva]

*in the Brecilian Forest*



Oghren: That's a lot of elfroot, Warden.

Me: I was thinking of perhaps trying to brew some ale from this.

Oghren: I'll help carry, then.

Me: Anybody see anything else they'd like?

Shale: Are there any cookies?

Me: I don't see any. Maybe we could bake some with elfroot. Let's buy more.

Dog: *inquisitive bark*

Me: Oh, I left Alistair at camp. I think he was planning on not feeling well once we got here.

Dog: *declarative bark*

Me: I hope he feels better too. Last call. If you need anything, last chance. Potty break, crafts, items, saying goodbye to new friends...

Oghren: Is there something you're not telling us?

Me: Oh so much. But there's ale and cookies.

Oghren: Maybe.

Me: Maybe.

[Zachriel]

Gaming isn't very popular in my family.  Only myself and my youngest sister are into it, and I think that's because we were introduce to video games at a very young age.  When I was 6 and she was 8, our school got computers.  As a reward for good behavior, students were allowed to play games on them.  This was back in the day of monocrhome graphics and 8.5 inch floppies, but still. . . We kind of took from there.

We had an old Atari system, then a gameboy, then a SNES, and finally when I was 14 we got our first PC and the first thing we did was load it up with games.  Our play styles could not be more different.  She's the puzzle solver.  Her first PC game was Myst, and she loved it.  Mine was Heretic:  Shadow of the Serpent Riders, a gothic FPS.  Once I got the hang of it, I cranked the difficulty up to the hardest setting and never looked back.  That's been how I play games ever since.  I like a challenge.  I like intense combat against overwhelming forces, and I seem to have a knack for finding the best and most efficient means to dispatch them all. 

She married a gamer, and now they have 3 boys who are all getting into gaming as well.  One of my fondest memories was a night when I was in college and I visited them during my Christmas break.  I was.. . 21? I think at the time, and her oldest boy was 5.  The two of us stayed up until 4 in the morning playing Spyro:  Year of the Dragon together.  That kid was amazing.  He'd watch me play for a little while, then I'd hand him the controller, and he did things exactly the way I would have.  A 5 year old boy, playing the game with every bit as much skill as me.  He's 13 now, and he keeps asking if I'll come play Halo 3 of Gears of War 2 with him.  I'm almost afraid to accept.  I think he'll blow me away.

So, yeah, until I locate a cute, single gamer chick I'm pretty much on my own. Though my little nephew is VERY into gaming... but I'm gonna wait till he's at least, like, ten to introduce him to games like this. Not even halfway there yet.

Dude, I know exactly what you mean.  If you were to judge by these forums, you'd think gamer girls were pretty common.  That's the thing about Bioware games.  The emotional content tends to really draw in the female gamers.  In my experience, though, a gamer girl is a pretty rare gem.  I'd say at least 50% of the guys in my office are gamers.  Of all the women who work there, I only know of 1 who plays any kind games, and she's very casual about it.  She's also very married.  I think it has to do with the stereotypical geek image most people tend to associate with gamers, but with gaming becoming more and more mainstream we're finally starting to see that image erode. 

[Cybercat999]

Zachriel wrote...
That's the thing about Bioware games.  The emotional content tends to really draw in the female gamers.  In my experience, though, a gamer girl is a pretty rare gem.

I never thought myself some rare gem, but I am not a girl, I am 40 yo woman.
I play games for many years now, since my first Nintendo over Amiga, C64 and so on. I am not focused on particular games with emotional content either, I play just about everything I can get my hands on. Single player just as MMOs. I am not exactly a fan of FPS but I do play them and I am pretty good in them too. And however I might not be very glad about it, I am far from being casual gamer. I play hardcore and I play to win.

I dont really know what it takes, each of my husbands was a gamer of a kind too, but I am a big step above them in the terms of capabilities and passion I play with. My kids on the other hand are not even interested in any kind of games, but then I suppose having a Mother like me could kill the interest early on.

[Zachriel]

I never thought myself some rare gem, but I am not a girl, I am 40 yo woman.

I play games for many years now, since my first Nintendo over Amiga, C64 and so on. I am not focused on particular games with emotional content either, I play just about everything I can get my hands on. Single player just as MMOs. I am not exactly a fan of FPS but I do play them and I am pretty good in them too. And however I might not be very glad about it, I am far from being casual gamer. I play hardcore and I play to win.

Sorry, I wasn't using the word "girl" to imply anything about youth or maturity, I was just using it for the alliteration.



I have only ever met one woman like yourself, and that was at a gaming convention shortly after the release of the XBox 360. From these boards alone, I can see that there are plenty more out there, but I do think that you are still much more rare than your male counterparts.

[Cybercat999]

Recidiva wrote...
Everyone in my family has a particular gaming gift.  I tend to be the patient, dogged one who will...say...play a game seven times through if it suits me.  Or replay certain games once a year or so.  If there's a crafting option, I'll get enamored with that.  I'm also an altaholic and tend to make one of everything that can do everything in a game.  But my zenlike peaceful games are strategy games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Alpha Centauri...long, long patient games where I slowly build up overwhelming force...no interest whatsoever in FPS.  Turn-based strategy or fantasy roleplay are my favorites.

My husband is an insanely good strategic and twitch gamer and moves so fast I don't even know what happened.  Give him a player versus player game and everybody's dead.  He will get accused of cheating he's so good.  He can take any game setup and figure out ways to kill people.  I swear if you give him The Sims long enough, he'll figure out how to garrotte the neighbors with tooth floss.

My daughter is the OCD gamer.  Must do everything.  EVERYTHING.  If an option is missed, must restore and then do it.  She excels at puzzles and I will most often want to hand her the controller in any mini game or otherwise.  For instance, playing Fable, she'll sit at the tables for hours and hours playing the mini games and making me cash to buy big shiny sword.  She will obsess on a game until she gets every achievement.  Or until she decides getting that last achievement she spent three months on might not be worth it.  "Viva Pinata" made her want to breed everything to everything and I think that's still on hold, she has yet to admit achievement defeat.  Most likely to be "easily sidetracked"

Son has Asperger's and has an unbelievable gamer knack.  He can watch everyone else play and then...even before he could read or anything announce..."I know how to do that."  And the worst part, he does.  Everyone in the family has experienced him breezily announcing that and saying "FINE, you think you're so smart, you do it."  And it doesn't matter if we've all spent hours and hours trying to fix something, he's got it done in about five minutes and the rest of us are nonplussed and swearing.  So he's shooed out of the room often.  It'd be less annoying if he weren't always so right.   If he's in the room, he'll compulsively advise you on everything he'd do better.  In fact, he can't understand why I never play a mage in Dragon Age and always has to lecture me on the benefits of burning things down with fire skills.  "Oh my God, go away!  I've played the game six times!"  "Telling you mom.  Fire.  Check it out.  If I were there, everything'd be dead already."  "You're not there, and if you don't stop, you'll be dead already."  *giggles*

I think one of the most fun we all had playing a game together was when my daughter and I were trying to get through "Fatal Frame:  Crimson Butterfly" and my daughter and I kept getting progressively more and more freaked out until we started screaming and throwing the controller when the "heart beat" of the controller indicated a ghost nearby.  Husband took mercy on us and replayed through the game while we watched several times so we could get all the different endings based on difficulty level.  I'd remember where they needed to navigate for the next story line step, my daughter would grab the controller for all puzzles, and my husband unflinchingly killed everything while my daughter and I sat in the dark shrieking and eating popcorn.  Fun.

Now that sounds like loving gaming family.
Its really nice how you all fit together. I am not that lucky, my kids dont want to play with me and I dont really blame them. I can keep quiet and even let them "win", they still know its not really me, they saw me play too many times to be able to buy such stuff. I tried the same tactics with my husband and he said it made him feel even worse.
They all know me too well, they know how competitive I am and basically its not fun for either of us to play together. More is the pitty.

[Recidiva]

Zachriel wrote...

Sorry, I wasn't using the word "girl" to imply anything about youth or maturity, I was just using it for the alliteration.

I have only ever met one woman like yourself, and that was at a gaming convention shortly after the release of the XBox 360. From these boards alone, I can see that there are plenty more out there, but I do think that you are still much more rare than your male counterparts.

I think the subset here is "roleplaying gamers" - it's the roleplay world that has a lot more women in it than just games in general, I think.  And also it makes the gender lines really fluid, because both my husband and I play different genders.

So for me I know tons of gamer girls.  It's just that they're often found playing male characters.  And my husband is just as likely to make a girl character because as he says, if he's gotta stare at an ass all day, it might as well be a nice one.

Games with ventrillo have changed the ability to do that and maintain the illusion, but it also shows how many people aren't the gender they're portraying.  Which is fine, because they're probably not an elf or a dwarf either.

[Recidiva]

Cybercat999 wrote...

Now that sounds like loving gaming family.
Its really nice how you all fit together. I am not that lucky, my kids dont want to play with me and I dont really blame them. I can keep quiet and even let them "win", they still know its not really me, they saw me play too many times to be able to buy such stuff. I tried the same tactics with my husband and he said it made him feel even worse.
They all know me too well, they know how competitive I am and basically its not fun for either of us to play together. More is the pitty.

It's a lot of fun, I'm lucky to have them all.

And they all know that if they can beat me, they've earned it.   I despise dumbing it down.  But fortunately they each have their own gifts and we're pretty competitive and yet gracious about it being fun, winning or losing.

Modifié par Recidiva, 24 décembre 2009 - 09:40 .