Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
halus and i tried playing baldur's gate 2 on the xbox. lasted about 2 hours until i showed her guildwars.
...and my misses hasnt the patience for GW, but has for something more basic (like Baldurs Gate 2 on the x-box).
Basically, Mr Pants, womens tastes for games are as varied as blokes tastes for games, so the best bet is to just try her out on stuff and find out what she likes that way.
Joose wrote:Basically, Mr Pants, womens tastes for games are as varied as blokes tastes for games, so the best bet is to just try her out on stuff and find out what she likes that way.
Yes, this
My sister use to be a complte and utter nutter for Fifa euro 1994 (or something like that), then she stated playing C&C Tiberian sun, now she's a sims nutter. Bizare Lassy...
Its a single player actioney RPG-lite kinda game. Quite fun, fairly piss easy.
You can get it for PC or X-box, maybe others, I dunno.
Good points: Its quite pretty, funny in places, and has things that may appeal to girlies (such as buying houses and doing them up, and romancing the locals). The combat system is nice and easy to use, and quite satisfying too.
Bad points: it really is piss easy, and very short. The locals yelling things at you gets annoying after a while, as they have quite a limited vocabulary. It ends suddenly, and without much warning, not giving you a chance to go back to finish side-quests and stuff (this one made me the most annoyed).
Easy is good, as is quick. It's difficult for me to think of games she'd like because I've been playing games for about 20 years, while she's barely played any at all and most of that is console stuff. This means what I consider simple and easy (any FPS for example) is confusing and difficult to control for her. Her lack of experience means she needs either controls so easy your mum could pick it up, or a slow enough pace for her to learn it without getting frustrated.
I'm thinking I'll have to wean her onto things gently - start off with me playing a SP game she likes the look of (she liked The Movies, and she'd probably like The Sims) and then she plays while I help. Then we can move up to offline co-op stuff like Diablo, then maybe online co-op stuff like Guild Wars. Hell, maybe I'll make an Eve player of her yet
