Gamer Girlfriend?

[Shade184]

Personally, I wouldn't date a girl who was an uber-hardcore, or even someone who plays games regularly (by "regular", I mean more than 12 hours/week). I'd prefer a girl who maybe logs onto Facebook to check her crops (or whatever it is people do in Farmville) every now and then when she can get access to a PC.

The deal is that I'd prefer someone who would complement me: the Mary Jane Watson to my Peter Parker, or the Lois Lane to my Clark Kent. Someone who keeps me focused and grounded on things in the real world, someone who doesn't share my 4 hour/day habit.

Yeah, things might be rocky, but I always thought that you were supposed to work things out in relationships, learn to accept the quirks and habits of your partner and whatnot.

I agree, this would probably add a lot more variety to our relationship, and give me a chance to learn to accept other people's quirks as well. Except the Farmville part. Screw Farmville, I'd get her into Echo Bazaar!

And it'd be sweet if she was into anime and/or tabletop RPGs.

I guess geeky interests would be more important to me than gaming itself.

My fiance isn't a gamer really, but when I asked her how she felt about me gaming, she said she was okay with it because it's part of who I am, I like to do it and she likes to watch me play and cuddle me during my gaming sessions. :3

You lucky bastard. Cuddles from girlfriends AND video games? Doesn't get better than that. :3

 

[Fetzenfisch]

It is important that she does not have a problem with me gaming. That she wont make stupid comments or strange faces when i am out for a night of Pen and Paper or join friends to go to the game-expo (expo- like in "new games to be checked out early, not con- like in costumed crazyness ( i like certain ones of those too , though, but havent been there for years)).
I just get my moments of nerdy overjoy when she in her normally relatively ungaming life, gets all crazy if something x-men related is in tv or a store, or when we are playing old superhero arcadegames.
Thats mostly it with her and gaming, except wii-casuals and some boardgames. I got her to play Munchkin finally, thats a big win here. And since she at least got her own LotR Trilogy DVD set she isnt completely lost here either.

The next project is some simple Splatter stuff, House of the Dead kinda. She loves that in movies, so i might be able to finally get her in the gaming-zone.

 

[jumb]

I'm being very patient with her and it's hard to explain something over Xbox Live chat.

I tried getting my GF in to WoW. Because of the awesome new refer-a-friend or whatever system, it meant that we should spend the majory of our time in a group. So, I spent a month leading her by the nose to each quest zone, asking if she has the X number of enemy Y's skulls or breastplates or nosehairs or whatever, at which point she would say "oh I don't have that quest." When we got high enough, I would get to the point where I'd go "I'm busy now, you can go do something by yourself, you're alright!" at which point she would just sit in a city, jumping around and selling portals (she played a mage).

At this point, I realsied that although she did mildly enjoy the game, the only reason she stuck with it was she got attention out of me. This sounds similar to you; she can give or take the game, but she gets to talk to you from home. You get to play games, she gets your attention, everyone's happy!

While it did initally annoy me that my GF was tricking me to spend time with her, I didn't mind. I don't expect my partner to enjoy the same things as me. My partner and I should be the ying and the yang; opposites that complement and balance each other out as a whole. Also, when we spend time together in person, I get to stick my "ying" in her "yang"!

 

[Mcface]

My GF is obsessed with mass effect and fallout.
she plays Black Ops too, but rages too much.

 

[Bloodastral]

I had an ex girlfriend who started playing a mmorpg I used to play. Was pretty cool, so it's nice to have a g/f that has the same interests and plays games.

 

[SimuLord]

I'm single, but the girl I'm interested in (and curse her ex-boyfriend for screwing her up so badly that she could meet the man of her dreams and her heart wouldn't be open to him, so what chance do I have?) plays World of Warcraft and doesn't mind when I bore her with Fallout: New Vegas stories.

 

[Inuprince]

Well my girlfriend doesn't play games alone, but if it's some kind of co-operative TPS, she can really get into it.

We beat Resident Evil 5 and Kane and Lynch together and it was awesome

 

[MrEnigami]

I am currently single, and none of my ex-girlfriends (to my knowledge) have been gamers.

Having a girlfriend who plays games would be cool. Having a girlfriend who likes the same games as me would be even cooler (Shooter, RPG, strategy... I like alot of games...) and if she was better than me; that'd be hot pretty damned cool too. None of that is/would be necessary, but it'd be cool.

But that ain't happening any time soon. :/

 

[Sebenko]

When your pillow talk is about how awesome it was to powerslide a ship out of the warp and reduce the enemy to molten slag with six macrobatteries...

Yep, geeky relationship here.

 

[FrostyChick]

Well I'm a girl, I like games. Would I like a gamer girfriend?

Spoiler

[HEADING=1]HELL YES!!![/HEADING]

 

[dygros]

My girlfriend enjoys games for the environments. She's really into Assassin's Creed 2 & Brotherhood at the moment because she loves Italy, especially renaissance Italy. She just enjoys being able to explore a world that she'll never get to visit

 

[Halceon]

I'd like to believe that it doesn't matter, if the girl's not a gamer. However, I can't see myself being together with anyone who dismisses the greater part of my hobbies wholesale. Then again, I have no reason for worry, because my girl is an avid tabletop roleplayer.

 

[Psychemaster]

My girlfriend plays a mean Pyro/Engineer in TF2, so I can't complain at all

 

[Whoolpurse]

I didn't know my girlfriend was a gamer, she never mentioned it. So one day i had to stop by work to speak to the boss. When I got home my girlfriend had been sitting there, playing Red Dead Redemption (Not properly though, Just riding horses and hunting animals, but still.) And wouldn't for the love of god give me my controller, That was awesome. (Did I mention she is a better shot than I?)

 

[Lambi]

I've had two gamer girlfriends and they were great fun. Still friends with both of them.

So, the question for me would be if I wanted to date another gamer girl?

Gamer girl or guy, doesn't matter. A gamer of either gender is something I'd want, yes.

 

[Emz]

I wonder when topics about female gamers will end? I don't really get what the fuss is about but maybe that's just me. Both me and my boyfriend play games a lot and I've enjoyed games now for about 19 years and don't intend to stop - I hope to be a little old gaming granny one day.

I'll flip it though to "gamer boyfriends" and I am happy me and my boyfriend share our hobby together. It means there's always something to do ranging from games like Borderlands to Little Big Planet. So many choices of experiences, it's one of my reasons I love my games so. <3

 

[Lord_Nemesis]

Cant relate to that. My girlfriend and I play together all the time. Halo: Reach, COD:MW2, WoW. Sorry man, my heart goes out to you.

 

[Goody]

My girlfriend has a 360 and I have a PS3 and PC. Good times.

 

[Jamous]

SNIPPETYSNIPSNIP

Heh, I'm having a lot of fun trying to get my girlfriend into some games. Although she's already pretty much sorted for the PC; she can play some fantastic games of Total War. She doesn't play consoles, though I'm slowly working on that. ;;D Muchly fun.

 

[Jeralt2100]

Currently single, although extremely interested in a girl who's an avid gamer. I'll admit that it's /part/ of what attracted me to her but the more we talk the higher our compatibility seems to be. Many shared interests and the differences between us all seem to be complimentary, so I'm looking forward to seeing just how far things can go. Even if she weren't a gamer I don't think I'd be dissuaded from wanting to get to know her better. Gaming is a hobby, and everyone has different hobbies. There are more important factors in a relationship than that for me.