EDIT: My god, thats one hell of a post, if you can't be assed reading it it don't blame you in the slightest, I've added bullet points at the bottom 
Hey all, need some advice, bit of backstory should help so you get the situation.
I thought, as no doubt countless before me, that it'd be sweet if my girlfriend was a gamer. That way she wouldn't get bored/pissed off whenever we visit friends and I inevitably get sucked into whatever's on the screen (after all, an addiction shared is an addiction. . . doubled?)
She's already a bit of a Sim gamer (-city, -farm, THE Sims, etc.) from childhood, plus Oregon Trail and the like but I was keen to get her into 360 games, maybe end up with a co-op partner for those times when the Next Big Thing rolls around the corner.
Oh yeah, shes a techie by trade, can no doubt build a computer faster than I could build a. . . well it wouldn't take her long, while I know the bare minimum for finding a DotA server and whatnot. Despite this shes not into FPS, RTS or basically anything not made by Maxis. She ALWAYS kicks my ass at Singstar but I think of that less as a game and more as a tool for public humiliation >_<
My first attempt was what I know best, Halo 3, but she got fed up with the controls and wasn't too interested anyway, then Kingdom Hearts where again the controls and jump puzzles just didnt come to her. I see these things as simple but its easy to forget that being a console gamer for years means you can pick up a controller and pretty much always be at least adequate, but teaching. . . well it just didnt work.
Luckily I came across the perfect game, Fable 2. She got drawn in by the grind funnily enough, blacksmithing away then finding out that trading between shops and travellers got her ludicrous amounts of gold and using it to buy every house she came across. Since she had to slog through Quests to unlock the new areas there was a breakthrough with the control system and all of a sudden she's clocked the game 8 times in the space of 3 weeks 0_o
Now that she's run out of game content and it's getting repetitive (yes, we've done the DLC and side-quests) I have absolutly no idea what to put in front of her next. The gold sparks trail from Fable was great since she never got lost and the whole "you can't really die" factor was a bonus.
I guess I'm asking, is there something just like Fable 2 out there for 360? Any and all input appreciated
**** Need a game for 360/PS2 that my girlfriend will like:
*Loved Fable 2 but done everything in it, something similar out there?
*Don't have a hard-drive so can't play Fable 1
*Co-op games would be great if possible (assuming the system isn't retarded like Fable 2's lack of splitscreen)
*3rd-person over FPS
Hey all, need some advice, bit of backstory should help so you get the situation.
I thought, as no doubt countless before me, that it'd be sweet if my girlfriend was a gamer. That way she wouldn't get bored/pissed off whenever we visit friends and I inevitably get sucked into whatever's on the screen (after all, an addiction shared is an addiction. . . doubled?)
She's already a bit of a Sim gamer (-city, -farm, THE Sims, etc.) from childhood, plus Oregon Trail and the like but I was keen to get her into 360 games, maybe end up with a co-op partner for those times when the Next Big Thing rolls around the corner.
Oh yeah, shes a techie by trade, can no doubt build a computer faster than I could build a. . . well it wouldn't take her long, while I know the bare minimum for finding a DotA server and whatnot. Despite this shes not into FPS, RTS or basically anything not made by Maxis. She ALWAYS kicks my ass at Singstar but I think of that less as a game and more as a tool for public humiliation >_<
My first attempt was what I know best, Halo 3, but she got fed up with the controls and wasn't too interested anyway, then Kingdom Hearts where again the controls and jump puzzles just didnt come to her. I see these things as simple but its easy to forget that being a console gamer for years means you can pick up a controller and pretty much always be at least adequate, but teaching. . . well it just didnt work.
Luckily I came across the perfect game, Fable 2. She got drawn in by the grind funnily enough, blacksmithing away then finding out that trading between shops and travellers got her ludicrous amounts of gold and using it to buy every house she came across. Since she had to slog through Quests to unlock the new areas there was a breakthrough with the control system and all of a sudden she's clocked the game 8 times in the space of 3 weeks 0_o
Now that she's run out of game content and it's getting repetitive (yes, we've done the DLC and side-quests) I have absolutly no idea what to put in front of her next. The gold sparks trail from Fable was great since she never got lost and the whole "you can't really die" factor was a bonus.
I guess I'm asking, is there something just like Fable 2 out there for 360? Any and all input appreciated
**** Need a game for 360/PS2 that my girlfriend will like:
*Loved Fable 2 but done everything in it, something similar out there?
*Don't have a hard-drive so can't play Fable 1
*Co-op games would be great if possible (assuming the system isn't retarded like Fable 2's lack of splitscreen)
*3rd-person over FPS
