Nice to hear. Wifey says she'll play with me but shes a non gamer and hasn't played anything like diablo before. Dunno if I wanna teach her though lol, don't have much patience but guess I'll try.
That's the biggest mistake everyone makes, trying to teach someone new how to play. Just let her do it herself, and just be there to amswer any questions she might have. Dont impose your play style to her, let her develop her own.
I made that mistake on other games... lol she got frustrated with my impatientce.... now im trying to teach her how to play on single player efore multiplaying with her. I can't rush ahead and kill everything if shes at the reigns.
Still trying to lure my gf into the fiery embrace of diablo 3, but she hasnt quite taken the bait yet. Then again, her gaming preferences is limited to AoE2 and The sims 2. Would be awesome to have an inferno-farming buddy sleeping or not sleeping next to you every night.
Also cheer up for the vagina frogs, best of today by far!
Be careful what you wish for. After playing WoW for a year, I finally convinced my non-gamer wife to try WoW on a trial account. We had one PC at the time, and she has an obsessive compulsive type personality. What ended up happening was me watching over her shoulder as she rampaged through Redridge as my guild pleaded for me on vent to log on for the 40 man.
Thank god for the level 20 cap. "Congrats, honey! You beat the game!"
I'm trying to find a way to bait my wife into D3. The best luck I have had getting her to play games more suited towards my interest was when she became addicted to Dragon Age: Origins. Although I think that was mostly because of that stupid Allistair character... I'm hoping the gameplay alone is enough to win her heart over. If it doesn't than oh well. She will be forced to play and work the RMAH if she is still unemployed by then!
Haha I as well hope to get my lady (gf of 2 years) into diablo. She liked to watch wow. (hated watching sc2. I guess too much going on and boring to watch if you dont understand everything) she even played wow a bit (up to level 20 or so untill I cancelled my account). Also plays the sims. I think this will be the game to real her in.. she already thinks it looks really cool and wants to try playing. awwww yeahhh
My wife also plays Sims and she would see me play Titan Quest and thought it looked like fun. I don't show her too much D3 as we have one laptop. And I don't want to share my D3 with her. Someday we'll get her a new laptop then she can play with me!
I'll try with my gf but by experience im against teaching her everything, last time I did that she was doing nothing on her own and was always asking me what to do even 75% into the game.
I think there's enough tool-tips and help-info for anyone to pick up the game and play. They might die once or twice figuring it out, but they'll get the hang of it sooner or later.
I think it's kind of cool that the game can appeal to someone who normally wouldn't play it. At least that gives us a wide variety of gamers to game with.
My wife and I are old D2 gamers, when I say old I mean we are in the mid fifty age bracket. Been playing D2 together since the Beta and I think she is better then me, my top is a lvl 92 Hammerdin but she has a lvl 95 Sin for petes sake. I have forgotten how many times she has rescued my body in Hell for me. I know we will be playing D3 a lot together but she is willing to wait until it is released before knowing much about it, where as I have been following the developement of the game closely but heaven help me if I try to tell her how to do anything when it comes to game play, she will learn her way at her pace and will ask for help only when she thinks she needs it. It will be nice tho to share loot and experience new things in the game together.........ps Step daughter plays D2 too lol
I have a similar story with my partner, I wouldn't class her as a "non gamer" but she does not have much experience outside of, god forbid, the Sims.
She picked up the beta and enjoyed it alot within minutes because "I can sit here and just kill shit, without worrying too much" so Blizzard were successful in one sense I suppose.
I'll try with my gf but by experience im against teaching her everything, last time I did that she was doing nothing on her own and was always asking me what to do even 75% into the game.
and good lord SO MUCH THIS.
I was playing some Starcraft 2 and my partner came over and wanted to "have a go" I said look you probably want to try something a little less "complex" when it comes to learning, but she was insistent she could at least try it. Naturally i had to sit there every match and tell her what to do and exactly when to do it, it was agonizing.
Similar thing when she play WoW for a day every 10 minute is had to come over and manage her bags for her because she had no idea what items or stats she needed and just had me do it.
There's definitely a lack of any urgency in the beta. I allow myself to get swarmed by monsters just to see if they can kill me and they just can't. Lame.
There's definitely a lack of any urgency in the beta. I allow myself to get swarmed by monsters just to see if they can kill me and they just can't. Lame.
Depends on your class.... As the monk i had a few encounters that could have turned harry if i was a noob. That is until i got geared up (aka after my first skele run).
Unfortunately I'll be starting from scratch since the only game she's reaaly played is bejeweled lol. This will be painful at the start. I'll go "read the tooltips'' strategy.
I'll try with my gf but by experience im against teaching her everything, last time I did that she was doing nothing on her own and was always asking me what to do even 75% into the game.
and good lord SO MUCH THIS.
I was playing some Starcraft 2 and my partner came over and wanted to "have a go" I said look you probably want to try something a little less "complex" when it comes to learning, but she was insistent she could at least try it. Naturally i had to sit there every match and tell her what to do and exactly when to do it, it was agonizing.
Similar thing when she play WoW for a day every 10 minute is had to come over and manage her bags for her because she had no idea what items or stats she needed and just had me do it.
I can vouch for games like Little Big Planet (1 or 2) and generally simplistic games to get them started. I know you did try to fet her to take that route, but perhaps you could success by approaching her with such a game, instead of her approaching you about games.
I did start my wife on LBP.... however... my friend and his GAMER wife came over and we played a 4 player game. She kept falling way way way behind us as my buddy and i competed. Because of the fact that if you fall behind you die my wife got frustrated (she also can't stand not being the best at what she does) and refused to play ever again.
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But to be honest... my wife is right... plague of toads makes the female witch doctor look like she is birthing 3 toads every cast.
exactly my reaction
Having a job and pretending you aren't a gamer will contribute to turning imaginary into real....
just bcareful... pretending can also turn a marriage into divorce lol
I made that mistake on other games... lol she got frustrated with my impatientce.... now im trying to teach her how to play on single player efore multiplaying with her. I can't rush ahead and kill everything if shes at the reigns.
Also cheer up for the vagina frogs, best of today by far!
Thank god for the level 20 cap. "Congrats, honey! You beat the game!"
I think it's kind of cool that the game can appeal to someone who normally wouldn't play it. At least that gives us a wide variety of gamers to game with.
The frog comment is pretty funny.
She picked up the beta and enjoyed it alot within minutes because "I can sit here and just kill shit, without worrying too much" so Blizzard were successful in one sense I suppose.
and good lord SO MUCH THIS.
I was playing some Starcraft 2 and my partner came over and wanted to "have a go" I said look you probably want to try something a little less "complex" when it comes to learning, but she was insistent she could at least try it. Naturally i had to sit there every match and tell her what to do and exactly when to do it, it was agonizing.
Similar thing when she play WoW for a day every 10 minute is had to come over and manage her bags for her because she had no idea what items or stats she needed and just had me do it.
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Depends on your class.... As the monk i had a few encounters that could have turned harry if i was a noob. That is until i got geared up (aka after my first skele run).
I did start my wife on LBP.... however... my friend and his GAMER wife came over and we played a 4 player game. She kept falling way way way behind us as my buddy and i competed. Because of the fact that if you fall behind you die my wife got frustrated (she also can't stand not being the best at what she does) and refused to play ever again.