What we won't do for.. never mind.
My girlfriend has been playing a bit of Fallout 3 recently and is currently discovering that she rather likes first person shooting games. We had a little discussion about a possible christmas present for her and she gave me a few guidelines.
- Not too scary. She freaks out easily. To illustrate what she finds scary, we played a bit of Unreal and Unreal 2 together. I very much doubt that anyone here will consider either game scary. Very occasionally these games will put you in some small, dark corridors with not a lot of room to move around in. And then suddenly they drop some enemies out of nowhere, trying to rush you. That scares the crap out of her. lol
- She doesn't really like killing people, especially if they looks realistic and tend to go about their own business. lol
- She doesn't really mind killing beasts or animals. Or vegetarians. :tup:
- This one is important. She is not really interested in playing 'dumb' shooters. She rather likes heavy tactical elements in gameplay and tends to excell at them. I think I can easily surprise her with new things in this category.
- *optional: she has a fetish for cultural / historical things. So if a game takes her to a nice piazza in Rome, she'll have a culturegasm.
- No Ewoks, fancy elves or Romulans. She gets irritated quite easily at themes that depend too much on a specific genre or series.
- No RPG elements, or semi RPG elements. The less talk and fewer stats to keep track of, the better.
Any thoughts?
My girlfriend has been playing a bit of Fallout 3 recently and is currently discovering that she rather likes first person shooting games. We had a little discussion about a possible christmas present for her and she gave me a few guidelines.
- Not too scary. She freaks out easily. To illustrate what she finds scary, we played a bit of Unreal and Unreal 2 together. I very much doubt that anyone here will consider either game scary. Very occasionally these games will put you in some small, dark corridors with not a lot of room to move around in. And then suddenly they drop some enemies out of nowhere, trying to rush you. That scares the crap out of her. lol
- She doesn't really like killing people, especially if they looks realistic and tend to go about their own business. lol
- She doesn't really mind killing beasts or animals. Or vegetarians. :tup:
- This one is important. She is not really interested in playing 'dumb' shooters. She rather likes heavy tactical elements in gameplay and tends to excell at them. I think I can easily surprise her with new things in this category.
- *optional: she has a fetish for cultural / historical things. So if a game takes her to a nice piazza in Rome, she'll have a culturegasm.
- No Ewoks, fancy elves or Romulans. She gets irritated quite easily at themes that depend too much on a specific genre or series.
- No RPG elements, or semi RPG elements. The less talk and fewer stats to keep track of, the better.
Any thoughts?
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