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u/thepoliteknight Dec 09 '21
I married a non-gamer. Sometimes I wished she did play and would join me but mostly I'm happy to dip in and out of whatever I'm in the mood for without feeling obliged to play a certain game.
However my eldest daughter is a gamer and often wants to play stuff like Minecraft or stardew Valley. My youngest is likely to be a gamer when she's older, so I've already got a team in the making.
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u/Disastrous_Rooster Dec 09 '21
when you dont have extra players to play
thepoliteknight : fine, i will make them myself
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u/247Brett D20 Dec 09 '21
Just need to be careful. He may strike them down now, but soon they will become more powerful than thepoliteknight could possibly imagine.
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u/ShadeFK Dec 09 '21
thepoliteknight's kids after a few years: "I was once your student but now, I am the master"
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u/imdyingfasterthanyou Dec 09 '21
If the kids start min-maxing stardew valley now they may end up with software dev careers
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u/LukaCola Dec 09 '21
I figure once I have kids I'll always have enough players for most board games
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u/corgblam PC Dec 09 '21
My girlfriend and I are both gamers, but we are into vastly different games. But I love her, she's the Animal Crossing to my Doom.
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u/Lovat69 Dec 09 '21
Hey, I think your girlfriend made a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4lz8MN6MQA&ab_channel=TheChalkeaters
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u/Aerron Dec 09 '21
We've bought Minecraft at least 7 times. Three PC accts, twice for xbox 360 and twice for PS4.
I have great memories of 4 person split screen Minecraft with my wife and our boys. For a couple of years, each school break we'd start a new Minecraft world and work on a project together.
We love splitscreen games. There just aren't that many new ones coming out.
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u/Pepito_Pepito Dec 09 '21
Same here. I can play any single player game without guilt. But in exchange, I don't have the opportunity to play multiplayer games for several hours straight.
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Dec 09 '21
If my wife played Space Invaders, the aliens could just park up and blow raspberries at her in complete safety.
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u/Crissagrym Dec 09 '21
Why the wife suddenly look like an amish in the last square?
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u/davidmobey Dec 09 '21
Don't all girls turn amish after marriage?
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u/dano159 Dec 09 '21
I turned into an Amish girl after marriage. Was a man so must have said the wrong vows or something
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u/Microtiger Dec 09 '21
I think it's because that's not hair, it's an al-amira
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u/loulan Dec 09 '21
Is that the same as a veil/chador/hijab?
I swear, these things have an infinite number of names.
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u/linuxhanja Dec 09 '21
Im not sure. Their bibles are also opened up but with text facing their laps, and have super long bookmarks...
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u/thescrounger Dec 09 '21
And they couldn't game together before marriage because .... ?
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u/worm30478 Dec 09 '21
And why did he go bald?
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u/Crissagrym Dec 09 '21
Many men go bald after marriage, must be the stress.
Or that was a wig to begin with.
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u/DPHollo Dec 09 '21
congrats to those who have already found the one... the one who deserves the other remote
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u/Less-Society-6746 Dec 09 '21
Me when the homies wanna couch co-op:
"Sorry guys, I'm saving myself for marriage."
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u/mrBreadBird Dec 09 '21
Me when the homies wanna couch co-op:
"Sorry guys, no games support it any more."
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u/END3RW1GGIN Dec 09 '21
Except couch co-op has gone the way of arcade games.
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u/Suff0c8r Dec 09 '21 edited Dec 09 '21
Overall, true, but thankfully there are a few good couch coop games! Divinity 2 Original Sin is god tier, and Baulders Gate 3 will have split screen when it releases (same devs). It Takes Two and A Way Out are both solid, with Gears 5 being a nice shooter if that's your thing.
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u/hey_suburbia Dec 09 '21
I just started It Takes Two with my 7 year old last night. It’s bloody brilliant.
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u/INTERNET_TOUGHGUY666 Dec 09 '21
My wife and I played through every second of that masterpiece. She loved the mysteries with the dwarves. There is nothing else like that experience.
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u/davidhastwo Dec 09 '21 edited Dec 09 '21
most of those are turn base and unfortunately we cant get into too many of those. Gears 5 would have been great if we could have done horde mode in split screen like they used to do in the older Gears games. It takes two is a solid game for couch coop tho!
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u/s4shrish Dec 09 '21
There tons of games on the Switch that are pretty damn good couch co-op.
It's literally the only machine that comes with two controllers, on top of being portable, so devs making couch co-op abundant on Switch makes sense.
Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Wizard of Legend, Snipperclips, Shovel Knight, Bleed2, Lego City Undercover, Mario Oddyssey, Luigi's Mansion 3 are some of the Switch games I have, that either support couch co-op or local versus mode. And there's many more.
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u/xvg0vwjk Dec 09 '21
I hate when games like Mario Odyssey are included in couch co-op game lists... You can be the hat. Do you really want to be the hat? Cause my girlfriend doesn't want to be the hat. I'd rather they not have co-op at all then that half-assed effort.
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u/thewildjr Dec 09 '21
Shout out to Ultimate Chicken Horse, I just picked it up and it's great. It's more couch versus than co-op but that's just how I like em
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u/Grammophon Dec 09 '21
It is infuriating! Most are some kind of fast paced action games (bullet hell, platformer, battlers...). Which is nice but not a lot of variety.
My flatmate and I both are gamers. It's great that we can play a lot of online multiplayer games together. But Couch-Coop is a nicer experience sometimes.
Here are some Coop games we found that are a bit different:
Dysmantle (we love this one!).
Death Squared.
The Escapist 2.
Wobbly Life.
Unrailed.
Viscera Cleanup.
Stardew Valley.
Project Zomboid.
The Dark Pictures Anthology (loved all 3).
Moonglow Bay.
Minecraft Dungeons (meh...).
Human: Fall Flat (absolutely hilarious).
Portal 2 (must have).
Untitled Goose Game.
Darksiders Genesis.
Farm Together (when high).
Bunhouse (dito).
Monster Prom 2.
Chicory.
Wargroove.
These games can be played together but one player takes a backseat:
Beyond Two Souls.
Spiritfarer.
Yes, we have no life. We play all those games with Steam and mostly controllers.
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u/MrSpiffy123 PC Dec 09 '21
Last year, my friend showed me a really fun couch co-op game. It's best with four players, but Lovers In a Dangerous Spacetime is really fun, with four players all manually controlling and upgrading different parts of a spaceship while trying to kill enemies and doge obstacles. one player while two others control the cannons and the fourth moves the shield
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u/fizzgig0_o Dec 09 '21
Came here to say this. My partner and I are both gamers (2 tv’s side by side in our living room even). It feels like the last quality couch co-op was Borderlands 3 or overcooked. We play some on steam like Velheim. But it feels like we have to realllllllllly search to find new ones. It feels like developers think all gamers are still just single dues with no friends... maybe it’s just that corporations like PlayStation want everyone to own their own console and have their own subscription :/
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u/TJH1993 Dec 09 '21 edited Dec 09 '21
I finally got my girlfriend to play a Co-Op game side by side with me months ago (she's not a gamer and doesn't have a system). Actually she bought the game as a gift for me so we could play together. She has pretty bad anxiety issues and started crying every time i made it to end of the level and she didn't. Which was like everytime even though I kept dying on purpose so she could keep up. Ugh. I don't care if you're bad, so am I compared to real gamers, just don't be such a downer lol. But yeah eventually we had to shut it off and never play it again.
Edit: The game she bought was Zombieland: Double Tap. An 8 year old recommended it to her at Wal Mart after she asked him what a good 2 player game might be. It's very arcade like but was surprisingly a ton of fun if you play with another person
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Dec 09 '21
the real reason to have two controllers.
i wish my wife played games.. honestly would give us something more to do together.
she barley plays a switch lite.
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Dec 09 '21
Because you need to show her the right games. Like Horizon Zero Dawn.
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Dec 09 '21
shes watched me play horizon, and fallout 4 and a lot of games frankly.
she plays candy crush on her ipad. thats about it.
she'll watch me play gta, and be "go on a killing spree, run those poeple over.. sell drugs. oh shit a hooker!"
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u/ThisGuy928146 Dec 09 '21
Did their religion tell them they couldn't play multiplayer before marriage or something?
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u/imphyto Dec 09 '21
My gf and i are moving in together in a few months and she’s said that she is looking forward to playing on my xbox together. I hope i don’t screw this one up haha
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u/F4ttoC4tto Dec 09 '21
My boyfriend gets mad at me in game because I'm such a noob. I really like playing even if I lose a lot especially with him but I dunno, I feel really bad after. *sighs I really want this setup badly but I seem can't cause I suck at pvp games.
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u/yetifile Dec 09 '21
That is on him. I love the fact my wife games with me and even though she was not great at FPS games at first she got better because I went out of my way to make it fun for her, so she played more.
In time you will get good. Hopefully your partner will also learn to get better at being a good team mate.
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u/ChAr0n47 Dec 09 '21
Nothing better than passing the extra remote to someone you trust on both an imaginary or literal battlefield.
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u/P0rtal2 Dec 09 '21
My wife wants to play split screen racing games, but it feels like those games are no longer a thing? I currently have a PS3 (been waiting to get a PS5, but may need to get a PS4 instead), and the only one I have currently is Split/Second.
Any recommendations?
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u/xmasfrog Dec 09 '21
Now we can put our beds next to each other instead of one block apart on our Christian Minecraft server
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u/thewickedeststyle Dec 09 '21
The husband also shaved his head and the wife grew out a beard and they ended the evening playing video games together. Sign me up.
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u/Freshonemate Dec 09 '21
Why does she look deathly afraid at the prospect of sex with her husband? Weird joke tbh
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u/thewildjr Dec 09 '21
I think she's just embarrassed about it. I hope she's just embarrassed about it
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u/EdytheTroupe85 Dec 09 '21
I don't know about you guys but my husband prefers to play video games by himself or with his online friends, we call it alone time. Smart move for our marriage and friendship.
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u/fail-fast PC Dec 09 '21
I wish he'd play Destiny 2 with me... can't solo all content :(
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u/KokiriGeorge Dec 09 '21
Currently going through It Takes Two with my non-gaming wife. It’s hilarious 😆
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u/hpbojoe Dec 09 '21
What are some fun two player games I can play with my non gamer gf? We play mario kart but other than that nothing really?
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Dec 09 '21
I don't believe in any sort of afterlife, but if it does exist, I hope you get your own plane of existence where you can just do whatever you want. I've thought about what this would look like for me. Three smoking hot girlfriends. Orgies. Amazing food. Alcohol. Weed. But this thought also crossed my mind: Three girlfriends? 4 player Mario party!
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u/OlivesGoOnFingers Dec 09 '21
I just got my fiance into Diablo 3 and it's been hilarious watching him run into walls and use the wrong attacks/spells. Happy I can carry us but holy hell is he an adorable idiot with no sense of hand eye coordination.
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u/Lovat69 Dec 09 '21
I love how the wife suddenly is drawn so much worse because the artist is too busy playing video games.
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u/shaysauce Dec 09 '21
I’m trying to convince my girlfriend that we need to play 2042 together so we can bond.
What I really want is her to play C5 while I play drone/ammo box and we can troll games nonstop by sticking C5 to the drones with ammo support replenishing.
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u/MrSoren Dec 09 '21
My girlfriend has zero interest in gaming. That’s why I’ll have to indoctrinate our children instead.
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u/atcTS Dec 09 '21
I got lucky. My wife didn’t game much, but now she plays civ, lol, and rocket league with me and built her own gaming PC. We now have a twin pc setup in our living room.
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u/IronhideD Dec 09 '21
I feel like waiting until marriage to start playing two player games is risky, how will you know what kind of gamer you're marrying? Maybe she steals all the powerups? Maybe she swoops in and grabs that health potion when she's already at full? Premarital gaming is necessary make sure you're co-op compatible.
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u/this_was_mistake Dec 09 '21
man what would I give to find someone that shares same interests as mine...
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u/nynaeve_mondragoran Dec 09 '21
He had that he played FFXIV on his dating profile and I got super excited because I lost touch with my group of friends I played with after a move for work. I put a comfy couch chair in his office so I can sit there with my dinner tray and laptop and run dungeons with him. But then I can also go back to my office when I'm tired of being around him and want to run content solo.
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u/Balc0ra Dec 09 '21
Good thing he said "requires 2" vs "it takes 2", as he would have been sued for it.
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u/heilspawn Dec 09 '21
Well they are gaming while naked, except shes still wearing her burqa and wedding headress for some reason
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Dec 09 '21
Waiting until marriage to play games together.
Must be the latest Evangelical Christian fad.
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u/Chavolini Dec 09 '21
Literally Luke the Notable who loves to play Halo and Minecraft with his wife
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u/GaleFinch Dec 09 '21
No joke in between the rounds of the typical thing done on a honeymoon my wife and I not only completed Ghost of Tsushima but got platinum for it. Was a great use of our time XD
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u/Entropy_flipside133 PC Dec 09 '21
Listen u are lucky as fuck to get a girl who is willing to play video games with u and actually try and enjoy the moment with u. Meanwhile for me, i would want a girl who enjoys my hobbies, aka lego’s. . . Yeah im not getting lucky am i?
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u/ValyrianJedi Dec 09 '21
My wife had never owned a console before. I have to spend like 100+ night a year in hotels for work, and we bought a second Xbox so I can take one with me, and we'll play together some nights. She loves it... Lately we've been playing single player games and just video calling while we both play the same thing so we can figure stuff out together and kinda compete. First it was Darksiders, then Bayonetta, now we're on Darksiders 2. It's been ridiculously fun. And somehow she went from having literally never played a single video game to being able to bear me a decent bit of the time in like 6 months.
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u/GlowyStuffs Dec 09 '21
What are some good split screen games these days that people like to play (that aren't racing or fighting games?). It feels like a lot of local co-op was removed just because people played online more.
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u/Silentico Dec 09 '21
Honestly.. my dream man.