EPTWays Of Getting Your Gf To Enjoy Starcraft - Page 7
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Kira__
Sweden2672 Posts
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speedphlux
Bulgaria962 Posts
j/k Day9 Daily #100 is a great place to start. | ||
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TiraMissU
Australia5 Posts
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Shift91
Sweden40 Posts
On January 08 2012 22:03 BabyToss! wrote: Both me and my significant other are gamers. It's basically how we met, like 10 years ago, on Ultima Online. I was purely a RPG'er while my significant other played about every game genre possible.. maybe except FPS's. It was basically them, who bought me StarCraft 2 and got me to play it, along with our 8 years old kiddo. Of course, at start, the game seemed to be very difficult for me and I was very, very discouraged by that fact. I wanted to learn the game to be better than my significant other (I am just competitive like that  ), so I started up looking the guides, started to look for communities and realized how hard the game really is. Practiced, learnt and the day I beat my significant other hard, they stopped playing, reasoning it that the game is mere 'speedclick' with no brain usage or logic required and that they can't be bothered to play any more.Story of my life. Now I have to persuade my significant other to even play with me. So, our roles are reversed, with the twist, that I have no idea how to let them know/convince them that the game really requires you to use your brain and that 'speedclick' (read APM) is really not everything. At least my significant other understands that the game is very important for me. But, that'd be probably because they too are passionate gamers, we just seem to differ in what games we enjoy nowadays. Alot of other people in this thread are suggesting 2v2s etc. Maybe you should try that?  | ||
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henery
Canada89 Posts
Henery's Guide to Getting Girlfriends into Video Games. Rule 1- Make them feel involved. Get them playing the games, give them the games, make it their game. Do it together, don't just give them a game and say "be off woman and don't come back till I see 100% completion!" TL:DR Work together. Rule 2- Start out slow. Start with easier games like New Super Mario Bros Wii, or the new Donkey Kong game. Both are great examples of games that are fun and engaging to play, and can be played together. Don't start out with overly simple games like kinect games, wii sports, or GOD FORBID Call of Duty because trying to get a casual to the next level from games like that is another task all together. Games like Mario and DK make great gifts so try and give it to her for a Christmas or birthday gift and play it with her. Giving it as a gift is key here, it's one thing to say "come on over and play Mario cart with me," but asking if she wants to play HER Donkey Kong game makes it a whole lot more appealing. Also trying to start her out with MKP vs MVP vods is like asking a girl to marry you after the first date, doesn't usually work. TL:DR Start out with very casual games then move on to harder games. Rule 3- These are more like steps then rules. Once you get her into the casual games you need to step it up. Now this requires your discretion as you don't want to go to fast. Make sure she is ready for the next "step up" into the gaming world. Slowly introduce her into games like Portal or a fun game like Forza. These games are a little more 1 player, but can still be played together so don't forget rule 1. I love using Portal at this point because it pulls them into the computer world and away from the console world, consoles are a good start but PC is where you want them. *Note that at this point you are still a long way away from showing her the competitive "e sports" scene. TL:DR Still moving through more "hardcore" games. Rule 4- You now need to start pushing her towards the genre or game which you like. For most people here it will be the RTS scene so you will want to start with games like Sid Meire's Civ games, anything easier to play than SC but steering in that direction will do (Sid Meier's games are good because they are very visually pleasing to play but give as much time to the user to make decisions as they please). I am personally a first person shooter fan so I would be introducing games like TF2 or MNC (both are still pretty serious FPS games, but they are very visually appealing and VERY fun to play). You have to realize that this introduction is a very slow process and can take a long time to get to this point but is very very worth it, and the timeline for this process is different for each girl. I got my ex playing TF2 with me and she was having a blast and I can tell you that there was only one other thing we did that was better then playing video games together. TL:DR Start showing her "your" style of game. Rule 5- You are now ready to introduce her to your favorite game. It is probably SC2 so I am going to use that as an example although for me it would be replaced with CS or DoD. She needs to understand that this game means a lot to you. You are not introducing her to e-sports yet, just the game. Start out saying things like "me and 'Johny' play this game together all the time, this is our favorite game" or "I played this game so much growing up lets play it together." You need to show her somehow that this game means a lot to you, but never lie. If you don't have any friends that play it with you don't lie and say they do, lying in a relationship is never ever good. Also do not force her into the game, if she doesn't like it then she doesn't like it. No big deal, the important part here is that she understands how important it is to you (also important that you are able to open up with her and show her your real self, if you can't do that maybe you need to look a little closer at your relationship). TL:DR Now show her your favorite game. Rule 6- You are now very close to the e-sports intro. This should be the easiest step of all of them because she should know of the existence of the game and the challenges that come with playing it. Also having played video games for a while she should be more willing to understand why people can see the games as a sport. You still need to stick to rule 1, if you have the opportunity to go to a bar craft with her then go. Try and make it just the two of you and try to explain how the tournament is progressing, any back story and drama between players, show emotion, and feel the energy of the room. Any time you can introduce it in a social environment with the energy that a bar craft has then do so. TL:DR Now show her a bar craft. Don't forget rule 1 throughout this process. This is a long process and can take a long time. Here is a quick starter list of the games I like to go through (feel free to add or subtract games to your discretion) - New Super Mario Bros Wii (great fun to play as an intro game and you will both suck at it, trust me) - Donkey Kong Country Returns (just like Donkey Kong Country but 2 player, how can that be bad?) - Forza (this one doesn't last very long, just fun to woop her ass and get some bragging rights  )- Portal/2 (both are good and very short fun games so both should be played) - TF2 (I don't know why, but this one works very very good and has a good competitive scene) RTS branch - Sid Meier's Civilization V - C&C - SC/2 FPS branch - Day of Defeat: source (not much branch needed because TF2 was the last game played) - Counter Strike :source - Tribes - Quake This guide does work pretty well and if you lucky you can skip the first few steps because she has done them herself. | ||
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GohgamX
Canada1096 Posts
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Noro
Canada991 Posts
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ElMeanYo
United States1032 Posts
I actually got her to sit down and play Protoss with my help for a bit (after a few drinks). I think she has more appreciation for how hard it is now. The fact that she loves nerds too doesn't hurt.  And yes, only a true nerd gets his wife drunk with the intent on playing starcraft and not nookie.  | ||
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REM.ca
Canada354 Posts
So as others have said in this thread, a good way to get more girls into esports, is to appeal to their appreciation for a beautiful man. I've recently tried out the experience and it has worked very well. So, in order to help the community with this, I put up a nice little mash-up of hot pro gamers for da ladies. http://hotprogamers.blogspot.com Maybe it'll become a thing with more posts coming up. Not like I made an effort to be extensive with it. | ||
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TzaTzers
United States589 Posts
Naniwa just seems so out of place amongst all those guys ha. | ||
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lokiM
United States3407 Posts
best was known to workout alot | ||
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fdsdfg
United States1251 Posts
From there it was a simple move to playing 2v2 with her. With the difference in skill it's more like 1v2, but she enjoys sharing control and just trying to simcity up her base, and send me units that I can use to fight If I had any advice to give, it would be to never make it seem like there's any barriers to enjoying the game. If there's a big engagement that's really exciting to watch and she asks what happened, don't say that it's complicated or that it is hard to explain, just explain it in whatever terms you have to. Don't say that a player gambled that his opponent wouldn't scout his DT rush, say that one player invested all his resources in getting what would normally be a late-game unit as soon as possible, and his opponent didn't have anything to defend against it yet. If she doesn't have any interest at all in learning about or trying the game, I don't know what to say. Shared interests are an important part of a relationship imo, and I don't think I'd be happy if my girlfriend just wanted to completely ignore something important to me. | ||
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Kotreb
Croatia1392 Posts
on a serious note: if you're passionate about sc, try transfer some of that passion towards her when you talk her about the game. Try explaining why some things are epic and the skill required to make it happen. | ||
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renoB
United States170 Posts
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Lunareste
United States3596 Posts
On May 29 2013 05:18 Kotreb wrote: Chloroform? Don't know how that helps, but one of you will be pleased 5 out of 6 people enjoy Russian Roulette. | ||
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sambo400
United States378 Posts
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
On May 29 2013 05:34 sambo400 wrote: Who watches starcraft with their grill? I do. I have a tabletop grill which I use to eat Korean BBQ while I watch starcraft. | ||
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Meow-Meow
Germany451 Posts
On January 08 2012 09:29 Bibbit wrote: ![[image loading]](http://madmoizerg.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/khaldor1.jpg) My thoughts exactly. When I was living with my GF, she used to watch me play WC3. First she only watched me, but at some point she started paying attention to what happened on the screen. I was never as much in love with her as when she reprimanded me for a retarded creep-route or screamed "BOOOLLLTT!" on the top of her lungs when my opponent's DK was low on health. I couldn't get her to play, but I never really tried, as I'd much rather have an appreciative audience than just another noob on battle.net. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
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Nachtwind
Germany1130 Posts
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