Teaching Your Girlfriend to play xbox

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Under the premis that I want to share the things I enjoy with my girlfriend (ok mabey its just so I can get her to kill my mates and it gives me gloating power)

How do I go about this task?

She does not have time for games as she see's it as a waste of her time :( also she is extremely competative and hates to lose (so the learning curve is always too sharp for her)
 
Maybe get a game that's new to you both and play it together or V's each other. That way you can both learn at roughly the same pace.
 
Resident Evil 5 Co-Op

My room mate's first experience on Xbox 360 was on this, and she loved it(and i did too once she got used to it) Definately a good one to venture into. And if she's competitive you get end of section rankings. So you'll enjoy trying to make sure she doesnt better you.
 
One of the Lego games, Batman, Indiana Jones, anything.

My ex and I played standing up for an hour the first time in Game.

The only games she/my sis/my mum would player is the Lego games. (except my sis on the sims and farmville if you can call them games!)
 
Start with something mutually fun and unpunishing (Lego Star Wars / Batman / Indiana Jones are perfect as it doesn't really matter if you get blown into tiny Lego blocks 400 times in a level) with co-op and then move onto something a bit more serious (RE5 Co-Op as above is a pretty good one!)...
 
You're not teaching her to "play xbox", you're teaching her to play a certain game on the xbox. Either get a new game (as suggested) so you both learn together, although I think previous experience in gaming means you'll learn about 200x quicker than her which could cause some frustrations or play a game that she says she thinks is interesting. There's not really a way to teach people how to play games, they need to work it out for themselves (of course guidance helps).

I had a little local game of TTD over xmas between, me, my brothers, my little sister and the oldest brothers GF. Only me and my brothers had played before, and we had a lot of experience in it (childhood game = played too much). My little sister was 12 at the time, playing on a crappy laptop (kind of unfair, oh well), we were constantly getting asked how to do this or that (we'd explained the overall objective, which is important to do I'd guess).

Back on point ;) Let her work out what she needs to do to get to the objective, where it kill everything infront of her, or just get around the corners without crashing (racing isn't really a hard objective to work out), and give information on how to achieve that (shoot from cover, drive a bit slower etc etc) and let them feel they've achieved the end result rather than you told them how to do everything. Remember, the end result is for her to enjoy the experience.

If she doesn't think games are worth her time, it might be a bit harder obviously ;) If she doesn't want to play games, there is no point forcing her, but if she gets interested in a game you're playing, just offer her the chance to play. pc has benefits in the area, you can "share" the control so they don't feel as useless at the game to begin with.

Also, everyone hates to lose, but people will never start at the top, in anything.


Note: I've been writing lots of long posts full of waffle today, try and find some information somewhere in what I said ;)
 
Ive just spoken to her about us "sharing" more :) shes up for it once she has finished her exams!

I think her main problem is that her thumbs are not trained lol she does not seem to "connect" with the cars in driving games or the people in fps.

Im going to buy Lego Indiana Jones 2 on the xbox when shes finished her exams so she can get use to controling people and understand the control methods. I think using your thumbs to control things do not come easily (for me its been that long I cant remember what it was like)

and one day it will be HALO! and we will be a pro tag team lol im thinking of starting a blog about her gameing experience
 
I'm pretty impressed with my lady. For a start i found out she still have her old sega consoles and game boys which obv was an instant turn on! ha
But to top it off she's a music student or rather was until this week (end of uni time) and so she jumped at the chance to play GH which shes not all that bad at, and its about the only way i can beat her at anything musical.
I don't think ill bother teacher her any of the games i actually play, i dont think she sensed the point in just shooting things, its much easier for me to give her the laptop some headphones and One Tree Hill and i get to game. Best of both worlds were both happy both sat with each other and both enjoying what were doing!
 
yeah, different control inputs have different results. racing wheels are good for a laugh, quite amusing how bad we all are when we first try them, especially when driving isn't all that hard ;) maybe try some PC games, I find getting used to aiming using a mouse helps with working out how one movement affect the view, and is a lot easier to get used to than inverted thumbsticks (I always have view inverted)
 
Mine plays Kingdom for Keflings on her own or L4D1/2 with me.

She's not too bad until it comes to infected time, then I take the controller off her.
 
if shes never played games before then your pretty much stuck with lego games with difficulty levels aimed at children. or similar platformers

the hardest thing is remembering that you probably have 10 years of gaming expierience, i think even the games developers forget this most the time and it makes incredibly difficult for people who have never gamed before to enjoy it. easy difficulty levels are usually ok though
 
Ah yeah, my gf really struggles with camera and character movement. Tried to get her into a fps and she was legging it about sideways while looking at the floor! :p I think fable 2 is a good one, slower paced so there's time to learn without the "bang you're dead" frustration of fps, but it also teaches her camera and character control. plus, she can "see" what's going on a bit better. My gf rocks at GH, but fails at everything else. I'll let you know if I find anything that works. In the meantime, I follow the method of "here honey, take the laptop or talk to your friends, and I'll play some games"
 
my gf loved viva piñata and lego star wars/batman, she also had a go at army of two but spent most of the time looking at the sky or floor.
 
mad you should bring this up.for the first time ever my better half had a go on me xbox 360 on a game called trials.

She could not do it for crap but I think thats what made her like it as she was just giggling to her self over the poor man flying into things and breaking his neck.

what about viva pinata.

my better half has played the wii with me on a shoot em up whats it called ummmm has zombies etc....
 
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