How does your family view your gaming?

posted by Master Pre

Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 11:09:46 AM EST

Here's a great question for you guys.  How does your family/significant other view your gaming?
DMAN5OOO talked about his 4AM gaming last week may have caused "tension".  How about you guys?  

My wife doesn't really care.  I give your almost all of my other free time and I take her shopping!  (Bribes are the best! hahah)

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How does your family view your gaming?

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  •  my wife (none / 0)

    likes when I game becuase it keeps me out of her hair.And I can stay up late and play on the weekends, as long as I can still get up and help with my daugher when she needs feeding or changing.She also likes to game but not as much as I do, she likes more travia or puzzle games instead of the fps that I like. And she is good at giving tips on gears of war as you and prodigy reborn already know.            

    by Dan Foster on Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 11:34:04 AM EST

  •  My son and I play together (none / 0)

    My wife knows that if I don't game I get cranky and she don't like it when I am cranky.  I have raised my son to play videogames and he is rather good.  Yep he plays GoW with me.

    My family, Mom, Dad, brother and sister are all right with it too.  My brother is a big gamer also.  I think my Dad finally came to terms with it a fews years ago.  In fact he bought a 360 so we could play when we visit.  So yeah, it is family time a lot. But it can't interfere with "real life" too much.

    Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid! Things perceived as real are real in their consequences.

    by Major Dan on Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 11:44:24 AM EST

  •  OH man (none / 0)

     Me and my G/F pretty much fight over who plays what.  Well we used to, she solved the prob by putting a second TV in the living room.  It's smaller but it's HD and the 360 is on that one, so while she plays Pinata I can play Zelda.  OR when I'm playing an arcade game online, she's playing elebits.  But when the time is right we both play co-op gears.

      I think both of our families are going to turn us into gaming rehab........I just know it.

    Let's get it own!

    by Macaface on Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 11:52:17 AM EST

  •  I love my wife so much (none / 0)

    for letting me play every Friday night for three or four hours.  I know that's not something that every wife would be cool with.  So I want to publicly thank her for that.

    As for gaming, my wife checked out of gaming after Super Mario Brothers.  I've tried to get her to sit down and at least try a 360 game, but the controller has so many buttons, especially for someone who last played with the Nintendo controller that had but two buttons.

    That's actually part of the reason I've considered getting a Wii.  I figured if I could get her to play one console, eventually it will be the gateway of gaming drug that would lead to her eventually playing Gears of War with me.  Yes, I know that it's likely a pipe dream.

    by papi blez on Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 03:10:39 PM EST

  •  Just one sentence (none / 0)

    my G/F dislikes gaming!

    It's not, that she says it is only for kids or wants me to stop gaming, but she isn't into it and simply refuses my try to get her on my 360.

    In the poll above I voted option #7 :(

    absolutely talented !!!

    by Mad Bungee on Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 03:16:04 AM EST

    •  My wife will play once in a while... (none / 0)

      I know I am dating myself, but she played Myst on my Saturn, Chu-Chu Rocket on my DC and she really like Lumines on the PsP, but it makes her sick.  

      Every once in a while I ask her for help on a puzzle in an RPG/Adventure game, she is really good with puzzles, and she usally enjoys that too.

      Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid! Things perceived as real are real in their consequences.

      by Major Dan on Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 11:34:19 AM EST

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  •  Oh man... (none / 0)

    The girlfriends I've had have all accepted and/or liked gaming, but my parents sure don't like it at home. They didn't really let me play video games growing up until I turned 18 and went out and bought an xbox of my own accord. They're slowly starting to come around, thanks to a few Halo LANs I was able to host back in the day, and see that gaming is a social activity.

    "The creatures were friendly and could see in four dimensions. They pitied the Earthlings for being able to see only three." -Slaughterhouse-5

    by StarborneRanger on Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 11:44:36 AM EST

    •  Wife likes Halo campaigns (none / 0)

      She likes to play the campaigns with me.  Absolutely no multiplayer.  She hates it!  But yeah, she's a big Mario freak.  She played our daughter's gba way more than our daughter just so she could beat it.  My daughter is a gamer in training.  She loves playing "Tak and the great Juju Challenge"  Sometimes I have to fight her off she wants to play it so bad...lol.  That's actually a good thing.  So I'm training her for gaming.  My wife doesn't mind as long as the world continues to spin and I pay attn to that.  It keeps me off the drugs too!  ha

      www.realclutchgamers.com

      by Rizzzogue on Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 02:10:36 PM EST

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