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Does your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend/partner watch you play video games?

John Marston

John Marston

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Oct 27, 2017
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Asking this mainly out of curiosity (and a potential relationship element as well). Does your wife/girlfriend watch you play video games? By watch, I mean does she sit next to you or close by when you are playing and actively watches, asks about, or comments, on what is happening in the game? Why/why not?

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Noctis

Noctis

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Oct 25, 2017
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I don't subject my partner into seeing me do something they don't like or have any interest. I usually play on my personal time, since I consider it a little getaway from everything and not be distracted by outside factors.. when I'm with my SO my attention is on them 100'percent of the time.
 
darkNemisiScloud

darkNemisiScloud

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Oct 27, 2017
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Na not really interested unless she's playing a co op game she enjoys with me, last thing she told me was red dead 2s animation you can tell it's fake lol I just left it that way
 
DarkDetective

DarkDetective

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'd rather have her play with me instead of watching. Watching someone else play a game physically in the same room (I don't count watching a walkthrough online or so) seems such a waste of time to me.
 
Agent_J

Agent_J

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Oct 30, 2017
658
No, she calls them childish as she plays the Candy Crush clone on her phone for hours
 
Rocketz

Rocketz

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Oct 25, 2017
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She does. She really enjoys watching Siege and gets into it.

Most games she'll watch a little and ask some stuff but she's not as interested.
 
tyfon

tyfon

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Nov 2, 2017
3,680
Norway
My wife and I play a lot of games together.
Sometimes we co-op, sometimes I play and she watches, sometimes she plays and I watches. It depends on how the game is.

It's much better and engaging than watching tv together.
 

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Nope. My wife has zero interest in games. Works for us as we're both introverts and need our alone time after working with people. Gaming gets most of that for me.
 
neufel

neufel

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Oct 29, 2017
314
Switzerland
Yeah it happens sometimes. It can feel like a personal twitch screening.
She watched me play some Hollow Knight, I've watched her play Child of Light.
This basically is analog to "turning the tv on while you do something else" though. I feel it's based both on interest in the particular game + wanting to be "there" while your significant other just does something.
 
xxracerxx

xxracerxx

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Oct 25, 2017
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Sometimes, mainly if it is a game that is interesting to her like RDR2 otherwise she will be on the couch reading or working.

JCH! said:
Why would anyone? I find watching people play games incredibly boring.
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I mean, she isn't watching me play for 30 hours, she is hanging out with me while I play and may occasionally ask a question or want to try something. Most of the game time I am playing alone.
 
RF Switch

RF Switch

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Oct 31, 2017
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The title is going to offend people lol but thankfully my gf likes to play games as well
 
Yaqoub

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Noctis said:
I don't subject my partner into seeing me do something they don't like or have any interest. I usually play on my personal time, since I consider it a little getaway from everything and not be distracted by outside factor.. when I'm with my SO my attention is on them 100'percent of the time.
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This is exactly the same in my case. She rarely cares but she respects me enough to enjoy my hobby regardless of her interest level. She either sits next to me checking her Snapchat or whatever social media or she is in another room doing the same.

We once played some Crash Bandicoot because she remembers playing that a few times when she was younger and once tried Super Mario 3D World together which she enjoyed for those few sessions but never enough to keep her hooked.


I don't think it's an absolute requirement for your significant other to be a gamer or be interested in gaming, but it is an absolute requirement, in my opinion, to respect the person enough to allow for personal space or to allow the enjoyment of whatever medium of entertainment you're into.

That's my take on it anyway, married to a non-gamer and amazing wife and the mother of my child.
 
dipship31

dipship31

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Oct 26, 2017
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Pretty much never, it's my hobby and that's totally fine. Weird anomaly though when Demon Souls came out for whatever reason my wife was super interested in following along with me the entire game
 
Z-Brownie

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Nov 6, 2017
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it depends on the game, right now she is enjoying watching me play red dead 2, but it's not always, just when the game is not "combat focused". The ones i remember her watching:

- Life is Strange
- LA Noire
- Resident Evil Remake Remaster
- Bioshock Infinite (beside the shooting parts)
 
PurelyChris

PurelyChris

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Oct 28, 2017
301
Germany
Yup. She sits and watches me play Firewall on PSVR. She finds it hilarious when I'm talking to randoms. Last night she got offered sex by a MrHarryManback. I think she enjoys it more than I do to be honest.
 
BasilZero

BasilZero

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Oct 25, 2017
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Nope


She has no interest in games.


Honestly watching people play, even on youtube/twitch, I just find it boring. I'd rather play than watch.
 

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Very rarely, if the game catches her eye creatively. She watched me play through Psychonauts, for example.

She's not really a video games person, but she appreciates creativity in all its forms.
 
Astral

Astral

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Oct 27, 2017
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My girlfriend loves watching me and her cousin play Black Ops. She gets excited. It's pretty cute.
 
saenima

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We watch each other sometimes. I watched her play through the last Tomb Raider twice, to the point that i might not even play it myself. She likes watching Assassin's Creed games more than playing them.
 
chandoog

chandoog

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Oct 27, 2017
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Only if its dialogue and choice based games like Life is Strange, Heavy Rain, Detroit etc. She makes the decisions, I do the 'playing' part.
 
Noctis

Noctis

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Yaqoub said:
This is exactly the same in my case. She rarely cares but she respects me enough to enjoy my hobby regardless of her interest level. She either sits next to me checking her Snapchat or whatever social media or she is in another room doing the same.

We once played some Crash Bandicoot because she remembers playing that a few times when she was younger and once tried Super Mario 3D World together which she enjoyed for those few sessions but never enough to keep her hooked.


I don't think it's an absolute requirement for your significant other to be a gamer or be interested in gaming, but it is an absolute requirement, in my opinion, to respect the person enough to allow for personal space or to allow the enjoyment of whatever medium of entertainment you're into.

That's my take on it anyway, married to a non-gamer and amazing wife and the mother of my child.
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Well said.
 
Dezzy

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yep she does. We have two gaming PCs in the same room where we can play games together online or on LAN, though we also play separate games and just talk as well.

On the console side of things, we've played some co-op or score attack games together, but I play the single player games and she watches and just enjoys the story or watching me die a lot.

She's also been on this forum since day one with me. :)
 
Nax

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Oct 10, 2018
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Yes. She's normally doing something else like playing a handheld game or working on schoolwork. But she absolutely wouldn't let me play God of War without her - she was enraptured with that game.
 
Caesar III

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Jan 3, 2018
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Yep. Most of the time when I occupy the projector she is watching as if it was TV itself. She used to be a vivid gamer herself until she found knitting and crocheting to be more important to her. Since she can't do both at the same time this is perfect for her. If this was possible she would to it simultaneously haha
 
RDreamer

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yeah, sometimes, but I also watch her play a bunch, too. We both work from home so sometimes one will be working and one will be playing. She's going through Octopath Traveler now. It's nice seeing some of the games I love again through her eyes.
 
Adam Tyner

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Oct 25, 2017
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My wife watches me play sometimes. At times, she'll even be inspired to pick up one of those games herself, like Destiny a few years back. I can imagine her starting her own playthrough of Spider-Man after watching me tear through that.

I spend more time watching her play (Lego Harry Potter, various Forza games, Mario + Rabbids this year, for instance) than the other way around. Part of that's just because of when I game, though. I have more free time than her, so when she does have downtime, it's more fair to have her play solo or for us to watch/play something together.
 
oni-link

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Yeah she does, she just watched me beat DQV less than half an hour ago

She's always enjoyed watching me play games though, and sometimes gets a guide up on her laptop when I get stuck, which was really helpful when I played Terraniga earlier this year

She wants Trails of Cold Steel 3 to come out in English as she loved watching me play the first 2 games in the series a few years back
 

giapel

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Oct 28, 2017
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Sometimes. But the way it pans out is, she'll watch for 2 minutes, then wants the controller, she'll play for a bit until she either dies, gets stuck or gets bored. Then she'll hand the controller back and go do something else.
 
JudgmentJay

JudgmentJay

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Nov 14, 2017
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Yeah she does. She's a big gamer herself so I watcher her play stuff as well. Watching her first Bloodborne and Dark Souls III playthroughs was a treat.
 
Kthulhu

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Oct 25, 2017
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Depends on the game. She likes watching me play Stellaris, but hates watching Civ 6.
 
ArmGunar

ArmGunar

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Oct 30, 2017
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She told me "I don't like videogames" but I think the only videogames she saw were old videogames which were not really appealing for someone who don't know this industry

Once I played Uncharted series, she loved that
She loved Uncharted series, The Last of Us and other great narrative story-driven games so she watched me play

Same happened with Star Wars "I don't like it, it's for nerds" lol, I watched it with her and she now loved Star Wars, and same happened again with super-hero movies, The Lords of the Rings, Gladiator, etc...
 
BoxManLocke

BoxManLocke

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Oct 25, 2017
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She mostly plays herself, I try to make her watch games she wouldn't normally try.

She's way ahead of me on Red Dead 2. Then again she doesn't browse ERA !
 
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