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10 Gateway Games
The title of 1up.com's feature is Top-Ten Girlfriend Friendly games, but the titles they suggest are generally intended to get a non-gamer interested in the gaming passtime. From the article: "...it is possible to bring non-gaming significant others over to the dark side, through a number of games designed to grab those who couldn't care less how many frags you got in Counter-Strike last week."
Hands down, Final Fantasy. It's what got me into games. You don't need reflexes, there's menus. They ease you into playing pretty well. And the stories are great. FFX and X-2 would probably be best for a fledgling female gamer - pretty, and there's a love story.
Before the calls of sexism come, I don't care who the girl is, all girls like romance. Even when they say they don't. They only say that to see if you'll be romantic anyways. (Yes, girls are sneaky.)
it should be here since the original link starts with #5.
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Karaoke Revolution was a great game to get everyone playing...and for the first time ever it had my parents handling an Xbox control. For the most part Karaoke Revolution puts everyone at an equal level and no one feels like they could possibly suck any worse than the person that went before them. It goes great with beer and helps loosen people up. Great choice as a game for the non-gamer.
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If you enjoyed BG:DA and X-menLegends, you must check out Dungeons&Dragons:Heroes! My friends and I had an absolute blast playing that game. We actually enjoyed it much more than Champions Of Norrath, even though Norrath seemed to get a lot more press. Norrath had way too much inventory management and a fair number of bugs.
Brien Voorhees
> P.S. I'd love to be a game designer! What do I need to do to become one?
... good luck.
Didn't slashdot recently run a series of vignettes from game industry insiders, who didn't exactly play it up as a funhouse? You can try searching for them
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I find a lot of the driving games are good for sitting down and going. Discounting something like Gran Turismo, driving is something most people are familiar with, and can be pretty simple. Mario Kart is a classic example, but another one that my girlfriend really gets into is Burnout 3. The only Xbox game I've found that she'll play for more than a few minutes. Nintendo really is the best for her interests. She's all about the Donkey Konga Bongos games as well.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
I want my libertarian socialism, dammit. I doubt I'll see it though.
How do those two go together? One of them is a theory about how things whould be better of if the government (and everyone else) where less invovled, the other is a system that by necessity forces government into your life.