Sodding_Gamer
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On a first date you generally talk about each others interests. To me if you hide it like it's some freemason secret group it's only going to bite you in the ass if the relationship goes further!
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Best game to show a first date?
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On a first date you generally talk about each others interests. To me if you hide it like it's some freemason secret group it's only going to bite you in the ass if the relationship goes further!
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Metal Gear Solid
It usually resonates really well with the ladies.
It usually resonates really well with the ladies.
RespectThySole
Member
Video games on the first date? Pfttt. Not a good move my man.
cosmicblizzard
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Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Id be saving the game stuff for later dude.
Gnome Scat
Member
None or Journey.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Not sure if you're serious OP, but if she plays Candy Crush and was vaguely familiar with Super Mario World 20 years ago, she really doesn't want to come over yours to play games. She's probably just saying that to be polite about something she has no interest in. Just put on some music in the background, maybe have a drink and talk.
AwakenedCloud
Member
Papers, please
Aliquidmeri
Member
Did you actually read the OP? She's a real gamer, not casual scum.
OP, show her some SMT games and help her claim the world for lucifer's glory.
Wait, so Candy Crush and Words with friends constitutes a "gamer?" WTF OP everyone in the world plays those "games" and the majority of them are not gamers. If you're going to play any game, play the 50/50 game. While you're watching TV, whip out your dick, there's a 50/50 chance she'll be turned on.
Skullface
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I'm too lazy to find the quote, so I'll just restate what the other guy said as I do the same thing.
When it comes to the ladies, I hide the fact that I'm a gamer like I would hide a membership to the Klan. It's very simple, unless the girl you're seeing is overtly interested in video games, you don't talk about them. It's verbal lady repellent.
Come on dude, I know it's hip to shit on OP like we're on 4chan, but he never called this girl a gamer. He said that (paraphrasing here) "she plays some iPhone games so I guess she might kind of be a gamer. Sorta?"
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I tried this and she got frustrated, said there was too much talking, and that it was boring.Metal Gear Solid
It usually resonates really well with the ladies.
I stopped seeing her soon after that.
Nocturno999
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Postal 3 or Pewdiepie videos.
clarkision
Member
Lol at this thread. OP has a girl that is planning on coming back to his place. If video games come up in conversation naturally? Show her some of your favorites. There's no need to go out of your way here.
Also, she wants to come back to your apartment. There are a lot of other games you could play.
Also, she wants to come back to your apartment. There are a lot of other games you could play.
Square2015
Member
Make sure to show her
Lol is this Gahiggidy?
Didn't Gahiggidy have this in his basement GameCube room?
Allez Phill
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Wait, so you have a date set up with plans to go back to your apartment and...you want to show her video games?
Spot on interpretation.
Skullface
Member
Good man. My litmus test for marriage was always going to be whether or not my girl can curl up next to me and watch me play through an MGS game and enjoy it as if it were a movie. Even better if she wants to play also. But, we're talking months, if not years in.
Something of interest to note for OP. I had a bizarre first date experience last night. It was this really cute girl I met on OKcupid. We were originally going to meet this coming Tuesday, but she decided that she wanted to come to my house with two friends last night. Wtf? So I got drunk and met with them and we hung out on my back porch. Her friends walked back to the car and me and this girl made out for a bit. We will proceed on Tuesday.
OP, you can't be serious.... Someone who only plays Candy Crush and Words with Friends isn't exactly a gamer in the sense that she is going to love The Last of Us. lol There is a reason why she only plays those games.
I would definitely avoid showing games, especially on a first date.
There is a reason why she wants to come to your apartment on the first date, and it has nothing to with puppies or videogames.
King Tubby
Member
Your date plays the same games my 60+ year old mom does.
My mom is not a gamer.
My mom is not a gamer.
LyleLanley
Banned
Or is she?
cosmicblizzard
Banned
#Notallladies
But seriously, I've never seen it be detrimental just casually throwing out you're a gamer. Many women don't seem to give a shit provided your life doesn't revolve around it. Not everyone is judgmental like that. At least after high school (and for some, college).
Dance Central if you have an xbox with Kinect either that or Just Dance, board games or card games. It's casual and you can make drinking games out of them, but I'd honestly stay away from gaming for now.
Show her your puppy, show her around your house. Sit and talk and *IF* gaming comes up (she see's SM3DW on your table) then you can see if she's interested in playing anything. If you guys are going to sit down at your place then pick out a few movies and or subscribe to netflix instead and see if she's interested in those. Introduce her to, "real" gaming when she becomes your actual gf.
She's using the puppy as a way in. Don't drop the ball man!
Show her your puppy, show her around your house. Sit and talk and *IF* gaming comes up (she see's SM3DW on your table) then you can see if she's interested in playing anything. If you guys are going to sit down at your place then pick out a few movies and or subscribe to netflix instead and see if she's interested in those. Introduce her to, "real" gaming when she becomes your actual gf.
She's using the puppy as a way in. Don't drop the ball man!
Should have been first post. Two player in this is amazing!
boiled goose
good with gravy
BloodMoney
Banned
Play, Just The Tip
Skullface
Member
Dude, what are you 19, 20? How much life experience can you have to push that naive garbage? It's not about social groups in high school and being labeled a nerd because you play video games. It's about women wanting a guy that's active and involved. The misconception goes like this: if you're a gamer, you live a sedentary lifestyle with little to no social life.
Once you show your true colors, it doesn't matter that whether or not you're a gamer. In fact, a lot of girls dig quirky nerdy traits in their guys. As long as it's not all consuming.
Nah, that's not at all what the OP read like to me.
ProjektXero
Banned
Gears of War.
Show her your Lancer
Show her your Lancer
KoopaTheCasual
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OP, this is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
27 and I've got a decent amount of life experience to know people look at personality before they look at hobbies (not all people of course). I rarely see that misconception even brought up anymore. Being a gamer isn't as much of a warning flag as it once was. You could mention you run 5ks in the same sentence you play video games. Or you could only mention the latter and show you're clearly active and involved through other means.
And really, you're still generalizing an entire gender here. I see enough inactive guys getting with attractive women to know things aren't so black and white.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
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No sign of "guess", "might", or "sorta". Sounds like OP is waaay too excited to show off his hobby. Talking about it? Cool. Showing her some titles if she asks? Awesome. Devising plans about what to show her, when the date hasn't even happened? Just no.
OP needs to take it down several notches.
Fake edit: I don't agree with the guy you quoted, he seems obnoxious.
unaveragekid2
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Lol none.
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But I played Rayman Origins on a first date and we've been together a year and a half.
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But I played Rayman Origins on a first date and we've been together a year and a half.
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