What movie-length games should my girlfriend watch me play?
"I decided to show my girlfriend who knows nothing about video games Ni No Kuni."
"I decided to show my girlfriend who knows nothing about video games Ni No Kuni."
"Playing with random people online is not particularly appealing..."
"There’s a lot of titles, and remakes, and spinoffs, and gold and royal editions…"
What if you shifted your mindset toward joy around watching her learn, rather than watching her win?
"A brief search online seems to show endless fields of lit-up rigs for sale; what drives that aesthetic?"
"I don't want to force my nesting partner to try to get into exactly the same things that I'm into when we already have so much important stuff in common. Am I just looking for a reason to be anxious?"
How do I fight the compulsion of falling into the comfort of the same game again and again, and play new games, see new worlds instead?
"Are there any good games, new or old, that encourage learning this mysterious combination of moving, pointing, and shooting that I seem to lack?"
It does take some intentional learning time to get used to using one joystick to move and the other to look around