How important is it that your significant other enjoys Thief? - by slavatrumpevitch
Yandros on 2/3/2017 at 21:34
I think I need the custom title "Desperately dodgy geezer". :laff:
TannisRoot on 2/3/2017 at 22:02
Mrs. TannisRoot doesn't play video games, but she humors me by listening to me talk about them.
She did give Portal a try once at my behest, but unfortunately she couldn't get past the controls. Specifically, she kept staring at the in-game floor and gave up in frustration. She's way smarter than me though with a master degree and fluency in multiple languages, so I guess if it's something you never grew up with it's hard to make it click later in life.
*The women I was attracted to were never interested in vidya. Not sure what that would've been like.
Corsair on 3/3/2017 at 02:57
It's not very important to me since the wife and I play a ton of other games, but over the last 2 years she has started to take an interest in the game. She played a Thief's Holiday the last two years and has started to take up some of the less daunting FMs. I want to encourage her to try a mission that can take several hours, but I restrain myself since I don't want to drive her away from it. Hopefully her interest will continue to grow. I'd like someone to play the multiplayer mod with.
Shaz on 3/3/2017 at 05:48
I'm more of a gamer than my husband is, though he is IS borrowing my Shadowrun: Dragonfall at this very moment. I'm the Thief player in this house, though he knows how much I love it and is always regretful he and a friend explained it to me as an "FPS type of game" back when it first came out, causing me to not even consider playing it (I don't typically enjoy that particular style of game, and they were honestly trying to be helpful). Of course, Thief *IS* an FPS, if you translate the S as Stealth instead of as Shooter... sigh. I'm glad I did eventually decide to pick it up a few years later, and consequently fall in love with Stealth games, and Thief 1&2 in particular.
Sidenote time: skip the following if you're only interested in the OP's question!:
Quote Posted by Judith
Hello, it's 2017, not 1997. It's more or less 50-50 by now, at least in generations around their 20s-30s. You really have to be backwards or living in a bubble to still spew that nonsense.
I find myself thinking about this now and then. I recall quite vividly the days of BBS Meet-and-Greets in my town, in the late 80's through early 90's. I recall the male-to-female ratio being about 60-40... so, yes, male dominated, but not outrageously so. I also recall that many of the big, well known local BBSes were run by girls. I know that was just a small, local sample that one can't really extrapolate from, yet it really came as a shock to me over the years to find out that the ratio WASN'T like that/considered to be like that on 'the real internet'. It was all a very... 'how did THAT happen?' kind of thing, to me. "Uh, yeah, I'm female, and this is a surprise, why?" Heck, I still know a few of the women from those Meet-and-Greets. They never left the internet. It grew around us. It's still odd to know 'I've always been here' but to randomly witness surprise from others recognizing that I and those like me existed in the first place. I mean, c'mon. I'm only a master sneak in Thief...
AntiMatter_16 on 3/3/2017 at 07:20
Having my significant other play Thief has never been a requirement, but damn is it a plus. After I started dating my current girlfriend, I convinced her to play through Thief Gold and Thief II (with some slight assistance from me) and she enjoyed the experience, though it wasn't quite the same magical experience for her as I had with it when I was a kid. I really should have her play some fan missions, but these days, I don't even have time to play Thief myself. Which is sad, because I have like 4 different projects in the works that have been halted for most of the past year.
Yandros on 3/3/2017 at 11:55
@Shaz: I attended regular BBS meetings with my gf (now wife) in the mid to late 80s in Nashville. Those were such fun times!
Random_Taffer on 3/3/2017 at 15:10
My ex wife was tolerant of my Dromed addiction. She got motion sickness easily, so couldn't really play any first person games for very long without getting a headache and feeling ill. She did like to play through Russ's Thief's Holiday sometimes though.
My current girlfriend (Voiced Cypress in Godreaker) likes Thief well enough. She doesn't really play it herself, but she likes watching and loves games in general.
She also loves Zelda and Elder Scrolls (two of my other favorite game worlds) and is currently playing through Skyrim again. (Actually, we both are)
Tonight we plan to get pizza and play the new Zelda.
It's going to be a good night. :)
slavatrumpevitch on 3/3/2017 at 18:33
Quote Posted by nickie
@ slavatrumpevitch - do you have any links for those statistics? I don't disbelieve them but it would be good to see where they came from.
I could probably find some corroborating sources, but these are actually my own calculations from broad sample proprietary data. (I didn't calculate them for this thread, they were stats I had on-hand from prior work. They come from 2010-2014, so not 100% current but pretty close.)
slavatrumpevitch on 3/3/2017 at 18:38
Back to the subject at hand, personally I find it so much more nerve-wracking introducing a significant other to thief than to, say, a favorite movie or piece of music. It's so much more personal. If I think about my favorite movies of all time, maybe there's one I've seen 10 times? That's what, 20 hours of my life invested into that? If my girlfriend thinks it's "stupid $h!t," that might sting a bit, but it's not a major indictment of my chosen time investments. In contrast, I've probably logged a couple thousand hours of Thief+FM's in my life, and another 500 or so on DromEd (WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT! lol). So much more a part of my life than even the most influential movie, etc...
nickie on 3/3/2017 at 20:52
No worries about corroborating evidence but you might want to find a phrase other than 'stupid shit'.
