How important is it that your significant other enjoys Thief?

nickie on 7/3/2017 at 18:44

Is that what that is? Not impressed.

No more on the BM saga now, thank you.

A.J on 7/3/2017 at 18:52

It had to happen. I wonder if BruderMurus comes back with a different account...

nickie on 7/3/2017 at 19:39

Oh dear. Forum rules:

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I'm sure that increasing your post count isn't what you're doing.

Going mildly off topic in a thread can be good and beneficially expand a discussion but if you have nothing at all to say that relates to the OP, then kindly go and say nothing somewhere else.

And yes, I am grumpy because I have to get up at 4 in the morning and my tooth hurts.

nickie on 7/3/2017 at 20:13

Forum rules are great. No-one ever reads them so you can trip people up whenever you feel like it. :)

I have actually been thinking about the OP in the last couple of days. As I said, my 'other' bought T1 for me in a bargain bin for a fiver. I was desperately looking for something after being engrossed in Resident Evil (3 I think). Thief was just brilliant because I don't really enjoy battle. I loved the puzzles and searching for stuff in RE but failed the boss battle in the last I played. Mainly because it didn't interest me.

I did try, on a couple of occasions, to get him to have a go with Thief but he wasn't interested. I, on the other hand, have done stuff in the 'SO's' game to keep it going when he was unable to do it himself. I think I'm a hero!

But having found Thief, I've not been able to let go of it at all. I find myself to be quite stealthy (or at least very quiet in my life). But we are both able to enjoy our respective games without hassle from the other side - which is always good even though it occasionally comes up as bone of contention on rare occasions. (You've got to get your ammunition from somewhere, don't you.)

Starker on 7/3/2017 at 22:30

I don't really mind not being able to share my video game experiences. A large part of gaming has always been a solitary activity for me. And in the worst case I can still go and talk about them on the internet.

What really irks me, though, is that I have boxes of board games just sitting in the corner. These days, if I want to play them, I have to go out of my way to get people together and it tends to be such a hassle that I rarely bother anymore. But that's what I get for being from the generation where board games mean stuff like Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders to most people.

Shaz on 8/3/2017 at 03:01

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The majority of computer games that I truly enjoy are single player experiences, or even if they can be played multiplayer I prefer the solo player experience. By 'can be played multiplayer' I mean everything from old Infinity & Aurora Engine games like Baldur's Gate & Neverwinter Nights to the MP aspect of the latest BioWare games, and not so much true MMOs, which I do prefer playing with other people. My husband is more or less the same way, though there are games he enjoys playing with friends that I'm not interested in. We still enjoy talking about them with each other, however, even if we don't enjoy playing them ourselves. I know how he's been doing in World of Warships and his issues trying out Heroes of the Storm, and he knows my thoughts on Torment: Tides of Numenera and how I'm nervously anticipating Mass Effect: Andromeda. And he of course knows ALL about my love of Thief.

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What really irks me, though, is that I have boxes of board games just sitting in the corner. These days, if I want to play them, I have to go out of my way to get people together and it tends to be such a hassle that I rarely bother anymore. But that's what I get for being from the generation where board games mean stuff like Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders to most people.

Board games! Now here is where my husband & I enjoy gaming together. Though, yes, it can at times be difficult to arrange game nights with our friends, we still do what we can to have game nights on at least a semi-regular basis. I still wish we had a larger pool of friends to game with, however! It can be hard to find nights where enough are free to really get into something. Damn competing work schedules!

Azaran on 8/3/2017 at 05:48

I convinced my girlfriend to try Thief a while back, and she loved it, but didn't get far. She's too busy with different projects, and just doesn't have much time for it

zomfg1234 on 17/5/2017 at 04:16

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And yet you're doing it again, my making fun and the whole point still stands. It's like talking to a wall.

Well, feel free to stay in your bubble then, as long as you're not being a jerk, running around telling people how their games are not games, or how inferior such games are to what you're think a game is. Because as of 2017, this view it is very limited.

As a sidenote, I had a very nice afternoon today with my friends, 2 modern couples, and one of the topic was games. How awesomely progressive and super modern we felt, talking about AssCreed Black Flag, Inside, and Life is Strange, all enjoyed by both sexes :O

Sorry bud, but you are in the wrong here. You consider trash, shovelware mobile games (made for braindead people that can hit the "buy gems" button so they can progress in their awful game to kill some time while waiting for a bus) to be equal to AAA titles or just large games, that need dedication, attention and overall knowledge and passion. Mobile gaming is cancer that kills gaming industry (a lot less work, more money) and doesn't introduce anything that makes it worthwile. It's disrespectful and annoying to see your thoughts going out. It never was 50-50 where it counts and never will be. Maybe you like talking with "gurl gamers" and consider it "progressive", but people who actually treat their hobby as something more than another topic to talk about for a few minutes don't want to bother with this crap. Generally speaking women don't want to focus their attention on anything that can't be learned in 5 minutes and/or doesn't give them other people's attention, especially when it comes to games. Games are still considered silly and childish (by women at least), unless we are talking about something like Life is Strange, that is "deep" or "thought-provoking" for people that don't read books.

If you are going to label me as an elitist, then I wonder how did you get to play Thief at all in the first place, it seems too complex for you.

Sulphur on 17/5/2017 at 06:42

Part of the reason games are considered silly and childish by people is the fact that many of gaming's proponents are massive infants with frankly embarrassing worldviews, like the poster above.

zomfg1234 on 17/5/2017 at 07:04

Quote Posted by Sulphur

Part of the reason games are considered silly and childish by people is the fact that many of gaming's proponents are massive infants with frankly embarrassing worldviews, like the poster above.

If you like to be equalized to 8 years old girl playing Barbie knock-off on her Iphone, then I feel sorry for you.

Use relevant statistics next time, so there will be no pointless arguing.