What is the gaming equivalent of starting with the Greeks?

[Anonymous No.5150435]

I am working to correct my new girlfriend's subhuman taste in videogames (I had to delete several apps from her Iphone) and I need a curriculum that can bring her up to speed with my lifetime of hardcore gaming experiences.

[Anonymous No.5150454]

>>5150435
>worrying about her gaming skills instead of her fucking skills

[Anonymous No.5150512]

>lifetime of hardcore gaming experiences
>can't figure out which games are effective at building fundamentals
kek just go with JRPGs, Zelda and Mario since that's clearly what you play

[Anonymous No.5151035]

>>5150435
Forcing your hobbies on others is a good way to find yourself alone.

[Anonymous No.5151041]

>>5151035
>>5150454
Based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.5151047]

>>5150435
Just make her dress up like Tails and fuck her and post the video here. If you don't, you're a confirmed faggot.

[Anonymous No.5151142]

>>5150435
start with the atari 2600. Play what you consider to be the essentials for it, or I guess google the top atari 2600 games if you're a pleb

[Anonymous No.5151191]

>>5150435
2/10

[Anonymous No.5151216]

So OP is probably just fucking around, but I do have a similar question about pc gaming. I’ve played Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, and the first Ultima.

Commander Keen is something I know I should try out at some point.

Consoles are easy enough to find a list of greatest hits or essentials for. But if I want a solid understanding of the history of pc games where should I begin? I know about Wizardry but haven’t played any of them. What significant games came out before that one? Besides the games I’ve mentioned what early pc games were significant in some way?

[Anonymous No.5151509]

>>5151216
PC gaming is easy, everything pre-Doom, Wiz 7 and Ultima VII is trash. I wouldn't even bother with most DOS games aside from the above + Build games + some RPG's like Dark Sun.

t. mid-30's

[Anonymous No.5151514]

>>5150435
Girlfriends are for sex and breeding, not for vydia and playing games.

That's what your buddies are for.

[Anonymous No.5151517]

>>5151514
>not having a gf/bf who is also your best friend
sasuga

[Anonymous No.5151520]

>>5151517

>women
>being friends with someone

Topo keko.

[Anonymous No.5151524]

>>5151517
>having a girlfriend who is happily enjoying your hobbies with you instead of bitching about how your job is not good enough and how you're not treating her as well as some other girl's boyfriend
That's a unicorn, bro. Or a really ugly girl.

[Anonymous No.5151526]

I wouldn’t bother with anything pre nes.

[Anonymous No.5151560]

Trying to start her on retro games is a bad idea.

Start her on Portal 2 coop.

If she can't get through that with you, there is no hope, you might as well not even try, because if she can't get into a game that is all about working together with her boyfriend in a novel and humorous environment, she is never gonna get into anything even remotely hardcore and will forever limit herself to mobile skinner box garbage.

Honestly though, 100% serious advice: Stop caring so much about what your girlfriend does/doesn't play. If she wants to play shitty ass candy crush/farming/dress up games, let her.

As edgelord as >>5150454 sounds it's ultimately solid advice at the end of the day. Just cum in her as often as possible and you really won't give a shit what she's playing.

[Anonymous No.5151567]

>>5151216
Look up old computer magazines for a decent understanding of what the big titles are.
One of the most significant pre-Wizardry games was absolutely Colossal Cave Adventure, which is an absolute must.

[Anonymous No.5151570]

>>5151514
>not having your buddies for sex and breeding and playing games and drinking with you gf

casual

[Anonymous No.5151572]

>>5151524
They aren't ugly and I don't think the two of us having similar interests and hobbies is all that rare.

[Anonymous No.5151574]

>>5151216
I vote for Zork. Play Zork

[Anonymous No.5151605]

>>5151520
>you must be at least 18 to post

>>5151560
My wife is casual and doesnt like modern 3d games like portal, she plays some puzzle games but she happens to like some /vr/ like mario and tetris. No telling what people might be into.

[Anonymous No.5151708]

>>5151605
>she plays some puzzle games
>mario and tetris

Stop wasting your time and just fuck her instead.

[Anonymous No.5151756]

>>5150435
This is advanced autism lad.

[Anonymous No.5151795]

If she sees you playing a game that looks interesting to her she'll let you know.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5151797]

Every girl I've ever dated who was a serious gamer has been a terrible slut. You might find one ugly enough she isn't able to be slutty but she still will wish she was.

On the flip side, the most respectable retro game my wife really plays is Puzzle Bobble

[Anonymous No.5151813]

>>5151560
Portal 2 is a horrible game to play co op, you're literally telling the other person how to play the game or getting bossed around

[Anonymous No.5151817]

>>5151813
I've never been as frustrated with another human being as the time I play Portal 2 coop with a buddy. Specifically that one puzzle that requires both players collide in mid air to land safely on a platform. In hindsight it was pretty clever.

[Anonymous No.5152138]

>>5150454
>>5151035
>>5151514
I don't think you guys understand.
I will not countenance the future mother of my children to play mobileshit.
I mean like just imagine you are a columnist for The London Review of Books and you have several hundred volumes of leatherbound classics on your shelves and you leave your drawing room for some tea and catch your dirty strumpet of a spouse reading Harry Potter to little Anon Jr. Your lip curls with disgust and you stride over to the fireplace and reach up for the old claymore hanging above...

[Anonymous No.5152141]

>>5152138
t. incel

[Anonymous No.5152154]

>>5151797
>babbage's gramps' wild fanfic adventure: Slut serious gamer girlfriend saga
Intredastin.

[Anonymous No.5152323]

>>5152138
I don't know what the fuck all you just said but that bitch needs some Kirby and Tetris, fast!

[Anonymous No.5152375]

>>5151797
chad namefag
>>5152154
incel anon

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5152376]

>>5152154
Women who are seriously into guy hobbies and/or who have a lot of "guy friends" do not make good girlfriends. They're usually quite addicted to getting lots of male attention and at best will always have some other guy trying to get with them, even if you yourself are the one who got her into those hobbies and/or introduced her to those guys.

You can dismiss this wisdom as the made up ramblings of a sexist larper if you want, I suppose. Maybe you're the type of guy who will never even get the opportunity to learn the hard way. If so, it's probably for the best.

[Anonymous No.5153208]

>>5151567
>>5151574
Ah I’ve actually played both of those and forgot to mention them.

Guess for now I’ll try out Wizardry and move on to other big hits chronologically.

[Anonymous No.5153357]

>>5152376
This is why people hate namefags. 4chan isn't your blog, jackass. No one should know or care who you are, and your personal life isn't /vr/ just because you're ancient. Your vain bitching is distracting from the thread, not improving it.

>>5150435


OP, what kind of games does she like? She's already playing games (shitty mobile games are still games) so use that as a starting point. Just start with simple, somewhat easy versions of those games. Then move to harder, more complex stuff if she likes a specific genre.

Focus on difficulty and complexity, not age.

She likes puzzles? Play Tetris, Dr Mario, Puyo Puyo. Portal is an excellent way to introduce her to moving in a 3D space while engaging with puzzles.

She likes platformers? Try Super Mario 2, 3, or World. Kirby is also an excellent choice, with very few weak games in the main series.

You get the idea.

2D is usually easier than 3D. Learning to handle modern controllers and modern 3D movement can take a while if you're not a kid.

Most importantly, get your head out of your ass. You can't force people to like something, and they'll resent you for your entitled disrespectful attitude if you try. Work WITH her tastes, respect her boundaries, and act as a helper, not a professor, and you might actually succeed. Keep disrespecting her tastes and acting like a brat and she'll just resent you and stop talking to you about games altogether.

Godspeed, faggot.

[Anonymous No.5154463]

Why the fuck is everyone reccomending Portal for a normies' first person shooter game?
It doesn't teach FPS basics at all; there's no shooting of enemies.
The highly vertical levels and spatial confusion gives even experienced gamers nausea.
OP's poor girl would contract vertigo and be bedridden for a couple days.

A newcomer to 3D gaming would be best served by Halo:CE to be honest. It's not for nothing that game ushered in a new generation of FPS players.
If Halo's release date is not kosher for your autistic "not retro" fixation then have her play Turok.

[Anonymous No.5154520]

>>5154463
but why focus on fps? they are arguably a boring genre, even holy cows like doom or quake are uninteresting for a lot of people (me included)
I've played halo ce, the single player is boring with always the same recycled maps and enemies over and over again and multiplayer would be only a frustrating experience for a new player
I don't understand the hard-on for fps, after sports games is the most pleb genre, even some mobile game is better

[Anonymous No.5155307]

>>5154520
>even some mobile game is better

Let's not go into hyperbole now. It's like we're talking about our favorite brands of cig and someone says "even some chewing tobacco is better".

We must remain steadfast. /V/ has already fallen to the Zoomers. They have 2-3 unironic mobile game threads everytime you check the catalog now.

[Anonymous No.5155386]

>>5153357
I don't disagree with you but you do realize it's useless to reply to namefags, right? As long as you call them out on that they'll register that as attention, which leads to repetition of the same behaviour and causes conditioning to attentionseeking faggotry.

Just stay on-topic and ignore namefag's names. Or better yet, just ignore it entirely. If enough people on this site can use their brain they shouldn't have any reason to use a trip or a namefield to begin with.

[Medusa the Seducer No.5155395]

>>5150435
Start with this game.
Subhuman taste in videogames are for subhumans.

[Anonymous No.5155407]

>>5151797
Didn't you marry Prince Sevenfag?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5155459]

>>5153357
This thread's flawed premise is its hook, which makes it different from other similar threads. Addressing these flaws furthers this hook and increases the thread's traction on the board

>>5155386
Lurk moar, fgt

>>5155407
No. No I did not but I accept that in terms of /vr/ tripfaggotry he is the sin to my zang.

[Medusa the Seducer No.5155572]

>>5155459
Hi Babbage good to see you again.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5155618]

>>5155572
Yeah, I haven't been posting as consistently and ironically it's because of my new son. Ironic because I spent all that nailed-down time on /vr/ after my first son was born in March, 2013 but this was a much better board then - one worth constant posts. Over five years, I'd gradually adjusted and fallen into a rhythm in sync with the board but now that I'm currently and once again in need of a continuous focus for my higher brain functions it's somewhere other than /vr/ where I have a new and different pseudonymous identity - but no less obnoxious of course.

[Medusa the Seducer No.5155630]

>>5155618
>new son
Congratulations

I wish you the best. I always enjoy your posts.

[Anonymous No.5155681]

>>5151216
pc gaming is more than msdos.
it's amiga its c64 its ti994a its bbc micro its zx spectrum and on and on... but for dos dont forget biomenace and jill of the jungle. also grab the dos version of oregon trail.
One Must Fall is a decent giant robot fighting game.
warcraft 2 might be something you enjoy also dune II

I suggest hitting up myabandonware and start going thru the games by genre/year/system...year if you really wanna go back to the earliest

[Anonymous No.5155696]

>>5155307
>mobile games are for zoomers
eeh, I've seen more old farts playing on the bus than young people
as a fellow boomer I appreciate some mobile games too, touch is not bad for some genre, obviously there are not /vr/ related

[Anonymous No.5155723]

>>5155618
>but no less obnoxious of course.
Good to hear gramps

[Anonymous No.5156036]

>>5155618
Will you have the strength to resist Murkan social norms or will you succumb and have his penis mutilated as well?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5156430]

>>5156036
The deed is long since done, Poor. Since I'm really allowing myself to blog itt anyway - Although I'm quite adored by Germans online, all the European girls I've hooked up with irl have been British (maybe because I can't help teasing ESLs?) and they've all expressed a mild but firm preference for cut. "Cleaner"

[babs No.5157335]

Check THIS shit out. Tranny Janny sat on his ass and now gets me 1-day banned for a post I made literally no joke over a month ago. This is the current state of /vr/ and I'm honestly shocked at 4chan in general that something like this is even mechanically possible.

[Anonymous No.5157364]

>>5157335
>European is not a race.

Civnat refuted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLfUah76P4

[Anonymous No.5157380]

>>5152138
Holy shit I can feel the whoosh of air from your heavy fedora tipping.

[babs No.5157391]

>>5157364
I personally as of this month have upped the ante and begun wearing top hats - POST ironically

[babs No.5157393]

>>5157380
I personally as of this month have upped the ante and begun wearing top hats - POST ironically

[Anonymous No.5157402]

>>5157335
>something deeply and disastrously wrong with the current European mentality at both the microcosmic and macrocosmic levels.
psuedointellectual Wojak.jpg


>Something very bad is going to happen in Europe very soon
What? It's called the great replacement, it's happening now, and it's not qualitatively different than the immigvasion of the US.


>Coastie
This was a bit of a headscratcher. I interpret it as typical CONservative cowardice, surrendering the major metropolises to the left. I bet you didn't even realize you're using the same magic dirt argument they do.

[Beeg No.5157456]

Hahaha you want to dance with me? How touching.

[Anonymous No.5157505]

>>5155681
On RTS genre I would recommend Age of Empires (2).
Even if the person isn't into destroying the enemy, there's a lot of base building that most people can enjoy and then, maybe, evolve to the full experience.