My girlfriend has never really gamed. But she’s now forced to move less than she would like to (health problem) and she’s getting bored. I was thinking of introducing her to a game or two that we could play together. She’s not the real action game type, and seeing as she has no experience with controller/mouse and keyboard I was thinking starting simple.

I can’t think of anything else than Factorio, as she likes organizing/keeping track of stuff.

Would you recommend against that or have anything better in mind? Let me know!

  • cinnamonTeaEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    The gameplay of ‘It takes two’ is very fun, but the characters and the story can be infuriating. If they annoy you in the trailers or in a gameplay video, be aware that their dynamic stays like that a long time - we gave up on it after a while because of it

    • Kraiden@kbin.social
      9·
      9 months ago

      Exactly this. It’s a terrible, outdated story that essentially sells “staying together for the kids.” The whole way through we were both like “ye these two need to get divorced.” The book is a villain.

      Eta: game play was fun though

      • vrojak@kbin.social
        8·
        9 months ago

        Yep, my girlfriend and I thought the same.

        “Oh, I know how to solve our problem! We make our daughter cry!”
        “But how?”
        “Let’s brutally murder her toy elephant!”

        A+ parenting right there

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          Oh, I assumed it was kid friendly. My soon to be 7 year old is just started Minecraft. He struggles with games so far as too complex for him, like lego Harry Potter or even hot wheels (all the ps+ kids games). I was hoping to try it takes two with him at some point. If the story is not nice, maybe that’s not a great idea. Playing Rayman together was fun and forgiving as he just keeps reappearing when he dies.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            It is mostly kid friendly.

            Just the scene with the elephant is thrown in as a bit of a joke. But can be quite brutal if the child is too young to understand. But it is just about ripping up a toy. So not really all that brutal.

            The rest of the game is completely fine though, would recommend.

            • mossy_@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              It’s about ripping up a living, crying toy while it begs for its life, after chasing it through the area. It made me squirm and I’m a grown-ass adult.