So I'm new to the Steem community, but I need to ask for help early on. I am trying to get my wife into gaming (i'm sure if you're reading this then you don't need any convincing that this is a great idea).
I have gamed from the time I could hold a controller until today, and I don't have any plans to slow down anytime in the future. My son is just hitting the age where he is able to hold an NES controller and is starting to put together that he can control the player on the screen. It's a pretty cool thing to watch. My beautiful wife on the other hand, is less involved in the experience. Before I go any further, I want to explain that my wife has stated that she is fine with video games being a father-son thing in our family, but I would love it if there were some games she got excited about playing with me or our son. So I am here to ask for help!
My son holding his wireless controller "helping" me play Odyssey.
Does anyone have any suggestions about good "entry level" games to get non-gamers into gaming?
To provide you all with some context, my wife is not completely new to video games. When she was a kid, her father bought an NES and her and her sister would play from time to time. Their favorite game was Anticipation, which is like pictionary mixed with trivial pursuit. My wife often spoke very fondly of these gaming sessions and claimed to be extremely good at the game. The first thing I did when I brought home my NES classic (after standing in line for 4 hours to wait for the GameStop to open) was to hack the thing and make sure I put anticipation on it. Watching her face light up when I called her into the room and she saw the start screen was awesome. As it turns out, my wife really is exceedingly good at the game, I didn't stand a chance!
She has also dabbled with the three NES Super Mario games, (not the Lost Levels...no way i'm going to kill her soul with that game) but nothing to seriously. I think what wound up happening is that as she got older, she just didn't stick with gaming (her dad never got another system and she never asked for one). By the time she met me in college, games had changed so much and I had been playing them so long, that she was put off by them, sees them as too complicated, and doesn't want to play against me. She was watching me play Odyssey just yesterday and asked how I knew to ground pound in a particular spot to find a seemingly random power moon. I told her that after playing Mario games for so long, I kind of understand what to look for and that there were a few butterflies fluttering around in that spot. She was impressed, but I think things like that make the situation worse.
Now that I have access to almost every NES game and SNES game ever made, and have my N64, PS2, Xbone, PS4, Wii, and Switch, I am looking for recommendations about games that I can try out with her that I'm hoping she will enjoy playing. She doesn't like playing Mario Kart or Mario Party with me because the game becomes a bit one-sided and she hates it when I let up to make it competitive.
The best idea I can come up with after doing some digging around online is Snipperclips, which seems like a nice 2D co-op game that would get her invested in the game and the experience of playing with me. I have never played, so it would be an even field and I am hoping that she will wind up showing me a thing or two about the game. It would be great if she took a game to the point where she wanted to play by herself or with our son.
Any help you can offer me in terms of suggestions either old school or current games is greatly appreciated, and I am interested to see if any of you have had a similar experience. Feel free to tell me I'm nuts and should come to terms with the fact that my wife just isn't into gaming too haha. Thanks!