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My wife has never really been a "gamer," having only started playing games recently as a result of my dastardly influence. Well, she just beat Portal & Portal 2 over the weekend, and mentioned to me that she's got "the itch" to start a new game. What should she play? We have a Wii and a PC. Here's the games she's played/beaten so far:

 

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead 2

Borderlands

Portal

Portal 2

LoZ: Twilight Princess

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

 

She tends to like co-op but also really enjoys single-player, and has been loving FPS'es on the PC. I just don't want to give her something with poor game design that throws her off. Keep in mind too that older titles, while beloved by us, sometimes don't come off all that well to newer gamers like my wife. She tried Ocarina of Time and some of the presentation and control mechanisms messed her up to the point where she couldn't beat the Shadow Temple. Thanks for any suggestions.

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Well, I would say the same kind of recommendations that I would give my own wife, but most of the games I recommend to her are because she can't grasp the whole "twin analog sticks" thing. Some really fun ones for us/her have been:

 

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Super Smash Bros Melee/Brawl

Rock Band

Super Mario World (gotta respect the classics)

Castle Crashers (probably the most fun coop we've ever had together)

 

Hope that helps a little...

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Dwarf Fortress.

 

But seriously, if she's willing to get invested in something, I'd recommend Bioshock. Plays like an FPS, eases you into it, and you can show her that games are more than just distractions or whatever.

Aside from that, you could continue down the Valve road and have her play HL2, which has great pacing and excellent level design, and is relatively new.

Wind Waker's great, too, but that depends on how much she like Twilight Princess.

After you show her one or two of these you can ease her into something like Mass Effect, that's very RPG Lite.

Good luck and have fun!

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Randomly picked list of games... haven't played any Wii games recently so took a glance at metacritic

 

Wii

SP

Super Mario Galaxy 1/2

Super Paper Mario

Okami

Warioware: Smooth Moves

MP

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Donkey Kong Country Returns

 

PC

SP

Plants vs Zombies

Mirror's Edge

Monkey Island

 

MP

Killing floor - if she enjoyed the L4D games but, wants something more co-op focused

Magicka

Minecraft

 

And.. World of Goo, since she recently beat the portal games another puzzle game might be good... also have the option of choosing either wii or pc.

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Okami seeing as it's so similar to Zelda but is recent(ish)

Actually that reminds me that my fiancee really liked Darksiders. So did I, for that matter, but I think my fiancee's opinion is probably more relevant to what your wife would like.

 

Also Viva Pinata. Everyone loves Viva Pinata.

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