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ChaosAzeroth posted...

I mean, usually when someone puts someone in that position (in my experience) they try to get them to play a game that's no where near what the person playing would be interested in and then keeps getting annoyed because the person 'isn't doing it right' and 'isn't listening to them'.

So kinda depends how you go about that one probably. And with who. Some people really hate feeling pushed, and some may feel belittled by it. Too many factors there to give a one-size-fits-all answer. Are you talking about looking at their likes to pick a game that they have a chance of liking, or trying to get them to play something because it's a 'good game' and a 'must play'?

I dont think you have had a good backseat gaming experience if thats how most of your sessions have gone. And if they seemed to lose the drive I wouldnt push them, sometimes they preferred to backseat game to me instead.

I think Im good at helping people learn to play games at a slow pace, as a patient teacher should be. Every game I have backseat gamed with someone included a interest in already playing that game. Never trying to drop something too difficult into the hands of an amateur.

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I actually have lots of experience with this, many were girls who weren't gamers, some of them girlfriends. I have got one girl who was completely disinterested in gaming to enjoy playing a game. It didnt make her a gamer, but she enjoyed her experience and the reason she played it was just because of her trust in me. Game was Limbo btw.

Another girlfriend I had was interested in gaming and kind of fell out of playing it due to preferring to binge netflix all of the time because that was easier. I think her brother gave her a hard time when she did poorly at games. I teased her a bit but generally gave her encouragement and pointed out how she had improved from the last death. Game was Uncharted 5, the aim assist was up all the way ^o^ but I didnt give her flak about that because I just wanted to take her interest in the game and convert it to passion. I was proud of her for beating Until Dawn, which she beat side by side to me while I played another game.