Showing a "new player" an mmorpg

WhiteFrost

Hello, i am here to get some opinions from you guys. My girlfriend wants to try out an MMORPG, cause yeah she saw how i like to play them and she thought about that if she likes it, it could be a new hobby together. The idea is a good one so i agreed to show her one in the future and let her play, but now i m asking myself wich one? She isnt that much in video games, only some games of mario kart and party until now. My 3 ideas at first were:

1. World of Warcraft, the big one of course, because i think it is the simpelst one, not that difficult and complex. But on the other hand a bit old and the monthly costs.

2. Guild Wars 2 a bit newer one, without monthly costs and a fresh "quest system". Question for me is if i can show her in this one the "end game value" withouth a item spiral wich is a straight forward motivation

3. Elder Scrolls Online. This is more cause i like it the most, the MMORPG which i play myself the most of the time, but with that one i am not sure if its the best one for the first MMORPG or the first "real" video game. Maybe it is to different and strange for a newbie?

 

I would be open for other ideas of course too. So i would be glade to hear some opinions and thanks for the time reading and helping.

hallucigenocide

just pick the one you are playing and start with character creation and see if you can find something that makes her interested there and just go from there.

show her what fun the game has to offer and what you enjoy doing.  dont just jump straight into leveling

baphamet

i got my sister to play ESO as her first MMO and she loved it but i was there to coach her.

Nanfoodle

IMO WoW is a the best option. I went back to WoW to let my wife learn how to play. It has the most features to learn and done in a way they are easy to get to know. Also teachers her the trinity and how to team, raid, PvP. This is the foundation of MMOing. Also lets face it, WoW does it well so for a first MMO she will less likely get mad about the little things not working well. WoW is polished. Less tings messed up the less likely she will quit due polish. WoW just makes it easy to learn as well. A lot of MMOs dont do that well and WoW really does just the right amount of hand holding for a new player. 

Nanfoodle

Originally posted by baphamet

i got my sister to play ESO as her first MMO and she loved it but i was there to coach her.

Wife and I played ESO together and within a few weeks we quit. The solo quests I could not help her on, the phasing was so heavy we again could not help each other often, even when we were on the same quest. ESO is not the MMO to take someone though for their first MMO if you want to level together. 

EDIT: Wanted to Add, WoW has phasing but we never had a problem teaming when we were on the same quest. WoW just does phasing so much better. 

Dakeru

All 3 seem to be solid candidates. Though Nan raises a valid point with the instancing problem on ESO.

Personally I would suggest GW2 - no risk of outleveling your gf if you want to play a bit more than she does.

hallucigenocide

this show kind of tackles this.. it's a guy that's trying to get some friends to play WoW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRtLDQVHIEc

it doesn't go that well :P

 

in episode 4 when his girlfrend shows up to show these guys the "fun" stuff of the game it goes a lot better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FouYTpJoWRg

 

 

tawess

Well.. a good answer need some more questions. But a good point is to start with something she likes... for an example

 

She likes BioWare games like ME and DA... SW:ToR

She likes Final Fanatsy.. FF:ARR

She likes Diablo-esq games.. Marvel heroes

 

and so on and so forth... 

 

Or you go by the type of games she likes (if any) seeing how there are MMO versions of most genres these days. 

 

But if she is a blank slate when it comes to gameing... Picking what you like to play will be a good start as you will have to spend a lot of time to support her and having a alt to mule for your new characters will help A LOT.  

baphamet

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Originally posted by Nanfoodle
Originally posted by baphamet i got my sister to play ESO as her first MMO and she loved it but i was there to coach her.

Wife and I played ESO together and within a few weeks we quit. The solo quests I could not help her on, the phasing was so heavy we again could not help each other often, even when we were on the same quest. ESO is not the MMO to take someone though for their first MMO if you want to level together. 

EDIT: Wanted to Add, WoW has phasing but we never had a problem teaming when we were on the same quest. WoW just does phasing so much better. 

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you clearly haven't played ESO recently, none of that is a problem now. also, you mean the main story quests right? because solo quests never had that issue to my knowledge other than bugs that have now mostly been fixed.

KenFisher

Originally posted by Dakeru

All 3 seem to be solid candidates. Though Nan raises a valid point with the instancing problem on ESO.

Personally I would suggest GW2 - no risk of outleveling your gf if you want to play a bit more than she does.

 

I like the logic of this.  My GF and I used to play frequently.  Outleveling each other was a common problem.

Theocritus

I've known girls that played games, but I never dated one that liked almost any game, especially MMOs.

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