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I recently finished The Last of Us 2. My girlfriend sometimes watches me play my games. And while I thought that TLoU would be a great game to follow, it was hard for her to watch (due to the violence). I wonder if there is a game that would be easy or even interesting for her to watch while I play, without it having to be something strictly "family friendly" , that also has fun gaming mechanics and isn't just a walking simulator. Looking forward to any ideas! :)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The Quantum games (Heavy Rain, Beyond:Two Souls, Detroit:Become Human) are great for that. Also the Life Is Strange series. Abzu, Journey are "cinematic games" of their own. Maybe Firewatch? Outer Wilds?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Second this. My girlfriend has absolutely not interest in playing games but enjoyed going through Detroit with me and helping choose different options as the game progressed. We even went back to replay some of it to get to different endings which is something I barely ever do when playing games by myself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked Firewatch a lot, but it basically is a walking simulator

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It had me intrigued at first but it didn't really lead anywhere. Overrated game with pretty dated graphics imho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I played it back when it first released and loved the graphics, I think it's still generally agreed to be a beautiful game to my knowledge.

The only bit I was underwealmed by was the ending, but they'd also write something with grounded intrigue, which is a difficult thing to pull off without having a cynical ending of "of you thought this was gonna be exciting? This is real buddy", which wasn't really what firewatch was evoking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Adding on:

LA Noire is pretty good, it's slow enough that you can talk through the different options, or just be silly while having a laugh