Hello! So I had originally hoped to put this out closer to the 1 year anniversary of Gaming For A Non-Gamer, but due to some timing stuff I obviously didn't lol. I know this is completely different from a typical Razbuten video, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. A more typical video essay will be out before the end of the year, and, like, ya know...I appreciate ya and all that good stuff. Peace.
I was SHOCKED when she asked "what are the hearts". My 30+ years of absorbing "video game shit" really has blinded me to the idea that there are people who just don't have that knowledge haha
Kinda surprised me to cuz other games she played had hearts for HP like shovel knight, zelda, and others. But to be fair a lot of them didn't use hearts and instead used healthbars like doom, shovel knight, dark souls, etc.
It shocked me that he points out the depleting bubbles and she doesn't understand that they are her air! MY 30+ years of absorbing video game shit has trained me to ALWAYS look for an oxygen meter. I hate drowning in video games!
@@themisfitowl2595 you dont need to be gaming at all let alone for 30 years to see bubles while your in water to indacate a BREATHING MECHANIC.. WOMAN MOMENT
It's actually very interesting to see her struggle. Understanding what seems to us like logical or simple as some learning curve we've mastered so long ago we don't even notice it can be a challenge to some of us. - Coordination of control to the camera, movement and action - Understanding what/where/how to do things all at once. - Figuring out the failures/mistakes and learn from them after 1-2 try - Focus > Stress in critical moments - Puzzles - Figuring out the point of the game (Portals and Minecraft) - Lastly, identifying the playable character's sex
You know, this sounds to me exactly like learning how to drive a car. At first you have no idea how to coordinate changing gears, being aware of your surroundings, controlling the speed of the car, moving the wheel... But those are basics of basics. Once you grasp them, however, you don't think about that - you just jump into a new car and drive, your movements are automatic, you don't think about it anymore. The car becomes the extension of your body. Just like a game pad becomes the extension of your hands when playing games. I'm a life-long gamer that learnt how to drive a few years ago and I feel like this is a pretty accurate comparison of how a non-gamer might feel when learning how to play games. My experiences of learning how to drive to the point of it becoming my second nature and "feeling" the car as if it was my own body (even in stressful split second decision making moments, as in my body moves the car our of danger in the same way it would duck to avoid a projectile) seem to look pretty similar, at least.
@@gygy82 yeah agreed, you just gotta learn to do small adjustments to see if it clicks and your brain has worked it out. once it clicks its smooth sailing. But if you dont adjust, the time where everything just clicks into place and make sense will be a long way off.
She asked a question that was basically, "is there fall damage?" and then walked off a really high place. She curses like a sailor. She hears Razbuten ask her not to do certain things, (fast travel, step on his flowers) and basically takes it as a challenge. She nearly breaks a controller in frustration. Maybe she just doesn't know it yet, but she's already one of us gamers. _One of us! One of us!_
The simultaneous act of moving your character and moving your camera at the same time is such a fluid action for me, that watching someone do those acts independently of each other is hilarious XD
I actually remember when I first learned how to use the mouse to look around in Minecraft. My first experience playing it was in elementary school and I did the same thing as her. I only looked in one direction until my cousin told me I could look around using the mouse. The gameplay completely changed for me after that! These videos really show me how far I’ve gone in gaming and I didn’t realize it before. I started with online Barbie games and now I’m playing hollow knight and Zelda breath of the wild. It’s crazy how much I’ve evolved lol!
@Noctis ym Link in Ocarina of Time specifically has been mentioned as having been purposefully designed in a gender neutral manner so that anyone could see themselves in the character. Its about appealing to a wide demographic. However, that being said, theres no harm in players perceiving Link however theyd like regardless of which iteration of Link it is.
there's definitely a sadistic part of me that laughs at the struggle, but I think there's a much bigger part of me that empathizes so hard with the victories and that's why I love this so much
Its like revisiting that feeling of learning to play games when you're a kid. The frustrations are so much worse but the emotional high when you finally succeed is so much better!
I love how she casually just makes advanced moves in Celeste without being taught but misses the simplest grab... people without a set idea of how to play a game always have the most creative solutions :)
I'm pretty sure they're supers rather than hypers, and it's really not that weird to do those by accident by mashing, since all it requires is pressing dash and jump immediately after each other (while on the ground).
@@fudgefactor1639 woah cool! And there I was thinking the game would be finished after reaching the summit XD There's so much to it, it's so fascinating!
18:27 My favorite part _Kills pig_ _Goes underwater_ _Music gets muffled_ "So, you see those bubbles in the bottom right?" "Those?" "That are... depleting?" "Yeah?" "That's how much air you have." *realization*
Im really glad you posted this video actually, because she often sounds like she is really hating her time in the games in the other videos. But in these you can hear the excitement in some of the games like Shovel Knight that I think every gamer recognises. It was really fun to watch these.
PT Silent Hill 😈 *in all honesty though, if he started her out on horror, that'd be one thing. But it is time, time for the heebie jeebies to run rampant!
In some bizarre way, this has caused me to associate Minecraft with lord of the flies... Quite depressing, really. It also makes the Minecraft soundtrack sound like it was composed by a complete psycho
Ironically, while I'm an avid video game player I never accidentally found the advanced tech before it was taught. Meanwhile when my non-gamer sister tried it she found the wavedash and wall bounce by accident pretty quickly, even if she had no idea how to use or replicate it. I think it has something to do with more experienced players being less likely to "mess up" and do advanced tech.
@@mcawesome9705 I was wondering how she did it. i thought it was something that would only happen when you jump of one of they obstacles that move right after it stops moving
Please let Mrs. The Lady know that we really appreciate the suffering she went through for this series, these videos are fantastic! Give her a raise or something.
She's well on her way go being a gamer. She jumped off something to see if there's fall damage AND she rages like one. She'll get along just fine with some practice
The Lady You Live With is so wholesome. Love hearing the proud noises when she gets past something she struggled with. I'd love to have an update on her gaming experience now. Whether she's a full fledged gamer or still struggles with the language of games
14:20 I feel like out of everything in this video, this clip resonates with me the most. I once tried to show my mom Celeste because I thought the way it taught players was amazing, and because I thought the assist mode would be a useful fallback to help her get into the swing of things. Of course, all of that fell apart the moment I realized that she didn’t seem to grasp the act of jumping and moving at the same time, something I hadn’t even considered. Seeing her struggle with the controller as a barrier between her and the game, rather than an extension of it, was really enlightening. I recognized your wife as having the same problem immediately in this clip. And it’s really telling that when she finally did it, she didn’t even register that she’d done something like that. Or maybe more accurately, that something like that had *happened,* because I suspect that there’s a mental disconnect between herself and the characters that she plays, something alien to us who are used to being “in” the characters we play. So many seemingly obvious events in a game can go over a beginner’s head.
@@lucafacchinetti2522 down is reversed triangle, left and right are triangles turned sideways, but the most recognizable triangle shape is similar to upward arrow, and to be fair PlayStation's directional button seem to be in reversed shape (up arrow looks like a reversed triangle)
I decided to rewatch thus whole playlist, and one thing that's really nice about this video is hearing your wife celebrate her successes. Hearing a lot more of her input in this video is real nice. It might be interesting to hear her more of her thoughts on these experiences, like in the AC/casual video, in future videos of these experiments.
*Cheers to checkpoints!* 1:18 LoZ: Breath of the Wild 6:05 Animal Crossing: New Horizons 8:18 The Last of Us 8:48 Rocket League 9:38 Dark Souls 11:40 Portal 13:17 Celeste 15:35 Doom 17:44 Minecraft 20:46 Shovel Knight
@@GiantButterKnife ah, yeah, the part where only ladies can enter the gerudo village would make no sense and be frustrating if you thought Link was a girl
Every single one of the videos in this series makes me shed a tear. It's so wholesome that you and your wife play video games together and she actually enjoys quite a few of them. I'm more than happy for you, and all the attention you may have gotten out of it was well deserved! I hope me and my girlfriend will ever play video games like this. Anyways, lots of love from The Netherlands! Keep up the great stuff!
I wanted to do this with my husband, who is not a gamer at all (roles are kinda changed up here 😂) but after playing like maybe 30 minutes he asked me “And what’s fun about gaming?” He prefers just watching a movie, while I hate movies, I want to do “something” and a game brings so much more joy for me 😂
Maybe get him play some narrative focused games like The Wolf Among Us or What Remains of Edith Finch, something that he can find familiar as watching movies.
i love the attention to detail at 18:32 where the music dulls when she goes underwater - this whole video was SO good, and only enhanced by the editing. thank you to theSir Toasty, Razbuten, and the lady you live with!
You know what you like and are comfortable playing those games instead of taking risks playing games you may not like and actively avoiding games you do not like known through experience. It's a mixture of habit and comfort.
I think the most impressive thing here is her dedication. Whenever I try to get my dad to play games he usually gives up after a minute of not understanding the controls Edit: even with me trying to help him
The thing that stands out to me about non-gamers doing any unfamiliar thing is how rarely they actually try to figure out how it works. Like they don't attempt to actually keep track of what buttons or processes they do, and what they accomplish. So often they just learn one thing they can do and then just cease attempting to press other buttons. Like the start of Celeste it seemed she took a long time to realize there was a jump button in addition to the dash button.
The gaming for a non-gamer videos were so successful because seeing how she reacts sparks nostalgia in all of us from when we started playing said games.
just binged this series and not only did this have some rather heart-warming moments it really was something else to see what we, as gamers, can take for granted as knowledge we assume just automatically clicks for everyone. Thank you for this.
As a fellow wife of a lifelong gamer, this is extremely relatable. What's most difficult for me in games is camera control, walking in a straight line on narrow ledges, and remembering button combinations, so I don't play those kinds of games (FPS, open world RPG, all triple A title games, etc). The closest I got to trying was giving BOTW a shot. When I made it to the bridge part (as seen in this video), I couldn't get it to work, had my husband do it for me, and then shortly gave up on the game bc there were too many of those power thingies to remember. Over time, I've grown to appreciate video games and we've found a handful that we both can play together. I appreciate this series for shining a lot on us kinda-gamers and the patience you both shown in all these games. I also commend the great editing for all these hours of gaming! Needless to say, love this series. Take care and happy gaming!
Honestly they should have just put a wall of barricades to stop players wondering off the critical path to avoid these situations from happening, it's lazy game design. Instant death screen is far worse and less understandable of what caused it.
I love these sorta deleted scenes! Partners playing things together is always so nice to watch. It doesn't matter if either both people are experiencing smth for the first time or one person is getting to share a game they love, it's just so nice. Just watching the highlights of you guys laughing together and watching the Lady You Live With have a real first experience with games a lot of people love and have played to death and back is way more entertaining than any structured LP. I'm sure there was plenty of work to be done in editing it down, but I'm glad this video is here.
I would love to see her attempt to beat a game. I think it would be interesting to see if she spent a lot of time with a single game if by the end she would feel some sort of attachment to it or if she will just feel relief that it’s over.
I really appreciate the frustration your wife has put into this series. I appreciate it may be mostly for you, but I really like how this series shines a light on how gaming can be inaccessible to outsiders because of its internal language, or just it's toxic players, or 'not being good enough to have fun here'. As a complete aside, I kind of want to know if you and she have tried playing a table top roleplaying game - like DnD but a more story based collaborative game system seems like it might be something she'd have fun with. Monster of the Week or Blades in the Dark come to mind as options.
I'm 2 years late to this, but I must say... I 1000% appreciate your wife's use of "fuck". It's not just an expletive, but also a comma. Keep up the good work.
Hello! So I had originally hoped to put this out closer to the 1 year anniversary of Gaming For A Non-Gamer, but due to some timing stuff I obviously didn't lol. I know this is completely different from a typical Razbuten video, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. A more typical video essay will be out before the end of the year, and, like, ya know...I appreciate ya and all that good stuff. Peace.
Neat!
Could you maybe do one on the older Zelda games?
Will this be the last video for this series?
At least now she's swearing like a gamer.
Why the change in content RAZ!!!! :p
Her initially not understanding that Portal was about portals was incredible
Watch Game Idiot.
@@XXXXX8 Pretty sure that’s the name of a channel or something. Difference between “Watch the game, idiot.” and “Watch Game Idiot.”
ohmygodimonfire91 Calm down, who cares?
@@XXXXX8 ok strawgrasper
The best part is I recently showed a non gamer portal and the experience was nearly identical 😂
“I can’t cuss because I want my mom to be able to watch these”
Proceeds to cuss 10 times every sentence.
Yup that's why he edited it like that
Umm
Why comment this
that's just Raz, check his twitch, he is streaming now
@@q8599 I was showing my appreciation for his editing and recalling a funny moment that others may have missed.
I was SHOCKED when she asked "what are the hearts". My 30+ years of absorbing "video game shit" really has blinded me to the idea that there are people who just don't have that knowledge haha
If you played Simon's Quest, you know hearts aren't health, hearts are currency
Kinda surprised me to cuz other games she played had hearts for HP like shovel knight, zelda, and others. But to be fair a lot of them didn't use hearts and instead used healthbars like doom, shovel knight, dark souls, etc.
It shocked me that he points out the depleting bubbles and she doesn't understand that they are her air! MY 30+ years of absorbing video game shit has trained me to ALWAYS look for an oxygen meter. I hate drowning in video games!
there on the screen? my nonexistent child who is 6 months old can see where the hearts are.. WOMAN MOMENT
@@themisfitowl2595 you dont need to be gaming at all let alone for 30 years to see bubles while your in water to indacate a BREATHING MECHANIC.. WOMAN MOMENT
It's remarkable how similar Angry Non-Gamer Noises are to Angry Gamer Noises.
It's a great example of convergent evolution
@@Daniel_WR_Hart Nature sure is amazing
“You and I aren’t so different”
She is not a gamer but she’s got the language down
As far speaking goes she’s ready for a MW2 lobby
Lol
@@joeloliver2279 Rofl xD
My wife said this is her favorite comment so far. Good work.
@@razbuten wow LOL
Angry non-gamer noises are practically indistinguishable from angry gamer noises.
The sheer joy she got after understanding Portal.
That's great stuff
Wish i could have this Feeling again
That was the purest moment ever captured on video. I was SO proud of her!
Now you’re thinking with portals
Best part, 100% XD
Brought tears to my eyes ngl 😂
"what have you learned?"
"Shields don't work :c"
Best dialogue ever
And this is the reason people think shield only classes (classes who can only use the shield no other weapons) are lame
@@dkdieall6005 Well games don't usually have a shield class. Plus shields aren't seen as weapons even if you can use them as one.
Imagine seeing this blocky game with near infinite possibilities, and your first ever spawn is on a tiny island
Without tree the basic ressource of the game lol
@@SnowPiecer Tree? You mean Redstone.
@@transsylvanian9100 I'm pretty convinced that wood and iron are the most basic ressources in Minceraft
@@transsylvanian9100 what kind of Minecraft r u playing where red stone is a basic resource lmao
@@SnowPiecer your comment got liked 69 times.
I’m still in awe that she stayed with you after dark souls. Truly a keeper
I mean it was Dark Souls. It wasn't something like Dwarf Fortress.
Or worse... Much worse... Something Evil... Scary...
Picross 3D volume 2.
@@QuintaFeira12 NO!!!
Are you sure? He clearly said that they would have to divorce if she fast traveled and she clearly fast traveled.
@@QuintaFeira12
Well thats cause he actually wants to be with her.
Dwarf Fortress is when you are dumping her.
@@Chrono_Mitsurugi dwarf fortress isn’t okay
"What could possibly kill me in this world of nothing?"
Best last words
Can someone please time stamp this quote
@@i_fish6657 18:55
@@Abyssal_Seal thanks
An she says that as the sun sets.
It was a fantastic transition
That Portal moment is what every game designer dreams of happening.
I am sure Valve designed it specifically to work like that.
@@masononemine1702 Yeah, she kinda just didn't realize "Portal" is about portals.
why
I don't understand this comment. Could you explain, please?
i bet they didn't anticipate a player forgetting that they can control the mouse
It's actually very interesting to see her struggle. Understanding what seems to us like logical or simple as some learning curve we've mastered so long ago we don't even notice it can be a challenge to some of us.
- Coordination of control to the camera, movement and action
- Understanding what/where/how to do things all at once.
- Figuring out the failures/mistakes and learn from them after 1-2 try
- Focus > Stress in critical moments
- Puzzles
- Figuring out the point of the game (Portals and Minecraft)
- Lastly, identifying the playable character's sex
you know the quote about doing the same thing over and over again despite not working? that repeatedly going on in my head
"Did I ever tell you the definition.. of insanity?"
You know, this sounds to me exactly like learning how to drive a car. At first you have no idea how to coordinate changing gears, being aware of your surroundings, controlling the speed of the car, moving the wheel... But those are basics of basics. Once you grasp them, however, you don't think about that - you just jump into a new car and drive, your movements are automatic, you don't think about it anymore. The car becomes the extension of your body. Just like a game pad becomes the extension of your hands when playing games.
I'm a life-long gamer that learnt how to drive a few years ago and I feel like this is a pretty accurate comparison of how a non-gamer might feel when learning how to play games. My experiences of learning how to drive to the point of it becoming my second nature and "feeling" the car as if it was my own body (even in stressful split second decision making moments, as in my body moves the car our of danger in the same way it would duck to avoid a projectile) seem to look pretty similar, at least.
@@gygy82 yeah agreed, you just gotta learn to do small adjustments to see if it clicks and your brain has worked it out. once it clicks its smooth sailing. But if you dont adjust, the time where everything just clicks into place and make sense will be a long way off.
tbh Sometimes I have trouble with controlling the camera while moving and fighting
She asked a question that was basically, "is there fall damage?" and then walked off a really high place.
She curses like a sailor.
She hears Razbuten ask her not to do certain things, (fast travel, step on his flowers) and basically takes it as a challenge.
She nearly breaks a controller in frustration.
Maybe she just doesn't know it yet, but she's already one of us gamers. _One of us! One of us!_
One of us!
One if us!
One of us!
One of us!
One of us!
"Will Tom Nook ever stop?"
Many have asked this question. Few have received a satisfactory answer.
clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap
Even less lived to tell the tale
Tom Nook cannot be stopped.
I started clapping with him after a while
18:25🤓
The simultaneous act of moving your character and moving your camera at the same time is such a fluid action for me, that watching someone do those acts independently of each other is hilarious XD
My boyfriend is a huge pc player and I always laugh when he tries to play with my Ps pad, he looks so dumb it's hilarious 😂
The camera is the biggest obstacle to many new gamers
I actually remember when I first learned how to use the mouse to look around in Minecraft. My first experience playing it was in elementary school and I did the same thing as her. I only looked in one direction until my cousin told me I could look around using the mouse. The gameplay completely changed for me after that!
These videos really show me how far I’ve gone in gaming and I didn’t realize it before. I started with online Barbie games and now I’m playing hollow knight and Zelda breath of the wild. It’s crazy how much I’ve evolved lol!
And painful…
I remember letting my grampa play Super Mario Bros and he would scoot left and right along the couch as if that would influence Mario's jump distance.
Calls Link, "she."
I'm not even mad. He's beautiful.
I though link was supposed to be genderless/genderneutral?
@@fr3yabb Naw, you're thinking of Linkle.
@@MelchVagquest Naw, you're thinking of... not that
@Noctis ym Link in Ocarina of Time specifically has been mentioned as having been purposefully designed in a gender neutral manner so that anyone could see themselves in the character. Its about appealing to a wide demographic.
However, that being said, theres no harm in players perceiving Link however theyd like regardless of which iteration of Link it is.
@Noctis ym if you get that upset over the gender of a bunch of pixels you need to revaluate what's important
there's definitely a sadistic part of me that laughs at the struggle, but I think there's a much bigger part of me that empathizes so hard with the victories and that's why I love this so much
Its like revisiting that feeling of learning to play games when you're a kid. The frustrations are so much worse but the emotional high when you finally succeed is so much better!
There is a reason why people love watching funny fails.
Not because they make fun of the person, but because the act itself looks funny ^^
"The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner; now I am the master."
I love how she casually just makes advanced moves in Celeste without being taught but misses the simplest grab... people without a set idea of how to play a game always have the most creative solutions :)
I'm pretty sure they're supers rather than hypers, and it's really not that weird to do those by accident by mashing, since all it requires is pressing dash and jump immediately after each other (while on the ground).
Kon kon !!
@@fudgefactor1639 Im 19 hours in and have just reached the mountain top and I didnt even know u could do that XD
@@fudgefactor1639 There's a *C SIDE* ?🤯
@@fudgefactor1639 woah cool! And there I was thinking the game would be finished after reaching the summit XD There's so much to it, it's so fascinating!
In Portal she was LITERALLY chasing her own tail.
I did that 2 lol
18:27 My favorite part
_Kills pig_
_Goes underwater_
_Music gets muffled_
"So, you see those bubbles in the bottom right?"
"Those?"
"That are... depleting?"
"Yeah?"
"That's how much air you have."
*realization*
I SO want to see her reaction to someone speedrunning the games she struggles with. It must be like magic to her ! :D
Hell, it's like magic to me and I DO play a lot of games
YES! "My Nongamer Wife Reacts to Gaming Channels" would be a really fun video!
raz must see this
Upvoted and commented so Raz sees this idea :D
"Lady I live with reacts to speedruns." That would be a fun watch.
It was so precious when she finally started "thinking with portals".
When she realizes what the portals actually do it sounds like she’s in an intervention and releasing all of her feelings.
18:37
‘You see the bubbles on the bottom ...how they’re depleting? That’s how much air you have.”
*GASP* - rushes for surface XD
Im really glad you posted this video actually, because she often sounds like she is really hating her time in the games in the other videos.
But in these you can hear the excitement in some of the games like Shovel Knight that I think every gamer recognises.
It was really fun to watch these.
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4:31 the lady i don't live with anymore
LmfaoakskskkskakKKkkkkkkkshwjqbbabaahaa
So she camps in the tent in the front yard.
I need a friend who says "Girl, go get it" with as much passion that she does for fictional characters.
I don't know if she'd be comfortable with this, but I'd love to see horror for a non-gamer if she is okay with it.
Yesss
Get him to see this
That's actually a really good idea. Horror games are extremely different as compared to horror movies.
Yes please!
PT Silent Hill 😈
*in all honesty though, if he started her out on horror, that'd be one thing. But it is time, time for the heebie jeebies to run rampant!
1:21 "Can I fall off this and die?"
Me every openworld i play
its how you learn. experiment!
For science!
@@jamiewelch8056 I’m with the science team
I mean, its why I step on a fireplace in every game that has one.
"Can you kill npcs on this ga-OH FUCK!"
“I’d have to divorce you, if you fast travel..”
👁👄👁
*she fast travels*
dats why shes known as "the lady i live with" and not wife
That's why she camp outside of his house and trampled on his flowers
Game Over
I dunno how people can joke like that. Seems worse than death.
@@Walamonga1313 worse than death? Yeah you sure got your priorities straight lol
Please tell The Lady You Live With that her experiences are enlightening to amateur developers like myself!
Thank you both for your time!
12:45
The phrase "now you're thinking with portals" in action
Exactly
Lady in Minecraft: "I don't know where I am, I don't know what I'm doing here... all I know is that I must kill piggy."
lol
And at the end... It wasnt even the true objective of her aventure...
In some bizarre way, this has caused me to associate Minecraft with lord of the flies... Quite depressing, really. It also makes the Minecraft soundtrack sound like it was composed by a complete psycho
I like how she accidentally performs advanced maneuvers while playing Celeste.
I thought the exact same she just discovered wavedashing in the first level
@@jeroenkleine3934 I still can't wave dash >.
To be fair hypers and supers are pretty easy to do accidentally if you’re keyboard mashing. But yeah, that little hyper was cool :)
Ironically, while I'm an avid video game player I never accidentally found the advanced tech before it was taught. Meanwhile when my non-gamer sister tried it she found the wavedash and wall bounce by accident pretty quickly, even if she had no idea how to use or replicate it. I think it has something to do with more experienced players being less likely to "mess up" and do advanced tech.
14:45 she did a hyperdash, a move most gamers don't do until the end of the game xD
that's actually a super but yeah probably
@@mcawesome9705 I was wondering how she did it. i thought it was something that would only happen when you jump of one of they obstacles that move right after it stops moving
@@marcelocarlos4102 have you reached it yet
Please let Mrs. The Lady know that we really appreciate the suffering she went through for this series, these videos are fantastic! Give her a raise or something.
She's well on her way go being a gamer. She jumped off something to see if there's fall damage AND she rages like one. She'll get along just fine with some practice
2:19 lol thats some top tier editing. She says she can't swear so her mom can watch and then its clip after clip of her putting a sailor to shame.
The Lady You Live With is so wholesome. Love hearing the proud noises when she gets past something she struggled with. I'd love to have an update on her gaming experience now. Whether she's a full fledged gamer or still struggles with the language of games
14:20 I feel like out of everything in this video, this clip resonates with me the most. I once tried to show my mom Celeste because I thought the way it taught players was amazing, and because I thought the assist mode would be a useful fallback to help her get into the swing of things. Of course, all of that fell apart the moment I realized that she didn’t seem to grasp the act of jumping and moving at the same time, something I hadn’t even considered. Seeing her struggle with the controller as a barrier between her and the game, rather than an extension of it, was really enlightening.
I recognized your wife as having the same problem immediately in this clip. And it’s really telling that when she finally did it, she didn’t even register that she’d done something like that. Or maybe more accurately, that something like that had *happened,* because I suspect that there’s a mental disconnect between herself and the characters that she plays, something alien to us who are used to being “in” the characters we play. So many seemingly obvious events in a game can go over a beginner’s head.
Dad's first shenanigan with ps4 controller: Triangle moves forward.
😂
Nice
Up arrow is technically a triangle
@@Facerip what makes the other 3 arrows not triangles?
@@lucafacchinetti2522 down is reversed triangle, left and right are triangles turned sideways, but the most recognizable triangle shape is similar to upward arrow, and to be fair PlayStation's directional button seem to be in reversed shape (up arrow looks like a reversed triangle)
I’m happy she at least enjoyed and came back to Animal Crossing once the experiment was done. We got a new gamer on our hands!
She still strugles to understand the concept of moving her body with the camara, so...
Lets just say she gots a LOOOOOOONG way to go trought
@@Yxazel it's been a year though. I was pretty comfortable with controllers and the camera after a year
@@Ryan-ee5lp Maybe
@@Yxazel
we all start somewhere.
@@Chrono_Mitsurugi yep
I decided to rewatch thus whole playlist, and one thing that's really nice about this video is hearing your wife celebrate her successes. Hearing a lot more of her input in this video is real nice. It might be interesting to hear her more of her thoughts on these experiences, like in the AC/casual video, in future videos of these experiments.
The transition from sighing at getting eaten by a zombie to screaming in terror at trying to track the ball in rocket league is fantastic.
"I'm not going to swear this time..." *SWEARING INTENSIVIES*
😂😂
INTENSI *_f_* IES
I think that was the joke
It's so cute how much she makes you laugh and vice versa
Lady you live with: **gets something right in Celeste**
**turns into Santa Claus**
Not gonna lie the whole:
"I'm gonna have to divorce you if you fast travel."
That in my mind was hilarious.
11:29 Idk man, those are clearly gamer noises
yep
that's literally me
agreee
I can feel she loved you very much especially when she fast travelled in front of your eyes lol
*Cheers to checkpoints!*
1:18 LoZ: Breath of the Wild
6:05 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
8:18 The Last of Us
8:48 Rocket League
9:38 Dark Souls
11:40 Portal
13:17 Celeste
15:35 Doom
17:44 Minecraft
20:46 Shovel Knight
...did your wife ever figure out link is a guy?😂
*guys I was just laughing at the funny lady why are you all so hostile*
I watched the longer video on Patreon, I'm pretty sure it was a joke
Does it matter in any meaningful way?
@@TZerot0 i mean yeah its canon so it's important
@@streax8885 but does it matter? Does anything meaningfully change if the player never realizes Link is supposed to be a boy?
@@GiantButterKnife ah, yeah, the part where only ladies can enter the gerudo village would make no sense and be frustrating if you thought Link was a girl
18:39 - This is a perfect example of staying calm and giving clear instructions in an emergency situation.
11:28 I think she deserves her gamer card, she's a natural since day one
Every single one of the videos in this series makes me shed a tear. It's so wholesome that you and your wife play video games together and she actually enjoys quite a few of them. I'm more than happy for you, and all the attention you may have gotten out of it was well deserved! I hope me and my girlfriend will ever play video games like this. Anyways, lots of love from The Netherlands! Keep up the great stuff!
I love how she casually managed to pull off a hyperdash in celeste lol
shout out to the lady you live with's mom probably watching her definitely-not-swear right now !
I wanted to do this with my husband, who is not a gamer at all (roles are kinda changed up here 😂) but after playing like maybe 30 minutes he asked me “And what’s fun about gaming?”
He prefers just watching a movie, while I hate movies, I want to do “something” and a game brings so much more joy for me 😂
Maybe get him play some narrative focused games like The Wolf Among Us or What Remains of Edith Finch, something that he can find familiar as watching movies.
i love the attention to detail at 18:32 where the music dulls when she goes underwater - this whole video was SO good, and only enhanced by the editing. thank you to theSir Toasty, Razbuten, and the lady you live with!
The portal lightbulb moment is pure gold
At this point, I think the lady you live with has played a more diverse selection of games than I have. Am I a Non Gamer?
It's more about the time and comprehension of games, if you watch gameplays of whatever you can already think of yourself as a gamer
You don’t really need a diverse selection of games to be a gamer there are some people who only like shooter games and so on
You know what you like and are comfortable playing those games instead of taking risks playing games you may not like and actively avoiding games you do not like known through experience. It's a mixture of habit and comfort.
@@cattysplat why spend sixty dollars on games you probably won’t like when you can get a game you probably do
game jornalists play plenty of games they dont care about and rush to finish just to write a wrong article, that doesnt make them gamers either
She has an lot of patience and dedication to keep playing some of those games after so many attempts. I have to respect that.
18:32 - I love that little touch of muffling the music when she dropped underwater.
I think the most impressive thing here is her dedication. Whenever I try to get my dad to play games he usually gives up after a minute of not understanding the controls
Edit: even with me trying to help him
I wouldn't like this to not break the fun number
No bcs same. It’s rlly sad bcs I’ll help all that I can but they simply aren’t willing to get past the learning curve
sorry, the first clip you showed was the lady you live with checking if there was fall damage.
are you sure she's not a gamer?
There's only one way to find out.
Put her in a first person game and see if she checks if she can see her feet.
Man her finally understanding portals is one of the BEST. FEELINGS. EVER
I remember when I first had this a-ha moment and it absolutely blew me away
"Ahahahahah! Gottem!"
"......"
"Don't put that part in."
Now that she has a highlight montage on youtube, we can't really say she's a non gamer now. Rip series, hope to see more lol
The fact her camara was looking to the sky the hole time whilst playing Zelda made me connect mentally to this person I’ve never met before.
Got my dad to try out cod and he did this like every 5 minutes it's so funny how intense he gets when he sees an enemy
"I can't swear in this one "... Abruptly swears like a sailor. 😂
I think I’d like to officially be part of the Lady You Live With fan club
My brain is just instinctively thinking of the action to do, and then the opposite thing happens on screen...
Yep!
This video is pure torture! :-)
Next video of "Baking for a non-baker" when?
Its Christmas cookie season!
I second this. The content we all need in these trying times.
I did that the other day, and sprayed flower everywhere
Instructions unclear: recreated the Krabby Patty
“I don’t want to swear so my mom can watch these”
*Proceeds to swear several times in a row*
The thing that stands out to me about non-gamers doing any unfamiliar thing is how rarely they actually try to figure out how it works. Like they don't attempt to actually keep track of what buttons or processes they do, and what they accomplish. So often they just learn one thing they can do and then just cease attempting to press other buttons. Like the start of Celeste it seemed she took a long time to realize there was a jump button in addition to the dash button.
24:02 this is what I image Santa Claus and his Wife sound like
Best comment in this entire comment section
The gaming for a non-gamer videos were so successful because seeing how she reacts sparks nostalgia in all of us from when we started playing said games.
just binged this series and not only did this have some rather heart-warming moments it really was something else to see what we, as gamers, can take for granted as knowledge we assume just automatically clicks for everyone. Thank you for this.
18:07
Her: wants to know the point of Minecraft
Razbuten: **laughs maniacally**
“I’m gonna break this controller” spoken like a true gamer.
"WHY ISN'T SHE CLIMBING??"
I died xD
10:33 "Hello!" was the funniest part of the vid
As a fellow wife of a lifelong gamer, this is extremely relatable.
What's most difficult for me in games is camera control, walking in a straight line on narrow ledges, and remembering button combinations, so I don't play those kinds of games (FPS, open world RPG, all triple A title games, etc). The closest I got to trying was giving BOTW a shot. When I made it to the bridge part (as seen in this video), I couldn't get it to work, had my husband do it for me, and then shortly gave up on the game bc there were too many of those power thingies to remember.
Over time, I've grown to appreciate video games and we've found a handful that we both can play together. I appreciate this series for shining a lot on us kinda-gamers and the patience you both shown in all these games. I also commend the great editing for all these hours of gaming! Needless to say, love this series. Take care and happy gaming!
When she called out Naught dog's games for feeling like a movie, I felt that. And I liked it.
Honestly they should have just put a wall of barricades to stop players wondering off the critical path to avoid these situations from happening, it's lazy game design. Instant death screen is far worse and less understandable of what caused it.
18:33 that little edit made me laugh way too hard. Absolutely incredible.
This whole "doomcraft" editing is gold. :D
The music cutting to a muffled version when she goes underwater was that best gag I have seen in a long time.
This gives me so much joy. It it beautiful to watch her learn and celebrate small achievements. It is so heart warming
This was as great series, you should do more "experiements" in the future :)
Hehe with the woman he lives with? Some experiments? Niiice
FACT
@@tiwaz579 I don't think they meant it i that way lol
This is so wholesome.
BUT WE'RE MAWWIED
I love these sorta deleted scenes! Partners playing things together is always so nice to watch. It doesn't matter if either both people are experiencing smth for the first time or one person is getting to share a game they love, it's just so nice. Just watching the highlights of you guys laughing together and watching the Lady You Live With have a real first experience with games a lot of people love and have played to death and back is way more entertaining than any structured LP.
I'm sure there was plenty of work to be done in editing it down, but I'm glad this video is here.
"What could possibly kill me in this world of nothing"
famous last words
I would love to see her attempt to beat a game. I think it would be interesting to see if she spent a lot of time with a single game if by the end she would feel some sort of attachment to it or if she will just feel relief that it’s over.
Well she "beat" animal crossing sorta I'd assume they have a three star island
I didn’t ask for this but I’ll take it just fine.
Me when my girlfriend comes into the room with a strap-on.
14:29 she really just did a hyperdash huh
I really appreciate the frustration your wife has put into this series. I appreciate it may be mostly for you, but I really like how this series shines a light on how gaming can be inaccessible to outsiders because of its internal language, or just it's toxic players, or 'not being good enough to have fun here'. As a complete aside, I kind of want to know if you and she have tried playing a table top roleplaying game - like DnD but a more story based collaborative game system seems like it might be something she'd have fun with. Monster of the Week or Blades in the Dark come to mind as options.
I love your chemistry and her gaming personality and the moments she suddenly gets it. Makes me so happy!
Who knew that Breath of the Wild is secretly a horror game...
Everyone did that piano brings dread
I'm 2 years late to this, but I must say... I 1000% appreciate your wife's use of "fuck". It's not just an expletive, but also a comma.
Keep up the good work.
I'm loving this series so much. She definitely rages like a true gamer xD
Can't wait for the next episode if you have one planned