Wow! How many couples are in this game?
By
Acetylene_Torch,
Posted on: 2005-11-07 16:23 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
My wife and I play CoH/CoV together, have for quite some time. The origins of Hellguard (me) and Lirit LeFey (her) are tied together, and when we're both on we're always teamed.
Coolest thing in the world!
My husband and I have been gaming together for several years. It started with me watching him play and then I secretly got my own game and began playing. First time he realized ingame the person he was playing with was me was pretty funny. 
Since then we've been going strong through several different games.
Now we play COV together every night. We don't always team together but it's still nice to have someone in the same room playing the same game you are to talk to about it.
Couples who game together, stay together. See, he can't get mad at me for being on my computer too long and vise versa. Works great! 
My live in bf of 4 and a half years and I often play together.
We usually end up teaming together as its always nice to at least have one person on the team that knows what they are doing...or that you can beat into doing it right. =p
Last week we joined a pvp team in warburg with another couple and the gf sent me a /tell saying how cute it was that my bf was taunting people off my empath. 
I play with my boyfriend.
Although we share an account so we can't team with each other. 
My fiance and I both play COH and COV but we generally do not play together, or with the same people. We have played more in COV than we do in COH though.
My wife and I play together. We have seperate accounts.
And we actully play with another couple quite frequently.
My longtime live-with GF doesn't play and therefore I can't obsesses as much as I would like to. She plays Nancy Drew games, that's about it.
But at lease she doesn't hate CoH/CoV like she hates WoW because there is killing of animals in that one.
I was introduced to CoH by two of my dear online friends from mIRC text rp, who happen to be a rl couple They knew I was an old-skewl comics fan and -correctly!- believed I would love CoH (which shows how well they know me, for the only games that had held my interest before were Final Fantasy 8 and Daggerfall 
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I in turn infecte- er, introduced my husband to CoH, and he, in turn, passed the addicti- er, diversion on to his friends, who ditched NWN, SFB and lesser games for Paragon and the Rogue Isles.
I do not team with my husband...I think that might be an argument waiting to happen
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My husband and I met online (back in the good ol' days of Compuserve) and have been playing together ever since. First it was Ultima Online, then we'd play BG2 together (two heads are better than one?), then SWG, then CoH, Guild Wars and now CoV.
He spends more time gaming than I do, but it sure saves typing time in the middle of a nasty battle to be able to just turn your head and say "Hey, I'm about to die here". *lol*
We don't usually plan out our characters to match or anything, but we do missions together and are in the same SG.
Of course needing *two* high-end computers that can run fancy 3-D graphics is kind of expensive... 
My fiance, Aysel (Game name), and I have been playing this game since a couple of weeks after Live. We both play on the Jestice Server and have had quite a bit of fun.
We're even talking about getting "married" ingame before the actual event. You know, nothing fancy, just some friends, SG mates and Devs (if they accept the invite) in some secluded corner of the Test Server.
My wife played for 2 weeks with me during the free give away. She enjoys playing online with me, but does not want to interact with anyone. As long as she does not have to talk to anyone, she is ok. She played a fire tank, so I played an invuln so I could take the beating and keep her alive easier.
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There might even be a few red names who play CoV/CoH with thier significant others...my husband and I play all the time!
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My wife & I both play as well. Most of the time we are playing together in a duo but sometimes we play solo as well.
Virtue: multiple characters.
CoH/V: Woot! Maybe Fun is to be had once again.
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If it reduces you, it's a nerf.
If it buffs the mobs, it's challenge.
They are not the same.
My BF started the game about a month before I did...I had my first character hit 50 about 3 days before his first 50.
We don't usually roll up toons to play together - we do team up occasionally, but we "get into" things a bit differently. I like trying to make powerful builds, and get the "just right" on paper before I ever enter the creation screens - while he goes more for concept and some level of roleplay.
We have our PCs set up in the same room and talk a lot as we play, even if we aren't teaming, it took a bit to get me interested initially, but now I play a lot more than he does. ED almost drove him out, but CoV kinda renewed his interest in the game.
I wasn't into online gaming previously because so many appeared to be more roleplaying than I was comfy with. I'm just not that good at trying to make up backstories and then stay in character. Just not my thing *shrug*. CoH / CoV seem to be roleplaying-lite...it seems a lot more optional, allowing me to pour more energy into getting my build right, getting my look right, etc. I was amazed at the ratio of female players, even with a margin of error for males who say they are female IRL, and vice versa.
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My SO has 2 characters on my account which she plays, but she actually has more fun reading the backstories on my characters and making up stuff around them. A lot of it ends up in their bios after she's done!
My wife and I are a near-perpetual teal
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Chase Arcanum & Cinder Flame
Targe & Ka'rayi
and about a dozen other alt couples.
You rarely see one without another.
My wife and I have been playing since CoH beta too!
:-D
Me and my b/f
My ever lovely girl just got CoH last week, so, ya know, groovy on that.
First toon was an Ill/Storm troller named "Flashenatrix"
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I got a girlfriend that plays an online RPG, but not this one (or these two)... SO we sit and play different games together
My Gf and I play..She likes her kitty on CoV and all but gave up CoH, while I still stay in the daily grind of Paragon City.
DANG! So lucky!!
If I'm playing too long, I get the look...
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My Gf and I play..She likes her kitty on CoV and all but gave up CoH, while I still stay in the daily grind of Paragon City.
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So do I my friend, so do I. Especially at dinner time.
I hate to say it but i'm in this group too.. infact.. my wife and I have to people we team with almost nightly that are bf and gf... birds of a feather and all I guess
My bf and I met in game, when we were living over 2,000 miles apart. We were friends for quite some time, in game and gradually progressing to Yahoo messenger, emails, and, as it became more than friendship, phone calls. We're living together now, which is great, although a challenge since I'm still in the progress of trying to immigrate (I'm from the US; he's Canadian...I know; you wouldn't think it would be that difficult, but strangely it is, lol).
The time we spend together gaming is awesome. We team together for at least a bit of time almost every day, and usually make new characters together, although they are only sometimes related in origin and backstory (I'm more into the character concept thing). It's nice to have someone who can anticipate your playstyle and not have to second guess most of the time, and yeah, being able to say over my shoulder, "Boss in the next group" is handy.
I too got my beta invite for CoV long before the bf did, and it caused much grumbling in our household as well, lol. We actually had a discussion going on this subject for quite a while over on the beta boards, wondering about the gender mix of players and toons, how many female players there are and the in-game/out-of-game relationships. If I were a sociology student, it's something I'd definitely do a study on; I think it's interesting.
Cheers and/or Curses,
Rae
[Edit: Oh yeah, and I usuallly get recruited to make his costumes, too. ]
I play often with my husband. My sister also plays which is great because she lives on the opposite coast. We have enough friends playing that we create themed supergroups. Closest relations in game for my husband and I are a brother and sister. Of course, that whole supergroup is related somehow (The Wright Family, Pinnacle).