Want to know more about the Two Hearts Gamers? Get to know Diana and Ian better through their answers to the gaming questions in this post.
When we met, Diana’s favorite game was…
Space Invaders.
and Ian’s favorite was…
Battlefield 3.
Ian’s favorite childhood games were…
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the Pokemon Trading Card Game.
and Diana’s favorites were…
Super Mario Bros 3, Worms Armageddon, Super Mario 64, and Sim Tower and Farm.
We’ve been gaming together for…
almost 6 years — as long as we’ve been together.
The first game we played together was…
probably Limbo, a noir side-scroller puzzle adventure game featuring a little boy stuck in Limbo. This was after Ian unsuccessfully tried to get Diana to play Mass Effect 2 and Portal, and scared her half to death making her play Rage.
Ian loves to play…
DOTA, Insurgency, and Codenames,
but he’s terrible at…
Apples to Apples and beating Diana at Dr. Mario.
Diana loves to play…
Dr. Mario, DOTA, and Ticket to Ride,
but she’s terrible at…
first-person shooter video games.
Our most recent awesome game discovery was…
Ultimate Chicken Horse.
Ian is best at…
Codenames, Keep Talking and No One Explodes, and playing support heroes in DOTA.
Diana is best at…
Dr. Mario, Codenames, and playing carry heroes in DOTA.
The most frustrating games we’ve ever played are…
Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (Diana) and Nintendo’s classic Super Mario games (Ian).
and we hate some games, like…
The Resistance. Diana is highly skeptical of any first-person shooter game.
Our favorite board game to play as a couple is…
Galaxy Trucker.
Our favorite video game to play together is…
DOTA.
Our favorite games to play with friends are…
Codenames, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Keep Talking and No One Explodes, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
Many people don’t know that we…
- included references to DOTA in our wedding vows
- rented a car to drive an hour away to purchase the last available Nintendo NES Classic Mini in Chicago
- set up our entire living room around playing games