Do good female gamers actually exsist?
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lol i play with a few couples online, and everytime its me and the guy on halo on the same team he likes to run off to let his GF kill him. . and sometimes us if we are in the warthog. . what upsets me is that she's already good enough to kill us both without help. . . soooo long story short yes they do exist but they are like the sasquatch. . . reported to be seen and maybe even a few photo's exist. . . but the photos are fuzzy and most of the people reporting to have seen them are drunk rednecks or people on shrooms. . . lol
My GF is very, very, very good playing any Zelda game (is actually kinda obsessed by 'em...) Mario game, is quite handy at sidescrollers and can kick anyone's ass singing in Rock Band (she's an opera singer...)
She has been playing for most of her life, so, answering the question, yeah, there are
She has been playing for most of her life, so, answering the question, yeah, there are
later he admitted he just goggled it and a mass effect 1,2,& 3 came up...
I like to think that the massive growths on the front of my chest don't impede me at all from kicking a guy's ass at Mario Kart, or in a Pokemon battle.
My ex-wife was an excellent WoW, Starcraft, and TF2 player. But get her playing ANYTHING else (except maybe Mario Kart) and she was clueless. She had absolutely no range. If she couldn't look it up online (because the three games previously mentioned rely heavily on the GameFAQs effect---they can be learned to be played "properly"), she was clueless.
We played Rise of Nations. I went 43-0 against her before she quit playing with me.
I showed her Rome: Total War. She didn't have a fucking clue how to balance the turn-based and real-time parts of the game. I might as well have been trying to show my mom.
I showed her Patrician 3 and Port Royale 2 and the simplest parts of trading-game engines boggled her mind.
Then I realized "wait a minute, this girl...she's really not that bright, she's just very limited and appears smart because she can talk like an expert about a very small range of subjects that she sticks to."
No prizes for guessing why she's my ex-wife.
We played Rise of Nations. I went 43-0 against her before she quit playing with me.
I showed her Rome: Total War. She didn't have a fucking clue how to balance the turn-based and real-time parts of the game. I might as well have been trying to show my mom.
I showed her Patrician 3 and Port Royale 2 and the simplest parts of trading-game engines boggled her mind.
Then I realized "wait a minute, this girl...she's really not that bright, she's just very limited and appears smart because she can talk like an expert about a very small range of subjects that she sticks to."
No prizes for guessing why she's my ex-wife.
My sister is a girl (duh) and the owns more games than me, plays more games than me and over all is a better gamer than half the people i know including me. Except MW2, thats the only game i can beat her in and only because she doesn't own the game.
Whether there are good girl gamers is irrelevant. What's important is that if you are good and you are a girl, that you don't say "Ha! You just got beat by a girl!" when you win.
I'm a chick and I have to say it really gets under my skin when other women say this. It's not cool and it's definitely not "girl power", it's just feeding into the stereotype that women are inherently bad at games and therefore it should be emasculating to be beaten by one. You aren't overcoming any disability by winning a game just because you have a vagina.
If you're a girl and you win a game, feel free to talk trash, but out of respect for yourself and your sex, don't bring gender into it. Win as a person who is good at games, not as a "girl gamer".
Also as a side note, guys, when you see a girl online, try to remember that that girl does not represent all of womankind. Don't say "Wow, girls are great at games!" or "Chicks are f*ckin terrible at games" based on whether she wins or loses. She's one person and all she represents is her own individual level of skill. You have only to look at the range of skill in men to understand how ability varies from person to person.
I'm a chick and I have to say it really gets under my skin when other women say this. It's not cool and it's definitely not "girl power", it's just feeding into the stereotype that women are inherently bad at games and therefore it should be emasculating to be beaten by one. You aren't overcoming any disability by winning a game just because you have a vagina.
If you're a girl and you win a game, feel free to talk trash, but out of respect for yourself and your sex, don't bring gender into it. Win as a person who is good at games, not as a "girl gamer".
Also as a side note, guys, when you see a girl online, try to remember that that girl does not represent all of womankind. Don't say "Wow, girls are great at games!" or "Chicks are f*ckin terrible at games" based on whether she wins or loses. She's one person and all she represents is her own individual level of skill. You have only to look at the range of skill in men to understand how ability varies from person to person.
I believe they exist, just that they are catching up in numbers. I do think the 'I know a girl gamer who beats guys at ' has become rather cliche' (sp?) at this point. I want a 'She loves the Splinter Cell series and goes nuts for the Prince of Persia games.' just to add some variety.
I also play WoW in a guild which is like 5 or 6 couples, so it's pretty evenly matched on men to women. I'm not sure that hitting the same 5 or 6 keys over and over again rates as great gaming skills though.
True story though, the coolest female gamer i've ever seen, was this 70 year old woman at an arcade (This was like a decade ago, I'm not sure I could find an arcade anymore) playing this Harley Davidson motorcycle game with these big handle bars you steered with and everything. She played through like 3 levels flawlessly with like 2 quarters or something. It cracked me up. I also suspect she may have been a Hell's Angel.
I also play WoW in a guild which is like 5 or 6 couples, so it's pretty evenly matched on men to women. I'm not sure that hitting the same 5 or 6 keys over and over again rates as great gaming skills though.
True story though, the coolest female gamer i've ever seen, was this 70 year old woman at an arcade (This was like a decade ago, I'm not sure I could find an arcade anymore) playing this Harley Davidson motorcycle game with these big handle bars you steered with and everything. She played through like 3 levels flawlessly with like 2 quarters or something. It cracked me up. I also suspect she may have been a Hell's Angel.
Orgasms from the 15 coincidental meeting i have had with you.....IN THIS HOUR.FargoDog said:
AND I THINK I HAVE DISCOVERED WHY, it seems that everytime ithink or talk about Elfen Lied it opens a tiny wormhole just big enough for the fabric of space to shift and makeing us meet because of the meeting before hand
hear is a mathmatical format of my hypothisis
2x/5y + 57.8% - 15 meetings * the number of words in each message = MINDFUCK
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I hate that stereotype. People assume I suck at video games because I'm a girl or that I don't know what I'm talking about when I start nerding it up about something. Like I lose all my nerd cred because I have boobs or something.
And heaven forbid I say I don't play Halo or COD. Suddenly I'm a failure at gaming. It's just not my kind of game. But I like fighting games and other games that seem to have more "manly" followers. But the moment I start talking about them, some people just tune me out like I don't know a thing about it.
There are still some people that put me and other girl gamers on pedestals like we should be worshiped as goddesses for our spectacular rareness, but that's stupid too. Just treat me like any normal other nerdy gamer that takes things up to the next level.
And heaven forbid I say I don't play Halo or COD. Suddenly I'm a failure at gaming. It's just not my kind of game. But I like fighting games and other games that seem to have more "manly" followers. But the moment I start talking about them, some people just tune me out like I don't know a thing about it.
There are still some people that put me and other girl gamers on pedestals like we should be worshiped as goddesses for our spectacular rareness, but that's stupid too. Just treat me like any normal other nerdy gamer that takes things up to the next level.
My then-girlfriend was one of the giggling "give-it-a-try-to-make-bf-happy" types, albeit a bit of a nerd already. Imagine my surprise when I booted up L4D, and she proceeded to, in the span of a single act, master first-person movement, learn all the controls forwards and backwards, and become a fairly decent marksman. She wasn't quite on my level, but my play experience can be measured in years, while hers was measured in HOURS. (And for those who think first-person games are simple, go check out Shamus Young's blog posts on the subject. That man is a better writer than I could ever hope to be.) Also, my younger sister just made it through her first full round of Hunter in Splinter Cell: Conviction, and fired the game-ending shot.
I'm getting a sexist vibe (not really)
You probably don't remember playing with them, because some 12 year-old was calling you a kill-stealing, fag noob...
You probably don't remember playing with them, because some 12 year-old was calling you a kill-stealing, fag noob...
