Do you think girls are good gamers?

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

The best gamers are girls, bar none. I remember one gaming group ... both I and her we're Bards (She, Bard-Druid-Sublime Chord-Fochlucan Lyricist, me Bard-Sublime Chord-Heartwarder).

We just clicked ... in combat we were unstoppable, and 90% of roleplay we just dominated because of our diversive skillsets.

I can say this definitively that most girls in gaming groups tend to add more to the game than the average male counterpart, and tend to maximise party cohesion and strategy, inevitably maximising results and reducing risk.

Whereas guys tend to look at their characters as if they existed in a vacuum and fail to completely realise the nature of co-operative conduct and party results.

As for girls in shooters/online/ etc ... Well ... you're as quick as any guy with a mouse and keybpard so I'd probably say 'yeah? Girls are just as good" ...

But more often than not in rpgs (As in tabletop) girls tend to outshine guys .... which is sad that their populations in such games is lesser rather than greater so that more men could see how (anything non-4e D&D) tabletop rpgs are meant to be played.

 

[Cat Cloud]

I don't worry about being a girl gamer. People take me seriously when I like playing The World Ends With You on very hard or start talking about ICO or Shadow of the Collosas. Of course, I generally only play single player games, so I don't have many problems.

 

[Kargathia]

This rather squarely belongs in the "don't know, don't care" part I'd say. I'm not about to do gender checks on people I end up in a server with.

And to the OP: what's the point really? Regardless of who or what you are, there'll always be some online twat who dislikes some special part of you, be that your gender, or your predilection for pasta bolognese.

You can't fix stupid.

 

[akibawall95]

Being male or female has absolutely no effect what so ever on your ability to play a video game. He was just being an immature little twat, it happens alot online.

I agree with what he said some girls a good at games and while some guys are bad at games vice versa there is no difference.

 

[Choppaduel]

Sure why not. However, I've only met, in person, 3 people whom I would call "good gamers" and none of them are women.

 

[Subwayeatn]

when playing Bad Company 2, my friend always has this girl in our squad with a mic. She's good and her voice is a breath of fresh air in contrast to the countless deep voiced guys playing.

Also my mom is the best female gamer i've ever seen. I haven't seen her play in a few years, but when i was younger she kicked my ass at Mario Party 2. But more recently she tried the SP for Modern Warfare 2 and did pretty good. If she played games more often she would probably favor the ones with a good story, as she was really interested when i explained the plots of Mafia 1 and Portal.

 

[Robert2812]

As America has taught us, the majority of gamers are whiny 8 year olds with no skill or quarms about swearing and screaming about their amazingly cruel lag.

Gender doesnt matter when it comes to gaming or anything else really, if you enjoy a game and have at least minor skill i would enjoy playing a game with you.

 

[Jnat]

I find many of them annoying, as they are all like "OHHH, I'M A GIRL GAMER, GIVE ME ATTENTION", but (thankfully)not all.
Yes
No

 

[Jamous]

Being a girl myself I'd like to be classed as a decent gamer. I don't play COD, or mass effect or any of those kinds of games. I'm more of an RPG based player (if any of you have read my posts before you could gather I hate online play)

But do you consider girls good gamers?
Do you think they are as good as boys?
Do you mind facing a girl online?

I was online once and I was playing L4D some boy was playing with me and as soon as he saw I was a girl he left the party sent me a message saying "I don't want to play with you cause you're a girl"
In chat speak mind.

Judged on my sex, yet again.

Are you fucking kidding me? "I don't want to play with you because you're a girl"? Christ we have some culling to do.
OT: Yes, I think girls can be good gamers, yes; they can be as good as boys, sometimes better. No I do not mind facing girls online.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Well, then you're lucky? I guess? I don't know. It doesn't really matter to me to be completely honest. I'm just saying that there has yet to be an actual "good" gamer girl in my presence.

Mr. Pandah, I agree that it doesn't matter. I was quoting you to show the flip side to the OP, I didn't mean to be that guy that's, "well, you're wrong. Girls are fucking awesome, etc.." I think I'm in the minority with the friends (that are female) that I have now, though. Mainly because the girls I grew up with, weren't that into video games (except my sisters, and only with Nintendo). However, the vast majority of girls that say they're good, aren't actually. It's the mentality of anything you can do, I can do better (even if it's a lie).

Then you're luckier than most haha I and many others dont have the luxury of gaming with women...and if we do, they usually arent very good. =X

 

[Kyman102]

Sorry, couldn't quite hear you over the sound of my girlfriend's Pokemon team chewing mine apart like a pack of starving hyenas. Good GOD that woman's got skill when it comes to that game.

*~* What a WOMAN...

 

[fundayz]

Most girls are downright terrible at games. However, this is obviously because they don`t play them very often; there`s nothing about being a girl that somehow stops you from using your fingers as well as a man.

 

[lumenadducere]

Who on Earth would be so ignorant as to make a blanket statement saying "all girls are bad gamers" and actually believe it? It's all a matter of the individual rather than anything like sex or ethnicity.

 

[glyphseeker]

Gender doesn't matter when playing games. Anyone can pick-up a game and learn to play. Now different people are good at somethings and the same person could be better at games they don't like. Take me for instance, I'm awesome at racing but i love FPS/horror cause i like scaring myself. I'm getting off-topic, Gender doesn't matter as far as Playing-skill but a person that doesn't like playing said game he/she will not preform well as they are not interested enough to learn the game.

(Thank You Extra Credits for letting me think)

 

[e2density]

Fun to play with, but no. They aren't good.
I can only name 2 girls in the competitive TF2 scene right now. One is semi decent (definitely not the majority) and the other scored on an Invite team because the sad little nerds wanted to talk to a girl regardless of how bad she was.

 

[Kurokami]

Being a girl myself I'd like to be classed as a decent gamer. I don't play COD, or mass effect or any of those kinds of games. I'm more of an RPG based player (if any of you have read my posts before you could gather I hate online play)

But do you consider girls good gamers?
Do you think they are as good as boys?
Do you mind facing a girl online?

I was online once and I was playing L4D some boy was playing with me and as soon as he saw I was a girl he left the party sent me a message saying "I don't want to play with you cause you're a girl"
In chat speak mind.

Judged on my sex, yet again.

This post would normally be considered against discussion, but in this case I think it's right on the money and relevant. I don't care. I can't see you, much less what makes you a boy or a girl and as far as I know there are plenty of girl gamers there. I doubt there's something that would genetically make girls worse gamers, and I doubt that if there is, that there wouldn't be an exception to that rule. Point is oh well.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Please don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way. I know plenty of girl gamers, and enjoy their company.

I have personally never met a female gamer who was what I would consider "good". I've met lots that were mediocre, and even more that were horrible. That doesn't mean that girls can't be "good", I just have never personally met one who was even remotely close to my level.

Especially MMOs. My WoW guild has had a lot of female applicants over the past 6 years, and honestly we have probably had less than 5 out of 50+ that were even close to good enough to play with us. Even those 5 I wouldn't consider "good", just adequate.

 

[Ian Caronia]

That's silly. Of course. Girls and women are human beings. As long as you aren't mentally or physically challenged you can be a great gamer. lol Even then I have a cousin who kicks my ass in tetris despite being retarded so there you go. Human = Ability to be the best at whatever

He always calls me Retardicus too, like I'm some mentally challenged Ceasur just because the DAMN PURPLE BLOCK WON'T FIT INTO- *clears throat*
Nevermind.

Also: Fat, Ugly, or Slutty? It's a website that catalogues all the gamers and IMers who are racist, sexist, and did I say sexist? It includes what they said too so you can know who to avoid and who to laugh at for being the dumbass who sent you the XBL message "Wen i bet u i want ur body"

 

[willsham45]

I know girls who are good at gaming, likewise I know boys who are terrible gamers.

In general there are more boy gamers then girl and some people assume things because they don't know good girl gamers.

 

[Dabox1]

sex has no bearing on how good you are at games....i tell myself this to be fair but i've yet to meet a girl who could hold a candle to me and the people I play with (very modest guy i know), but i'm just being truthful, im sure there are girls who are WAY better then i am though, just have yet to find one.