Finally, a Game for Girls!

[Swifty714]

I am a male and I play this game.

I still support it.

 

[Revolutionary]

Why in the world do people still make games like this? - Believe it or not these actually are capable of turning a profit

What are your responses? - Emphatic Shrug

What possible effect to you think this game could have? - Apart from possibly reinforcing a few negative stereotypes in some impressionable minds...not a lot.

 

[nothingspringstomind]

Ok, i thought this was funny at first, then, as others above me have stated, i saw the relationship system...

WHAT!?

A boyfriend who gives his girlfriend what basically amounts to a steady wage?

WHAT!?

 

[2xDouble]

Great...

Thankfully, most women I know would rather play The Sims.

You mean the game that teaches you that the path to a happy and fulfilled life is owning more and more expensive possessions?

But in its defense, at least that's an accurate depiction of middle-class life...or at least the life all advertisers are trying to sell to us.

Yes, The Sims. The almost equally shallow and materialistic game that eschews the pretense of gender roles by making all characters equally interchangeable in nearly every game scenario, and accomplishes the game designer's (ideally) primary objective of being universally recognized as a "good game" (and therefore make the most money). A game that has at least some appeal to both sides of the "gender divide" with just enough meaningful depth to avoid becoming vapid, and allows either gender to explore those different sides of appeal through their own filter without having to sacrifice what made the game interesting in the first place.

That's equality, people.

Perhaps the ideal solution would be to stop drawing gender lines completely. It may be that when we stop thinking so much about "games for men" and "games for women" and just make games for people, things will start to improve.

 

[DementedSheep]

Why in the world do people still make games like this?

Because there is market for it. I was not into that sort of thing when I was 12 but some of the other girls (and possibly some boys, who knows) world have liked this. At least the dress up part of it.

What are your responses?
I don?t like it tho I?m not really outraged by it. I wouldn?t give this to any child of mine purely because of the boy friend thing which I would think is offensive to guys too. If they wanted to play it I might let them but not without have a serious talk to them about it first.

What possible effect to you think this game could have?

Well I suppose its promoting bad behaviour and obsessing over body image but to be fair you could say that about allot of games. Still this is more unsettling than most. With many games the stuff happening in them is not close to reality. The circumstances are different than anything you?re actually going to encounter and you know you can?t get away with that in realty. Young girls? having this sort of attitude however is a real life problem and it?s an attitude that seems to be promoted more and more now for some odd reason.

 

[Amaury_games]

This can't be serious. What were the developers smoking when they decided to add a witch into this game?!

The evil witch has been hiding the Ghost city for centuries and no one has succeeded in breaking the spell yet. With every passing year, and with each of the thousands of unsuccessful attempts to break the spell, the witch becomes stronger and is now more powerful than before.

I think that's when someone with a brain finally came up and said "This was supposed to be a fun game for women, you stupid morons! Put some actual objective there, other than getting a boyfriend based on his money, buying shit, or changing your hair!"

Then, they must have showed a bit of sparkle of game designing and reminded that they couldn't make huge changes on gameplay, because it was too late, so they put an objective that should be achieving by buying shit. XD

Yahtzee would have a blast tearing this game to pieces. The team would obviously be portrayed as retards or a bunch of Dukes.

Also, I agree with making a stereotypical game for guys! I would also laugh my ass off with its high concept.

 

[Voulan]

Am I the only one who is really intrigued by the witch plot? Becoming an independent and successful girl by defeating evil witches while shopping and dying my hair? I'm so there!

But seriously, how the hell is that even the same game?

How can a game for girls not include training in the kitchen?

Oh, but it does. Note the Cookiegirl training course. It's not quite kitchen-filled, but it's still there.

But thanks for this, it just made my day.

 

[Astoria]

This is hilarious and sad at the same time. Hilarious because it is just so stupid. Sad because it is clearly aimed at younger girls who will take it to heart and believe this is how girls really act.

 

[Nouw]

This is the kind of news I can both cringe and laugh at. There are so many things wrong with that I'm going to just name one thing. It's pretty damn sexist. And you know what? It's taken so extremely that it's hard to take it seriously. I feel very mixed about this.

 

[Aprilgold]

Its Kotaku nerd bating again, just leave them alone while they become the Blog of 4chan.

 

[poleboy]

The game is tossing sexism and stupidity in so many different directions and ratios, it sort of evens out. Your heroine may be an airhead with no concerns besides looks and social status, but the fact that they didn't even bother to give the boyfriends a real name, but just named them after their profession is equally bad. I'm not saying she ain't a gold digger, but he's not even a real person!

This is hilarious and sad at the same time. Hilarious because it is just so stupid. Sad because it is clearly aimed at younger girls who will take it to heart and believe this is how girls really act.

Of course they won't, just like little boys (and girls) don't go around shooting people because they did it in a game. Please stop feeding the Fox.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

How can a game for girls not include training in the kitchen?

OH SNAP!
;P

Its Kotaku nerd bating again, just leave them alone while they become the Blog of 4chan.

Sorry, but what is everyone's problem with Kotaku?
I've only ever been on it once and people seem to get really riled against it...
Also editing to avoid re-posting so hopefully my post will show up... :/

 

[Aprilgold]

Its Kotaku nerd bating again, just leave them alone while they become the Blog of 4chan.

Sorry, but what is everyone's problem with Kotaku?
I've only ever been on it once and people seem to get really riled against it...

You can read several of their articles and they promote PREPOSTEROUS things. This is a smaller one, but I do have one to use.

There was a article to where the reporter supported 'Standardizing the PC with this Gimmicky Lab top' that wasn't his exact words, but it is very close. It was the Razor Lab top and the writer of the article went on about how this would 'standardize' the PC and make everything better. Which in of itself is stupid, then to DEFEND his stupidity just went "Guys calm down its just a blog, its my own personal opinion" but in the article tries to state it as the best thing to happen to the PC like he said was fact.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

PFFTTT LOLLL

i laughed so hard at the boyfriend part, hahahahaha

god this game is so bad i might just have to play it...

"car washer" loll, and of course can't forget the "buy in game items/cash with real money!

*sigh*

fucking stupid shit is stupid.

edit:

How can a game for girls not include training in the kitchen?

GAH YES. dammit i knew there was a kitchen joke in there somewhere..

thank you for finding it XP

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

So in order to appeal to females a game needs to revolve the collection of worthless currency (which you use to get more money), have you explore a banal world, emphasising vapid relationships, constanly require changing between indistiguisable clothes, all so you can arbitary leveling to allow you defeat some nonseneical, shoe-horned in fantasy antagonist? Well at least it explains why Bioware has so many female fans I guess.

ha jesus you just never let a single post go without bashing bioware, do you?

for serious though, i didn't realize they had a huge "female" following? (IRL, i only know roughly 8 girls who "game", and out of all of them not a single one plays bioware games, only 2 of them have even heard of bioware, but they didn't quite care for the games, they generally stuck with final fantasy or kingdom hearts usually.)