"Girl Games"?

[Thiefree]

As long as people can buy any game regardless of their gender, I don't see a major problem. Yes, games are targeted at certain demographics, but you're quite welcome to ignore them.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

*snips berating textz*

I'm sorry! I'll do better next time! No creepy uncle remarks! :O

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm in!

Good deal!! ^^

 

[goatzilla8463]

... A "girl game"?

Any game a girl plays.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

With that attitude you like a friend of mine. She plays or use to play GTA rather actively and had her fair share of "I want everything dead... NAO!" moments. Another female gamer I use to know was damn hardcore, finishing RPGs right down to collecting every single possible thing and I was upset because I finished FFX and popped 99,999 per hit first. She did admit to never finishing FFVII because Aeris dies (Got to that part when she was nine, refuses to this day to ever touch FFVII and it's been eleven years now I think.)

On another note, met some good girl gamers back in my Halo days. Probably one of the best I played against was a girl. That Althena girl or whatever her name was from the PMS clan.

I'm a relatively normal gamer, maybe a little overly ecstatic at times, and I might scream at odd moments and throw my controller, other than that I'm totally normal.

Didn't play any FF, and don't play Halo. :O God I'd never join a group called the PMS Clan, that's just embarassing! Eeep!

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

If I ever had a female child, I think I'll just give her Silent Hill and let her whack some monsters oldschool.

Amen. Being scared shitless builds character.

Don't forget to let them watch "The Dark Crystal" with those creepy creepy (but oh-so-awesome) puppet monsters. That movie gave me nightmares so bad, but now I love it.

 

[Lexodus]

tbh Cooking Mama was probably a bit too much.

Absolutely not. It takes real balls to beat Cooking Mama!

 

[Baldry]

It is really really sexist, I have gamer friends who are girls and they dont play "girl games" they COD, Halo3 and dead space.
Then I got thinking what about games like fallout 3 and MGO where you can play as a girl.
These games just create sterotypes that girls are all cutesy and "ohh boys, ohh I love your SHOES!, aww a puppy!" which is well sexist

 

[ohellynot]

Well those games are certainly targeted towards young girls, and they worry me a lot, although they don't really surprise me.

What's a femenine sixth sense?

they can smell your fear!

nagging

 

[high_castle]

While I do consider myself a feminist, I don't necessarily think those games are really harming young girls. I grew up with the option to play anything I wanted, and I ignored the Barbies and the so-called girl games in favor of Sonic and Mario, and eventually RPGs like Fallout and Baldur's Gate. As long as we don't force specific game on a specific gender, I think everything will be alright.

 

[Halfbreed13]

I think the main reason I dislike them is because it enforces stereotypes, and makes people who don't fit into those stereotypes seem wrong.

I never had special attraction to pink sparkly games when I grew up. And if something, I feel I've always been treated specially well being a girl who plays boyish games. Boys came and talk to me, told me how cool I was and how happy they were someone like me exists... Some girl friends of mine actually bought PSones to learn how to play tekken so they fit in

Let me give you an example that many people know of. Gamers used to be outcasts and blacklisted. Now it is becoming more mainstream. Despite the rage and numerous fights over this, this would be a good thing. I say would, because the mainstream take over a trend, then act like all the people who started it were doing it wrong before they got there. Case in point: My High school's football team all played Halo and Gears of war, talked about it all the time, and lead you on to think they might know something. Then when you try and have a conversation with them about video games like silent hill, fallout 1/2, or anything before the mainstream boost, they belittle you and compare you to lifeless WoW addicts.

Or maybe I am just bitter >.>

LOL
I get your point... I do know people who started gaming after the boom you talked about and that are kind of restricted to 2 or 3 games. When I talked with them about other games they could dismiss me - what did not really matter since I know what's cool and what's not, and I'm cool and they're not so *pfffft* - or they'd be blissfully ignorant about everything outside their gaming bubble and try to detour the conversation back to halo. This never bothered me because I have a group of friends who do know their games and with whom I can talk about games for hours *_* and we kind of made fun of pseudo-gamers.

I don't mind them being ignorant. I have a problem with them being ignorant and acting like they know more than me and that I have been guessing my whole life.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

With that attitude you like a friend of mine. She plays or use to play GTA rather actively and had her fair share of "I want everything dead... NAO!" moments. Another female gamer I use to know was damn hardcore, finishing RPGs right down to collecting every single possible thing and I was upset because I finished FFX and popped 99,999 per hit first. She did admit to never finishing FFVII because Aeris dies (Got to that part when she was nine, refuses to this day to ever touch FFVII and it's been eleven years now I think.)

On another note, met some good girl gamers back in my Halo days. Probably one of the best I played against was a girl. That Althena girl or whatever her name was from the PMS clan.

I'm a relatively normal gamer, maybe a little overly ecstatic at times, and I might scream at odd moments and throw my controller, other than that I'm totally normal.

Didn't play any FF, and don't play Halo. :O God I'd never join a group called the PMS Clan, that's just embarassing! Eeep!

Sounds about what I sometimes do. I tend to yell randomly at games, although not because I'm angry with them, I just get excited for no actual reason beyond my own amusement. Probably around the same time I start mocking the dialogue.

I find it more ironic myself. Besides for serious hardcore male gamers who have some idiotic logic of "girls can't play Halo!" watching them get their ass completely handed to them by a clan called PMS is frigging hilarious and probably embarrassing for them.

 

[experiment0789]

This is just one of those things that are made to one extreme or another.I can understand that the games have a target audience,but it can't be in the middle.

If you think of it this way there is a chart from 1 to 10,1 being "Boy thing" and 10 "girl thing".

--------------------------------------
1___2___3___4___5___6___7___8___9___10

things are like those game,designed for a 1 or a 10 not anything in between.How most stuff is sold now
is "any girl can't resist this because of".....and vise verse-a. The model to the people making this stuff is more like this.... 1 "Boy thing",5 Gender confused, and 10 "girl thing".

--------------------
1________5________10

with out getting to far off topic I want to say that these gender stereotypes are wrong.Just because I might not live up to all of the guy gender stereotypes doesn't mean i'm less of a guy.
If you like something that is thought as a little bit girlish or may be a 4 on the first chart,that's perfectly OK.

 

[Halo Fanboy]

ITT; The best way to get rid of our sexist male driven society if for everyone of every gender and culture to give up cooking, cleaning, dating, fashion, taking care of children and other weaknesses in order to not demean everyone even marginally associated with them and become more MANLY.

Black people should stop being good at basketball too.

 

[Sissas]

I think the main reason I dislike them is because it enforces stereotypes, and makes people who don't fit into those stereotypes seem wrong.

I never had special attraction to pink sparkly games when I grew up. And if something, I feel I've always been treated specially well being a girl who plays boyish games. Boys came and talk to me, told me how cool I was and how happy they were someone like me exists... Some girl friends of mine actually bought PSones to learn how to play tekken so they fit in

Let me give you an example that many people know of. Gamers used to be outcasts and blacklisted. Now it is becoming more mainstream. Despite the rage and numerous fights over this, this would be a good thing. I say would, because the mainstream take over a trend, then act like all the people who started it were doing it wrong before they got there. Case in point: My High school's football team all played Halo and Gears of war, talked about it all the time, and lead you on to think they might know something. Then when you try and have a conversation with them about video games like silent hill, fallout 1/2, or anything before the mainstream boost, they belittle you and compare you to lifeless WoW addicts.

Or maybe I am just bitter >.>

LOL
I get your point... I do know people who started gaming after the boom you talked about and that are kind of restricted to 2 or 3 games. When I talked with them about other games they could dismiss me - what did not really matter since I know what's cool and what's not, and I'm cool and they're not so *pfffft* - or they'd be blissfully ignorant about everything outside their gaming bubble and try to detour the conversation back to halo. This never bothered me because I have a group of friends who do know their games and with whom I can talk about games for hours *_* and we kind of made fun of pseudo-gamers.

I don't mind them being ignorant. I have a problem with them being ignorant and acting like they know more than me and that I have been guessing my whole life.

I don't mind them being ignorant; I kind of never minded their existence. I was just trying to point that more easily we'd make them feel bad about themselves than they'd make me feel bad about myself.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Does that mean Men can't enjoy girl games?

 

[Sissas]

This is just one of those things that are made to one extreme or another.I can understand that the games have a target audience,but it can't be in the middle.

If you think of it this way there is a chart from 1 to 10,1 being "Boy thing" and 10 "girl thing".

--------------------------------------
1___2___3___4___5___6___7___8___9___10

things are like those game,designed for a 1 or a 10 not anything in between.How most stuff is sold now
is "any girl can't resist this because of".....and vise verse-a. The model to the people making this stuff is more like this.... 1 "Boy thing",5 Gender confused, and 10 "girl thing".

--------------------
1________5________10

with out getting to far off topic I want to say that these gender stereotypes are wrong.Just because I might not live up to all of the guy gender stereotypes doesn't mean i'm less of a guy.
If you like something that is thought as a little bit girlish or may be a 4 on the first chart,that's perfectly OK.

Exactly, I don't get the drama about the EXISTENCE of gender directed games. I don't feel obliged to play girl-games and no boy should be obliged to play boy-games; it's good that there is a big range of games so that girly girls and manly boys can play games they like! Girls who think the existence of pink sparkly pony games is offensive to them as gamers should be a little less self-centered...

 

[Macgyvercas]

we don't need the games in the articles. just give us some more wholesome zombie massacres

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

If I ever had a female child, I think I'll just give her Silent Hill and let her whack some monsters oldschool.

Amen. Being scared shitless builds character.

Don't forget to let them watch "The Dark Crystal" with those creepy creepy (but oh-so-awesome) puppet monsters. That movie gave me nightmares so bad, but now I love it.

Watch Coraline, nightmare fuel for the soul.

I did, and while it was definitely creepy, I don't know if it would have generated nightmares in my 5 year old self or not. Twas a cool movie.