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Wheatley

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I think that girls playing hardcore games is freaking awesome. I've had my ass whupped online by girls before, and by my girlfriend in real life. I left her alone with my Xbox while I went to get her something to eat(Yes I am a guy getting a girl something from the kitchen bring on the insults) and by the time I got back she had got past the part where I was stuck in Dead Space for 3 hours. Hell, I'm buying her an Xbox and a Live subscription for her birthday. Its awesome.
 

ParanoidEngineer

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Sometimes i think that games designers think that only men will play their games too.

I mean, come on, how many girls willingly had sex in Fallout: New Vegas?

I really can't think of a SINGLE woman I know who would willingly go into Gormorrah and enjoy themselves.

While we're on the subject, why aren't those cutscenes voiced when the Benny one is?

That just seems lazy...
 

antidonkey

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Testicles or ovaries make no difference in the type of video games you should play or enjoy. Personally, I find something very appealing about a woman kicking some ass in a war game.
 

Aetera

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I'm a bigger gamer and play more "hard-core" games than any of my guy friends. :/

The fact that this question still needs to be asked makes me a sad panda.
 

Phalene

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I'll be happy the day I can buy games without the clerk either acting A)surprised and excited that a woman would touch anything that says "Half life" on it or B) Keep his @&%#-ing mouth shut when I buy a sims game. Doesn't matter if it's Future Shop's gnomes or a little franchise gaming store, chatty customer service is one thing but I don't need "ohhh, what is it with you women and your siiiiiiims" or "A Girl? Playing a game? Throw a party!"

From now on I buy online. Let's not make a big deal regardless of how I choose to waste my leisure hours, whether the colour palette is cheerful and the game play reminiscent of an aesthetic squirrel or brown and involving hitting things and being emo.

/angry & bitter, yes thank you!

PS.

For the person talking about sex scenes... Well, I haven't played fall out, but lets just say I'm immature enough to indulge in PG-13 fun in Mass Effect and my only complaint was that none of the guys I could make Barbie-Shepherd shtoink were my type. Or as lovingly animated, but nobody got better animation than Miranda.
 

TilMorrow

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Kinda off topic but I have to say I 'love' how in my short time at the escapist (yes 7 months is short) I have seen constant forum threads of the same topic being redone by a different OP with a different title but usually all ask the same questions. I can't tell whether it is amusing, annoying or if I should even bother thinking threads are being repeated.

OT: Short Hand Answer: Girls play games. End of Answer.

Long Hand Answer: To answer your questions I say
1st: I think girls have the freedom to play any game they take a fancy to. Only I think they should pronouce (spelt it wrong) the fact that they play games more. But i don't mean like this [link]http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/563041[/link] . I'm joking but seriously girls should show interest in talking about games more.

2nd: Yes obviously I kinda had a lol moment in a HL2 mod called Modular Combat I believes and there was this one player who had a really whiny voice and kept putting down the other players alot and I just assumed that it was 14 year old who had just got a mike and was trying it for the first time until on one map I heard someone else say "Wow she's really good at this game. Look at how well she done." Which then caused me to do a double take get killed by someone else. I then asked the person in question if they were indeed a girl to which they answered they were. I then explained I hadn't known from her voice that she was of the female gender and she replied it happens alot of the time. She then proceeded to kick our asses and we all generally had a good time.

Last but not least 3rd: No I do not.
 

Jfswift

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Not to be rude, but didn't we just have this same exact thread last week? From what I've seen, gender isn't a factor, girls play just as good. They're just games.. anyone can learn to play them really. *shrug* (to be honest I wish there were more girl players online. I don't always want to play with 1000s of guys)
 

Phalene

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Liquidacid23 said:
so.. what is it with you women and your sims?
Mine craft with minions. Need I say more? I breed the poor little buggers like sad little people shaped guppies, one part Tiger Mother (no, no fun for you! Become a doctor!) and one part petty diety (burn, little person, burn!).
 

Catchy Slogan

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thaluikhain said:
psicat said:
As a female gamer I think this topic is slightly insulting.
Only slightly?
Desensitisation probably, This topic has been done to death.

OT: I don't much care, the only person who finds fault with me playing video-games is my step-mother.
 
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I thought this was about girl characters being more prominent in games.
Which is a far more interesting topic. Because personally I find it really annoying when there's a token girl (typically a 'badass', or more accurately just a dude with tits) among a cast/team of all-male characters. Women are severely underrepresented in games.
 

NinjaDeathSlap

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I play online with everyone muted anyway, it's just so much easier that way. so I honestly don't no what the different genders of the people I'm playing against are. As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy to play with anyone so long as no-one acts like a git.
 

Gudrests

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Wolfram01 said:
I celebrate (exageration) more girls in the competitive online games! They tend to be much better teammates than guys too worried about their KDR.
and lets face it hear....if you were stuck in a room with a bunch of good lookin girls...you probally would have no problem playing Xbox with them....hell that would probally be like your 3ed favorite thing to do with them...hell I think that would be awesome....Unless i played Bulletstorm or they played Bulletstorm...that game makes us rapists....and we cant have that....
 

GartarkMusik

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Melian said:
GartarkMusik said:
Why exactly is this even being asked? Games are for all, so I see no problem with girls in games. We're all human, right?
Yeah, too bad not everyone thinks so. I've had to battle against guys who condescendingly told me that "girls can't play this kind of game, it's too hard" and who doesn't even give me a break even when I whoop their asses. Why should I be worse at shooting shit than a guy, just because I have breasts and a uterus??? It actually really annoys me, and I've met this sort of prejudice one time too many.
Yeah some guys can be giant douches like that. I just know that I'll play games with ANYONE. I don't care who, as long as you're not a douche and don't suck too bad, girl or boy. :)
 

ultimateownage

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Too many of this topic.
O.T. There have always been plenty of girls playing games. You're just oblivious to it because you never looked for any.
 

Falseprophet

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I still don't get this "hardcore" vs. "casual" dichotomy, that somehow playing the 10 hour campaign on Modern Warfare 2 is "hardcore" while devoting two years of your life to Farmville is "casual". Makes little sense to me. I know a few women who've devoted hundreds of hours to WoW, Diablo, Dragon Age, and the Sims. That seems as hardcore as anyone who plays 2 or 3 hours of Call of Duty every night, regardless of sex.

Gralian said:
Look at comic book culture. Several years back it would have been one of those underground cultures that only a select few knew of and would secretly keep up with their latest comic book on a weekly, near religious basis. Now comic book heroes have been adopted by mainstream culture we see superheroes in films and even as the basis for television programs. Just look how much money films like Spiderman made, then look at who went to actually see Spiderman.
Just to nitpick it's mainly film where American comic books have suddenly become mainstream. Twenty years ago the top North American comic book titles were selling in the millions; today a title is considered a smash success if it sells 150,000. There's been at least one live-action American superhero TV series every decade since the 40s, and many more animated series. As a young child in the early 80s, I had Justice League bedsheets and wore a Superman halloween costume one year; I remember playing Batman on the NES (which was more like a sprite-swapped Ninja Gaiden, but whatever), Spider-man on the Genesis, and the DataEast Superman game in the arcades. I'll grant you that since the late 90s it's become more socially acceptable for girls and women to profess an appreciation for superhero comics and movies, or geek fandom in general.
 

JezebelinHell

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Thewindexkid said:
The way I look at it there 99% of the gaming population is very tolerable and welcomes girls to play online with them, however it's the silly 1% that confuses the crap outta me. I may just be trying to hard to figure out what goes through their heads that they feel the need to belittle the female gamer. I am more than happy that a lot of you do not think lowly of girl gamers and in fact encourages them to play on.
You should be able to realize that 1% is giving EVERYONE shit not just girls. Guys get called names and have their manly hood questioned. They are the same assholes that make racist remarks. They are the same ones that would berate someone over their sexuality. It isn't just about being a GIRL. That is just your particular weak point so they zero in on it to compensate for their own inadequacies. It is just like name calling on the playground it happens to everyone.
 

mjp1701

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i think that feamale video game players should deff play what ever video games they like it creates better competion for everyone if there is a wider and more diverse group of pepole playing games plus it really annoys the hell out of me when i hear other blokes slaggin and kicking of feamale players from a game just because they got beat by them . i mean really are pepoles egos that bad that they feal getting beat by the oposite sex makes u a lesser person they should grow up .