Girls and Gaming

[axia777]

There is of course nothing wrong with that. I was trying to address issue of sex appeal in games which the person who posted this thread raised. Samus has always been one of my favorite game characters, but it seems to me that Nintendo has relied upon and marketed her sex appeal in a way that lessens her character. In "Brawl" for example she hops around in form fitting spandex and whips people with a plasma whip, which to me seems degrading. I prefer her in her own game settings where she is the best bounty hunter in the galaxy.

Well that is lame. I never played the Brawl games. Never wanted to. Why did they take her suit off? That seems counter the the character in every way. Poor Samus...

 

[titanium turtle]

different gender tastes- in general(many, many exceptions)

for example I could not imagine a girl playing gears of war- I'm just saying chainsawing an enemy with a gun is more of a 'guy thing'

any girls play gears of war here?

I do. You can check my profile.

Although it really bothers me that a good deal of the guys on the Escapist here talk about women like they're a foreign alien species. Which I can understand- I'm sure plenty of you are the anti-social gamer geeks that stereotypes depict, and have problems communicating with girls. Thus, you feel the need to make these threads to try and affirm a common understanding of a girls' mind with all these other anti-social men-folk here.

And then you have the four or five girls like me, who roll their eyes heavily at the sight of these never-ending threads.

now who'se the stereotypist?
but seriosly- I do not talk about women like a foreign species- just (from my experience) many girls I know are not really 'gamers'
and anyway I am a semi- boffin but I am NOT a geek
anyways I look forward to chainsaw duelling with you in the near future

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I had noticed(!) Although it doesn't bother me in the slightest, I just find it quite amusing, when I get stunned silences, then a "you're really a girl"

I admit it is amusing when someone in the party says that. I tend to shrug it off myself since for me, guy or girl unless it is a team game I'm still killing you.

Good it doesn't bother you, I have come across girls that take offense to it... which is strange.

I had a run-in with a certain pre-pubescent twerp last night on TF2 (I don't seem to have much luck with the people I play against, to be honest...) who, after I'd killed him a few times, decided to inform me if I wanted to keep on 'my' game (as he put it) I'd have to be a medic, and/or promise not to kill him. ... o.0 Then booted me when I burst out laughing.

Never played TF2 myself, haven't heard much on it to be honest but ugh I have had my run ins with the ever so loved pre-pubescent twerps. Probably the most amusing was back in Halo 2 when I was going rather well until a kid killed him, screaming into the mic how much I suck while teabagging me. In his glee he neglected to notice just as I died, I had stuck him. That last second "NO FUCKINGWA...." boom was hilarious. He proceeded to call me a cheater all game and was determined to kill me and only me all game. I had something like a 23-5 game thanks to that kid.

See... that to me was fairly natural character development, given that my opinion of Rikku in FFX was that she was a silly little airhead forced to deal with big girl's problems. Didn't bother me much that she then reverted back to form, post-FFX. I was more annoyed that they turned Yuna into a pious, self important ...dare I say it, almost bunny-boiler-ish little madam, who couldn't survive without Tidus.

Personally while she was silly and somewhat random in FFX. She had her maturing moments as the game progressed. I found her overall character there to be quite endearing and entertaining, additionally she is only fifteen in FFX. With FFX-2 she just went into "dumb blonde" mode and almost her entire persona from FFX was ignored.

Yuna, she had a nice change in the sense she was not depressed throughout the entire game however I'll give you she was somewhat Tidus-happy, although if you opt not to revive Tidus at the end of the game she has quite a developing scene stating she was finally able to move on. Overall I just discredit FFX-2, even if it was fun at times because the ending of FFX was perfect. Half the reason you have the good ending for FFX-2 is because people cried over FFX's.

Oh, undoubtedly. Unfortunately, it's not an easy situation to remedy. It's not like you can force girls who might not be all that interested in games, to start playing, and/or be an active member of a gaming community.

Indeed, although on a positive note many more are at least attempting to start gaming than in the past.