I....just....don't even.......what?

[JochemDude]

How about a compromise!

Take my money, I want that game.
I want it now...

 

[krazykidd]

I hate this woman so much. How can someone can be so...gaaah. Sorry, Samus Aran! Laura Croft! Joanna Dark! You guys don't exist anymore! The only "girl games" are Barbies Horse Adventures and Super Princess Peach!

Hey super peach was good ( you are talking about that ds game right?). But umm what was you argument exactly ? You just posted games that featured female prtagonists with guns... Does having a female protagonist ( with guns) make it a girl game? I personally don't believe there are girl games or guy games , just games.

OT: i think people that don't play video games should refrain from talking about videogames . Just like people that don't read books shouldn't talking about books and those who don't watch movies shouldn't talk about movies.

 

[AngelBlackChaos]

Well...she just pulled back on 20 years of gaming progress in the female gender.

If other women agreed with her, yes. But a lot of women happen to love action heavy games, as well as many other types.

Its sort of irritating to automatically give one woman that spouts drivel that power.

 

[dickywebster]

Well thats just insanely sexist, most girls i know would probably hit me if i suggested they play a game about a princess that turns stuff into butterflys and sparkles...

Heck i know girls that play and love violent games more than i do and ive played most of them.
To be honest, im getting sick of hearing people say there should be more seperation of the sexes when it comes to games, but i have yet to see any real divide by sex over any game that isnt aimed at either one or the other or kids.
Girls can and do enjoy violent games, it happens, please stop saying all girls want an end to violent games or the like cause you just make yourself sound stupid and probably do more harm to the female gamers place in gaming culture or whatever than you do to fix it.

Also, these majority of females who hate games and this so called expert quoted, are they gamers? Cause if not then you really do make yourself sound like idiots.
Alright then, most guys dont like romantic novels, but they dont read them, they just dont like them, that statement is kinda stupid and about as useful as hers, do i get paid for an article now?

 

[krazykidd]

I hate this woman so much. How can someone can be so...gaaah. Sorry, Samus Aran! Laura Croft! Joanna Dark! You guys don't exist anymore! The only "girl games" are Barbies Horse Adventures and Super Princess Peach!

Hey super peach was good ( you are talking about that ds game right?). But umm what was you argument exactly ? You just posted games that featured female prtagonists with guns... Does having a female protagonist ( with guns) make it a girl game? I personally don't believe there are girl games or guy games , just games.

My point was that Joanna, Samus, and Laura are all empowering female figures.

But thats not at all what this thread is about :/

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

.......Sarcasm?

Seriously, that's the only possible explanation.

 

[Hawgh]

That lady be trollin'.

Trolling haaard!

Or there's something grievously wrong with her and whatever university that made her a professor.

 

[Pearwood]

I agree, except rather than have a magic wand turn things into butterflies and sparkles why not just have Plants vs Zombies, a game every single person alive in the entire universe enjoys.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

yes, all us girls want to see sparkle and princess' with wands. >.> sorry but, i like to shoot the hell outta things.

 

[Thaius]

Well she's not entirely wrong, just woefully ignorant about how these games work. I mean you could certainly make an incredible game out of that concept, but how would you contextualize it? What's the story? Why are you turning things into sparkly butterflies? How does that factor into the bigger picture of the gameplay? It's certainly a viable gameplay concept, but to simply say "replace guns and blood with magic wands and sparkles" is extremely ridiculous and simply demonstrates an intense lack of understanding of this medium and how it works. But at least that misunderstanding isn't extending to the same lengths to which most people take it.

The year is 2088, only you can stand in the face of the nano-machine armies, use your wand of death to create hunterkiller butterflies, then set your army of butterlies up with sparkle cannons and let them loose, you are dalec drason, and you are humanities last hope against the machines....

I'd buy it.

Well I think the point of her comment was to make a non-violent game that the stereotypical girl would find appealing, so I'm pretty sure my statement still stands.

?but yeah, that would be awesome and I would totally buy it too.

 

[TheDarkKing]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! Ok, ok. Serious time...... Oh screw it I can't be serious about that. Ahahahha

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

"As you know, most of us females just hate those action video games," she said. "You don't have to use shooting. You can use, for example, a princess which has a magic wand and whenever she touches something, it turns into a butterfly and sparkles."

Furthermore, the article in question was about research she'd conducted which said action-heavy games actually IMPROVED vision and brain functions.

**laughs** Okay, now I want this game!

Imagine it - a modern FPS with beautiful graphics. Instead of being gritty, however, it's shiny and pink and sparkly.

It functions just like a modern FPS, but instead of a gun, you see a dainty arm with a magic wand. And the beam attacks from the wand disintegrate enemies into gib made of butterflies and sparkles. Also possibly rainbows.

I would totally play that game. ^^ It would be fucking hilarious!

Edit: Just to be clear, I ALSO like my sniper rifle and shotgun. But this game concept sounds worth it for the LOLs alone. ^^

 

[Mischa87]

Funny no one made a reference to this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/112508-Silicon-Sisters-Say-Game-Industry-Still-Doesnt-Understand-Women

Seems like they were cut from the same cloth eh?

 

[AnarchistFish]

She did say "most" females and I guess she's got a point even if it's very generalised and poorly delivered

 

[The Funslinger]

Um, hate to break this to you Daphne, but just because you have ovaries does not mean your sentiments are shared by every other female on the planet.

Ironically, if it wasn't for violent video games having used up all my aggression, I'd probably be plotting her murder right about now...

Exactly. It sounds like she's cheaply satirizing someone who actually made a sound argument against videogame violence. Apparently she's serious, so...

Bring me my +5 ring of backhanding[footnote]the big jagged gemstone leaves a nice mark.[/footnote]. Frosty just-ice shall be meted out on this day.

 

[The Funslinger]

Funny no one made a reference to this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/112508-Silicon-Sisters-Say-Game-Industry-Still-Doesnt-Understand-Women

Seems like they were cut from the same cloth eh?

Just read that. She basically called men unintelligent, and claimed women were all pacifists.

Refer to my above post to see the correct solution to deal with someone such as this...