Poll: Do you play games with any girls?

[Cheesepower5]

I stopped talking to my female gamer friend when we stopped having classes together, so no. Would I? Sure, as long as there's no reason not to. Like she's a *****, or she doesn't want to.

Plus I play like 80% single player.

 

[Lilani]

Not any I know, but I play regularly on a TF2 server that has other regular females.

 

[Doclector]

No, don't really have many girls on my friends list. I'm not sexist, I just literally do not meet that many girls who play games. When I get in games with girls, I tend to find that they are generally more likely to work as a team, but I don't often send friend requests for fear of being "creepy guy on xbox live 574".

 

[Benni88]

Local? I'd say about 50/50. Online? Of course, anyone who plays online multiplayer does. Why is this even a question?

I don't think you're really engaging with someone else if they just happen to be another faceless username in a multiplayer lobby. The question is trying to address what proportion of people who play with females find it novel or normal. For me, it's novel. Seemingly for most other people it seems to be normal.

 

[krazykidd]

Ewww GUUURLS!

joke

Seriously though , i have in the past . I played mariokart regularly back in the day with my ex-girlfriend. I remember this because she always played naked .

My currently girlfriend plays games ( world of warcraft, diablo3 , wii games) , but nothing coop unless it has mario in it . Unfortunately she doesn't play naked ... Just without pants and undergarments .

So i guess my answer is yes.

 

[purplecactus]

Besides myself? Not really, no.

I rarely, and by rarely I mean practically never, go into the whole multiplayer aspect of games. TF2 aside, that is, and I never really bothered to find out who was what before. None of my female friends are gamers either, so the most that's happened there is that one or more have been in the same room as me and made comments on it and my habit of talking to the game. I'm working on 'em though...

 

[IndomitableSam]

My sister and I (girl) come home from work, make dinner, and play games. All the time. So, double yes? Actually, we find playing without each other weird. Since we're twins, we've always gamed together, so even on single-player games, if the other isn't around we don't play much.

 

[DustyDrB]

There are bunch of girls/women (I know one is in her 50s) in the TF2 clan I'm in.
One ex-girlfriend and I played a lot of Smash Brothers Brawl and Mario Kart together, and she played some Call of Duty with my roommates. Another ex of mine liked Guitar Hero. Another roommate's girlfriend (now wife) played a bunch of things with us. There's a lot more examples.

Luck has nothing to do with it. There are so many women playing games now (and have been for a while) that it's weird to even think it's something special.

 

[Fappy]

Most of the women I associate with play video games regularly. I just got my girl friend in DAO recently since she's a huge NWN fan.

 

[kyogen]

There are quite a few women on The Witcher's official forums. It's fundamentally a single-player rpg, obviously, but the female fans aren't shy at all about helping out with gameplay and tech questions. It's a nice crowd over there, really.

 

[everythingbeeps]

For some reason a lot of people think finding a girl who's into games is the Holy Grail of Life.

I think it's pretty normal for people to want to find a partner who shares or is at least kindly disposed towards their primary hobby. While you don't need to share all your interests with a romantic partner, if that interest consumes as much time and enthusiasm as gaming tends to, it really does make life a hell of a lot easier.

But it's not like this with any other hobby. Finding girls into sports? Movies? Reading? No big deal. But "gamer girl" has turned into this mythic creature like Bigfoot. People hear stories that they exist, but nobody's ever seen a real one.

(It also doesn't help that you have so many phonies out there, girls who pretend to be geeks because of all the attention it gets them.)

 

[Selboin]

I play MMOS, they've got G.I.R.L.'s at least.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

But it's not like this with any other hobby. Finding girls into sports? Movies? Reading? No big deal. But "gamer girl" has turned into this mythic creature like Bigfoot. People hear stories that they exist, but nobody's ever seen a real one.

(It also doesn't help that you have so many phonies out there, girls who pretend to be geeks because of all the attention it gets them.)

Again, though...many gamers put several hours a DAY into their hobby. If I was putting several hours a day into watching films or sports, I would damn well want a partner who at the very least appreciated it and was willing to indulge me. I have a co-worker who is very outdoorsy. Loves hiking and camping. Goes every weekend. Guess how many women he's willing to date who don't share this interest? The correct answer is zero.

I game a lot. I've dated women who treated the hobby with suspicion and disdain, and I've dated women who were tolerant of it, and now I'm dating a woman who loves it and likes to talk about it with me and plays the same games I do. Unsurprisingly, I vastly prefer the latter.

Shared interests isn't THE most important thing in a relationship, but it's pretty goddam important.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Me, my girlfriend and my sister all play games together. Mostly Left 4 Dead, but we play pretty much anything that my girlfriend can get going on her aging laptop. I am not sure playing the Sims 3 at the same time on different computers count, but we do a lot of that...

 

[Ljs1121]

No, but not because of a lack of trying. None of the girls I personally know have ever expressed interest in video games. What few friends I have made on Xbox Live have all been males.

 

[Phasmal]

(It also doesn't help that you have so many phonies out there, girls who pretend to be geeks because of all the attention it gets them.)

Bleh, I hate this kind of thinking.
There are not that many people who actually do that, but some guys are so uptight about it that I've actually been quizzed on gaming several times by dudes `just to make sure`. It's like they must keep the nerd-lines pure!
If dudes can't tell people who are genuinely into gaming apart from the ones who are just pretending then it's their problem.

 

[Don Savik]

I don't play games with anyone.....

I really need medication for my depression, because its halting any chance I have at socializing.

 

[putowtin]

I'm a girl, I play games, I play multiplayers, but I don't advertise the fact I'm female as the last time I mentioned that in a multiplayer the rest of my team ganged up on me and shot me, over and over for 15 minutes!

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Nope.avi

I have no friends of either gender and I don't care (anymore).

 

[Kahunaburger]

(It also doesn't help that you have so many phonies out there, girls who pretend to be geeks because of all the attention it gets them.)

Bleh, I hate this kind of thinking.
There are not that many people who actually do that, but some guys are so uptight about it that I've actually been quizzed on gaming several times by dudes `just to make sure`. It's like they must keep the nerd-lines pure!
If dudes can't tell people who are genuinely into gaming apart from the ones who are just pretending then it's their problem.

I wonder if there's ever been an example, ever, of a guy getting flak because people thought he was "pretending to be a nerd."