I am going to open this thread with one disclaimer:
I am in no way or ever have been sexist, I was raised in very pro-equality home and this topic is brought up entirely because this is just something I've noticed quite a bit of.
Ok back to the rodeo, the story goes that a while back I picked up ES:4 oblivion for the 360 and my girlfriend being a high fantasy fan wanted to try it after she saw me playing it and long story short it wasn't a pretty sight. I wrote this off as random quirk y'know big whoop she has trouble the camera stick in an FPS no big deal. But as luck would have it at the time I worked at a tech company that was pretty equal gender-wise and had of course a lot of gamers. Well the topic came up during a discussion and I found a lot of the female employees had similar problems with that troublesome second stick so it got me thinking. Well a while later castle crashers came on XBLA and after downloading it my girlfriend promptly wiped my ass all over the floor in that game and I heard similar things coming from the employee's at my office. Which led to me to my hypothesis which goes as such:
In a general glance at the population of my study females had harder time adapting to a two stick control scheme particularily that of an FPS however with 2d genres(puzzles, shmup's, platforming, beat'em up's, etc) they showed a much higher proficiency than the most males in those genres.
So again I'll say this is in no means supposed to degrade or alienate anyone I'm just curious if anyone else has noticed this or has experienced it or what your thoughts are on this. I hope this topic to some interesting debates some interesting revelations and very curious to see how the poll turns out because for all I know it may be a localized phenomena.
I am in no way or ever have been sexist, I was raised in very pro-equality home and this topic is brought up entirely because this is just something I've noticed quite a bit of.
Ok back to the rodeo, the story goes that a while back I picked up ES:4 oblivion for the 360 and my girlfriend being a high fantasy fan wanted to try it after she saw me playing it and long story short it wasn't a pretty sight. I wrote this off as random quirk y'know big whoop she has trouble the camera stick in an FPS no big deal. But as luck would have it at the time I worked at a tech company that was pretty equal gender-wise and had of course a lot of gamers. Well the topic came up during a discussion and I found a lot of the female employees had similar problems with that troublesome second stick so it got me thinking. Well a while later castle crashers came on XBLA and after downloading it my girlfriend promptly wiped my ass all over the floor in that game and I heard similar things coming from the employee's at my office. Which led to me to my hypothesis which goes as such:
In a general glance at the population of my study females had harder time adapting to a two stick control scheme particularily that of an FPS however with 2d genres(puzzles, shmup's, platforming, beat'em up's, etc) they showed a much higher proficiency than the most males in those genres.
So again I'll say this is in no means supposed to degrade or alienate anyone I'm just curious if anyone else has noticed this or has experienced it or what your thoughts are on this. I hope this topic to some interesting debates some interesting revelations and very curious to see how the poll turns out because for all I know it may be a localized phenomena.
