General_Norris wrote:Mandatory "OMG A GIRL ON THE INTERNET" thread it seems.
However I think every forum should have an icon indicating the user sex.
Yeah, I've been on quite few forums in the past that had gender icons, and no one ever made a big deal about it.
Niode wrote:To be honest, even if a girl came on here and said "I am female" I'd still have a hard time believing them.
Years of 4chan seems to have hardened me against traps and trolls.
This. The internet is an awful place.
All in all, I doubt many girls would come here and make their gender known. It'd be about the same as a guy rushing into the girls' locker room. Plus, it's just not necessary - How many dudes do you know who have 'Guy Gamer' in their sig?
It'll be interesting to watch my girls (ages 6 & 9) as they get older and if they still show the same love for games. They love playing their DSes and the GameCube. Together we played Paper Mario TTYD and are currently playing Paper Mario 64.
My wife occasionally will watch them play Mario Kart but she just does not have the same love for games. She would rather watch Project Runway or some other inane show.
I don't think girls playing videogames is weird at all. Its like saying it is weird for girls to watch movies.
I mean I see a lot of fitting girl games like The Sims and puzzle games, you can see stuff like Mario Kart and more.
It is hard to see a girl playing a gory game or something like metal gear and shouting swear words. I guess because its unfeminine. Its hard to imagine a girl doing a super combo in Tekken for example, or pulling a fatality on Mortal Kombat.
I guess a lot of people thinking if girls play videogames its like a girl watching The Evil Dead or American Pie. There other movies fitting like You've got mail and Serendipity
Chupon, my GF is the same way. The closest thing she had to a video game as a kid was DOS Wheel of Fortune in the 80s. Actually, she had Adventures in Serenia too, but still not much to inspire a love of gaming.
She really enjoyed watching Skies of Arcadia, Grandia II, and Shenmue. She even didn't mind watching me play GTA: Vice City and The Warriors (great modern Beat em up BTW). She really liked RE:4 (but we lost interest in RE:0 half way through). I lost her with Xenogears though, too boring. I was kind of surprised, since she didn't seem to mind Phantasy Star II or Lunar.
Anyway, I'm not sure what my point is. We just started playing Dark Cloud II, there are enough cutscenes and the graphics are gorgeous, so I think she'll stay interested in this one. What I'd really like is to get her to take the controls once in a while. She'll play Pokemon for her daughter sometimes, but that's about it. I think next we may play Secret of Mana, which supports a second player controlling one of your party members during combat. I think we'd both like that.
At least in the case of my GF, it's not the content of the game that makes her not want to play. She's as disinterested in Mario Kart as she is Mortal Kombat. It's more of a perception that she's bad at video games, and so she doesn't enjoy playing them. It may also be that the interactivity is just not as rewarding to her; there's no motivation to pick up a controller and make things happen in a virtual world.
We are prepared to live in the plain and die in the plain!
nightwalker wrote:Well one time we had a girl here in the forum asking about the price of something we all started hitting on her. Well some people thought I scared her off (but it was really mozgus shhhh)
Anyway girls don't play games. Everyone knows this. Some of you claim you've discovered one, but guess what? Sex changes. All of them. It's the only explanation.
(but it was really mozgus shhhh)
