Recent content by Oniontears

Except you'd have to break that down to a % instead of comparing dollars and hours, otherwise you'd get skewed stats. Some hardcore gamers spend a lot of their free money on games, but are students so 'disposable' income is lesser. By that same token some younger, less time-poor gamers might...

^this. A lot. It matters (to me) because I want to see diversity in my media. I don't want to have to be constantly empathising/staring at a white dude when I'm NOT a white dude. Maybe you don't understand what it's like to be flooded with media where somebody like you does not exist. Take it...

Kinect does turn off. They've mentioned how to do it, plus you could just stick it down the back where it couldn't detect anything anyway. Makes me feel better for the people who are buying it! :P I shudder to think what the Aussie cost is gonna be like :(

David Gaider did a brilliant post on some reasons why non-male, non-het and non-white characters are so scarce in games, even though the demand for them is growing louder: http://dgaider.tumblr.com/post/52763739911/on-transgender-characters I think it's definitely a marketing thing. I would...

I was extremely happy to see Morrigan - even if she did, er, grow moles - and Varric. Really can't wait to get some info on the story and what character options we'll have. Keeping my fingers crossed for variety - I'd love to be able to pick my race as well as class. DA2 was fun, don't get...

Exactly this. Bucking Bronco was way too much fun.

I haven't connected my Xbox to the internet in... months, probably. Keep meaning to buy an extra cable for it but I just haven't. *shrug*

Hehehehe, no. Australian. It sounds dodgy! Kinect never turns off? Guh. I'm happy with my Xbox. If I'm going to be upgrading anything next year it'll be my PC.

*Dragon Age: Inquisition *Mirror's Edge 2 (that is if I enjoy the first one, haven't played it yet) *I already have Remember Me, picked it up last weekend Destiny looks interesting, but I'm not sold on it yet. I'm kind of bemused about Bayonetta 2. Wasn't the first one a flop?

23 year old female. Just registered to say that I game (Xbox mostly, not a lot of PC at the moment since my laptop's getting a bit old). My two best female friends game. I'd classify all of us as non-casual since we spend a lot of time and money on games and have a fair bit of passion for them...