A question to all girl gamers...
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I'm male, but I can relate how I got my sister (kind of) into gaming: I was just sitting in my basement and playing BioShock, she thought it looked intriguing. I told her a little bit about the setting, the Randian dystopia that is Rapture, and how awesome it all is, and she decided to give it a try. Granted, she only made it a few hours into the game before she had to leave and go back to college, but it was a start.
I hate to sound rude or anything but this threads are always silly. How there will be threads about girl gamers. Were all gamers arnt we? isint that all that matters? Why is everyone always on the topic of girl gamers (insert question /thread). There not that diffrent there just girls who play games and were guys who play games. I've met many girl gamers be it just friends as a kid or Fighting game tournaments i never think Oh wow a girl gamer, i just think of them as a gamer thats all. I dont understand this huge fasination in them. Its just silly it really is and also how it seems the girls will get defended to the death or message spammed when a guy flames her or somthing and when a guy does it he gets nothing really. But what can you expect from a hobbie heavily populated by guys.
Just my thoughts take them as you will.
Just my thoughts take them as you will.
True... your point is valid. As I am very quickly learning, there is no difference at all. I was just asking out of cuirosity, maybe I should of thought more about making this thread in the first place...Legion IV said:
My dad used to play old shooters on the PC when I was little and I'd watch, but I'm not a PC gamer. What got me started was another friend of mine who I watched play Ocarina of Time. I thought it looked really neat and I gave the first level a shot. I loved it so much I asked for a copy - previously we had an N64 but I wasn't in to playing it so much until then.
I honestly can't remember the first game I played. I've pretty much been gaming for as long as I can remember. My Father had a laptop for work and he bought my brother a Sega Master system when he was born. I remember playing Wonder Boy on the Sega and Commander Keen and Mario on the laptop. Black and white laptops. Those were the days.
*ahem* We didn't get any new gaming tools until my brother and I got a PS2 for christmas one year. From there our gaming interests skyrocketed. I built my own PC when I was in year 9, and I've been a PC gamer ever since. The console controls for me seem way too restrictive and dull.
Growing up, I've never felt ostracised for my gaming. But then again, I was a strange child that everybody just accepted. "There's Raeden, the nerd. She's awesome in her own eccentric way.".
Oh, and as somebody stated before, female gamers do not necessarily want everything pink and pretty. In fact, I hate anything pink. I despise it with a passion. If I walked into a games store and the attendent said to me: "Wow! You're a girl! You should buy this game with ponies in it! Because you have girl parts! You can't like games with violence and stories that are more in depth than a game where you have to ride ponies. Oh, and its pink. Girl's love pink." I think I'd punch them in the face.
*ahem* We didn't get any new gaming tools until my brother and I got a PS2 for christmas one year. From there our gaming interests skyrocketed. I built my own PC when I was in year 9, and I've been a PC gamer ever since. The console controls for me seem way too restrictive and dull.
Growing up, I've never felt ostracised for my gaming. But then again, I was a strange child that everybody just accepted. "There's Raeden, the nerd. She's awesome in her own eccentric way.".
Oh, and as somebody stated before, female gamers do not necessarily want everything pink and pretty. In fact, I hate anything pink. I despise it with a passion. If I walked into a games store and the attendent said to me: "Wow! You're a girl! You should buy this game with ponies in it! Because you have girl parts! You can't like games with violence and stories that are more in depth than a game where you have to ride ponies. Oh, and its pink. Girl's love pink." I think I'd punch them in the face.
My dad has two daughters, my older sister is a girly girl, I got to be his surrogate boy child. So I helped him fix cars, build sheds, remodel bathrooms and so on. I grew up watching him play all sorts of games such as redneck rampage, doom, and the like. Good times I must say. Made me more capable of taking care of a car and remodeling a house than most men I know, instilled a great love for all things shoot'em up.
The first game I ever played would most likely be the fisherprice game for NES... But more seriously, the first game I ever cared about playing was probably Turok for N64, or maybe that james bond game.
The first game I ever played would most likely be the fisherprice game for NES... But more seriously, the first game I ever cared about playing was probably Turok for N64, or maybe that james bond game.
My friend's a girl gamer, and apparently she got into it because she grew up in a gaming household - all her brothers play games, so she did as well. My sister also plays a fair bit of games, and that's probably due to the fact I play loads and we're quite close; we used to get PC demos out of CDs you got with magazines.
We played Sonic 3 and Knuckles together, as well as other games, like the top-down shooter DemonStar. Good times.
We played Sonic 3 and Knuckles together, as well as other games, like the top-down shooter DemonStar. Good times.
By avoiding things with jiggle physics :VNot G. Ivingname said:
I was always into things like comics and spaceships and strategy games as a kid, so I was already adept at separating the things that would make me want to punch all men collectively in the face from the stuff that I would really like. I never played video games, but I wanted to; my cousins played Donkey Kong instead of reading books, so according to my parents just allowing video games in our house would rot my brain right out of my skull, so I never really did. By the time I was old enough I could buy games on my own, I had a laptop that chugged mightily while trying to play Neverwinter Nights, which I borrowed from a friend.
What got me started was getting a new computer for college. My dad and I built it over the summer, so I could build something that I could use for video games.
The first game I played was Bioshock; after a bit of flailing around (aaaaah how do I swim what is this fire thing help where do I go why is there no sound) I got the game to run, got to the bathysphere, watched the opening cinematic, and was instantly hooked.
As for the boy's club aspect -- I mostly avoid most gaming communities; the only gaming-related sites I bother visiting are Rock, Paper, Shotgun; Sexy Videogameland; and the Escapist. Also, I rarely play multiplayer, so I don't usually come up against the unwashed frat-boy hordes.
As a kid, my dad always had to have the newest gaming console as soon as it came out, so I grew up with the original 8 bit NES and then SNES and so on. I started playing what dad bought (1st was Castlevania I and then Simon's Quest) and the rest is history 
I actually was introduced to gaming through Pong, and up until my mom bought my brother and I an NES system, I was all about the PC games that were mostly point and click adventures. I mostly game because it's a place where I can relieve tension from the day or spend some quality time with some of my friends. On the side of gaming being mostly a "Boy's Club", I guess I'm one of those female factors that isn't afraid to stick her middle finger up at that concept before sniping the sexist idiots on Halo or Call of Duty. :3
I was introduced when I was in preschool, with the Sega Pico I got as a gift. I played various games on CD-ROMs that I first got as gifts, then I began to actively ask for them (Ecco, Barbie, etc.). My older brother played some PC games at the time (I remember some fighting game with a joystick), and my dad played a bit as well (Hoyle Casino and Board games).
My dad was probably an influence- whenever I went with him to work, I played on the arcade video games that were there. (Mortal Kombat, driving games, Pac-Man, etc.)
I got a Game Boy Advance SP because 'everyone had one'. I dabbled in Runescape for a year and played Halo and Spyro when at summer camp, not really following guys or girls.
Now, I want to play many console games, but don't have any consoles at all. I play Mabinogi on my laptop, and various games on my PSP.
The only gaming communites I've joined are this, various Final Fantasy ones, and a Mabinogi one.
I don't really have many gamer guy friends currently. And I probably haven't run up against the Boy's Club mentality due to the types of games I play, I'm guessing.
My dad was probably an influence- whenever I went with him to work, I played on the arcade video games that were there. (Mortal Kombat, driving games, Pac-Man, etc.)
I got a Game Boy Advance SP because 'everyone had one'. I dabbled in Runescape for a year and played Halo and Spyro when at summer camp, not really following guys or girls.
Now, I want to play many console games, but don't have any consoles at all. I play Mabinogi on my laptop, and various games on my PSP.
The only gaming communites I've joined are this, various Final Fantasy ones, and a Mabinogi one.
I don't really have many gamer guy friends currently. And I probably haven't run up against the Boy's Club mentality due to the types of games I play, I'm guessing.
Holy shit! I haven't seen that since I was little and used to go to Chuck-E-Cheese's. O_OMarik2 said:
As far as on topic? I'm a guy, but I can tell how my sister got into it. Our grandparents had our dad's old Nintendo, and we used to live right next door to them. Our favorite was Duck Hunt, but our dad's was Megaman 3 and Super Mario Bros. We wouldn't screw around with Megaman 3 until we got a few years older, but our dad could beat Mario in an afternoon, and we were enthralled at his might, for we sucked at it hard. (I was 4 and she was 2. Our fingers didn't work...) Anyway, my sister used to get scared of the Bowser Stages, and I would make fun of her.
She would reply with, "I only get scared of the dragon on Fridays and Saturdays."
Cute, right? XD
Skip a few years, and she was into Pokemon Red, then Spyro, then Legend of Zelda, and now she spends all of her time on World of Warcraft, or playing Fire Emblem when patches are loading.