Guitarmasterx7 said:
How are they being punished by games that aren't for them existing? All joking aside, I am not "punished" by Twilight not appealing to me. There's a market for it and I'm not it. That doesn't mean movies aren't for me, it means Twilight isn't for me, and Twilight has every right to exist even though I wouldn't like watching it. Twilight is to movies as dead or alive or dragon's crown is to videogames.
You would have a point if basically every single movie out there was like Twilight and was made to appeal to idiotic twittering tween girls, and then when guys complained about there being no movies around to appeal to their interest they got shouted down and told, "YOU don't get to make demands about what movies are being made because film is a No Boys Allowed Club so get out."
But that isn't the case and so your analogy doesn't work. Moving on.
The thing about high school was less about my personal experience and more about the general attitude towards videogames predating the mid-late 2000s. It created the environment that allowed dead or alive to get all the way to 8 or whatever it's at. Which is fine. My point is that everything doesn't have to be for everyone. If you're not there, nobody is going to make things for you. So when you show up late and then get angry when people make things that aren't for you it's like "well yeah, you weren't here so we made something that wasn't for you and people liked it so we're making more."
OK, so apparently due to some leftover bitterness about people being mean to you for playing video games or some such nonsense, you are labouring under the impression that no girls ever played video games until a few years ago, which is absolute bullshit. Do you have any idea how incredibly insulting and pathetic it is to talk about all female gamers as though they only showed up five minutes ago and are suddenly "making demands"? There are female gamers on here who were playing video games years before you were even conceived, so maybe you could take a break from telling them that they "showed up late".
Your point isn't just ignorant, it's also hilariously misguided. You're basically saying that video game publishers should continue to only ever market towards their consumer demographic as it was in 1995, rather than targeting their games towards the kind of consumers that are buying games in 2013, because of ... um ... moral reasons? Loyalty to the fans who "got there first" (according to you)? Do consumers' dollars only start to count when they've been buying games for a certain amount of time? I'd be fascinated to hear the business model you have in mind.
You're mistaking me saying "this is why things are that way" for me saying I think things should be a certain way. It's nice when everyone can enjoy a game. I played through both borderlands, portal 2, and saints row with my girlfriend. I just think there's a place for games for guys, or girls, or kids, or adults too. I think its great that girls aren't weirded out by videogames anymore and I would like to see more games that everyone can enjoy. I also like all the blood and titties in god of war and the attitude that it has to be one or the other bothers me.
Feel free to take any of that out of context and put words in my mouth. I'm done.
So you think there's "a place" for games for girls (presumably that place is far enough away that they won't pass on their cooties), but you don't think that girls should be allowed to demand games that are marketed towards them, and you can't conceive of the idea that games could be made to appeal to both guys and girls? You know what, in your very own sulky words, "I'm done."
I think that what this comes down to is that you made an incredibly dumb post and are frantically trying to duck away and backpedal from it, culminating in you flouncing off in a tantrum when I persisted in calling you on your bullshit. As a female gamer who has probably been playing games much longer than you have, I guess I feel confident in saying that it's pretty insulting of you to suddenly show up and start talking about what
you want to see in God of War games. You don't have the right to do that. You just haven't been playing video games for long enough.