Female's and gaming.

[itsnotyouitsme]

I ought to slap you >>
The reason most gamming is out of female reach is because it's geared completely to men. Even if women might chase after solid snake if they didn't know who he is, he runs around shooting and killing things. Testosterone is a key player in most gaming and immaturity holds the title belt. That's why if women do like playing games, it's more like mario or cooking mama, or something non adrenaline rushing.
Also the final bat to the head is that if women do play good games(nothing against mario but... meh) they will generally be hit on 1000 times by the online community and in life if a girl says "I like that game" a guy will be able to spend hours talking about it to the point the girl might actually get bored of the game just by talking about it. Men can talk for hours about a game by the mere name of it and among other men it's rather impressive to see just how good you are and how much you know, but to women there are better things to do and talk about then games.
So to put the last point in a care package, women have lives they are fond of, men have games they are fond of.

 

[bz316]

There are a great many female gamers. The whole premise of this thread is kinda dumb...

 

[Rock Beefchest]

FIne, fine. Have a more serious answer:

Hey. Hey. Screw you, buddy. I love Hooters. The waitresses are ugly, but can you name a chain restaurant with better cheeseburgers? No you cannot.

Yeah, but I've always been told they were mostly a wing place, and their wings suck. Actually, all their food was pretty bad, and the horrid service doesn't even come close to making it better. Oh, and to answer your question, yes I can. In-N-Out Burger.

Way off topic but In N Out is shite as well. I have never been more dissappointed after scores of my buddies from the west coast lauded that place. They were just another greasy burger. One of the finest burgers of major chains in the states is Culvers, or maybe Red Robin.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I dunno, to be honest i wonder how these so called "females" fill there time!

 

[thelonewolf266]

Gaming is solitary, females are social.

not entirely true xbox live is a pretty social way of gaming if you blank out the screaming 12 year olds though that in itself is actually a social interaction

 

[Warwelde]

FIne, fine. Have a more serious answer:

Hey. Hey. Screw you, buddy. I love Hooters. The waitresses are ugly, but can you name a chain restaurant with better cheeseburgers? No you cannot.

Yeah, but I've always been told they were mostly a wing place, and their wings suck. Actually, all their food was pretty bad, and the horrid service doesn't even come close to making it better. Oh, and to answer your question, yes I can. In-N-Out Burger.

Way off topic but In N Out is shite as well. I have never been more dissappointed after scores of my buddies from the west coast lauded that place. They were just another greasy burger. One of the finest burgers of major chains in the states is Culvers, or maybe Red Robin.

There should be a "Best Burger/ Burger-Chain" thread. Perhaps there already is? *goes off searching for "Burger"*

 

[Legion IV]

Sigh. this thread AGAIN.

Tell this to my local fighting gamer group of 13+ people half are girls. Or tell this two my two great friends who play SC2 at a 2k diamond level there girls to. Tell that to my world of warcraft guild that had so many women. Or tell that to my best friend whos a girl who is a crazy FF fanboy like me and plays armored core at a competive level.

Am so tired of this topic. The icing on the cake is half of the people here when they meet a girl who games probably think there amazing just cause there a girl gamer.Face palm worthy thread.

ALSO before somone say it. I hate having to say this cause there my good friends. But there far from bad looking women.

 

[warm slurm]

One thing that doesn't help is that a lot of guys pretty much either harass or totally obsess over any girl that they see (the F@G video posted above is a prime example).

 

[TilMorrow]

Well I know girls do play games, I've met a few whilst playing Gmod RP servers and one on WoW and a half-life 2 mod. My sister also plays games but she mostly like the Fable games due to the choice and customisation and finds FP games to make her feel sick with all the, as she describes it, "Swishy-swishy jerky motions all over the place". Though she has tried DA:O but she got in trouble after my dad heard one guy yell "you basterd".

And to the girl thats playing New Vegas. If you're still deciding on what weapon is best for you, then have Boone and ED-E as your companions not only are their perks really helpful but they are a pretty powerful team. But Boone can be trigger-happy.

That Gun and Eulcid's C-Finder All THA WAY!!

 

[KEM10]

FIne, fine. Have a more serious answer:

Hey. Hey. Screw you, buddy. I love Hooters. The waitresses are ugly, but can you name a chain restaurant with better cheeseburgers? No you cannot.

Forget Hooters. Tilted Kilt has Guinness on tap. Then again, I can get a good plate of wings or cheeseburger at almost any bar around here. Joys of Wisconsin.

 

[creothes]

hard core games like halo gears of war cod etc is liked more amoung guys because it steamulats are primel instinct from milllions of years ago for hunting,or kicking some duds ass. millions of years ago those instinct never developed in femals because they never had to hunt or go to war all those millions of years ago

 

[Daniel Laeben-Rosen]

This again? Ok, I'll bite.

I know plenty of women who are into gaming, they just don't always go for the same games as their male counterparts. Or indeed WoW. You'll just not always know that sometimes the sexy Night-Elf chick you're playing with is an actual woman.

The big problem is that many women(of any ages) simply haven't come in contact with any games that interest them. Perhaps only seeing their brother's Super Spacemarine #55 games and thus dismissing the entire medium.
That and many games that do advertise to women are shallow and generally uninteresting for anyone.

 

[MassiveGeek]

Hmmm, such a difficult question. :/

I think there are too many factors to count, and I mean, some people just don't see appeal in videogames at all, regardless of gender. I know girls who play games, and have games that I wouldn't think they'd ever heard of.
But usually I find that they have an interest that far outweights their gaming interest. There's a girl in my class that plays almost all games I recommend to her, but if she were to choose between going out with her friends or pulling an all nighter with Fallout 3, she'd choose the former.

I don't really knooow, sorry, I think Daniel Floyd brings up loads of good points.

 

[Capslockbroken]

FIne, fine. Have a more serious answer:

Hey. Hey. Screw you, buddy. I love Hooters. The waitresses are ugly, but can you name a chain restaurant with better cheeseburgers? No you cannot.

I wouldn't know.

I live in Australia. I'm pretty sure we don't have Hooters here. Plus, it's been over ten years since I last ate a cheeseburger.

I have to wonder if Hooters exists in places other than America. It seems like something that would be rather heavily frowned upon pretty much anywhere else. There is no excuse, however, for not eating a cheeseburger at least twice a month. You must renounce your wicked ways and embrace the beef.

It's heavily frowned upon everywhere. I'm sure they have a loyal customer base but, other than them, the vast majority of people's experience with Hooters is try not to look at it as they drive past. Hell, I imagine most of the actual customer base pretends not to be. In case anyone is wondering, I am a hetero guy and am a huge fan of the female body, but I am genuinely disgusted by the idea that the owner of said body must be disrespected in order to admire it.

 

[moonlantern]

The same reason there aren't a lot of female football teams. Most people just don't think of it as something girls do. So they don't.

 

[K4ndY]

I'm female and playing Fallout - New Vegas as we speak. I've been playing video games since I was 3 and have I'm interested in a lot of genres that people usually qualify as "guy only". I own copies of games such as CoD, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption and Ninja Gaiden (just to name a few), and although I don't play much FPS's anymore, I did go through a faze with Counter Strike a few years back (our team entered a local lan tournament and won first place).

In my opinion it's not that there are less women playing video games, it's just that a lot of those who do don't go around advertising it. It weirds out other women who aren't into that king of stuff and turns guys into drooling idiots who can't get over the fact that a some girl could beat them at their favorite game.

But hey, I'm basing this on my own personal experiences. Chances are there are far more complex reasons behind this perceived inequity of the sexes in the video game industry.

 

[ChipSandwich]

My sister has recently been playing Halo 1 & 2, Mass Effect and Planescape Torment, so yeah.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I was recently called all manner of horrible names by a girl because I got God of War III at the start of a week when she couldn't come over and play it. Seriously, she was REALLY pissed that she couldn't get her Kratos on.

Same here. My girlfriend LOVES God of War, like more than any other game I think. But I'm not really taken in by it myself, just seems like mindless violence.

How's that for a swap of gender roles? A girl who likes to tear mythological Greek creatures limb from limb and a guy who prefers the more story-centric games like Heavy Rain.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Because Genetically speaking Men were charged with hunting and killing and overcoming obstacles since the dawn of humanity. And that's what almost ALL games are. Games appeal more to guys because they address concepts built into our code.
If you call BS, consider the fact that most researchers agree that Men are generally better at driving, traveling and navigation in general because in our race's infancy the men had to traverse harsh landscapes and use the topography to hunt and forage.etc.

Of course the only REASON for this is because the games industry today is basically guys designing games for other guys. before that is "nerds and programmers" designing for "nerds and programmers" and then it became more "general". All it will take for games to break out of the mold imo, is to get more women into game design.

 

[nuba km]

Gaming is solitary, females are social.

I find that most people that play video games end up discussing them with other people and that more and more people are playing multiplayer a hell of a lot more then single player.