Welcome to all the Women/Girls of VGChartz!

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d21lewis said:

spiffiness said:

d21lewis said:

I keep expecting you girls to own a DS and a Wii and you guys always knock me for a loop!

I'm guessing that most of the girls who are actually into games enough to come onto vgchartz aren't your typical "girl gamer".

Understandable.  But what good is carrying a pocketbook if you don't carry a portable gaming system?  Sometimes, I wish I were a girl just so I can carry a purse!  You just don't know how good you have it.

But you can carry one too! It's called a man-purse :)

"Nope you didn't play it" or "Nope it wasn't awesome"?  One weekend with me and my people and you'll be hooked.  Get your hands on Dance Central and Fruit Ninja, then get back to me.

Nope I haven't played it. Most of my friends and colleagues have PS3 and those that do have Xbox either don't have enough room in their apartment, live too far away, and/or don't have kinect.

Becoming harder and harder in this online era.  I never knew so many chicks (you chicks don't mind being called chicks, do you?) were into JRPG's, though.  Who woulda guessed?

Well there's still games like L4D, Dungeon Siege, and Little Big Planet and I don't think solo games are going anywhere, so I'm not too sure what you mean by harder. I'm actually not into JRPGs as much any more. I'll play Final Fantasy and maybe Tales and that's about it. I tried playing some PS2 era JRPGs lately and just couldn't do it. The dialogue tends to make me cringe and the characters generally fit into the archetypes that you see over and over again from the Japanese. I've moved on to more Western RPGs nowadays.

-What is your opinion of Cooking Mama? Is she the greatest female role model in all of gaming?
Mostly indifferent towards her. Greatest role model? Not if I can cook better than she can.... LOL Bonus points if you get that!

Obviously, you have no idea who you're dealing with.  I've got Cooking Mama, Cooking Mama 2, AND Gardening Mama!  "Even better than Mama!"

Wow. I didn't even know there was a Gardening Mama. Congrats on getting the reference though LOL.

I hate you. 

You know what Yoda said... so just give in and join the Dark Side! :)

*Jaw drops*  You know too much.  You may have to be eliminated. 

O_o

 

 

Rutea, I'm totally the opposite in terms of knowing gamers. I pretty much grew up with my girl friends and they tend to be at least a little geeky and many have family members who are avid gamers so they are more open to gaming with me. I've played Onimusha, Little Big Planet, Quake 2, Warcraft 2, Starcraft, WoW, Uncharted 2, and other games with my girl friends. And the guys I know, well, I work at a game developer, so I think you can guess the answer to that LOL.

d21lewis, I think you've contradicted yourself lol. You said, "I don't think there needs to be special marketing of games towards women." and then "Companies need to come up with a way to show females that the game they want to sell is going to be fun for a female audience." But yeah, I definitely think publishers should do more to entice women to play their core games both in placement and content of advertising. However, (and this ties in somewhat to my previous paragraph) there's an issue with receptiveness of the audience. How willing is the average woman to pick up a core game and try it out for herself? Despite any additional emphasis on story and character like a drama movie, I think there's some stigma attached to playing video games.