Marucha said:
SvennoJ said:
And what games do boy gamers like?
There are definitely differences in what games my wife and I like. Nothing to do with hardcore or casual. Everquest is about the most hardcore game I've ever played, and that's where I first met her.
Nowadays she mostly plays on Facebook with her friends, while I'm more into single player games. I played Frontierville too for a while but lost interest. We both like co-op in for example LBP and Mario, not shooters. Portal 2 didn't work out either.
So yes there are differences but we both like hardcore and casual games. |
I knew plenty of girls that played that game early in my pre-teens. Most of them were into RPG's, Zelda, Capcom, things like that... it's hard to remember now since that was so long ago. Personally, I never got into EQ, mostly I could never convince my parent's to ever pay a subscription of any kind. I did play Ragnarok Online when it was Beta/Alpha... I didn't think that was too hard though I was always got lost in the game with trying to find the NPCs to "progress" that I lost patience... that and the server problems, having your progress lost. I can't remember if there was a server/design issue that made me stop playing. I've been playing since NES era. My conservative family used to worry I was a lesbian because I didn't wanna play with Barbies, and that I was more interested getting dirty with the boys and playing videogames way too much. lol I had a few friends who were girls growing up that would play games with me too... best memories.
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It surprised me that my wife had pretty played the same games growing up as I had. She also instantly recognizes the sound effects from Wolfenstein 3D for example.
However I do think tastes differ and there is more of an emphasis on social gaming. Nowadays she has 3 conversations going while playing on Facebook, pretty much the same as when she was playing Everquest and WoW. Text communication still is vastly surperior for that kind of social interaction then voice. Plus the ability to share pictures etc makes Facebook a brilliant gaming platform. Party chat has nothing on that. And the competition they have over certain games definitely rivals that of CoD. Including juggling multiple accounts and exploiting loopholes.
There is plenty of overlap too. Our most favorite non mmo games we enjoyed together were Ico, Syberia, Baldur's gate dark alliance, Champions of Norrath, Dynasty warriors 6, Rocketmen axis of evil, LBP, Wii sports, various Mario games.
