Girl gamers like the same games as men.

[Marucha]

SvennoJ said:

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.

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.

I think like cutesy stuff, we are all more apt to enjoy things like the social aspects, but like male gamers, we pretty much extend across all the genres. I've known some gamers who were not completely impressed with console or what the industry was producing, so they went totally MMO even though it sucked up most of their life and they had full time jobs. I don't know that specifically has to do with gender, but I think we are open more to social/cutesy/girly styles than obviously the guys...  but then again, I've seen plenty of guys who are into the same things.

Just like individuals, we all vary in tastes. The only myth is that we don't play the hardcore games that guys do. Of course we do. The same variations can be seen with male gamers of course, so there you have that. We don't have the numbers we should have, but then again technology and more creativity in the industry I think will pull more back girls in. Some of those girls are in a much younger generation playing Mario and Kingdom Hearts on their DS for example, already have the exposure and ability to discover and be able to play different games and fit into a possible niche in the future.

I tried Facebook gaming once, but I thought it was pointless and wasn't really moved. I like the idea of doing that from my Android tablet, except... if I wanted to play a game to level stats, I'd rather play Rune factory, get back into Guild Wars, play pokemon, harvest moon or some serious JRPG or pull out one an RPG or something from my huge backlog lol. Next on my list though is a 3DS or at least a copy of Xenoblade.

With all casuals in general, I think technology barrier affects things... I think that stops a lot of casuals from getting into console gaming, but I strongly suspect some of those people were playing during NES era, SNES, arcade era, etc. I remember having a few friends, male and female, who were real interested in playing, but were self-conscious about the fact they either sucked at it or it seemed too hard for them... but then I noticed also some of them got kids and they buy the systems for them, so that kinda gave them the courage and the entry point to try to play and now they play a lot more than used to. I think playing games on android also helped the same friend to think about maybe playing the other games he thought he was too difficult.

I logged in plenty of hours in Phantasy Star Online just sitting in the lobby while chatting, but I didn't consider that really social. I think that had more to do with the forum I was apart of. I had my game systems setup so I could play them in a window on my computer and was doing other work while occasionally joining the group to play a few levels. Sometimes the guys and girls on a PSO forum to would have me take pictures of their characters so they could make forum signatures and many of us would trade or gift things to the noobs.

Baldur's gate I was introduced to by another friend and I have the original and the second one on PS2. It was OMG expensive for a really old PS2 game, $40 something used at Gamestop... but my husband I thought it was it was totally worth it. We played all through the first and we wanted more of it, so we went ahead and picked up the second one.

For online, I'm not heavy into as much anymore, unless they're small groups like in Minecraft or Terraria. Too many dude bros playing now and I don't have the patience for some of that BS. I remember some of the groups I would associate early on and play games with and if you are playing with a complete stranger, it's just not the same anyway. I don't have nearly the time to invest in an MMO that I used to either... I'd be tempted to play with the husband if we weren't so busy with life, but we play Minecraft on the weekends that's how we spend time together when we aren't out doing something else which we usually are.

Anyway, just mainly be blabbing on. I was just thinking about different things... :|

I'm glad that both you and your wife play. My husband always says it's nice that he and I both share practically the same interests and that he doesn't have to get a hissy fit from me because he likes games but also guns since he's heavy into firearms history and is working towards law enforcement. He just says he's lucky that I don't have a problem with either of those... lol That and building/fixing computers. Though I am a software person than him he often says, because I write languages and am into networking/web development.

Actually I built his rig for him because I told him he had bad ju ju from his other one breaking all the time and him getting pissed having to replace a dozen parts lol. That computer was the essence of doomed.