Sancty!

I thought I would write a bit about girls gamers from my perspective, because my experience seems to be rather different than the ones I have been reading about.

This video on the topic is interesting.

I don’t totally agree though, personally I dislike those games aimed at girls made by Ubisoft, they seem really patronising. Games about shopping, pets, “babyz“, cooking.. Ugh. I think making these low quality pink-fluffy-glitter-pony games for girls doesn’t help the problem, it’s sexist and insulting.

I played video games with my friends a lot when I was younger, most of whom had consoles of their own and played regularly. (random side note: The only time I felt weird about it was going into a game store, I would never see other girls and people would stare at me like an alien just walked in) We would usually all want to play as a female characters, and in games where less female characters were available it would be a race to select them. :| But other than that, we played anything regardless of whether it was a game ~made for guys~ like Dead Or Alive supposedly is.

A lot of people online seem to act like there are 2 types of gamer, the hardcore (male) ones and “casual” (female) gamers, which I find irritating. I like playing Bejewelled and Pet Society on facebook but I also love Bioshock – it’s possible to enjoy both!

Finding images for this entry was depressing, most of the images I found to do with women playing video games had captions to show how “stupid” and unskilled they were, or they were naked girls covered in controllers & games. Google image search “girl gamers” or “girls playing video games” to see what I mean..

I’ve been playing games a lot lately, since Christmas I have finished, in the follwing order, Bioshock, WET, Prince of Persia, Bayonetta, Gears of War 2 and I have almost finished Resident Evil 5!

I like playing co-op with Marius a lot, I think our styles are very different, he usually goes very close to enemies using a shotgun, I’m more cautious and stay back with machine gun/rifle. Also he doesn’t think about health at all, whereas I always try to keep mine high.