Full Feed“Girl” on girl gamers
One young lady over at Destructoid has posted a rant about “girl gamers.” Besides the usual grumblings about how girl gamer “stars” like the FragDolls look like models first and gamers second, she raises some good points about the atmosphere of gaming culture:
“Sometimes you can’t really trust if your actually liked or if you’ve only got popular because you have tits. For example, myself. I managed to get number 1 blog on 1up.com for a few weeks. I was on the front page for a number of weeks also. Now was it because people actually liked my writing, or because I am female? I am not really a great writer. And some of my 1up messages are all “omg your hot” or “omg girl gamer.” I usually introduce myself as a female gamer. I’m 20 years old, I am not a girl any more.”
When the industry tries to cater to girls with That’s So Raven and Bratz games, you know something is awry. I’ve known many girls who play the same games as most guys. My girlfriend is working on Odin Sphere as we speak, though I often remind her that she’s not just controlling the camera when we play Gears of War over Xbox Live. And I’ve noticed a sudden surge over hearing little girls meandering over how much they love Zelda.
It just seems like something the industry doesn’t want to move on just yet. They just keep making their games to the 18-34 male crowd and girls can either bite that particular wax tadpole or get left out to dry. I just wonder how far we are from games made in the vein of romance novels. One shudders to think what it’d be like for a local game retailer to have the same clientele as any Barnes and Noble book store. One shudders twice to think of the profits, since all of those games would be largely derivative, just like their paperback counterparts. One shudders thrice because lists of three have better rhythm than lists of two.
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Thanks for checking out my random rant and making a reply.
Sure the games are made for men. But Gears of War was made for men, I loved it. I don’t want the industry to change the way they make games at all. I just want the communities and possibly the media to grow up to the idea of female gamers. I feel like some of the men act like kid’s who have a hot teacher and are all trying to get their polished apple to the top… wow that soudns wrong! haha.
I also want female attitudes to change. If you don’t game, don’t bother with our communities. I don’t want to see your photo’s over and over and over again! You have nothing in common with any of us so go to a comminity where you will actually get something out of it rather than the odd pm telling you that you are pretty.
on June 15, 2007 at 09:26 AM - LINK