Do video games provide a clue that you are truly "female" brained?

[Vexing]

I was hooked on Morrowind (ES: III) for over 6 months.
Oblivion, however, just didn't grab me all 

[Pariah]

One of the most fun games I played in recent years was an RPG called "Steambot Chronicles" for the PS2, but I could never figure out who it was meant to appeal to. Playing a variety of instruments in a band, and giant robots... kinda odd combination. But it was marvelous fun nontheless.

I have a pretty strong dislike, by which I mean hatred of the highest order, for FPS games... with the sole exception of Metroid Prime. And those squad based shenannigens, too. They just totally leave me cold, bored and completely uninterested. I really don't see the appeal of strategically waiting for someone to appear and shooting them the second they do. Or telling your buddies to shoot them.

Give me a vast, well written, preferably free roaming RPG and I'm a happy girl.

Ah, Samus Aran. What a great video game heroine!  for the record, the Metroid series is NOT FPS, its FPA/A, and a secondary shooter.

[Sephirah]

Ah, Samus Aran. What a great video game heroine!  for the record, the Metroid series is NOT FPS, its FPA/A, and a secondary shooter.

Yeah, I would agree. Single player, emphasis on the exploration... probably why I liked it. Lol, I didn't even know who Samus Aran was, much less that she was female, until I finished the game.

[Moira Midnigh]

I quite like video games. Mostly, though, it's just for passing boredom.

The ones I enjoy the most are the RPG games...adventure games and such are close second. I've been a Nintendo Fangirl ever since I got my first N64 back in the day. And I must admit I enjoyed GoldenEye a lot! Probably has to do with the fact that it was the best game for the system, and it was so awesome in multiplayer (All-out grenade matches were very win!), but it's really the only FPS game that's captured me. I've played CS on a few occasions, and I must admit it's fun to play for an hour or so, but then it gets tedious. Same with RTS games...all that micro-management...

The Metroid Prime series were incredibly fun, too. And I would agree that they're more adventure games than they are FPS games. Some of the puzzles in the last game were really mind-blowing.

WoW...has a special place in my heart. It was where I first discovered that I didn't have to act any different from what comes naturally, in order to be seen as a girl. It's a good feeling every time I don't have to actually state my gender, because people just figure it out by the way I write '

I'm not addicted, no matter what my dad says, though. If I spend a lot of time at the computer, it's simply because I need something to occupy my mind. And these days when WoW crashes my computer a lot, I play 30 minutes, perhaps, and then do something else instead.

I love games where you can really immerse yourself. Any game that can make me stop, look around and just go 'Waaaauw' is a winner. I've lost so many matches in Super Smash Brothers because I simply got distracted by the environment, or because someone died in an incredibly incredible way.

Every waking hour of the day, I have seven different things going on in my head all at once. Video games help distract me from this.


~Moi

[krisalyx]

well i've been playing halflife II on the xbox (sorry late to the party) but it's at one hand a really great game with really hard puzzles, and then in one hand it's incredribly hard

[soldierjane]

well i've been playing halflife II on the xbox (sorry late to the party) but it's at one hand a really great game with really hard puzzles, and then in one hand it's incredribly hard

Really. I found HL2 to be cool but mostly a run-and-gun deal (not that there's anything wrong with that).

[soldierjane]

I picked up a copy of 'The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion' on Friday, and that's a largely first person RPG, which I'm enjoying immensely, and on so many levels (my High Elf Enchantress rocks). There is the option to switch to third person view, but for combat that's largely useless.

I think it must just be the guns that bother me about FPS games. I don't like the 'S', lol. Or the plot (if there even is one), or the repetitiveness, or the multiplayer (what with being antisocial and all), or the spawning of a seemingly new, and very disturbing language associated with such games... 'The Armchair Rambo Litany', as it should be known... shouted at levels only creatures with ultrasonic hearing can fully appreciate, through headsets and mics throughout the world.

I like FPSs with a story and I've never gotten into the multiplayer and "BOOM HEADSHOT" aspect of it either. In fact, PvP (Player versus Player) in any game bores me.

Oblivion was awesome, SO many things to do. You may want to check out Fallout 3 too which is very similar (made by Bethesda as well) though it being in the future there are guns Same sandbox approach though.

[Kimberly]

Oblivion was awesome

Oblivion, in my opinion, was a pale candle to the glorious roaring bonfire that was Morrowind, it's predecessor. Which is to say, if you like Oblivion then the other is more of the same with worse graphics and a more "real" feel to it, I think.

As for FPS's with a story, Unreal II wasn't TOO bad although it never fails to muss up my ... hrm, whatever that window is that ctrl+alt+del brings up, annoyingly. Stupid copy protection junk I think. Anyway, Unreal had a bit of a story to it and a very neat game indeed. ... UT3 tries to put a story to the single player but, meh. It's more "interactive movie" really. Quake2 does the same really. One is along for the ride rather than carving a path though the world. Quake2 gets bonus points for a seriously awesome ship landing sequence.

Diablo and Diablo II had a very nice setting, not so much "story" for either although there is with Diablo II well enough. ... ^*shrug* Games are a passion of mine, what can I say?

[soldierjane]

Oblivion was awesome

Oblivion, in my opinion, was a pale candle to the glorious roaring bonfire that was Morrowind, it's predecessor. Which is to say, if you like Oblivion then the other is more of the same with worse graphics and a more "real" feel to it, I think.

I never played Morrowind, but I hear it was very good. Then again, if it has that "enemies-level-up-with-you" system like Oblivion... yech.

[Kelsey]

Anyone do GTA4?
-Im a fiend at that game
Or any of the Need for Speed series?

[Kimberly]

I never played Morrowind, but I hear it was very good. Then again, if it has that "enemies-level-up-with-you" system like Oblivion... yech.

It didn't, which is one of the points that make it better in my estimation. That and there are actual treasures to be found.

For oblivion I find I end up preferring to just set my level to something (typically 30) and lock it and then play; Things tend to be more "reasonable" that way to me anyway. It's a hack of a solution I admit, and probably better is one of the mods that removes the auto leveling of stuff.


As an interesting note, I never did see the point nor charm of the GTA games, in fact I very much dislike what I know of them. Need for Speed however I quite like although my all time favorite was Test Drive ... 2 I think. The only "driving game" where I could .. go anywhere, twas fun an a true "test drive". The later Test Drive games were.. garbage racing game attempts. NFS2 was my favorite so far but I've not had a chance to play with anything new for a while.

[Vexing]

I never played Morrowind, but I hear it was very good. Then again, if it has that "enemies-level-up-with-you" system like Oblivion... yech.

We refer to those as 'ninja monkeys'.
In the Morrowind, most enemies were statically placed when looked at in the game editor and had fixed stats.
However, some enemies in the game editor were black monkey looking icons (hence 'ninja monkeys'). These were leveled creatures that were supposed to challenge you no matter what level you were.
Fortunately ninja monkeys were not that common.
Unlike Oblivion, where EVERYTHING in a dungeon is a ninja monkey...

[Kaitlyn]

Oblivion - the game where common bandits wind up carrying a king's ransom in Daedric weaponry.

[Vexing]

Oblivion - the game where common bandits wind up carrying a king's ransom in Daedric weaponry.

And your horse can beat you up. 

[Kaitlyn]

Oblivion - the game where common bandits wind up carrying a king's ransom in Daedric weaponry.

And your horse can beat you up. 

"Shadowmere, whyyyyyyy..."

[Sephirah]

Oblivion was awesome, SO many things to do. You may want to check out Fallout 3 too which is very similar (made by Bethesda as well) though it being in the future there are guns Same sandbox approach though.

It's not bad, not bad at all.

I did wonder why I ended up getting a grand total of about $4.30 in gold, lol. I figured the game was rather miserly.

Then I decided to do a concentrated burst of levelling up by raising skills... and now, at level 20, it's flowing in, and some pretty nice weponry, too. I'm not sure about the whole adaptive enemies thing, I guess it's better in some ways... kinda weird, though.

What I really dislike is the fact that you have to improve your skills to gain levels. There's an inherent cap on it, I assume, since your skills don't go above 100 (the two I have at that level so far certainly don't), and if you start off with most of them at 30-40, you can't grow as much as if they start at 25. And it takes quite a bit of planning to improve your parameters. I don't like that at all. Exp has a lot going for it, lol.

But yeah, there is an awful lot to do. I haven't even scratched the surface.

[Carolyn]

Coming from a Hardcore Gamer's mouth (Mine)
Since age 3 I have played Video Games, from Mario to Zelda, from Final Fantasy to Halo, ect. I play only the best and classics. Gaming really has nothing to do with being male or female it's just what you like doing.

[Hypatia]

All I know is, my girlfriend is the femmest lady I've ever known... on psych tests, she comes out even more feminine than me, which is rare... and she has a huge collection of computer games out the wazoo. She has many shelves full of them, and more spilling out of boxes on the floor; she's run out of space to keep them in. She's tried to interest me in some of them. She favors games that involve careful, complex thinking and stories over shooting action games. When I expressed to her my distaste for shooter games, she introduced me to Syberia, which features a female protagonist solving an elegant, intricate mystery with brains and intuition, and no violence at all.

The only computer game I've ever gone for is Civilization. I'm not even sure if it counts as a "video" game because it doesn't use a console or anything, just a regular computer. I have no idea what any of the references above me in this thread are talking about.

But I liked the move eXistenZ -- which was about a female game designer.

[Candygirl]

Since I lived in genetic and chemical LA LA LAND most of my young life, my entertainment was myself. i.e. Drawing pictures, painting, singing, humming, dancing around in one of my sisters white TUTU's.  Brushing, combing, or braiding my sisters hair was another thing I loved to do. . I helped my mother a lot in the kitchen, cooking and baking when I could.
In my home, TV was not a full time entertainment venue. Music was usually filling the air...mostly classical, some contemporary. Never Rock and Roll. My sisters all took dancing lessons, and music lessons. My brothers fooled around with drums and  guitars.
One of my greatest pleasures as a younger person, was dancing with my sisters, or my mom. It helped me greatly, to become more steady and balanced.

I still love to dance...

When the video game phenomenon hit the market enforce, the fascination for them was over my head. I simply could not understand it.

To this day, when I see the teen boys in the malls at the video games places, I stop and watch for about 20 seconds. All that movement, noise, and crazy excitement... It is all beyond my understanding. I have nieces and nephews who are into them...

My family must have been a bunch of oddballs. No one was interested in them.

[tekla]

Never quite got them either.  When pong came out I just thought it was a more annoying version of pinball which was there for the people who couldn't shoot pool.  Now, I can shoot pool all day, or play cards, but I like real stuff, not a devised and programed experience.