Girly gamer thoughts

While we were buying the Dragon Age: Origins expansion "Awakenings" (Which I have heard is kind of crap but I had to buy it anyway) Cam saw a magazine ("GameInformer") with a cover story about Portal 2 and had to buy that.

I didn't think a gaming magazine would interest me, but while I try to keep myself busy waiting for Cam to go to work so I can use the PC(*) I flipped through it and was reminded how many computer games I like or am at least interested in: Dragon Age, FF XIII, Bejeweled, the Sims, Miles Edgeworth Investigations etc plus of course Portal. The tone of the magazine wasn't too Macho gamery which was nice, though it defaulted to a male POV here and there.

There was an article about female protagonists of games which was moderately interesting, though I had to laugh at this quote (from one of the creators if "Borderlands", a game I hadn't actually heard of):

It turns out women are shaped differently, they move differently and they sound differently. It's kind of a pain.

How inconvenient of us to be so weird!

Also, Portal 2 looks cool. Maybe I'll be able to get further through this one before my fight-or-flight response kills my ability to solve puzzles. Sometimes I feel a little embarrassed at how much I fit the stereotype of the casual girly game player. (Only with a degree in computer science :D)

(*) What with me having inadvertently destroyed his other computer...