Girly gamer thoughts

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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...

Comments

[havocthecat]

I love how that quote can be boiled down to "OMG GIRLPARTS ACK!"

Well. For values of 'love' that include 'bitter, bitter laughter.'

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But they are scary and hard and weird!

[elf]

One of the best articles I've ever read about women in gaming is SAVING THROW FOR HALF COOTIES: Gaming and the Femininely Advantaged. (White text on colored background. Sorry. PDF version; dunno if that still works. Site itself has recently dissolved, but archive.org still has it.)

[sqbr]

Oh wow. I thought I was prepared, but that is one nigh unreadable page. (Textured coloured background!)

Anyway, thanks, that was interesting :)

[velithya]

I am enjoying FF13! You will be pleased to hear that I took great glee last night in kicking the remaining man out of my party and replacing him with the remaining girl just as soon as I was able ;P Now when I say 'kick his ass, ladies' it's actually factually accurate ;P

[sqbr]

I will play FF13 one day, when I own a console that can play it :/

Awakenings was REALLY annoying me for a while because all the possible party members except my PC were male (and kind of skeezy, and none of them were elves. My embittered city elf woman was not impressed). But then I got a new one who is an elf woman of a similar disposition so I'm much happier :)

[velithya]

naww :/

yay for elves ;)