Video Games and the Female Audience
Feb.18, 2010 in
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February 18th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
I think it’ll be great when the female gamer population matches up with the male population. This video is great, and I hope someday girls will enjoy getting into games as much as guys. It’s always fun to try to get a girl friend to play and they actually enjoy the game. Honestly, I think every guy would love a girl that can sit down and play a game with them every now and then, and knowing that they enjoy it. It’s not fun if they’re not having fun.
Someday the line separating will be gone.
February 18th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
if you havnt realised already, girl gamers are verry common, and a lot of girls are good at gaming ( for example, me )
February 18th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Awesome perspective
And well-done animations, I really enjoyed it.
February 18th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
But if girls are playing our games, who will make our sammiches? jk I’m not a chauvinistic pig.
February 18th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
What about the corpus callosum? Women have a corpus callosum (the part of the brain that links the left and the right sides of the brain) one third larger than that of a man’s. This is why women’s actions have more emotional process and why men tend to be either 100% analytical or intuitive at different given times. When you play an FPS you usually have to be 100% intuitive to be effective in-game. That could be a generalized reason why more guys play FPSs while girls tend to play RPGs.
February 18th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
_____Dude, you sound like a Salarian! It’s like the Mass Effect universe has come into MY universe and stuff. Could you post a picture of yourself? No, you won’t? C’mon! I promise the UN won’t try to take you away in their black helicopters to perform experiments on you in Area 51. Even if they did, you’d enjoy the ride. And even at the end of the trip, they’ll use PLENTY of drugs compatible with your alien biochemistry as so you won’t feel a thing. Just ask Elvis Presley.
February 18th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
What a ripoff of Game overthinker!
February 18th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
love it! “Conditioned to feel excluded” and “obsession with breast physics”
February 18th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
this was a great video
February 18th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
I have a feeling I’ll be piled with troll attacks, but I think RuneScape actually walks the margin between the Male and Female audience boundary.
BOTH genders can be seen as noobs!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Amongst several other smaller things. There just happens to be more male players is all.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
This is excellent!! Lol, my first games had been the little mermaid & the sims. Now fast forward to present day, I’m all about Ninja Gaiden & the Doa games. I even like the doax2 series XD but more so Ninja Gaiden cause I love me some Ryu Hayabusa!
February 18th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Fantastic and thought-provoking video. Applause to the both of you!
February 18th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
But pushing pink controllers and games like ‘Imagine Baby Sunshine Teachers’ isn’t anything to commend. I’m a girl and that sort of thing is more insulting than exciting me – now in my younger years I’d be lying if I said that I never played Barbie Fashion Designer or Catz, but I also played Zelda and Chrono Cross. The Ubisoft games are setting the idea of female gamers back even further.
February 18th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
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February 18th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
He does have a point if more women could become more comfortable with playing the games us guys play ALL THE TIME then who knows maybe new forms of gaming everyone could enjoy could be created idk im not good at giving examples or maybe more people could find people that they could spend their lives with and not end up alone and feel like a complete outcast again idk
February 18th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Can I also say that I think this video is underrated? 117 300 is awesome, but for the amount of thought put into only a ten-minute time frame, it deserves more.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
It’s nice that the industry is showing interest towards female gamers, but they’ve still got a ways to go in overcoming the female/male wall. Right now, though, a lot of female gamers will have to be patient and highly tolerant of the gaming industry (ex. Pony Village! Made by AND for GIRLS!). I am thankful for growing up with two brothers, or else I never would’ve met my first loves: Counter Strike, Zelda, Smash Brothers, and Prince of Persia. Excellent video [favourites].
February 18th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
I have to admit, I was skeptical about this 10 minute video. But By the end, I wanted to give a standing ovation (I did in my mind, I assure you).
Not drawing gender lines anymore is a great point. I don’t like pink at all. I’m 100% more likely to buy a black/white Xbox controller than a pink one (I think other females can agree with me?). Therefore, I think pink controllers shoudn’t be advertised as ‘controllers for female gamers’; rather, they’re ‘controllers for people who like pink’.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:07 am
The perfect game for a girl would probably be one with very simple, smooth and easy mechanics, with great, interesting characters and an engrossing story. Long tale short, a Mario game with characters and a story on par with Uncharted 1+2. I mean can you imagine Mario and Peach having the same back and forth as Nathan and Elena?
February 19th, 2010 at 12:42 am
Most guys aren’t “gamers” either, if you asked your male friends to recite the release order of the Zelda series they’d look at you with a blank stare. They know one genre, FPS, and one console, We’ll assume Xbox. They don’t know what an Atari is, they can’t recite the contra code, or know what level you can class change in fire emblem..
February 19th, 2010 at 1:26 am
Well, unless you turn Oprah, shopping malls and soaps into games an make it fun for woman. I really don’t see them being into it. I really don’t see how most woman would care. It seems it’s just not their thing. Not that woman don’t have an imaginations, I just feel maybe they think it’s boring some how. The whole thing with woman using the games as marketing what can I say how true.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:01 am
MOST FUCKING EPIC VIDEO EVER!!!!!!!!! 9001/5 faved and subscribed -from a true hardcore gamer-
February 19th, 2010 at 2:59 am
Great Speech
February 19th, 2010 at 3:39 am
I think women are also looking for something different in a game. My favourite part of playing a game is being immersed in a great story such as Knights of the Old Republic or Mass Effect. If we continue improving the depth of our games, I think a lot more women will be interested in playing them.
Sidenote: As a girl gamer I’m not particularly offended by sexed up female characters – there are usually some ridiculously sexy guy characters to balance them
February 19th, 2010 at 3:52 am
i totally get what ur saying and i agree
just wanna say:
lara croft isnt for women? seriously?
im a 15 year old girl, well ill be 16 in about 2 months
and i LOVE lara croft! i think shes totally cool!
ok thats all i had to say, great vid btw