The Gamer's Quarter

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

It is essential that we revise our chauvinistic priorities and produce games catering to girls because we have to be pro-active or something!

Whatever, I got a FEMALE OF THE SPECIES (i.e. girl lol) to try out Thief recently because she liked the plot (wow!) and the cutscenes.

I don't know. Maybe girls like to play fun things???
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dhex · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:03 am Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Male game article writers care a lot.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:11 am Post subject:

incidentally, i'm writing an article for the escapist's "girl power 2" issue at this very moment.

incidentally, one of the paragraphs is about lara croft.
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dhex · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:21 am Post subject:

she's pretty inescapable.

unless, like me, you never played tomb raider. i'm not really into grave-robbing.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:26 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:33 am Post subject:

archetypical is a good neologism.
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Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

I demand more jokes about Leonard Cohen farting.
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dhex · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:28 am Post subject:

"i've smelled the future baby, and it's murder"
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GSL · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject:

Faithless · . Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 153

I am a female writer who does not write for girls. I write for gamers. I hate this tripe.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dhex · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject:

fun fact: when i finally figured out what the stones from temple of doom (totally amazing, btw) were (in a class on hinduism and modernity) i laughed for a good five minutes.
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GSL · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject:

d000000d temple of doom is so much better than crusade, except for the line "he's in the belly of the steel beast!"
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Temple of Doom boasts brilliant set pieces but the most annoying sidekick and female leads ever.
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Kinuko · . Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 66

I generally dislike girl gamer websites. It's incredibly distracting and annoying when reviews have to have a paragraph about why something empowers women more.

I also think that Fragdolls are the most retarded thing ever.

ApM · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject:

SuperWes · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject:

ApM · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

Sorry, it was just the example that occurred to me, of a piece written by a woman which fell into many of the traps outlined in this article. (That particular submission had some good ideas, but AFAIK we never heard back from the submitter about fleshing them out. Just to make it clear that I'm not trying to rag on our contributors. Please, submit things! We are constructive in our criticism!)

And yes, the article is quite good. It's especially nice that he takes the time to bring up constructive examples of strong female characters, woman game designers, videogames that handle sexuality intelligently, etc, rather than just saying "HERE ARE A BUNCH OF DUMB THINGS STOOPID PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT".

Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

I always seperate the Indy movies into two categories: The first and third films are like the bookends to his story, with the first being our introduction to his method of archeaology, the third being his final adventure (even though I hear they've started filming a fourth movie), and the second being one of his more stranger and hair raising adventures.

Myself, I really enjoy all three of them on their own as just good summer popcorn movies.

And Short Round is awesome. "No time for love, Doctor Jones!"

GSL · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject:

coughcrawfordcough
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

SUPERSTUD, PHD.

Superstud, a Moon educated intellectual and doctor, but also a greasy studcakes with an ALWAYS ajar whitecoat with manboobs peaking out needs DA LADIES help to guide penicillin and dexoyribonecules into the DYING TRACHEAS of patients, who are DRAMATICALLY DYING WHILE THEIR FAMILIES WATCH, OH NO

X-Box 360, PC Rated T for Teens
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

incidentally, i've written lara out of my article. there are much better, more contemporary, and more personal examples to use.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject:

actually i've been writing about zero suit samus.

the contrast with fully-armored samus makes her a particularly interesting example.
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DonMarco · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 349 Location: 33903

I should write an article that adresses how Duke Nukem empowers me to be a better man.

Also my feelings.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

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DonMarco · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 349 Location: 33903

Eye lids?

Ewww.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:

"i'll show the boys what the girls can do! cook!"

alerted to me by miss nana komatsu, but i felt the need to share it with everyone.
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friedchicken · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR

Ugh, that's pretty bad. I keep thinking that it's about time that someone started marketing real games in a non-condescending manner to women (atlthough I could probably argue that marketing to women in general shouldn't be essentially different from marketing to men), and then shit like this comes along. I'll email my wife the link-- she'll cringe, guaranteed!

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject:

It's hard to always be the devil's advocate, but my 6 year old Niece has really been digging the DS lately, and the only games that she's interested in playing are Cooking Mama and Super Princess Peach. She wasn't even interested in Clubhouse games even though we always play dots and lines together.

I think the "girl games" thing is more a problem with living in a society where girls are told to like things that are made for them. Since we live in that society, marketers are forced to adjust.

It'd be nice if I could convince my niece that BRATZ isn't as good as Kirby, but she's more interested in what seems like something she might like than something she might actually like.

In summary: we should breed Elitists.

-Wes
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friedchicken · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR

Well, you're right Wes, but it's something of a chicken and egg thing here, since it's ultimately marketing (among other things) that tells women what they should want to buy. Fortunately it doesn't always take.

This is a fairly innocuous example of something that's pretty gross.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject:

and i mean, no matter how technically excellent something might be, it can be hard to like it if it's dressed up to appeal to someone with completely different values than you. i remember someone on shmups.com telling me i shouldn't play videogames because i just couldn't get interested in mushihimesama because the game kept forcing me to look up a schoolgirl's skirt. mushi might be brilliant but i'll never know because i can't stand that shit.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

It's nice to know they weren't guarding then the strawberry shortcake license so adamantly for nothing.

Mushihimesama is for shooter nerds only, anyhow. And it looks horrible in scaled mode.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

So, who was TLJ made for?

Guess the Pony!
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Don't write game articles for girls!

Don't write game articles at all!

Don't play games!

Go outside and play in the dirt like the rest of your friends!

DaleNixon · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 179

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

DaleNixon · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 179

Do you mind video games?