The Gamer's Quarter

[Lackey]

I tried to show my girlfriend We <3 Katamari once but it really disturbed her and she made me turn the Playstation off.

She loved Resident Evil 4 though. So did her mom.
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[Dracko]

Your girlfriend is evidently a bloodthirsty man eater.
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[Lackey]

To be fair, she gets all girly at the scary parts in RE.

But also, I think rolling up all the children in the school level was a bad choice for a demo play.
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[OtakupunkX]

Most of the girls I know that play games play Animal Crossing WW. A good friend of mine is obssessed with the Crash Bandicoot games... not sure why exactly, but she is. Every time we talk about games we end up talking about Crash Bandicoot. A lot of girls I know also play DDR and SquEnix games.

I'm trying to find a girl that can kick my ass at King of Fighters. I'm pretty much undefeated in my little Texas town, except for one guy who I'm pretty evenly matched with.

[Shapermc]

[OtakupunkX]

I live in a suburb town kind of near South Houston called Alvin (soon to be the podcast capital of US). I've heard about an arcade called the Stargate that holds fighting game tournaments on a regular basis but I haven't gotten to check it out yet.

[seryogin]

You know, Shaper, the other version of that pic has been my background for months now. It's probably the most effective representation of my consciousness Ithat I'll ever encounter.
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[showka]

I feel like SuperWes is complaining too much. I am cursed in that my girlfriend seems to have some sort of genuine beef with video games. It's very hard to get her interested, and even then its like there's this strange, almost aggressive resistance to them. It, more than anything else, risks destroying our union!

That said, I've discovered that we can have a fun time playing Cookies and Creme, which someone mentioned. Not in the traditional way I, before I had my soul broken, would have thought (as in staying up late with a buddy playing as much of the damn game as possible). But we can beat like four or five levels and maybe spend an hour on it each weekend. That alone is a big deal to me.

Interestingly enough, she expressed some interest in Kingdom Hearts 2 when she saw a picture of it in EGM (ever since issue 200 I'm waiting for my subscription to run out). I've heard nothing but bad stuff about it (mostly what Tim Rogers has said) but I wonder... if this talk of girls liking Squenix games has any morsel of truth in it, there are worse investments I could make. She's not really into anime, or anything like that (though she finds some Adult Swim programs funny), but then again Kingdom Hearts is all about traditional Western animation. So it might work.

[dessgeega]

one of my partners hated videogames and felt she had to compete with them for my attention. then again, she would have have felt that way about anything in my life because she was insane.

girls hate anything by squaresoft, if i'm the only one you count. none of the other women in my family can stand rpgs either, so. it's unanimous!
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[Shapermc]

[showka]

First off, maybe I'm a big weeny but Silent Hill 2 scared the hell out of me. Not as I was playing it, mind you, but during every time since then when I've had to be in the dark, especially when I was working late at the office and had to go down this long hall way with the lights turned out. Also, I live in a house that is literally over a hundred years old. It's not as glamorous as it sounds, as its only been fixed up enough to be passably liveable. So Silent Hill 2 looks like it takes place inside my home. Also, if I ever fight with my girlfriend, even if its her fault, and then have desires of the flesh, some screwed up part of me will think of some shocking thing I saw in Silent Hill 2 and I'll be flooded with unfair guilt and possible erectile dysfunction. It's really a great game for non-religious men feel bad about sex, especially the second time you play it and get a better idea of what the monsters are representing.

Anyway, the only experience my girlfriend ever had with Silent Hill 2 was before I'd beaten it, and therefore before it had really scared me, when I was willing to play it around her while she was studying or reading. Suddenly I get to one of the oh so fun dialogue scenes, where Eddie keeps saying he's a "fat, worthless piece of shit" and she got offended by the cursing, or I guess out of context didn't understand or something, and asked me to turn it down.

Quick rant - I HATE it when people will tell me to turn down stuff in narrative heavy videogames. First off, you can't pause them, and they're usually very important. Second, it feels like people are taking a presumptious glance at the screen and rating it like they would a movie, only most people worth knowing aren't rude enough to walk in and judge a movie you're watching by one scene taken totally out of context. And when it comes to videogames, usually they only hear it. Whatever cut scene it is, it comes up short in their estimation, so suddenly you're being rude for not turning down what's clearly trash and it starts an argument not worth having.

[Shapermc]

[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

[dhex]

[TheRumblefish]

Well I don't know. My fiance tries to take interest in some of the games I play. She will not stop playing Animal Crossing:Wild World. She plays it more then I do, she's seen more then I've seen, and she knows more about the game then I do. She is truly obsessed with it. Which to me, is pretty awesome, considering it's the first time she's ever taken interest in any game.

She used to love Ninja Gaiden 1-3 to death, however she hasn't touched them for years. It was more or less nostalgia acting upon itself, not really a genuine interest in the game and it's skill value or anything. She also loves Super Metroid, for it's music and sometimes the gameplay. We talk about Metroid a lot.

She one credited Super Mario Bros 2. That was pretty awesome. She has memorized the game to a god like extent.

Now that I think about, she is involved with games to an extent, but anything that I play she never stops making fun of. Resident Evil, Bloody Roar, Tales Of , anything. Except Silent Hill, which she appreciates for it's sincerity and genuine darkness. Which in turn I appreciate.
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[showka]

[dessgeega]

[showka]

I think gamers in every city need to unite and create videogame libraries using the stuff they can't afford to keep in thier house anymore. All we'd need to do is figure out a way to keep people from stealing the games and we'd be set.

[*christina*]

It is really bizarre to see a thread that was about me that I didn't know existed. I feel odd. I don't even remember that conversation with Wes that started this.
I don't think I'm a girly gamer. I just got sick of all the games I played being repetitive. I was playing Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon and I got sick of repeating the same actions everyday.
I did try Herdy Gerdie and it sucked Wes. I think I tried Mr. Mosquito back in the day and found it interesting but we weren't living together then and I stopped playing it.
I love Kingdom Hearts 1&2 because it's Disney (I hate FF except for character designs) and because I feel like I'm controlling the action in that game. I hate turn-based games. I don't want to point at a monster and then select my attack from a menu. I want to feel like my mashing on the X button will destroy it. I don't want to sit there while it gets to hit me and feel helpless. I want to be able to dodge it and kick its ass.
I loved watching RE4 because I thought it was exciting without being scary. It's a game I'd rather watch then play myself though. MGS is retarded. I just can't laugh at it. It's too dumb. Kojima is obsessed with girls on motorcycles with their boobs hanging out. I just can't bond with that.
I hate Mario games and whoever that pisses off can just suck on it. I don't care. Platformers make me angry. I'll play Mario Party to keep the crowd happy but my days of enjoying Super Mario Bros are over. I do like Mr. Driller and Sonic occassionally but that's just not going to keep me busy for that long.
I think all this ends up with me waiting for games to be more unique and less repetitive. I'm not intersted in saving any princesses. I'm just looking to have fun or kick ass occassionally. It just needs to be in a medium that doesn't remind me of every other game I've ever seen or played. Games that I liked aren't so hard to find, it's just that there's never anything that I'm excited to go buy. Games like Katamari and ICO are great because they are different. They're challenging but fun. Maybe the problem isn't that I'm a girl gamer but that I'm a discriminating gamer??

[simplicio]

Exaclty. Most of us here are so blinded by hope as to look past the glaring flaws in most games as long as there's some fragment of interest buried in there. But we're obsessive about our hobby too, and we tend not to understand why other people don't feel the same, or at least see what we're talking about. We don't sit on these forums thinking about how cool it was to shoot all those demons with a giant mortar cannon; we're actively mining the content for the little good ideas that may eventually culminate in a much wider acceptance of gaming. Not so we can talk about games around the water cooler like we would about sports (I think Halo's already been there), but so we can have discussions in the real world like the ones we have here, as one would discuss film and literature.

Anyway, I think the short of it is that we're looking for more than just entertainment from games.

Maybe I'm only speaking for myself on that.

[Shapermc]

[Mr. Apol]

[showka]

[Shapermc]

[dhex]

can't you just make fun of each others' hobbies?

i mean, my wife watches those A&E miniseries versions of jane austen type novels. that's hilarious.

is it any dumber than video games though? i don't know. is such a metric possible?
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[SuperWes]

[showka]

I guess I made things sound too bad between my girlfriend and I, Shaper. As I said in my second post, she has shown interest in things like Killer 7, though I've told her she wouldn't like the rest of it. And she thought the opening parts of Metal Gear Solid 1 were really interesting. She even told me that Neo Contra looked intriguing and wanted to play it, though she quickly lost interest the one time we did.

These days, if she tells me to turn down the volume it's because she's claiming to study or something. Quite often this still leads to problems, and I won't lie, it totally sucks ass. But I don't think it's the same kind of situation you may be envisioning Shaper.

Girls and people in general can be too quick to develop opinions, especially if they only notice bits and pieces of whatever is on the TV. My girlfriend was reading a book, heard a bunch of dialogue about "shit" and killing a dog, and then sees my avatar shooting at another plains-clothes dressed human. I can only guess at that point every little stereotype ever about violence in videogames came into her head and she had a negative reaction because she didn't understand, based only on that scene taken completely out of context, why'd I enjoy a game about two dudes shooting each other inside a meat locker.

People make judgements like that all the time. Wes's girlfriend seems to be a bona fide gamer, but just said Kojima is all about girls with boobs hanging out riding motorcycles. I don't want to be an presumptuous ass (this is code for I'm about to be a presumptuous ass), but I'm assuming she either was exposed to such a small bit of MGS that the amount of motorcycle and boobage in the series was misrepresented as disproportionately large, or she has a fear of Wes being drawn towards girls on motorcycles with their boobs hanging out which his affection of MGS3 unfortunately played on. My girl used to always tell me similar things about how games were just about girls with boobs hanging out, but I think its because she's into magazines and flipped through those damn issues of EGM more than I did. Now I think she's seen enough of what I played to realize such an idea is unfounded.

[dessgeega]

the entire plot of metal gear solid 3 was just an excuse to for shots of boobies though.

seriously. play it again. pay close attention.

most of the playstation 2 software library is quiet japanese men contriving scenarios that will get their artists to draw boobies for them.

i tend to stick with games that allow me to wear clothing.
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[Lackey]

Isn't 3 in the forest?

I watched my friend play for about an hour once. Nothing I've seen of it has suggested boobies though, so I'm kind of bewildered by this discussion.

Also, no matter how much I think about it, "hanging out" doesn't sound sexy.
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[sawtooth]

[Zack]

I came home from my evening job today to find that my fiancee has deleted most of my Tales of Symphonia saves (it was their time to go) and my Pikmin save (we are going to have to have a talk, me and her) to make room for her new save for Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, which she has been playing for probably 6 hours. She's apparently never had to manage memory card data before.

Be grateful that your wives and/or assorted loved ones aren't erasing your saved games. That is what I have to say. It's much more straightforward, though less pleasant, to deal with someone who erases your game out of spite. Woe is me that I have it so good, I know. I'm not complaining.

[Lackey]

[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

if you had finished the game why did you need the save?
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[Shapermc]

[Mister Toups]

[Mister Toups]

Also, I strongly recommend Devil May Cry. It's one of my favorite PS2 games.
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where were you when nana komatsu got a wii?

[Shapermc]

[SuperWes]

[showka]

[dessgeega]

gold continues?
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[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

back in my day continues were made of wood.

whippersnappers.
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[Shapermc]

[Lestrade]

[TheRumblefish]

[dessgeega]

[SuperWes]

[TheRumblefish]