Video gaming girls

Star Lord

Ah ladies, howryis?

Just thought I'd further something that was posted in the Games forum recently.
Someone asked for recommendations for games for his girlfriend, which of course sparked off the debates about what games girls enjoy.

Who among you enjoys video games, and what would be your favourite games?

Not trying to find any common thread between the games you enjoy, more a matter of trying to buck the image that there are games "for girls".

Crumble Froo

im still a huge fan of my aul sega games... but on the ps2, im still hooked on tony hawk's games, and GTA.. personally, and i've found this with a couple of freinds (though have several obsessive gamer mates), dont like games that require huge amounts of 'commitment' (so to speak). but it really depends so much on the girl in question, as im sure you well know, damo

star-pants

Oooh I'm a girl and I like video games!

We still have a SNES at home... I used to love Zelda, still do.
We have.....ps2, gamecube (my bro traded in the N64), xbox, wii, snes, and I don't think we've the sega anymore.
Oh lol I just rememebered the amstrad 464 ...burnin' rubber was one of the games we had lol

I used to love sonic, tho I was crap. Streetfighter and others like that were good.
LOVE Zelda, supermario (all the different ones), Yoshis Island wasn't bad, Secret of Mana.
007 - though again, I'm not great.
Star Wars - real one and lego version (legos funny)
Lord of the Rings....Return of the King I think... that was good.
There's other games like metal gear solid, GTA and stuff but I can't remember exactly.
If I think of more I'll come back

Silverfish

Eh?

Well, I have a pc, its a bit old and jaded at the moment, its waiting for its upgrade.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz Socket AM2
1MB, 65W
Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 2048MB
128Meg x 64, CL5, 667MHz, 240-pin
Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA
16MB 10000RPM
MSI K9N SLI Platinum,nForce 570 SLI,ATX,
Socket-AM2,2xGbLAN,DDR2,Firew,2xPCI-Ex16
and a x1950xtx pro.

So on that, my favourite games would be Quake, Battlefield 2, HL, HL2, and I really enjoyed Quake 4. COD4 was pretty good too. I'm in a Battlefield 2 clan for the last....eh...oh my god, three years?, but we don't play so much anymore, the game sortof declined a bit.

On the Snes, good old mariokart or zelda. I used to be pretty good at Street Fighter, but I lost all my skillz. They may have been imaginary.
EDIT: Omg, Bomberman! How could I forget. Way back when, I lived in a crappy apartment in Ranelagh. I'd just come home after surgery, and I was unable to work for a month. All I had was a crappy tv, my snes, and Bomberman. All I did was play through over, and over, trying to beat the game in the fastest times.


On the Sega, Need for Speed. Oldschool.

I only had a Playstation one, I don't think I liked any games on that. I played a lot of them, but I can't remember any. Oh, Pandemonium, that was sortof cool. And I played Spyro, that was okay. Meh. The whole thing just sucked. I was a nintendo child, and there was none of that yayness with the playstation.

On the wii, the winner is Super Mario Galaxy. Zelda Twilight Princess was..... okayish.

On the Xbox, Pgr / Forza.

On the Xbox 360, (which I just gave in and bought) it's all about the Forza.

I still have all these consoles under my tv, with the exception of the Sega and the Playstation, which I gave to my brother.
I'm not into any rts / mmorpgs or anything, I really only like FPS, and for consoles mainly racing games.

But to be honest, like anything else, it'll vary wildly, there'll be lots of girls who don't play, just like there's lots of boys who don't, but no-one ever really thinks to survey them.

Is there a similar post going in BGRH, just for balance?

watna

I play a lot of strategy games (but only on the PC - I don't do consoles, except for buzz on the ps2 which I'm amazing at, seriously no one can beat me! and grand theft auto for my violent side)

I love games where you build things and control everything. My OH always says I'm a megolomaniac. So Rollercoaster tycoon, civilisation, sim city etc. I've played the first three warcrafts and really like them but never got in to WoW. I find it all far more relaxing then vegging and watching tv.

At the moment I'm quite in to Zoo Tycoon 2 - my OH bought me all the expansion packs and now I can have some kick ass zoos. It keeps me occupied for hours.

It all started off with the first Theme park - remember that? Then there was theme hospital. That was the best!

I haven't bought any new games recently but I've just bought a new laptop so I'm hoping to buy some when I get to NZ and I'm not saving anymore but tbh, I prefer older games, as sad as it sounds. I'm old school!

We bought the old sega games collection for the PS2 and had friends over to play sonic the hedgehog. It was hilarious, we all remembered exactly how to pass all the levels and were the secret things were hidden even though we hadn't played it in 10 years!

I have a pc cd rom of the sega megadrive sonic collection
and i have sonic the hedgehog on the phone along with tetris etc
I play both occasionally thats about it

Quality

My daughter has a DS,
I love to play her super mario bros game,
I also got my self hotel dusk, scrabble, brain training, and i also like a lot of the puzzle type, tetrisy games..

Sad I know..

I used to be mad into all the resident evil games. Although I had to play them with the lights on...

daisy123

Back in the day, on the Sega Mega Drive I loved Columns and Streets and Rage, and on the SNES, Super Mario Brothers ann Puzzle Bobble in the arcade.

These days I have a DS and love the Phoenix Wright Series, Animal Crossing, Theme PArk, Brain Age games.

When I had my windows PC I loved the Sims and that type of game!

Cathmandooo

I love games too

Had a SNES when I was younger - loved Mario Kart, Mario World, Street Fighter 2 turbo, earthworm jim, mario allstars, bomberman

DS now - bomberman, mario kart, brain age 1 & 2, hotel dusk, phoenix wright, big brain academy (great for multiplayer), mario bros, Elite beat agents

PC games - used to play command and conquer, chips challenge hehe god that game kept me busy for hours!

aye

need to find a girl i can play street fighter and gta with!!!

thats the dream

johnny_ultimate

Just finished an essay on the topic It was about the Games for Girls DS ads and got some interesting responses (from some boardsies too). General conclusion seemed to be its impossible to pigeon hole female gamers into any category, as pretty much anyone would suspect. Interesting topic, though, hopefully will be able to do more on it in the future as one advertising essay didn't really give me much scope to go into it in detail.

[WoW]

ha! thats weird im the gf, mt bf was the one who made that thread because i hate all his 360 games! :rolleyes:
I like supermario bros on the ds its the same as the old one that was out in the gameboy years ago, also tetris but a lot of people find this boring. any of the brain training games.

ztoical

playing second phoenix wright game on my DS right now. Loved Zelda phantom hour glass for the DS nice follow on from Zelda on the game cube. Got the cube to play SSX3 - love that game. Also big mario party fan, great fun when you've a group - 4 is the best but 6 is good too. Going to get the mario party for the DS later this month. PC wise nothing has topped Monkey island or Grim fandango.

Hardcore Mortal kombat fan back in the day [christ I'm old] MK2 on the mega drive was the **** when it came out. Plus all the old favs mario, sonic, eco the dolphin. Use to love mirco machines but played it again recently and can't recall why I liked it.

watna

ztoical wrote: »

Use to love mirco machines but played it again recently and can't recall why I liked it.

I used to love Micro Machines too and played it recently and just found it a bit boring. Glad I'm not alone!

citytillidie

star-pants wrote: »

Oooh I'm a girl and I like video games!

We still have a SNES at home... I used to love Zelda, still do.
We have.....ps2, gamecube (my bro traded in the N64), xbox, wii, snes, and I don't think we've the sega anymore.
Oh lol I just rememebered the amstrad 464 ...burnin' rubber was one of the games we had lol

I used to love sonic, tho I was crap. Streetfighter and others like that were good.
LOVE Zelda, supermario (all the different ones), Yoshis Island wasn't bad, Secret of Mana.
007 - though again, I'm not great.
Star Wars - real one and lego version (legos funny)
Lord of the Rings....Return of the King I think... that was good.
There's other games like metal gear solid, GTA and stuff but I can't remember exactly.
If I think of more I'll come back

Thats some gaming there SP more than some blokes.

I have lots of old snes and mega drive games on my PC keeps me entertained, also have lots of arcade games which is good as these dont require a lot of time to play like most games these days.

Silverfish

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just finished an essay on the topic It was about the Games for Girls DS ads and got some interesting responses (from some boardsies too). General conclusion seemed to be its impossible to pigeon hole female gamers into any category, as pretty much anyone would suspect. Interesting topic, though, hopefully will be able to do more on it in the future as one advertising essay didn't really give me much scope to go into it in detail.

You finished it? Was dying to know how that went!

Cathmandooo

watna wrote: »

I used to love Micro Machines too and played it recently and just found it a bit boring. Glad I'm not alone!

omg me too! Used to be fun playing four player on the snes though, remember when ye played two people on each joy pad? played it for 5 mins on the ds and got very bored.

minidazzler

aye wrote: »

need to find a girl i can play street fighter and gta with!!!

thats the dream

GTA is mostly one player!!! And from experience girl gamers do NOT like to sit back while lads play and say "Watch this" every few minutes to keep them "Happy"


Nice to see ladies into games!!!

Wazdakka

Ive got a mate who'se fairly into her games..
She used to play City of heroes while breast feeding her son...
She also has two 360's so her fiance and her can play online in the same match..
She is Demon at COD..
All Halos on legendary in some ridiculous time in one sitting..
She's a better gamer than me

watna

minidazzler wrote: »

GTA is mostly one player!!! And from experience girl gamers do NOT like to sit back while lads play and say "Watch this" every few minutes to keep them "Happy"


Nice to see ladies into games!!!

I play GTA with my bf all the time. We take it in turns. If you die you hand the controller over. He is better than me though and prefers to do the missions. Playing together is a great laugh.

One day he robbed loads of people and bought me a big mansion in the hills, then robbed me a tank and we went on a spree. It was so romantic! He knows me so well!

Silverfish

minidazzler wrote: »

GTA is mostly one player!!! And from experience girl gamers do NOT like to sit back while lads play and say "Watch this" every few minutes to keep them "Happy"


Nice to see ladies into games!!!

Ah now, I do like to watch games being played as well, what better opportunity to remind someone they're a noob?

F*ckin' noobs.

aye

minidazzler wrote: »

GTA is mostly one player!!! And from experience girl gamers do NOT like to sit back while lads play and say "Watch this" every few minutes to keep them "Happy"


Nice to see ladies into games!!!

eh san andreas has two player

http://gta.killvoid.com/page.php?id=131

minidazzler

aye wrote: »

eh san andreas has two player

http://gta.killvoid.com/page.php?id=131

Its a very ****e version of two player!!! and so awkward. I played it a few times with an ex (biggest gamer I know) and we turned it off after 10 mins out of boredom. Thank god for Tony Hawk.

watna

aye wrote: »

eh san andreas has two player

http://gta.killvoid.com/page.php?id=131

That's true, I forgot about that. You can do it when you see a symbol of two people. I didn't think it was very good. One player is far better.

I feel bad we're not taking the ps2 to NZ now. Guess we'll have to something better there!

aye

watna wrote: »

That's true, I forgot about that. You can do it when you see a symbol of two people. I didn't think it was very good. One player is far better.

I feel bad we're not taking the ps2 to NZ now. Guess we'll have to something better there!

sure it's all about running around together and killing people, robbing cars etc.
what better way to make a relationship solid

you'll hav eto get something better than a ps2 for gta 4
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/

watna

aye wrote: »

sure it's all about running around together and killing people, robbing cars etc.
what better way to make a relationship solid

you'll hav eto get something better than a ps2 for gta 4
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/

I put in my date of birth and it said I'm not allowed to see it

I'm 24!

pampers1

I'm a girl and I just got a DS. I love it. All I have is brain training but I'm waiting on Neves and 42 Games in 1 to be delivered. I'm a real girly girl so would love any recommendations of any girly games that any of you might have played. Like fashion design games or things like that. I saw a game on the internet for the DS where you have a baby or something like that. I have a baby already so don't need a game to add to the joy lol!!!!

aye

watna wrote: »

I put in my date of birth and it said I'm not allowed to see it

I'm 24!

odd, mine worked, but i'm 25, its for 25 + only

watna

aye wrote: »

odd, mine worked, but i'm 25, its for 25 + only

Boo-urns. That has to be lies!

Maybe I just accidently entered the wrong date.

aye

watna wrote: »

Boo-urns. That has to be lies!

Maybe I just accidently entered the wrong date.

the date is in month/day/year. maybe it didnt make sense if you put the month is as 20 or whatever.

citytillidie

watna wrote: »

I put in my date of birth and it said I'm not allowed to see it

I'm 24!

Sorry you have to be 25

watna

aye wrote: »

the date is in month/day/year. maybe it didnt make sense if you put the month is as 20 or whatever.

Maybe. I'll go on tonight on my latop and check it out.

EDIT: 25, really? - baxtards!

citytillidie

Aye you will have to remove your above post #30 roms are illegal and you can't advertise it on here

Cathmandooo

aye wrote: »

if you have a ds you should buy this ......

delete delete delete that post, that isnt available anymore and boards dont allow you posts sites to download games afaik. Anyone who does it on the gaming forum gets their post deleted. Careful now.

aye

watna wrote: »

Maybe. I'll go on tonight on my latop and check it out.

EDIT: 25, really? - baxtards!

could you not just enter your dob as 1982 or whatever?

Cathmandooo

citytillidie wrote: »

Aye you will have to remove your above post #30 roms are illegal and you can't advertise it on here

SNAP

aye

citytillidie wrote: »

Aye you will have to remove your above post #30 roms are illegal and you can't advertise it on here

okey doke. done

watna

Good work people!

Anyway yes, I'll go on tonight again and enter my real date of birth. I'm actually 55, i just like to go on websites and pretend I'm a lot younger!

citytillidie

watna wrote: »

Good work people!

Anyway yes, I'll go on tonight again and enter my real date of birth. I'm actually 55, i just like to go on websites and pretend I'm a lot younger!

Sure its the internet you could have said you were any age

MizzLolly

Ooooh!!

I LOVE Zelda!!
Supermario
Tekken
Streetfighter
Mariokart (hehehe)


Of course girls love video games!!

ztoical

pampers1 wrote: »

II'm a real girly girl so would love any recommendations of any girly games that any of you might have played. Like fashion design games or things like that. !

you might like Pheonix Wright - its a visual novel game, no fashion design I'm afraid, you play an attorney and you have to talk to people and collect clues then go to court and try and win the case - it works really well on the DS.

Anti

Im so supprised that more men havent been in here giving it all that " women are crap at games " " stay in the kitchen " etc etc.

Granted there have not been a huge host of games designed with girls in mind ( and the ones that have thee girls dont like - Hello kitty adventures for example.....GTFO), its nice to see them playing games which are generally aimed at blokes. And the skill of female gamers is certainly rising alot, over the last few years soem of the female gamers have even turned pro ( no not the frag dolls ) and are earning good money form something they enjoy.

But now i have to say the OH is dire at most games. For example i sat her down to play forza2 one day. On a nice easy track with a slow car, up she coems to a corner so i tell her to slow down and turn in.... No... that was stupid of me... She drops a gear, gunns it and rams right into the armco !

Oh yeah. The law stats roms are not illegal as long as you own the original game on its original media type !

Dragan

My ex used to stomp me regularly at Soul Calibre 3, which was very annoying as i was pretty damn good at that game!

She was freaking awesome on Gods of War as well, finished it on God mode before i did which turned me on a bit.

Current flat mate is a legend, loves games. Has hundreds of the old school games on emulator.

I think i love her.

Cathmandooo

Anti wrote: »

Oh yeah. The law stats roms are not illegal as long as you own the original game on its original media type !

Maybe the law states that but boards states otherwise and are quick to warn people on the games forum.

I forgot about Tekken, I used to play that all the time, along with Colin McRae Rally and Gran Turismo, i forgot we had a Playstation back in the day!

rainbow kirby

I've got quite a few consoles, got all the last-gen stuff and a Wii, but I play way too much World of Warcraft for my own good (2 level 70 characters, one of which is in T6 raid content - and this means nothing to non-WoW players!). I've been gaming for a very long time, since I was about 7 years old (I'm going to be 24 this summer), and it does annoy me sometimes when people assume that girls don't game.

pampers1

I forgot about Tekken, I used to play that all the time, along with Colin McRae Rally and Gran Turismo, i forgot we had a Playstation back in the day![/quote]

I absolutely loved Tekken... I used to play against my brothers and demolished them every time. It was brilliant!!

Cathmandooo

pampers1 wrote: »

I absolutely loved Tekken... I used to play against my brothers and demolished them every time. It was brilliant!!

Ha yeah I played it with my brothers too. I don't think I ever won! Maybe when my bro had a cup of tea in one hand

If you want a real girly game for the ds Cake Mania can be quite addictive, gotta get those cakes iced

aye

Cathooo wrote: »

Ha yeah I played it with my brothers too. I don't think I ever won! Maybe when my bro had a cup of tea in one hand

If you want a real girly game for the ds Cake Mania can be quite addictive, gotta get those cakes iced

tekken is legendary!
the ds has some crazy games. cooking mama is another one that springs to mind.

Dragan

I would recommend Loco Roco to everyone!

Gauge

I love my DS games- pokemon, phoenix wright, trauma centre... and all them twee little games like Harvest moon and animal crossing. Gotta milk my cows and find a wife, while selling turnips to a racoon

I have a Wii and I adore Guitar Hero and Super Mario Galaxy! Also have a PS2, We Katamari is an amazing game. I've always liked the final fantasy role playing stuff, but I just don't have the time to grind in those any more. On my laptop I have games like Sim City, The Sims, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Civilization... I love strategy games!

I'm tempted to buy a PSP to pay games like the Katamari one, and Patapon, and other quirky stuff like that...

TerrorFirmer

Silverfish wrote: »

Eh?

Well, I have a pc, its a bit old and jaded at the moment, its waiting for its upgrade.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz Socket AM2
1MB, 65W
Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 2048MB
128Meg x 64, CL5, 667MHz, 240-pin
Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA
16MB 10000RPM
MSI K9N SLI Platinum,nForce 570 SLI,ATX,
Socket-AM2,2xGbLAN,DDR2,Firew,2xPCI-Ex16
and a x1950xtx pro.

So on that, my favourite games would be Quake, Battlefield 2, HL, HL2, and I really enjoyed Quake 4. COD4 was pretty good too. I'm in a Battlefield 2 clan for the last....eh...oh my god, three years?, but we don't play so much anymore, the game sortof declined a bit.

On the Snes, good old mariokart or zelda. I used to be pretty good at Street Fighter, but I lost all my skillz. They may have been imaginary.
EDIT: Omg, Bomberman! How could I forget. Way back when, I lived in a crappy apartment in Ranelagh. I'd just come home after surgery, and I was unable to work for a month. All I had was a crappy tv, my snes, and Bomberman. All I did was play through over, and over, trying to beat the game in the fastest times.


On the Sega, Need for Speed. Oldschool.

I only had a Playstation one, I don't think I liked any games on that. I played a lot of them, but I can't remember any. Oh, Pandemonium, that was sortof cool. And I played Spyro, that was okay. Meh. The whole thing just sucked. I was a nintendo child, and there was none of that yayness with the playstation.

On the wii, the winner is Super Mario Galaxy. Zelda Twilight Princess was..... okayish.

On the Xbox, Pgr / Forza.

On the Xbox 360, (which I just gave in and bought) it's all about the Forza.

I still have all these consoles under my tv, with the exception of the Sega and the Playstation, which I gave to my brother.
I'm not into any rts / mmorpgs or anything, I really only like FPS, and for consoles mainly racing games.

But to be honest, like anything else, it'll vary wildly, there'll be lots of girls who don't play, just like there's lots of boys who don't, but no-one ever really thinks to survey them.

Is there a similar post going in BGRH, just for balance?

....wow. Good inspirational post straight off the bat.

I remember playing with you a few times back in the good old days of BF2 (though I tried to play it again lately, and being so conditioned to Call of Duty 4, I was almost promptly sick in my mouth) and while it's unusual to see a female gamer in terms of playing FPS games, it's even rarer to see one that's actually good.

My girlfriends role in BF2 was to just follow me around and revive me whenever I died. Some may argue that's a womans rightful place...:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjVV843nFw