[quote name='Chacrana']I like women to be teh h0tz.[/quote]
Dang. I'm only mild.
[quote name='Sailorneorune']on the appearance of women in gaming, the only problem is that most of them are dressed rather impractically. Seriously... who wears a thong in the snow-covered mountains? Where does Lara Croft get her items from? (My guess is a portable hole.) [/QUOTE]
The second issue is indemic with video games as a whole, and have nothing to do with the characters being male or female. All characters can concievably whip out a Barret lite50 from absolutely no where. I mean, where does Master Chief keep that Brute Shot when he's not using it?
Games utilizing inventories, such as RPGs/ Adventure/Hack & Slash/Dungeon Crawlers will often have characters hauling around what adds up to almost hundreds of bottles that realistically would measure imposing weights, and the hero isn't bogged down in the least. They leap into the forray, not caring that their potions equal a combined weight of over 45 pounds in their pockets, if they actually have any pockets to begin with.
I always found it humerous to watch Samantha Alexander in the Hunter series reach for her (unlimited ammo). Anyone familiar with the reload animation will know whta I'm talking about when I ask, just WHERE is she reaching? But to ease your mind, Sailor, at least she's fully clothed.
[quote name='depascal22']But a lot of women don't have hobbies other than shopping or gossiping.....I keed, I keed. [/QUOTE]
I don't know why you're keeding, as you're pretty much right on the money.
They won't like to admit to it to a man, but get the girls together, and there's a pride in how much the shop and what the always shop for. And yes, we're horrible gossips too. Though as we all know in our hearts gossiping is wrong, we won't admit to anyone else, not to mention *ourselves* that we gossip all too much. And not because we care about that person, but because we love to show off WHAT we know about WHOM and how smart we are in that WE know what THEY should do. We're all dime daytime TV psychiatrists. *rolls eyes*
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']Well, do you ever see fat, short, ugly male heroes in videogames? Ugly people belong locked away inside their houses, not to be seen by the outside world.[/quote]
There's this one guy in Dynasty Warriors who weighs at least 300 lbs. But he smiles alot and sorta guffaws, so he's all jolly. Okay, how about the dwarves in any of the fantasy games?
[quote name='terribledeli']I also have a problem when they act like gaming is a boys club and they need to spoil the fun.[/quote]What you have there are just pathetic folks who have severe self-worth issues. They've been rejected over time for whatever reason and currently are taking it out on whomever they run into who are (as they see things) weaker than they are.
It's not because they're female gamers, they're just miserable girls to begin with.
[quote name='Starwishi']Video games are not just a guy thing anymore. Female gamers are slowly growing in numbers and frankly I feel there's nothing wrong with that.[/quote]
They never have been just a guy thing. But I will disagree with you on us growing in numbers. We're still VERY much in the minority. I walk into a game section or video game store, and unless the clerks know me, they assume I'm looking for my kids (I don't have any) or someone else.
So when some guys are in the shop looking at this game or that, and I tell them, the price will be dropping within a month, or that the xbox port is better than the 360s, or that they'll get bored mashing one or two buttons and that's all the game has to offer, or that it's a great game, they all look at me as if I'm a freak of nature. And then they'll chill out, process the information I just gave them, and we'll start talking games.
[quote name='vietgurl']I don't know about you but whenever I go on XB Live or onto any online game, I get picked on for being a girl (I eventually learned not to be too obvious about it in my screenname).[/quote]
Picked on? Odd. I'm usually more than welcome... moreso *because* I'm a girl.
At Christmas time, one of the local EB Managers roped me into helping out to be their "Mom-friendly" employee. I'm the grown woman who knows video games, so the grandparents and Moms & Dads who have no idea what they're looking for or at, see me, they come over and ask a thousand questions. They could just as easily be answered by most of the kids working there, as the kids working there actually have a halfway decent idea of what they're selling (what a rarity!).
[quote name='GuilewasNK']I disagree. Unless you are already Scott Steiner or another pro wrestler, you would have to take copius amounts of steroids or work out CONSTANTLY to look like some of the dudes in video games.[/quote]
eh... possibly. To me a perfect videogame hero was Nick Kang from True Crime Streets of LA... not just because he was written well with a fun personality who didn't always come up with the classic one-liners and was someone you could laugh with, not just because his VA nailed that personality... but because of his build.
(Yeah, he was a leetle tall for being a Chinese-American, but depending on his lineage, he was perfectly believable.) But back to Nicks body... absolutely realistic.
I play a lot of shooters, and usually the character models are fairly respectable. In fact, the only character I can think of off the top of my head who looked silly was Tex from Brute Force.
Of course there are super-hero games and fighting games where some characters are just absurd, but that's to be expected.
Conversly a woman would have to have seriously detailed boob jobs to get to those proportions.
And have a few ribs removed as well. youch.
In regards to women playing games online, I have played quite a few in Star Trek Elite Force and Quake III, I just never gave much thought about it. I still don't see why it is still such a big deal if a woman plays online. Just treat them like an equal player and stop trying to find cupid's arrow or give them a hard time.
You get a Star for being level-headed and reasonable. *applauds*
Also, I get made fun of a lot, especially when people see my game collection.
