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What Games Do Women Play?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-have-two-x's-please-speak-up dept.

wikinerd writes "BBC recently published the results of an Elspa white paper on women in gaming, revealing that women prefer RPG, adventures, easy driving sims, puzzles, Tetris, and life simulations like The Sims. I suppose that the Slashdot crowd knows much more about this topic than Elspa, so I ask you: What games do women like most and are they experienced players? What would be the difference if your opponent in a game is male or female? How does the gender of other gamers or chatters affect your on-line behavior, especially when the physical distance means you may never really meet face-to-face."

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  1. Adventure games by psavo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FWIW, my wife only ever wished to play Lucas Arts -styled adventure games. ie. Atlantis, Monkey Island I&II, DOTT, Sam'n'Max. She is willing to look while other play some platform games, but not 3D-shooters. AFAIK she doesn't look much when I play NWN either, though FF5/FF9 seemed to interest her from looking-me-play point of view.

    My mother liked to play MarioBros 1 and 3 on NES. She hadn't had console for a long time, but I suspect she'd still like them. Oh yes, she liked Vexed and Bejeweled very much when she had Palm. I think she'd like adventure games too, but her english isn't good enough to play comfortably.

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  2. 1 woman's perspective by SiveAmbrai · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm kinda disappointed with the responses so far.

    I personally enjoy MMO's( Currently owned by WoW) FPS's like Doom, Halo, UT etc. Platformers cause they're just awesome :) DDR. Fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Super Smash Brothers.

    Overall its not the genere as much as the quality of the gaming experience that matters to me.

  3. Re:Evolved preferences by gregor-e · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's not a matter of tradition. It's a matter of survival having evolved these differences. The selective pressures of early hominid life made every tiny advantage into a life-or-death difference. If a particular male happened to have a .5 millisecond advantage in reaction time, he would most likely be able to put his club through the skull of his opponent, thus taking his opponent's assets and assuring the passage of his ever-so-slightly better genetics.

    Same goes for women - in a world where starvation comes once a year, women who are more willing to sacrifice to nurture their brood are more likely to pass on this ability, since their brood is more likely to survive.

    It's not a matter of "tradition" or "assumed roles". It's biology. The same survival pressures that selected musculature in men and enlarged mammaries and wide hips in women gave rise to many brain and behaviorial differences.

    I also apologise to the men and women who read /., for the obsequious, fawning PC BS that attempts to hide the differences between the sexes, as if such differences are somehow ugly.

  4. I hate the Sims by Availle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I once tried to play the Sims and I've seldom found any game that's more boring than that one. Yes, I'm a girl, and my list of games is larger than I'd like to imagine...all of the LucasArts adventures, RPGs(Morrowind, Gothic II, Vampire:The Masquerade), all of the Myst games, all of the GTA games, some of the NFS series, some FPS(Max Payne, Unreal Tournament, the Jedi Knights, Far Cry, Enter the Matrix)...all in all a happy little mix. By the way, none of my friends who actually do play computer games likes the Sims.