Males and females in the gaming industry, gaming culture.

I don't know if any one has stumbled upon some of Daniel Floyd's YouTube videos. Some of the vides are old but still interesting to watch, if you haven't done so already. They are, naturally, on the gaming industry and the gaming culture in general. Here is one of them. Watch it, and share any thoughts you may have.

I don't know if any one has stumbled upon some of Daniel Floyd's YouTube videos. Some of the vides are old but still interesting to watch, if you haven't done so already. They are, naturally, on the gaming industry and the gaming culture in general. Here is one of them. Watch it, and share any thoughts you may have.

I liked the shout out to Ubisoft. Their my boys. Nice video. Though sadly this will probably get bashed for possible advertising.

" I liked the shout out to Ubisoft. Their my boys. Nice video. Though sadly this will probably get bashed for possible advertising. "

"@gingertastic_10 said:

" I liked the shout out to Ubisoft. Their my boys. Nice video. Though sadly this will probably get bashed for possible advertising. "

I hope not. I figured it was a nice take on where our industry is at with regards to this topic, and thought it was worth sharing. "

Yea, I also support not drawing gender lines. I've met a few girl gamers in my experiences, and I didn't notice anything different about them as gamers. If I were to ask them something like, "What was the first game to feature the Konami Code"....well, OK, they'd most likely answer Contra, but what would you say? The fact that they didn't say, "What the hell is the Konami Code" or "I'm surprised your atrophied leg muscles could walk you over to my presence" has to be worth something. Right?

Also helps if the younger sibling has been exsposed to it when they were younge. For example my younger sister always watched me play sonic and such and always wanted to get into playing. So it started off as me letting her play so I had someone to beat but i'd never rub it in her face. I always told her she just needed to work on it. Now has she got older she started get better and get into games more and more. Now shes 19 and she can hold her own in a fighting game or two and enjoys playing all those "hardcore games" like gears of war army of two the resident evil series and so on.

So exsposure at a younge age helps. Also guitar hero and rockband helps as well.

From a social perspective, men are geared to be more competitive and release this in our hobbies which usually take the form of sports.  This has been the case in every civilization in that men are always percieved to play competitive sports whereas women, until this day and age, haven't really consistently been seen to enter this role.  I mean, when it comes to most sports, do female athletes really achieve mass numbers or mass mareket coverage?  For example, there are three parks near my house and three near my parent's and everytime I pass any of these or go to them, there are always guys playing football and cricket or even touch rugby and it's always different groups of people.  I have never seen women ever do this simply because they are not as competitive in these areas as men seem to be.

It is the same thing, but with the next generation sport, gaming.  And the majority that do try sports tend to try sports like netball and don't really move on from them.  The same with casual gamers who are women who tend to get stuck in this rut it seems.

Of course, the major exception to this line of arguement seems to be Tennis where women seems to be as competitive as their male counterparts.

I think we as the consumer majority can be partly to blame on this How often do we frown on the games that are, well "girly" or too casual? often when we show off  a game to our significant other or femela friends, we are likely to want them to play testosterone filled games.

" I think we as the consumer majority can be partly to blame on this How often do we frown on the games that are, well "girly" or too casual? often when we show off  a game to our significant other or femela friends, we are likely to want them to play testosterone filled games. "

I found this to be a very illuminating post on males and females in the gaming industry, gaming culture.

But what about the shemales?

" I found this to be a very illuminating post on males and females in the gaming industry, gaming culture.But what about the shemales? "

" @radion_null said:

" I think we as the consumer majority can be partly to blame on this How often do we frown on the games that are, well "girly" or too casual? often when we show off  a game to our significant other or femela friends, we are likely to want them to play testosterone filled games. "

Not really our fault though that most of the so called girly games are rubbish.............And now I know you are thinking "Oh donwoogie, that is just your opinion! Girls might think they are good!" well most of the time these rubbish games are the price of normal games which is not an accurate representation of their production values and so I call them rubbish on that account too! "

Dupe thread.

" @donwoogie said:

" @radion_null said:

" I think we as the consumer majority can be partly to blame on this How often do we frown on the games that are, well "girly" or too casual? often when we show off  a game to our significant other or femela friends, we are likely to want them to play testosterone filled games. "

Not really our fault though that most of the so called girly games are rubbish.............And now I know you are thinking "Oh donwoogie, that is just your opinion! Girls might think they are good!" well most of the time these rubbish games are the price of normal games which is not an accurate representation of their production values and so I call them rubbish on that account too! "

actually I wasn't thinking that. You are right in saying that most of those games are rather poorly made. In said case, I wonder why the companies behind those games don't try harder. "

"why would you want to play a washing up game?"

Oh dear god...  Alexander.  Don't remind me of that mess of a bombcast.