2013-04-16, 00:15 | Link #81 |
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I don't remember seeing female spending all those money toward gaming as much as guys. Some even went as far as criticizing me for spending 60$ for a piece of software. Do you think they will cater to female gamer when that is the common sight?
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2013-04-16, 00:47 | Link #82 | ||
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First, I want to see some numbers for this. Second, even if it did have a higher female fanbase, what does that prove? How does that change anything? The fans it happens to attract does not change what it was originally aimed after, what tropes it plays and what gender it those tropes benefit the most. Now if you can find me an interview where the developers state that it was intended for a gender-neutral audience first before anything else I would take back what I said. Quote:
If the Barbie series ended up having a primarily male fanbase that does not change that they are primarily focused on girls. |
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2013-04-16, 00:59 | Link #83 | |
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2013-04-16, 01:11 | Link #84 | |
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I remember that years before there were attempts to pitch games to the female demographic with politically-correct themes, but realistically, most of them -- being casuals -- will rather play Facebook games because they can play and socialize at the same time without the extra hardware required unlike MMOs. Just ask my sister, she's playing one of those games right now.
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2013-04-16, 01:29 | Link #86 | |
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One of the reasons I really dislike F2P games, you end up paying more in the end than you normally would, if you don't mind paying.
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2013-04-16, 01:30 | Link #87 |
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would you consider a medical game like Trauma Center/Trauma Team gender neutral?
also, what do you think of Beyond Good & Evil, is it made for male or female?
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2013-04-16, 01:47 | Link #88 | |
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(Duke Nukem did suck, but for many other reasons). |
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2013-04-16, 02:05 | Link #89 | |
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I got a game for girls! It's called Maplestory :P You can't really say it's male-oriented, because no matter how hard Nexon tries to make it look cool, it's just a cute 2D grinder with a good chat system.
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2013-04-16, 02:24 | Link #91 |
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Maplestory used to be much better, I quit it now because it's mindless and spammy.
Back then it was spammy, but the game was built with that in mind, bosses couldn't just be mindlessly solod by a maxed out class that just came out five seconds ago on the test server doing 999999999999 damage with the flick of a rest with 20 pets out and a bunch of annoying floaty NX effects clogging up the screen with some ugly-ass wings that you can't toggle off(or some other stupid feature like the voice acting) with only preset characters coming out(gotta have those presets!) and every character being revamped into a totally unoriginal type that has every mobility skill that used to make Hermits unique before fourth job was out. There's no point to playing the game anymore, every class has A: An attack that stupidly spreads across the entire screen and a single hitting move, some type of flash jump move, and depending on how new the class is, retarded jetpacking moves that throttle you to any height the map has making stuff like mounts useless. I am pretty bitter over that game, I really liked it, I could tolerate the grind...now it turned into complete crap and the story isn't as good as it's defenders claim to be, yeah I know you can appeal that it's my opinion but whatever, they can have fun playing their pissed off demons who are good guys because the bad guy killed his family, best story here man, totally worth the amount of roleplay and immersion they CRUSHED in favor of presets. |
2013-04-16, 02:33 | Link #92 | |
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Nah, I also share the same experience of happily grinding to 76 back when 3rd job wasn't out yet and the 199->200 exp gap was 2.1 billion exp, but I quit after 4 years (eventually hitting 14X, stayed because of friends). Anyway, its current state aside, it really did have a large female population and not just guys playing as girls, since I happened to meet an entire guild in person.
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2013-04-16, 03:16 | Link #93 | ||
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It would probably be boring all you do is scavenge for items to throw at an inept AI and waiting for him to kill off all the baddies.
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2013-04-16, 03:48 | Link #94 | |
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If you got a good game, with good mechanics, challenges, and nowadays a good story people will buy it. There is really no point in creating games just for boys or just for girls, unless you don't want to make big money or you are being pushed by someone to do so... |
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2013-04-16, 04:06 | Link #95 | ||
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Not everyone research about games before they buy it anyway so just having a good game doesn't mean you'll make money.
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2013-04-16, 05:09 | Link #97 | |
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That now extends to any modern Fps.
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2013-04-16, 05:14 | Link #98 |
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Well, that's because it's almost impossible to tell them apart these days, with all their grays and browns and chest high walls and QTEs. About the only 'modern' shooter I've seen get anywhere truly positive praise would be Spec Ops: The Line, and that's mostly because of the soul murdering story line (and it's a change from 'murcia savin' tha world from evil).
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2013-04-16, 06:35 | Link #99 | ||||
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I don't have a link off hand, and I'm not going to scour the internet for the interview, but in an interview it was stated that there are more female fans at these events than male fans. Reason? They absolutely love the voice actors.
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This too. I'm pretty sure Milla is the only female character to crack the top 10. |
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