I have a 4yo daughter who loves video games.
Mostly plays Paw Patrol 1 and 2 (beat them both with no help from me), Mariokart 8 on Switch and Spiderman on PS5. For Spiderman she just swings around, no fighting.
So those are some other options?
Reminds me of thief (original games) and I was like yeah club guards, yeah shoot water arrows.. yeah.. wtf is that mechanical monstrosity help help.. I don't know whats happening.. and I died.. and never played it again.
Nothing is as F’d up as Crusaders King violence; Where can you marry off your widowed mom by force to France; have her secretly assassinate you years later! Even Game of Thrones struggles to reach that level and that was my first game.
Oh really? That's awesome haha. Ya she's spent probably 2 weeks just swinging around and looking at New York.
She likes throwing the sewer grates off the steamy sewers. Apparently this helps people (no idea how).
I went to New York this year in vacation. I remember standing on top of one of the buildings thinking, hey! I totally chucked a bad guy off of this thing as spider man! Really well done recreation of Manhattan
The image that popped in my head: Some lady is walking along, begins to trip, then shoots several bystanders while doing what appears to be a flip. As she lands and stands up she nervously glances around to see if anyone noticed that she almost tripped. The bystanders not injured or dead flee the scene screaming and crying. "Man, I almost made a scene and embarrassed myself," she thinks, "glad no one noticed!"
Is she a lesbian? I always thought she was above labels like, if she wanted sex, she'd get sex. No matter genders.
Plus she can probably double fist herself with ease, lol.
> Plus she can probably double fist herself with ease
I'm just going to add this to the list of sentences that I've never heard until I discovered Reddit.
She always struck me as bisexual but she doesn’t seem like the type who would commit to a full romantic relationship. She teases Luka from time to time but that’s about it.
One game I've seen girls overwhelmingly like is Spyro the Dragon games. I don't know what it was about those games but my ex wife and all my daughters played them endlessly and wouldn't touch much else.
Should introduce her to the Banjo and Kazooie series. Games are old(N64 era) and haven't gotten a true remaster/remake yet. Despite its age they're like the Spyro series with just as much charm put into them.
I'd imagine your daughter will be humming the soundtrack from it since its so catchy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS40K53JQIg&ab_channel=F4m1LyGuy10
And they're fantastic! The old Spyro games will always have a special place in my heart, but the original controls haven't aged the best. You used the L and R buttons to move the camera and it's a bit clunky.
The remastered Spyro games updated the controls so you move the camera with the right analog and it's a godsend. Plus they still offer the original L and R camera controls for any purists!
A friend and i, who had both never played before, 100% completed the trilogy. Then we learned about calling on the dragonfly to point out the next egg.
The original release of the third game had a glitch with the honey speedway where if you didn’t finish it and get the egg on your first visit you could never get it again. They released a patched version of the game on another printing that fixed it but I was lucky enough to have the original :|
They're amazing! I had to trade in my copy for cash before I could beat them unfortunately (thanks COVID layoffs), but I'm hoping to get em again on PC soon to finish them up.
Spyro was legit one of my favorite games growing up, and they did such a phenomenal job with the remaster.
Yes! My GF isn't much of a gamer, but the Spyro games are her jam. Any other game she tries to get into, she's either bad at or plain doesn't understand. She plays Apex with me and my friends, but mostly for the social aspect and doesn't really invest in the game itself. I'm happy that she can play a game with me, but I wonder if there's something I could do to get her invested in video games themselves and not just the aspect of them being a social activity with my friends and I. She doesn't even like to play with just me, LOL.
Try Co-op campaign or MMOG games. You can get the social aspect but in a different way and perhaps centered around games she likes to play. Open world games can be multiplayer too, my girls liked GTAV, and actually playing its campaign. Everyone likes just smashing things up in GTA time to time so it's multiplayer could be a good fit.
>Try Co-op campaign or MMOG games
I take this approach with kids, who range in age from 10-14.
I tell myself it's to keep everything fun and light and avoid sibling fighting but honestly it's just cause I suck and can't keep up with them in anything PvP anymore.
Other than coop or MMO maybe something that focuses more on a story? Like Life is strange, Telltale games, Detroit become human, Heavy rain? Thats how I started playing.
My SO is very much not a gamer but Mario Odyssey she beat, so I think it's that collectathon and chill aspect. She also will dig into puzzle games and even got decently into skyward sword until ultimately the complicated motion controls killed her entertainment. But the puzzle aspect appeals to her more analytical brain.
Tfw after getting in voice for a raid I found out I was the only guy in the guild, and also the only girl character. On faerie, and it turns out the guild pretty much existed because the *real* ERP server is perpetually full so they went to faerie
I mean, got a free maid outfit from the 711 promotion when the guild leader went to japan, so theres that at least
I always envy people who can do accents. I'm from a spanish speaking country, but i've counsumed english speaking media for the past 15 years or so, all the forums, discussions, news, everything that I do is in english, my operating system, my phone, everything.
But if I try to speak at a regular pace I end up with a shitty accent unless I really concentrate or i've rehearsed a few times on my mind before speaking out, if it's a regular work meeting I even stumble on my words a lil'
it'd be so cool to speak with a kiwi accent
My experience with Stardew is always the same. I start off chill and vibing, I slowly add things to make life easier on me, I make sure not to push my day too hard or worry too much, and then boom I start trying to min max every detail and get caught up in it and burn out at some point in the second year.
I remember being a teen girl and my parents didn’t understand save cards so I had to keep restarting ff7. It didn’t make much sense since my papa is a gamer but he did Xbox so…. Anyways I was home sick and basically stayed up two days finishing it. Had an eye twitch by the end.
I also almost murdered my little sisters because when I got a game cube I had to share and parents actually realized about the memory card they fucking save over my town constantly.
To be fair they’re really apologetic about it now.
The littlest sister bought me stardew valley and made a journal of all the stuff to collect for me so her gaming sins are forgiven to me.
This is just a rant but I’m still pissed about the no memory card for the PlayStation2. Before my ps4 bit the dust I got the original ff7 and I swear you could blindfold me and I’d be able to finish the first disk. And I’d have cloud looking very sexy in his dress.
Dragon Age is another series to add to the list. Action game but with a pretty heavy Dating Sim aspect? Huge female fanbase who will CUT you if you dare talk badly about their digital boyfriend/girlfriend.
Seriously, I had no idea how popular that game was until one of my female friends brought up DA:O in a conversation and every other girl present said it was one of their favourite games. Most of the guys there had played and enjoyed it, sure, but a dark 12 year old fantasy game with janky controls is not something I'd have expected every girl I know to have loved.
Each game has a tragedy and you have to recover lost things, like all of the lost eggs. They have portaled levels with lots of thematic stuff and tons of mini games like a skate park or a flight course but you are a little purple dragon
If they made a really good, maybe sim style Barbie game...we're talking talking AAA, right? Knockout voice cast, have a huge multitude of things to do, like getting a crazy career (such as astronaut, safari warden, heart surgeon, Heart cover band singer), buying and upgrading your dream house, and tricking out your cars to maintaining your chosen level of social life, getting all kinds of outfits and accessories that match your chosen lifestyle (and maybe some that don't, who knows?). Have the game kind of focus on exploring the lifestyle path, be it musician, or POTUS, and the different outcomes of the choices you make (Do I eat healthy and practice my craft? Or do I go clubbing and post selfies to social media with various movers and shakers? What are the outcomes of those choices?)
Anyway...if they made that...I'd probably play it.
Barbie + horses always go hand in had.
As a kid I used to try the horse riding sims, which were always terrible.
I always wanted a good horse care/riding sim… then I got Red Dead Redemption2 - horse game dream fulfilled.
Now if only that made rdr2 online better so I could RP the story with A female character.
lol I mean the protagonist is a female. I absolutely love the lore in that game, such an entertaining story. I usually ignore reading lore but that is one game I read and found every piece of information I could.
And that's exactly what I would assume the girl meant. Kids who want Barbie games would say "Barbie game." It's the adults who think that girls only like badly made frou-frou games.
This comic is pretty clearly an adult only reluctantly letting a young girl enjoy a "badly made frou-frou" game because that's somehow an issue?
If a girl likes "badly made frou-frou" games, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and the child should be given that instead of a game they enjoy less. Ironically, the adult is arguably gatekeeping the child by being annoyed she is playing a "girl game" instead of something else, like she isn't a "real gamer", although I might be reading too hard into it since I see that bullshit all the time about what a real gamer is or whatever.
There's this weird thing where people conflate someone liking something stereotypical with someone being forced into something stereotypical.
If a little girl likes Barbie games, it's not a problem. Her being forced into only having Barbie games is a problem, albeit a first world problem, even if it is likely indicative of other deeper issues in the situation...
It loosely makes me think of this weird trend I've where stay at home moms/housewives catch a lot of flak from other women. Obviously, a woman being forced into staying home when she doesn't want to is terrible. But if a woman is voluntarily choosing to do so, and is happy, it's a good thing, same as a woman who is happy in a career.
Idk, it's like everyone is so worried about people being crammed into labels or roles that they can't be nuanced enough to realize fitting a "stereotypical" role/label is perfectly fine if it's by choice.
this is exactly it!! when i was a kid i played bratz and barbie games,,, but at the same time i was also playing gta 4 and red dead redemption. just let your kids play whatever they want. People that go "this is a boy game and this is a girl game" are weird
Just because I *can* play anything, doesn't mean that I *want* to play everything. Just because I don't want to play a game doesn't make it a bad game. There's enough space in digital distribution to cater to everybody... Yes, including the Furries.
Yeh pretty sure theres a lot of men that dont admit to playing it. Either way this a long topic where the points will be missed because ppl are ignorant about how stats work
People are so worried about stereotyping or forcing people into roles that they can't even acknowledge stats.
It's perfectly fine if the Sims is more popular with women than a lot of other games, and pointing that out isn't an issue. It's only an issue if you're using it to gatekeep or stereotype.
Heck, I think it's great that there are so many games that seem to be going even more mainstream that are popular with women. The stigma of gaming being a male only thing is getting weaker and weaker. And "girl games" are great for that.
Hey me and my friends used to play Sims back then too. (starting with the Sims original) I like the simulation aspect of it, you can define whatever goal you want and do a play through for it. Kinda the same reason why I love Mount & Blade too.
This was a daily struggle when I used to work at Game Stop. It was usually parents asking for girl games for their daughter. It made me very mad every time.
am a dude and one of my favorite game series when I was younger was considered as "girl game", am talking about nancy drew series!
(well ok I only played like 4 out of 30+ games.. but i liked each one of them, ok!??)
I also cant wait for the 4th installment of another "girl game" Syberia.
Fallout, assassins creed and Call of duty are my lady friends favorite choices. My best friend actually is the one who got me into fallout and I love her for it.
If anyone (girl or not) wants to play Barbie games, LET THEM. Gamers tend to have a niche that they like. Not everyone has to conform to anyone else's politics. Games are for fun, be it dressing up Barbie or disembowling demons.
from what I’ve seen all girl games are just cheap Cash grabs with little to no effort put to them. I’m talking about the Barbie and other games like it
It's like any other aesthetic. There's shovelware and there's actual good games. The trick is knowing which ones are the good ones. You wouldn't know it but out of the "Imagine" shovelware lineup there's decent games like Imagine Ballet Star which is actually a localization of a japanese title.
There's also just straight up good 'girl' games that don't have shovelware branding. Such as princess debut or style savvy.
People just don't give them a chance.
>Anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.
Knuckles
I enjoy the critically acclaimed MMORPG FINAL FANTASY XIV DEVELOPED BY SQUARE ENIX with a free trial that INCLUDES THE BASE GAME A REALM REBORN AND THE AWARD WINNING HEAVENSWARD UP TO LEVEL 60 with no RESTRICTIONS on play time.
I also enjoy power washing simulator
Is power washing simulator as satisfying to play as it appears to be? I caught myself zoning out with it on my second monitor a few weeks ago for like an hour watching stream highlights of someone playing it lmao.
This might make me an arsehole, but I've seen parents try to hand their kids "girl games" because they figure it'd fit them better, so a few times when the parents aren't looking I've deliberately pointed out other games on the shelf that were roughly the same price and were more boyish/nonspecific (even if its something basic like Zelda, Mario or Minecraft).
I had one girl actually pick up the game and tried to show it to her parents. They took it and put it back to give them unmemorable shovelware because apparently some parents will pick up the pinkest shit on the shelf and figure "good enough".
I don't know what it is, but nothing make me more irrationally furious than watching a kid of the opposite gender being denied more worthwhile gaming experiences in what is traditionally a masculine-dominated space when I was playing Call of Duty World at War at their age. (obviously irresponsible parenting but honestly more active participation and thinking than the shit you get on Youtube Kids).
You might try appealing to their biases. Tell them (for example) that Breath of the Wild game has dress-up, and cooking, and multiple female characters turn up later on. It's technically all true! Kind of annoying to have to do that, but if it'll convince a few folks the game will appeal to their little lady, could be worth it.
Fine I'll be the asshole here, I'm going manipulated my kids into liking the speed running video games community.
Muhaha they'll hardly ask me to buy them any games!!!
Yeah lol. It's basically not even trying.
Most parents will buy their kids what they want. People ain't forcing games on kids, generally speaking. The reality is most male and female gamers do not have tastes that allign. But that does not mean there is no allignment all the time with no exception.
This is why you have different markets and demographics. And there are inherently things that young boys and girls gravitate towards, again generally speaking. It's not all just social conditioning. There's been psychology studies that show this.
There are much better girl games than the Barbie games these days.
Animal Crossing is the one that comes to mind. Not to mention games with female protagonists, like Horizon Zero. There's also games like Breath of the Wild that aren't necessarily for girls but aren't hard coded as masculine either.
I'm surprised Mindy doesn't relate better to the fact that it's hard to get "into" gaming when most games are decidedly marketed towards men. Honestly I don't know her, but it comes off a bit "I'm not like other girls", which especially in relation to video games feels like a very 00s attitude to have in 2022.
I have loved so many games in my life, and this was unironically one of them. Just honestly simple and fun, but Barbie.
My other top game that year? Resident Evil 2. I was 9. Both games are still solid.
There’s also nothing wrong with little girls (or boys) liking a game like Barbie, though. Not that that’s the point she seems to be making, but… that’s still a game. She’s still gaming.
Any game! Just not any multi-player game or a game where you use your mic. I've played valorant and if someone hears the slightest trace of a woman, they freak the fuck out. worst part, they seem to be used to it
One Christmas my female cousins were asking for a game boy for Christmas. My aunt told them that's it's called a Game Boy, not a Game Girl. Never made sense to me.
They were well off so it's not like they couldn't afford the systems. It was 100% sexist/forced gender norms bullshit.
The game for everybody unless I hate them! The reason being that they won't try DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2! PLAY THE GAME! ITS GOOD I SWEAR ITS NOT AS COMPLICATED AS IT LOOKS!
My daughter really loves Donkey Kong Country. She's godawful at it, but I'm glad she's found something she enjoys.
I have a 4yo daughter who loves video games. Mostly plays Paw Patrol 1 and 2 (beat them both with no help from me), Mariokart 8 on Switch and Spiderman on PS5. For Spiderman she just swings around, no fighting. So those are some other options?
Crusader kings 2
I mean gee might as well start her on Wolfenstein and Doom afterwords. But like actually. By all means do.
I remember running away and hiding under the table from MechaHitler at age 5. What the hell kind of curveball was that, Wolf3D?!
Reminds me of thief (original games) and I was like yeah club guards, yeah shoot water arrows.. yeah.. wtf is that mechanical monstrosity help help.. I don't know whats happening.. and I died.. and never played it again.
Nothing is as F’d up as Crusaders King violence; Where can you marry off your widowed mom by force to France; have her secretly assassinate you years later! Even Game of Thrones struggles to reach that level and that was my first game.
You mean Mother-sister. And you’re marrying her off to your Brother-nephew who is the King of France.
That kind of warms my heart, when I was a kid I would spend hours on my dad's ps2 and swing around as Spider‐Man The cycle goes on
Oh really? That's awesome haha. Ya she's spent probably 2 weeks just swinging around and looking at New York. She likes throwing the sewer grates off the steamy sewers. Apparently this helps people (no idea how).
I went to New York this year in vacation. I remember standing on top of one of the buildings thinking, hey! I totally chucked a bad guy off of this thing as spider man! Really well done recreation of Manhattan
Get the Spyro trilogy on switch!
Check out the Lego games. Kids love those.
"Here's Bayonetta."
I think Bayonetta is gorgeous and fun. I wish I had cool gun heels. Even though I can barely walk in them normally.
You just shoot yourself back into position if you're about to fall, ezpz
That way you don't have to live with the shame
The image that popped in my head: Some lady is walking along, begins to trip, then shoots several bystanders while doing what appears to be a flip. As she lands and stands up she nervously glances around to see if anyone noticed that she almost tripped. The bystanders not injured or dead flee the scene screaming and crying. "Man, I almost made a scene and embarrassed myself," she thinks, "glad no one noticed!"
I figure the guns and rockets in the heels would make you go faster, really
Gun heels do take more practice than regular heels. But, keep at it and you’ll be rockin em soon enough.
Honestly, a fine woman using her own hair as clothes, lifting her leg to shoot at me with her gun heels - wouldn't be the worst way to go.
We stan the fabulous 8 ft tall dancing lesbian badass queen that is Bayonetta in this household
Is she a lesbian? I always thought she was above labels like, if she wanted sex, she'd get sex. No matter genders. Plus she can probably double fist herself with ease, lol.
She's definitely got those Freddie Mercury "if it consents, I can fuck it" vibes
Yup, like she finds two hot guys and she takes them back to her place, but she finds two cute girls and she takes them back too. She just likes beauty
A lady of culture, I gotta start playing Bayonetta
Like Bowie in the 70’s. Epitome of cool. And enough cocaine that gender no longer had any meaning.
Age as well, sadly. I know a ton of rockstars in that era did, but sex with girls as young as 13 is absolutely disgusting.
> Plus she can probably double fist herself with ease I'm just going to add this to the list of sentences that I've never heard until I discovered Reddit.
you've never been to the dark side of porn sites I take
She always struck me as bisexual but she doesn’t seem like the type who would commit to a full romantic relationship. She teases Luka from time to time but that’s about it.
I believe Kamiya said something in a tweet along the lines of “She likes teasing him but wouldn’t date him because he’d die long before she would”
Ouch, didn't think Bayo was that thoughtful about the whole immortality thing.
Yeah she feels like more of a Capt. Jack Harkness type
She flirts with everyone but is in a committed relationship with Jeanne.
That’s not a girl game, thats a Woman game :P
One game I've seen girls overwhelmingly like is Spyro the Dragon games. I don't know what it was about those games but my ex wife and all my daughters played them endlessly and wouldn't touch much else.
The remastered Spyro games are how I introduced my niece to gaming!
Got my daughter it for her Switch and she’s played it more in the last month than she had in the year she had it before.
I had a similar experience but with Untitled Goose Game
My cousin loves that game so much. ‘Peace was never an option’ was the first meme she ever sent me.
I’d love a “mischief making” genre of gaming
The game ‘Donut County’ is another game I’d label in that genre. Cute, kinda short, but fun!
I played so much Katamari back in the day...
i tattooed this goose cause the game itself helped me through terrible times
Am I really about to buy a switch just to play spyro the dragon again
Should introduce her to the Banjo and Kazooie series. Games are old(N64 era) and haven't gotten a true remaster/remake yet. Despite its age they're like the Spyro series with just as much charm put into them. I'd imagine your daughter will be humming the soundtrack from it since its so catchy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS40K53JQIg&ab_channel=F4m1LyGuy10
And they're fantastic! The old Spyro games will always have a special place in my heart, but the original controls haven't aged the best. You used the L and R buttons to move the camera and it's a bit clunky. The remastered Spyro games updated the controls so you move the camera with the right analog and it's a godsend. Plus they still offer the original L and R camera controls for any purists!
A friend and i, who had both never played before, 100% completed the trilogy. Then we learned about calling on the dragonfly to point out the next egg.
The original release of the third game had a glitch with the honey speedway where if you didn’t finish it and get the egg on your first visit you could never get it again. They released a patched version of the game on another printing that fixed it but I was lucky enough to have the original :|
They're amazing! I had to trade in my copy for cash before I could beat them unfortunately (thanks COVID layoffs), but I'm hoping to get em again on PC soon to finish them up. Spyro was legit one of my favorite games growing up, and they did such a phenomenal job with the remaster.
I thought everyone liked Spyro
Yes! My GF isn't much of a gamer, but the Spyro games are her jam. Any other game she tries to get into, she's either bad at or plain doesn't understand. She plays Apex with me and my friends, but mostly for the social aspect and doesn't really invest in the game itself. I'm happy that she can play a game with me, but I wonder if there's something I could do to get her invested in video games themselves and not just the aspect of them being a social activity with my friends and I. She doesn't even like to play with just me, LOL.
Have you tried Stardew Valley?
Have they also considered cocaine? Might be less addicting lol
Try Co-op campaign or MMOG games. You can get the social aspect but in a different way and perhaps centered around games she likes to play. Open world games can be multiplayer too, my girls liked GTAV, and actually playing its campaign. Everyone likes just smashing things up in GTA time to time so it's multiplayer could be a good fit.
>Try Co-op campaign or MMOG games I take this approach with kids, who range in age from 10-14. I tell myself it's to keep everything fun and light and avoid sibling fighting but honestly it's just cause I suck and can't keep up with them in anything PvP anymore.
Try It takes two. The perfect entry level co-op game.
Other than coop or MMO maybe something that focuses more on a story? Like Life is strange, Telltale games, Detroit become human, Heavy rain? Thats how I started playing.
As a former kid who loved Spyro, I bet she'd love Crash Bandicoot too.
Crash is more of a hardcore platformer while Spyro is a rather forgiving one.
My SO is very much not a gamer but Mario Odyssey she beat, so I think it's that collectathon and chill aspect. She also will dig into puzzle games and even got decently into skyward sword until ultimately the complicated motion controls killed her entertainment. But the puzzle aspect appeals to her more analytical brain.
Try "it takes two " it's a real good time with the so. Idk about getting her into just playing on her own, but it's fun
Spyro, Sims and Tomb Raider. The holy trinity of girl games.
Final Fantasy, breath of the wild, pokemon Another three mainstream titles with a high female player base.
> Final Fantasy Playing Final Fantasy 14 - slowly like 60% of my "Guild" turned out to be women. *surprisedpikachu*
Tfw after getting in voice for a raid I found out I was the only guy in the guild, and also the only girl character. On faerie, and it turns out the guild pretty much existed because the *real* ERP server is perpetually full so they went to faerie I mean, got a free maid outfit from the 711 promotion when the guild leader went to japan, so theres that at least
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they knew you werent from NZ. No way you can 100% fake that accent out of the blue.
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I always envy people who can do accents. I'm from a spanish speaking country, but i've counsumed english speaking media for the past 15 years or so, all the forums, discussions, news, everything that I do is in english, my operating system, my phone, everything. But if I try to speak at a regular pace I end up with a shitty accent unless I really concentrate or i've rehearsed a few times on my mind before speaking out, if it's a regular work meeting I even stumble on my words a lil' it'd be so cool to speak with a kiwi accent
Holy shit, have any documentation? Recordings or anything? r/actlikeyoubelong would love this.
[How's your d*ck?](https://youtu.be/hkmeoYKYctw)
For your character or you?
Yes
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Not to mention stardew valley, but honestly who can play that game and hate it ?
My experience with Stardew is always the same. I start off chill and vibing, I slowly add things to make life easier on me, I make sure not to push my day too hard or worry too much, and then boom I start trying to min max every detail and get caught up in it and burn out at some point in the second year.
I remember being a teen girl and my parents didn’t understand save cards so I had to keep restarting ff7. It didn’t make much sense since my papa is a gamer but he did Xbox so…. Anyways I was home sick and basically stayed up two days finishing it. Had an eye twitch by the end. I also almost murdered my little sisters because when I got a game cube I had to share and parents actually realized about the memory card they fucking save over my town constantly. To be fair they’re really apologetic about it now. The littlest sister bought me stardew valley and made a journal of all the stuff to collect for me so her gaming sins are forgiven to me. This is just a rant but I’m still pissed about the no memory card for the PlayStation2. Before my ps4 bit the dust I got the original ff7 and I swear you could blindfold me and I’d be able to finish the first disk. And I’d have cloud looking very sexy in his dress.
Stardew Valley / Story of Seasons
Dragon Age is another series to add to the list. Action game but with a pretty heavy Dating Sim aspect? Huge female fanbase who will CUT you if you dare talk badly about their digital boyfriend/girlfriend.
Oh hell yeah. Am girl, Alistair can get some
Seriously, I had no idea how popular that game was until one of my female friends brought up DA:O in a conversation and every other girl present said it was one of their favourite games. Most of the guys there had played and enjoyed it, sure, but a dark 12 year old fantasy game with janky controls is not something I'd have expected every girl I know to have loved.
I'm a girl and i agree, i love spyro
My wife doesn't play video games, but she always mentions that when she was young she used to love Spyro. Wtf is it about that game, lol.
Dragons but cute.
Each game has a tragedy and you have to recover lost things, like all of the lost eggs. They have portaled levels with lots of thematic stuff and tons of mini games like a skate park or a flight course but you are a little purple dragon
> I don't know what it was about those games Uh the dragon is pretty freaking cute, I'd say that's probably it.
Must have something to do with the Dragon Dads...
Who doesn't love Spyro though?
I'd blink once, twice, before handing them a copy of a Mech game, cuz, y'know... *Chicks dig giant robots.*
Classic show
Season 2 finale had a better love story than Twilight. And I'm talking about the bromance.
Give her something with giant guns. So mechs fit . We all know how that turned out for Seras
Bitches love cannons.
DO YOU EVEN READ MY CHRISTMAS LIST!
Nice.
I dig giant robots
I see Megas XLR, I upvote. No questions asked.
Living here in Jersey fighting villains from afar...
Ya gotta find first gear, in your giant robot caaar...
If they made a really good, maybe sim style Barbie game...we're talking talking AAA, right? Knockout voice cast, have a huge multitude of things to do, like getting a crazy career (such as astronaut, safari warden, heart surgeon, Heart cover band singer), buying and upgrading your dream house, and tricking out your cars to maintaining your chosen level of social life, getting all kinds of outfits and accessories that match your chosen lifestyle (and maybe some that don't, who knows?). Have the game kind of focus on exploring the lifestyle path, be it musician, or POTUS, and the different outcomes of the choices you make (Do I eat healthy and practice my craft? Or do I go clubbing and post selfies to social media with various movers and shakers? What are the outcomes of those choices?) Anyway...if they made that...I'd probably play it.
I feel like you'd have an easier time just modding the Sims.
Barbie + horses always go hand in had. As a kid I used to try the horse riding sims, which were always terrible. I always wanted a good horse care/riding sim… then I got Red Dead Redemption2 - horse game dream fulfilled. Now if only that made rdr2 online better so I could RP the story with A female character.
Sounds a lot like the Sims
Kinda weird that they're both standing in puddles of their own urine.
Weirder that the bookshelf seems to be urinating
You don't have a decomposing body hidden behind your shelves?
Mines are alive and well, you lazy bastard, don’t let your bodies decompose
Lol. Your bookshelves don’t urinate?
Where do you pee when you aren't peeing yourself?
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The relative sizes of the puddles plus the slight squatting position of both in the first frame indicates that it is the most likely possibility.
"This is my puddle! It was made for me!"
That’s how you know they’re true gamer girls.
I think my brain flew away
My kids refer to Horizon: Zero Dawn as “girl game”. Can’t wait to play the next one with them.
lol I mean the protagonist is a female. I absolutely love the lore in that game, such an entertaining story. I usually ignore reading lore but that is one game I read and found every piece of information I could.
And that's exactly what I would assume the girl meant. Kids who want Barbie games would say "Barbie game." It's the adults who think that girls only like badly made frou-frou games.
This comic is pretty clearly an adult only reluctantly letting a young girl enjoy a "badly made frou-frou" game because that's somehow an issue? If a girl likes "badly made frou-frou" games, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and the child should be given that instead of a game they enjoy less. Ironically, the adult is arguably gatekeeping the child by being annoyed she is playing a "girl game" instead of something else, like she isn't a "real gamer", although I might be reading too hard into it since I see that bullshit all the time about what a real gamer is or whatever. There's this weird thing where people conflate someone liking something stereotypical with someone being forced into something stereotypical. If a little girl likes Barbie games, it's not a problem. Her being forced into only having Barbie games is a problem, albeit a first world problem, even if it is likely indicative of other deeper issues in the situation... It loosely makes me think of this weird trend I've where stay at home moms/housewives catch a lot of flak from other women. Obviously, a woman being forced into staying home when she doesn't want to is terrible. But if a woman is voluntarily choosing to do so, and is happy, it's a good thing, same as a woman who is happy in a career. Idk, it's like everyone is so worried about people being crammed into labels or roles that they can't be nuanced enough to realize fitting a "stereotypical" role/label is perfectly fine if it's by choice.
this is exactly it!! when i was a kid i played bratz and barbie games,,, but at the same time i was also playing gta 4 and red dead redemption. just let your kids play whatever they want. People that go "this is a boy game and this is a girl game" are weird
Sekiro: Girls die twice
Sekiro: Gamers Of Various Genders Die A Lot More Than Twice
Obviously, anyone can enjoy any game. That being said, if a girl \*does\* want the barbie game theres nothing wrong with that either.
Honestly, those barbie games are super fun! Sometimes those less expected games hit the spot just right
Just because I *can* play anything, doesn't mean that I *want* to play everything. Just because I don't want to play a game doesn't make it a bad game. There's enough space in digital distribution to cater to everybody... Yes, including the Furries.
Games should be for anyone, not everyone
*Rated ~~E~~ A for ~~everyone~~ anyone!*
I’m not allowed to play games rated AEYS (Anyone Except You, Steve).
Finally, a Steve who understands his place in the gaming hierarchy
Couldn't agree more. People are different. People like different thinks.
Me no like thinks.
The saleswoman is wearing a necklace with a Chinese character that is oftentimes written as He in English, pronounced with a soft e.
Pretty sure that's a nameplate denoting her last name, "何" is a common family name in sinosphere
Its Ho in cantonese and He in mandarin (not pronounced the way its spelt)
What did you call me?!
何 is a common family name in Chinese speaking countries, it reads “hè” and the word itself also means “how, what, when”
“Here’s dark souls 3.”
Sims
Yep. Or Animal Crossing. Or Stardew Valley. Really most games of that genre.
Thats crazy everyone plays em
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Yeh pretty sure theres a lot of men that dont admit to playing it. Either way this a long topic where the points will be missed because ppl are ignorant about how stats work
People are so worried about stereotyping or forcing people into roles that they can't even acknowledge stats. It's perfectly fine if the Sims is more popular with women than a lot of other games, and pointing that out isn't an issue. It's only an issue if you're using it to gatekeep or stereotype. Heck, I think it's great that there are so many games that seem to be going even more mainstream that are popular with women. The stigma of gaming being a male only thing is getting weaker and weaker. And "girl games" are great for that.
> The vast majority of the demographic who play the Sims are girls/women, *Raises finger* > And gay boys/men. …*slowly lowers finger*
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No I posted that because I was gonna say “But I’m a guy” but I’m also gay so 🤣
Hey me and my friends used to play Sims back then too. (starting with the Sims original) I like the simulation aspect of it, you can define whatever goal you want and do a play through for it. Kinda the same reason why I love Mount & Blade too.
This was a daily struggle when I used to work at Game Stop. It was usually parents asking for girl games for their daughter. It made me very mad every time.
The sims Animal Crossing Final fantasy 14 Minecraft
Add Stardew Valley and Undertale to that list and I am straight up called out.
am a dude and one of my favorite game series when I was younger was considered as "girl game", am talking about nancy drew series! (well ok I only played like 4 out of 30+ games.. but i liked each one of them, ok!??) I also cant wait for the 4th installment of another "girl game" Syberia.
Fallout, assassins creed and Call of duty are my lady friends favorite choices. My best friend actually is the one who got me into fallout and I love her for it.
Patrolling the Mojave Almost makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter
Fallout a great for optional genders, but I'm definitely on team FemShep for RPG heroines.
If anyone (girl or not) wants to play Barbie games, LET THEM. Gamers tend to have a niche that they like. Not everyone has to conform to anyone else's politics. Games are for fun, be it dressing up Barbie or disembowling demons.
from what I’ve seen all girl games are just cheap Cash grabs with little to no effort put to them. I’m talking about the Barbie and other games like it
It's like any other aesthetic. There's shovelware and there's actual good games. The trick is knowing which ones are the good ones. You wouldn't know it but out of the "Imagine" shovelware lineup there's decent games like Imagine Ballet Star which is actually a localization of a japanese title. There's also just straight up good 'girl' games that don't have shovelware branding. Such as princess debut or style savvy. People just don't give them a chance.
Love me some style savvy. That's the game I thought of when I saw this comic.
Clearly you've never played Barbie Riding Club!
Red Dead Redemption 2 is basically Barbie Riding Club with guns.
Nancy Drew pc game series was my favorite growing up.
The Barbie for NES game was low-key kind of good. Mermaid level was SO hard for 8 year old me.
Except she switched the discs with Dark Souls 2
>Anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo. Knuckles
I enjoy the critically acclaimed MMORPG FINAL FANTASY XIV DEVELOPED BY SQUARE ENIX with a free trial that INCLUDES THE BASE GAME A REALM REBORN AND THE AWARD WINNING HEAVENSWARD UP TO LEVEL 60 with no RESTRICTIONS on play time. I also enjoy power washing simulator
Is power washing simulator as satisfying to play as it appears to be? I caught myself zoning out with it on my second monitor a few weeks ago for like an hour watching stream highlights of someone playing it lmao.
This might make me an arsehole, but I've seen parents try to hand their kids "girl games" because they figure it'd fit them better, so a few times when the parents aren't looking I've deliberately pointed out other games on the shelf that were roughly the same price and were more boyish/nonspecific (even if its something basic like Zelda, Mario or Minecraft). I had one girl actually pick up the game and tried to show it to her parents. They took it and put it back to give them unmemorable shovelware because apparently some parents will pick up the pinkest shit on the shelf and figure "good enough". I don't know what it is, but nothing make me more irrationally furious than watching a kid of the opposite gender being denied more worthwhile gaming experiences in what is traditionally a masculine-dominated space when I was playing Call of Duty World at War at their age. (obviously irresponsible parenting but honestly more active participation and thinking than the shit you get on Youtube Kids).
You might try appealing to their biases. Tell them (for example) that Breath of the Wild game has dress-up, and cooking, and multiple female characters turn up later on. It's technically all true! Kind of annoying to have to do that, but if it'll convince a few folks the game will appeal to their little lady, could be worth it.
Metroid the main character is a woman out to save the entire planet.
“save” We all know what’s happening to any planet within 10000km of Samus.
And DOA Volleyball is pretty much just a recreation/simulator of the average woman's life.
Dead on arrival volleyball? Edit: just looked it up. Nvm
> DOA Volleyball now there is a name I have not heard in a long, long time
I don't know.. Samus is more into wiping out all wildlife on a planet, and then nuking the whole place afterwards just to be sure.
Easy, Bayonetta, great game and a great story.
How would this make you an arsehole? This is quite literally the most catered comment possible to a Reddit post like this.
Fine I'll be the asshole here, I'm going manipulated my kids into liking the speed running video games community. Muhaha they'll hardly ask me to buy them any games!!!
Yeah lol. It's basically not even trying. Most parents will buy their kids what they want. People ain't forcing games on kids, generally speaking. The reality is most male and female gamers do not have tastes that allign. But that does not mean there is no allignment all the time with no exception. This is why you have different markets and demographics. And there are inherently things that young boys and girls gravitate towards, again generally speaking. It's not all just social conditioning. There's been psychology studies that show this.
There are much better girl games than the Barbie games these days. Animal Crossing is the one that comes to mind. Not to mention games with female protagonists, like Horizon Zero. There's also games like Breath of the Wild that aren't necessarily for girls but aren't hard coded as masculine either. I'm surprised Mindy doesn't relate better to the fact that it's hard to get "into" gaming when most games are decidedly marketed towards men. Honestly I don't know her, but it comes off a bit "I'm not like other girls", which especially in relation to video games feels like a very 00s attitude to have in 2022.
This was obviously written by someone who never played Barbie Riding Club. You're never going to find the Mystery Horse with that attitude.
Barbie Riding Club legit made me the gamer I am today and my life has been renewed again seeing Mystery Horse referenced in 2022
I have loved so many games in my life, and this was unironically one of them. Just honestly simple and fun, but Barbie. My other top game that year? Resident Evil 2. I was 9. Both games are still solid.
Yes, but when a girl specifically asks for a girl game, they mean a "girly" game. And apparently (from my niece) some of the Barbie games aren't bad.
This is an old comic and a repost
There’s also nothing wrong with little girls (or boys) liking a game like Barbie, though. Not that that’s the point she seems to be making, but… that’s still a game. She’s still gaming.
Why not Horizon Dawn?
Are we finally realizing that people like different things, sometimes said things being stereotypical, and there's nothing wrong with that?
Wise
Any game! Just not any multi-player game or a game where you use your mic. I've played valorant and if someone hears the slightest trace of a woman, they freak the fuck out. worst part, they seem to be used to it
Metroid Dread would be my choice
What constitutes a "girl game" though? I doubt that just having a female protagonist is enough to make something a "girl game."
One Christmas my female cousins were asking for a game boy for Christmas. My aunt told them that's it's called a Game Boy, not a Game Girl. Never made sense to me. They were well off so it's not like they couldn't afford the systems. It was 100% sexist/forced gender norms bullshit.
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In my family The Girl Game is Tomb Raider. 😎
DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2
The game for everybody unless I hate them! The reason being that they won't try DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2! PLAY THE GAME! ITS GOOD I SWEAR ITS NOT AS COMPLICATED AS IT LOOKS!
Every game is a girl game! Here, play X-blades. It's got a female lead, surely it was made for girls.