Recently there is a research that more females are into gaming nowadays. They are no longer the typical type of gals who only play games like Sim, Second Life and so on. You can find some pretty cool chicks playing Counter Strike, Warcraft, Star Craft, C&C, etc... Is this true? Lets find out.

Lets see if there is any female gamers here and find out the ratio between male and female.

Gals, pls tell us what game u r playing and the type of game that u love.

This post has been edited by BlueLotus: Jun 10 2008, 02:14 PM

as long as i hv been in mmorpg there has always been girls in our ranks. more then 2-3 for every 10 guys probably. quite nice looking too i might add.

got the details from Star In-Tech today ka?

There's already another thread like this at Gamers Hideout.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/702538

thats a different poll altogether... this poll is about knowing how many gals vs how many guys in gaming world. It is fun to have the fairer sex to play with guys. A new type of challenge i might say. Guys are aggressive and gals are passive in gaming. So both will play the game with different strategy and style. It makes a lot of difference in multiplayer mode. We need balance in team if u r playing team deathmatch or something like tat.

Well, there is an article about his in In-Tech today. Quite interesting though. I can see some female votes in but they never reply the game they r playing. At least make guys understand the type of games u all play. Also trying to find female kaki to play the same game.... like MGS4, COD4, GTA4 (hmm... so many games with 4 in the end).

These 2 threads will head towards the same direction in the end.

As repeated many times, it depends on the gamer so you have to understand each individual girl gamer and not the entire group of girl gamers as a whole.

What I'm playing is on my signature. Not a big fan of FPS, only played a little of TF2 because it was interesting, prefer innovative games (like Portal, Katamari, Okami, WEWY) and RPGs with good storyline. Graphics do not matter as I don't discriminate games because they have low polygon rates. No money to buy PS3 yet (nor the time to play it).

This post has been edited by Kiraneko: Jun 10 2008, 02:47 PM

tat why im here to find out wat type of games u all play... im not grouping gals in a whole.

There are two things that i wanna find out here:

1) how many gals vs guys ratio in gaming
2) wat type of game gals play in general

I just hope that the industry or any gamers here encourage more female to play games. It is just a thought...

I think the industry should not try and make games appeal to girls, make them as how they should be. Girls who like gaming will still like the game. Example of why the should not try and make the game appealing to girls: we get things like FFVII spin-offs with all the main characters looking like Gackt.

I got my little sister interested in GTA IV.eeek! She says it's her favorite game after the sims 2.

hahahha looking like Gackt... well, i just hope that the industry will encourage more females and also making the game just the way it is now. I mean nowadays we seldom see games that has guys looking like Gackt, eg. GTA4, MGS4, Bourne, Assassin's Creed, etc.... At least FF12 is good. Guys look cool and gals are pretty. Im sure they are improving on the detail of facial graphics.

I bet Little Big Planet game will motivate and encourage more gals to play cos it is really cute and fun. also, PS Home is coming soon. Im sure this will be the stepping stone to the future where gals and guys can play together and challenge.

i like to play FPS, survival/horror, puzzle games, music games, used to play some RTS...

All Time Favourite games include (but not limited to):
- Clive Barker's Undying
- Phoenix Wright Series
- Elite Beat Agents
- Warcraft
- Guitar Hero
- Frets on Fire
- God of War
- Silent Hill

cool Keeying. WElcome to the gamer club. hehhee...

so wat console do u have?

i have a female fren who plays 360 all the time. cod4, army of two, gh2 n gh3. she likes em. btw, i find many dmc4 fangirls in msia. lol.

I also have a female friend who owns a Xbox 360.

She is quite hardcore and she likes smashing zombies in dead rising.

my sister only plays diner dash . I cant imagine my sister playing cs or dota or wow etc.

I am a hardcore gamer, my wife is a softcore gamer (played tetris and puzzle type games only), my younger sister loves playing puzzle games and 'platformer' game (she's more than 20 years old).

wow...amazing. So it is true that more female is playing console games nowadays. Hopefully one day, they will catch up with us and become hardcore gamers. hahhahaha... Well, i knew a gal who play CS very well. always get aim for head shot. From that time onwards, i never underestimate female gamers.

ala bro lady gamer are normal nowdays la... they even play game beter than any normal male game.. and some can even pawn those pro muahahaha so wat i can see there are alot of them and the reason we hardly see them cos they dont want us to see....

if wat u r saying is true, how come they wanna hide? Afraid tat ppl might say that they r tomboy? not girlish enuff? hmm... i think they are cool la. At least can share the same interest.

I played Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Budokai 3 with my gf, and she beaten me a few times. hahhaha... very fun indeed. I was like... SHIT! I lost to her! As u all know, DBZ: TB3 is a very fast buttion mashing game and must have good instinct and fast response time.

no lah bro.. not that they affraid that they are tomboy...... hehehe... funny also like us men do we tell da world that we are men when we playing any game.. i dont think so rite... same goes with this lady... not that they hide them self.. just that we dont ask also..

but i know some gals like to put as MALE in their gaming profile so tat nobody knows it. thats weird right.. why wanna hide identity?

Because got a lot of buaya in the gaming world.

This post has been edited by Kiraneko: Jun 11 2008, 12:34 PM

buaya in gaming is no use la... cant do anything to gals also. Just chatting only. There is no reason to be afraid of.

On the other hand, many guys like to be female in the gaming world. U can see tat a lot in LYN and Second Life. I also dunno why. Maybe they r not satisfied with their sex gender. hahahhahaha

I really respect female gamers.. some of them really kick hard butt..

Damn, i wish i have a hardcore gamer girlfriend...

They scared kena buaya by ppl like BlueLotus, King of Buaya

yeah Komputer, im the King of Buaya. Would u like to buy some crocodile skin? I can offer reasonable price. Some ppl call me Crocodile Hunter. U can see me in National Geographic channel in Astro. Anyway I wonder if u have Astro to watch.

This post has been edited by BlueLotus: Jun 11 2008, 03:30 PM

I don't have astro, can't stand their COMPONENT video output. So i boycott.

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Added on June 11, 2008, 4:14 pmI don't have astro, can't stand their COMPONENT video output. So i boycott.

This post has been edited by komputer: Jun 11 2008, 04:14 PM

I've also noticed that there's quite a few LYN guys who put their gender as female. I'm pretty sure that the checkbox is in reference to one's gender no gender preference.

The only game genres I don't particularly fancy is FPS and sports games. I'll play almost anything provided it has good gameplay. But my favourites are RPGs (i,e Fallout, FF, Kingdom hearts Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights, etc...yes I used to play paper D&D too ), RTS and action adventures (MGS, GTA and DMC). I used to play quite a bit of MMORPGs too but not so much now. There's just not enough hours in the day!

Aphrael is cool. play so many type of games. Wonder if u are the type who always aim head shot at FPS. hahahhha... I guess we can see Aphrael queueing up at Techasia buying MGS4 today.

I have a friend, a guy, who parades himself as female in many MMORPGs to get free items from the other guy players. For some reason a lot of guys fell for that tactic.

Yes being a female in a gaming world has some neat bonuses. =)

I can't aim for nuts! I'll be lucky to get a shot in even LOL. I'm a noob at FPS. I won't be there today. I'm not free + I think the normal and LE is overpriced. I'll get the game from elsewhere later on. I won't be around to play anyway . Will be away from my belove ps3 for 2 weeks. I'm still trying to finish off GTA4 SP.

Yes exactly. I have a guy friend who does that also. Guys in MMOROGs are a tad more desperate for some reason.

This post has been edited by aphrael: Jun 11 2008, 07:29 PM

most probably the guys in MMORPG are teenagers (around 13-17). So i might say that they are kinda keen to interact with gals in game. They feel excited to see gals playing game with them. It is a psychological effect. so yeah... they are willing to give gals (or virtual gals) freebies.

btw, is tat it?? only 7 female gamers here?? Ratio is 7:40?? wow... it is like 1 gal in every 5 guys. Not a very impressive figure.

be carefully what u wish for . . .

Is there something negative i should know about ??

Strategy and rpg are my fav...followed by mmorpg and adventure games...

then all u se ur gf will be infront of her pc or tv playing game.. muahahahaha hardcore maa... do nothing but gaming. hehehe...

I saw a girl playing MMORPG in a cafe near my neighbourhood. Really creepy looking and sit like Ryuzaki in death-note in a corner. Kinda cute though. That's one, there are a few female I know play console RPG and Sims series. My mom play Puzzle Bobble and she really a hardcore at that( I couldn't beat her)

i notice that not many gals like to play racing and fighting games...

so far i only know 2 gals who like to play those games.

Fighting.. they like those button mashers like Tekken and VF. Cos no need to time combo perfectly. just PPPPPP KKKKKKKK P+K

And they can already kick as$.

LOL.

Street Fighter all they dont really like because of the special moves like Down, Down+right, Right Punch is FIREBALL !

Just from what i seen lar... however i've seen some really good female gamers really good at fighting games also. Keluar all the super combo and stuff...

Hah

I only own the Wii, a on-loan DS and a very low spec PC (don't even play much PC games anymore... )
but sometimes i go on gaming holidays at my bro's place... that's why got some favs are PS2 games...

I used to play RO back when it was free
and people would ask if i was really a girl
Apprently there were a lot of ciplak girls on RO back then too

war3 is my fave so far.

I'm female!
and I love RPG games.
Final Fantasy series mostly but now I'm into Persona 3 FES.
I do play Sims and DoTa too.

Looking forward to Persona 4.

I happen to like Street Fighter...I love playing Guile and Blanka although I can do most of the other character moves also. I learnt all the combos and special moves from my guy friends heh

wow.... as of now, for every 4 guys, theres 1 girl gamer.

im definetely a hardcore female gamer..im an expert player in guitar hero.guitar hero is my current fav game.i own ps2 and wii..not so much into pc games..other games lik resident evil,god of war,devil may cry,smackdown vs raw..i perfer action adventure games to rpg or morpg.

HHmmmm my sis is still on the SIMS like games.... shes 20. But I got my 2 cute lil cousins 5 and 6 playing Mortal Kombat, but they end up playing Motor Kombat mini game... hahahahaha.....

Me too i like also smashing zombies!!! hihihi!!! Bring it on!!! hihihi

wow... it seems tat a lot of female gamers r showing up now. Tats fantastic! Very outstanding. Surprisingly, gals are into action and fighting nowadays. Thumbs up! Keep it up gals! Guys definitely welcome u into the gaming world. And we sure wont look down on you.

Hope to see more female respond here.

you're one of the few female gamers i know who plays GTA4 as well..

ahaha...

i wonder which female is good at playing Devil May Cry 4 series...

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Added on June 17, 2008, 9:46 amTo PS3 female gamers, will u buy and play Little Big Planet or Star Wars: The Force Unleashed? I think both games come out around the same time (September/October).

I just wanna find out what type of game attract u the most. U can either choose one or both. Just give your opinion.

This post has been edited by BlueLotus: Jun 17 2008, 09:46 AM

I know LYN member "Sora" kick butt at vegas2.

Hah !

Sora is not female la... i guess u have fell for it.

he does look like a female lol
my friend who saw him from afar tot he was a girl. I really lmao.

Anyways, i got a girl gamer in my class whos really good. Shes really hardcore on mmorpgs plus she even broke one of my dmc4 mission record which i got all 3 orb, time and style S rank. Shes scary....

I vote Little Big Planet. Innovative and interactive games FTW.

btw, wats FTW in your term?? For the Win or F**k the World???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTW

For The Win. I don't use the F word so casually lol.

hi fellowed female gamers. i love FPS, rpg and adventure. hope to go pro someday.

tats a good spirit, Jnalye86! Hope u can become a pro gamer one day. Perhaps we can have a male vs female tournament. tat would be cool.

i am a lesbian trapped in a man's body

good one, snipersnake. I know how u feel.

well, im a soul that stuck in male's body and also having a HUGE asset. Luckily im not gay.

i play gears of war and army of two

any gals play MGS 4?

being wife and mother of two also into games.. hows that sound?? hehe.. count me in!

the first game and console ever that captured me was pokemon (cant remember which colour or maybe silver) in gameboy.. that was many years ago that this game made me hooked on the chair for hours.. btw the gameboy was my cousins'.. the impact that the game had on me was great.. kinda addicted to it..

then, having a bf at the time (then my hubby), he knew i always mentioned bout the game that i played b4 (gameboy).. so, he bought me GBA for me as my birthday gift.. from that on, i bcame softcore-hardcore gamer.. for GBA, i had FF series, golden sun, zelda series, few pokemon and many rpg games that i bought due to impact from pokemon..

after married and have children of my own, doesnt stop me playing games.. last 2 year, my hubby bought me PS2.. love the FFseries and anything that related to rpg type games..

last year, when he was in Japan, he bought me NDS.. then, the list of games just goes on with new FFseries..

its just doesnt stop there, even the games that has been downloaded in our handphone also i kawtim habis!

*sometimes just dont underestimate what mothers nowaday couldnt do.. hehe..

wow... tats marvellous! 10 fingers and 10 toes up! Wat a cool mom (perhaps a hot mama too). I bet most of the guys here wish tat their gf (future wife) to be like you. It is amazing that both couple can share the same interest and have fun.

FF series actually got me hooked to console gaming. I used to play on PC only. Got fed up with the hardware upgrades to play new games. Anyway, if u have PS3, u probably be hooked all night long! hahahahaa

my sister lol

aiyaaa.. forgot one more.. the PC games.. i played SimCity, Warcraft and Starcraft.. these are all my fave to the highest order.. introduced by my man himself.. he likes game like these..

bout PS3.. i guess i have to wait for another year or two.. coz u know y..

i played MGS before and it was amazing game.. surprisingly God of War just not quite my type.. perhaps i'd been fed with rpgs' all my life.. hehe. i want to try horror games like resident evil series, silent hill and fatal frame.. i guess i have to stop campak my controller everytime the enemies come near!

* and thank you for the compliment.. maybe the first question u shud ask when go for dating wif ur gf is 'do u like playing games?' haha..

i guess gals are gals anyway. I cant start interviewing every gals and ask them if they r gamer. hahahha... let her be herself. Gal being a gamer is just a bonus.

Tossing away ur controller when u got freaked out by horror games?! hahaha... put cushion on the floor next time. You are really a hardcore gamer. U virtually played every single games tat guys do. Impressive!

Now i wonder if u can tapau any guy here... hahaha. Btw, u should get PS3... playing online in PS3 is really fun. Hope u can get one soon regardless of wat u were trying to say.

Adix4, ur sis play MGS4?! hmm...cool. Do u think she can play well in MGO? Tell her to join us in MGO battle.


This post has been edited by BlueLotus: Jun 30 2008, 11:32 AM

no more female gamers?

Cataluna, wat r u up to now?

too bad my wife is not a gamer like you, i only seen once when she open the ps3 herself playing uncharted.. and got stuck at a level when got too many bad guys shooting at her, after that she gave up. Played resistance with her till the alien starts to show up then she got scared of the look and give up playing.

i like to play game like resident evil... using brain a lot

i think so but my gf still play puzzle game in my ps2.. lol in racing she not good. even my mum cant beat me in racing.. hahaha maybe i talented driver. lol now playin f1 06 in ps2.. hope ps3 will be more cheaper next year.. then maybe thinkin of buyin.

!!! mom also play PS2? power la... Nowadays women really surprise men in gaming.

my friend's sister.
she just finished the game few days ago
i'll ask her to join MGO when she finish her zelda on wii

she wanna collect 100% in the game

This post has been edited by SWATwolf: Jul 2 2008, 01:23 AM

haha brutal wei

with all those swears and all F*CK U NICO xD

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Added on July 2, 2008, 2:05 ambtw im shemale??

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Added on July 2, 2008, 2:05 amhow to vote dont have?

This post has been edited by lightonokira: Jul 2 2008, 02:05 AM

hail for cataluna! I wish i could find wife like u.

i play C.S, C.O.D,Portal, T.F, patapon, locco rocco and also super mario. hehe

T_T... ya that's how i feel too. my gf complained that i care more about my games and my computer than her. but she doesnt understand me! before this i've introduced her to play nfs and warcraft. for wc3, she only liked dota maps. as for nfs, the last time i formatted her comp i forgot to backup her nfs savegames. ever since that she dont play it anymore. she's the typical softcore gamer, and now she's stuck on maple, she could go on playing that same game till the morning.

LOL !!

I have a lot of female friends who thinks they are gamers, just because they play Solitaire day and night....

You forgot The Sims. That game is girl gamer haven. The most hardcore ones are the ones with a DS that has Pheonix Wright on it

i think most gals also into Second Life. But tat game is full of sex stuff. To me, it is more like a virtual sex store.

I'm just glad my wife is not really into core gaming...coz right after i gave her my nds, i rarely get to play it myself coz she likes it so much

Well at least i still hv my consoles

they do? i've tried it when it was first launched. got bored of it and deleted it.
reinstalled last week again and tried it again because got an email inviting me to one of the sex stores. but didnt find, met or encounter anything "special". got bored of it and uninstalled it again.

Used to Love COunter Strike as i was one of the owner on behalf of an internet cafe few years ago
when CS was very famous in town

Play till kena robbed in cc zzzzzzz (history)

Maplesea is my last year favourite game , had a huge numbers of frens playing with me and a huge Guild
in Cassiopeia server .. but i quit liao cos life was the other way while addicted too much of it

Not to mentioned abt others like .. O2jam , KONGKONG SEA online , LETS GETAMPED , GUNBOUND and etc etc

THose were the days

Quited all dat previously last year

USED to have PSP few months back but not too much of my taste especially online features bores me for most of the games

And NDSL is my favourite nowdays

Games i play randomly almost all kinds
from PUZZLE - Musical - PLatforms - RPG - and most of all ONLINE DS games is WELLDONE !

TMTH ..

wwow. Nicole.... u r here finally! Hardcore gamer! R u one of those HS pro player? Go get a console and play.

wad HS pro player ka?

Headshot pro killer! hahahaha... CS kaki sure very good in HS.

ooo lol .. yah HS ..sniper lo i guess thats the name of the gun ..

it was many years i can't recall CS stuff liao but Head Shots ofcourse can remember lo

"GOGOGO Affirmative" < my fav line last time

Wow,got female players here.Interesting.
I used 2 know a brother (B......)n sister(C.....) gamers years back.
They used 2 b hardcore gamers.Used to lepak with me then.

This post has been edited by anotheryou: Jul 11 2008, 12:19 AM

then wat happened to u and them? Lost contact?

hahaha im also a female gamer

P/s - im mickeynic , ive changed to this id cos as feng shui matters ive changed my real name so just an update mickeynic doesnt exist anymore in LYN .. as PaigeWong is mickeynic now ~

This post has been edited by PaiGeWonG: Aug 12 2008, 03:00 AM

I think there's actually quite a lot of fem-gamer out there.
But probably most of em' are timid and wouldn't want to be known?
You guys would never know how horrible the online harassment we get if ppl knew there's a girl playing.
But I'm not applying that all men are like this.
It's just that no matter how many descent player there is, there's still one or two that are mentally perverted retards.

Me on the other hand, have been playing ever since from the micro genius console -> nintendo to the ps1->ps2->psp->dsl and currently
hoping that my bro would scoff out enough to get the new ps3
I use to only loveeee rpg games until someone influenced me to play CS way back and since then i've become addicted lol.
From CS, to orange box to COD and recently L4D.

I play most games except football games and those like DOTA, RO those things just doesn't trigger my gaming interest.
My current fav all time buang masa game is BOGGLE, hahaha

*sigh I wish there were local female PS3 gamer can play online together

my gf is a gamer but not a hardcore one.

she is sucker for golf and music games. haha!

i'm plannig to get ps3, but she told me to get Wii instead. haha!

Get a ps3 and ask your girlfriends to play LBP....

LBP? what's that?

Little big planet.

erm i like any games which is considered fps,action and hack-and-slash...(i might sound boyish...)
and also some mmorpgs provided that there's less grinding(still depends on how i like the game)

currently i'm playing rappelzsea, sometimes switch to my newly bought dslite


This post has been edited by yellowpika: Nov 30 2008, 08:45 PM

female gamers reporting wuhuuuuuu.. (barely checking here thou ><)
on :

MGS4 (totally nubbbb pawnt my asss ><)
just started on LBP
GH3
Assassin Creed (i found it weird hero cant swim...so stupidd)
Soul Calibour

On MMORPG as well :
Perfect World
Fiesta (owned!!! rawrrrr roflmao)
DOTA
might try on WoW but dont have timeeee!!!! gezzzz

Eririn..please add me when you play LBP online, yeah?

sure..im at work atm lols X_X
id : Erln

just add meh..ill check in a bit by evening <3

I know few female cs gamer in my campus,my sister beat GTA san andreas back in 2004 and when i got holiday i play fifa 09 with her.