Are there girls who like to play Video Games?

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I'm a girl gamer, i'm a big fan of the LoZ, FF (i stopped playing at 10), GTA series, SR, sims games on pc, WoW, pokemon old school, d3
I like playing rpgs, action/adventure, strategy, mmorpg, some FPS

lol, That's a silly question. Of course there's lots of women who play video games occasionally although most non-casual gamers are male.(i.e. so called "hardcore gamers"). I'm well aware female ones exist too though, and I actually have several on my PSN friend-list.

I'm a guy, but I do play a LOT of video games. I'm also a console collector, the oldest I have is an Atari 800. I'm mostly into the games I played throughout my childhood as well as the sequels to them now. I'm not into COD. I play Mario, LoZ, Star Fox, Kirby, and I played plenty of Pokemon all throughout my childhood. I played a bit of F-Zero as well. I'm more into games like Resident Evil, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 now, but i'll still go back to play my favorites. I'm also most likely one of the BIGGEST Sonic fans anybody here will ever meet. I've played Sonic games for as long as I can remember (but my first was Sonic and Knuckles on the Sega Genesis). I'm also within the top 2% of the best players on Sonic Dash. I have a High Score of like 3.5 million, giving me a position somewhere in the 8000s I think, out of 18 million in the IOS Community alone. I also play my fair share of Minecraft. My personal favorite Console has to be the N64, those games had true magic mixed in with multiple glitches. I've spent thousands of hours playing Super Smash Bros. Melee as Captain Falcon, practicing against level 9 CPUs set on the same team against me or the Cruel Melee guys. My friends say I could play competitively in tournaments, but I think i'll pass lol. Sorry I kinda rambled guys.

Yeah, I play quite a bit. I started playing Super Mario. I don't remember the exact game but I think it was Nintendo. I also played tennis games as well as Aladdin.

Now, I like Sims and Elder Scrolls. I have some other games but I can't tear myself away from Skyrim to try them.

I don't play World of Warcraft, but I'm looking forward to a similar online game based on the Elder Scrolls. Last I heard it was set to start in April or so.

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I remember when I was younger, my mother really liked the Ratchet and Clank and Legend of Zelda games, as well as other action adventure games and RPGs. As soon as we got internet access at home though, she became a WoW junkie and that's partially what tore apart my parents' marriage.

Noeadays, she mainly plays Wizard 101.

I'm not a woman but I did get my sister into playing Elder Scrolls way back when I installed Morrowind on the family PC. Before that she played the old Tomb Raider games on PSX and now she plays COD with her boyfriend.

These topics drive me crazy.

I am a girl.

I have been playing video games since I was old enough to hold a controller. That first controller was attached to an Intellivision. I love games. I collect consoles; I have a game-related tattoo; I'm currently building a new gaming PC; I play everything from MMO/RPG's to military to racing to fighting and back again. If it's a game, I'll try it.

I think it's ridiculous to think that gaming is a "guy" thing. Sure, I play the occasional smart phone game, but I'm just not into casual.

I'd also like to comment that the treatment of women by male gamers is radically bad. So, if you ever wonder why you're not seeing more girls in a game, perhaps look at the way the women in the game are being treated. Who wants to be constantly having to endure come-ons, unwanted flirting, and drama while they're just trying to shoot some zombies???

We're not looking for dates or extra attention. We just want to play some games.

(Obviously these are my opinions and I cannot speak for every female gamer out there)

Of course you are entirely correct, gaming is an all ages, all nationalities, all genders sort of thing.

However, in response to part of your post, I would caution you to not consider smart phone gaming to be casual. It is accessible as a platform, but platforms typically are not enough to be considered casual, games themselves and their target demographics are casual. There are some brain-wrackingly hardcore adventure/puzzle games floating around for smartphones, you can also emulate on smartphones to play old school SNES games and stuff. On my Windows Phone, a guy made a really awesome game called Dragon's Blade, it plays a lot like old school Final Fantasy games from the early 90s and it has an online mode, it can be a brutal game and gives me an awesome online-enabled JRPG experience on my phone.

I, too, build hardcore gaming PCs, I built my first one in 1999 when I was 13 by mostly winging it and piecing together knowledge from PC Gamer magazine issues that I would buy from the newstand. I remember when PC Gamer ran an article with very detailed instructions on building a PC sometime around the year 2001 in October...I got a little smug with myself by realizing I had already built my own PC by figuring a lot out on my own. So, I definitely feel you as a fellow PC builder and also a gamer who grew up in the 90s (judging by your age info). Now in this day and age, I am looking forward to building my own 3D printer from parts someday, the great cost is the only thing holding me back right at this moment, but I want to try my hand at building a 3D printer from a parts list, but without formal instructions, I think if I just get all the required parts, I can figure it out similar to what I did with my first custom gaming PC as a kid.

I feel that true gamers will adapt to any platform, as long as we like the games. While I will never remove the desktop gaming PC from the number one spot on my list of favorite gaming methods, I have no problem seeing that even mobile platforms like smart phones can appease hardcore enthusiast level gamers. I think the trick is to find games being designed and programmed by people of our generation who have a respect for the old school, and not larger companies trying to churn out games with cash shops. I have owned various Nintendo and Sega systems, I saved a lot to get both N64 and Playstation back in the mid 90s, I had Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox and PS2 all during the 6th gen console era, then into the 7th gen I had a Wii, 360 and PS3, plus constantly maintained my gaming PC.

I was never one to rain on specific platforms. I feel I would have missed out on many great games for the original Xbox if I had written it off as a casual platform like some of my friends did, especially since it was the only platform that got the sequel to Jet Set Radio.

Hey Other_Worlds... sorry for the late reply.

You're right and I had to say so. I have seen a couple really compelling hardcore style games built for the phone as a platform. I haven't played them much personally, but I do acknowledge that they indeed exist.

Also, the idea of the phone as an emulator is awesome although many of the peripherals I've seen made to attach to a phone and turn it into a proper controller have been buggy at best, but it's been a while since I've looked into the progress of these devices.

Building a 3D printer would be amazing! I think it's a bit over-ambitious for me personally (my funds are limited). I'd be interested to see your project if you decide to undertake it.

Apparently only hard-core games with lots of graphic violence and swearing are of any importance. If you're a girl and play mostly casual games like Sims or Angry Birds people think that is just stupid, which I think is stupid. Although I never understood why Angry birds is so popular that they had to make plushies and put them on everything, all you do is fire them at green pigs or some nonsense. It's sad that I can't find any decent plushies of Shadow or Amy Rose to add to my Sonic and Tails dolls (which I got at a Toys R Us hundreds of miles away) in any video game stores where I live but they got bird blob things all over the place. But I digress. I've always enjoyed video games and had some unusual fascination with the arcade games even as a little girl back in the 80's, although I mostly watched other people play back then because I knew they'd be too hard for me. I used to occasionally see little boys who didn't seem to care if they could really play or not even if they were barely tall enough to reach the joysticks.

I am a girl, and I like video games.
I like the uncharted series a lot
Left 4 dead 2
Assassins creed
Sims
Pokemon
Supersmash bros
Wario Ware
Supermario Bros
Mario Kart
Rockband
and more..

I am a woman and video games are my obsession.

I love shooters and rpgs.

I collect Xbox 360 games, (Hundreds lol) and just got a PS Vita.

I guess I'm not that normal as it's all I ever think about even though others my age are having kids.

Add me on PSN u guys

I have a mic and own a PS3, PS4, and a Vita

PSN: hellraiserdude06

I've always liked to play videogames a lot with my brother.
Mostly: war, fantasia, fighting and action adventure games.
Younger I played a lot Pokemon and Super Mario games on Nintendo Gameboy, Gamecube, DS and Gameboy Advance SP.
I have a lot favourite games, so hard to say.
But some of them are:

- Halo series
- Ghost Recon
- Medal of Honor - Frontline
- The legend of zelda Wind Waker and Zelda Minish cap.
- Pokemon Colosseum
- Dead or alive 3
- Blood wake
- Ratchet & Clank
- Sly Cooper series
- Worms 3D
- Super smash bros melee

They are all my "old" games. I'm just so lazy to buy new games.
So, I mostly play my old games.
Younger I had Nintendo 64 and in that few car games, Pokemon Snap and Super Mario 64.
And I've played Megaman and Spy vs spy on Nintendo NES. Damn, I miss these old games.
First games which I played on Xbox was Halo combat evolved and Halo 2. I was really young back then, but I still loved to play these games with my brother!