So I am playing Halo 3 tonight, I saw the new trailer from Bungie and it made me want to toss it in the old disk drive. Thing is that it is still the same. I still go 25 and 4 I still don't move up in ranks and now it is just filled with even more assholes who think they are in the MLG by putting the gamer pic up and then bitching because I won and talk shit about their stupid gamer pic.
I also realized how much I missed The Office while watching it tonight. The new Knight Rider is so bad, and I still want to have babies with the girl from Chuck.
I am off to last call at the bar, then more Halo.
I also realized how much I missed The Office while watching it tonight. The new Knight Rider is so bad, and I still want to have babies with the girl from Chuck.
I am off to last call at the bar, then more Halo.
Both the male and female writers on those sites bash everything in site and at the end of the day we all just laugh it up.
So, then why the double standard for my personal opinion and bashing of a peripheral on my personal blog or my blog for girlgamer.com? What makes Kotaku's opinion more acceptable and I'm not allowed to make a quip?
Point being that there has been a standard that has been set that video games are played by kids and fat bearded guys that never shower and couldn't pick up a girl to save their life.
There may be an industry standard, but that doesn't mean we have to like it or accept it...or voice our opinion on why it needs to change.
I think the Frag Dolls will play a big role in this for girls, as long as someone markets them properly.
I hope to god they don't...considering my personal interaction with them and the general marketing around them as "girls in bikinis working as marketing puppets for Ubisoft."
http://www.metafilter.com/37059/Gaming-girlz
http://www.mono211.com/ffwd/archives/000794.html
The people that are hardcore don't need to be sold by a flashy ad in order to want a game.
I think just the opposite...as a hardcore gamer I look directly at the trailers that are released and evaluate the quality of graphics in cut scenes and in-game play.
Tell the thousands of hardcore Blizzard fanboys that the cinematic and in-game trailers for Diablo 2 don't matter...I'm sure their petition to change the design scheme based on thoes trailers says otherwise.
but my little sister loves those stickers
And so do I...That was sort of my main point, which was girl's don't nessasarly go for the "pink" product. Sometimes we do want the strat with some flames on the pickguard.
What I was more upset about was the fact that it took so long to come out with a guitar marketed specifically at girls...and the implication that we didn't like the original one that came with the game.
Why isn't there anything specifically targeted at the female gamer age 17-25 or *gasp* 30-55?
Wii does this, all the time.
Wii does...in the form of "This is a great workout," or "family activity." And, marketing sites praise them for it:
http://andhowmarketing.typepad.com/andhow_to_reach_women/2008/04/wii-fit-tries-t.html
when I worked at gamestop, than girls that were just picking up madden and for their boyfriends.
And, when I worked at Game Stop I had people who refused to acknowledge my help because I was a girl and "didn't know anything about games" despite the fact that I was the manager on duty.
Specific example:
"Customer has a question, I offer to help. They refuse my help because, "I won't know the answer." Customer asks guy on duty about UEFA vs FIFA and he doesn't know the answer...has to ask me and I answer the question while looking at the customer who REFUSES TO LOOK AT ME and continues looking at the guy. Customer then THANKS the guy for HIS help."