January 5 - Gaming and Girls

Online photo that I love to demonstrate
what girls experience while gaming.

The online world of gaming is not very girl friendly. Girl's who enjoy games hear stuff like, "You must be hot! Do you have a boyfriend?", "You must be fat!", "You are a girl?! Game over!", "You play to good to be a girl?!", "B****!", "I want to F*** you!", "Are you ugly?", "Why are you on here you should be in the kitchen?" etc. I myself have heard these comments and a bunch more. But I continue to play games because I enjoy them.


Guys, if you want a girl to try playing games with you start by introducing an easy co-op game. Girls would rather team up with you to accomplish tasks to start with rather then being destroyed 100% with no hope of ever winning while playing against you.  Maintain a positive attitude and remember that they are in a learning stage which may require some patience.



I recommend starting with something like "Little Big Planet". My mom even managed to play and enjoy this one. This game requires you to work together to complete different stages but still offers a degree of competition between players. After playing this game introduce "Little Big Planet Karting". It is a different game format but offers a similar feel and encourages more competition between players.

Today's 365 Project photo of two PS3 games that are good to introduce games

Try different games and don't loose your head if you try something she doesn't like. Think of games like movies, some you like and some you don't. Eventually you will learn what type of games she likes and you can have hours of fun together.

My husband and I like  "Borderlands" http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/borderlands.html and recently have started to play "Army of Two" http://www.armyoftwo.com/. We both have spent too many hours of our lives with an online computer game called "League of Legends"!  http://na.leagueoflegends.com/  The online community has had great improvements recently due to the addition of an honor system. There are still those people who make the game frustrating for females gamers but c'est la vie. Another online game that we recently started to play is "Guild Wars 2" https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/ . Guild Wars has an amazingly positive community and is not all about fighting. The game is also about exploring and crafting which may be an excellent way of starting out.

Girls do play games and we do/can enjoy them!

Real gamer girls look just as lazy and comfortable as the guys who play them.
Although I guess we do look prettier :P