Women in Video Games [Archive] - Retrogaming Roundtable

digitalpress

07-10-2003, 09:41 AM

Behold the masters of the obvious as they unveil a little-known fact that all of us here have known for many years.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/07/09/hln.game.female.characters/

Ascending Wordsmith

07-10-2003, 09:46 AM

Geez, they're only about 20 years late with this article. Remember Flashgal? Yeah, the female vigilante that killed any and everything that crossed her. That's a heroine that needs to be recognized.

EDIT: In fact, I think digitpress.com needs a review of Flashgal and her adventures. Be ready, Joe. I'm going to work on it right now. :D

Sylentwulf

07-10-2003, 11:29 AM

MORE than Eye Candy?

Well, I guess it's OK, as long as they KEEP the eye candy.

SoulBlazer

07-10-2003, 01:19 PM

Not to mention I have female friends who won't keep playing RPG's unless they find the main duo (male and female) attractive looking. :D

Kroogah

07-10-2003, 03:13 PM

How much money did this guy make for writing THAT?

That settles it. I have to apply for a job at CNN.

RetroYoungen

07-10-2003, 03:31 PM

Jeanne Kim is hot...

Atar1G1rl

07-10-2003, 03:52 PM

Must have been a very slow news day...

zmeston

07-10-2003, 04:12 PM

Jeanne Kim is hot...

The female game journo that has my utmost respect is Imagine Media's Francesca Reyes. She's 100% hardcore. Jeanne has a great ass (witnessed firsthand at a press junket), but I wouldn't call her hardcore; more of a J.C. Herz type, alas. Achika, for example, has surely forgotten more about videogames than Jeanne will ever remember.

-- Z.

Raccoon Lad

07-10-2003, 06:20 PM

Achika

07-10-2003, 06:43 PM

I'm wondering what purpose this article served? They cited some pretty off the wall games that the "casual" girl gamer looking for a role model would probably care less about. Nice to know gaming is in the news, but maybe if it's something that doesn't show much of a point, it's best left unsaid? :hmm: :/

Oh, and the comment about the Sims "portraying how women are" ...um, when I play it shows the female characters as bitchy sluts that kiss the neighbors instead of the husbands. GREAT ROLE MODELS

Kid Fenris

07-10-2003, 06:52 PM

Jill of the jungle, Samas Aran, the princess in SMB2, a handfull of the kids in Maniac Mansion, Ninja Princess,the chick from Quartet(mary?), ect.

They ARE 20 years late with that article....or just plain ignorant/stupid.

I'm going with stupid on this one.

Since we're already knee-deep in pure geek bitterness, I should point out that most of the female characters you named weren't around twenty years ago, Laddie. And it's "Samus" Aran.

Raccoon Lad

07-10-2003, 07:07 PM

first off, I think Metroid it teh SUCK, so i don't really care how it's spelled, and second, many of those are getting pretty close to 20.

Kid Fenris

07-10-2003, 07:26 PM

first off, I think Metroid it teh SUCK, so i don't really care how it's spelled, and second, many of those are getting pretty close to 20.

Close enough for CNN's Technology section, I suppose.

Anyway, I can at least give the article's author some credit for not mentioning Tomb Raider or its heroine, Lana Croft.

Oberfuhrer Hamm

07-10-2003, 10:29 PM

Oh, and the comment about the Sims "portraying how women are" ...um, when I play it shows the female characters as bitchy sluts that kiss the neighbors instead of the husbands. GREAT ROLE MODELS

LOL So true!

If I remember correctly, it even says in the manual how a sim can marry more than one person. And that on top of this polygamy, the manual says that you have to watch out that the 2+ husbands/2+ wives dont meet and start duking it out. @_@

zmeston

07-10-2003, 10:53 PM

Oh, and the comment about the Sims "portraying how women are" ...um, when I play it shows the female characters as bitchy sluts that kiss the neighbors instead of the husbands. GREAT ROLE MODELS

Hey, I always thought the definition of slut was "a woman who sleeps with everyone," and a bitch was "a woman who sleeps with everyone but you."

-- Z.

Nature Boy

07-10-2003, 11:23 PM

Must have been a very slow news day...

Exactly what I thought. I don't think you can ever look for meaning in the mainstream press when it comes to *anything* let alone video games. They'll report what they want and the rest be damned.

Just be happy it wasn't an anti-violence article instead of a fluff piece (not to put down women in gaming or anything, just agree with the 'jeez, this was news when Samus first appeared' sentiments).

Achika

07-10-2003, 11:36 PM

Oh, and the comment about the Sims "portraying how women are" ...um, when I play it shows the female characters as bitchy sluts that kiss the neighbors instead of the husbands. GREAT ROLE MODELS

Hey, I always thought the definition of slut was "a woman who sleeps with everyone," and a bitch was "a woman who sleeps with everyone but you."

-- Z.

My definition of bitch was "down right nasty to everyone" which is how my Sims was, but ended up kissing the neighbors anyhow. ;)

slapdash

07-11-2003, 01:54 PM

Hey, I always thought the definition of slut was "a woman who sleeps with everyone," and a bitch was "a woman who sleeps with everyone but you."

Sure, but what's a woman who doesn't sleep with everyone, but still won't sleep with you?

Normal, I guess, as far as I've seen...