Ladies, let's share gaming histories
Kindled by the current discussion about gaming women and games appealing to women, I'd like to share my gaming history and ask you to do the same. How many cooking mommas and dancing sisters are really in our midst?
The first video games I played were
Now, what kinds of games did the other ladies of these forums play?
Kindled by the current discussion about gaming women and games appealing to women, I'd like to share my gaming history and ask you to do the same. How many cooking mommas and dancing sisters are really in our midst?
The first video games I played were
- Tetris and
- Arkanoid. Heh.
- There was also a childhood deviation named Leisure Suite Larry (pretty sexist, but him being such a loser made it all okay)
- Eventually I moved on to strategy - Civilization I through IV.
- Indiana Jones - the old adventures and the 3D action, same with the
- Broken Sword series. First really big love was this woman named
- Lara Croft - played all Tomb Raider titles plus tons of user made games. Looking forward to the reboot, too.
- Then a certain Prince of Persia caught my attention - played every game since SoT.
- Also enjoyed a number of City Builder games and
- both Black & White games.
- A lot of Adventures (favorite: The Longest Journey/Dreamfall of which the former is a 2D adventure and the latter an action adventure).
- Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), which kind of defies categories.
- Oh, and here's the shocker: I actually played The Sims (1,2,3)! Though I was mainly in it for the modding (like a lot of guys are, too)
- Titan Quest (still on the notebook for when I don't have the pc) and Loki (the old H&S one)
- It took a while to get into the RPG genre, but eventually I let myself be talked into trying Oblivion. And that was that.
- Second RPG was (surprise!) The Witcher.
- Gothic III and
- Risen (btw. sparkling example of a dev team without any women, I thought it was pretty pathetic), some Gothic II.
- Some Morrowind, some NWN II and BG (those are still on my list to play more of ) and Nehrim (fan made game on the Oblivion engine... showing how great it could've been *g*)
- Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2
- Two Worlds
- Divinity II
- Drakensang 1+2
- Venetica
- Assassins Creed 2
- Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2 (ahem... )
- The Witcher 2
- Demon's Souls
- Dark Souls
Now, what kinds of games did the other ladies of these forums play?