Voice From Low Peasant

When I read articles about women talking how they play "non-girly games", I pull myself down in my chair a bit.

First Person Shooter, survival, real-time strategy, are the odds of masculine games. Loud, hard, and straight to the point. Ones with a lot of explosion, blood, and mosters to kill. And women do play them!

But the fact is that some girls really do like "girly" games. Role playing games, puzzles, simulations, online, or simply CUTE ones.

For me, one thing that I have strong opinion of, I wouldn't play any game which the characters are not cute. If they're not, then it better have an extremely good gameplay that I wouldn't be bothered too much about the limited eye candy.

I don't like games that need good hand coordination. I suck at it. That's why I like turn-based, strategy or role playing.

I like games with strong story, and the longer it takes me to play it, the better it is.

So see, not everybody like the "sit-down and boom-boom" kind of game. And if we don't like it, so what? People have different taste of games. And what's wrong with being girly anyway (in game world, that is. Seeing from different point of view, I guess I'm pretty much un-girly being a game programmer :)

There's something awfully wrong when people point out these games as if they are only for non hard-core gamers (read: mostly girls). Apparently some people just think in any community there should always be the low peasants, ones with less skill and humiliating traits that bring the honor down.