Want to also read through the comments here to see what specific games they call out in terms of current games liked by these women and girls.
Agree that the Purple Moon games were not that fun.
Example - comment from NerD:Blatella:
12/29/09
Up until last year I worked for a game company. The gender mix was pretty evenly split. There was something interesting that happened there that was related to the game Beyond Good and Evil.
We were trying to find new and inventive things to add to a game we were producing, and I mentioned this game's camera feature in a couple of meetings with the producers and developers. There would always be a great deal of nodding from the women in the room, and quizzical looks from most of the men.
It turned out that I was the only man in the meeting who had played the game.
I find it disappointing when people I consider progressive in every other aspect of their lives won't play something with a female protagonist because it might somehow make them less manly.
Also this comment from
WednesdayAM:
12/29/09
While I do question the idea of girls wanting to "make friends" in games (since I've always been a loner type - which I blame on my middle-child-syndrome tendencies - and hated having to find other people to quest with when I tried WOW for all of one month), I can say this much - my boyfriend and I are butting heads when playing Super Mario Wii due to the simple fact that I want to jump every goomba, kill every piranha plant popping out of a pipe, and break every block to find all possible coins and hidden things, and often he just wants to beat the level and move on. But that's a habit I've had from my loner gaming days. I have girl gaming friends who have the same disposition as me on that, I have others who are more my boyfriend's style of gamer. A lot of this is not gender-specific, it's gaming-preference-specific.
Though, I will admit in a heartbeat that I hate first person shooters that usually end up being used for years solely as multiplayer killfests. Yes, killing your friends is fun for a bit, then it just gets old without there being a point. Give me a game with some open exploration but an actual win-point. I like to win. It's fun.
