Male Female Ratio of TES Players

Post » Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:06 am

if you don't want to be bothered on other game forums and so on just don't announce your gender to everyone. it makes it seem like you want the attention for being female/being a female gamer in a mainly male environment, and creeps or just socially challenged teenage guys get ideas

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CHARLODDE
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:09 pm

How are we supposed to understand this?

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patricia kris
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:36 pm

I believe he means that many quests have one way to complete them, when there actually should have been multiple outcomes. Lack of character-defining choices, you know?

For instance, at the end of Peryite's quest, one should have been able to go against Peryite and spare Orchendor. In fact, one should have been able to help Orchendor cure the afflicted.

Another instance where Bethesda blundered in this respect was during the TG and Companions questline. The PC should have been given the choice to refuse lycanthropy and the offer to become a Nightingale. And speaking of the TG, the PC should have been given the ability to help Mercer Frey in his endeavor.

And I am sure that someone here would have loved to help Lu'ah Al-Skaven create an undead army from Imperial Legionnaires and Stormcloaks. :devil:

There are probably more blunders, yet I cannot recall them at the moment.

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Dalton Greynolds
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:29 pm

Yep. I'd rather the games attract females that like them for what they are then to try to appeal to people, male or female, who wouldn't like the series otherwise anyway.

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Lisa Robb
 
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Post » Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:40 am

Female ,try to fine a peaceful way before violence.

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Guy Pearce
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:24 pm

Ohh yea. A friend of mine once told me he changed his clan tag to girl just to see what would happen. He got messages every few minutes (/.-)

As for me I'm a male and i play male characters. Playing as the opposite gender is immersion breaking for me.

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Lady Shocka
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:02 pm

I'm guessing he was playing cod.
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Karen anwyn Green
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:39 pm

Same. It's not that I couldn't, as women and men really aren't as different as we'd like to think, lol, but I just don't have an urge to play as one. I think I could get immersed into it though if I tried. Just not as well.

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Lucky Girl
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:49 pm

I'm pretty much the same way. I useually have female companions though... until Teldryn came along.

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Carolyne Bolt
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:08 pm

You bethca. Big surprise, right?

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Trent Theriot
 
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Post » Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:12 am

I have no problem playing female characters, in fact when a game makes certain things female or male only to unlock it makes it more interesting, like Fallout new vegas. Mount and Blade also does it well by making female characters have to work harder to make a dent seeing as the world is primarily run by males.
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:47 pm

I will say I've been on my fair share of forums and the way everyone gets along here is awesome.

I've been to some forums where a girl will join and instantly do the whole "hey hey NEW GIRL HERE!" and you can hear the stampeed of leg humpers flooding in. But on here is like, "oh your a girl? thats cool." Or most people don't even seem to care lol. Maybe its the age bracket of this forum. I know we got some young ones in here but I'm in the 36+ age group myself. Nice to see the maturity here.

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Melung Chan
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:56 pm

I'm 20, so I'm in the age group that probably would be doing that, lol. I just don't care, not sure why. Just seems silly to make a big deal out of it here or online, or wherever. I don't know a whole lot of serious female gamers in real life, but I know some. Probably why its not a big deal. Its only of note to me when people I thought were dudes turn out to be women, lol.

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Kyra
 
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Post » Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:06 am

yeah I know gamer girls in real life which is why I don't see it as a big deal.

I know my avatar throws people off haha. but I believe my profile does say I'm a male haha

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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:09 pm

Over half of my friends are gamer girls, don't see the big deal either.
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:30 pm

I believe he means that many quests have one way to complete them, when there actually should have been multiple outcomes. Lack of character-defining choices, you know?

For instance, at the end of Peryite's quest, one should have been able to go against Peryite and spare Orchendor. In fact, one should have been able to help Orchendor cure the afflicted.

Another instance where Bethesda blundered in this respect was during the TG and Companions questline. The PC should have been given the choice to refuse lycanthropy and the offer to become a Nightingale. And speaking of the TG, the PC should have been given the ability to help Mercer Frey in his endeavor.

And I am sure that someone here would have loved to help Lu'ah Al-Skaven create an undead army from Imperial Legionnaires and Stormcloaks. :devil:

There are probably more blunders, yet I cannot recall them at the moment.

Exactly. More conversation with NPCs with a lot of options. And things like who you are and what you wear should affect them more. And there should be more different kinds of quests with many ways to solve them.

Game developers have to be innovative and find out how other actions than combat could be made more immersive and involving the player.

I'm sure just making the future games better RPGs would make them appeal more to females. Skyrim is too much an action adventure game.

If for example what you wear affected more how NPCs react to you, I'm sure females would like it. Someone could praise you for your jewellery and someone else might be jealous. :smile:

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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:48 pm

Oh yea, I sould have said when people I though were chicks turn out to be dudes :P Although I'm naturally skeptical of that anyway.

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hannah sillery
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:47 pm

Hell, that's something I myself would like, lol. Walk in front of a couple and make the husband jealous of my Nordic Carved, haha.

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A Boy called Marilyn
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:38 pm

that..... seems... a little.... sixist.
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aisha jamil
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:31 pm

yeah... cause guys out there will pretend to be girls haha.

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Hussnein Amin
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:14 pm


Well sometimes the people who "pretend" to be girls identify themselves as female in terms of six, you know transixuals.
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Daniel Brown
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:19 pm

:D It wasn't meant to be.

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Flesh Tunnel
 
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Post » Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:10 am

Yeah, I have a friend on a different game who is a guy, but wants to be a girl.

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Marilú
 
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:07 pm

Male here. And I totally dig the fact that women like TES. I'm married with kids and, though my wife likes the economic aspect of me playing games after the kiddies are in bed and everything else is in ordee instead of spending cash at the pub with my friends, I can tell she still thinks I'm a dork... lol. So, I welcome women into my dorkdom.
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Post » Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:35 pm

I'm 38. It is a massive demographic shift for sure. Women in my age group typically never play video games. More do one generation younger, and even more the generation after that. I'm pretty sure it has more to do with video games becoming a more respected form of entertainment media, not that game makers have shifted focus to attract the female six. In other words, women have been coming to appreciate the industry *as it is*. I personally think it would be a turn off to both men and women gamers if they started *trying to hard* and putting pink ponies in games like Skyrim. Hopefully, the industry heads don't think the demographic shift has anything to do with something they did.

By the way, I've never played as a female character. I've never played as an argonian or kahjit either (but for different reasons). I suppose I have too much respect for women to make one my virtual meat puppet whom I will most certainly end up making her do something terrible at some point. If, however, I could make a character look like some of the female bosses I've had in the corporate world... chaurus den... level 1...
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