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Games to get your younger sister

Posted Nov 12, 2006 at 11:54PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Bleach, GameStop, Naruto, PS2, Zelda
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# ...Guest 2006-11-13 01:18
nice article!

And nintendogs are cute!

loco roco is just yellow blobs with smiley faces on them...I could make that in paint.

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# ...this article isn't any better then the kiosk.hush404 2006-11-13 01:29
Female gamers have all sorts of tastes when it comes to gaming, there's not one set of games that will be enjoyed by all. Hell, I've got a sister and she enjoys everything from the sims to GTA: San Andreas and everything in between. OH! also, Syberia rawks.

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# OuendanGuest 2006-11-13 02:08
My little sister loved it, more than I think she will like elite beat agents.

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# WTFGuest 2006-11-13 03:43
What the hell is this, this so-called "News" read's like a study someone has done on the gaming habits of monkeys. FYI females are also human, just bloody ask her what she wants, you don't have to train your sister/whatever to like games, she either will or won't. "Smart wrapped in stupid" my ass.

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# Bla bla bla :PDrachenflieger 2006-11-13 04:38
I think all people, regardless of gender, want more or less the same things from games... they want to be sucked into the gaming experience, provided a challenge that is suited to their skill level, and most of all they want to be entertained! What you find interesting, challenging and entertaining differs, of course. If you can't identify with a macho super hero there's a good chance you will find the character (and quite possibly his game too) kinda bland and unappealing. The Tomb Raider games have a pretty solid female fanbase, and that's not a coincidence. Lara is strong, intelligent, beautiful and deadly capable of taking care of herself. She's someone you can look up to and sympathize with.



To engage people you have to speak a language they understand. Tell them stuff they can relate to. Men and women tend to see different things in the world they live in. Cultural and biological differences and their importance in shaping us isn't really interesting here; some tendencies is there to be seen, and that's just how it is (for the moment at least).



Anyway... rant over... :P My older sister mostly plays puzzle and number games...



my younger sister mostly like platformers (Spyro, Mario etc), spiritual survival horror games (like Fatal frame... she hates Resident Evil and other zombie games for some reason), roleplaying/adventure games (WoW, Final Fantasy 9, Secret of Mana, Zelda) and strange and creative stuff like Animal Crossing and Pikmin... :P She sometimes likes fighting games too, when she's winning at least :P



My girlfriend adored I-ninja and Stubbs the zombie, likes puzzle games and fighters (especially Tekken and Dead or Alive, she doesn't want to play street fighter with me... bummer :/) and really likes everything that has something to do with vampires or werewolves (she stole my gameboy for a week when I introduced the GBA Castlevania titles to her, lol)... she seems to like Dead Rising too, but she hates the way her phone keeps ringing and rants about crappy game control every time she messes up in stressful situations... :P



Anyway... my tip is: If you want to introduce a girl to gaming, find out what she likes, what makes her laugh and how she gets her kicks, and then go out and find a game with lots of that stuff. Works for me :) NEVER buy a "girly" game to a woman! If she's got any spirit whatsoever, she will kick your ass for underestimating her.

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# That kioskSpector 2006-11-13 05:09
At the gamestop I work it I was there the day that kiosk went up and we all just kinda sighed. Most days we have (.>) put games like Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry, and other games that gamer girls we know enjoy playing.



So I don't think anyone here really needs a lecture on the matter. Just they need to not be as narrowminded as a large company.

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# zzzGuest 2006-11-13 05:16
my sis rox she's cool with star wars BF2 on my psp

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# right onGuest 2006-11-13 05:19
I couldn't have said it better myself



plus, the games mentioned are for little girls, just as there are some games geared towards young boys, not teenagers and adults



get over yourself

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# zzzzzGuest 2006-11-13 05:38
like those sony SOBs who only see them making money of selling games and not the homebrew picture +P

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# dumbassGuest 2006-11-13 05:39
the article never tried to impose any sort of taste onto female gamers.



Read it again r-tard.

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# what?Guest 2006-11-13 05:42
what a weird title?



games to get your younger sister.. what?



to grow taller?

to start playing games?

grounded so you can play all the games you want without sharing?

to become your slave and bring you all the munichies you need while gaming?

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# grrrrrrrrrrrrrr Guest 2006-11-13 05:48
*****ing hate ppl who thing gaming or games with violence is limited to males! i love halo 2 u know... *****s

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# stupidGuest 2006-11-13 05:57
as previously stated it's targeted towards YOUNG GIRLS as in ELEMENTARY SCHOOLERS. Mothers come in asking for 'girly' games ALL the time. . . all this kiosk does is help THOSE MOTHERS pick out what THEY want to buy for their little girl. It has nothing to do with the idea that girls only like those games. i love when people make a big fuss about nothing.. retards. OBVIOUSLY girls, whether young or older, like the violent games as well, but like I said, it's the MOTHERS (and of course the father figures) who are the ones specifcally asking for the 'girl games'

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# okGuest 2006-11-13 06:07
what the heck is this ? is this a psp new ? no ? get off !

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# OGuest 2006-11-13 06:07
Ok everyone I have an idea!!!





We need to get the Frag Dolls to come to this Gamestop or whatever its called, bring their big motars, and rocket launchers from their favorite FPS game, then blow up this "girls only booth."



Stupid *****ing stereotypes!

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# Gotta admit those games annoy the F_CK outta anyone...Guest 2006-11-13 06:47
Yeah, my Wife's little cousin(12) is quite a gamer, and everytime she stays over she'll just sit and play on my Cube...I remember when she first came over to play she brought her own games the likes of the already mentioned Hell to stand and watch Bratz, some Olsen Twins Game, SpongeBob (wasn't really that bad, but annyoing after two full hours)...After giving it some thought, I began showing her some of my games and see what will happen...She no longer plays that girly crap, now she's 13 and into games like Zelda Ocarina of Time:Master's Quest, Mario Sunshine, SoulCalibur II, BurnOut, anything Sonic, Tony Hawk games, SNK Vs. Street Fighter, anything Sims...etc. The last time I commented her about the Bratz and Olsen twins games, she told me she had exchanged them for credit to get new games because those games were for little girls....I'm just glad she's seen the light.

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# ...Guest 2006-11-13 08:03
my sister is hardcore into prince of persia and would never even look at one of those games

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# I've got three sistersmikekearn 2006-11-13 08:54
And only two actually play video games, although as the youngest one is only 7, it might be understandable.



Anyways, the other two don't play any of those *****ty "girl" games, they play the same type of games I played when I was their age. They play Pokemon, they play The Sims, they play games online that are basically puzzles made with flash. I've even gotten them to play Halo with me before, but they're very bad, so it's usually ME who doesn't want to play anymore, heh.

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# mehGuest 2006-11-13 09:18
It's not so much that they're targeting "female gamers". Lets just say those are normal "gamers" (Because do you seriously see studies and statistics on "male gamers"?) It's that they're targeting young girls under 10 who want to play a game, if any game, based on their favorite tv show. I've seen some young girls shopping at walmart in the game section; they all wanted games based on kids movies, they didn't get anything else.



a girl of a decent gamers age (teen, lets say) will probably be into any game. My cousin is a girl, she recently got married, and she probably plays Xbox more than me. Of course she's not gonna get "that's so raven". A 10 year old would enjoy that obviously though.

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# WTF?Guest 2006-11-13 10:21
I stopped reading after the writter said tekken was button mashing....that is just plain stupid

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# Thats messed upGuest 2006-11-13 10:39
Getting girls to play those piece of crap games like Thats So Raven and those games are only making them hate games even more. If you really want to get a girl into gaming, just let her watch whatever you play or get her something that isnt hard to understand.



this girl i know got a PS2 specifically for DDR. Then i let her borrow Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts 1. Being a n00b to gaming in general, i had walk her through a few parts, but eventually, she ended up beating the game, beating Sephiroth, and getting ultima weapon on her own. She also loves the story and everything on FFX (though she thinks its weird that people wait in turns for battles 0.o)



Theres also many girls that are better than most guys out there. Again, the key to get girls into gaming is to slowly do it with fun, but not overly easy and stupid, games.

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# re-meagarahush404 2006-11-13 10:53
Maybe you should look at the article again, dumbass. The article is only about what the blogger thinks would be suitable games for categories of females, which is exactly what the first part was arguing against doing. The only difference between lists is that the blogger mentions some good titles instead of only stereo typical crap.

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# I Have a QuestionGuest 2006-11-13 13:16
How did the boys get into gaming? Did they just randomly get a "M" Rated Game and loved it? I know I didn't, and nobody in my family did. I pretty much started with watching Pokemon, which changed into playing it on the Gameboy Color, which moved into playing Final Fantasy on the PS1, and eventually I started playing everything. My younger brother did what I did and he is now an MMO-RPGer. Since my sister is about 5 years younger than I (Im 15 mind you) she started playing games that are more advance quicker. At ten she has already Played KH 1 and 2, Mario 64, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, etc. She doesn't like playing puzzle games; she plays action/adventure games, games that take you into the action ASAP.

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# on button mashingGuest 2006-11-13 13:52
one can win against ai in tekken by just button mashing... tekken's system can be rewarding if you move past button mashing, and moving past button mashing in tekken is required if you want to fight human opponents...

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# Comments for articles! Not for ADSGuest 2006-11-13 16:38
WTF an advertisement?!?!? Crack down on that guy, we don't want ads while reading COMMENTS on the article!

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# reGuest 2006-11-13 17:03
meagara just got pwned

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# Multiplayer games, obviously :)Guest 2006-11-13 17:39
I got my Seventeen-magazine-reading, always-on-the-phone-chatting, fashion-concious stepsister into gaming by picking up multiplayers like Smash Brothers, Mario Party, Diddy Kong Racing, Super Monkeyball, etc. and then letting her beat me a few times. She liked being better than me at something, and when she actually got good enough to not pull my joystick'd punches, she made a worthy opponent and we had a lot of fun together.



For someone who's already a gamer, though, I'd just pick out something I know they'd like based on games I've known them to enjoy in the past.

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# hmmfGuest 2006-11-15 10:56
Girls are just like guys when it comes to video games and computers. Some guys love 'em and some guys don't. Some girls love 'em and some girls don't. WHen it comes down to the actual games...you's be surprised at how similar male and female tastes are. I love playing Halo and Oblivion with my cousin and shes more obssessed with FPS games than I am. I tend to like the RPG anime stuff more, as well as MMORPG's.

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