maybe
I don’t know
can you repeat the question?
you’re not the boss of me now
you’re not the boss of me now
you’re not the boss of me now
… and you’re not so big
I like to imagine that Malcolm in the Middle is Walt’s new life after waking up in the morgue (he faked his death, you know he could).
This seems quite off topic though, sorry mods.
Hah, the Xbone is sexist.
first the gamers, then the games, now the hardware itself
for real though sexism in gaming is a real issue and the 18-34 male demographic is 98% human trash
It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. With so few females, even non-sexist male gamers tend to freak out around women.
at least half of the game-playing public, globally, is female
As in console or pc game playing? I’d like some stats to back that up.
The problem with that statement is the caveat of globally. For “Gamers” the female population is ostensibly less than 10%. I specify the term gamer because in the conversation most people don’t care about mobile phone and web browser gaming which artificial boosts “Gamer” female populations because your mother.
Edit: There was a survey done that found the majority of gamers are 24-40 yr old women or something like that because they counted heavy facebook game playing as making someone a “gamer”. Which is like saying someone who watches every raunchy comedy that comes out is a movie buff.
A mother cooking for her children is not the same as a world-class cook, amirite.
I guess it would be interesting to do a survey on how many females have joined the core gaming demographic. Most of the women I know generally stick to RPGs for the superior storylines, mostly FF or Kingdom Hearts, although a few of them really like zombie games like Left 4 Dead. But yeah, it would be interesting to see what really makes up the core demographic.
Question is, how to define the core demographic. CoD dudebros would have to be cut from the list, along with mobile/Facebook games, most of the Wii’s shovelware library, The Sims, and other such “filthy casual” products. Oh, and WoW is out because it’s the prototypical MMO and lots of people only play that and call themselves core.
So a core gamer would have to play:
- RPGs of any kind (Final Fantasy, Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, etc.)
- First Person Shooters that aren’t CoD or latter day Battlefield
- Racing games (Burnout, Wipeout, F-Zero, Forza, Gran Turismo, etc.)
- Indie games of varying types (Shadow Complex, Fez, Minecraft, Braid, Bastion, etc.)
- Combinations of various genres (Deus Ex, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., various Ken Levine games)
- At least two of the above must include very hard examples of the genre (Persona games, Rainbow Six [3 and before], Wipeout/F-Zero (YES THESE GAMES ARE HARD), etc.)
That’s one hell of a required reading list. And I think I only qualify for most of that, since I still need to finish Bastion, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and other stuff on there)
I think a “core” gamer can be defined as someone who buys (or pirates) games on a regular basis. Not necessarily a single genre, but definitely a variety of different games.
I’d be reluctant to call someone who just plays a lot of smartphone/tablet games a gamer, personally. Oftentimes it’s just using your phone to play games when you’re bored, rather than actually making the playing of games a proper activity.
I play “Counter Strike-the mobile ripoff” on my phone while riding the bus, with a PS3 controller attached to my phone over Bluetooth. I call myself a stoner but I spend more money on PC parts then on drugs. I bought a projector, not for powerpoint presentations, like it was designed for, but to make gaming at 5040x1050 look even more immersive.
If I like a singleplayer campaign game, I complete it twice, once on my gaming rig and once on my laptop(if it runs well enough).
Do I qualify as a gamer?
Are you kidding? You don’t even own an Xbox.