Guys and computer games

My boyfriend can sit transfixed for hours playing computer games. I like some of 'em okay (Civ II, Diablo), but don’t really get into them like he does. I’ve noticed, too, that most of my male fiends really dig computer/video games, and most of my female friends could care less about them. I don’t think this is unique to my group of friends either. Any thoughts on why?

Oops! Make that male friends, not male fiends.

[I’ll correct mis-spellings, but I leave Freudian slips alone. -slythe :slight_smile: ]

[Edited by slythe on 12-06-2000 at 09:44 PM]

Sorry, can’t help you there. No time. There’s a tornado whipping down on my Sim City, and after that, well, Tony Hawk ain’t gonna win no gold without me guiding him.

I’ll get back to you when I’m done. Should be a couple of weeks. Sit tight.

Have you ever watched a dog with a toy? It plays and plays and plays… Ever watch a cat? They play real fierce, then get bored. I think it’s like that, but I dunno. It could be the hunter/gatherer thing. Guys don’t really hunt anymore, so they have their virtual ‘kills’ by beating games. Now back to Summoner Demo…

broccoli!

I’m a girl, and I play games as much as I possibly can. In fact, I’ve lately decided that I need to play more, because I really really like 'em, and I tend to get sidetracked by such mundane tasks as paying bills, preparing meals, etc.

Mr. Athena, OTOH, can’t manage to sit down and play one for more than 5 minutes. He can, however, watch football for 9 hours straight, so that’s when I get my game playing in.

Case in point— Me, versus my two wonderful (cough) sisters.

I always figured it was because I had learned how to use a computer when I was 4. And learned how to play video games on my old Atari 2600 a little ways before that. Meanwhile, my sisters did things like play with dolls, and learn how to do ‘girl-type’ things. (bake cookies, etc. etc.)

Oddly enough–with the ‘Age of Technology’ rapidly approaching a point where everybody is learning how to use a computer as part of a prerequisite for ‘making it’ in today’s world, my two sisters have become passably adept at using computers. They’ve been playing more video games, too. I can’t help but feel there’s probably a strong correlation between the two.

-Ashley

Ever play Tetris? My wife doesn’t really like video games in general, but she can get absorbed into Tetris on Gameboy.

[hopefully not a sexist generalization]
perhaps it has something to do with guys liking to take on tasks (like solving a puzzle or slaying a dragon) and women like to organize things and figure out the way things relate to each other
[/hopefully not a sexist generalization]

I’ve been a computer game addict for years, so, no, not only guys are addicted to them.

Hello, my name is Dave, and I’m a game-aholic.

I play games as often as I can. I wish I had two brains and 4 arms and 4 eyes so I could play games and do something else (Like post on the SD) at the same time.

I only know a few girls that are into computer games. The ones I do know are quite adept at computers. They are also more addicted than many guys I know.

You know, the Quake world champion is a chic.
Hot, too…

I do play some games a little. I’m not a huge fan of most games though. I like Tomb Raider, and have the complete set, but don’t play them religiously - and in fact have only completed the first one to the end, once.

I got Thief: The Dark Project and haven’t gotten past about level five, the one with the weirdly designed castle.

I tend to get all enthusiastic with games for about an hour, then give up. Sometimes sooner. Then leave them for weeks before getting back into playing again.

Oh, I also love Adventures, and they are rare as chicken lips nowadays.

That reminds me - I must start playing The Sims again. My sim, Busty McHooter, is just about ready to be promoted again.

Busty McHooter?!?

:smiley:

My wife was never into video games until she met me. She liked Final Fantasy VII (and she does know I see that as one of her few flaws), and helped her ex-boyfriend through Resident Evil by reading the strategy guide and guiding him with it, but otherwise didn’t get into them. Then she met me.

She does like playing pen and paper AD&D, and had for years. At the time I was an addict to the online RPG Asheron’s Call. I had an extra account I had bought before for an ex-girlfriend who gave up on it, so I set it up on her computer. We spent many evenings 50 miles apart physically, but roaming around the island of Dereth together in the game. I was able to help out her character initially with my level 18 sorceror, teaching her the way around and providing her with some gear she normally couldn’t get on her own.

After we moved in together she started playing it on my computer, and got even more addicted - she was playing it in grainy software mode, I had a decent 3D card and it makes the game look a LOT better. She started playing it a lot more than me, usually 3 or 4 hours a night. Her character soon surpassed mine in level, made a lot of friends in one of the bigger allegiances in the game, got hand me downs from some of the highest level people on the server, started getting vassals of her own. I pretty much gave up on the game when I couldn’t adventure with her anymore because she had to hang around the tougher parts of the island to earn the experience and money she needed at her level.

Then she started playing Master of Orion 2, an excellent older space empire-building game, then Dungeon Keeper 2, where you design dungeons, stock them with monsters, and protect them from heroic adventurers who are trying to steal your loot. Then she bought me Baldurs Gate 2 for my birthday, and she went back to playing games 3 or 4 hours a night until she got to the end.

Just recently she took an interest in a first-person shooter I recently got for myself, No One Lives Forever. She didn’t like those kinds of games before, but this one is a particularly good one and I think she likes the female protagonist and the quirky sense of humor. Now I’m a bit worried - now that she likes this genre of games, she’s going to want to play my other FPSs, and I have quite a few. I may have to get by without her for a while. 8^)

Hello. My name is Didier, and I’m addicted to Doom-like games.

I also want to use this smilie, for no particular reason: ;j

I love video games. Particularly the Tomb Raider series. I suppose it has something to do with being able to manipulate a woman all the ways I want to in real life but can’t. :wink:

Also Tony Hawk, I just bought it on Sunday and am officially addicted. I just got to the first competition and cannot win a friggin medal. I was getting pretty frustrated with it last night and my fiancee started laughing at me and asked why a video game, which should be for recreation/stress relief, stresses me out so much? CAUSE I WANNA WIN THE FRIGGIN THING AND TONY JUST ISN’T COOPERATING!!! LAURA CROFT WOULD UNDERSTAND DAMNIT!!!

Yes, I love video games and I’m not ashamed to say it. I’m a big fan of adventure and team RPG (Final Fantasy) games. My brother has such a low attention span, he can only play against other people such as in sports games. He tries to play other games but gets bored quickly.

My sister and her other friends think video games are the stupidest things. They can’t understand mine or other’s fascination with them. It is equivalent to sitting in front of a brick wall for an hour or so.

[William Shatner voice] Get a life! [\William Shatner voice]

well, I am 15 years old and yes, i am in love with video games. this really isnt part of the message board, but man! Athena! marry me! j/k. You can never find any chicks who like games, which is a shame. It has to be a guy thing, but I think what it is, is its the same reason that girls watch soap opera’s. sometimes life is just too boring. so instead of stupid witches and a love broken by a burst apendix, or whatever those stupid shows are about, we take immaginary swords and chop up majora a good one! I’ve read its simalar to a dare devil. it shoots out those thingies (i dont know what theyre called. sue me.) that make people feel good. I think its the same thing that people take drugs for, only in vid. games, its natural, not from a pill.