A woman's perspective on First Person Shooter Games.

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Wow man, this is difficult.. It’s been 8 years.
I was more someone that was joking around, instead of taking things seriously. The boys got quite emotional a lot and wanted to get closer to me. Wanted to have private conversations with me and stuff..
It was all a bit a playful thing.. I don’t want to go into detail too much

I was mostly flattered, because of their seriousness. It was funny with most of them. But yes, rarely some guys were very annoying and “attached”. Mostly it were the ones that sucked at playing and just wanted to talk. Ughh..

No, but next to my PlayStation

Oh yeah it was dirty.
It was hilarious. I was talking as much sexist stuff as them. I was even supporting the insulting ones in saying stuff that is exaggerated, to make them look stupid in front of the others. You can not diss a girl that’s better in the game than you… Sorry, but nahh.
And not just that - I also changed the mind of a lot of guys they had about girls playing shooter-games. If there would be one with bad attitude, we ensured that he was in the enemy-team, so I could destroy him personally.
I also had “my boys” that knew me very well supporting me with my jokes and everything else.
So after all I had much respect.

Oh and besides that, since my voice is high, I got mistaken a lot of times for being a "kiddie". lol
We were messing around with them of course.

You mean in the clan? No.
In general? Yes, of course
But actually, just to make it clear: At the right beginning, when I was really shy, there were not a lot of guys giving me attention, so it doesn’t have much to do with me being "just a girl". I knew other girls in the game… It was really the way how I talked to people and how I was attracting all the attention with my personality and my skills. And I’m saying this without being arrogant, it’s just the truth.


That doesn’t exist in COD, but they surly would’ve

If not, they had a girlfriend;) Or they simply were emotionally guarded.

I remember three other girls in that wider circle of people. Two of them were not so good in the game, and more innocent, shy, superficial and girly-like... means less interesting for the boys…
There was one other woman, that happens to be ten years older than me. She is freaking hot and I love her character. She’s really a badass of a personality and had the same effect on the boys like I did, even if she was very rough and way more vulgar than I was. But we never competed, because she was “hanging around” more with the older guys in the game, while I was with the younger ones… we sometimes played in the same party and had some little chats. And it was clear how we both knew very well what was going on with the boys hahaha.
I still have her on facebook, she’s really cool and hot for her age.

Yes.

Not in my opinion. I never felt like girls were “needed” as gamers. And I say this as a girl. I see myself as very different than other girls, because I have such a strong masculine side. And in my experience, girls either cause too much trouble or get dissed too badly. You need a strong character to keep up with the boys. As long as if you’re an authentic Tom-boy, it works well.


Oh and another thing… I didn’t mean that my clan back then didn’t want to recruit me because I was a girl. I meant that they recruited me because of my skills, and not because I was a girl.

In a sexual context, yes.

This has been a fascinating exploration into the mindset of boys, men, and women in a FPS setting, and I am appreciative of you giving, we "Boys" in particular, some greater insight.

Ladies, gentlemen, and the gender diverse,
That concludes the interview, for this secession.
If there are any questions, the opportunity to ask is now.

Refreshments are in the foyer area.

But before we conclude, I would like to announce the winner of the lucky door prize.
The winner is: sly279.
Congratulations.

And the prize is a three-course dinner date with our lovely, charming, TomBoy, Miss LunaticCentruroides herself.

^ What? There was a FPS competition and you didn’t invite me? Traitor!

But I did bribe you. That wasn’t the promised outcome.

The heck?! You fooled me, you bastard!

I am noticing a funny pattern here, need more posts to confirm it.

Someone "Gazumped" you.
Next time, don't be so cheap.

So, How did the dinner date go, sly?

Look in the mirror.
Now THERE is a funny pattern.

How did I fool you?
I gave you half the bribe money.

LC, I challenge you in the egg shooting game.

"The prize" was dinner with you, not you.

I don't fancy your chances.