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Games with large female fanbases.
- Thread starter Spaced Harrier
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The Fable series, even with 1 only letting you be The Hero of Oakvale (always male). Among many things, the option to be a female alone is pretty huge and being able to customize damn near everything about your looks and what kind of combat style/abilities you want helps for sure too. Plus they aren't some grindy super long and unnecessarily difficult games.
Elder Scrolls Series, with Oblivion and Skyrim really showing force in my lady circle.
Oh and always Mario Kart.
Elder Scrolls Series, with Oblivion and Skyrim really showing force in my lady circle.
Oh and always Mario Kart.
Hero Prinny
Member
i know a lot of girls that just love everything bioware does, especially mass effect.
Sumio Mondo
Member
My girlfriend likes old Adventure games by Suda51, if that counts, but she is Japanese and grew up playing those old Human Entertainment games. She also likes Love-de-lic Inc's stuff and still follows what the former members do nowadays.
They have good taste, that's why. I also notice that Fatal Frame has plenty of female fans, just go on Twitch or YouTube and see for yourselves. Again, good taste.
They have good taste, that's why. I also notice that Fatal Frame has plenty of female fans, just go on Twitch or YouTube and see for yourselves. Again, good taste.
lighthouse777
Member
I am female
I like most games
Japanese games are my least favorite
such as Fantasy games, God of War, Devil May Cry
my favorite are indeed RPG's such as Oblivion and Fallout
but I do not care for the Witcher or Dragon age, though I have played them
I would say I like open world type games the best, the type that does not box me in
but I am currently playing Gears of War and I have Dishonored installed
I do like some shooters for their single player story, I am less likely to play multiplayer games these days
i do not play mobile games, none installed on my phones nor tablets
I like most games
Japanese games are my least favorite
such as Fantasy games, God of War, Devil May Cry
my favorite are indeed RPG's such as Oblivion and Fallout
but I do not care for the Witcher or Dragon age, though I have played them
I would say I like open world type games the best, the type that does not box me in
but I am currently playing Gears of War and I have Dishonored installed
I do like some shooters for their single player story, I am less likely to play multiplayer games these days
i do not play mobile games, none installed on my phones nor tablets
BioWare's got that going for them, too.
Outside of video games, in my personal experience tabletop role-playing games have tons of women playing. I remember one 3.5 group of 5 where I was the only guy. Going to my local game store, there's a huge disparity between the number of women playing RPGs versus Magic the Gathering.
Sumio Mondo
Member
Persona has a decent female following too, doesn't it?
Ruud_Luiten
Member
Candy Crush Saga
Frecklestein
Banned
Asscreed
plasmawave
Banned
Mass Effect.
Jawmuncher
Member
Persona and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. One of the reasons why P3P remains the best since it had a playable female MC.
Weltall Zero
Member
Was going to post this, considering the missus spent the entire two weeks of vacation playing it something hardcore. I couldn't get her to give Fantasy Life the time of day much as I tried.
Alex_Mexico
Member
I wonder if FFXV boy band-esque pretty boy main characters might resonate extra well with women.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
The sims has a large teen girl population I've noticed. A shame as I find the average teen girl quite annoying so I end up staying away from their forums and the like.
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Zelda for sure.
Absolutely. I was so disappointed when I found out that P4 Golden didn't do the same.
I gotta agree with this. And I would say MGS does seem to actively try to push women away. It almost screams that, "This is a guy's game. Deal with it." I'm not surprised it's mostly a male fanbase.
It's not game mechanics... it's the fact that he does stuff like Quiet or the random cardboard boxes that you can put pinups on to distract the guards (as if they wouldn't suddenly wonder why a cardboard box with a pinup showed up out of nowhere). ANd just in general females are treated like eye candy for the guys (I don't even think GTA is as annoying honestly. But GTA doesn't try to come up with BS excuses for stuff like Quiet either nor does it try to be a serious game. At least the female eye candy there actually makes sense in the context they put them in).
Messofanego
Banned
Point and click adventures, definitely. Puzzle games, obviously, as they're more about cognition than twitch reflexes.
My sister loves Dead Or Alive so much. Makes sense, so many ladies in it and they look cute. Other fighting franchises don't advertise their women characters as much. She doesn't care about the sexualisation.
Sims is an obvious one.
My sister loves Dead Or Alive so much. Makes sense, so many ladies in it and they look cute. Other fighting franchises don't advertise their women characters as much. She doesn't care about the sexualisation.
Sims is an obvious one.
I was once on a forum years ago where me and some lady friends argued who had a better butt, Raiden or Solid Snake.
There was this recent UK survey.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/07/24/britain-favourite-video-game-candy-crush/
It doesn't really provide exact numbers, but you can tell which franchises are more beloved and how it compares to the other gender.
Spaced Harrier
Member
I think I ment to add the word "surprising" there's certain roster of the expected such as the sims.
And I mean, strong fandom, so we're not talking candy crush or the yearly game of Mario.
What's great about that series is that you can fire it up on a first date and show them just how far gaming has come.
Anecdotally I think this is a good shout.
Resident evil is also that type of series that garners super fans. Happy to buy the same games repeatedly
And I mean, strong fandom, so we're not talking candy crush or the yearly game of Mario.
Every woman I've ever dated has loved Mario games (even though none of them have cared for gaming in general), and that's more than a few
What's great about that series is that you can fire it up on a first date and show them just how far gaming has come.
Anecdotally I think this is a good shout.
Resident evil is also that type of series that garners super fans. Happy to buy the same games repeatedly
Just take it with you.
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This, and hidden object games in general.
That's cause Fallout rocks
(I'm not biased or anything, not me). Also, as a female, I really appreciate that Bethesda actually seems to treat female characters quite well. They can be very kick ass and they don't try to make it so females are just sexy (in fact it seems you gotta get mods for that). For example not just offering skimpy outfits for the armor. I love the steel plate armor in Skyrim as well as the Ebony armor. My character looked kick ass and well protected. And even when having marriage in a game remembering females play too and having options for them (as well as gay). Well, unless you are a female cat character (what's up with that? And no my female cat character doesn't want to marry some weird hairless mammal with no tail and funny ears).
And fallout armor isn't made to try to look more sexy/eye candy and in fact looks very reasonable.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Call of Duty
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Women seem to love Resident Evil and Mass Effect.
Basketball
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Grand theft auto
I know lots of ladies in my crew
There are countless female crews
Always a few in each session of GTA online.
And the GTA forums have a lot of female members
I know lots of ladies in my crew
There are countless female crews
Always a few in each session of GTA online.
And the GTA forums have a lot of female members