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[motheba]

There are a lot of reasons why I like Dragon Age — and I can see a lot of reasons why other guys would like it, too. I hate to use the word "great," but hey, it's a really good game!

I can also see how girls and women would like it more than other "similar" games because of the story and immersion, with actual stories to go along with the female character model. Also, I'll agree that the romance, etc., makes the game a fuller (and therefore better) experience.

But here's the thing. My wife would never be interested in the game due to the violence and difficulty. She just wouldn't care enough (no matter how good the story). Of course this does just come down to my wife's personality and preferences — she struggles with Fable a little — but I'd be interested to hear if any of the females find themselves grossed-out, annoyed, or otherwise turned off by the game.

And for whatever reason — not just gore or difficulty. Maybe you could talk about what's going through your mind as you play through or choose not to. If you've just been playing gory, challenging video games all your life, maybe none of this matters to you, I'd like to hear that, too.

Also, I would hate to ask a lady her age, but if you could give some clue about your age, that would be great. I think a lot of it *might* be generational. I'm "only" 36, and there is a HUGE difference in the amount of sex and violence in the media now than when I was a kid. My wife is in her "30s" and never played games before she met me five years ago ... ; )

[Dark Lilith]

I enjoys games that keep my interest.I'm a gamer girl for a few years and was always into fantasy-Sci-Fi things.I love fantasy artwork so naturally games draw me in. I enjoy DA and find it a somewhat challenging game as I'm not used to the strategy part but find the action and graphics very cool.
As for the romance part...bring it on! I think its about time that game companies started making games aimed at and geared to an adult game player and not always hack n slash. That gets old.And multiple story lines are always a plus
I'm 25 by the way and games rock!

Modifié par Dark Lilith, 15 janvier 2010 - 06:22 .

[motheba]

Thanks Lilith. I agree it's about time they made games for adults — and for women AND men. Ones that more of both would want to play. Kudos to BioWare for doing both with DA.

Myself, I love the strategy part. But it still took a while to get used to playing a game where it seems I spend more time with the game paused than not.

I'm not even into fantasy type stuff — never have been. But the way this game combines the RPG with action and strategy has really sucked me in!

So DA was never hard enough to put you off it for very long? How many times do you see yourself playing through? Any games that you would have really loved to play, but were just too frustrated with to continue?

I'll be honest, I'm too old and too busy to spend the time actually getting good at a game, and I was relieved when I read that the patch made the easy level easier!

It's probably kept me from stopping out of frustration for long enough that I'd forget the story and lose interest. Myself, I'm looking for an experience, not a serious challenge. Life gives me enough of those as it is ...

Modifié par motheba, 15 janvier 2010 - 06:50 .

[Tor_pedo]

I'm a gurl gamer. I've basically been raised to it, sitting hrs and hrs watching my older brother play video games and fingering his pc, being encouraged to play myself I guess that's where my facination started.

As for the blood and gore, well, I was forced to play Duke Nukem from when I was about 8 so i think i'm pretty hardened at that part. Strangely I enjoy the blood and gore very much. haha

I've played many rpg's, not insanely many though, still havent tried any D&D, Baldurs Gate etc. but found NWN1 and 2 quite to my liking. Of all the rpg's tho I enjoy DA:O the most. The combat system, the romances, the story, pretty much everything is exactly my kind of pie^^

[xgiovedi]

I'm 27 and have been playing games since I was 6 (I don't consider myself a "girl gamer", though, I mean do guys call themselves "guy gamer"?). The gore doesn't bother me and I'm a bit de-sensitized to it from game series like Resident Evil and such. I did turn off Persistent Gore because I found it a little ridiculous and my game ran faster without it lol DA:O is actually not really a game I thought I'd like (because of the similarity of the look of WoW I thought it had at the time - my POV has changed by now obviously- ) until a co-worker was raving about it, so I tried it out.



While playing, I usually micro-manage like crazy because the Tactics is too slow for me. Since I am trying to play the game with the different origins, I usually switch to my tank character (I am more comfortable with Knight/Warrior kind of builds and let the AI control my "Main".

[Remmirath]

Gore and difficulty don't bother me at all. I like my games to be at least somewhat gory and difficult, actually. I have been playing computer games since I can remember, so that might have something to do with it (though I doubt it). I think Duke Nukem bothered me slightly for some reason the first time I played it when I was three or four, but that was a long time ago, since I'm twenty now. I can't remember any games bothering me because of the gore. I think either Doom or Quake was the first game I played that really had any blood to speak of, and it didn't bother me then (I think I was eight or nine).

I also don't much care about the romances, since apparently that's unusual. I'll do them if I think my character would, but I'm just as happy if they're not there at all. They can add to the story, so I've got nothing against them. Just not usually my kind of thing.

The only games I've gotten frustrated about the difficulty of have been puzzle games or strategy games. I get impatient with that kind of thing.

Mostly I play roleplaying games for the story and the roleplaying, since if I just want to kill a bunch of things I'll probably be playing a first-person shooter or something. Which is certainly not to imply that I don't enjoy combat in roleplaying games.

When I'm playing the game I usually set all the companion's tactics and then play my own character unless I need one of the others to do something. I played through the first time on normal (without the patch) and found it to be kind of hard in places, because I hadn't really taken the time to understand the system and my characters were very poorly built. Since then I've been playing on hard, which is hard enough not to be a cakewalk but easy enough not to be frustrating.

As to how I decided to play the game - well, I've liked every BioWare game I've played yet, and though I like science fiction I've always been partial to fantasy, so I followed it as soon as I heard about it.

[MissFruitypie]

I LOVE the absurd levels of gore in DA:O. My favorite screenshot is the one where I caught Alistair decapping a Genlock in the Tower of Ishal.

One thing that I really like about DA (NWN is like this too) is having the ability to stop the game and think about how I want to handle fights. I don't fare well in twitchy games that require fast reflexes which IIRC is a category that Fable falls into (I disliked that game as well).

Demographics: 33 and a lifelong gamer, starting with Pong/Asteroids/Pac-Man around age 4 or so.

[motheba]

Great comments, y'all. Really enjoyed reading them. Thanks for sharing your gaming stories!
Interesting that all but one of you have played your whole lives (Duke Nukem at three ... lol). But it's no coincidence that you've all ended up here, I think.

Like Halae Dral, I've enjoyed every BioWare game I've played — Jade Empire, Mass Effect and DA. (Just bought KOTOR during the Steam sale, but who knows when I'll have time to play it.) They're really long, but as worth the time and effort, hour for hour, as any movie I've seen. Deus Ex was the first game like this that blew me a away. Anyone else? Playing that game made me look up at the roof tops for snipers when I was walking around town! Great story.

These games just have so much more for me than shooters. I enjoy shooters, but they don't make me really want to finish a game as much. FPS are more like arcade games for me, which I never want to play for more than 30 minutes at a time. It's not the gore and violence (which I do think is done to death in games), they just get ... boring for me without an interesting story.

Modifié par motheba, 16 janvier 2010 - 09:28 .

[Amberyl Ravenclaw]

Gamer gurl here in my early twenties, and what I can say is that I've been playing RPGs for almost a decade now, progressing from milder adventure games to Bioware's NWN1, KOTOR, KOTOR2, JE, NWN2 and finally leading up to DA:O. Have also dabbled around with a few MMORPGs that were either free or on free trial such as Funcom's Anarchy Online and Age of Conan. For me, what drew me in were the stories and writing and capability to dream and imagine, since I'm a lover of all good stories and tellingly an English major in college. I spent hundreds of hours on the toolset for NWN1 and although I ultimately never produced anything marketable, I had an awesome time.

As for the blood and gore in DA:O, I suppose it was a matter of getting used to milder forms of depictions of violence etc in the games I started out with and then going from there, especially when considering how games are becoming more and more realistic-looking these days due to advances in technology and graphics rendering. Basically, it was a natural acclimatization process of sorts, I think, from going to 2D blocky pixels to the fine 3D texturing of DA:O and understanding and being comfortable with realizing that naturally with this sort of progress, violence would definitely continue to be rendered in more graphic detail. And anyway, from the viewpoint of creative license, I'm a full supporter of the theory that 'you have to do what you have to do in order to tell a good story'. It wouldn't exactly be a dark and gritty world if there was no violence and gore.

Modifié par Amberyl Ravenclaw, 16 janvier 2010 - 10:42 .