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What's the deal?

Monday, May 29, 2006 1:46:19 AM

How come in every single gaming magazine or online article about gaming noone ever mentions the best-selling game of all time, The Sims? Is it because it is considered a "girly game"?

I don't know. But from my online experience with The Sims and The Sims 2 I have found that these games attract three kinds of people: Girls, Gay's and Geeks. The three G's. I am a Geeky Girl so I guess I more than fit that description. However, the so-called Gamer's, the ones that play Counterstrike and other brain-dead shoot'em-up's, look in contempt on this. Weirdness.

What do you think?

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Comments

John Asbjørn BraastuMr Green # Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:05:09 AM

I think you're right about the girly part. Even though I've never tried it i have that attitude towards it. I guess it's cause it's my girldfriends' little sisters favourite game. And you just can't have much fun without a fully loaded AK-47 and a couple of handgrenades. Except for a stack of chips and 52 cards.

jokeaday # Friday, June 2, 2006 12:16:10 AM

I agree with you, even as I don't play games, that the gaming magazines are concentrating mainly on the shoot'em games. Isn't it the same with cinema? This is what people want to buy.
I read somewhere that the gaming industry is looking for new markets and they will start targeting girls. Now we will have to see, what this games will be, Sims X or Tomb Rider X...