Geek girls unite!

My SO loves playing games. Though unlike yours, she goes through games like Asians go through ricecrackers.

I'm currently playing Battlefield 3 and the Call of Duty Modern Warfare series. My games revolve around action, tactics and strategy.

She's playing the Mass Effect series right now. She generally chooses games with emphasis on one or more of the following: zombies, space/sci-fi, fantasy, drama.

When she came around to visit me a month ago, she suggested we play L.A. Noire together so that we both give our input on what we think on the individual elements of the cases as we proceed through the story, and it's been a lot of fun. We also enjoy playing Left 4 Dead 2 together, whenever we both happen to be in the mood for it.

 

CinnamonGirl plays tons of video games, but we never play them together. She has a VERY limited selection of games she can play (No 3D games, that means no FPS or any 3rd person games or anything made this century) and most of those are so old, there is no multi-player options on them. Most of her games run off of DOSbox. She is VERY old school and RPG/Sim games are her favorites.

I've tried to find games for us to play together, but it's hard finding something she likes that allows co-op. I tried to get her into Worms Armageddon, but she didn't seem into it. We have looked for a RTS to play against each other, but she is a fan of WarIII and I am not (To much RPG in my RTS, I don't like them touching).

I am in full support of Girls getting their game on without trolling. This con seems like a great idea.

Now, to get her into WOW... *THAT* would be awesome.

 

I'm not going to say NEVER, but I don't really think CinnamonGirl will be playing WOW ever. I won't be doing that either.

I play EA sports games on the PlayStation.....does that count as "gaming"? If so, I've been playing video games since my first Atari back in the 80's. I think having two older brothers attributed to that since I got their hand me down systems....

 

She will never play WOW. It's a 3D Top down View game AND It's WOW. She loves the Warcraft 'verse but hates WOW.

 

As most of you already know, I'm a gamer nut. I play several nights a week, always need my fix.
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I play all kinds of games: RPGs, MMORPGs, FPS, the list goes on. Mostly PC gaming these days. Though I have the ps2 and ps3 kicking around with games to play. I just prefer the keyboard and mouse to the handheld device. At the moment, I'm absorbed in Star Wars The Old Republic. The game has changed drastically since it came out. In fact, the next week or so I'll be absorbed in the current event: its a smuggler's ring expedition. Good times.

My boyfriend and I do play games together. We love to play the Little Big Planet series together, and try to trip each other up in game. Haha. And we play Dead Island, also a fun one. At the moment, we've been playing the Mass Effect 3 multi-player together. We both love Mass Effect to pieces. There's a bunch of other games we hope to play together again: City of Heroes, SWTOR, The Secret World. There's always a list.
Years ago, we played through the surgery series for the Wii: Trauma Center. And other crazy ones like Mario Cart. We've always had a mix of PVP, coop and RP games going on.

I love that they have a Geek Girl Con! I would totally go. Sounds like a blast!

 

I used to game all the time, but then I got busy with life and had to choose between pursuing my rather intensive goals or gaming.... so I had to give it up.

 

Poetry has balls for a chick!!! Yeah, some of us have life & golas first...

You go girls - Cuz you're not alone...

 

Holy crap, you guys. They had a panel on Quidditch and Roller Derby. THAT IS SO AWESOME.


Ahem. I wish I lived closer to Seattle, I would've been all about going to GeekGirlCon. So awesome that it exists.



As for gaming, Lordeden covered most of my PC gaming habits. I like console gaming as well, but I don't really like the war or sports games. And, well, I tend to like the old-school systems better, too. I don't think the Nintendo works anymore, but I'm pretty sure Mom has my Sega Genesis packed up somewhere...hmmm...

 

When the kids were growing up we used to have family game nights, I used to be pretty awesome playing ABE, I loved that little guy, also the tomb raider series. I can't get into the COD type games at all, I am more of a puzzle type person, although I can rock at guitar hero like Poetry, life has gotten in the way of fun for the last few years.
I loved worms Armageddon.