Girls In Gamestop, Part 2,454,786

[bloodyrosemccoy]

AMELIA: I would like to purchase this fine product! *hands cashier tiny Wii*

CASHIER: Now, this is not a real Wii. You realize it is simply a tin to hold gift cards and is in fact $2.99, which is slightly less than even a used Wii costs.

AMELIA: Yes. I am aware of this. Perhaps its size, price, and the way it says “gift card tin” on the package were clues.

CASHIER: Very well. I will ring you up.

I am very glad he didn't ask me what it was for.


Also, dear video game companies: It’s nice that you’re trying to expand your audience to include girls, but I’m beginning to wonder if games like “Imagine You’re a Babysitter” or “Imagine You’re A Fashion Designer” are the right answer to the complaints that there are not enough video games with female protagonists. Just, you know, for the record.

Comments

[shriekingsnape.livejournal.com]

the "imagine" series makes me want to vomit. for serious. it only screams, "Gender them while they're young!"

Give me lego star wars any day. now THAT'S a video game.

But I agree. Someone needs to make a kick ass video game with a female protagonist (who isn't Barbie and doesn't have the majority of her pixels dedicated to cleavage). I'll settle for a detective game. I like mysteries.

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Lego Star Wars is awesome, but the camera is, pardon my french, royally fucked.

[neintales.livejournal.com]

I was trying to think of a video game that I felt qualified as "Kickass Female Protagonists!" and all I could come up with were "Well the old Neverwinter Nights* games had useful female chars that sometimes even had cool lines!" and "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" which I spent waaay too much time playing as a youngster. (Also "Where in Time is..." and "Where in the USA is..."

Which of course makes it sad as hell that those are all I can think of despite my years of being submerged in PC games.

*I think this is part of why I go for my RPG's and MMORPG's so much. Sure they tend to still go for the chainmail bikini look for females, but at least I can MAKE THEM BADASS and RP THEM AS BADASS and ignore that a little.... of course then I have to deal with the guys who decide that all female players/players of female characters want to do is cyber, which is creepy as all fuck, but so far rare when it comes to my two main addictions of WoW and City of Heroes/Villains.

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

A "Harriet the Spy" game would be cool. I always liked that book.

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

... Dude. SAMUS ARAN. Fully clothed. (Usually.) Single-handedly saves solar systems. Shocked the entire galaxy when her gender was revealed at the end of the first game.

I'll take the cheesecake rewards for 100% completion, seeing as they come with the fact that this woman is DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS to an entire criminal race.