"Girls don't play video games." WATCH ME MOM 🤣

At 36 I finally gifted myself a PS5.

I've been dreaming and begging my mom for ps3 then ps4 but mostly there was a NO and BECAUSE YOU'RE A GIRL....

Well after a lot of struggles I decided I deserved the best so I got my hands on this bad boy on my 36th birthday 🎂🥳

Best birthday gift ever. And games suggestions? I'm looking for Co op games so I can play with my niece and nephew 😊😊

Games I played: pubg mobile & minecraft.

For me, it's Miss Fortune.

I know. Her default skin is this horrible peep-show, Party City Pirate skin. But her later skins are amazing.

And yes, she's overtly sexy. But when I am strutting across the rift in my Vivienne Westwood bitch heels, with my perfect hair, laying fucking waste to my enemies, damn that goes hard. I am a fucking goddess.

Anyone else have a character like that?

New to this group and I’ve been kind of a lurker, but I’m so excited to finally be playing a video game that requires combat and stealth. I’ve mostly played what could be called “cozy games” like Mario, Spyro, Stardew, that kind of thing but I’ve really wanted to get into more complex games that require some amount of strategy and skill in combat. I tried Skyrim, but holy shit the amount of side quests and inventory management totally stressed me out. I tried Fallout 4 and it felt like the same thing except worse because those giant rodents scared the shit out of me!

But it feels like I’ve finally found a game that’s exciting and challenging but in my wheelhouse. When they reveal the big baddies each time I’m like a little bit genuinely scared but excited and I feel so accomplished taking them down! I started the game on easy mode but quickly changed to regular mode so that feels good too that I know what I’m capable of handling.

Anyway, wish me luck! If anyone has tips or thoughts on Asylum I would love to hear them! I plan on tackling Arkham City next.

i'll turn 19 in a few weeks and i'm starting to feel VERY scared about my future. i mean i know that in the last few years the gaming community has been more open to women joining them, and i also know that there are quite a few people over 30 that still play videogames, but the thing is, all of the adults i know are men. i don't know ANY woman in that age range who has gaming as her main hobby.

so that leaves me lost... i can easily picture my friends growing up and their hobbies would be something like watching series, doing sports, drawing, partying, reading, etc... but when i think of myself and gaming, it just feels.. weird. its not exactly that i want to be a perfect role model, since something like "watching series" isn't productive but, it's expected, you know?

how do you girls and the people around you deal with it? is it treated normally just as something like reading?

He's literally describing the job of a concept artist.

didn't want to put it in the title in case it came off like baiting or something, but specifically either streamers that are men, but are inclusive and safe for people who aren't men (don't make weird jokes about women or trans people etc), or streamers that are women who play horror games (she's kind of niche but it was laila dyer who got me into pathologic, for example). even more ideally, if you know an streamer that fits either of those descriptions and specifically have played fear and hunger that'd be great, but honestly i just have an itch to watch indie horror lps, but i don't want to be wacked in the face by twitter dudebro humor. thanks if you know anyone!

EDIT: thanks for the recs! i'm saving them and keeping this thread up for anyone looking for anything similar

for context, i've beat Chronos thrice, and Typhon once (thank you to whoever suggested using the twin flames, absolute godsend, i think of u whenever i boot up the game haHAHA). i'm really enjoying the gameplay, it's forced me to get out of my comfort zone and not button mash my heart out lol, but the story is leaving a lil to be desired.

in Hades 2's defense, the stakes are much higher. Melinoe's upbringing was way more serious and u can see that in how she speaks. yet i feel that she's quite passive in her fight...? i keep hoping she'll question the gods and how they treat one another, as well as the severity of their situation, or even more fiercely double down on her goals, but instead i find her to be... neutral? passive? her voice feels like it stays the same, not just tonally but literally too (not blaming the incredible VA for this, it's more of a writing/direction issue, i feel); i was hoping by now she'd express more doubt or annoyance or stress or anything different to what she's been doing so far. is it just me?

edit: oh and the boons! selene's boons <<<<<< hades 1 god boons. i only really like one of selene's boons, and unlike the rest of 2, where i had to learn to be flexible with how i play, i find them limiting playstyle-wise. i adored the variety 1 offered in that sense, even tho they weren't all that different from some of the regular abilities.

i wonder why they didn't make nyx's boons the final god boons too, she's more powerful than the rest of the house of hades, would make sense if she got away. since she had a better relationship with chaos by the end of 1, it'd make sense if chaos helped her. and nyx helping melinoe so much could play into the resentment her children have for both of them.

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So... what are YOU playing this week?

Note that contest mode is enabled!

I want to play Hades II but do I need to have played Hades previously ?
Is it a true sequel and will I miss out on the lore if I don’t play Hades first ?

I've had a bit of a break from gaming as my life has gotten busier. I got back to gaming and decided to progress Horizon FW as I had barely started it before I got "muscle memory fatigue" from how much stuff I had to relearn since the first game and time playing other games. I dropped it for a while and kinda forgot about it.

I heard about Sony deciding to quit making physical discs and that gave me an idea to catalogue what I physically owned. I found Horizon Forbidden West in my pile of games and started playing again. I've gotten so much farther than the last time I played and this time I'm making sure to read and listen to every log and audio recording. The break from gaming all together has probably been a bit of a blessing for me as I didn't have other games and their controls messing with my muscle memory. Just before this I bought and played God of War Ragnarök. And when I picked up the totem collectible and checked it out in the menu, I got a big wave of "Oh I know that character!" and joy out of it. Did Guerrilla work with someone or the company that made the newest God of Wars or is it just a cool reference?

Hi! 😊

I recently bought the game, and I was wondering if there's a way to switch from full-screen mode to a floating widget or pop-out window so I can keep working on my PC while playing. Something like On-Together.

I've looked through the settings, but the only option I found is to make the game window a bit smaller and lock it in place. The problem is that it seems to reduce the quality of the multimedia, which looks absolutely beautiful in full screen.

Does anyone know if there's a way to do this, or if there's an option I might have missed?

Thanks in advance!

This time it’s not because I struggled with the combat from my previous thread before. 😅 I actually am realizing I also struggle with completing games that are near the end of the story line especially for single player. For some reason I usually abandon games and stop playing them when this happens. I think my mind isn’t ready for it to just end.

I started playing Dark Souls last month (fantastic game btw, I learned a lot about myself in games and how I approach them now) and am now reaching near the end of the storyline. I have two more DLC bosses before I get to the very last boss in main game. I completed and did pretty much most of everything in the game now. I find myself procrastinating in just finishing it, it’s hard to look forward to boot up the game to play and finish it compared to when I first played the game and when I was halfway into it. I know at some point I will finish it as I really want to, I’m just having these thoughts. This isn’t the first game I had this happen to. Super Mario RPG I stopped playing before the very last boss too and that was about two months ago I haven’t booted it back up to beat it. Does anyone else struggle with this?

Edit: I beat it! Although I had to level my character a bit and change some stuff around.

This took a bit in general, initial attempts at this boss took an hour + before changing anything. Then farmed + leveled and tried again, on my third attempt after doing that, changing gear, using my weapon, using green blossom thanks for recommendations here I was able to beat it!

I’m level 68 and can’t seem to beat him. My health and endurance are both at 30 and dex 28. I’m using a pyromancy build with maxed out pyromancy, power within, great combustion/combustion, fire tempest skill. I’m using the dusk crown, a seance ring for extra attunement slots, and the blue ring that boosts sorcery damage. I’m using the Black Knight shield fully upgraded. I get it to pretty low health before I just start dying and I don’t know why that happens. I tried to take breaks and it’s the same issue, get it down to 35% health or lower and then I just start to die. Before I use up all my estus flasks. Does anyone have tips? I’m thinking of just skipping this boss and not even bother at this point and just beat the game without doing it.

Been looking for some roguelikes for a while now. I pretty much only play roguelikes, so Ive seen or played mostly all of the main stream known ones in general (Isaac, Deadcells, Cult of the Lamb, and a lot more), but I need some more for my Switch/2.

Ive attempted to search for "Best Switch roguelikes" and such, but usually keep getting met with the same popular 10-20 roguelikes like cotl, isaac, deadcells, slay the spire, etc everytime.

I already have Death End Re;Quest Code Z, and Viractal: Will you trust your party?, and Ratatan on preorder, and have Risk of Rain 1+2 arriving tomorrow.

Some I have played

Yohane the Parhelion | - Isaac | - Deadcells | - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon | - Little Noah | - Tokoyo | - Mixx Island | - Vampire Crawlers | - Cuisineer | - Cult of the Lamb | - Heaven Seeker | - Revita | - Enter/Exit the Gungeon | - Neon Abyss | - Card en Ciel | - Overrogue | - Doll Explorer | - Ak-xolotl | - Barony | - Ancient Weapon Holly | - A Magical High School Girl | - Nexoria | - Hades | - Spelunky 1+2 | - Slay the Spire | - Moonlighter | - Dungeon Clawler | - Fantasy life i (Snoozaland)

Been seeing some comments lately complaining games are not aimed towards women because they don't have female main characters with male romances, and that most women in games are queer, which makes me a little bit frustrated, I guess.

First of all, I'm just frustrated at the implication that for a game to be aimed towards women, the romance needs to be with a male character. I often see comments recommending otome games as "games aimed towards women" and I'm bi and all, but those games are aimed towards "women who only like men, or who prefer men" at best.

Second, a female character being queer does not detract from romances with men in any way, in any way at all. For example, Kassandra in AC Odyssey has superficial hook-up options with both men and women throughout the game, and a couple of romances that go a little deeper with men and women as well, and any criticisms on superficiality would apply to both. The complaints being "most female characters in games are queer" just makes it seem like it's not about the romance options, but that the person doesn't want to see queer women at all, and that only games that allow romances with male characters, but don't allow romances with female characters would qualify. Seems weird to me.

Lastly, there are not a lot of games that restrict you to a sapphic romance. I can only think of Horizon's Burning Shores DLC where Aloy can romance Seyka, and Signalis.

So basically, this is it, just wanted to air out my frustrations as a bi girl as seeing people saying things that makes me feel like, to them, only "straight romances" count when it comes to "games aimed at women."

EDIT: Thank you all for the amazing ideas/tips! I feel way less defeated in knowing I'm not alone and that dying a bunch is part of the game. I'm hopping back in tonight and I'll report back with how it goes. Thanks again!

I know I'm a few years late, but I've tried to play Elden Ring several times and I find it so RIDICULOUSLY hard. I love the concept, the art, basically everything about it so I want to be able to play, but I don't think I have the skills to do it. It's sounds silly to say but all I do is die, which is part of any game but I can't get anywhere either.

Has anyone successfully gone from, "Omg what was I thinking?" to "Omg this is amazing!"? What am I missing?

Edit: I am a bisexual woman, not a man.

After some deep reflection, I think I under why plenty of women regardless of who they are take issue with the oversexualization of women in games. It was so normalized for me that I just never thought to consider if it made sense or not. I actually mean it. Now that I grew fresher eyes, the strings controlling this kind of media has revealed themselves that I can no longer unsee them.

For anything that isn't an indie, marketing is one of the most pivotal things in game development and one of those things is using designs to hook players into buying their game, their skins, anything they can sell. Female characters are expected to be hot chiefly because that's what sells even when nowadays the west has moved away from sexualized characters but they're still appealing, non-monoracial black and not even plus size or overly muscular. That's because the doylist perspective demands that these characters fit a narrow mold of acceptable averageness as to not upset the status quo.

Learning this really pissed me off. And now I know that this sense of anger isn't out of prudishness but out of concern for a industry falling back on lazy advertising tactics to make money, pander to men, and do everything to keep that quo maintained. It's even worse in the East where so many companies would rather release their games that pander to lonely men than ever invest in different markets or maintain a sense of artistry that informs the work than shoving non-diegetic content for the sake of marketability.

Sorry for the meandering rant. A kerfuffle that ended badly made me reconsider my perspective given my own blindspots as someone raised to see this as normal until I got older and changed. Once you see it, it can't be undone but that means I'm better equipped to understand the cynical and lazy ways these people employ this type of content just to make money and reducing women into objects. I love beautiful women and I do love interesting attire but I want them to feel holistic in how they're implemented.

Someone I know talks about how they don't like photo modes and think they're stupid and superfluous, but I've always loved them. It's one of the weirder videogame trends, to include a photo mode. But I'm not complaining. And Stellar Blade's photo mode is pretty good! Standard stuff, but I like how you can add different lights around. I don't recall seeing that in too many other photo modes. There's also a selfie mode, but I don't care for it. It doesn't give you the opportunity to make cool things like these.

I sometimes have a hard time getting the balance of contrast, brightness, saturation, etc. correct. But I think I'm getting better? I adjusted all of that for all of these photos. And not to ruin the illusion (I will spoiler this just in case), but the "magical kitty portal" thing was all just the normal world, but I used the separate lights and world lighting hue to come up with this vibrant purple dimension. And the kitty portal itself is a sticker.... It's apparently a logo for something in the game, but I have no idea where. I just saw a kitty and decided I needed to use it!

I had a ton of fun making these, and I continue to have fun. And I actually really like the game. I know the character design and writing are controversial, but I actually really like EVE as a character. I think she's charming, and I love her optimistic outlook on saving the world and helping everyone she comes in contact with. I'm liking the story as well!

The game is hard, though, even on Story mode. So I hope I don't burn out on dying too much!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this!

Basically I'm looking for games that have been works in progress, whose dev teams have stuck with them. Or they were released recently and still have a continuing road map if that makes sense.

The following are some examples / some I currently own or have heard good things about but haven't taken the plunge just yet for one reason or another:

- Fields of Mistria: y'all know what is but in case you don't... retro-anime style farming sim
- Grimshire: town/farm sim with anthropomorphic animals, where a plague threatens your town.
- Doloc Town: post-apocalyptic town/farming sim with nice pixel art
- Chef RPG: you're a chef who has the goal of revitalizing an old restaurant
- Travellers Rest: tavern sim that's been in EA for a long time but looks like it has a lot of content?
- Besmirch: spooky farm sim with nice pixel art
- Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days: zombie game
- Drapline: stat raising game where you raise a cute dragon girl to save the world / fulfill her destiny
- Welcome to Elderfield (technically a demo but I think you can get even more access via Patreon? either way, a lot of content) spooky town sim with x-files/twin peaks vibes
- Coral Island (I know it's technically past 1.0 but they're still releasing big updates / one could argue it's stuff that makes the game more complete): town/farming sim where I think it's geared towards saving your island, doing environmentalism... and there are mermaids :)

And I'd love to hear about these because they've had issues since the beginning, but I THINK they're getting better? I mostly play on my Steam Deck so bugs make me weary. I assume they're gonna be even worse on there lol.

- Hotel Galactic
- Tales of Seikyu

Would love some recs for YouTube videos that do deep dives into the lore of Elden Ring. Not looking for play throughs (already watched some), just in depth details on the story. Thanks in advance!