After recent discussions with classmates, it seems that the general consensus is that The Sims is a girl game. Now, I'm a guy and I've been playing The Sims since it's very first installment, I love the way it gives my the ability to create a world, my own characters, their own personality and their own story, it's all extremely entertaining and a rich experience. I don't see why it's seen as a girls game in the publics eyes. Can anyone explain, or give their own opinion on the matter?
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It's the stigma that this type of game appeals more to women "playing house" as it were - it's completely idiotic of course but you know, men play the testosterone driven things like shooters and RPGs where you woo women by the droves and girls play dollhouse with Sims and all those feel good things.
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All the sims err'day
Gender-typing games and activities is something school kids (and sometimes adults) do far too often. There is nothing that says pink is for girls and blue is for boys, except for societal teachings. There is nothing that says girls must play with dolls and boys must play with trucks. These are outmoded ideas. My suggestion is to not listen to your classmates, take the more mature route of not gender-typing activities, and enjoy your game.
To me though the game is what you make of it. It doesn't just have to be build a house, get married have babies, die etc, sure it can be if you want to play that way. However, if you want to you could create a pack of evil vampires who live in a secret lair, and are determined to wipe out the sim population.
1. Battlefield/CoD Franchise
2. Mass effect/Dragon Age/TES Series
3. The Sims Series
4. Metro
5. Bioshock
Out of the above 5 do you think male/female ratio in each game is equal? Definitely not. There is a reason why Sims is called a girl game. Try visiting other games forums and you will hardly see any female there but in sims every 2nd poster is usually a female.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDLMp5R1alQ
Rebecca
Its not about that, its about majority, in my WoW Core raiding team (25 players), 1 was girl who played hunter DPS role (usually girls play healer) and she was rather good at it. I have played dota with girls, I have seen girls playing team fortress 2 soldier/demoman but that doesn't mean majority does. Those are pretty rare cases, after browsing 10 servers with 24 players playing in it finding 1 or 2 girls doesn't immediately means all girls like to play CoD.
Sims on the other hand has lot of female gamers, I wouldn't be surprised if the simmer game base was 50/50 male/female or even more females.
What is this the 1980's?
He looked so embarrassed, lol. It was as if I had found a box of naughty VHS tapes in the back of his closet. None of the women I've met on campus have had that reaction. It was a bit strange, but I understand.
Guys, there's nothing wrong with liking a game like this. I wouldn't get weird looks if I said that I loved fps games. Why feed into a double standard?
I've always wanted developers to return to the roots of the game in The Sims 1 and make it family game once again. This way you create Sims only as a part of the game, as one generation, while game would be focused on playing more than ten generations step by step. That way it wouldn't be that weird.
Yet still it would be weird. People around me still don't prefer The Sims or Spore game, they play violent ones instead. I find these games good only at certain aspects, but I don't judge them. I understand their logic. I am gay thus I am used to people think about me stereotypically. I play these games because of the creativity. I like to express my own creativity. SPORE is not perfect but it is good for it, too.
If you want exact answer for your question, it would be too long. Let's say, 1970's - 1980's in Britain and women are still supposed to be in kitchen and serve the guests. Woman that would not serve guests properly would be shame for the husband and husband would be recommended to "correct" her by slap or two. 30 years changed a lot (you can see man bullied by their wifes or very ambitious women and last but not least feministic campaign), but to make stereotypes disappear, we'll need to wait more decades. But prepare that people of that age will be that free to express anti-stereotypeness and theirselves the civilization is going to be weird.
To this very day my brother has the whole TS1 collection tucked somewhere in his house (wish i knew where it was =.= lol). I bet every now and then he still plays it too considering that he has daughters of his own now. But to answer your question, No I don't think it's "just" a girl's game. As a matter of fact, I was rather surprised to find out that my ex-boyfriend was (still is) a simmer while we were dating. I remember saying "Hmm I think i'll play the sims." and he's like "OMG I LOVE THE SIMS" lol it was an epic match right there xD. I think many guys are seeing that it's beyond a girls game, I just hope more open their heart to it....my current boyfriend isn't a fan of it (Even though he bought the new Sims 4 for me and didn't tell me till our anniversary lol).
Before WWI that pink was a 'strong' colour for boys and girls had blue colour. IT wasn't until the 1940s we have the pink=girls boys=blue. Also those 🐸🐸🐸🐸 should be told that once upon a time each gender wore dresses from the time of baby until age 6.
This.
Simmin' since 2000