Angella

I really hope so. So many of my MMO friends are European, like i need to have more encouragement.

It's for the best, really.

Come play on Proudmoore. It's the best one, because I'm there.

I have always been a hardcore gamer, and I have always been frustrated at the lack of females whom I can share my interest. Interest, in fact, is what I think it comes down to. Since I was in about the 7th grade (about 12yrs. old), most of my female friends have been interested in one thing above all others. Personal reationships. First it was thier clique of friends in school, and then later thier boyfriend, followed by husbands and children (over the course of many years, of course). I am a gamer who enjoys many FPS (esp. horror based ones), MMO's, and The Sims equally. I enjoy The Sims mostly because the interpersonal interaction between all the sims. I like to make new ones all over the neighboorhood, and watch the realtionships they form. As for my love of the more action-oriented genres, I have a little theory. As an only child, I was bored a lot and overly socialized by adults. I found my peers dull and uninteresting. So I spent a lot of time playing with whatever console I had begged my parents for at the time. It was the only thing that really kept my attention. That's what Freud would say, or something. Only it would involve my father somehow. So, personally, I think the issue is more a social development thing with females. Females who had a lot of game-playing male friends, or used games to escape boredom, seem to enjoy games more than girls who wanted to hang out at the mall all day with their friends. I think The Sims succeeds in bridging the gap between gaming and being fixated on interpersonal relationships. On a side note, I know guys who like The Sims 2 for the strategy elements and the architecture sim. They couldn't stay interested longer than a month or so, but that may be Halo2 or HL2's fault.

Among the many questions this inspires...why the hell is she oiled up? No, don't answer that. I take it back. Thanks for sharing that Spaff!

This is dissapointing news, but I'm not surprised. I love the Silent Hill franchise. I remember when I got the first game. It was so cool. I thought it was so much more atristic than Resident Evil and other survival horror games I had played. Has anyone played the game SIREN? It's a really strange survival horror game where you can jack in to the vision of surrounding friendlies and enemies and you can see what they are seeing. The goal is to anticipate what they will do so you won't have any nasty encounters that could be avoided. I found it to be pretty scary. You can hear the hear the enemies heavy breathing and you can see the weapon in thier hands from a frist person perspective. You can also see little glowing thingies over where you are located so you can determine where they are hiding. It's hard, but i think it's truly scary. I had to quit playing it though, because the game is totally annoying to anyone who is not playing it. While you "tune" between all the badguys the game makes a very obnoxious radio static noise. So I don't know what it's like through the end, but there ya go...

Just Ew.

EQ2 didn't really flip my switch. Maybe it's because I'm not all up on the EQ backstory. Also, I thought the crafting was too punishing to the player. I did, however like thier world much better than WoW. WoW is cute and everything, but thier world is so dead looking. Nothing moves. I did like the playing Ratonga. The furries in EQ are fun.

I have the same issues Baconian. :-/ Maybe one of these days when I'm not strung out on WoW I'll try again. I luv me some GF. BTW, did you get that to work?

This is the one I want.. this and there is another one.. but i can't find the link ATM. and there's free shipping woo! Paying shipping on that would be a bitch. I'll have to wait for my sugardaddy to buy me stuff like this to play with when I'm bored. Know any sugardaddies looking for work?

I'm really looking forward to playing this. Too bad so many games I'm excited about are being released at the same time. I don't really have time to play them all (or any of them actually).

I have 5 gmail invites. If you want one PM me with the place to send it.

I like prefer to have my ass handed to me in real-time.

Nah. It really is good news. It will not be affecting F.E.A.R. We aren't moving or anything. Not much is actually changing. Just deeper pockets, and that is a very good thing.

I think it's good news