Not a girl, but two relevant experiences:
First, a good friend of mine was a hardcore gamer and director of QA at Lucas Arts. He got his last girlfriend and his current wife, two people you wouldn''t expect to play games, into the hobby. He reports that co-op options, exploration and building are premo game qualities for girls. It''s not that graphic conflict is a turn off, as far as he can tell, it''s just pointless.
Second, I had the esteemed honor of converting an old girlfriend from a luddite into a gamer. How did I accomplish this evil task? I turned her on to Myst (stone me now
). The problem for her, and I think for the industry in general, is that
there is not enough intellectual and emotional content in today''s games. Imagine if the only movies that existed were Hong Kong karate flicks and bad, low budget space monster movies. These are what most games are the equivalent of today. There''re filled with direct, completely unsubtle conflict for largely amatuerish ends (kill foozle, save the ninth key of nin, kill the boss monsters!!!! you get the idea...)
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Just waiting for the mothership...
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