Games I was planning on buying:
Myst

Games I actually bought:

Anodyne
Tales of Monkey Island
Theme Hospital
Don't Starve
Witcher 2 (can't even play on my crappy computer, so I'm not sure why I bought it, lol. Just to torment myself :( )
System Shock 2
Jade Empire


Hhmmm... :S

The good news is that I have so many new games I don't think I'll be tempted by any upcoming Christmas sales!

<applause>

I never mentioned feminists, I specifically talked about political correctness and then later I mentioned identity politics. I didn't insult anyone I responded to, and I certainly didn't say any of them were "obsolete"... To put this kindly, your description here of what my responses supposedly were comprised of is a complete distortion.


You are not calling me an "oppressor" after you respond to be directly with this? "On the other hand you are, I assume, a man, and don't understand what it is to be marginalised for your sex. .... The methods of conduct should not be defined by the oppressor basically." So what am I then? A mere tool of some other all encompassing male "oppressor"?

Ridiculous.

As I said before, you assume some inherent oppressor/victim relationship is at the core of everything and you feel that merely asserting your assumptive beliefs should inform the politically correct standards for language and conduct of everyone else before all other considerations. AGAIN, I enjoy pleasant civil conversations more than I do your unfounded accusations. Where any non-compliance is proof of some complicity in a larger but always vague systemic oppression of whatever identity pressure group you are pushing some agenda for. Your attempts to determine what is legitimate polite conversation through social pressure and assuming inherent guilt on those who don't immediately comply is about control and power. Not about politeness, civility or being well-mannered.


I never stated or implied that anyone who believed as you seem to "must be stupid". You are doing me the disservice of putting words into my mouth that I never actually said. Come on...

I use common sense, decency, and basic courtesy to inform my thoughts, speech, and actions in response to the demands or expectations of others. If another person feels as if they are only acknowledged when everyone else conforms to politically correct standards regarding gender neutral speech, I politely refuse. Why? Because their concern usually isn't about civility or politeness or any other reasonable measure of basic good manners, it typically is about demanding or imposing excessive deferential treatment towards particular social sensibilities. There is no end to it. Someone will always be offended by something, and your thought police orthodoxy will demand everyone else shift to protect the overly sensitive hurt sensibilities of the "victims".

No, I managed to grab it. Thanks though :)

Wait until you see all the games you didn't know were here on GoG, or had never heard of before, and... you discover these hidden gems whilst they are being offered at some of the biggest discounts of the year.... save up some more money. ;)

I'm a big fan of RPGs and from where I started (written role playing games and an Elder Scrolls community) there seemed to be equally many female and male players/members. I never lie about my gender, if someone asks I answer but if someone I don't know just assumes something, I neither care nor correct him.

I don't think I'll (or the female gamers I know) ever need a game made "for female players". Just GOOD games, maybe with some nice little flowers to pick (so we can make potions of them to cast more powerful fireballs to burn down all our enemies :P)

Funny thing is, I always imagine it hard to find a boyfriend one day who accepts my gaming habit :D

Oh, and the Zombie apocalypse? I'll just get eaten.

Good deal!

I know I'm not the only one here who took a screenshot of the Atlas bear, (GoG bear?). :D

I'm not trying to police your thoughts, man, I'm telling you to respect other people and their choices and desires. Anyway, you're probably just tired from this sale so you're getting angry at things because you want a 'pleasant civil conversation' your way and your way only right now, that happens, and there's no use repeating myself at you because you're not going to listen, so just... take care I guess.

I have the exact opposite scenario as I am literally surrounded by female gamers (my family is like 80% female, going back like 3 generations) and most of them are gamers. On top of that, my wife is as big of a gamer as I have ever been. Its uncanny how similar our beginning years were in regards to gaming. Like me, she owned an Intellivsion and not an Atari 2600. She also had the same computers I did (Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga 500 Etc.). It really is uncanny just how similar a path we took in regards to gaming.

I think you would be shocked by the numbers coming out of the gaming industry. According to ESA's 2013 demographic study, 55% of gamers are male and 45% are female. That's means female gamers are just 5% away from being an even split in the gaming market.

Here are some other interesting tidbits based on ESA's 2011 demographic study.

* 58% of all Americans play Videogames

* There are an average of 2 gamers in each game playing US household.

* The average U.S. household owns at least one game dedicated console, PC or Smartphone.

* 51% of U.S. households own a dedicated game console, and those that do own an average of two.

* The average age of game players is 30 years.

* Women 18 and older represent a significantly greater portion of the game playing population (31%) than boys age 17 and younger (19%).

* Average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 35.

* Of the most frequent game purchasers, 54% are male and 46% are female.

* 43% of gamers believe that video games give them the most value for their money, compared with DVD's, Music, or going to the movies.

* Gamers who are playing more video games today than they did 3 years ago are spending, on average, 49% less time watching TV, 44% less time watching movies at home, and 47% less time going to the movies.

* Gamers who own a dedicated game console use them for other entertainment media, in addition to playing games, 42% use them to watch movies, 22% use them to listen to music, 19% use them to watch TV shows, and 5% use them to watch live content.

* 62% of gamers play games with others, either in person or online.

* 32% of gamers play social games.

* Average number of years gamers have been playing games - 13 years.

* Average number of years adult gamers have been playing games - 15 years (males average 17, females 13)

Here is the full report in case anyone is interested in reading it. There is a lot of interesting info in there.

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2013.pdf

The bottom line is there are a CRAPLOAD of female gamers out there.

I am in a similar situation to you - my man is not into gaming at-all and he would definitely roll his eyes if I started boring him with details of the insomnia sale :)

Tell that to the game designers who won't do anything in case they offend the delicate sensibilities of their male gamers. I mean what, do those devs think a guy's gonna keel over if the female character wears some decent armour for once? Honestly. Pandering to male entitlement is offensive to everybody.

Myst is more a chore than a game, so you did well there.

I can't' stand the Myst games.

I´ve been a gamer for almost my whole life, I remember the time when people who played games where called "nerds" and now it´s quite the opposite. I read posts on forums that shows how little some knows about the people that play games. Some says Nintendo are only for kids (I guess those totally missed the Wii game Madworld) others says The Sims are only for women and so on.

If you get beaten by a woman she must be man since men are more skilled with games. It´s sad that there still are people that thinks this is true.

I enjoy RPG's and am always buying them but, for some reason I'm just not very good at them perhaps, my attention span is too short to absorb enough information to play them well, I always just want to play the game without having to read and remember 30 pages of instructions however, I can handle RPG board games ok maybe the scale, tactility and verbal interchange of a board game just suits me better.