Quote: "I was just reminded of fighting games, of which can take 2 minutes to play. Are they real games?"
If they aren't real games, I'm in deep trouble lol, we've sunk nearly two years into Capital Punishment, MISoft's 2D comedy fighting game based on US politics, which is soon going to get an official announcement here on TGC with the first publically-available screenshots in the WIP boards. Me? Plug? Never!
I think there's a popular misnomer that females don't play "hardcore" games. They only play casual games or easygoing games like Sims 2 and World of Warcraft, games that don't take great amounts of skill to play. A long time ago that was largely (but not entirely) true, back in the days when "gamers" were often characterized as wearing glasses with tape on the nose piece and pocket protectors to guard our scientific calculators and mechanical pencils from the elements. Then a few games came along that changed that and made games more mainstream, like Myst, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Doom... and yes, the first Sims game, which easily did more for the audience of the gaming industry than all of those games I mentioned before had done combined. Note that I said "audience" there, and that I'm not saying the Sims did more for games in general, lol.
That being said, it's rather common to find females playing games that ten years ago were made up of largely male audiences. Fire up a game from the Battlefield Series, or Rainbow Six, or Civilization IV, and I guarantee you won't be able to go ten rounds on any server without running into female players. But guys tend to alienate and annoy female players, so a lot of them (many of the females I know, in fact) try to avoid letting others know what gender they belong to to avoid these pitfalls. And don't forget that a screenname doesn't necessarily need to be "Strawberry Shortcake 123" for its user to be a female. One of the girls I know who plays BF42 uses the screen name "Robotron." Not all girls played with Barbie Dolls as a youngster
Anyway, back to the Sims... does anyone know any good free modding websites that have objects using "Maxis colors?" Preferably vehicles? I downloaded the Ford Focus, Fusion, and Mustang from the Sims 2 website, made officially by Maxis, but can't find other vehicles to download to the game. And I hate mods that don't look like they normally belong in the game, know what I mean? Mods that look more like a photograph than the cartoony assets the Sims has un-modded.
