Are females naturally worse at FPS?

[CountArach]

Don't kid yourself. There are no female gamers.

[naut]

Dunno. But if it is true you'll have to ammend your hypothesis to "Females and Rythmic are naturally worse at console FPSs."

[rajpoot]

Don't kid yourself. There are no female gamers.

Shhhh, not so loudly, don't forget you're in the Arena!

[Kekvit Irae]

[TevashSzat]

Well, if you follow Starcraft progaming (which is basically just Korea gaming), the coach of Samsung Khan is actually a girl. Shes, though, like only 1 of 2 girls ever to get a chance to play in starcraft progaming though....

Well, guys are usually more exposed to computer games in general. There is a pretty high chance that most teenage guys have played an FPS once before. FPS have some differences, but the basics are still the same: jump around while shooting at the heads of anything that moves. Thus, girls would have a disadvantage as to getting used to a new FPS quickly.

This would be likewise if a guy was handed a mascara and asked to use it as compared to a girl

[Abokasee]

I can handle pretty much any game like a Kalashnikov, I can't go wrong

I don't know any girls who are pros or even play games (then again I rarely ask), although my Russian pen friend in Year 5 did play UT2003, Unfortunatly my receiving message never made it back because the postman died of frost bite.

[Martok]

Well, guys are usually more exposed to computer games in general. There is a pretty high chance that most teenage guys have played an FPS once before. FPS have some differences, but the basics are still the same: jump around while shooting at the heads of anything that moves. Thus, girls would have a disadvantage as to getting used to a new FPS quickly.

I think you have the right of it there. It's not that women are inherently worse at FPS titles than men, it's just that they tend to have less exposure to them (and mainstream games in general, for that matter). The women that *do* play them, however, generally seem to be every bit as competent as their male counterparts.

This would be likewise if a guy was handed a mascara and asked to use it as compared to a girl

LOL! Good one -- a succinct (and hilarious) way to put it.

[Ferret]

I think girls would probably get lost easier because they play games a lot less often, a boy would probably have played similar games and so be used to the controller and standard button configurations. Anyway I had a few friends over today and one boy couldn't play any of the games to save his life but a girl who I thought would rather do something else was alright at it.

[Husar]

Are guys naturally worse at putting on makeup then?
Give a girl some makeup and within minutes she will be a real beauty queen, give a guy makeup and if he even manages to do anything at all with it he will either still be ugly or look completely gay.

[Andres]

This would be likewise if a guy was handed a mascara and asked to use it as compared to a girl

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[Mailman653]

I have a friend, female gamer, and from what I understand shes pretty darn good at COD4, but I don't know for sure, never played COD4 before or with her. Although we did play GTA4 a few times and shes not bad.

[Vladimir]

There was a scientific study conducted which concluded that men were better at gaming that women. Better or worse then is actually a bad way to word it, it has to do with the way the brain is wired. Men receive more of a pleasure response than women for killing, taking territory, and etc which you see a lot of in games. It's probably not that women aren't worse at them, it's that most don't get into them as much.

It seems to me that where women excel in gaming is in game design. Creating an environment rather than going in for the kill.

[Veho Nex]

Now who didn't see that coming....