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Girl gamers may soon top the leaderboard

Which? Convo: The stereotype of a ‘gamer’ has long been the young man holed away in his bedroom, playing games in the dark for hours on end by himself. Yet, new research has found that we might be smashing the stereotype.

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FriedGoat4152d ago

I hate that they bring facebook games into this. Playing facebook games does not make you a gamer. That's like calling someone who plays monopoly and Jenga alot a gamer.

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jessupj4152d ago

I like to ask the question, does playing the occasional gold round make you a professional golfer?

I'm sick of these servers putting casual and hardcore players in the same demographic.

DFresh4153d ago

Topping leader boards is a waste of time and not worthy of an accomplishment in life.
How many people are even legit anymore on the leader boards anymore with all of the hacking/boosting/glitching going on in video games today?
Show me something that's legit that put in the hours to get good, played the legit way without cheating, isn't using the most overpowered b.s in a game and that isn't playing in a modded lobby.
Until someone can show me that I don't believe that the people in the top leader boards are even legit.

Murad4152d ago

Well, I know the Dark Souls Ps3 board I believe is legit, along with some others on Steam.

jessupj4152d ago

I got a lot of BS lag kills, so I wouldn't call Dark Souls legit, per se'

Murad4152d ago

@jessupj
True, I do agree with your statement, I myself have been in that same state more than a couple of time. However, I do find it somewhat fair under the circumstance that at least it's not on a fully hacked and destroyed server where people can insta-kill you any time and anywhere.

anime_swag_pro4153d ago

Leader boards are important until the girls start heading up there. Suddenly they don't matter at all.

madjedi4152d ago

No they matter to the guys that like to stroke their e-penis and apparently the chicks that stroke their e-clit. They are both equals and both shallow if they obsess about it.

To a majority of us(generalizing) gamers, it's not really a big deal if it's a female gamer or a male one. Since it is the SKILL of the gamer your celebrating not the damn gender.

So the whole rah rah girl gamers power, females can play games to speeches ect. is tired and annoying.

Congradulations to the female gamers on leaderboards, here is your cookie now go away, k thx bye.

We are supposed to be gamers regardless of gender, but by all means continue to segregate yourselves. It will only make integration take that much longer to achieve.

Some people just love to stir up drama.

Athonline4153d ago

I know lots of young women who play video games really WELL. Even in my raiding guild in WoW, we had a part-time model... Stereotypes that only boys play games belong back to the 90s.

BanBrother4152d ago

Oh yeah, what did she model as? An orc? Lol I kid, I really do. My sister plays wow and she was the best warlock on her server. She got lots of crap in raids, where they used teamspeak. She let her skill do the talking.

I think this article, or at least the heading is misleading. My mother plays 'games' on her gadget, as she likes to call it. It's funny, as she would never put herself in the same category as someone like me, who buys retail boxed games, but analysts and such are very quick to try and make a correlation or connection between the two.

In fact, people (like my mother for instance) who play a touch screen mini-game on an iPhone are the polar-opposite of what I consider a
gamer.

Athonline4152d ago

Her main was a NE Druid.

Yeah. I was talking about "real" games. From CoD to DOTA/LoL/Starcraft...

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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's Scope Was Impacted by Xbox Series S Limitations

Wccf tech writes: "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's scope was impacted by the Xbox Series S hardware limitations, as developers could only make a game that was 25% bigger than its predecessor."

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-Foxtrot6h ago

This is the issue with things like this

Xbox Series X is apparently to MS the worlds most powerful console

However the Series S is obviously a limitation because it’s underpowered and developers have to go for parity.

So what’s the point of the world’s most powerful console if you are holding third party developers back? They aren’t going to push themselves if they have to think about the weakest console.

The issue wouldn’t be as bad if it was just Xbox but you are also affecting the PS version aswell

I think developers need to start just taking advantage of a console and if one of them can’t do X Y and Z then f*** them…why should the others suffer. What’s MS going to do? The bigger the franchise the least chance MS are going to tell them to f*** off. Baulders Gate 3 seemed to have stood their ground and suddenly their “strict” parity rule didn’t really matter. We suddenly got super optimisation efforts for the Series S that got things sorted.

anast3h ago

I agree, and the sad part is use normal folk saw it the second they announced their plans.

LucasRuinedChildhood7h ago

More info from the author of the article, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/ki...

Quote:
"1) I was told this info from the producer of the game Martin Klíma.
2) He specifically said the game will have only one mode.
3) And this mode is 4K 30 on PS5/XSX and 1440p 30 on XSS.
4) He said that the game is already running north of the 30 FPS cap so the performance should be stable on launch, much better than KCD1.
5) The limitation was XSS because of the 10GB memory. He said that's why they wanted to make the game 25% larger.
6) Speculation on my part: the output resolution is probably upscaled and the reason why there won't be a 60 FPS mode is because it'll most likely be very CPU heavy, like Dragon's Dogma 2 for example."

Doesn't seem like they're adding a 40fps mode on PS5/Series X for launch even if they can handle it.

Sgt_Slaughter3h ago

I'd much rather have 1440p/60fps or even 45fps. Having just one, even with the Series S in mind, is disappointing.

franwex1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Remember when xbots were adamant that the series s won’t hold back the gen?

Microsoft just needs to let go of the mandatory parity. Who cares if your grandma doesn’t understand that a game cannot be played on the S. It’s not like it she can buy you a physical game for it anyway. Before buying the game put up a notice that it only works on series X. If you’re buying for a friend-allow for a refund.

Bam. Everyone is happy. Most series s owners are for casuals that want Game Pass anyway and most likely don’t purchase most games.

If the developers want it to run on S, let them figure it out.

Jin_Sakai1h ago

“During the event, the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 producer also revealed that on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the game will run at 4K resolution and 30 frames per second“

Another “creative decision” right? 🤦‍♂️

IHateNate1h ago

Amateur hour. Very incapable developer.

Outside_ofthe_Box52m ago(Edited 51m ago)

Since you're not an amateur and clearly know more than them, can you over there and help get the game running on the S without having to sacrifice their true vision. Us gamers would really appreciate you using your wisdom for good 🙏

IHateNate48m ago

Thousands of games run just fine on S.

But Kingdom Come is the game that can’t. Must be one hell of a game!

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Celebrate the Diablo Anniversary with March of the Goblins

Come celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Diablo IV and the 2-year anniversary of Diablo Immortal! There are heaps of rewards to mark these celebrations with a bounty of devilish goods across both games.

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anast8h ago

This game is about to get buried by Path 2.

LordoftheCritics7h ago

Still no global chat or group finder.

The emptiest MP game ever made.

OtterX7h ago

1 more month then I can celebrate 1 year since i stopped playing and uninstalled the game.

Walalon5h ago

We are on the same team brother!

Rynxie2h ago

I uninstalled d4 after they kept screwing over the sorc build and I beat the game. I also uninstalled immortal after reading the end. I actually went back to d2r here and there.

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Tales of the Shire Stands at a Fork in the Road Regarding Magic

Tales of the Shire has many hurdles to jump to live up to the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, and magical elements might be its most pertinent one.

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