Final Fantasy - Boys game, or Girls game? - Page 3

December 30, 2007, 11:24 PM

I know it's definitely more directed towards the male population, but I believe the Final Fantasy series can be for anyone who just wants to escape into a world where they can "play hero" for 40+ hours and just experience the creativity of the Square-Enix developers for a while.

However, I know ALL video game producers aim towards guys because that's who's more likely to sit down and power on a console as opposed to women who's hobbies more than likely differ over all ages. I'm not saying all women; just most.

December 31, 2007, 10:46 AM

Anyoen, regardless of sex, religion or age (well to a degree) can play a Final Fantasy. I dont class it as either sexes game.

December 31, 2007, 2:46 PM

Well mostly both because for the girls, the guys look cute and HOT, as for the boys, the girls look HOT, sexy, and cute.
Brudda's words, not mine.

January 1, 2008, 8:28 PM

I am a male and I love Final Fantasy X and X-2, and I have played Final Fantasy I-III. Most Final Fantasy fans I know are males. Final Fantasy X-2 has been despised by many female gamers.

January 1, 2008, 8:42 PM

more guys play playstation than girls so its not suprising that there are more guys playing than girls. very few games target one sex as its target market. although there is playboy mansion and barbie horse racing.

FF is aimed more towards guys a all the main characters are guys.
not counting X-2 as its terrible.
but FF is for any gender

January 1, 2008, 9:04 PM

Whether or not FF is directed to a male or female audience, it depends on which part of the series. Girls are probably more inclined to play FFVIII and FFX-2, though that's not always true; everyone is different. There is also a lot of sexy eye candy directed to both male and female audiences.

I think the main reason why a lot of people don't know girls who play these games in real life is because they don't want to come out of the closet. The stereotype for girl gamers is "DYKE!!!" which is something a lot of girls don't want to be labeled as. Furthermore, they get their fix on the internet where they're anonymous. (I'm not generalizing)

January 1, 2008, 9:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Angella

Whether or not FF is directed to a male or female audience, it depends on which part of the series. Girls are probably more inclined to play FFVIII and FFX-2, though that's not always true; everyone is different. There is also a lot of sexy eye candy directed to both male and female audiences.

FF is directed to both, I think. There's a romantic story in almost every FF, not just VIII and X-2. Just look at VI, or IX or X. There's elements in the games that can appeal to both genders, and they're usually pretty balanced (VIII and X-2 being the exceptions to this).

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I think the main reason why a lot of people don't know girls who play these games in real life is because they don't want to come out of the closet. The stereotype for girl gamers is "DYKE!!!" which is something a lot of girls don't want to be labeled as. Furthermore, they get their fix on the internet where they're anonymous. (I'm not generalizing)

What? Since when are female gamers thought of as dykes? o__O Guys generally like female gamers, and I've never once seen an instance of a female gamer being thought of as a dyke. And what do you mean they get their "fix" on the internet when they're anonymous? I guess you've never seen girls in Gamestop before.

January 1, 2008, 9:20 PM

FFX-2 was obviously (and somewhat painfully, I remember my friend telling me I visibly winced every time I opened a chest and 'scored' something) aimed at girls. And while I found the battle system and, to some extent, the funky minigames all sorts of fun the game really did suffer for it. It was all love and GIRL POWER and pretty, under the impression that that would bring in the girls and the main characters' clothes dissolving every three seconds would bring in the guys.

(They were right, of course, it did work. I'm just not happy about it)

The other final fantasies, I think, have equal attraction to both genders. The earlier ones were likely aimed solely at guys because they were the primary audience. The addition of secondary love stories and female characters was the first indication of acknowledgement of a female audience, but FF7 was, in my opinion, the first that gained a huge female audience.

This was likely the fault of Cloud, Vincent and Sephiroth and thier appeal to the ladytypes. A strong focus on character relationships probably didn't hurt.

From then on, they just continued a pattern that worked. Girls who didn't wear quite enough, pretty guys and battle systems that were familiar enough to be easy to pick up but with enough differences to avoid being repetative make for pretty broad appeal.

FF9's going back to the roots to some degree was a pretty good choice in terms of increasing the appeal. It pleased the older players by adding little things they would recognise (Garnet's white mage disguise, Vivi's appearence, summoner horns...) while keeping a strong focus on the TWOO WUV between Garnet and Zidane for the new female audience. Because they had thrown in so much of the earlier games this prompted much of the new audience (including the HUGE female audience that FF7+ had brought in) to check out the older games. (Pretty cool coincidence that the rereleases came out only a little while before 9...)

10 followed the nice pattern some more except with an added sports theme that could bring in yet another group of fans.

January 1, 2008, 9:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Apfelsaft

FFX-2 was obviously (and somewhat painfully, I remember my friend telling me I visibly winced every time I opened a chest and 'scored' something) aimed at girls. And while I found the battle system and, to some extent, the funky minigames all sorts of fun the game really did suffer for it. It was all love and GIRL POWER and pretty, under the impression that that would bring in the girls and the main characters' clothes dissolving every three seconds would bring in the guys.

(They were right, of course, it did work. I'm just not happy about it)

It might have worked on guys, but the effect didn't last once they saw they saw how ridiculously girly it was. Not to mention it ruined X's perfectly good ending and wasn't anywhere near as good of a game.

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The other final fantasies, I think, have equal attraction to both genders. The earlier ones were likely aimed solely at guys because they were the primary audience. The addition of secondary love stories and female characters was the first indication of acknowledgement of a female audience, but FF7 was, in my opinion, the first that gained a huge female audience.

VI had a fairly prominent love story because of Locke and Celes, but yeah, it's definitely VII that brought girls into the fold. And I'm sure the part where you have to dress Cloud up as a woman wasn't aimed at guys.

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FF9's going back to the roots to some degree was a pretty good choice in terms of increasing the appeal. It pleased the older players by adding little things they would recognise (Garnet's white mage disguise, Vivi's appearence, summoner horns...) while keeping a strong focus on the TWOO WUV between Garnet and Zidane for the new female audience. Because they had thrown in so much of the earlier games this prompted much of the new audience (including the HUGE female audience that FF7+ had brought in) to check out the older games. (Pretty cool coincidence that the rereleases came out only a little while before 9...)

IX was actually very romantically themed. Not only is there the most obvious relationship (Zidane and Garnet), but also Freya and Fratley, Steiner and Beatrix, Eiko's crush on Zidane and seeing Garnet as her rival, and even Cid's little affair.