If by girl you mean Guy In Real Life, then yes, he fits that description perfectly....

Are you insinuating that I'm a... MMO player???
Right, its pistols at dawn. You take the .38 special, I'll take the one mounted onto this handy T72

Stereotypes are completely stupid -- I'm happy to see you defy them. I think thats perhaps what this comes down to -- how many women do.

In case you don't know, I play the Unreal Tournament series... So I'll be bringing a Redeemer to the fight :-D

Yeah, about that... I made the mistake of showing her The Longest Journey on Steam, and now that Monkey Island is being released as well I don't think she's coming back.

- I saw a female gamer the other day.
- Horrible creatures. I avoid them whenever I can.

Oh well if we can bring in things from games we play, I'm a Warhammer 40000 player so I'll just bring the entire Dark Angels space marine chapter

You got many games for the DS for free?? Where ?? please tell me!! :D

Ah, so you are a girl who games then? What was your favorite part of Dark Messiah? For me, it was hearing that sexy demon Xana muttering all kinds of innuendo to me, while I was fighting. : )

Heheh, wouldn't it be cool to have a female version of marcus phoenix character when you play online for example? I always wondered if female gamers didnt care about having a male soldier player character for example, when they are playing a game online.

Unfortuatly we're still in an age where if you were to introduce gender choice in such titles you end up with design garbage like this or and [url=http://www.hiphopgamershow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/gears_09_cover_by_jim_lee.jpg]this. Which don't cater for females at all.

My brother would agree with you on this one ;) I however, gladly got rid of Xana when opportunity presented itself >:)
What I love about this game is how it accommodate stealth-based characters. With little patience and some planning, most enemies could be tricked to kill themselves or be dispatched with one strike.
Most action games rely on quite different gameplay and I usually give them wide berth - Dark Messiah is one of few exceptions.
It has some drawbacks - before Ubisoft, all M&M games were connected to each other, so DM is not really 'Might & Magic' game for me.
And on the more illogical side, of all characters in the game I liked Arantir the most >:) Too bad there was only one outcome to the main fight.

For the Gears girl, she's sort of appropriate for the world, its a macho steroid happy universe and she looks like she'd fit right in, the female chopper pilots seem to fit into the trope pretty well. In fact, Anya is the only character in the entire gears universe who seems remotely sane.
I sort of hope they have a female playable character or 2 in Gears 3 but they won't be able to win either way, she'll either be characterised as a macho freak like the male soldiers or she'll be remotely normal and be accused of being wimpy because she's a girl. Its not like they need another whiny bitch anyway, they've got Baird & Dom...
I am glad to see the emergence of more female gamers though, cross gender acceptance is one of the important stages towards gaming being seen as a legitimate leisure activity and not just an evil child perverter.
As an aside, a few weeks ago my lecturer for screenwriting was saying that she was a big fan of Silent Hill, I fancied her before but I do even more now...

You got many games for the DS for free?? Where ?? please tell me!! :D
Company my wife works for deals with the disposal of items that aren't sold. They get a lot of DS games sent their way and allow the staff to take what they want before destroying the rest to recycle the components.

Awesome! Can you send me some ?? :D

Xana was fun to have for the ride. : ) Too bad her demon claws and tail were for all means useless. :D I kept her one time, and dumped her on another run through, just to see the name endings. I think there 3 possible endings depending on whether you get rid of her, and save the mage. Xana was such a hot demon, yet so insecure, getting jealous of that hot mage. :D
I couldnt get to do much stealth attacks in the game, i think only the daggers were good for that, and they werent that powerful. Most of the time I went for the gravity traps, tossing the enemies on the fire, through cliffs, dropping big weights on them, etc. I suppose I wasnt much of a combat warrior. I didnt know most of the time what to do when the power attack glow was enabled too. :D yeah, I think ubisoft only slapped the M&M title for merchandising reasons, that's it. The game isnt related to any of the other M&M games. Combat-wise, I've read about a game which is supposed to have better combat than Dark Messiah. It's an older game called Severance blade of darkness. Havent played it myself, but i would if i found it. (maybe GOG can include it on their catalog. :D)

Awesome! Can you send me some ?? :D
Can you read Japanese?

I can translate! : ) Is reading japanese needed??