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[Tasuru]

Sakanade wrote...

Or you could just use the RPG defense

Which has been passed down the generations and goes like this:


"heck, if I'm going to spend hours on a game looking at someone's ass, Let it be a chick's"


there you have it

My favorite excuse. Right up there with, "I make her have sex with chicks."

[Purple People Eater]

I like playing as a female character. It gives a different perspective to the proceedings. I normally dont do it on a first playthrough, but I like it otherwise.

[Xerxes52]

October Sixth wrote...

Sakanade wrote...

"heck, if I'm going to spend hours on a game looking at someone's ass, Let it be a chick's"

I prefer: "I'm secure enough in my masculinity that it doesn't bother me."

Pretty much this.

[Mystic dream]

Why this seems to be so intresting and a problem to some, so much so that a topic like this comes to every game's forum that has a choise to pick a gender, completely baffles me...

Modifié par Mystic dream, 23 février 2011 - 08:34 .

[Aran Linvail]

I dont like playing as female , not because i think its weird or something , but i like to relate to the char and think like the Char ( In Rpgs of course )

I cant think like a girl , i dont like to play females because of this , they always tend to look like a man in a woman body ...



PS: Sorry for my english

[Anacronian Stryx]

I make it a point to play both as male and female in games, Hell if I'm gonna pay for it i wanna experience all the game has to offer ..and you know what, It's just a game it won't turn you into Elton John just because you play as a female..just saying.

[TEWR]

I'm a straight guy and I'm gonna play as both MHawke and FHawke. Seriously it's not weird to me. I can separate reality from fantasy, and roleplay just the same....







Besides, FHawke has a nice body. Add in Isabella and Merrill and I'm more than happy. I'll have the same reaction that I had yesterday when the demo was done downloading and I started playing

[isavaldyr]

Mystic dream wrote...

Why this seems to be so intresting and a problem to some, so much so that a topic like this comes to every game's forum that has a choise to pick a gender, completely baffles me...

I just like how the prospect of graphically killing dozens or hundreds of people, often not evil monsters but just soldiers of opposing factions trying to do their jobs just like you, doesn't provoke thought, but the prospect of playing as a woman or (horror!) romancing another man makes them really uncomfortable.

[DieHigh2012]

isavaldyr wrote...

My thought is that you're a little insecure if you feel "weird". It's just a game. Would you feel "weird" playing a character of a different race, or even species? If not, what's different about another sex?

Or he just doesn't want to pretend to be a female...

As for me I have balls, and while I'm playing a game I'd prefer if my character did aswell. That is my own personal preference, and dose not make me (or anyone eles for that matter) "insecure".

[Morning808]

Not my thing ethier but the females I'm forced to play usally need up being my favorite characters...Jill, Lightning, ETC...

[elearon1]

I have no problem with it - female models usually look better, sound better, have nicer outfits, and I enjoy doing the fem/fem relationships more. (not simply because of some guy "lesbians are hot" thing either - though I won't argue that - but because the male/female relationships just don't appeal to me the same way ... probably because I can get that in real life)



Not to mention, I enjoy playing female characters. In pen and paper rpgs I have a little harder time keeping a good, consistent female character, so I tend play them less often, simply because I don't feel I do it well enough ... but since I don't need to worry about that as much in crpgs, I take advantage of the opportunity.

[Atmosfear3]

Sakanade wrote...

Or you could just use the RPG defense

Which has been passed down the generations and goes like this:


"heck, if I'm going to spend hours on a game looking at someone's ass, Let it be a chick's"


there you have it

This is the rationale for good amount of the people playing WoW for sure, myself included.

To be frank, as a straight male, it doesn't bother me at all whether I play male or female characters in video games. In some cases it would be foolish not to pick the female characters for certain genres like fighting games (i.e. storm, viper in mvc). Its not like I'm roleplaying, pretending in my mind that I am Hawke. Video games are more like books to me (at least for singleplayer games). I don't assume the role of the characters I am reading/playing. I see it more as a story unfolding before me.

[Elsariel]

As a woman, when I have the choice, I always go female. I'm not opposed to role playing males but since most RPG's I played as a kid were male-oriented, I'm estatic that now I have the choice to play female in many games and I love the heck out of it.

[Metalunatic]

isavaldyr wrote...

My thought is that you're a little insecure if you feel "weird". It's just a game. Would you feel "weird" playing a character of a different race, or even species? If not, what's different about another sex?

It is hard to get immersed in a world when your character is the opposite sex, don't you think?

No need to take it as a personal attack.

Modifié par Metalunatic, 23 février 2011 - 08:41 .

[HodX]

if i have a choice, i prefer female characters. no particular reason.

[Eclipse_9990]

Baldurs Gate Fanboy wrote...

I dont like playing as female , not because i think its weird or something , but i like to relate to the char and think like the Char ( In Rpgs of course )
I cant think like a girl , i dont like to play females because of this , they always tend to look like a man in a woman body ...

PS: Sorry for my english

This is exactly how I see it. 

[Sentox6]

Well, here's an original thread.

If anyone starts up the whole "you're pretending to be a girl" nonsense, my response is simple: why are you living vicariously through a video game? If it's weird to play as a character with a different gender to yours, I submit it's equally weird to indulge in some sort of idealised self-insert fantasy.

It's just a fictional character in a video game. Play as you like.

[Carfax]

Most people, whether male or female feel more comfortable playing as their own gender I think.  It's only natural.  I tried making a FemShep in ME and ME2, but I never got past the first few areas with either of them. 

Ultimately, I think those of us with a strong gender identity would feel a bit weird playing a member of the opposite sex, unless we had no choice ie Tomb Raider.  I can play the Tomb Raider games, because I see Lara Croft as a completely separate identity, with which I have no connection.  I am merely controlling her.

But when you create a PC like DudeShep or FemShep, you cannot help but impart some of your own identity into the character, which can be a bit odd if the character you're creating is the opposite sex.

I remember there was a big shindig on the Mass Effect forums with the FemShep fans proclaiming that FemShep was more popular than DudeShep (I've never seen such a massive inferiority complex in any forum than the FemShep fans) based on some silly little forum poll they took..

Then when Bioware actually released the statistics for the game, it showed that 81% of players played DudeShep..
I LOL'd hard at that one

Modifié par Carfax, 23 février 2011 - 08:42 .

[Asch Lavigne]

I am a male who played (and am carrying over) both a female and a male in DA. In ME I played through as both and chose a female to go with in the end.

There are way too many games with badass male characters, I like to change it up and be a bad ass female every now and then.

[isavaldyr]

Metalunatic wrote...

isavaldyr wrote...

My thought is that you're a little insecure if you feel "weird". It's just a game. Would you feel "weird" playing a character of a different race, or even species? If not, what's different about another sex?

It is hard to get immersed in a world when your character is the opposite sex, don't you think?

No harder for me than when my character is a dwarf, an elf, or any other fictional creature that I'm not.  Immersion is about more than genitalia.

[drahelvete]

"Weird"? Whatthe...  

Is this one of those don't-let-your-boy-play-with-dolls-or-he'll-become-gay things?

Modifié par drahelvete, 23 février 2011 - 08:45 .

[Dreadstruck]

Carfax wrote...
I remember there was a big shindig on the Mass Effect forums with the FemShep fans proclaiming that FemShep was more popular than DudeShep (I've never seen such a massive inferiority complex in any forum than the FemShep fans) based on some silly little forum poll they took..
Then when Bioware actually released the statistics for the game, it showed that 81% of players played DudeShep..
I LOL'd hard at that one

81? Darn, I thought it was more even.

[SultryVulcan]

I like to get in touch with my "feminine side"

[Metalunatic]

isavaldyr wrote...

Metalunatic wrote...

isavaldyr wrote...

My thought is that you're a little insecure if you feel "weird". It's just a game. Would you feel "weird" playing a character of a different race, or even species? If not, what's different about another sex?

It is hard to get immersed in a world when your character is the opposite sex, don't you think?

No harder for me than when my character is a dwarf, an elf, or any other fictional creature that I'm not.  Immersion is about more than genitalia.

I guess thats where we are different, then.

[MasterSamson88]

 I'm a guy, I have no problem playing either sex in a game.