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[HolyAvenger]

I have DAO female character mid-game (never finished). DA2 I can't bring myself to play again.

I have multiple FemSheps that have finished 1 and 2 and are waiting for their turn at 3.

So yes, but I'm more likely to play and finish with male characters.

[thebigbad1013]

I always play both male and female.

[NorwegianPirate]

ElusiveOneN7 wrote...
 Default male Hawke is a awful looking character and in no way a badass, which the trailers portray him as. Custom male Hawke will still not be badass but instead look even worse than the goofy default male Hawke available.

Huh. I thought Default male Hawke was smoking hot. Provided that he keeps the beard, that is - I've seen someone mod it off him and the result wasn't pretty.

Modifié par NorwegianPirate, 17 avril 2013 - 11:52 .

[snackrat]

I regularly play cross-gender, but not always. My choices are based on quality rather than any individual preferences.
Does one have a grating voice? Avoid it.
Does one have a noticeably better voice actor? Pick that one.
Do the women look like roughtly carved men with broad shoulders and man-hands? Man it is.
Do the women go the other way and look distorted in their view? Dude it is.

I play my favourite games several times over, so I'll typically play as both genders eventually. I have noticed I tend towards male though, despite being female myself. However a bit of RP comes into that - I tend to create characters very different from me because I am NOT PLAYING ME.

[laudable11]

themikefest wrote...

Yes. Anytime a game offers to play as female/male I always choose female. Why? The majority of the games I play has only a male lead character and its nice to change it up a bit to play as a female

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[Heidenreich]

I kind of find it amusing to see so many posts by guys saying that they just "can't get into the head of a female character." Okay amusing really isn't the word. Interested is. But I'll leave that thought for another time.

If given the option I always choose female first. I have no male wardens at all. I do have a male Hawke for the Isabela romance. I have two separate Male Shepard's, one for Tali (because I can't romance her as a female ;/) and one for Jack that went the way of Cortez in the end.

I can never bring myself to play male in MMo's, even SwToR, because if given the opportunity to play my own gender, I will jump at it every chance I get.

I've yet to have a female be a lesbian. In DAo I just couldn't romance Leliana. She annoys me. In Da2 My girls usually end up with Fenris. In ME my girls always gravitate towards the menfolk as well (Kaidan, Garrus, Thane), though I could easily see one of them being bisexual if Tali was romancable by females -- or if my canon wasn't locked into Garrus I could easily see her going after Trainor.

Not to say that I don't ENJOY the idea of making out with hot women. The characters just never seem to go that direction with out heavy metagaming on my part. My males never romance who I planed them to romance either. My Tali-shepard actually was meant for Miranda. Some how he talked me into Tali ;p Just like my male Hawke was meant for Anders, but Isabela swooped in and stole him away.


...and this got long. Yea. Answer to the question is -- I'm female and I play female if given the chance, though I do enjoy male playthroughs as a secondary.

[Dutchess]

If the option is there, my first character will be female. The second time I'll play a guy. Because I tend to suck a lot less on my second playthrough, I usually end up liking that second character a lot more. xD

[GeminiParadox]

 I'm not opposed to the idea of playing a male character. It's just that so many games require me to play as a male character. With Bioware games, I enjoy the chance to be able to play a strong character of my own gender (female). I normally just play female characters, though I may eventually make a male character.

[Kommunicating]

I'm a male and usually play a male the first time around due to being a male myself. But with the Dragon Age franchise you play a multitude of different characters in each game you play, examples being The Warden, The Warden Commander (if not imported), Hawke and our protagonist for DA3. I feel as though every Hero in Thedas being a male would be unrealistic. There should be as many female heroes as male heroes! That's why I made my Warden male and my Hawke female. Also kind of depends on the LI's as well, my Warden romanced Leliana and my Hawke romanced Sebastian, all the LI's are perfect in there own little way, I love them all, choosing just one is hard enough but when I choose one I'm hell bent on having my character be perfect towards them. They all have their own preferances towards what gender they prefer. My DA3 protagonist will probably be male, but who knows? It's not like we have ANY information at all regarding who we'll be playing.

Modifié par Kommunicating, 17 avril 2013 - 01:34 .

[Nightdragon8]

can only play same sex as me in RPG games... MMO's its not that big of an issue. Tho with Swtor can't really play female just feels weird

[WardenWade]

DomRod95 wrote...

Youth4Ever wrote...

DomRod95 wrote...

I also romance female characters (as a male character), but i'm straight.

Me too.

For some reason the people i've met seem to think the gender I choose and the gender I romance has something to do with sexuality.

I've never thought that. The PC is just another character in the story to me. Its like reading a romance novel when it switches to the man's POV.

Exactly. When I talk to people about my male characters romancing females they give me a "oh you roll that way" look, especially the non-gamers. When I first played DAO my friends thought it was strange that I was a M!Cousland romancing Morrigan. I think if you're comfortable with who you are and if you are comfortable with your sexuality playing opposite sex characters that romance the same or opposite gender isn't a problem.

As a heterosexual female, romancing Leliana as a heterosexual male character always felt very natural to me.

Modifié par WardenWade, 17 avril 2013 - 02:31 .

[happy_daiz]

I'm female, and I prefer to play as female. I've tried playing male characters in games where I have a choice, and I really just don't like them as much. For instance, DA2 and ME...male Hawke and Shepard had such soothing voices (read: snoozefest) that they put me to sleep.

It's just not my bag, baby.

Modifié par happy_daiz, 17 avril 2013 - 02:12 .

[The Teyrn of Whatever]

I have four female Shepards (Veronica, Karen, Désirée, Daiyu) and four males (Adam, Lance, Leroy, Kevin). I have six female Wardens (Vaella, Mal, Aria, Meriel, Ursa, Shiandra) and five males (Rhys, Helgrim, Beorn, Igear, César). I have two male Hawkes (Magnus, Leander) and one female (Amelia). So yeah, I do like playing as women although I am a dude.

[Cutlass Jack]

bigbad1013 wrote...

I always play both male and female.

This. I enjoy character creation far too much to limit myself to only half the options.

[legbamel]

I've never rolled a male Shep because I don't care for Meer's VA and Hale did such a fantastic job. Modt of my Wardens and Hawkes are female, too. Even in SWTOR, I've got a dozen characters and only two are male.

As a rule, any male PC I play is gay, not because I have an issue with romancing female NPCs but because there's never been one that I liked enough to bother. If I'm curious I just watch hubby. He has about half and half but his female characters are generally chaste.

[Eleinehmm]

I play both (my avatar is my very cynical Morrigan romancing mage) - But the funny thing is I don't buy RPGs that do not give me this particular choice. Voting with my wallet, ladies and gents.

[SupidSeep]

 Guy who played a mix of male and female characters in recent Bioware offerings.  I prefer playing femShep over Sheploo in ME partially due to Jennifer Hale's voice acting (I still haven't got around to fully complete my Sheploo games in ME2 with all DLCs for importing to ME3)

I tried playing a male character in several games, but I can't invest in it fully in most RPGs because I would inevitable image my male charcters as a bit of myself - and it mostly fails because I don't see myself as anything remote heroic, or more importantly as a leader of people.  The male fictional game characters that I like are Garrett (Thief series), JC Denton and Adam Jenson (Deus Ex) and Corvo Attano (Dishonored) - mostly rogue-like solo acts.

I will not deny that for me, part of the allure of playing female characters as a male is partly for eye-candy (especially with the 3D graphics of recent games).  However, in most RPGs, I like to build and play female characters based on what I would admire in a female, kickass defenders of justice and the common people.  Even back with Baldur's Gate 2 where characters are rendered in 2D sprites, my female characters fall on the line of frontline buttkickers of evil (Paladin, Ranger/Cleric, Swashbuckler) - my BG2 male character is modelled on the lines of my party's forward scout and general handyman Fighter/Mage/Thief.

Modifié par SupidSeep, 17 avril 2013 - 03:04 .

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

Fast Jimmy wrote...

I think a more interesting question may be to ask if people play a different sexual orientation than they are in real life.

Are you female and play a male who is attracted to other females? To other males? Are you a straight female and play a female lesbian? Etc.

Since many view gender as a social construct, I thought sexual preference outside RL norms would be an interesting conversation piece.

I'm a straight male who's canon character in DA:O was a female Dalish that I fully intended to be straight, but then Leliana came along and I threw that idea out the window. :3

[azarhal]

I play both male and female characters. The VO might cause me to prefer one or the other though.

[Cutlass Jack]

Fast Jimmy wrote...

I think a more interesting question may be to ask if people play a different sexual orientation than they are in real life.

Are you female and play a male who is attracted to other females? To other males? Are you a straight female and play a female lesbian? Etc.

Since many view gender as a social construct, I thought sexual preference outside RL norms would be an interesting conversation piece.

To answer this question as well, I play personalites, and pick romances that fit personality best. Gender is rarely a factor romantically. Only for the character's visuals.

Which isn't to say I haven't made characters specifically with the intention of being a good fit with an NPC I haven't seen a romance with yet. But that usually happens on much later replays.

[Ananka]

I always play as a female character, so that's a same sex character, and I only romance male characters. I don't enjoy playing a male character, so I'm happy BW gives you the option to pick gender.

Modifié par Annaka, 17 avril 2013 - 03:26 .

[AmRMa]

Fast Jimmy wrote...

I think a more interesting question may be to ask if people play a different sexual orientation than they are in real life.

Are you female and play a male who is attracted to other females? To other males? Are you a straight female and play a female lesbian? Etc.

Since many view gender as a social construct, I thought sexual preference outside RL norms would be an interesting conversation piece.

I was thinking about adding that but I figured a couple of people on the forums would start trolling and the conversation would turn ugly fast. I for one support different sexual orientations in games but I tend to play my characters straight even when playing as a guy.

[Dominari]

I play with both but itusually depends on how I feel that character fits into that game. In Skyrim I play almost exclusively male charaters. Mass Efect was was about 90% femshep. I had one full playthrough as broshep just to do Tali's romance quests. I don't normally do female romances but Tali is just that compeling to me.

DA:O was mostly female (although I have played each origin with both sexes and all possible classes at least once) and DA:2 was mostly male.

[grumpymooselion]

Generally I'll come up with a pretty random idea for what sort of character I want to play at a given point, and the gender, as a result, is just as random. That's a lot of the point of an RPG is stepping into the shoes of new and different characters, and figuring out what they'd do in a given situation based on the concept you've come up with of who they are.

[chrstnmonks]

I'm Female And I Normally Play Male. I Thought Maleshep And Malehawke Looked Anf Soinded Better