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[AWTEW]

That's an understatement.

Have to agree there..

[Element Zero]

With Bioware games it's purely the voice.. The female voices are a lot better most of the time

I agree. It's by a wide margin, too. Meers did finally bring it in ME3, but JHale is epic always.

I don't care for the male voices in DAI. All of the American voices are so flat, and the English male sounds a bit wimpy, at times. I could listen to Samantha Traynor talk all day, so the one female voice is acceptable.

[kaidanluv]

I do think that when I play a female, it tends to be more of a self-insert, but when I play male, I'm more of a headcanon storyteller for that character

 

^This. Used to be that my dude playthrough was my first, so I could make any narrative "mistakes" with him to not mess up my "canon" female playthrough. I liked that the game changed a little while playing a male PC, too. 

 

With DA:I I blazed through with a female Inquisitor first just because I'd been wanting to play the dang game for so long. I went through and loved it; as a woman it feels really empowering and inspiring to be a female leader in these types of games, at least for me.

 

I'm playing a dude Inquisitor now and kind of slogging through it slowly...I just feel more like a generic action hero I guess? than I did with my femme. I don't feel as attached to his story and feel more like I'm watching his tale unfold rather than seeing myself in him.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

I play a female PC if the game offers it and usually won't bother in making a male PC unless there is a reason to. For DAI, because of Cassandra, I made one human guy inquisitor. I have to say I don't much like moving him around, it feels like I'm moving extra bulk tonnage. I'm used to it now but I'm no fan of it.

[Spawny]

I always play female for a few reasons. One, older gamer that's watched this stuff evolve, it's brilliant to have so many games now where I can play as female as it bothers me if I only have a male option as that was a standard for many years.

Two, I can not identify at all with a male pc for games like this, it's just me. I may make a male this time just for a play through given Dorian and Cass but it will be when I've exhausted every other part of the game and still may not even happen then.

Three, I just adore females and love giving them the center stage in my games ^^

[ShadowWeaver2012]

Though I do want to add that even in some of the better games I still find it grating that at times I'm still forced into the dude role.  I hated the dance in the Winter Palace.

 

Me too! But I wasn't surprised- I mean, we had maybe 2 female haircuts to choose from, and then we also had to wear the same dress uniforms that the males do? These things are what make the game feel rushed. I'm not saying being able to chose fifty different looks for the ball (though that would have been a lot of fun) but at least make something look nice, even if its a more feminine-looking cut of the jacket. Something with a high collar and v-cut in front (not showing cleavage, just looking more feminine. Could undersand still wearing slacks because of the fight scenes). I don't mind the character looking like a tomboy everywhere else. But at a ball? 

[Merlik]

Not only do I always play male, but I almost always play sword and shield. I see no reason to play a female, there is nothing I would get out of it. And warrior is always my favorite. 

[Tex]

I just never liked playing male characters full stop I don't know why but I find them plain and uninspiring exspeasialy human male's. If I have a choice I never play male characters this applies to all games in fact I no longer buy games if it's only got a male protagonist in them unless you can't see their face such as hoods or masks I'm just bored of playing males this allso goes for humans in general if a game lets me be another race I never choose human I don't even make female humans in these kinds of games but that's just me oh well.

[Grieving Natashina]

Sadly, as much as I love my female dwarf, the American female voice falls short of the others.

Did you mean that pun?  

[LordParbr]

*sex

[pablosplinter]

I lasted a few hours playing as a female in Inquisition. For me, the voice the actors simply aren't very good. Especially the English one. Also not a fan of the walking animation.

I generally play as a male, but always do at least one playthrough as a woman.

[Danadenassis]

I don't support/buy games that doesn't have a choice for female characters, except for some fps...that I've not played in ages. I feel I've been so forced to play male characters for so long that I've grown allergic.

 

I am also a boring feminist that care about things like the bechdel test, you'd surprised, especially if a man, how few games actually pas that test.  

[Adynata]

I play a woman when I can because I like to see the story from a perspective that would be my own. There are enough games where I have to play a man, and I hate when I am forced to flirt with skanky women because the storyline blah, blah, blah. 

[Ziegrif]

I just always play someone who's a complete opposite of me out of habit.

So women it is.~

[Calders]

I don't support/buy games that doesn't have a choice for female characters, except for some fps...that I've not played in ages. I feel I've been so forced to play male characters for so long that I've grown allergic.

 

I am also a boring feminist that care about things like the bechdel test, you'd surprised, especially if a man, how few games actually pas that test.  

 

The Bechdel test is pretty arbitrary... you can find porn movies that pass it and films that would be considered progressive that fail it.  It's also largely affected by the gender of the protagonist, and if the protagonist is female it will often fail the male equivalent of the test.

[Elanor]

Because I'd be extremely detached from a female character since I don't identify myself as a woman.

 

This. ^^ Only other way around.

 

I could play as a man though. But I can't relate to him like I can to woman. 

[elearon]

It really depends on how well the game makes me identify with the character.  In Dragon Age: Origins and Inquisition I don't feel I identified as well with my character as in 2; so it doesn't matter what gender I play.  In 2 I got a stronger feeling for who my character was and while I did have a male playthrough, my female playthroughs outnumbered those and my personal - headcanon - playthrough was a woman.

 

In Mass Effect I got a very solid connection with who Shepard was and couldn't even play a single male playthrough because my first and definitive Shep was female.

 

Because I identify as female my first character is always a woman, but whether I stick with that is always a measure of how much the game brings that character to life for me. 

[Gorgar05]

My first run character is always a straight male warrior. This almost changed this time around because Dorian is such a cool character but the lovely Cass won out... Dorian and I were buds though, I helped him work out his daddy issues.
I'm now in my second run as a fem Daelish mage and making different plot choices.
Third run might be a bit male rogue type and make a play for Dorian.

It's just a game so I like to mix it up.

[Vylix]

I make hideous male characters and dislike the male voice options.

[frylock23]

It depends. It depends on how closely I identify with the PC personally, and it also depends on how immersed I get in the story. Those two factors can overlap one another to greater and lesser degrees.

 

If I get very deeply immersed in the story itself, then I tend to see the protagonist as a certain gender, sometimes even as a certain race. I know this is what happened to me with Mass Effect. Once I had played it through with a femShep, I tried to do a Sheploo run ... and I just couldn't get into it. Playing with the male protag felt wrong. As far as my mind was concerned, that character was supposed to be female, not male, and my mind just didn't get into the male characters I tried to run.

 

Now, I could run very different looking femSheps, so I wasn't so self involved that I couldn't tolerate different looking femSheps.

 

With DA:O, I did play different genders. However, I do prefer female protags because the story tends to work better for me on the level of self-identity when I play from the female POV. But, I could roll with and enjoy a male character or two.

 

With DA2, I was stuck with the same problem I had with the ME series. Hawke got played female first and couldn't be male afterward.

 

I think that DA:I will be more like DA:O. I think I will have more female Quizzies than male, but I think I will have at least one or two male play throughs.

[Cypher0020]

Well as a female gamer, I enjoy being able to create my own characters

 

That being sai, I like playing as a man.  I only have one male warden, my M!Adeucan, Baltion. Love him to bits.

 

I have a M!Cadash run in the future. Archer rouge, will mance Cass, that sorta thing 

[vometia]

This. ^^ Only other way around.
 
I could play as a man though. But I can't relate to him like I can to woman.

Same here, pretty much, and my inclination to play male characters is pretty much used up by the games that don't give any choice.

I guess I'm also not that great at rp as I always seem to end up playing myself, so my protagonist invariably ends up being a flippant and largely clueless lesbian with a terrible line in jokes.

[Little Princess Peach]

I don't feel cormfortable playing as a guy and if im forced to play the male role I make him look as feminize as possible

[Zwingtanz]

I wish i was a pretty girl iRL so i mainly play females, i don't like to do self-inserts either

 

If the game has druids and exceptional beards i play that though

[ShepardMyFriend]

I play as a male warrior type in pretty much every RPG. I think it's just a matter of being in my comfort zone to start the game.

 

After finishing my canon run in Inquisition though, I think I'm going to create a female elf rogue and see how it goes.