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[sjsharp2011]

Half my playthroughs in DAO was as a male the other halfas a female

 

DA2 all playthroughs were as female. Like Jo Wyatt's voice. I tried a playthrough as male Hawke, but after a short time I stopped. Didn't like the voice

 

DAI. I like femquisitor because of AWR. I like her voice. I did one playthrough using the other female voice. It wasn't bad. I did one playthrough as a male, but that was to romance Cassandra

Yeah that's the case with me I've played mostly female because I like the way Alix does the voice more than the other VA's. I have done 1 character with the British male voice it was good but not as good as Alix for me. Haven't used any of the American voices yet but was planning on it soon as my next character is going to be a Qunari with the American male voice. I've also got in mind a female dwarf who I was going to give the American female voice too so I can experience them more. On the other DA and ME games I'd actually say I'm pretty even on both in that I've done equally as many playthroughs as both. I have to admit though when it comes to female elves I do find them kind of cute though on the new Frostbite engine. But for me with DAI it's more that Alix's voice that wins me over.

[Catilina]

I always wonder about this. How much of oneself has to carry over for it to be a self-insert? For example, I can never bring myself to make evil choices, or a-hole choices, and most of my characters have a similar value and moral system as I do in real life. I will base their decisions around role-play and a particular backstory, but there are still those personal elements.

 

About this I think similar (.. although the rejection of some "a-hole" choices i not always so sure. ) I tried, but I can not play with a character, who I do not like ...

[Secret Rare]

Do we really have the DATA to confirm this?

I think that most male gamers play with male protagonists

[ArcadiaGrey]

 
People play the game as they want to play it. Just because you feel that something is rewarding that doesn't mean other players will as well. If someone wants to make a perfect amalgamation of themselves so they can imagine themselves casting magic, fighting dragons, having a sappy/angsty/torrid/sexy romance with some NPC, and saving the world, most of which we cannot do in the real world, then that is their prerogative to enjoy the game in that way. The different options are there if they want to take them. That is what is rewarding for those people.

 

I tend to play the same character, usually with the same choices, over and over again because that is what I like to do and have no interest in trying something different. If I am going to devote 150 hours to a play, it damn well better be something I know I will enjoy. I know the choices are there for me if I want to experience them, and that is enough.

 

People should absolutely do what they want to do with the game they've bought for themselves.  It's your hobby, your spare time, do what makes you happy.  

But I do think some people miss out on some wonderful romances, dialogue and cutscenes if they flatly refuse to try things out.  If people have played Origins many many times but never killed Connor for example, then they've missed a really touching scene with great voice acting.  That saddens me.  

 

I'm not shoving it down people's throat and I'm not sure why you'd think I was.  Do what you want to do, but seeing as BioWare games have so many paths through them I would always encourage people to experiment.  In my case, once I stopped playing a perfect version of myself and started roleplaying a character, I got way more out of the game.  I wish I'd done it sooner.

[sjsharp2011]

Well i do it to get a different perspective and the voice acting tends to be better, but that is just my preference. It is Interesting to play something i am not in real life. Whether that be a woman, Dwarf, Elf, Qunari etc. Also some romances can sway me to play the opposite sex. I don't project myself onto the character, i am playing a character.

 

EDIT - Forgot the best reason to play female in DA:I - Sera romance! 

yeah that's the other reason why I love Bioware's games and DA in particular in this case as well. As I really enjoy playing mages because of the power they can unleash. Being disabled it kind of helps me forget how vulnerable I am in life in that I'm disabled and can be easily hurt and that sort of thing and I just find it fun and enjoyable that's the complete opposite to me and mega powerful and I really love that about Dragon Age.

 

 

 

[ArcadiaGrey]

yeah that's the other reason why I love Bioware's games and DA in particular in this case as well. As I really enjoy playing mages because of the power they can unleash. Being disabled it kind of helps me forget how vulnerable I am in life in that I'm disabled and can be easily hurt and that sort of thing and I just find it fun and enjoyable that's the complete opposite to me and mega powerful and I really love that about Dragon Age.

 

I can understand, my health sucks so to be able to be a powerful badass is pretty great.  It's wonderful escapism.

[robertthebard]

Why do you "guys" play mostly with a female character in dragon age ? Is it because we have beautiful butts where you can look at. Or is it because we women run more gracefully then man because the man look really ridiculous when they run in this game. Or is it something else ?
 
So why "guys" why do you play mostly with a female character ?
 
P.s. Maybe i am totally wrong about this but i just get the feeling and what i am reading here in this forum that i am not entirely wrong about what i am writing here.

Because it came up Heads on the coin I tossed. Despite all the hype, gender in the game doesn't matter a bit. Well, it affects who you can or can't romance, but other than that, it's no big deal. I'm sure there are people that do play the opposite gender for RP reasons, or to try out a romance that they may be interested in that isn't available if they played their own gender, such as a female gamer wanting to try out Cassandra's or Josie's romance. Maybe a male that wants to try out Sera's? I've been ignoring gender since it was a thing in cRPGs, because it makes no difference. My female fighter in BG wasn't any weaker than my male fighter, they had exactly the same stats. Being female didn't make my rogue magically any more nimble than my male rogue.

[Lazarillo]

Some people go more for "self-inserts", but for me, I like to play the character that best fits the story I want told. So when I'm thinking up my "canon", I put together which choices I think will create the world state I like best, and then decide what character qualities best fit those decisions. Then I play that character. So far, that has leaned massively towards playing women in the Dragon Age games, generally, because of which romance option I want to be the canon romance: Alistair in Origins, Anders in DA2 (yes, I know he's bi in 2, but that always seemed strange to me after Awakening, though there are other reasons I stick mostly to ladyHawke, too). In Inquisition, I won't know my "final" canon until DA4 comes out and see what once again creates the state I like, so thusfar, I've played a bit more of a split, just to see what the different options were.

I will admit I dislike playing female Inquisitors though, actually, because of how awkward they look when they run. In DA2, I had a mod that could fix Lady Hawke's tendency to twerk her way through Kirkwall, but I have no such in DAI, meaning that if I want to play with my favorite weapon set (Sword/Board Warrior), I have to deal with her swinging her butt (and therefore her sheathed sword out to ridiculous angles, and the akwardness of it all is kinda distracting.

[nightscrawl]

^ What do you do for the first play, when you don't know anything about the story?

[sjsharp2011]

I always wonder about this. How much of oneself has to carry over for it to be a self-insert? For example, I can never bring myself to make evil choices, or a-hole choices, and most of my characters have a similar value and moral system as I do in real life. I will base their decisions around role-play and a particular backstory, but there are still those personal elements.

I'm not an evil person either and neither are my characters in general i've played the odd renegade Shepard in Mass Effect but that's moer for a bit of a laugh as it can be quite funny. But that's more of an exception rather than the rule most of my Shep's are good people as are most of my heroes I've played in Bioware's games. They only kill in order to defend themselves and their friends and only if there is no other way out of the mess they're in. If there is a way to talk somebody down from making a foolish mistake such as between the Quarians and Geth in ME3 then they'll take it.

[Zikade]

I usually play males in RPGs. Sometimes it's for aesthetic reasons if the game for example has retarded female armor/animation but mostly because I roleplay males better. I guess I sneakily project more of myself to female characters which at times causes their characterization to be all over the place and/or too similar with each other. The player made characters I have grown most attached to have almost always been males.

 

It is indeed interesting to play something I am not and I like to experience the game with different genders, races, sexualities and, of course, personalities/choices.

[Catilina]

I will admit I dislike playing female Inquisitors though, actually, because of how awkward they look when they run. In DA2, I had a mod that could fix Lady Hawke's tendency to twerk her way through Kirkwall, but I have no such in DAI, meaning that if I want to play with my favorite weapon set (Sword/Board Warrior), I have to deal with her swinging her butt (and therefore her sheathed sword out to ridiculous angles, and the akwardness of it all is kinda distracting.

 

(Oh, those moving animations ...! Medical case!)

[Lazarillo]

^ What do you do for the first play, when you don't know anything about the story?

I don't go out of my way to avoid spoilers, so at least I usually know a little.
In practice, let's see if I can remember my first playthroughs:
-Origins: First was a male human noble. I didn't get him very far before hearing how badass the female City Elf origin was, though, so I switched to that after being impressed with the story there and that became my first full playthrough.
-DA2: I honestly don't remember what I played first, but my first full game was a LadyHawke.
-DAI: Was gonna do a guy first because I saw the twerking issue in the preview clips, but then I heard about the Solas romance, and how it fit the pattern I'd been having with my previous PCs (I tend to go for the romances that are ended naturally in their own games, so that they don't come up if either character reappears in the future), so I changed over before I got too far.

[sjsharp2011]

People should absolutely do what they want to do with the game they've bought for themselves.  It's your hobby, your spare time, do what makes you happy.  

But I do think some people miss out on some wonderful romances, dialogue and cutscenes if they flatly refuse to try things out.  If people have played Origins many many times but never killed Connor for example, then they've missed a really touching scene with great voice acting.  That saddens me.  

 

I'm not shoving it down people's throat and I'm not sure why you'd think I was.  Do what you want to do, but seeing as BioWare games have so many paths through them I would always encourage people to experiment.  In my case, once I stopped playing a perfect version of myself and started roleplaying a character, I got way more out of the game.  I wish I'd done it sooner.

Indeed I've not killed Connor in DAO yet but then while I've roleplayed one or 2 contraversial characters. I've not played a rtuly evil one in DA. I probably will at some stage to see what it's like and what happens  but just haven't done so yet.

[ArcadiaGrey]

Indeed I've not killed Connor in DAO yet but then while I've roleplayed one or 2 contraversial characters. I've not played a rtuly evil one in DA. I probably will at some stage to see what it's like and what happens  but just haven't done so yet.

 

I don't think I could be truly evil in DA:O or any other game again.  I tried it in ME and I disliked the playthrough so much I rushed to the end.  So instead I spread out the 'evil' decisions between all my characters and give them a good reason to do them.

 

My nicest Warden killed Connor, but not because she was evil.  At the tower she had no knowledge of magic, so when Greagoir asked if the remaining mages were blood mages she honestly had no idea.  She thought it would be irresponsible to say they were fine, she could be responsible for abominations getting loose, so said he better figure it out himself.  He is a Templar after all and she's been brought up to trust them.   She was devastated to hear the annulment had taken place, but honestly did what she thought was best.

 

That left blood magic, and she hated blood magic, or killing Connor.  Alistair and Teagan thought killing him to be the only option, and as my Warden was a human noble I thought that she should would agree.  Possessed by a demon?  Then you have to die, as sad as it is.  So they killed him, and it haunted her for the rest of her life.

 

So, the nicest Warden I have makes a terrible choice, that way I can like and believe in my characters.  As I proved to myself with my latest Shep, if I make a scumbag I just don't want to play.  I have to be rooting for them somehow.  Maybe they're super sarcastic, brave but as dumb as a brick, clever and shy or whatever, I need to like them.  And they all do one or two 'bad' choices.  

 

The one I'm having the most trouble with is a warden who possesses Connor and let's the Tevinters take the elves.  Not sure how I can do those things and still like my warden.

[R0vena]

I always wonder about this. How much of oneself has to carry over for it to be a self-insert? For example, I can never bring myself to make evil choices, or a-hole choices, and most of my characters have a similar value and moral system as I do in real life. I will base their decisions around role-play and a particular backstory, but there are still those personal elements.

Well, I imagine it varies with each person. For me it is the feel that it is Inquisitor acting/speaking/etc - not me. I never think "what would I do" but "what would she/he do". Sure, some characters tend to have some (sometimes even a lot) similarities with my own personality. Some have very little in common with me. It is not even much about good or evil choice (I rarely do the latter) as about hero personality. I don't like Anders, for example, but quite some of my Hawkes romanced him - it made sense for them. I am never sarcastic or particularly humorous in real life, but sarcastic Hawke is my favorite and I tend to choose humorous responses with Inquisitor a lot. 

[Almostfaceman]

 

 

Why do you "guys" play mostly with a female character in dragon age ? Is it because we have beautiful butts where you can look at. Or is it because we women run more gracefully then man because the man look really ridiculous when they run in this game. Or is it something else ?

 

So why "guys" why do you play mostly with a female character ?

 

P.s. Maybe i am totally wrong about this but i just get the feeling and what i am reading here in this forum that i am not entirely wrong about what i am writing here.    

 

 

I don't play with a female character. Ever. 

 

Why do you assume "most" guys do? Assumptions are the mother of all truck-ups. 

[sjsharp2011]

I don't think I could be truly evil in DA:O or any other game again.  I tried it in ME and I disliked the playthrough so much I rushed to the end.  So instead I spread out the 'evil' decisions between all my characters and give them a good reason to do them.

 

My nicest Warden killed Connor, but not because she was evil.  At the tower she had no knowledge of magic, so when Greagoir asked if the remaining mages were blood mages she honestly had no idea.  She thought it would be irresponsible to say they were fine, she could be responsible for abominations getting loose, so said he better figure it out himself.  He is a Templar after all and she's been brought up to trust them.   She was devastated to hear the annulment had taken place, but honestly did what she thought was best.

 

That left blood magic, and she hated blood magic, or killing Connor.  Alistair and Teagan thought killing him to be the only option, and as my Warden was a human noble I thought that she should would agree.  Possessed by a demon?  Then you have to die, as sad as it is.  So they killed him, and it haunted her for the rest of her life.

 

So, the nicest Warden I have makes a terrible choice, that way I can like and believe in my characters.  As I proved to myself with my latest Shep, if I make a scumbag I just don't want to play.  I have to be rooting for them somehow.  Maybe they're super sarcastic, brave but as dumb as a brick, clever and shy or whatever, I need to like them.  And they all do one or two 'bad' choices.  

 

The one I'm having the most trouble with is a warden who possesses Connor and let's the Tevinters take the elves.  Not sure how I can do those things and still like my warden.

yeah that's why I prefer to stick with playing more contraversial characters than truly bad ones as I played a female dwarf once on DAO that elected to spaer Loghain rather than killing him and while Alistair objected she could see what Riordan was trying to say in that we need as many hands on deck as possible because she knwe in order to stop the blight from spreading the AD needed to die ASAP. The best way to ensure that she felt was to throw as many wardens at it as w3as possible. Given her Alistair and Riordan were the only ones on hand Bringing Loghain onside seemed the right thing to do for the bigger picture despite his treachery as the most important thing here she felt was stopping the blight not personal feelings.

[Catilina]

yeah that's why I prefer to stick with playing more contraversial characters than truly bad ones as I played a female dwarf once on DAO that elected to spaer Loghain rather than killing him and while Alistair objected she could see what Riordan was trying to say in that we need as many hands on deck as possible because she knwe in order to stop the blight from spreading the AD needed to die ASAP. The best way to ensure that she felt was to throw as many wardens at it as w3as possible. Given her Alistair and Riordan were the only ones on hand Bringing Loghain onside seemed the right thing to do for the bigger picture despite his treachery as the most important thing here she felt was stopping the blight not personal feelings.

My Cousland Warrior killed Connor. In truth it was an accident. Aedan met with Connor in his room, and he had must to kill him. It happened.

 

Aedan was my most selfish, manipulative and immoral character: He was in friendship with Alistair, but he choosed Loghain for Anora (Alistair was not executed, Aedan was not really evil), romanced Zevran, and married with Anora for the throne, and kept Zevran as royal lover – he was sad, but still loyal... (never again...)

[AlanC9]

Well according to the statistics it is the other way around.   
 

You've got statistics? How about a link?

I thought you were just making stuff up.

[Catilina]

You've got statistics? How about a link?

I thought you were just making stuff up.

 

This is just another stereotype, I suppose ...

[SevierGaming]

You've got statistics? How about a link?

I thought you were just making stuff up.

 

I found this link that has some stats

 

http://gamerant.com/...s-dragon-kills/

 

Guess it's as good a time as any to come out of lurker mode. For me I tend to play slightly more females in Bioware games for a number of reasons.

 

First, It is nice to be given the choice. Most games force you to play a male so I like to play something different. I don't tend to hardcore roleplay my characters. I tend to act more like a director and just pick the best actor for the story I want to tell. Which is why I tend to do the opposite of some people. Like if I play a mage I tend to always side with the templars while warriors side with mages. I like my danity elf to swing a massive two handed axe etc Adds an element of tension in my story

 

Second, I tend to prefer female voice actors in most Bioware games. Femshep especially, and Alix in DAI. Though the American male voice gets much better once you get to the hinterlands. The other voices are just kinda unevenly acted. So lines just don't match the emotion of the scene if that makes sense.

[JadeDragon]

Mostly play or play at all? I mostly play as a male all my canon characters are male humans. But I do play female if I feel I want to experience A certain story from that point of view. For example in Origins:

Main Canon - Human Noble Male Warrior

City Elf - Female Rogue

Dwarf Commoner - Female Rogue

Mage Origin - Female Human

Dalish Elf - Male Rogue

Dwarf Noble - Male Warrior

 

Inquisition:

Human Noble Male Rogue - Main Canon

Surface Dwarf - Male Warrior

Qunari - Female Warrior

Dalish - Female Mage

[Sah291]

What about women who play male characters, OP?

Well a lot of video game protagonists (most) are male anyway, so I'm just...used to it...but.... Given the choice, sometimes because it's easier to role play a character very different from myself if it is the opposite gender. Different perspective, etc, etc....

And, because Nick Boulton as Hawke was pretty hot. Of course. Voice acting has a huge influence on me.

[AlanC9]

I found this link that has some stats
 
http://gamerant.com/...s-dragon-kills/
 

Thanks. Interesting to compare this to ME statistics. There are a lot more male Shepards.