Do you play more female characters or male ones, and why?

[Heroic Liberator]

Women are dumb and crafty, so I make them my rogues.

Dumb people don't make good rogues

Tell that to gyppos.

 

[karoliner]

I always play as a female is the option is available.

 

[DalekFlay]

Depends on which makes more sense in context. In games like VtM:B it doesn't matter at all since the "real-life rules" don't apply in the society of darkest night, but in games where your character becomes a classic hero and everyone worships at your feet, it doesn't seem realistic to play as female. I try to suspend disbelief in order to make my perfect storyfag experience complete.

I'm playing Kingmaker now as my normal female assassin and it definitely feels like the story/setting would make more sense with a male PC. However in a game like Cyberpunk I don't think it matters. Really depends how real-life medieval the setting feels, I think.

 

[Reinhardt]

Stop rating me with Greta! I was just responding to some 2019 reg date fag who deleted xir post!

 

[Citizen]

If the game is first person/isometric/topdown, then depending on the mood

But if it's third person, then female definetly, I ain't gonna look at the man's bun for the next 40 hours

 

[Dark Souls II]

I only play men. I am a man.

 

[Butter]

If you play as a female, you are a fag. Just cut your dick off and neck yourself.

 

[Beastro]

Sometimes I like making a female character in games where you can make your own face. It's funny to make a freak and have them interact in a game with a Chosen One narrative, but it's even more amusing when it's a woman.

Last time I played FONV few years ago I made a pale skinned female Dale Dribble with a huge jutting hillbilly Hapaburg jaw that I loved laughing at seeing glances of her in VATS.

The only thing I don't get is people who actively try to make their characters look beautiful regardless of their sex.

That to me seems the weirdest thing of all. It actually made me mad how difficult Skyrim made making freaks compared to Oblivion.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

I think the only game where I made female characters was Morrowind. It was just so fun coming up with character ideas and testing them. Not even in Fallout have I ever made a female character, since it'd just be more of the same, only with a few different choices.

I didn't play them very long, though, and I always gravitated to male characters afterwards. You play the character you want to be. I've wanted to be lots of things: a bird, a talking lizard, an android, etc., not a woman.

 

[Thalstarion]

I almost exclusively play men. It's just more immersive.

I can buy, say, a sorceress overpowering a guy with magic or an assassin who happens to be a woman taking out a lone target after successfully sneaking up on them. What I can't tolerate is anything that peddles the delusion that women are just as physically capable as men because...they simply aren't.

It was before my time but the decline in quality and immersion in RPG's arguably began with the decision to eliminate stat differences between male and female characters.

 

[NecroLord]

What I can't tolerate is anything that peddles the delusion that women are just as physically capable as men because...they simply aren't.

Chainmail bikini strength.

 

[Iucounu]

What I can't tolerate is anything that peddles the delusion that women are just as physically capable as men because...they simply aren't.

It was before my time but the decline in quality and immersion in RPG's arguably began with the decision to eliminate stat differences between male and female characters.

Most male heroes rely on magic, potions or genetic enhancements, so why can't females heroes too? Normal humans are (on average) a different issue, there it's obvious feminist delusions at play.

 

[NecroLord]

Most male heroes rely on magic, potions or genetic enhancements

When you are fighting undead horrors and other supernatural threats, you take every advantage you can get.

Wish there would be more realistic rpgs where you are fighting more human enemies and less high fantasy stuff.
But don't get me wrong. Undead are my favorite enemies in an rpg.

 

[Beans00]

I will always play as a man if the option is available. Because I am a man.

If there is a reason to play as a woman for different options, ie fallout 1/2 and arcanum. I have played those games as a woman before.



I don't have a problem playing female only characters provided they aren't cringe. Metroid, resident evil 3, the princess in mario brothers 2(the best character although I also like luigi). Final fantasy 6. Homm 3 arguably has a woman protagonist (Catherine ironfist).

I will not play a game where I play as a cringe bitch or ugly woman though, not happening.


I also will not play a game as a forced male protagonist if he looks too much like an idiot. Like geralt from the witcher.

 

[anvi]

In EQ women often played Clerics and Wizards a lot. I always thought that was pretty sensible. Most tanks were male and it helped to be meaty like an ogre or troll or something. All the people I knew who did the most difficult things in the game though, were male.

When I make a party in a game I usually have a female cleric or wiz. Sometimes I have a pretty brunette female rogue/thief who I call Wynona.

 

[octavius]

To me my characters are just a set of stats, and I judge them mostly based on combat efficiency. As long as they don't look like lollis or danger hair misandrists, I don't care.

 

[mastroego]

I don't identify with the character (if any).
It's games.
At most it's like piloting a story - where such a thing even applies.

If the female options are pleasant to the eye, then good. Sometimes better.
And finally it depends on the game.
I've played Diablo II (not the remaster), for instance, as Barbarian, Paladin, Amazon, Sorcerer and Assassin, so I guess it's 3 to 2 for the heroines.

 

[Kabas]

The only thing I don't get is people who actively try to make their characters look beautiful regardless of their sex.

Pretty people are pretty to look at, nothing weird about it.

 

[Beastro]

The only thing I don't get is people who actively try to make their characters look beautiful regardless of their sex.

Pretty people are pretty to look at, nothing weird about it.

Obsessing about that in a game, especially when you're not going to see much of them in an FPS or third person game, is strange to me. It's all the more so when ee have games like what Bioware makes when suddenly you can be flirting in a romance or have a sex scene and doing things to add to that rather than make fun of them.

They're a bloody game character, it's not like you're shaping how your child will look as an adult or something.

I'd very much want those brief moments of seeing them produce a laugh at how out of place the freak is. Suddenly doing a Bioware sex scene is a fun idea as you make Alistair in Dragon Age fuck the elephant man and he acts as if it's the best thing in the world.

 

[Kabas]

I don't think it's strange that many would prefer a beauitful and tall avatar to an ugly and short one even if the face is covered during the game. People can get pretty immersed into their avatars.
This talk reminds me of this video that talks about this thing called enclothed cognition effect and prodeus effect.

WARNING: youtube video essay inside

It also reminds me of that Baldur's Gate 3 pic that showcases how popular different races are.

Quite telling how overwhelmingly popular humans and elves are while manlet races and Michael Jackson looking giths are dead last.

Anyway, got sidetracked. I personally feel more immersed with male characters but if female ones are cute enough, wear bikini armor and have a huge ass i might consider them.

 

[Beastro]

This talk reminds me of this video that talks about this thing called enclothed cognition effect and prodeus effect.

WARNING: youtube video essay inside

That then brings to mind exactly what people are playing games for and what they want from games.

Many it seems want to live some idealized existence being someone beautiful that they're not.

Me? I wanna fuck shit up and piss people off while getting a laugh, especially if that can blend perfectly with how I look in-game.

I loved playing trolls in Everquest and picking on newbie elves and humans for that reason.

Why be an elf when you can be:

 

[Necrensha]

I always pick whoever looks the coolest to me that day, based on entirely arbitrary reasons.

 

[NecroLord]

It's all in depicting masculine and feminine beauty properly.
Apparently it's become a crime to depict beauty, but mandatory to depict sheer ugliness.
Here we get in gaming the womyn with man jaws, no pleasant breasts and an attitude.

 

[Mark Richard]

Typically only play female characters when such a playthrough offers differences in content. Unfortunately that's an exceedingly rare occurrence outside of self-contained romance options. An example off the top of my head would be Mount & Blade or a story-based spin-off such as Viking Conquest where the world attempts to emulate an authentic middle ages period that reacts differently to female player characters. There's even a gender-based stat difference in character generation. It's not extensive by any means, but it's something.

I should give Viking Conquest another playthrough at some point because it got a big update/relaunch six months after release. I've always maintained there's a serious lack of historical fiction in gaming, a genre in which a fictional protagonist operates under the societal attitudes & conditions of the past and can't act like they're from the 21st century.

 

[Modron]

I always pick whoever looks the coolest to me that day, based on entirely arbitrary reasons.

Just how fluid would you say your gender is?