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

[Necrensha]

Just how fluid would you say your gender is?

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[Gandalf]

If I am to create a single character then it's a male.
If it's party based creation, I usually add one female caster or thief character to the mix.
If I have no choice then I play with what game has to offer.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

I tend to make a male character if given the choice.
That whole argument of "I'm not looking at a man's arse all day" doesn't really hold up when you're playing a isometric-rpg or going to be in first person the whole time, which is what I tend to play.
It always perplexes me to see people waste so much time on character creation only to never actually see their characters, be it through staying in first person or wearing face-protection.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I ain't gonna look at the man's bun for the next 40 hours

Cool story bro, but that's not the reason.

To give a serious answer to this question, in my opinion, there's essentially several types of psychologies at work here.

On one hand, there's those of us who approach games as art, and we tend to be very conscientious about respecting and giving due deference to all the parameters the game is setting up. In all my life, even as a kid, i never, ever played as female if i could help it. I tend to instantly identify with my character and see them as an extension of myself. Games where playing female was mandatory were always incredibly off putting for this very reason. I played NOLF because it was first person, but could never play Tomb Raider for instance. Also, i always take the time to come up with names or characterizations that are "lore" appropriate, because again i want to respect the "art". In MMOs, i'll take the time to read quest descriptions even though i know it's pointless just because i want to try to saviour all the aspects of the game and so forth.

Then, there's those guys who are in it for the competition and are fairly conscious of what others would think of them were they to admit they actually "care" about the game at all. Those are the guys who will walk around with characters named "ifuckurmon", who will purposedly use the character generator to make themselves look retarded, anything to show others they aren't actually taking the game seriously. And those are also the ones who will play as female because it's a kind of display of machismo in their eyes. "I like to look at ass bro!".

Lastly, there's the oversocialized, feminized guys who also tend to be relatively conscientious, sharing some traits with the first group but for different reasons. For instance, i always played on PvP servers in MMOs because for me it was about "experiencing" all the game had to offer. People in this group will likely avoid PvP. They will join roleplaying servers precisely because they are safer. And those guys will pick female characters because they genuinely identify as female, at least psychologically if not literally (gateway to troonism most likely).

 

[JarlFrank]

I tend to instantly identify with my character and see them as an extension of myself.

That's why I vastly prefer female characters

 

[Lyric Suite]

I tend to instantly identify with my character and see them as an extension of myself.

That's why I vastly prefer female characters

So you are this kind of far-right?

 

[JarlFrank]

No, trooning out is retarded because it's physically impossible to change your sex. Gotta accept what you are and deal with it.

Still, games let you play as any character you want, so I pick female in 100% of cases.

 

[Lyric Suite]

So, how long before we'll have to start addressing you as Fraulein Francisca?

 

[JarlFrank]

Don't worry, I already had my trannyism rejection arc on here about a decade ago

 

[Konjad]

For an oldfag you show a surprising lack of 'dex lore knowledge, Lyric Suite

 

[KeAShizuku]

No, trooning out is retarded because it's physically impossible to change your sex. Gotta accept what you are and deal with it.

Still, games let you play as any character you want, so I pick female in 100% of cases.

Maybe I'm weird but I don't see the PC in a game as myself.
I'm not trying to recreate an idealised me in a game.

 

[octavius]

What happened to role playing?
Games and movies seem to move in the same direction, where in games the player plays "as an extension of myself", and in movies an actor can no longer portray a character of a different race. While traditionally role playing and acting was about playing someone different from you.
Of course, most CRPGs don't cater for actual role playing anyway...

 

[NecroLord]

If it's party based creation, I usually add one female caster or thief character to the mix.

Same.
I always had a thing for beautiful, sensual witch/sorceress archetype...
Not of evil alignment, mind you.

 

[Ol' Willy]

I ain't gonna look at the man's bun for the next 40 hours

Cool story bro, but that's not the reason.

To give a serious answer to this question, in my opinion, there's essentially several types of psychologies at work here.

On one hand, there's those of us who approach games as art, and we tend to be very conscientious about respecting and giving due deference to all the parameters the game is setting up. In all my life, even as a kid, i never, ever played as female if i could help it. I tend to instantly identify with my character and see them as an extension of myself. Games where playing female was mandatory were always incredibly off putting for this very reason. I played NOLF because it was first person, but could never play Tomb Raider for instance. Also, i always take the time to come up with names or characterizations that are "lore" appropriate, because again i want to respect the "art". In MMOs, i'll take the time to read quest descriptions even though i know it's pointless just because i want to try to saviour all the aspects of the game and so forth.

Then, there's those guys who are in it for the competition and are fairly conscious of what others would think of them were they to admit they actually "care" about the game at all. Those are the guys who will walk around with characters named "ifuckurmon", who will purposedly use the character generator to make themselves look retarded, anything to show others they aren't actually taking the game seriously. And those are also the ones who will play as female because it's a kind of display of machismo in their eyes. "I like to look at ass bro!".

Lastly, there's the oversocialized, feminized guys who also tend to be relatively conscientious, sharing some traits with the first group but for different reasons. For instance, i always played on PvP servers in MMOs because for me it was about "experiencing" all the game had to offer. People in this group will likely avoid PvP. They will join roleplaying servers precisely because they are safer. And those guys will pick female characters because they genuinely identify as female, at least psychologically if not literally (gateway to troonism most likely).

 

[Elttharion]

Given the choice I will always play as a male character.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Of course, most CRPGs don't cater for actual role playing anyway...

I love to minmax and I can't relax

 

[Ryzer]

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

So all players of Tomb raider and Metroid games are fags?

 

[Necrensha]

What happened to role playing?
Games and movies seem to move in the same direction, where in games the player plays "as an extension of myself", and in movies an actor can no longer portray a character of a different race. While traditionally role playing and acting was about playing someone different from you.
Of course, most CRPGs don't cater for actual role playing anyway...

Global IQ has been going down each generation for many decades now.
Dumber people->less capacity to understand anything that isn't themselves, which leads to roleplaying being all about mememememe and being unable to imagine themselves playing as, an orc for instance.

 

[Ezekiel]

What happened to role playing?
Games and movies seem to move in the same direction, where in games the player plays "as an extension of myself", and in movies an actor can no longer portray a character of a different race. While traditionally role playing and acting was about playing someone different from you.
Of course, most CRPGs don't cater for actual role playing anyway...

Portraying character of a different race looked stupid, though.

 

[NecroLord]

What happened to role playing?
Games and movies seem to move in the same direction, where in games the player plays "as an extension of myself", and in movies an actor can no longer portray a character of a different race. While traditionally role playing and acting was about playing someone different from you.
Of course, most CRPGs don't cater for actual role playing anyway...

Portraying character of a different race looked stupid, though.

And that's how you get Netflix Adaptations.

 

[KafkaBot]

It the game has a character creator, most of the time I'll make a male character for my first playthrough and then switch to a woman if that results in gameplay differences (ex: games that let you use seduction to get through quests in ways that are not available for male characters).

If it is a third-person anime game where gender has no bearing on gameplay, though, I'll make a female character.

 

[SixDead]

Usualy, in my first playthrough in RPGs I create a self-insert character, so no female. I make a female character mostly for second runs, or if male option is ugly/faggy, or because I had a vision that told me to play certain game as a lady. I treat those characters as my daughters or sisters I never had, that's why I don't allow them to get laid. I also add 1 or 2 females in games with custom party creation, for aesthetics.
Of course, you are interested in which RPGs I played as a woman, so there is the list:

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- Kotor 2 - second playtrough, also I was young and cared about SW lore, where Jedi Exile canonicaly female.
- Deus Ex Invisible War - because male option was ugly.
- Winter Voices - you can't choose your sex here.
- Age of Decadence - 3th playthrough, Thiefs' Guild faction, no combat.
- Vampire: the Masqurade - second walktrough, Tremere chick, low humanity.
- New Arc Line - played the demo as woman, for no reason.
- Dark Souls 3 - never planned to play it, but I had a dream where I was playing DS3 as female cleric with halberd named Mercuria, and I follow what my dreams tell me to do.
- Out of boredom, I started second run of Dragon Age 2 with female Hawke named Marketa (after Marketa Stroblova), but couldn't stomach it.

 

[Lyric Suite]

If it's party based creation, I usually add one female caster or thief character to the mix.

Same.
I always had a thing for beautiful, sensual witch/sorceress archetype...
Not of evil alignment, mind you.

That i do as well, but then i don't identify with the whole party, just my MC.

 

[Machocruz]

Usually male, but depends on how the clothes/armor look on the character model. There's been a number of games I had to choose female because the male body type was a shapeless muscle golem that didn't look cool, capable, or aesthetic, while the female model looked actually athletic.

 

[Iucounu]

i want to try to saviour all the aspects of the game and so forth.

Doesn't that mean you should play both male and female, if the game provides such choices? (And of course explore all their sexual orientations, if that's part of the game's "art".)