Guys That Play Girls In Games. Why?

[Easton Dark]

Lillith has the best ability out of all the characters, and the best melee animation.

She just happens to be female.

So?

If I can create a character, I usually go male because it's more of an extension of myself.

 

[pretentiousname01]

I would like to go with the "staring at ass for 20+ hours"

there is also a few other more techinical reasons.

better voice actors in some instances (mass effect 2 comes to mind)

Alot of games have ingrained in me that given the option with no prior knowledge of the game its better to roll female.

Fallout 3,
Black widow perk, statistically better than the alternative as there are more male enemies than female.

Elder scrolls 2 daggerfall
Seducers could chain stun/charm male characters. couldn't do that to females (as far as memory serves)

There are a few others that I usually list. However these are the only ones that spring to mind atm.

 

[macacos2]

Even though no one is gonna read this

I play as women on games because it's hilarious

 

[jak1011]

i only do that if the male character looks stupid or if its the only choice. usually i play as a guy so i can feel like its me on the screen. but i do have a friend who plays as a girl on a game so he can get some animal class thats exclusive to girls ( ether that or the guy animal class has dumb animals i cant remember)

 

[siddif]

I personally only play one female customisable character and that is in WoW which is a female Draenei for the sole reason that i don't like having two characters of the same race and I'm not a fan of the male model personally.

I get no thrill out of playing a female character and have never commenced in erotic roleplay but i do notice I get treated different when I play her though I always refer to myself as a he when playing but the character as a her if its something specific to the character (e.g. "What level is your DK?" - "She's 80")

Other games where you have no choice of the character creation i just take whats given to me or which is better for my play style.

Dont worry i see it as a perfectly valid question as may people do it for different reasons and some avoid it for their own reasons.

EDIT: after seeing some other posts i was reminded that on some games the girls get an easier difficulty (Jill - Resident Evil 1) or some can be more relatable / less annoying (I have a soft spot for Rebecca in RE:0 and would relate more to her inexperience than Billy's machoness)

 

[YoungZer0]

I usually prefer to play Male characters. It's easier to identify myself with male characters. Not because they have a dick, but because most female video game characters are more about showing off (Titts and Ass) and acting strong instead of being actually strong. What we get are characters like Sheva from RE5. I just could not take her serious. So super Sexy with her high heel boots. You don't wear high heels in combat. Never ever. You don't even wear high heels in a coffeeshop. That would fuck up your feet.

It's always titts and ass. Especially in videogames like Lost Planet 2, DoA and Ninja Gaiden. I absolutely despise Game Developers who create these type fap-characters.

I'd love to play Female Shepard. But the Monotone Voice really irritates me.

 

[sogortheogre]

I will admit that I play a few female characters in WoW, but I did so because they fit the image I perceived for certain classes. For example, my main character, a mage, is an old male human, while my shaman (who I plan on specializing in healing) is a young female draenei. They just seem to fit in those roles, in my opinion at least.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

I was just trying to think of a reason why guys so often seem to play women in video games.

TLDR: Why do men play as women?

Why don't they? There's the PvP argument:

There's the fact that certain characters just suit women better. (I've never seen a Bowman that wasn't fashioned around Robin Hood, but there's a lot of differing Bow-Women)

And often it's a challenge to portray someone apart from yourself - that's the point of RP, in a nut-shell.

Very rarely see women play as men when they have the choice though...

/Thread for me, especially the comic. . But it does get me farther from the character and doesn't immerse me as much.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I honestly can't think of single good reason to, for me, all it would do is spoil the immersion as I'm NOT a girl.

Why do games have to be about immersion? I prefer Pac-Man to Call of Duty so playing a female character helps create that feeling that I'm playing a game.

Also, a lot of the male characters in games are over the top and macho - Gears of War, God of War - and I'm not that sort of guy. Most of the girls in games are written by guys - Lara Croft, Commander Shepard, Jill Valentine - so they're fairly masculine kind of females anyway. Even though it's not my gender it comes closer to my personality than a beefy meat head like Marcus Phoenix.

I don't mind Gordon Freeman because he shuts up and lets me be me. I've just realised that if they made female protagonists for GTA I might go back to playing that series.

None of the games you mentioned (bar Half-life 2) are known for being heavily story driven though are they? they aren't about immersion like a game where you create your own character.

That was another point. I play a lot of games so I'm trying to make some points that cover them all. My first point is about your problem that it ruins immersion. My counter is that immersion is not everything in games. My second point is to give the reason I generally don't like playing male characters. My third paragraph is just musing on the topic. Ironically it probably ruins the immersion for me more when I have to play a male character who is less like me, than a female character. Also, Resident Evil is fairly story driven. Mass Effect is nothing BUT story driven. And I didn't add the aesthetically pleasing argument to cover other games because you had already had it listed. But I'm adding it here to cover everything else. So there you have, three (I think) good reasons to play as a female character. Never again should you be able to say "I can't think of a single good reason to", only perhaps "I don't agree with a single good reason given to".

Is immersion the only reason you play a male character? Or do you seek to be more bad-ass or kick-ass version of yourself in real life? There's an element of fantasy in whichever avatar you adopt. Who would you play in StreetFighter II? Ryu, Ken or Guile because they're guys? Would you ever play Dhalsim or Blanka? Or are they not close enough to who you are? What about the later Final Fantasy games? I find their feminine male protagonists very annoying.

Honestly I would never say resident evil is story driven. It is a game about killing zombie people and that's it. The story is just terrible and generic. Yes immersion isn't everything, but neither is graphics, but it's still something, and if something takes away from that something it takes away from the game as a whole. Mass effect is heavily story driven, but your character can be male or female, and you can make very different choices based on how you want to make that character, so I would say immersion is a very important part of that.

I wouldn't say that I can't think of a single good reason to anymore. I did just want some insight.

In Street Fighter I pick my character based on their moveset and abilities. Honestly the last Final Fantasy I really remember is 7 and I liked Vincent more than Cloud, so I couldn't really say anything about their main protagonists. I really meant in games about immersion, where you have a choice.

But I do feel I'm getting some decent answers in this thread if I look hard enough amongst the LOL BEWBS and the LOL YER UNCOMFORTABLE WITH YER SEX COZ YOU DON'T PLAY WIMMEN!

Thanks for contributing.

 

[captaincabbage]

It's just another form of escapism. Just like jumping into a big world of impossible explosions and awesome backflipping cars, sometimes it's fun to just not be yourself.

 

[Canadian Fodder]

All my reasons are up there. Personally I would rather be looking at a female's ass for 20+ hours then a male's ass.

 

[MishiSings]

I'd love to play Female Shepard. But the Monotone Voice really irritates me.

Don't you mean Male Shepard?

Female Shepard's voice is loads more expressive then Male Shep's.

 

[J21R]

It seems to me that a lot of people have become very defensive very quickly. The OP clearly worded the post to be as inoffensive as possible, yet people tacitly jumped the conclusion that he was accusing them of being weird pervs... odd. For the record I've always wondered about this. Never cared about playing male or female if the game chooses, but I've never had any interest in playing a female char when the option is open to me.

 

[Vykrel]

Why not? It seems awfully backwards to say that you can only play a game as your own assigned gender.

not really. one of the main purposes of games is to become the character in a way. its easier to do that when they are actually LIKE you

Personally I don't want to become the character, I want to play a character. I am not the character in any given game but rather the character is an entity of their own and I am choosing what they say.

And what I said doesn't forbid your viewpoint but sticking solely to what you say forbids mine. Is it not better to have more variety in playing styles and options?

its a choice. i play women characters when they are set to be that gender and i cant change it. lara croft, for example.

but if i can choose my character for an RPG, why not make it like me? RPGs and MMOs usually dont follow some predetermined concrete story. the stories are affected by your dialogue and by your actions.

its like if you were to play Fallout 3 as the opposite gender. it wouldnt make any difference. youre not distancing yourself from the character by playing as your opposite sex. in games like that, you literally are the character. playing as your own gender in games like that just makes sense, in a way.

but you can choose whatever you want

 

[Merkavar]

i think the number one reason people do it is because most games are roleplaying games as in you play a role and playing the opposite gender is about as different a role you can play.

plus the free loot from only pervs is AWEsome

 

[Vykrel]

Why not? It seems awfully backwards to say that you can only play a game as your own assigned gender.

not really. one of the main purposes of games is to become the character in a way. its easier to do that when they are actually LIKE you

Not in RPGs it isn't. In RPGs the main purpose is to become more like the character yourself by roleplaying, not to make the character more like you.

a good majority of RPG's have you playing a character with no voice, and with no name or features until you assign them. naturally, you would expect people to make the character like themselves, since it will be their choices affecting the outcome of the story

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Even though no one is gonna read this

I play as women on games because it's hilarious

In what way hilarious?