Guys That Play Girls In Games. Why?

Aenir

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Well, there's always the stereotypical "If I'm gonna be looking at an ass all day might as well be a nice one," but also, if its something like a RPG where you create your own character, why not role play something different from what you are in real life?

And additionally there can be gameplay differences too, like in Fallout 3 there's that Black Widow/Lady Killer perk thing.

All sorts of reasons for all sorts of different people, from the perverted to the philosophical.
 

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When I play as a women I feel like I am just playing as a man's ideal than an actual woman, and being a woman I don't like playing as an object for men to oogle. Now if only the male protagonist were as hot, but that just my taste in men. I don't like overly buff shaven bears.
 

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Chairman Miaow said:
I was just trying to think of a reason why guys so often seem to play women in video games.
My brother plays almost exclusively female characters, and I know he isn't alone. 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. So, anyone who does play as a woman in games, why? Feel free to speculate even if you don't play a woman, but please try not to just descend into "COz ThEy ARe PerVS LoL!".

TLDR: Why do men play as women?

EDIT: Women who play as men also feel free to reply as to why you do.

This is not about sexism, I am NOT saying you can't play as a woman, I just want to know why you do.

Reasons so far:

To see if it changes anything on the second playthrough.

More aesthetically pleasing. (both gear and form)

Access to certain classes.

Distance yourself from the character.

Free stuff from online perverts.

For a change.

Transgender issues.

EDIT EDIT: The amount of idiotic replies in this thread is making me want to start a thread titled "Why does nobody ever read the first post properly before posting unfounded and offensive comments?"

Thank you to all those people who have actually been helpful.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: anybody about to post a comment along the lines of "HURRDURR you are uncomfortable with your sexuality and femininity because you don't play as a girl", I am an actor, notoriously some of the most feminine people on the planet, and my favourite characters in Super Smash Bro's Melee were Jigglypuff and Peach. (I still beat everyone I knew with both.) If that's not comfortable with femininity I don't know what is.
For me it was just an excuse to play as my desired gender.

I told all my friends "I'd rather oggle a female form while playing than a male".
Of course the real reason was I wanted to be like the person I was playing >.<
I wasn't comfortable in my sexuality and life was a mess.

For me, it was transgender issues clearly, (though being a lesbian, some part of me still liked to oggle the character I was playing as).
I'd always try to make my character as close to what I imagined myself looking like post-transition.

I started off playing as girls online (even on crappy little chatsites like habbohotel) and it escalated from there and I didn't feel comfortable as my birth gender.
Hope that helped provide an interesting discussion point for your thread.
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StraightToHeck said:
one explanation I heard was from some football players who played WoW as female blood elves:
"If we have to run around looking at someone's butt all the time, it might as well be one that's pleasant to look at."
Heehee, insecure much? (to them, not you).
That's the excuse I used to all my friends before I came out to them as Transsexual.
That makes me giggle.
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For everyone that thinks immersion being broken because you're playing the opposite gender is a stupid reason for that to happen. Stop being elitist and respond appropriately. For most people immersion breaks when you stop to realize you're playing a game instead of just living, breathing, and experiencing the world your virtual you is inhabiting.

It's the whole point of living vicariously through that character. For most it's hard to do that when your virtual you is of the opposing gender. No you're not a 220+ lb space marine, but you're male (or female), and there are plenty of emotional segues in that alone.

There's also that fact that it's not reality, cause if I wanted to be ME, which I don't, then I would pick up a copy of the Sims, give him a mediocre job that he secretly loathes and have him come home and reply to forum trolls.

If you play video games to remove yourself from your dull life to experience the life of another then the reason you enjoy it is cause of how immersed you become, and for me that's a whole lot easier to do when I can get my character to look like me, and be the same gender. That way when he is experiencing something I can go, "ok, i get that in that situation i would feel somewhat the same."

That being said, I myself have only made two females characters, one in Lineage 2 (dark elf) cause they were hot and I was young. The other was a female jedi in the original Kotor.
 

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Daedalus1942 said:
StraightToHeck said:
one explanation I heard was from some football players who played WoW as female blood elves:
"If we have to run around looking at someone's butt all the time, it might as well be one that's pleasant to look at."
Heehee, insecure much? (to them, not you).
That's the excuse I used to all my friends before I came out to them as Transsexual.
That makes me giggle.
-Tabs<3-
I did that, too. Though it's even funnier if it's American Football, since they voluntrily play a sport that mandates "Tight Ends" in spandex.

Of course, people have come to accept it from me regardless of what they know.
 

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Sometimes it opens up different dialogue options, sometimes it changes how other characters interact with yours, sometimes the voice acting's better (Mass Effect), and sometimes it's just for the hell of it. I usually play male first, but after that (sometimes even part way through), I like to see how different decisions change things, and that's the first big one.
 

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I'm one of the people who personally can't play any game as a female. I don't know what it is about it, its just I feel so distanced from the character, because, well I'm more familiar with being a guy. I don't actually know what its like to be a girl so...idk. I don't have anything against people playing female characters, it just personally doesn't work for me.
 

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Zachary Amaranth said:
Daedalus1942 said:
StraightToHeck said:
one explanation I heard was from some football players who played WoW as female blood elves:
"If we have to run around looking at someone's butt all the time, it might as well be one that's pleasant to look at."
Heehee, insecure much? (to them, not you).
That's the excuse I used to all my friends before I came out to them as Transsexual.
That makes me giggle.
-Tabs<3-
I did that, too. Though it's even funnier if it's American Football, since they voluntrily play a sport that mandates "Tight Ends" in spandex.

Of course, people have come to accept it from me regardless of what they know.
Well seriously... ever watch football?
It's some of the most homoerotic stuff I've ever seen (and I have a friend who's obsessed with Yaoi and Homosexual pornography).
They grab each others genitals, they finger each other in the anus(John Huppowardi), they shout loud manly cries while hugging, and they pile on each other in weird positions with up to 15 males at a time.

That doesn't seem just a little contradictory to you?
I mean, let's look at the facts.
It's a heavy contact sport, you come into contact with each other physically all the time.
Fact 2, is it's a male dominated sport (yes some women play sure, but not the extent of the males).

So it's quite conceiveable that there would be at least one closet homosexual in profesional football (if not several).
Yes, I'm probably biased because I do not like football one bit, but I've always found it be very contradictory of it's own supposed "ultra masculinity".
-Tabs<3-
 

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LeonLethality said:
If immersion if projecting yourself upon your character, then that's pretty sad.
How?

OT: Because sometimes the role fits for a women characters better, or it puts a different tone on the situation.

I usually never do it. I may be a little sexist or just plain gay by liking the stereotypical testosterone fest of guy leads.
 

Guitarmasterx7

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My friend always plays as girl characters. His logic behind it was "If I'm going to be staring at a character's backside the whole game it might as well have a nice ass."

I agree with you that it spoils the immersion and makes it harder to relate with the character the less we have in common, but I guess I can see what he's talking about, especially when it comes to mass effect when Shepard's ass is usually the camera's center of focus.
 

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If I'm going to be playing a character and watching someone's ass while playing (in a third person game) Might as well be a nice one.
 

The Hero Killer

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The best way I could put it is that I play my games as if they were movies. So I make my main characters have a certain personality. I never try to play as "myself".
 

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Because for the next 20 to 40 hours I'm going to be staring at a character's ass. Personally, I'd rather it be a woman's ass and not a man's.

Plus I like my women the tough, in your face, kind and not the "Oh someone save me!" princess. Since games are geared toward insecure adolescent males who might lose their woody if the woman shows any sort of strength and independence there aren't nearly enough capable women portrayed in games.

So if I have the choice, I make my own.
 

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Cause the rogue shot faster with a bow than the sorcerer or warrior, meaning long ranged attack with no mana reliance and less fragile and not concerned with enemy resistances.

/diablo
 

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Chairman Miaow said:
EDIT: Women who play as men also feel free to reply as to why you do.
Well ignoring the majority of games where I have to play as a male, I think that males in games seem a little more realistic. A lot of female protagonists (with the exception of perhaps Mass Effect) seem weird to me and do nothing other than break immersion. Maybe I'm just self-sexist (is that even a term?), but I can't see how a girl with double F breasts would be able to run around saving the galaxy. Not when they could be in the kitchen.
 

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It used to be (back in the unreal tornement days) that female characters had smaller hit boxes so if you played a female you were less likely to get fragged.
 

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Well, err im not really sure why.

When it comes to MMORPG's like World of Warcraft one speculation might be that it might not be the most pleasant of views to have to stare at a mans bobbing ass when you spend hours upon hours running around beating fantasy chreatures to death.

Perhaps a digital female ass is more appealing to your average male heterosexual player? :p
 

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Whenever I do it, I do it to see how the written dialogue (if there is any) and the actions of the girl I play have any grounding in reality when compared to the women I interact with everyday.

So far I've only played games where it was clearly written by a male.