Well i have TONS of games wear you play a pile of stakes and tesosteron, and even the games wear you get to play as a girl there eter over sexoualaized and/or pasive agresive! I like games like fallout becase you can play a girl that is not an angry action girl, that approachs flert in the same way i approach baplig toilets, i can play a NORMALL PERSON!!!
Guys That Play Girls In Games. Why?
- Thread starter Chairman Miaow
- Start date
Number 1, Male Shepard voice acting is fine, it isn't bad, I'll tell you whats bad, spiderman from web of shadows.
And as far as playing female characters, just for shits, and sometimes to have different romances, garrus, HELLO
And as far as playing female characters, just for shits, and sometimes to have different romances, garrus, HELLO
Because to the OP that is not a valid reason. If you look at the opening post you will see the Op refuses to include that reason (same as because we can) as reasons to play the opposite gender. He doesn't think that such a simple reason is valid enough to be a reason.Gill Kaiser said:
Really? I mean, I know the female voice acting was pretty good, but I found male Shepherd's voice acting to be great. People actually thought it wasn't that good? This blows my mind.Chairman Miaow said:
Maybe I'm biased, considering I actually know the guy who did his voice. I'm sure Mark won't be happy to hear some people didn't enjoy his work.
OT: I don't play games as a girl unless the main character is a female, but my girlfriend almost blatantly refuses to play games that don't allow you to. It's an interesting mentality to have: "If I can't play the game as a woman, like me, then I refuse to even consider playing the game at all." She actually got upset that Red Dead Redemption doesn't allow you to be a girl, because she loved that game so much. She sucked it up and played through, but that point stuck with her.
Just thought I'd share that with everyone.
A slightly damaged male? I didn't think it was ethical to start labelling people as being mentally defective, now. What's next - going to say homosexuality is a mental illness?Candidus said:
I see your point. I know people tend to be hypersensitive about certain issues. We're animals, we have primal urges, commercialism is all about selling sex. I get that, though the frankly shocking amount of responses going 'because girls are hawt, and i like staring at them' is a little bit depressing. It's objectification at it's finest, and this wouldn't be a problem, but when thousands of folks think this way, it's exacerbating the issue. Not that i'm saying objectifying women in the gaming industry is an actual issue at present, i just thought it was a curious thought. I suppose it depends where you draw the line at what is and isn't sexist. I'll have to let the ladies pitch this one.
So, girls, do you consider all these responses celebrating the objectification of women to be sexist? Or do you maybe find it empowering to know men choose to play women because women can flaunt their sexuality in the game? Or perhaps a different response entirely?
Why not?
I generally play as a guy but sometimes play as a female character simply because I feel like it. I would assume it's the same for female players. Although they may also wish to be considered a guy so they don't have other players flirting with them.
I generally play as a guy but sometimes play as a female character simply because I feel like it. I would assume it's the same for female players. Although they may also wish to be considered a guy so they don't have other players flirting with them.
Honestly I thought it was perfectly fine, but I put that because it's been given as a reason.TundraWolf said:
I play both genders why? because I can it adds replayability to a game and can change many things
Example: In Fallout New Vegas if your a gal with the proper perk you can sleep with and kill someone for the main story and that is awsome
Example: In Fallout New Vegas if your a gal with the proper perk you can sleep with and kill someone for the main story and that is awsome
most of the times I play a guy and a woman,
if possoble a guy on the console and a woman on the pc.
if possoble a guy on the console and a woman on the pc.
My statement about controlling yourself in a certain way indicating "damage" was intended as a quazi-objective statement, not a value judgement. Men are supposed to do [x]. After socialisation, many men do [y] instead. This indicates a state of malfunction imposed on individuals by a 'fashionable ethics' society in my opinion. It's not an insult to say that "someone coughing indicates that they have a cold".Gralian said:
Edit: Why would I have anything against homosexuality? Men desiring men and women desiring women is an exhibited behaviour in the vast majority of mammalian species. It's perfectly natural.
Also, I'm aware that some people take the objectification of their preferred sex too far. The same 'lowest common denominator' is the bane of my existence. These are the people responsible for censorship of media aimed at adults; adults who lack the capacity to choose entertainment that is within the limits of their tolerances. Society babysits us all when it babysits the lowest common denominator-- I'm beginning to digress. We shouldn't feel bad about objectifying eachother in a well-meaning and natural way just because some people can't control the impulse properly.
You know, I've only been in four guilds in WoW over the past few years, all on RP servers. Three of those were led by female GM's. One of those was led by a male. In the three women led ones, typically everyone did what they were told, and, without wanting to sound sexist, it always felt like the GM was a kind of 'mother' figure, and you do what mom says.CaptainCrunch said:
In the male led one, the order to things was strikingly different, with the guild interactions almost taking on a 'laddish' tone, even if the guild did have female members too, yeah, you'd do what the GM said, but people also seemed more likely to argue with him first. A lot of capslock.
As to the OP: Why not? (Seriously, how many times have those two words been repeated in this thread already?)
That said...for MMO's, my characters are mainly male, simply because being a role-player I feel it takes a little bit more to convincingly play a female toon ic as a guy, though I am aware of a number of people that do it.
Conversely, when we think to ask why a woman would play a male toon, and it's a little embarrassing that primarily the reason given is so that don't get harassed/annoyed, it's a sad state of affairs that there are such arseholes in MMO's that such a response is sometimes warranted.
For everything else:
Femme Shepard is better. That is all.
Because, if I'm going to stare a person's ass for a couple hours, it might as well be a chick's.
This. As a guy character in Fallout 3, I tend to, subconsciously, do good and pussy things. As a female character, I kill everyone, burn down the town, and loot the bodies, in no particular order. In every other game except Fallout 3, I like playing the manly space marine.Spark Ignition said:
Spark Ignition said:
This has made me want to roll a female character in the next RPG I play!
I constantly find myself making the idealized version of myself, as you describe, and have difficulty making crude, shrewd decisions I know I should be making. I've never looked at it that way. I am quite keen to see how this plays out now.
My dad used to run all-female characters in WoW. Why? He assumed everyone else was as chivalrous as him and wouldn't gank a female character. Guess how that worked out.