Guys That Play Girls In Games. Why?

[Lexxi64]

Well, if I come across a player in an online game who's stated they're a guy, and they're playing as a game, I always, *always* ask why.
All I get for a reply is "Well I wouldn't want to stare at a male ass, would I?" ...
So yeah, I think they just like the noises female characters make, and the body, natch. But I just think it's matter of choice; either be your own gender in a game, or not, it doesn't matter really
I play as a guy sometimes just because the girl characters annoy me so much...so I don't know why they choose to annoy themselves with the female characters all the while :l

 

[Guthixflare7]

I noticed half the girls that are males hit on me in MMORPGs and then ask me for stuff and when i say no they say it's ok they're not really females...I think it's sometimes for scammers in online games in my opinion.

 

[Lukeman1884]

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.

Objectification? Wait, I don't get it. What's wrong with treating a group of pixels which we created ourselves as an object? I'm certainly not going to walk up to random women in the street and stare at them as if they were sex objects, but I don't consider characters in games to be actual people, or else I'd probably have severe mental problems stemming from a guilty conscience due to the uncountable number of innocent civilians I've run over in GTA.

So basically, my point is that I don't think there's anything wrong with making a female character just to stare at their boobies because they AREN'T REAL. And it's probably better to get it out of your system so you don't go staring at real women all the time.

Also please note I AM arguing in the extreme here. I highly doubt that there are many people who make female characters just to literally drool over them.

 

[Joe Herbert]

If you are going to be looking at someone's ass for 20 hours, it may as well be a cute girl's ass (even if she is made out of vector math).

 

[Ophi]

I'm female, and I have three lv 80+ characters on World of Warcraft who are male.

Two blood elves, a mage and a paladin, and an undead rogue.

I made the blood elves male because I quite simply strongly prefer their models and animations to the females. The female models also look bitchy and anorexic.

I made the undead rogue a male because I already had two max level undead females, and I did not feel that the rogue class fit quite as well with trolls, orcs, or blood elves.


Tl;dr:

1. Models/animations.
2. Already played female, wanted a change.

 

[deadguynotyetburied]

Is the female blood elf the one who does that tippy-toes, tinkerbell wrist flick when she's waving a wand? Or was that the male? Honestly don't remember, but it did spell death for one of my characters.

 

[minuialear]

As a girl why doesn't play MMORPGs a whole lot, I've noticed people are nicer to n00bs when they have girl avatars than they are to n00bs who look like dudes. Some people (with male avatars) have given me ridiculous amounts of gold and shiny new items just because I was all like, "I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm doing. ;__;," whereas when my guy friends play as dudes they get flamed for everything, regardless of how many times they say they've never played the game before. And no, I don't flirt in games (unless apologizing for screwing something up is a form of flirtation now).

There's probably a sexual thing ("If I give this girl some stuff maybe she'll like me"), and/or some subconscious sexism going on ("Girls can't play games well, so I pity this girl; guys can play games so they have no excuse for acting like n00bs"). Regardless of which, that very behavior's why a lot of guy friends I know will have at least one female character; because it's an easy way to get a lot of good stuff without as much effort.

 

[krseyffert]

If you're gonna be staring at an ass for over 10 hours, might as well be a girl's...

 

[Ophi]

Is the female blood elf the one who does that tippy-toes, tinkerbell wrist flick when she's waving a wand? Or was that the male? Honestly don't remember, but it did spell death for one of my characters.

That was the female.

Terrible.

One of the reasons why I made my blood elf mage male.

 

[NoGoodBlindsider]

I like to play as a female in game for three reasons:

1:

You're not a gun-toting sword-wielding demon-slaying world-saver either, but it'd be pretty dull if you spent the entirety of fallout 3 sat at home messing around with a computer. I've spent all my life being myself, games are chance to immerse myself in a character other than myself, who may or may not share some characteristics with myself.

2: Because I'm kind of curious and there's times where I'm wondering "What whould'it feel like to be a girl?" and games are pretty the closest answer I'll ever get.

And 3: variety. I've played video games for years now and most of the time, who do you think the protagonist? For all their differences, the one thing they had in common was that they were male. So now that gaming has evolve a fair bit, I take this has an opportunity to try something new.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

well i prefer 3rd person greatly, and i greatly prefer to have my character reflect me, so therefore i nearly always play male.

however, after i have beaten a game and i know that playing a female gives me different things, then i'll give it a go.

 

[Carlston]

Most MMO's have the back following camera.
So if you have to stare at a ASS for weeks at a time I prefer a females.


I question anyone who makes and stares at the male dwarfs backside...

They obviously need junk in the midgets trunk.

And halflings are for Michael Jackson fans I guess... heeeheeee

 

[spoonkick]

It is unfortunate that most aren't treating this question maturely, because I think it is a very interesting thing to think about.

Especially since I am a woman who never chooses woman characters, except in some fighting games I occasionally play women or in games where you have too like Metroid or whatever, and I suppose I have never really given much thought to why that is.

I suppose maybe part of it is because when I was younger I never liked dealing with my stupid guy friends being all "why to you never play men you stupid girl? Girls can't play video games anyway dur hur hur"

Maybe it has something to do with a part of me that wants to experience something COMPLETELY different to what is reality.

Maybe mostly though I think I mostly play as a man because I am more used to that because men are the more common protagonists in games, so to me, playing a man IS more immersive despite my own gender because that is the role video game have more commonly forced me into. Not that I think that is necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Nomanslander]

Because I have a secret fantasy of being a women.

There you happy now?

-_-

And no, I ain't just joking.

=P

 

[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

...and I disagree. I was indeed talking about such RPGs. The point is to design a concept of a character and to create them in the game. Limiting yourself to remaking yourself alone betrays a lack of imagination.

im sorry but giving yourself a sex change isnt imaginative in the slightest sense of the word.

 

[SckizoBoy]

For a number of reasons... as already stated, girl's ass > guy's ass.

I get a strange feeling of catharsis when (as a woman) I run around a game map destroying everything in sight with a massive grin on my face... (don't ask why... something's hugely wrong, I know it, but I don't really care)

I find it amusing when walking around as a miniscule girl toting a missile launcher over her shoulder without a care in the world (and capable of legging it indefinitely)

Plus, twenty odd hours of soft earhole licking is better than the alternative... (don't look too deeply into that, I didn't)

 

[Something Amyss]

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-

I try to avoid watching football. Unless I'm in the mood for softcore gay porn. >.>

But seriously, yeah, that's kinda what I'm getting at. the justification for playing female characters seems weird from a group who regularly grope each other.

that and pro wrestling confuse me. I actually enjoy pro wrestling, but how people can watch something so homoerotic and still be homophobes astounds me.

 

[Gralian]

Objectification? Wait, I don't get it. What's wrong with treating a group of pixels which we created ourselves as an object?

It's not just a "group of pixels". It's a visual representation of an entire gender. That's like painting a picture of a woman being raped and saying "what? Why are people getting offended? It's just a load of paint on canvas! It's not representative AT ALL."

Right?

So basically, my point is that I don't think there's anything wrong with making a female character just to stare at their boobies because they AREN'T REAL. And it's probably better to get it out of your system so you don't go staring at real women all the time.

Once more, just because something ISN'T REAL doesn't suddenly make it non-representative and okay. If there was a game showing a racist scene where a black guy or whatever was being abused, would that make it okay? I mean it's not real, right?

 

[Idocreating]

In the case of my main character on World of Warcraft, a Female Tauren Paladin, I dislike the overly huge musclar upper body of the Male models. The proportions make no sense, there almost as wide as they are tall and they scratch their aases while idling and that got on my nerves.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

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?

Doesn?t bother me realy, I think it?s just something we do sometimes. Women do it to men or rather people do it to what they find attractive. It?s a form of indulgence that is only a problem if it affects how you treat actual people or what you expect from people. But then again that would be due to a lack of understanding of reality.

I would say it?s something a bit over catered for sometimes. Although I think it comes from the tendency to make characters in games super human, which also includes the idealised figures of both males and females. That?s a different thing altogether and comes about because most games are about an individual.