Guys That Play Girls In Games. Why?

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Well to echo a lot of other people 'if i have to stair at some digital ass for hours on end then i'd like it to be a pretty female ass thank you please'
 

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The same reason, dear, that women play as men in games. Now you're 136 posts old, and it's time for you to know the truth.

Men find women in a game attractive. They see one their mind goes down a different road. When they have the opportunity to interact with them, that furthers that road. Playing as a female character allows them to have their cake and eat it too. They get to think about all the things their minds thought before, but with two women, instead of one woman and a man they've sort of projected themselves onto.

The same reason women play as men. Men do it to be involved in lesbianism, "yuri", a forbidden fruit of sorts. Something that they, as men, can never be involved in elsewhere. Women do it for the same reason, only with... um... gayism? Actually the only term I've heard used commonly for this phenomenon(males loving males) is the word "yaoi". If you'd like to look the terms up that is on you, but be warned, they get explicit very quickly.

There is only one alternative i've seen so far that holds truth to it in it's entirety. The "Lyra" syndrome. Or "Kotone" if you're into japanese versions, or piracy. In which a character is created so damned horrible that the only conceivable option is to chose the other one even if it isn't the gender you prefer. Named for the rapedoll/fanfetish material "Kotone", who replaced Kris in the HGSS remakes, solely because Kris herself was to headstrong and self assured(you know, like you'd expect someone traveling around a country on foot to actually, you know, be), that they felt the need to replace her with a daisies and picnics girl that fit more of a "girly" image in her role in the game. Seriously, I hate her. Most people do(I know by saying this i'll get all of her fans on me, but for every one of you there will be at least 3 others who say at least something similar to what i did).
 

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Senaro said:
I tend to not touch musclebound gorillas that call themselves men. I make characters of either gender, though I avoid the big truck with legs body type whenever possible. I've no problem playing males when it's characters like Commander Shepard or Mordecai (Borderlands), but if you expect me to play as something like Marcus Fenix, I'd rather take the chick.

Weirdly enough, I have no problem playing games as the Brick, but that's because he does nothing but scream at the enemies, and inconspicuous treasure chests, with his roid-rage induced bloodlust, which I find hilarous.
I try to avoid playing as the Marcus Fenix type characters whenever I can, but I absolutely loved Brick, especially when you got his level up to the point where you could RAAAGE almost constantly.
 

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Chairman Miaow said:
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.
Having just noticed your an actor it gives me a better anology than the ones I was using in my way way earlier post.
When you roleplay you essentially both actor and screen writer (or whatever the correct term is) if a director were to merely write about the stuff he knew from his own perspective I doubt he'd acheive very many masterpeices. Its not you in your play or film or book its a character who it just happens to be being written by you.
In MMORPG's sometimes you'll be struck by a wish to create this character because this character needs to be created, this character comes to you whole, boy or girl, hero of villian they are who they are before you start dragging the sliders and talking in verily's.

At least thats what happens when I make characters, the characters are already there complete with gender and I have to build them, they just fit and to change and compromise would mean they were no longer themselves but a basterdized mish mash.
 

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Some people have mentioned aesthetics as their main reason for playing female characters, but this actually varies from game to game, and depends on your tastes. Taking the example of human and night elf characters in WoW, you have your choice between roided out male physiques, slightly elongated in the case of the night elf but still massively overdeveloped, and jello mold female physiques that appear to have been inspired by studying someone's sister's barbie collection, while completely ignoring all of said someone's sister's living, breathing friends. I actually like undead better, for both male and female characters. In CoX, you can shape the character you play, but maxing the physique slider for female characters only gives you substantially more jello hanging from the shoulders and hips since actual muscle definition on female characters appears to be a violation of the game artist's credo. You can slap armor on her, and I mean rigid armor, not leather that somehow magically conforms to every curve of her body, if you want to camouflage the fact that your character lacks any real muscle development.
 

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I rarely make female main characters because I want characters that reflect who I am and im a bloke.

When I do make female characters however it's either because the game has great character customization and I tend to be able to make better female characters than male ones or the role fits a woman better for instance I make female healers because women are more caring than men in general.
 

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Well, if it is in third person, than one reason would be to have something nice to look at.

Also, when it comes to fighting games I sometimes use female characters if their moves suit my fighting styIe. For instance I quite like to play as Taki in Soul Calibour II and I used princess Peach a lot in Super Smash bros Melee.

Marth is also pretty good.

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What was that? She's a dude? Wow...

EDIT: Oh, and of course there are the games in which you don't have a choice and the main character is female, in which I don't really have a choice.
 

Candidus

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Chairman Miaow said:
TLDR: Why do men play as women?
Personally, I play female characters in games for a number of reasons. I'm quite an aggressive man, I don't find it easy to get along with other men and I'm extremely sensitive to "jokes" from other men which attempt to establish a pecking order without exchanging blows. I respond with my fists, immediately, without a word. That's just who I am, I invite anybody to take it or leave it.

As a result, male characters leave me a bit cold. I have a competitive attitude, instead of an aspirational one. I don't see traits I'd *like* and gravitate toward them, I see the traits of other men and measure them against my own in an offensive way. Not a great motivator for choosing them as my representatives in game.

I'm fiercely proud of who and what I am and I don't aspire to be like anybody else. With aspiration eliminated, I default to attraction. I pick what I want to spend the time between gun battles looking at and listening to. Femshep, for example.

I hope the answer is useful to you.
 

Gralian

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I feel like the only guy who plays a male character almost entirely, with the exception being games with pre-set female leads. For example Perfect Dark and Tomb Raider. See, i like to put myself into the game. If i make an avatar, i try to make him as much like me as possible, or in the case of games with limited customisation, as much as how i would like to be as possible. How i would like to be represented within the game world. I like to imagine that i am that badass swordsman/gunman/whatever that's just blasted apart a group of bandits and saved a kitten.

So taking in mind that the avatar within the game world is a representation of us, (for me anyway) i'm a little creeped out by the people saying how they get off on staring at a 'female ass for 200+ hours'. It's like... getting off on yourself. It's just wrong.

Putting jokes aside though, i simply don't play a female character most of the time because that's not me and that's not how i want to project myself. It's the same with races too, i choose human over elf or orc or whatever because that's what i like to be; how i am now. Human. I find it hard or silly to visualise myself as green or with big flappy ears.

Incidentally, you may want to ask yourself why no-one ever creates a black character in online games... maybe something to do with my point of not being how you see yourself or want to be represented? Maybe there's subtle, unspoken tones of racism? After all, saying you like objectifying women as the sole reason you play as one is just as sexist as not playing as a woman at all for whatever reason, if not more so. Just food for thought.
 

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In two different instances on MMORPGs, I've met two (IRL) girls who played male characters. The reason they said they did this was because they felt as a female character, they wouldn't get 'respected'. I.E. treated equally/non-perversely/as a friend instead of a potential love, fawned over, given/forced to take free stuff, sex jokes/advances/innuendo, etc. etc. Pretty much all the things that come of being a male playing acting as a 'female' on these online games.

One other (IRL) girl plays males because she just likes 'em. She just often role-plays as male characters with her friends, and therefore plays as them online. Her prerogative; I don't get it.

Myself, I respect and love myself enough to get 'myself' in the character as much as possible. I will, to the best of my ability, play a male and black character. Usually it's just a male white dude due to lacking customization, but ya know... whatever.

The only time I play as a girl is if the class I want to play is character-specific locked. I.E. games with Mage classes usually make it female if it's character-locked. Those games I don't talk to anybody because attempting to be a, generally, articulate typist apparently gives people the idea that I'm a girl in those cases...

...FML.

Gralian said:
Incidentally, you may want to ask yourself why no-one ever creates a black character in online games... maybe something to do with my point of not being how you see yourself or want to be represented? Maybe there's subtle, unspoken tones of racism? After all, saying you like objectifying women as the sole reason you play as one is just as sexist as not playing as a woman at all for whatever reason, if not more so. Just food for thought.
First and foremost, good job completely snagging everything I wanted to say away 3 minutes before I posted it lmao. But totally agree with you; I rarely see many black characters online, minus on PSU (where I've spent the most of my MMO time). But this is probably affected by out of all my friends, I only know white, and Asian, dudes who play MMOs. But I haven't gotten into anything huge like WoW, so I can't really say. Little appetizer to that food for thought.
 

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Female perspective: For me, attraction has nothing to do with it. I play as male whenever I want to be left alone by males (thus the gender-neutral screenname) &/or want to wreck shit by smashing it. Pre-made male characters are usually better at smashing shit, so I stick with them.

Examples:
*I play as Brick in Borderlands because it's hilarious to run around as a GIANT MAN that can go berserk and punch everything to death.
*I may play as male if I go through Dragon Age a second time so people will stop greeting me as "Aw aren't you a pretty little lady." -__- Yes, yes, I am a pretty lady. I also specialize in 2-handed swords and dismemberment, thank you. This is less of a problem now that I'm level-11 warrior and covered in blood most of the time.
 

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Gralian said:
After all, saying you like objectifying women as the sole reason you play as one is just as sexist as not playing as a woman at all for whatever reason, if not more so. Just food for thought.
I dislike this sort of oversensitivity. The idea that men and women shouldn't objectify eachother is nonsense. We are sex objects to each other- that doesn't mean we aren't compassionate, gentlemanly and courteous in our everyday lives. It doesn't mean we have less respect for a woman when they talk to us, when they have well paid jobs and so on. It just means that we weigh up the sex potential of every female we meet or observe- which is something we're hard wired to do.

Resisting a primary impulse because you've been socialised to is, just in my view, absolutely unnatural and wrong. It gives me the creeps, to be frank. If you look at an attractive woman and don't `allow` the animal part of you to say "Maybe want", you're a slightly damaged male.
 

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Sometimes I like to play as women in games, but that's only when the experience is drastically changed depending on the chosen sex. Most of this stems from the fact that the majority of RPGs today have some sort of flirting going on, and while playing as a guy I can brush this off, for a girl, being talked sweetly to makes me feel less like I'm playing a game and more like I've quantum leaped into the body of a girl and I want to leave but I can't get out.
 

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Vykrel said:
Gill Kaiser said:
Vykrel said:
GiantRaven said:
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.
 

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Daystar Clarion said:
(just this) Because I can?
Also, this also depends on the game. Example: in Dead or Alive, I played as Tina because I was good with her(imo) and was comfortable with her moves. In WoW, I play both types for variety.