I am a male, but always make a female player-character.
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Depends on why you do it. Do you:Kurt Cristal said:
1. do it to spend "X" hours enjoying the view? In which case then in my book you be a bit of a perv
or
2. do it for the attention? Which I suppose is understandable but unnecessary, and kind of weird seeing as this will predominately be male attention.
or another reason I can not think of? (I only put down the main two that I can think of, oh and sorry if my theories offend as this is not my intent)
I make most of my tabletop roleplaying character women. Seems, for some reason, I just find them more intresting. I'm a man, and I just find playing men somewhat... stale. I can't make anything new or intresting there, it's all been done. With women, I at least have the illusion of freshness. Or something like that. With women, I just find my character concepts that much more engaging.
Then again, I'm anything but a straight man, so make of that what you will.
And yes, incidentally, some of our group (including one of the two ladies I game with) sometimes find it a bit weird, but they're used to it and don't really care in the end. If our pencil-necked stereotypical nerd can play his musclebound Conan clones, I can play my women. And boy, do I play them...
Then again, I'm anything but a straight man, so make of that what you will.
And yes, incidentally, some of our group (including one of the two ladies I game with) sometimes find it a bit weird, but they're used to it and don't really care in the end. If our pencil-necked stereotypical nerd can play his musclebound Conan clones, I can play my women. And boy, do I play them...
Escapism is one. Yahtzee put it nicely enough when he pointed out that one of the reasons to play roleplaying games is to, you know, assume a role. You can try things you couldn't try in real life, and be things you couldn't be in real life. You can explore less explored sides of yourself, and you can do what you'd never dare do. And I think that's wonderful.AVATAR_RAGE said:
I do that for 2 reasons, I'd like to look at beautiful women most of the game, also I'm curious of how actually, well women think and maybe being in a female skin can help me understand that.
How many times are we going to see this question pop up?
1. No theres nothing wrong with it, not unless you pretend to be a girl with people you talk to
2. Stop posting this thread.
3. Anything who thinks this is a problem is probably hiding some repressed fantasies
1. No theres nothing wrong with it, not unless you pretend to be a girl with people you talk to
2. Stop posting this thread.
3. Anything who thinks this is a problem is probably hiding some repressed fantasies
There is no shame in crossplaying unless you do it badly. And by "badly," I mean like Tryst [http://www.goblinscomic.com/08192005/] from Goblins [http://www.goblinscomic.com/]. (Don't read that comic unless you like seeing cartoony D&D characters getting slaughtered in creative ways. You've been warned.)
For some reason I always try to make a pasty-skinned, middle age, balding man, even though I'm not yet 20 and have hair half way down my back.
Pasty skinned? eh
Pasty skinned? eh
I usually make my characters:
A: Look like other video game characters that I like (my Fallout 3 character's face is modeled after the Doom status bar face) and name it after that character.
B: Make them look freaking ridiculous and give them a silly name.
A: Look like other video game characters that I like (my Fallout 3 character's face is modeled after the Doom status bar face) and name it after that character.
B: Make them look freaking ridiculous and give them a silly name.
I think you're utterly insane and a danger to all Mankind!
I'm a male and I always role-play as a male, i.e. myself-makes the game more immersive if I can pretend to be murdering and looting instead of a pre-set character.
I'm a male and I always role-play as a male, i.e. myself-makes the game more immersive if I can pretend to be murdering and looting instead of a pre-set character.
More often than not I play females in games where possible, because often males are done quite badly in games. For some reason I only find the archetypes of males in games, such as the MANLY MAN or the HEROIC MAN, but it's not often I come across a properly characterised male. But the woman version, for some reason, gets a way more varied character. Perhaps it's because of the wonkey vision that men are not allowed to be caring and nurturing because those are weaknesses, where the woman may be the things, yet heroic and strong because all protagonists have to be strong.
That, and often the female models, and armours and whatnot, have been given more attention. They just look better, though that may be a matter of being attracted to woman.
That, and often the female models, and armours and whatnot, have been given more attention. They just look better, though that may be a matter of being attracted to woman.
If you look me up in a dictionary, you will get this thread. I love playing female characters, but not only hot ones.. My Mass Effect character.. well she's a bit quirky, makes her more human
If you look me up in a dictionary, you will get this thread. I love playing female characters, but not only hot ones.. My Mass Effect character.. well she's a bit quirky, makes her more human
In any game if I have the choice to be female then I will why you might ask? Well I don?t like looking at a man?s arse the whole time and example is MGS4 old snake in skin tight suit nice. Another reason is because people are stupid and go ?OMG A GIRL I WANNA BE HER FRIEND? then they give you free stuff.
I almost always make a female character as my main. On subsequent playthroughs I'll make more females and occasionally a male. (I'm male IRL, BTW). I couldn't really give a concrete reason, it's probably a mix of many different reasons. I just like playing as female more than male. I find myself more involved in the story. On a playthrough with a male character I often get bored and give up before reaching the end. I've finished ME 1&2 easily a dozen times with a female Shepard but I've never made it to the end with a male one, I just lose interest.
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Actually I think this is an important part of it for me. I don't identify with the big strong manly man type of character, and those I've met in real life who fit such a description have so far universally turned out to be self-absorbed assholes. Of course, the other male option we're sometimes given, the weedy whiny Michael Cera type, is no better at all and I don't identify with that either. Female characters are allowed to be interesting.SamuelT said:
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Mildly masochistic, because obviously the player who makes a female likes the "HAI LETS CYBR" comments.
I usually play female if I have the chance and I'm straight and male. I like games with deep character customisation and while I sometimes have a go at recreating myself (especially for superhero MMOs), I prefer designing women from scratch to men. I got bored of the "me" Shepard in ME and didn't even finish his ME2 run yet, but my lady Shepard is awesome. She totally took on a life of her own. Same with my Hawkes in Dragon Age 2.