Poll: Prefer A Male or Female Character?

[wowcrendor]

I made my characters male. I just felt weird making a female... probably because I am so masculine.

 

[Aqualung]

Don't call me a freak/pervert, i play as a female when possible. mind you it is rather difficult to come up with a name.
QUICKLY someone yell a female name, i might need it later.

Cindi.

I'll play as either, but sometimes, playing as a male just feels more.. right. Maybe I'm just not used to seeing my own sex on screen.

 

[ae86gamer]

its usually depends like for mass effect i played as a male for the renegade and as for paragon i played as a female.

 

[Fraught]

Playing as a female character just feels weird to me.

Pretty much this.

I make male characters because I can familiarize myself with them more.
It just...feels so weird to play a female when you're actually a man.
You feel like you're playing a game, not really being the character itself, it's harder for me to immerse in a game if I make a female character.

 

[kawligia]

Depends on the game.

In a game like Fallout 3 with a great story and great characters, I will be absorbed into the character and look at the world from the INSIDE OUT. Basically, I will temporarily become the character. So, being male, it would be odd to play a female.

But in a game that doesn't really draw me into the character, like an MMO for example, I will look at the character from the OUTSIDE IN. Basically, I will NOT become the character, but only control the character's actions like a general commanding a soldier. In that case, it could be either male or female.

 

[new_age_reject]

For me it doesn't matter, but it has to be believable.
Sometimes they put women in the most obviously machocentric roles and it just feels really weird.

 

[Vordark]

If it's a 3rd Person game, I'd much rather stare at a female's ass than a male's, enlightened soul that I am.

 

[inkheart_artist]

Whenever theres a choice I play female. When I was younger I had a lot of gender confusion. I'm confortable in my own skin now but I still always make characters female. Somhow I still feel like I can relate to them better and it makes the story more compelling when the lead is given to a (believable) female character.

I'm sure plenty of people will find that wierd.