I typically like to play as the opposite gender because everytime i play as mine it makes me out to look dumb or stupid, so i would mych rather play as a women than be called dumb the whole way through the game.
Poll: Why do you play as opposite gender characters?
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Because if you play/act flamboyant and sassy as a man, you are shunned.
Seriously, though, I make characters, and them play them out. Sometimes they're female, and so I create them. Sometimes, I admit, I go for sex appeal, and end up surprised at how much fun I had (Bayonetta). And sometimes, my favorite characters, along with being Dark Horses, end up being female. (Rip Van Winkle from Hellsing)
Seriously, though, I make characters, and them play them out. Sometimes they're female, and so I create them. Sometimes, I admit, I go for sex appeal, and end up surprised at how much fun I had (Bayonetta). And sometimes, my favorite characters, along with being Dark Horses, end up being female. (Rip Van Winkle from Hellsing)
In my experience, romance in games has always felt a little out of place and awkward whichever gender I've played as. I think it's because romance in games is goal-orientated, rather than being appropriate or relevant to the story, and therefore feels a bit cheap and seedy.daemon37 said:
But I'll play as whichever gender suits the character build I intend to play as.
It depends on the game.
In a fighting game I'll play whatever character has a fighting style I like. My favourite Tekken 3 character is Xiayou. My favourite King of Fighers R-1 character is Terry. My favourite Street Fighter IV character is Ken. I play characters whom I can fight with well.
In a First Person Shooter, like UT or Quake, I'll just play whatever. Sometimes I play the wonky non humanoid character, sometimes I play the crazy alien or the skeleton, sometimes I play the marine, and whether it's male or female usually depends on whether there's an even distribution of genders across character models.
For RPGs it again depends, if I can customise I'll usually go male, but if it's a game like Diablo II or Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance where class, race and gender are packaged together and there are 5 options I pick whichever class I like best and half the time it's male and half the time female.
In a fighting game I'll play whatever character has a fighting style I like. My favourite Tekken 3 character is Xiayou. My favourite King of Fighers R-1 character is Terry. My favourite Street Fighter IV character is Ken. I play characters whom I can fight with well.
In a First Person Shooter, like UT or Quake, I'll just play whatever. Sometimes I play the wonky non humanoid character, sometimes I play the crazy alien or the skeleton, sometimes I play the marine, and whether it's male or female usually depends on whether there's an even distribution of genders across character models.
For RPGs it again depends, if I can customise I'll usually go male, but if it's a game like Diablo II or Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance where class, race and gender are packaged together and there are 5 options I pick whichever class I like best and half the time it's male and half the time female.
Because whoever they hired to do Male Shephard's voice in Mass Effect needs to go back to voice acting school. They have something like that, right? It always sounds like he's reading straight from the script.
Also, all the male faces always end up looking, to me anyway, too gruff/angry/grr-I'll-swallow-your-soul-ish for my tastes.
Also, all the male faces always end up looking, to me anyway, too gruff/angry/grr-I'll-swallow-your-soul-ish for my tastes.
If I'm going to be forced to stare at the ass of my avatar for 70 hours It had better be a nice ass.
That is all.
That is all.
In RPGs I usually do a playthrough as a female after my first playthrough. In fighters and such it's all just about what character I get good with, although most of the time it's girls (Taki, Abelia, Lili).
I play as a female whenever possible because that's what I most like to look at. My decision is based entirely on what I'm attracted to, rather than what I aspire to. I am exactly who and what I want to be, so I tend not to look at male characters and go "Wow, he's so cool!". I don't think I ever, ever have.
One of these reasons:
>I'm messing around with other people online
>It's the character I decided to roll with.
>Spice it up a bit
>I'm messing around with other people online
>It's the character I decided to roll with.
>Spice it up a bit
typically when i play a game where there is a choice, i will play the game through twice, once as a male and again as a female protgonist ... provided the game is interesting enough to play it twice. that being said, i play as the opposite sex (the opposite would be female for me) as i typically find the models more appealing.
1) Of course video-game/cartoon women aren't real, but as far as I'm concerned, they are about as "real" as most celebrities, and people have no trouble ogling them.Nuke_em_05 said:
2) I didn't play with barbies, but I did have an April O'Neil action figure and she kicked ass. Maybe if they made some sort of kung-fu barbie I would've been interested.
3) Of course anthropomophic cow women will have an hourglass shape and human-like boobs. These are the things that a lot of people identify with as "female" features. Look at any humanoid female in games/movies/television and they almost always have these features... and big eyelashes... and long hair... and big lips.. etc. I'm not saying it's the best way to approach the subject, it just seems to be the most popular/effective.
4) Garrus is freakin' awesome. This is a well known fact.
Just because. I dont' really know why.
Mix things up a bit. Keep it fresh.
It seems to be a different experience when you play as the opposite gender.
Or because I can't get my male avatar to look anything like me, so I go for a girl.
Mix things up a bit. Keep it fresh.
It seems to be a different experience when you play as the opposite gender.
Or because I can't get my male avatar to look anything like me, so I go for a girl.
I initially started playing female characters because of Mass Effect. The voice actor was far beyond the male voice actor and once I grew attached to my Shepard I realized there really aren't that many badass female characters in videogames.
So I decided to change that.
So I decided to change that.
Two words: Sex appealMouse_Crouse said:
1) The way they look (You just found the "+2 Defense 'Mithril Bikini Top'"!)
2) The way they move (It sure sucks that I have to slowly walk all the way to town...
)3) The sounds they make (Darn! I keep getting hit!
)Call me perverted if you want, it doesn't bother me or my wife so I don't care.