Guys playing as girl character and girls playing as guy characters.

[Nautical Honors Society]

I know some guys who play as girl characters in various MMO's/RPG's and I have always wondered why?

Would anyone like to shed some light on this subject?

 

[delet]

"Because if I'm going to be staring at someone's ass for hours on end, it might as well be a girls'"

A quote from an insightful guildmate a while back.

 

[zHellas]

I do it sometimes, when either I'm bored of playing a guy or I'm curious as to what happens if you play as a girl. Like if there are any differences(other than you playing a girl), like extra abilities, speech choices, etc.

 

[Amnestic]

"Because if I'm going to be staring at someone's ass for hours on end, it might as well be a girls'"

Pretty much this.

Plus Jennifer Hale is just a better VA than Mark Meer. Sorry Mark, you're good and all, but you don't hold a candle to Hale

 

[Eliam_Dar]

"Because if I'm going to be staring at someone's ass for hours on end, it might as well be a girls'"

A quote from an insightful guildmate a while back.

This, and the fact that female characters tend to be more stylish.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I do it sometimes, when either I'm bored of playing a guy or I'm curious as to what happens if you play as a girl. Like if there are any differences(other than you playing a girl), like extra abilities, speech choices, etc.

that's basically why I do it...Also, I don't play MMOs so, I don't run the risk of being hit on by anybody, mistaken for a girl and, being reported for making an idiot feel stupid

 

[Olikunmissile]

"Because if I'm going to be staring at someone's ass for hours on end, it might as well be a girls'"

A quote from an insightful guildmate a while back.

Ninja'd by the first reply. I also got this from a guildmate a couple of years ago.

I always play my first character in any game a guy, then any replays/extra characters I normally use a lady.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

To increase my imagination limits. I like to vary my RP characters so i can power my brain and creativity.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Well, sometimes I decide to play as a guy, but that tends to be online games, where if I stick to my true gender, people just bug me...
But luckily I can play as my own gender on offline games. And it makes no difference to how much ass I can kick.
So if I play as a male character, I do it for my own convenience >.> Less idiots chasing me around then.

 

[manythings]

"Because if I'm going to be staring at someone's ass for hours on end, it might as well be a girls'"

Pretty much this.

Plus Jennifer Hale is just a better VA than Mark Meer. Sorry Mark, you're good and all, but you don't hold a candle to Hale

I second that, man-shepherd is pretty wooden. I play as both if we are talking about RPG's and on those occasions that I have played MMO's then I just kind of toss a coin.

 

[Kaltazraza]

"Because if I'm going to be staring at someone's ass for hours on end, it might as well be a girls'"

A quote from an insightful guildmate a while back.

Exactly, or just very much what I think.

 

[etherlance]

In most games the females are just better looking than the males.

and seeing as most games put the camera behind your character I agree with the other guys that I would rather be staring at a girls arse than a guys.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I like to test out the character creation on both genders.
Then I play whichever character I think is better constructed.

If there is no real character customisation, though, I tend to just grab the male character.

 

[Srdjan]

Well sometimes is funny, but I never played as women on first time playing some RPG

 

[Brandon237]

"Because if I'm going to be staring at someone's ass for hours on end, it might as well be a girls'"

A quote from an insightful guildmate a while back.

Exactly, If it was online I would go with my own gender. For single player, meh. I'm not too into the whole role-playing parts so it's aesthetics for me.

 

[psivamp]

Because some RPGs implement seduction skills or whatnot and there are more male storekeepers to get discounts from than female.

 

[Sephychu]

Pretty much this.

Plus Jennifer Hale is just a better VA than Mark Meer. Sorry Mark, you're good and all, but you don't hold a candle to Hale

In the case of Mass Effect, this is my main reason, but I also like role-playing, and sometimes I do such as a female character.

Mark Meer sounds like a drunk monkey.

It's like how one reads books that feature females as protagonists. I see most games as a story focusing around a certain character, and do not usually see the character as an extension of myself.

 

[DarkHuntress]

I play a female character because I AM female. Why would I want to play a male?

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Maybe to fulfill some hidden psychological desires?